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Prospect for Murder (Natalie Seachrist Hawaiian Cozy Mystery 1)

Jeanne Burrows-Johnson

It came again—my vision from that first day of summer—when I learned my grandniece Ariel had died. My awareness of the realm of the paranormal began when I was a small child. Since losing an hour sitting against a wall…Read more

Fiction

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Power Play: A Novel

Danielle Steel

Marshall Weston drove home to Marin County a little too quickly from Palo Alto, as he always did, in the Aston Martin that was his favorite toy. He worked in Silicon Valley, and was the CEO of UPI, United Paper…Read more

Romance

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Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson Series #11)

Patricia Briggs

So what did you do, Mary Jo?” called Ben in his crisp British accent. Mary Jo shut her car door and started toward us and toward the mountainous metal barn that Ben and I waited beside. She gave Ben a…Read more

Mysteries & Thrillers

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In the Hush of the Night: A Novel

Raymond Benson

There goes the free weekend, Annie thought as the phone on the desk rang at six, the Friday before Memorial Day. It happened just as she had risen from her cluttered desk at the FBI Chicago field office, ready to…Read more

SF & Fantasy

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Middlegame

Seanan McGuire

If Dodger were awake, she’d happily tell him exactly how much of her blood is on the floor. She’d look at the mess around them. She’d calculate the surface area and volume of the liquid as easily as taking a…Read more

Food & Cooking

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Simple Barbecued Chicken Taco With Backyard Mango Salsa

Lee Brian Schrager, Anthony Bourdain,…

This dish was created for a kids’ cooking class at SoBe in 2009. The goal was something healthy, fun, and easy, to let the little ones test their culinary chops without losing fingers! They all seemed to enjoy the class,…Read more

Teen & YA

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Romanov

Nadine Brandes

A grenade would be safer in the palm of my hand than the Matryoshka doll. I sat on my bed in my room, staring at the small wooden toy. A regular Matryoshka doll typically held layer upon layer of miniature…Read more

Books & Ideas

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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage…

Hampton Sides

The multimillionaire whom the guests at Henry Grinnell’s dinner party had advised De Long to go see was nothing if not a lover of spectacle. To James Gordon Bennett Jr., life was a perpetual escapade, a test of wits, a…Read more

Science & Tech

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Moon Rush: The New Space Race

Leonard David

NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, added a one-two punch to the investigation of water on the Moon. On October 9, 2009, there were deliberate twin crashes on the Moon, both LCROSS itself and a companion Centaur…Read more