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  • The Washashore

    by Marshall Highet and Bird Jones

    Martha’s Vineyard, 1929. Prohibition is in full swing, and Emily, a Midwest transplant, has never met her wealthy Aunt Isabel. That is until, after her mother’s death, the courts declare Isabel her guardian. Their first meeting is a disaster. Emily’s clumsy curtsy earns her only a frosty glare, and she quickly realizes she’s in for a crash course in East Coast high society. But manners take a back seat when Isabel’s dear friend, an accomplished sailor, vanishes at sea. Convinced it’s murder, Isabel recruits her niece to catch the killer, pointing the finger at two dangerous men: a ruthless Mob boss and the fastest rumrunner in the harbor. While Emily crosses paths with gangsters on the island, she may just find home on its miles of coastline and among its quirky inhabitants—her stoic Aunt Isabel included.

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  • The Summer Knows

    by Sarah E. Pearsall

    Slinging fried clams at a dumpy tourist trap in Florida's panhandle and being a single mom was not the future Adrienne Harris envisioned at thirty-one. As a girl, she dreamed of being a chef and spending her life with Quinn Merrit, the rich and handsome boy next door. However, her dreams came crumbling down the summer she turned seventeen, ending with her running away pregnant, heartbroken, and the talk of the town over Lucas Merritt's suicide. Adrienne vowed she would never step foot in Harbor Point again. Her world is upended when Adrienne gets a call that her estranged and eccentric grandmother, Elizabeth Harris, the town's nuisance, has nearly burned down the family's seaside cottage. Adrienne has no choice but to return with her daughter to Harbor Point, breaking her vow. The town wastes no time in thrusting her back into scandal, chaos, and gossip as soon as she arrives. When she unexpectedly comes face to face with Quinn Merritt, the father of her child, Adrienne must face the secrets and lies she holds deep within.  When Harbor Point's local fishmonger Christopher Crane offers Adrienne a chance to be the chef at the fish market her grandfather once owned, Adrienne decides to face the past and her fractured relationships the only way she knows how—through her cooking. Food becomes the language Adrienne uses to attempt to mend and heal the past, present, and future.

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  • Maximizing Organizational Performance: A Guide to Effective Performance Coaching

    by Patrick Behar-Courtois, PhD

    Dr. Patrick Behar-Courtois, with over two decades of international consulting experience, offers a fresh approach to performance coaching that transcends traditional methods. This practical guide tackles pressing issues such as remote work, diversity, employee retention, and technological integration, equipping leaders, HR professionals, and coaches with strategies to measure coaching effectiveness and build high-performing teams. Packed with immediately applicable tools and real-world case studies, Maximizing Organizational Performance bridges theory and practice, offering insights that resonate in today's complex business environment. So don't let your organization fall behind—unlock its full potential and prepare for the future with this essential resource!

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  • Best Kept Stranger

    by Taylor Higgins

    Beautiful but fragile Taylor Hartwell has been afraid of disappointing her manipulative mother, Claire, for as long as she can remember. To the outside world, Claire Hartwell is caring and attentive, but beneath her carefully curated exterior lurks an ever-deepening darkness—and Taylor is desperate to escape to the light. Taylor's need to please Claire and her intense craving to know love leads her into the arms of men who hurt her in every way. Yet Claire, believing Taylor's mistreatment will ensure her own domination over Taylor's life, encourages her daughter to stay in these abusive relationships. When Taylor meets a gentle, supportive man, the budding romance pulls her from Claire’s relentless control. But Claire is determined that Taylor will fulfill the role Claire has planned for her since her birth. Taylor’s struggle for independence unravels dangerous family secrets, leading to a series of questionable deaths and a sinister reunion that nobody anticipates.

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  • Gods of Glenhaven

    by Stephen Statler

    Christian Orr is a man in need of a mojo transfusion. Underemployed and suffering from erectile dysfunction since discovering his wife’s infidelity, he has recently moved into what his daughter, Francesca, calls the Divorced Dads Apartment Complex. Meanwhile, his high-powered attorney wife, Sloan, is jaded by life and searching for new meaning, leaving precocious Francesca caught in the wake of change. Enter Dionysus (“Dee”), the Greek god of wine and song, who arrives incognito in Glenhaven in pursuit of his estranged wife, Ari, and teenage son Maron. Fed up with 3,000 years of her scoundrel husband, Ari has made a deal with Zeus to start a new, normal life as a mortal suburban mom. And what could be more normal than falling for Christian? Gods of Glenhaven is a fast-paced, bighearted suburban comedy about love, sex, death, and rock and roll, and everything that happens when our white-knuckle grip on life gets pried open against our will.

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  • Poison: A Story of Loss, Revenge, and Possible Redemption

    by Gary Ball

    English professor Vere Larson and his family are living an idyllic life in a quiet college town when a baseball injury interrupts the promising sports career of his son, Chris. A doctor prescribes pain-killing drugs that subtly but quickly ensnare Chris in addiction, leading him to street drugs and the horrors that hard drugs so often create. As the harm to his family escalates, Vere seeks revenge on the drug dealers who have destroyed his family’s happiness. His violently effective vigilante actions lead to dangerous confrontations with corrupt police and a ruthless drug cartel. Vere’s story should resonate with anyone whose life has been affected by drug addiction or has ever wished they could strike back at the heartless drug dealers pouring their poison onto our streets.

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  • Don’t Give In! How an Average Middle-Aged Woman Took Back Her Health

    by Kathy Bauernfeind

    Don’t Give In! is a unique and engaging account of how a fifty-five-year-old woman overcame a life of excess to take back her health. Exhausted, hurting, and unhappy after a life of self-imposed abuse, Kathy thought she was just “getting old” and that feeling bad was inevitable. Then she decided to fight back. She shares how she damaged her health, what made her want to take control of her health, and how she did it. Don’t Give In! is a real person’s story by someone with a forty-hour workweek, modest income, no home gym, and no private chef. It is a candid testament to determination and self-discovery, and it offers practical mindsets and tactics you can use to take back your own health!

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  • The Sinking of the Leonardo da Vinci

    by Deborah Jeanne Weitzman

    An impossible love. An impossible choice. It is 1976 New York. Joanna, a dreamy and sensitive girl, suffers deep loneliness and never belonging. The world of music, of song-writing, draws her towards something deeper, if only she had permission to enter that world. When she meets Luca, onboard The Leonardo da Vinci, her wildest dreams come true. He – the young navigator of the ship, rebellious and passionate – gives her that permission. They fall hopelessly in love and against all odds, she travels to Rome to be with him. When she arrives, he has drastically changed. In a wrenching act of violence, Luca destroys everything and she’s forced to leave. Never knowing what turned him so callous, this dark seed contaminates the rest of her life. Back in NY, she runs into her former professor, Stuart – a visionary environmentalist – and they marry. Older than Joanna, he is her anchor and benevolent father figure. To never be burned again as she was with Luca, she vows to stay far from the rocky shoals of passion. To keep that vow, she buries her creative soul, her real voice, and her music. When Stuart unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, her unlived-self awakens with a vengeance. Hoping to heal, she travels to the walking trails of Cinque Terre.

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  • A Date with the Fairy Drag Queen

    by Julie Harthill Turner

    Saskia Nash’s world is turned upside down when her single-parent father tears her from an idyllic childhood in Germany—leaving behind the memories of her dead mother and the protection of her beloved Opa—for a teaching position at a small Jesuit college on the East Coast. A misfit in a strange land, struggling to learn the language and customs of a good American girl, Saskia struggles with issues of belonging, sexual identity, and faith. She’s drawn to the progressive spirituality of the Jesuits at her father’s college. When strong-armed into having an abortion, Saskia is sent away to recover at Horizon House, a hospice for men dying of AIDS. It is the early 1990s. Mourning the loss of personal choice and bodily autonomy, Saskia is assigned as a companion to Ed, a.k.a. Marlena Merlot, a dying drag queen who’s losing control over his own mind and body. When Saskia helps Marlena Merlot stage one last final performance, she learns that chosen family is the one we can count on most. A Date with the Fairy Drag Queen is a story of platonic queer friendship, regaining autonomy, letting go, and learning what it means to live.

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  • High Flight: A Pilot’s Journey Through Life

    by Richard Hess

    Richard Hess, born John Patrick Aliano, began life in a typical middle-class household. His parents divorced when he was just a toddler, and after his mom remarried, she gave him her new husband’s namesake, further distancing him from his paternal roots. Growing up on New York’s mean streets with an abusive stepfather taught Richard grit at a very early age. This grit followed him into the United States Air Force, which became his surrogate patriarch for the next twenty-eight years. During his service, from the cockpit of a fighter jet, Richard learned to leave his scars behind. Now, after fifty years of marriage, raising three kids, fighting in nine war zones, and traveling to countless countries, he’s gained a certain perspective on life. Richard’s years spent as a military pilot, airline captain, and businessman have given him an education in life, love, and faith—an education that begs to be shared.

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