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How important is it to know your man's worth? For Jayla Morgan, it's more than just a question, it's a business. As a "Heart Appraiser", she is paid to bait unsuspecting partners to determine their loyalty. Sex is nothing more than a premium service, and having mastered the art of deception, Jayla takes "seductress" to a completely new level. Her slogan is an attribute to her success: You can hook any man. You just need the right bait. But being the perfect bait puts her in a dangerous position.

On his third tour of duty in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Bev King signs up for the parcel service. He likes the contact from home, appreciates the generosity and thoughtfulness of his benefactor, and is intrigued by this woman who lives in the same town as his grandmother. Jude Travis loves sending care packages to servicemen and is thrilled when "her squaddie" replies. A rapid letter exchange follows, and when he comes home on R&R, they meet. But Jude is being stalked, and Bev might just get snagged in the crossfire.

Dawn Stannis has little time for anything besides teaching, never mind organizing a careers fayre for the year nines - but by God's grace, she's able to book popular actor Gabriel Tyler. Score one for Dawn! His Hollywood playboy reputation might be the epitome of everything Dawn resists, but at least her event will be well-attended. After his father’s unexpected death, Gabriel Tyler becomes the eighth Earl of Elton a lot sooner than he expected. Now, his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, is insisting he give up acting so he can play lord of the manor and produce heirs.

Forced into hiding after witnessing her fiancé commit murder, artist Faith Chadwick finds her own faith lagging. Best-selling author Joel Wallac is on death watch. His son is dying, and Joel can only sit helpless in the hospital room. As grief overwhelms him, he employs Faith to help him bring a storybook to life for his son, and they begin to forge a relationship. Witnessing Joel’s steadfast belief in God spurs Faith’s own wobbling faith, but when she is threatened once again, the police insist Faith needs to leave the area. Joel convinces her to accompany him on his book tour.

Adam West, a high powered lawyer, gets the shock of his life when he arrives to meet a new client. She’s the wife he hasn’t seen since they separated 10 years ago. Sam Reece doesn’t need the added complication of working with the husband who abandoned her a decade ago. She’s tried hard to put her failed marriage behind her, going back to her maiden name even though they never got divorced. The situation is bad enough as it is, but it seems Adam is the only person who can help.

In the midst of a bad drought, the shores of a local lake recede to reveal an old abandoned car. Megan is intrigued by the Depression-era jalopy and puzzled when her fellow amateur sleuths would rather get back to discussing Agatha Christie. Then bodies start popping up all over town, ritually murdered, and current crimes take precedence over old secrets. It’s Megan who discovers the corpses, making her the prime suspect.

Finally, a book that’s brutally honest about the hard work of grieving AND will give you a reason to hope for a brighter tomorrow despite your heartache. That is the heartbeat of The Honest Griever. It chronicles the author's journey after the death of her husband of 31 years. Through the heartbreak, she openly shares her struggles and her victories -- and how God walked beside her, teaching her to stand on his unfailing promises.

When we experience an emotional crisis, memories of the event are channeled through unique brain pathways where they remain hidden yet profoundly affect our feelings and actions throughout life. In Clearing Your Past, award-winning author and therapist Lynne Finney shares recent discoveries about memory and trauma and her own experience healing childhood sexual abuse to teach a direct way to uncover and heal the painful memories from your past.

Fans of southern novels that explore the complex relationships between white families and their black hired help will find a compelling story about race relations in Praise Jerusalem. Amelia, an aging Georgia matron forced by money woes to move in with two other women - outlandishly preachy Maybelline and take-no-nonsense Mamie, who is black - begins to confront her childhood memories of the black women who worked for her family. Their lives, both tragic and yet sublimely proud, haunt Amelia even now, as she searches for a way to make peace with the sorrows she innocently observed.

With Earth on a course for ruin, a last-ditch effort to save humanity is under way. The Mission X Project, a massive generation star ship called the Genesis, is headed for a distant planet to form a new home. During the 150-year journey, carefully selected crew are tasked with birthing the next generations that will populate this new world when they arrive. It’s a chance to save our species—and to explore their wildest sexual fantasies!

Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a young child, and at the age of eight, her stepfather moved the family from its home in Winnipeg, Canada, to Montana in the United States, where young Mary had a hard time making friends. Her sensational autobiographical style of writing was considered scandalous, as she told of her bohemian lifestyle, feminist politics, and open bisexuality.

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to provide healing, growth and change. In Lynne's uniquely loving and uplifting narrative, listeners feel enveloped by divine protection as she invokes affirming images to marshal the power of their own deep intention for healing mind, body and spirit. As with all of her spiritual healing meditations, Lynne provides a profound sense of divine presence to catalyze the profound healing of physical, psychological, emotional or general life difficulties.

Young Bernadette Maguire is ripe for adventure as she embarks on her junior year abroad. Seduced by a handsome Swiss banker, she is horrified when she discovers she's pregnant. Protected and befriended by those who help to keep her secret for as long as possible, this moving rite-of-passage tale will warm the heart as a young woman faces an all-too-familiar dilemma.

Science of the Mystical Arts offers a compelling exploration into the profound intersection between ancient mystical traditions and modern scientific understanding. This insightful book delves into the historical roots, philosophical foundations, and scientific studies that illuminate the mystical arts, presenting a balanced and integrative approach to this timeless subject.

The Murder by the Yard book group has been going strong for six months, and Megan Clark is eager to celebrate - and increase membership. For fun and publicity, she volunteers her friend, Dr. Ryan Stevens, to lead tours of famous Amarillo murder sites. One of the sites witnessed the strangling of a young bride and the subsequent suicide of her husband. The case was never solved - but one of the Gormans wants to know what really happened, and urges the group to reopen the investigation. Megan dives into the research with her usual enthusiasm. But it's soon clear that the killer doesn't take kindly to amateur sleuths....

The time has finally come for the Genesis’ crew of Mission X to fight for their survival. After a major malfunction cost the ship thousands of gallons of life-giving water and the life of one of their own, and poor bio engineering of their food source crops nearly brought an end to the breeding program at the heart of their future interplanetary colonization mission, their last and only hope lays ahead in the brilliant icy rings of the giant planet Saturn.

From the moment RB star Cambria Harding walks into Miles Woodson’s Atlanta recording studio, he knows there’ll be trouble. She’s as fiery as he is reserved, and she gets under his skin like no woman ever has. The impassioned artist forces Miles out of his comfort zone, saying this spark is just a pleasurable distraction. But the heat of their “limited engagement” makes them wonder if opposites can do more than just attract …

Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime - but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit.

Do you want to disappear down a different aisle in the grocery store when you see a grieving friend walk through the front door? That's exactly what the author did. Then her husband of 31 years died, and she got a crash course - the hard way - on what was helpful during this devastating time, and what was unintentionally hurtful. Feeling ill-equipped to be a natural nurturer is a nearly universal phenomenon. Cultivating Compassion will give you a roadmap to teach you what to do or say that will help your hurting friend.

Twenty-three years ago, local actress Danielle Moyer vanished after starring in a play at the Bayside Theater. Her body was never found. Now the specter of her ghost has returned to haunt the Bayside Theater or - so it seems. A series of pranks is plaguing the theater, and someone is leaving bizarre clues in the abandoned Moyer cabin. Door County Gazette reporter Leigh Girard, who's writing an article on the theater, chalks the pranks up to theatrical hijinks.