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  Somewhere in Crime: A Mackinac...

  Dave McVeigh, Jim Bolone

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  Murder, Movies and Magic. Welcome to the Summer of 1979! 
  Step into Mackinac Island's scorching summer of 1979, where reality and fantasy blend in a whirlwind of murder, movies, and magic. Meet Jack McGuinn, a paperboy with life on the island all figured out until Hollywood descends to film "Somewhere in Time" with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Jack's world unravels amidst the movie madness. 
  As the island buzzes with film frenzy, Jack's parents confront past mysteries that threaten their marriage. Jack teams up with Blaze, an unconventional metal-head to save their union and his cherished life. Together, they embark on a quest to solve a 20-year-old murder, aiming for reward money to fund Jack's dream vacation. Past and present blur, revealing hidden truths. 
  In "Somewhere in Crime," the prequel to the Amazon bestseller "The Dockporter," join Jack and Blaze in a nostalgic, touching, and hilarious coming-of-age adventure set in the late '70s. Dive into a world of Schwinn bikes, Izod shirts, and KISS versus Black Sabbath debates. 
  Tanda Gmiter of MLive calls it "A big, sweet, laugh-out-loud scoop of late-'70s nostalgia." Don your checkered Vans, faded KISS T-shirt, and immerse yourself in an endless summer. Order "Somewhere in Crime" now for an unforgettable journey.

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  Confidence-Man The: His Masquerade

  Herman Melville

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  The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man alongside Melville's Moby-Dick and "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a precursor to 20th-century literary preoccupations with nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

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  The Heartstrings of Harry

  Robin Knight

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  HARRY: Me, I'm just a simple guy living the simple life in Mulligan's Mill. I run the hardware store. No one here suspects I'm gay—least of all that I've been quietly in love with Dean Reeves for years. He's my best friend's son. I watched him grow up gentle and gifted, always strumming something on his guitar, lost in his music. But when he turned eighteen—when he stepped out of his backyard music studio, taller, broader, with something magnetic about him— I haven't been able to unsee it since. Now he's a real-life rock star, and he's coming back to town for a break. Just for a while, he says. 
   
   
   
  DEAN: I tell everyone I just need a break from LA—the noise, the pressure, the weird messages from that stalker. But the real reason I'm going back? Harry Dalton . . . my dad's best friend. He was always there when I was growing up, but after I turned eighteen, something shifted. I started noticing the way his forearms flexed when he lifted lumber, the way his laugh rumbled low in his chest. I've been trying to convince myself it's just a crush. That he'd never look twice at a kid like me, especially now that fame and fortune have left their dirty marks on me. But I still can't stop thinking about him. Coming home is supposed to be temporary. But if Harry looks at me like I'm not just some kid with a guitar . . . I don't think I'll ever want to leave again.

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  Look At Me Now - A sassy...

  Simone Goodman

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  Gracie Porter’s life is in a tangle. Her television cookery show is flailing and her boyfriend’s affections are waning. It's time for a change… 
  Best friend Faith rescues her place on the small screen when she unwittingly lands them both starring roles in a steamy spin-off that becomes an instant hit.  The new show is more about relationships, sex and stonking big vegetables than cooking. Throw in a fluctuating crush on her surprisingly irresistible agent, Harry Hipgrave, an unlikely friendship with a pair of D-list models and a gossip journalist intent on making her life miserable, Grace wonders if becoming famous is all it’s cracked up to be? Romantic, utterly uplifting and poignant, perfect for the fans of Sophie Kinsella and Lucy Diamond. ## ** What readers are saying about Look At Me Now:** 
  'Funny, romantic, uplifting and really well written. I enjoyed reading this book.' 
  'I really enjoyed reading this and definitely had some LOL moments!' 
  'Funny, clever and super relatable. ' 
  'I didn’t want to put the book down!!' 
  'It’s romantic. It’s funny. It’s heart warming. It’s everything I want from a good chick-lit. ' 
  'The cast of characters are vividly written, and most avoid becoming stereotypical.' 
  'it’s always amusing or easy for the reader to feel connected to her.' 
  'This book is a delight from the beginning to the very end.'

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  The Adulterants

  Joe Dunthorne

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  For fans of Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, and Mark Haddon, The Adulterants is a piercingly funny—and cringingly poignant—take on how hard it is to grow up and how hard it is when you don't. 
   
    
   
  Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated group of friends, and a wife, Garthene, who is pregnant. He is a man who has never been punched above the neck. He has never committed adultery with his actual body. He has never been caught up in a riot, nor arrested, nor tagged by the state, nor become an international hate-figure. Not until the summer of 2011, when discontent is rising on the streets and within his marriage. Ray has noticed none of this. Not yet. 
   
   
   
  The Adulterants would be a coming-of-age story if its protagonist could only forget that he is thirty-three years old. Throughout a series of escalating catastrophes, our deadpan antihero keeps up a merciless mental commentary on the foibles and failings of those around him, and the vicissitudes of modern urban life: internet trolls, buy-to-let landlords, open marriages, and the threat posed by more sensitive men. But the wonder of The Adulterants is how we feel ourselves rooting for Ray even as we acknowledge that he deserves everything he gets.

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  Murder and the Maitre D'

  Alex Coombs

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  The Chilterns are at their best in May and The Old Forge Cafe is flourishing, which makes Charlie think about furniture that lives up to the standards her menu sets. Which is what persuades her to take on a job for a wealthy local businessman who suspects his daughter has fallen for a man who is not only a gold-digger but also a murderer. 
   
  To Charlie's surprise, she knows him - he's the Maitre d' at the Michelin-starred restaurant at the other end of the village. Does his charm conceal a killer?

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