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  Murder at Yuletide - A 1920's...

  Lee Strauss

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  Have Yourself a Merry Little Murder 
  Clive Pippins, Lady Ginger Gold’s beloved, elderly butler is apparently Christmas shopping when a body is found. To the shock of everyone in Ginger’s household, the victim is the spinster cousin Pippins worked for during the years surrounding the Great War. 
  As Ginger investigates, things begin to look grim for her dear butler. What had the man been up to during the war years, and had he been complicit in a crime? 
  What secret was Pips holding onto? 
  And worse, would he be the next victim before he had a chance to divulge it? 
  The only gift Ginger wants for the Christmas of 1927 is for the killer to be found before it's time to ring in the new year!

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  Kissing the Sheriff

  Kit Morgan

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  He's a Rake 
   
   
   
  She's the Law 
   
   
   
  Which will lose their heart first? 
   
   
   
  Cassie Laine never wanted to be sheriff, but when her father, Sheriff Laine was ambushed and killed along with his posse, she had little choice. The little town of Apple Blossom was dying. No one in their right mind would take the job! To make matters worse, an annoying Englishman, one of six brothers passing through and now helping some of the townsfolk out, was assigned to her. Why did she have to get the flirty one? If he didn't stop, she was liable to shoot him! But first he had to fix her porch steps and a few other things. Then she'd either arrest him or run him and his brothers out of town. But one person in town was hatching a plan to keep the Englishmen in Apple Blossom. Would their plan work? Or would the town fall into ruin? Find out in this hilarious romp full of pure fun and romance!

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  His Kissing Penalty

  Anne-Marie Meyer

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  The one guy I never wanted to see again...just moved in across the hall. To make things worse, he doesn’t even remember the moment our lips touched and stars exploded.  
  Misunderstandings collide when the tabloids mistake me for his secret girlfriend. They love me because I’m an all-American girl, and he’s a football star. Plus, we sort of grew up together. Hometown romance sells. 
  We were made to be together, right? Not according to my overprotective family. To them, my brother’s best friend has always been forbidden.  
  I thought I could handle a fake relationship with Jaxson.  
  I was wrong.

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  Pausodyne - Early Sci FI story...

  Grant Allen

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  Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was born on February 24th, 1848 at Alwington, near Kingston, Canada West (now part of Ontario).  
  Home schooled until 13 when his family moved to England, Grant was to become a highly regarded science writer who branched out to a fiction career and became enormously popular. 
  His work helped propel several genres of fiction and whilst his career was short it was enormously productive. 
  Grant’s scientific background enabled him to root much of his work in a plausibility that was denied to others. He had little fear in challenging a society that treated women as second class citizens and creating best sellers from such works. 
  On October 25th 1899 Grant Allen died at his home in Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England. He died just before finishing Hilda Wade. The novel's final episode, which he dictated to his friend, doctor and neighbour Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from his bed appeared under the appropriate title, The Episode of the Dead Man Who Spoke in 1900. 
  He was the second son of the Rev. Joseph Antisell Allen, a Protestant minister from Dublin, Ireland and Catharine Ann Grant, the daughter of the fifth Baron of Longueuil.  
  Grant was educated at home until he was thirteen at which time the family moved, initially to the United States, then France and finally settling in the United Kingdom.  
  Whilst growing up the family background was obviously religious but Grant developed his own views on life and the world and turned to agnosticism and socialism.  
  He was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham and Merton College in Oxford. After graduating, Grant studied in France and also taught at Brighton College.  By 1870, still only in his mid-twenties, he became a professor at Queen's College, a black college in Jamaica. 
  Whilst in Jamaica Grant met and married his first wife Ellen Jerrard in 1873 and they produced a son five years later; Jerrard Grant Allen, who grew up to become a theatrical agent/manager. 
  In 1876 Grant and his family left Jamaica to return to England with both the talent and ambition to become a writer. 
  He quickly turned to writing essays, gaining a reputation for his work on science and literary works. An early article, 'Note-Deafness' a description of what is now called amusia, was published in 1878 in the learned journal Mind and was cited approvingly by Oliver Sacks very recently. 
  From essays in magazines and journals he now turned to books, initially on scientific subjects.  These include Physiological Æsthetics 1877 and Flowers and Their Pedigrees 1886.  
  His first major influence was associationist psychology, as then expounded by Alexander Bain and Herbert Spencer, the latter is often considered the most important individual in the transition from associationist psychology to Darwinian functionalism. In Grant’s many articles on flowers and perception in insects, Darwinian arguments now replaced the old Spencerian terms.  
  On a personal level, a long friendship that started when Grant met Herbert Spencer on his return from Jamaica, turned eventually to one of unease over its long course. Grant was to write a critical and revealing biographical article on Spencer that was published after Spencer was dead. 
  In the early 1880’s Grant began to assist Sir W. W. Hunter in his Gazeteer of India. It is at this time that Grant now turned his full attention away from the factual and towards the world of imagination and fiction. 
  Between this shift to fiction in 1884 and his death fifteen years later Grant was to write about 30 novels.  
  Many were adventure novels which were very common in the late Victorian period as writers turned their literary talents to the voracious appetites of the weekly or monthly serial magazines.   
  Some however were to cause quite a stir. For instance in 1895 Grant took the subject of children born out of wedlock as his subject matter. The result was The Woman Who Did, that suggested, indeed pushed, for its time, certain quite sta

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  Love Report

  Shellee Marie

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  Professional baseball player Dan Pelameno struck out with the woman of his dreams. So when she calls to set up an exclusive television interview with him, he jumps at the chance to set things right. He let her slip away once, but he won't make the same mistake. 
  Celebrity news reporter Kendra Star thought she had moved on from Dan Pelameno until she had to see him again for a work assignment. When the encounter lands him a gig at her job, she promises to keep her distance from him and his charming ways. But the more she has to work with him, the harder he is to resist.

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  Perilous Pins

  Grace Bowen

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  Sydney Jones moves to the cozy little northern town of Blueberry Falls to start a new life, but when she joins the weekly bowling league at Riverbowl, she gets much more than she bargained for. Perilous Pins is the first novel in the all-new Sydney Jones Cozy Mystery Series! It is an addictively gripping mystery, introducing a brand new amateur sleuth, a quirky cast of characters, and the charming small town of Blueberry Falls. If you're a fan of Agatha Christie or Joanne Fluke, you will find Perilous Pins a comforting and engaging read. After stumbling upon the body of a well-known local resident of Blueberry Falls, Sydney finds herself smack dab in the middle of a police investigation. Everyone around her seems to be on the suspect list. Will Sydney end up on the suspect list too? As Sydney's curiosity ignites, she makes it her mission to uncover the truth. Her investigation unearths secrets, betrayals, and danger, putting her life at risk as she closes in on the killer. Can Sydney find the killer before there is another victim? Come visit Blueberry Falls and find out what happens to Sydney and the rest of the cast.

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