`Favorite/Fiction and Non'
Explore a curated list of favorite fiction and non-fiction books. Discover top reads, beloved classics, and must-have titles for your personal library.
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Exposure Behind Closed Doors
by Victoria Taylor Murray
EXPOSURE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of New Orleans Police Lieutenant, Grieco Storm. A police detective whose passions and convictions run as deep and sizzling as the sultry city he is bound by duty and honor to protect. The discovery of arsenic found in the blood-systems of two International Super Models, Johna Bauer and Ursula Rhee; initially ruled accidental prescription drug overdoses by the city's shady coroner, is what initiated a secret branch of the Justice Department to get involved. Not only was the State of Louisiana suddenly faced with the very real possibility of a serial killer being on the loose in their Historical City, but it was suddenly faced with a potential scandal of such magnitude that it could rock New Orleans back several decades, politically, on its ear!
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Maximum Ride: The Final Warning
by James Patterson
Maximum Ride is an irresistible target, even in Antarctica, for whoever controls her owers could also control the world.
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Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
The #1 blockbuster bestselling phenomenon continues in the 14th Stephanie Plum adventure.
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Country Living Flavors of Country Cooking
by Country Living
Today’s country cooking is more than just meat, potatoes, and apple pie. Inspired by local growers and farmer’s markets with their superb variety of fresh produce, American country cooking is lighter, healthier, and more flavorful than ever before. Country Living, America’s largest shelter magazine, gathers 240 luscious and lushly photographed recipes for everything from soups to seafood to sides. Try these selections from their tempting menu: tasty Rosemary Garlic Chicken, delicious Grilled Pork Tenderloin, succulent Honey Grilled Salmon, and mouthwatering Sage Corn on the Cob. You’ll find that country cooking tastes better than ever, with the meat often grilled, the potatoes roasted with herbs, and the pies made with delectable and unusual types of fruit. If Cold Avocado Soup, Saut�ed Summer Squash with Pistachio Pesto, and Quail with Golden Cherry BBQ Sauce don’t say "country” to you now, this unique cookbook will change your mind forever.
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Passed Down Through 4 Generations
by Victoria Taylor Murray
For more than a century the Taylor family of male chefs were recognized as top ranking chefs in the food and beverage industry. Four of them, in the early years of their food service careers, received local recognition from a group made up of twenty-five food critiques and restaurant owners from connecting states. After sampling the savory dishes created especially for them, the Taylor family of male chefs were quickly dubbed afour of the best chefs in the greater Cincinnati and Kentucky areas.a
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Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2008
by Dana Cowin
Almost one million subscribers heartily agree: there's always something delicious going on in Food & Wine. And it's all here in the annual cookbook, which includes every recipe published in the magazine during 2007 more than 600 of them accompanied by scrumptious-looking photographs. The contributors remain absolutely stellar, cuisine's finest, including such cookbook authors, chefs, and food luminaries as Jacques Pepin, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Paula Wolfert, and Al Roker. Plus, this year's volume is organized seasonally, so it's even easier to find the right recipe for the right occasion. Mouthwatering dishes like Emeril Lagasse's Shrimp-and-Corn Bisque, Mario Batali's T-Bone Fiorentina with Sautéed Spinach, and Thomas Keller's Over-the-Top Mushroom Quiche were tested on home appliances, making them easy to re-create and delicious to eat. In addition, the volume includes 50 brand-new test-kitchen tips, as well as an extensive glossary of accessible wines. Here's real food that real people who want to eat well can actually prepare; recipes that reflect the many ways we cook today.
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St. Patrick's Day Murder
by Leslie Meier
In her 14th mystery, part-time reporter and mother of four Lucy Stone investigates the murder of a local bar owner, and if she doesn't uncover the truth before St. Patrick's Day, the holiday festivities may take another murderous turn.
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Iron Kissed
by Patricia Briggs
“Expect to be spellbound”* by Patricia Briggs’s #1 New York Times bestselling series starring Mercy Thompson. Being a lowly “walker” in a world of vampires, werewolves, and fae once kept her safe. But Mercy’s bark—and bite—are not so harmless any more… Though Mercy can shift her shape into that of a coyote, her loyalty never wavers. So when her former boss and mentor, Zee, asks for her help, she’s there for him. A series of murders has rocked a fae reservation, and Zee needs her unique gifts, namely her coyote sense of smell, to sniff out the killer. But when Zee is accused of murdering the suspect Mercy outed, he’s left to rot behind bars by his own kind. Now it’s up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. Mercy’s loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Werewolves are not known for their patience, and if Mercy can’t decide between the two she cares for, Sam and Adam may make the choice for her... *Lynn Viehl, New York Times bestselling author
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False Knight
by Peter Turnbull
After the disappearance of Mary Golightly and the discovery of her dismembered leg in a garbage bin, detectives Hennessey and Yellich investigate her husband, who had been known to argue violently with his wife and shows no sorrow over her loss.
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Real Murders
by Charlaine Harris
"Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray." - Publishers Weekly. Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is your typical librarian: thick coke-bottle glasses long brown hair sensible librarian-like clothes single lives in a small town. She doesn't have much of a social life and has resigned herself to having her Saturday nights free. But once a month she meets with her fellow murder–mystery enthusiasts to discuss a real murder. This Friday it is Roe's turn and she has prepared a riveting speech for the Real Murders Society of Lawrenceton Georgia. But a playful murderer steals the show with a real life re-enactment of the case Aurora has chosen to present casting one of the club members as the victim. And it soon becomes evident that the murderer has chosen Roe as his next victim. That leaves her no option but to scour the chronicles of old murders and the real settings of the crimes for the clues that will crack the case. All she has to do is stay one step ahead of a killer.
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Gone to Ground
by John Harvey
Investigating the murder of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, discover that the killing could be tied to a book Bryan had been writing about the mysterious death of fifties film star Stella Lomb
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Nothing Can Rescue Me
by Elizabeth Daly
Agatha Christie in 1940s New York. *Sixth in the Henry Gamadge series. *The perfect choice for fans of Agatha Christie - after all, Elizabeth Daly was Ms. Christie's favorite writer. *Highly literate prose style, with no sex or on-stage violence. *Classic whodunit structure, with multiple suspects, locked rooms, and improbable clues. *There is a distinct market for old-fashioned puzzle mysteries, few of which are being published today *Here's a treat: Another charmingly urbane Henry Gamadge novel, fully up to Miss Daly's usual high standardst - Books *Deliciously gossipy, back-biting characters all gathered in an imposing mansion in upstate New York ... a pleasure - The New Yorker
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), was a Scottish novelist and a Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan at first entered into a career in law in 1901, but almost immediately moved into politics, becoming private secretary to British colonial administrator Alfred Milner, who was high commissioner for South Africa, Governor of Cape Colony and colonial administrator of Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Buchan gained an acquaintance with the country that was to feature prominently in his writing. On his return to London, he became a partner in a publishing company while he continued to write books. In 1910, he wrote Prester John, the first of his adventure novels, set in South Africa. During World War I, he wrote for the War Propaganda Bureau and was a correspondent for The Times in France. In 1915, he published his most famous book The Thirty-Nine Steps, a spy thriller set just before the outbreak of World War I. The following year he published a sequel Greenmantle.
