Is it wrong that I am going on a diet, just so I can clear up some space in my cabinet? I have about 5 boxes of diet shakes that I hate to throw out, but I need to free up the space in the cabinet. What else can I do? I have to go on a quick diet, not waste the shakes, and maybe lose a few pounds as a bonus. It makes sense to me right now, not sure about 3 days from now, but for now it’s an awesome plan.

Glastonbury Tor (Glastonbury Grail)
LeAnne Hardy
4.4 Stars (19 Reviews)
Genre: Religious Fiction | Religion & Spirituality | Fantasy

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I am a coward.

Were I not, I would have died this morning on the Tor with the others, but I fled and hid. The Abbot told me I should be gone to Wales by now, but I hadn’t even the courage for that. My father spoke truer than he knew. He said I would never amount to anything as a monk, and he was right.

I close my eyes and mutter the prayers of protection for the dying.

. . . From the ancient enemy: free and defend their souls, O Lord. . . .

Across the moors three gallows loom atop the Tor. Three bodies swing in the cold November dawn. I draw my cloak about me. The bundle that is my treasure presses against my side, safely wrapped in the wool of my old habit. I try again to pray, but it is the warm baritone of the priest in my old parish in Wales, that fills my mind. More than a year has passed since he chanted those prayers for my mother. The pain still runs deep, and it is for her that I weep.

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The ancient olivewood drinking bowl that young Colin finds in the treasury of Glastonbury Abbey, was disregarded as worthless wood by King Henry VIII’s men when they inventoried the abbey’s treasures. But Father Dunstan, the tortured prior who preaches forgiveness, treasures it. Father Bede, as demanding as the hated father from whom Colin has fled, covets it. Abbot Whiting finds in it the courage to face his enemy, even as monasteries are being dismantled all over sixteenth century England. Will Colin find the personal faith and sense of worth he seeks? Can he ever forgive his father… or himself?

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Mysteries to Die For (A Collection of Short Stories)
S.D. Tooley
4.7 Stars (9 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Horror

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As an avid golfer, the author was excited when a local country club offered memberships at an unbelievably low price. Imagine her shock when she was informed she and her husband wouldn’t be able to golf together because women weren’t allowed to golf before 1:00 p.m. She vented her feelings in a short story, THE THIRTEENTH HOLE, which is about a haunted golf course. (written by Lee Driver)

SARA MORNINGSKY introduces an eighteen-year-old shapeshifter who unknowingly helps to solve the murder of a cop. She enlists the aid of P.I. Chase Dagger, a mysterious stranger with a dark past. This short story explains how Sara and Dagger first met. The Chase Dagger series combines mystery with elements of fantasy, sci-fi, and sometimes horror. There are currently five books in this series. (written by Lee Driver)

DIAMOND IN THE RUFF is one of those cases Chase Dagger manages to solve in a couple hours. It was an excerpt from the third in the Dagger series, THE UNSEEN, which was expanded and made into a short story. (written by Lee Driver)

In SOLVING LIFE’S RIDDLE, past and present collide in a story about how a recluse changes the life of a teen runaway. It gives a bit of a soft spot to a legendary Chicago figure with a questionable history. (written by S.D. Tooley)

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A History of Stone and Steel
Christopher Fisher
4.9 Stars (7 Reviews)
Genre: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fiction

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Faith, Hope, Boots…

When Paul Keppel learns that his fanatical, fire-and-brimstone-preaching grandfather is dying from brain cancer, he sees his own chronic headaches as a sign from above that he too has a very short time to live. Driven by pain, a nightmare about work boots, and a sense of impending doom, Paul soon finds himself losing control over his words and actions, to disastrous and comical effect. In order to save his marriage, avenge his sister, and preserve his sanity, he must face the memory of the summer when he was twenty-one, when a tragic steel plant accident sent his life spinning off course. But in the process, Paul begins to suspect that the history he has written in his head may not be as accurate as he once believed.

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The Good Life
Jodie Beau
4.7 Stars (38 Reviews)
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Romance

Twenty-two year old Roxie Golightly was a fun and carefree spirit…until she married a wealthy man and her role as a trophy wife left her isolated in a condo with an ironing board and an obsessive desire to impress people.

When her marriage ends after seven years, Roxie’s identity is buried under layers of furniture polish and piles of designer shoes. She doubts she can ever be the person she once was.

But when Roxie’s charmed life is turned upside down, her best-friend creates The Good Life List to help turn it back around. The instructions are simple: Complete each task on the Good Life List by the end of the summer.

With list in hand and the help of a sexy and charismatic guy from her past, Roxie is only a few check marks away from living the good life, even if it means getting thrown out of a bar or skinny-dipping in the neighbor’s pool at 3am.

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Redesigned (Off the Subject #2)
Denise Grover Swank
4.8 Stars (53 Reviews)
Genre: Coming of Age | Romance

Book Two in the USA TODAY Bestselling Off the Subject series

While fashion design major Caroline Hunter may have been born economically unlucky, in college, she’s been lucky in love. Until her senior year at Southern University. She’s gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates.

Then she meets mathematics grad student Reed Pendergraft.

Reed is everything she’s not looking for. Serious. Headed for a low paying university job. Boring. Caroline spent the first eighteen years of her life wondering where her next meal was coming from. She sure wasn’t getting trapped in that life again with a man living on a professor’s salary.

An encounter with Reed in a club proves she might have pegged him wrong. He brings out a lusty side she never knew she had. But just when she’s about to give in to her hormones, Reed makes a fool out of her.

When she shows up for the first committee meeting for Southern University’s Fall fashion show, a fundraiser for underprivileged kids, Caroline’s horrified to discover the insufferable Reed is the committee chairman.While she refuses to tolerate his totalitarian rule of the committee, she’s not sure she’ll survive the month with her heart–and her pride–intact. Just when she thinks she has everything figured out, she finds that her entire life has been redesigned, thanks to Reed Pendergraft.

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The Good Son: A Novel
Michael Gruber
4.2 Stars (89 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

New York Times bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of “the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind” (The Denver Post), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspense

Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group. While her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims, Sonia tries to keep them all alive by working her way into the kidnappers’ psyches and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of their language, her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian training, Sonia confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. Meanwhile, when the kidnappers decide to kill their captives, one by one, in retaliation for perceived crimes against their country, Theo races against the clock to try and save their lives.

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