I’m angry at my pumpkins. I put them by the front door and they look completely ridiculous. My youngest basset said they are adorable and would be perfect for Barbie. Bless him, he was trying to make me feel better, but it was just a reminder of how ridiculously small they are. My friends are posting pictures of their huge pumpkins and I am green with envy. You all know I will forget my pumpkin anger by next spring and for some reason I will think this year will be different. I blame this all on Pinterest. Those beautiful pictures make me think I can do anything.

Taste for Trouble: Blake Brothers #1 (The Blake Brothers Trilogy)
Susan Sey
4.4 Stars (312 Reviews)
Genre: Sports | Romance

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On the field, soccer star James Blake is pure poetry.Off the field?He’s pure trouble.When his fondness for fast women and bar brawls lands him a suspension from the game, he’s prepared to take his punishment like a man.But since when does a suspension come with a live-in nanny? TV baking maven Belinda West is the epitome of home-made hospitality, on-screen and off.The personal is the professional when you’re selling the good life, after all. But when her wedding day implodes in front of a live studio audience, Bel’s career goes into a death spiral.She’ll do anything to save it, even take charge of soccer’s most famous bad boy. To hell with the morals clause in his contract; James isn’t about to shape up for some knock-off Mary Poppins.But since when does Mary Poppins laugh like a naughty angel and smell like sugar cookies?He’s not looking for love but that kiss of hers is practically perfect in every way.And James has a powerful taste for trouble.

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Dire Means
Geoffrey Neil
4.2 Stars (111 Reviews)
Genre: Urban | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Be kind to the homeless or die. An ingenious vigilante launches a bizarre mission to end homelessness in the coveted beach-side city of Santa Monica. Randomly-chosen citizens mysteriously disappear after they are secretly videotaped ignoring or exhibiting cruelty to the homeless. Days later, their chilling fate is broadcast for the world to see. With law enforcement stymied, Santa Monica becomes a virtual armed encampment. Citizens engage in flagrant displays of public kindness as the only way to feel safe outside their homes. Businesses join in, using storefront window signs to flaunt perks for the homeless and avoid being targeted. Mark Denny, a computer technician, is lured and then trapped in the vigilante’s scheme to maintain the public’s fear-fueled generosity. Matching technological wits is the only way he can end the city’s terror, but it could cost his life. This taut thriller brings you page after page of nail-biting tension laced with moral quandaries.

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Australia’s Strangest Mysteries #2
john pinkney
4.5 Stars (34 Reviews)
Genre: Religion & Spirituality | Science & Math

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WHY DID AMERICA’S FBI spend seven months investigating the bizarre New Year’s Day deaths of two Australians on a riverbank in suburban Sydney? And why did the agency refuse, on ‘national security grounds,’ to release its file on the case? This is just one of the many riddles surrounding the strange fate of 38-year-old laserbeam scientist Dr Gilbert Bogle and his companion Mrs Margaret Chandler, 29. The corpses were found, early on a hot summer’s morning , by two teenage boys hunting for golfballs. The dead man, whom police subsequently identified as Dr Bogle, was lying spreadeagled and semi-naked. Someone [the murderer?] had covered him with a small strip of carpet. Nearby, in a ditch,lay Mrs Chandler – her face and torso bafflingly blanketed in beer cartons. The discovery made international headlines. It swiftly emerged that Dr Bogle, a brilliant specialist in solid state physics, had recently accepted a research post in Washington – and had been preparing to fly there, with his wife and children. Mrs Chandler, who’d worked as a nurse before her marriage, had been at the same New Year’s party with Gilbert Bogle the evening before. They had left separately. Scientists found that the pair had died of acute heart failure – but they could suggest no cause. There were no signs of violence: no smothering or strangulation; no hypodermic marks; no evidence, in the body tissues, of poisons, or radioactive substances of any kind. From the morning the bodies were found, the Bogle-Chandler conundrum would perplex the law’s keenest forensic minds…

Journalist and author John Pinkney devotes his career to investigating inexplicable events. In this acclaimed book, companion-volume to Australia’s Strangest Mysteries #1, he explores a further multitude of mysteries from the Curious Continent: MAN-MONSTERS OF THE BUSH When the first settlers invaded Australia, Aborigines advised them to beware the gigantic ‘man-animals’ that inhabited the brooding continent’s remote lakes and bushland. The new arrivals shrugged off the warnings. But for two centuries, right up to today, thousands of reliable witnesses have compellingly described encounters with hominid creatures of a nightmarish kind. Pinkney interviews a range of deponents, including academic naturalists, an ABC broadcaster, surveyors, farmers – also quoting major newspaper accounts from the past to our present century. HORROR OF THE BENDING HEADLIGHTS A young mechanic dies after his car runs off a rural road. Police treat it as just another regrettable accident. But then an eyewitness comes forward to describe a terrifying event at the same spot three days earlier. Police search the field where the mechanic perished – and find a circular depression suggesting something landed there… Plus: What Crashed Into Guyra Dam? [drilling a 20- metre tunnel into the rock]… Missing: the Yacht with a Deadly Name… What Formed the Forgotten Footprints?… Glowing Globes of the Outback… Lasseter’s Reef – Fantasy or Fact?… The Five Missing Men of Bermagui… Death from a Distance: the Killing Bone’s Uncanny Power. And much more.

These pages offer you enthralling insights into mysteries that have puzzled humanity across two centuries.

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Freshman Mom: A Novel
Karen Gorback
4.6 Stars (14 Reviews)
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

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Meredith Lieberman has been wanting to go to college for a long time,but without encouragement or support,she settles into the life of a wife and mother — until one day, 18 years into her marriage, her husband leaves her for a more “spiritual life” in Sedona. Determined to be independent and follow her dreams, the newly single mom decides to go back to school. But when she announces her decision to her family, Meredith’s mother tells her to “grow up,” and her teenage daughter figures she’s probably going through a midlife crisis and says, “Don’t they have hormones for that sort of thing?” Disappointed but desperate to pursue her education and make a better life for her family, Meredith enrolls at the local community college. Freshman Mom is a powerful debut novel — contemporary, fast-paced, and fun — with themes illustrating the value of friendship, family, education, and moving on. The book tells the story of Meredith’s freshman year, filled with the angst of parenthood mingled with the challenges of college and the uncertainty of new relationships. Through joys and tears, ups and downs, Meredith brings us along for the ride of a lifetime as a Freshman Mom.

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Home baked bread: Recipes beyond the basic Loaf
Jason Daly
4.5 Stars (35 Reviews)
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine

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Home baked bread: Recipes beyond the basic Loaf is a fantastic book for those home bakers who want to experiment with their bread baking and move beyond the basic white/wholemeal loaf. Be warned – this book will have you baking beautiful varied loaves, flatbreads and sweet treats that will make your friends and neighbours green with envy! This beautifully illustrated book contains over 40 recipes for breads from all over the world, from Anadama bread through to Zwieback. The book contains a great variety of recipes including:

  • Sweet breads such as doughnuts
  • Batter breads such as crumpets and pikelets
  • Salt rising bread
  • Bagels
  • Pizza
  • Pumpernickel bread

So go on, indulge your sweet tooth!

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