So I just did something kinda bad. Not anything horrible that would cause pain to anyone, but I know it’s not a good thing and I did it anyways. Which is sorta sad because I was just thinking about how this year I was going to try and be a better person and parent. Then ten seconds later I turn around and do something I know is not good, but it’s one of those “End justifies the means” sorta thing. Now I am not going to tell you what it is because it’s a bad thing and I you guys already know I am a horrible cook who has horrible grammar. I certainly don’t want you guys to know more bad things about me. I actually caught myself doing the evil hand twiddling that you always see the villains doing in the movies. I wonder if they feel the same way I do. I know I did bad, but its okay. This is why I have my partner in crime. She can be my conscience and steer me in the right direction. Or not… she is a partner in CRIME after all.

Vangie Vale and the Murdered Macaron (The Matchbaker Mysteries Book 1)
by R.L. Syme
4.5 Stars (69 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Mystery | Women’s Fiction

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Small towns and gossip go together like flaky crust and sweet pastry cream.

Between the police scanners, the coffee ladies, and the senior center, no secret is safe for long. But Vangie Vale wants nothing more than to stay under the radar… especially the police radar.

So when her new bakery is linked to a murder investigation, nothing will stop the gossip mill from connecting her to the dead body. Can’t have that.

In order to clear her good name and keep her face off the front page, this bakery owner becomes extra nosy… with a little side of breaking-and-entering. But when she comes face-to-face with the Sheriff, Vangie can’t ignore the fact that one of her macarons was involved in a murder. She has to find the real murderer.

The Murdered Macaron is book one in The Matchbaker Mysteries, a new cozy culinary mystery series from USA Today Bestselling Author, R.L. Syme.

RECIPE INCLUDED: The Murdered Macaron

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Transient
by Zachry Wheeler
4.7 Stars (18 Reviews)
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Science Fiction

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TRANSIENT is in development with Voltage Pictures (The Hurt Locker, Dallas Buyers Club) to become a feature film!

The year is 2578 and immortals control the world. Brutal wars and endless genocide have reduced mankind to a handful of mountain tribes. In order to survive, humans infiltrate the eternal society as transient spies, hoping to uncover a means to regain control of the planet.

Jonas is a young transient deep undercover in downtown Seattle. He lives underground, works at night, and drinks his daily blood rations, just like any normal eternal. He is a model spy, but also an apostate among extremists, torn between ideologies (as well as lovers) from either side.

Allegiances are strained to the breaking point when Jonas bears witness to a violent death that rocks the eternal civilization to its core.

TRANSIENT is a young adult science fiction novel. The story will appeal to fans of post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction such as Suzanne Collins’s THE HUNGER GAMES and James Dashner’s THE MAZE RUNNER.

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Thirty-Two Going On Spinster (Spinster Series Book 1)
by Becky Monson
4.2 Stars (753 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Satire | Humor & Satire | Romance

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Julia Dorning is a spinster, or at least on the road to becoming one. She has no social life, hates her career, and lives in her parent’s basement with her cat, Charlie.

With the arrival of Jared Moody, the new hire at work, Julia’s mundane life is suddenly turned upside down. Her instant (and totally ridiculous) crush on the new guy causes Julia to finally make some long-overdue changes, in hopes to find a life that includes more than baking and hanging out with Charlie.

But when the biggest and most unexpected change comes, will the new and improved Julia be able to overcome it? Or will she go back to her spinster ways?

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Don’t Blame Me, It’s Everybody Else!: The Continuing Memories of a Confused Seventies Teenager! (Continuing Adventure of A Confused Seventies Teenager Book 3)
by Alex Cotton
4.5 Stars (15 Reviews)
Genre: Humor & Entertainment | Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction

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Third book in the series.
Continuing on from “Don’t Tell My Mum”. It’s now 1977 and we follow Alex through the twists and turns of growing up and leaving home, from the engagement party that she doesn’t really want, through to the wedding that has nothing to do with the bride and groom at all and ending with a baby that was planned but ‘not supposed to happen for another year’.
Among all the events are the ever present strange family. the attention seeking, all singing mother who can now buy a hat and be centre of attention at the wedding, the father, paralyzed with fear at the thought of walking down the aisle and giving a speech and the little brother who is still of a nervous disposition but has now swapped Avon collecting for drinking at age nine.
We also meet the in- laws who are even stranger and make the first family seem almost normal. Throw in a house full of slugs, shoplifting pensioners, patronising doctors, ill fitting hospital gowns and hallucinating sisters in law and you get some of the picture. If you liked the first books this one should give you a giggle.

“My mother said she would write me a note to get me out of being a witness,I told her it was Crown Court , not P.E”

“Terence was still in the closet at this point but the door was almost hanging off it’s hinges”

“I told my mother you had to suffer to be beautiful, she said she wouldn’t bother, she’d managed this long, she’d stay as she was”.

Can be read as a stand alone book but to appreciate fully should be read as a series.

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Shark Tooth Rosary, A Sea Story (The Sea Adventure Collection Book 2)
by Malcolm Torres
4.7 Stars (9 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Literature & Fiction

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Christopher Marlow spends his free time in the ship’s library flipping through a book entitled The Geography of the Philippines. The glossy pictures of tropical beaches, rice paddies and erupting volcanoes makes him daydream about taking a grand adventure when his ship reaches it’s next port of call, Subic Bay, in the Republic of the Philippines. When the ship finally drops anchor, he heads for the bus station, determined to discover the mysteries of the Orient for himself. There’s only one small problem… in order to get to the bus station, he has to walk past a mile-long strip of bars and cathouses. This is one of the short stories in The Sea Adventure Collection, by Malcolm Torres. These stories are often free on Amazon, and they can be read in any order.

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