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"Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review

SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017

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From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history
       
       In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
      
      Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.
   
      In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror,” roamed—many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection.  Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. 
   
       In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating.

Jessie Henderson's childhood vacation town is as perfect as she remembers... until a dead body shows up.

It was supposed to be a fresh start after losing her job and getting divorced. At first, Springdale is every bit as quirky and idyllic as Jessie remembers. Her Aunt Bee is just as crazy and her baking is as delicious as ever.

And then a murder changes everything. The whole point of Jessie's move was to enjoy a quiet, small town life. She knows she shouldn't get involved, but she can't help it. One of her new friends is the prime suspect and nobody else seems interested in helping her. Can Jessie save her friend and avoid putting herself in danger in the process?

Baking is Murder is the first book in the Bee's Bakehouse Cozy Mystery series. Each book is a standalone mystery.

A sizzling standalone romance by USA Today bestseller Ember Casey.

Never trust a bad boy with your heart. Especially when that bad boy is one of Hollywood's notorious Fontaine brothers...

Ashlyn just wants to move on with her life. Run her bakery. Heal her broken heart. She's had three years to try and forget Dante Fontaine.

To the rest of the world, Dante is Hollywood royalty, the ridiculously attractive oldest son of the notorious Fontaine family.

To Ashlyn? He’s the guy who made her swear off men forever.

But when an accidental--and humiliating--encounter brings him back into her life, Ashlyn realizes that no matter how hard she’s tried to forget him, Dante definitely hasn’t forgotten her.

…and this time, he's not going to let her go.

Meet the Fontaines: Hollywood royalty. L.A.'s most notorious bad boys. Permanent stars of the tabloids. And the wickedest, most devilish lovers around...

THE FONTAINES SERIES:
Book 0 - The Secret to Seduction (Felicia Liddle + Roman Everet)
Book 1 - The Sweet Taste of Sin (Dante Fontaine + Ashlyn Worth)
Book 2 - The Lies Between the Lines (Luca Fontaine + Emilia Torres)
Book 3 - The Mystery of You (Rafe Fontaine + Edie Marshall)
Book 4 - The Thrill of Temptation (Orlando Fontaine + Maggie Blankenship)

There's only one place you can live out your wildest fantasies…

I placed my hands beside Farah's head and pulled her toward me, penetrating her with my tongue. We pulled our clothes off one another, and after a few moments reacquainting herself with my lady parts, she slowly lowered herself over my pole, savoring every inch as it sunk into her fiery canyon…

Ever since her recent transgender experience, Jade has been obsessed with cocks. But not just any cocks – ladyboy cocks. One night, as she falls asleep, she’s transported to an ancient Arabian kingdom filled with sorcerers and villains.

She finds herself wandering the desert and stumbles upon a mysterious cave. Inside, she finds a huge treasure trove of gleaming jewels and pottery. She picks up one of the vessels and dusts it off, and a genie emerges.

When he tells her that he will grant her any three wishes, she immediately asks to be bestowed with a man’s penis. Endowed with both a man’s and a woman’s fully functioning equipment, Jade sets out on a journey of exploration, discovering all the fun ways she can use her ladyboy parts with an exciting menagerie of characters.

Join Jade as she moves through a series of erotic encounters with men and women alike that take her to new heights of pleasure…

A wendigo controlled by a curse. An insatiable mystery woman. One sexy, crazy ride.

Greed. For the last 4,000 years, it’s been my curse.

Every day, I live with the repercussions of the terrible choices I made.

I thought I’d seen it all…then a black aura crosses my path.

The beautiful woman it belongs to sends my world into a tailspin.

She gets under my skin, hypnotizing me with her adventurous and kinky nature. I almost forget I know nothing about her.

Thinking with the wrong head can certainly get a man in trouble, but in this case, it could mean an end worse than my curse.

***Parched contains content for those 18 years and older only. It is crazy, over-the-top, and kinky. If you don't enjoy steamy and sometimes raunchy scenes, this book probably isn't for you. Skip to Cursed, book two, which is considerably tamer but still very steamy, and start there. These are stand-alones so you can pick up any of the books in any order. ***

NOT EVERY SCAR IS VISIBLE…

What do you do when the girl you want can’t even remember your name?
This pretty, long-legged, fiery girl who makes me weak in the knees. Of all the chicks who flirt with me, hang around me, I could have my pick, but no… I want psycho girl.

One day she ignores my existence, and the next she smiles and talks to me as if she knows me, as if she wants me.

What the hell is she playing at? She’s driving me up the wall.
I want her so badly I can’t think straight.

It’s the last thing I need, with these strange nightmares that plague my nights and make me wonder whether something happened in my past.

Something I can barely remember.

Memories of a bogeyman, and a body, and blood, and fear unlike any I’ve ever felt in my life.
Between the dreams and this sexy psycho girl, I might as well be losing my mind.
Unless I find out what’s going on, get the girl and lay the bogeyman to rest for good…

***This is a standalone, full-length romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger or cheating. ***
This is the story of Merc, brother to Gigi and Octavia whom you met in Caveman and Bad Wolf.

Halloween LaVeau is descended from a long line of witches, but she never thought that inheriting LaVeau Manor would be such a curse. After she was voted Worst Witch of the Year, Halloween finally finds her witchy groove - only to lose the Book of Mystics in the process and with that, control of the Underworld.

Lucy Divine was born with an enigmatic and unwanted psychic ability which has become her deepest secret.

When Grant Alexander resurfaces in her life, a boy whose family moved away from hers over a decade earlier, she feels obligated to help him when one of his family’s most valuable possessions goes missing.

Lucy is torn—in doing so, she must first reveal her ability, and open herself up to the possibility that Grant could turn away from her, disbelieve her, or even worse—regard her with scorn as the people in her past have.

But Grant harbors his own secrets—secrets that did not originate with him, but instead, with members of his family, including the insidious truth about why his and Lucy’s families broke contact years earlier.

The two stand to lose a lot if they reveal their secrets, especially as they grow closer to each other.

But it's not easy to keep the truth, especially one you feel is owed, from a person you care deeply about.

Will they decide it’s worth the risk?

Become addicted with USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Brooke Page, and her fast-paced romantic suspense series that will leave you breathless and desperate for the next book!

Bait.
That's all she is.
Nothing more.
Nothing else.

And that's why she's wanted,
And in danger.

Lauren Owens is so much more.
She's everything.
Falling for her was never my intention.
But, I couldn't resist,
Her charm,
Her vulnerability,
Her spirit and drive,
And her unimaginable innocence.

And that's exactly why my father wants her,
For his own gain.
Now, it's up to me to take him down,
Stop him once and for all,
Protecting her every step of the way.

Saving her would mean only one thing:
I won't get to love her.

A KINDLE TOP-20, USA-TODAY BESTSELLING ROMANCE!*

FIRST in the PACIFIC HORIZONS series. In these connected romantic novels, characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal their souls...

Haley knew that carrying her twin sister’s baby would be a sacrifice.
She just didn’t know how great.

Pregnant, overworked, and driven to the end of her rope by the neediness of the sister and widowed mother who depend on her, a high-powered young attorney seeks refuge with a week’s vacation on the Alaskan coast. As overachiever Haley soaks up the serenity of her unexpectedly agreeable surroundings, she finds something else she doesn’t expect -- deep feelings for the wildlife-loving boat captain who reminds her how to laugh.

With her unborn niece or nephew on the way and thousands of miles of ocean between their lives and careers, Haley and Ben settle for a friendship. But back home in California, the emptiness in Haley’s heart begins to fester. When her pregnancy takes a frightening turn, she must examine what really matters -- and rediscover the childhood dream she never realized she had lost.

Simple solutions to everyday problems!

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to make life easier? With Life Hacks, you'll find hundreds of methods that you can start using right now to simplify your life. From folding a fitted sheet to removing scuffs from furniture, this book offers simple solutions to a variety of everyday problems. Each informative entry helps you discover quicker, more efficient techniques for completing ordinary tasks around the home, at the office, and just about anywhere. You'll also learn how to make the most out of any situation with fun, problem-solving tricks like creating an impromptu iPod speaker from toilet paper rolls or snagging a free doughnut at your local Krispy Kreme shop.

Filled with 1,000 valuable life hacks, this book proves that you don't have to search very far for the perfect solution to everyday problems.

“The discourse of our common life inclines towards despair. In my field of journalism, where we presume to write the first draft of history, we summon our deepest critical capacities for investigating what is inadequate, corrupt, catastrophic, and failing. The ‘news’ is defined as the extraordinary events of the day, but it is most often translated as the extraordinarily terrible events of the day. And in an immersive 24/7 news cycle, we internalize the deluge of bad news as the norm—the real truth of who we are and what we’re up against as a species. But my work has shown me that spiritual geniuses of the everyday are everywhere. They are in the margins and do not have publicists. They are below the radar, which is broken.”
 
Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. The heart of her work on her national public radio program and podcast, On Being, has been to shine a light on people whose insights kindle in us a sense of wonder and courage. Scientists in a variety of fields; theologians from an array of faiths; poets, activists, and many others have all opened themselves up to Tippett's compassionate yet searching conversation.
 
In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from this luminous conversation in its many dimensions into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind. The book is a master class in living, curated by Tippett and accompanied by a delightfully ecumenical dream team of teaching faculty. 
 
The open questions and challenges of our time are intimate and civilizational all at once, Tippett says – definitions of when life begins and when death happens, of the meaning of community and family and identity, of our relationships to technology and through technology. The wisdom we seek emerges through the raw materials of the everyday. And the enduring question of what it means to be human has now become inextricable from the question of who we are to each other. 
 
This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this century – of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual evolution. It insists on the possibility of a common life for this century marked by resilience and redemption, with beauty as a core moral value and civility and love as muscular practice. Krista Tippett's great gift, in her work and in Becoming Wise, is to avoid reductive simplifications but still find the golden threads that weave people and ideas together into a shimmering braid.
 
One powerful common denominator of the lessons imparted to Tippett is the gift of presence, of the exhilaration of engagement with life for its own sake, not as a means to an end. But presence does not mean passivity or acceptance of the status quo. Indeed Tippett and her teachers are people whose work meets, and often drives, powerful forces of change alive in the world today. In the end, perhaps the greatest blessing conveyed by the lessons of spiritual genius Tippett harvests in Becoming Wise is the strength to meet the world where it really is, and then to make it better.

The award-winning serial in novel form for the first time!

Gianna is a Seer : blessed with visions and dreams from the Moon Goddess.

Alpha Gabel intends to be the first Alpha King in five hundred years, and his ruthless cruelty and ambition are without limit. Gianna and their Bond are his toy, nothing more.

Taken against her will, Marked without consent, and forced to play Gabel's cruel games, Gianna vows to be the one soul that Gabel never conquers.

A Box Set of Amazon Top 100 Novels!

Filled with over-protective billionaires, bad boys, and a mountain man to keep you warm. These hot alpha males will have you begging for more.

Book 1 - Damaged
I was alone on my mountain.
Till Charlotte came...
I saved her, but she can't remember her past.
And I can't forget mine.
Trapped together by the winter storm.
I'll keep her safe and warm.
But someone wants to harm her...
He doesn't know who the f*ck he's messing with.
I'll protect her, no matter the cost.

Book 2 - His Property
The mafia made me what I am.
Men bow down to me. Women submit to me.
Harper was supposed to be collateral. Now she's mine.
A strawberry blonde virgin with curves that could kill.
They want to sell her, but I already own her.
They said they're coming for me.
I can lose my life. But I won't lose her...

Book 3 - Forbidden
One kiss sealed her submission.
I marked her. Possessed her. Taught her.
Now that she is carrying my baby...
Can I protect the two of them... or will I lose it all?

Book 4 - The Wedding Proposal
She's my best friend's little sister.
I wanted to protect her in the past, but I f*cked up.
Years passed. She's my new secretary.
I gave her a proposal. We made a contract.
She thinks our marriage has an expiration date...
Will the past ruin my future with her and my child?

Book 5 - Holiday Heat
Cristina showed me what I was missing.
Now, the holidays will never be the same.

Warning: This box-set is filled with 5 steamy full-length standalone romance novels.
Be prepared to be hooked til the very end.

Fall hard for the infamous Beckett brothers in this steamy bad boy bundle. A four-book Amazon Top 50 Bestselling series now available in one complete box set.

These bad boy alpha brothers play hard and love harder, willing to do anything to protect their women. From hot football superstars to detectives, dirty mechanics and more, there’s a Beckett brother sure to fog up your Kindle tonight and leave you begging for more.

Book One – Long Game
I go long, I go deep, but I never go soft.
They call me ‘The Damage’ because I crush it on the field and off.
I’m all about the offensive penetration. No one knows the game as well as I do.
It doesn’t hurt I’ve got a goal post in my pants.
But the moment I see Indiana’s smoky eyes and tight end, I know I’m in trouble.

Book Two – Brute
I’m gonna be her first and her last.
I’m bringing more than a big wallet to this small town.
I bought the local auto shop—lube jobs are on the house.
Until the heavenly slice of country pie that is Jeanie.
It’s going to be perfect.
Just as long as she doesn't find out what I'm running from…

Book Three – Puck Buddies
She’s never had an ‘O’. I’ve never hooked up with a teacher.
I came to this icy hellhole of a college for hockey, for redemption, but what I found was a whole lot better.
Harper Dunham wanted to experience the big O… and I used by my big D to deliver.
Being with her means risking everything.
But f@ck it. When have I ever played by the rules?

Book Four – Vice
They don’t know who I am… or what I’ll do to keep her safe.
Detective Grace Siddell is a gung-ho stick of dynamite with an a$s and mouth to match.
She’s nothing like the sorority sisters I used to churn through in college.
We’re working a murder case that’s wringing the filth from the core of the Big Apple.
Our lives could be in danger, or worse.
But I’m going to prove my worth, protect her with everything I have.
Even if the entire city is coming down upon us.

Sometimes, the only way to save a galaxy is to conquer it. Soda, the sassy Neon Octopus wants her Overlord job back. But she'll have to battle the weird collection of snarky supervillains standing in her way. Prepare for galactic mystery, idiotic bureaucracy, and shenanigans.

Soda, The Neon Octopus ex-Overlord, wants her job back and she'll stop at nothing to get it. But when the board of directors in charge of the process meet an untimely demise, all at the same time, the rules change. A change that allows every supervillain in the galaxy to join the fight for power in a winner-take-all brawl that will change everything. 

The candidates:

Soda is a sassy, immortal space octopus with a temper. Her special skills include teleportation and inappropriate use of tentacles. She's going to take back what was hers.

Floyd is a brainwashing therapist by day and a terrifying Preying Mantis called Mantix in his free time. Also, he's an Executive Producer of the tv show All My Wormholes. He believes he should rule the galaxy.

Froggy is a master of technology, which he harnesses for evil purposes. He's also an interstellar traveler who has finally found his Zen. He wants to prove he has what it takes to be Overlord.

Ray is an Intergalactically famous Oracle with millions of adoring fans and a flair for the dramatic. He has wanted to be Overlord ever since he arrived in this galaxy and he knows that it's now or never. He and his pet troll Chipmunk are ready.

The only question is, will the galaxy survive the brawl?

Inside a rusting German U-Boat are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart.
The KGB, the CIA, Nazi SS hitmen, even the Israeli Mossad – everyone is willing to kill for it, but only former US Airman Mike Randall knows the truth in this Cold War spy versus spy thriller.

After his B-17 crashes in East Prussia in the winter of 1945, Randall finds himself in a Nazi forced labor battalion in Konigsberg on the frozen Baltic coast, surrounded by the Red Army. Also in the old port is Kapitan Eric Bruckner, one of Germany’s last surviving U-Boats, and SS Major Heinz Kruger, Martin Bormann’s sinister hatchet man.

Unaware that the U-Boat has been tapped for a top-secret mission, Randall manages to stow away. After a British bomber sends the U-boat to the bottom, he is the lone survivor and the only one who knows what is really inside.

Seven years later, when Randall finally speaks up, he puts a target on his own forehead, one that the Russians, the West Germans, the U-boat’s former Nazi owners, the US government, and even the Israeli Mossad quickly take aim at.

Some want the gold, some want Randall dead, and some want proof that there is a high-ranking spy inside NATO itself.

What Mike Randall wants is much simpler. Caught between the Kremlin’s spies, the CIA, the Mossad, and a new, deadly, 4th Reich, all he wants is to pay an old debt with a steel-jacketed bullet.

Looking for a good beach book or something to curl up wit in front of the fire, this fast-moving conspiracy thriller i/s from the author of Burke’s Gamble, Burke’s War, The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, and Aim True, My Brothers, with over 500 Kindle 5-Star Reviews. Enjoy!

FOR NEW ORLEANS STYLE MURDER—TAKE LAUGHS, TWISTS, MIX WELL, AND ADD A BELLE

Colleen Mooney keeps the twists coming as fast as the laughs in her third THIRD funny cozy starring Brandy Alexander, everybody’s idea of the perfect chick lit heroine. Brandy’s blonde, adorable, has a good job, two guys to choose from, and very possibly the poor judgment to pick the wrong one. (Half the fun’s watching to see if she’s ever going to wise up.)

The other half’s watching her life complicate itself in ways that would send the average female sleuth screaming into the night. First, she witnesses a murder at a drive thru joint with the unlikely name of CLUCK IT—CHICKEN BY THE BUCKET. And then it turns out nothing at the scene’s what it seems—or at any rate nobody’s who they seem. Seems CLUCK IT’s not just a place to clog your arteries, but also a transgender hangout. And with that discovery, you know you're in New Orleans.

The local color never stops as Brandy’s complex Irish Channel family develops the kind of problem that’s a lot more fun on the page than in real life. What to do when your sister gets pregnant with one of the next-door twins who are also the brothers of your lifelong flame—but she doesn't know which twin? (Be glad it's Brandy’s problem, not yours.)

She also finds a mysterious box of valuable jewelry under her closet floor, becomes the unofficial caretaker of the Tarot reader across the street who knows the future but can never predict when she’s going to get so drunk she’s going to fall into her own bushes, and develops a strong suspicion about one of her other neighbors, all the while juggling the two Romeos.

Good thing she’s better at solving mysteries than she is at wrangling her boy friends. The reader can rest assured she’s eventually, and in fine style, going to weave together the myriad mysterious strands that confound the police (who happen to count Boy Friend # 1 among their ranks) and present them the solution with all the panache of an old-style detective like Hercule Poirot—yet none of the pretension. You can almost hear her wondering, “Did I do that?”

Fans of cozy mysteries and chick lit heroines will delight in Brandy’s flat-out lovability and Mooney’s almost offhand yet spot-on (and often hilarious) observations of everyday New Orleans life. If you like contemporary stylish heroines like those popularized by Janet Evanovich, Elaine Viets, Stephanie Bond, and Gemma Holliday, and humorous mysteries like those by Donna Andrews, Dorothy Cannell, and Lisa Lutz, you're going to get a girl-crush on Brandy Alexander.

When a white water rafting adventure goes horribly wrong, four teens must brave the wilderness to survive in Stranded in the Wild.

Sixteen-year-old Savi Evans came to an adventure camp in Idaho carrying the pain of a recent and tragic loss and a dark family secret. She hopes the wilderness setting, vigorous activities, and some new faces might help take her mind off things back home. At Camp Arrowhead, Savi makes fast friends with Jade Chang and Rico Cruz, but mean and sarcastic Conner Swift is also on their raft. What was supposed to be an exciting expedition turns into a nightmare when their raft slams into a boulder and the adult guide is ejected into the water and disappears downriver. Without their guide and desperately trying to steer an out-of-control raft, the terrified teens pass the "last chance" point of no return and enter the fiercest rapids on the river.

fter another collision, Jade gets pinned between a rock and the raft, and Rico is also jolted from the float and ends up in the water. Savi has no choice but to cut the raft loose. By the time the teens drag themselves out of the river, they're injured, exhausted, and twenty-five miles from camp. Soon stranded, the foursome is in a remote wilderness with meager provisions. The area is rife with wild animals, snakes, and a vicious flesh-eating predator known as Vexel. Nobody is sure what kind of animal Vexel is because no one who has encountered him has ever survived. Now the disoriented teens must find their way to Camp Arrowhead with the clock ticking and Vexel stalking them.

Can they make it over a final hurdle before the dam opens, and crushes their only hope of reaching safety? 

A rich heiress. A family tragedy. A mission to survive.

While Gia Santella seems spoiled and wealthy on the outside, she quietly hides her wounded heart from the world. Consumed by grief after the loss of her parents, she can barely handle the news of her estranged brother's overdose. As she attempts to process the latest blow to her family, she receives a letter that changes everything.

Shocked to discover that her parents' death was no accident, Gia learns that she's the next name on a killer's hit list. Vowing to find the one responsible and avenge her loved ones, the wealthy playgirl must stay one step ahead of the ruthless plot to end the Santella family line. To avoid yet another family tragedy, Gia has a bloody choice to make: kill or be killed.

Gia in the City of the Dead is the first book in the Gia Santella Crime Thriller series. If you like take-charge heroines, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and gritty drama, you’ll love Kristi Belcamino’s action-packed stories!

Get it now! Grab Gia in the City of the Dead and create your own brand of justice today!