Joanna Reinhard loses her job as a software engineer but refuses to adjust her reckless spending. To keep her three dogs and two horses (the mare menacing and pregnant), she moves in with her best friend, Margaret Lewis, paying for her family’s lodging by fixing up Margaret’s house and barn for sale. Joanna’s world grows more complicated when Margaret’s manipulative son Davey comes home from college and reawakens Joanna’s buried memories of childhood abuse and her anger at an early marriage to a domineering husband. Margaret, however, refuses to acknowledge her son’s predatory behavior. Joanna hires a local stable manager, Wayne Armstrong, to lend a hand with the heavy work in renovating the barn. His muscles and equipment are a great help, but his “little woman” attitude grates against Joanna’s self-sufficient temperament. The friendship between Joanna and Wayne begins with verbal clashes, but develops into an emotional haven for Joanna when Davey attacks her beloved dogs and horses and Margaret emotionally deserts her.

Returning to her family's lake house years after a mortifying mistake, Taylor must confront her past, the boy she left behind, and her father's terminal cancer.

Gourmand World Cookbook Award winner: An “elegantly written, amusing and engaging” reference for chefs (Country Living). Real Flavours is an entirely rewritten and updated third edition of Glynn Christian’s Delicatessen Food Handbook, described by Nigel Slater as “one of the only ten books you need.” It’s a handbook of specialty ingredient information, from salt and pepper through olive oil to caviar: It not only tells you what an ingredient is and what it should look and taste like, it also tells you what it goes with and how to use it. Born in New Zealand and renowned in Britain for his BBC appearances, Glynn Christian offers plenty of wit and anecdotes from a life spent traveling, cooking on TV, and writing for magazines and newspapers—in a reference book you’ll end up reading like a novel. “One of the best ever compendiums of gourmet and deli foods.” —Manchester Evening News

Are you on a doomed project? Do you really believe that spiffy SEI rating or the latest software engineering fad will save you from working long nights, missing deadlines, or having a nervous breakdown? We’ve got news for you: your project didn’t get that way by accident. It took a lot of careful planning. Want to learn how it’s done? In this book we’ll teach you the basics of killing a project. Instead of forcing you to rummage through a bunch of dry software engineering texts to identify potentially damaging approaches, we’ll equip you with 77 tactics proven on countless projects. Even if you have no experience as a manager, we’ll guide you through the confusing maze of possible courses of action and teach you how to virtually guarantee the failure of your project—all under the guise of ensuring quality, improving productivity, and maintaining morale! Do you have your own project horror story? (Who doesn’t?) Send it to us via our website: http://www.FineBooks.net

St. Patricks Day brings a new murder mystery for the crime solving duo. Can Cindy rush to save hundreds of teens and the man she's grown to care for before it's too late?

Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds mask the darkest, and bloodiest, secrets. Social media influencer Summer Cartwright leads a very charmed life: millions of followers, the hottest designer and vintage clothes at her fingertips, a newly minted book deal, the coolest friends, and, until recently, the hottest boyfriend at her über-elite prep school. Every moment of her life has been carefully planned and cultivated to complement her "imperfectly perfect" social media persona. She is truly #LivingHerBestLife. But when Summer goes missing during her annual Halloween party and then an unscheduled post appears on her feed stating that she'll be dead within the next five minutes, those closest to Summer know something isn't quite right—or on-brand. Grace, Summer's camera-shy best friend; Adam, Summer's gamer ex-boyfriend; Laney, Summer's moody camp roommate; and Cora, an influencer wannabe, all decide to investigate. And when they come upon Summer's lifeless body, they soon realize that no filter is strong enough to mask the lies we tell ourselves. Told in multiple POVs interspersed with social media posts and flashbacks, Live Your Best Lie has twists and turns that will keep readers turning the page and no one will be able to guess the ending.

Investigative reporter, Jamison Jackson, likes to go after the tough issues. She never backs away from a story that will expose greed and corruption. Tough minded and stubborn, Jamie takes risks and collects enemies along the way -- a consequence she accepts willingly. But when she is framed for murder, she is forced to go on the run to escape the killer who will do anything to retrieved something she might not even have. She must trust her former boyfriend, Homicide Detective Chris Lagoni, to clear her name, and the man she has fallen in love with, Brennan McKeever, to save her. But first, Brennan must find it in his heart to forgive her for a truth she buried behind her lying eyes.

Third in a series after Michael’s Secret and No Secrets, Secrets Lie Still follows life at Highfield, an estate on Prince Edward Island beginning in September of 1939. Well aware of the growth of the Nazi war machine in Germany and its threats to the UK, a long-time senior strategist in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Sir Richard Moncrieff, evacuated his wife and daughter to Highfield from Suffolk, England, in 1938. Sir Richard plans to continue his work from Highfield if German air strikes reach his SIS offices in London. When Germany attacks Poland on September 3, 1939, the world is plunged into war once again. While Sir Richard’s two sons serve the Royal Navy at sea under constant peril of U-boat attacks, the war finds its way to Highfield in a covert attack that threatens the lives of his wife, their expectant daughter, and her husband, Michael Moreland, a SIS operative and Highfield’s original superintendent. Amid all the perils that war brings, secrets still find ways to endanger lives and relationships among Highfield’s denizens and friends. While war menaces from without, some discover that secrets threatening their peace lie within.

When he was a child, they erased all record of him from the world. Now he’s returning the favor. Jim McPherson grew up with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, but he gave it all up for the simple life of a police detective. He thought he’d get some distance from his former jet-set friends, but a serial killer is targeting that exact demographic, and he fears his parents might be on the list. Chelsea Sullivan thought Jim trusted her, but lately, he’s been building walls between them. And she thinks she’s discovered why — he’s ashamed she’s not his social equal, embarrassed to be with her when they meet with his peers. Her biggest case yet, and now she’s fighting him too. When a renowned psychiatrist tries to counsel them rather than offer assistance in the case, Chelsea and Jim uncover a secret society of powerful people involved in a litany of illegal activities. And if that isn’t bad enough, a rogue agent in their wake. With such widespread corruption, they don’t know where to turn or who to trust. How can two at-odds detectives stop one driven serial killer when even the most connected men in the city cower in his wake? Twice Upon A Lie is the second book in Nolon King's new Once Upon A Crime Trilogy. Start reading your favorite new series today!