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Case Files

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A combination of short, edgy crime stories, and a few that are somewhat longer, (chapter-based), the final one featuring a trainee Detective Kay Hunter (who is featured a long-running book series). With the author’s knack for writing atmospheric, twisty short stories, many of which contain clever and surprising endings,…

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My First Popsicle

🌟🌟🌟🌟 💫 Heartwarming and cozy, like cocoa before a warm fire, this book explores the random thoughts and musings expressed by a group of actors, creatives, writers, directors and artists, (most of them with only a personal, and not professional, involvement with food) when asked to create an essay for…

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Salamanti

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Salamanti, translated to mean “Cheers” in Persian, is exactly that - a gorgeous and cheering montage of beautiful recipes, bursting with seasonal flavor, herbs, and vegetables, welcoming the reader into a mouth-watering world of Persian cooking, where each meal is a deeply-rooted communal experience, as much a gateway to…

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I don’t talk to dead bodies

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A compassionate and heart-felt memoir, written by a retired forensic psychiatrist, whose thirty-two year career exposed her to more diversity, challenges, risks, and yes, opportunities, than many of us can even imagine. As a psychiatrist who works with mentally-ill criminals (and not dead bodies, as is a common misconception),…

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The Maids of Biddenden

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Based on the true-life story of two remarkable women, Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, in the Kent township of Biddenden, in and around the early twelfth-century, this book takes the tale of what may be the first documented case of conjoined twins. In this case, joined at the hip, with…

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The Hidden Palace

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Lushly illustrative, in many ways, of the works set in motion by Rosamund Pilcher, this sweeping cross-generational family saga follows the lives and loves of two key women: Florence Baudin, a naive yet sensible young woman (dealing with a horrific past), and her long-estranged aunt, Rosalie Delacroix, a glamorous…

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The Accidental Detectorist

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 What happens when a middle-aged travel-writer, home-locked due to the Covid pandemic, discovers the world of metal-detecting - initially dismissed as somewhat outlandish, but somehow, an itch that takes hold, and must be satisfied. Searchers, seekers, hobbyists, all of them falling captive to the allure of the hunt -…

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The Real Prime Suspect

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Unabashedly frank, vulnerable, and heartfelt, this hard-edged memoir, written by a London Metropolitan Detective Chief Inspector (who also happens to be female, one of only three DCIs of her gender at the time) is a testament to resilience, compassion, and a lifelong passion to serve - and…

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Hotbed

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Riveting, exquisitely detailed and beautifully rendered, the true-life story of a remarkable and exclusively feminine society, gathered at the turn of the twentieth century in Greenwich Village, NY, in an informal and highly-connected club - a powerhouse of informed, educated and motivated champions, prepared to weigh in…

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Tell Me The Truth

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fascinating, insightful and oh-so-wise look at love, through the eyes of a master psychoanalytic therapist, long versed in the compassionate practice of rooting out “dilemmas we face in relationships, which draw couples together and tear them apart.” Through the composite sketches provided of thirteen semi-fictional couples,…

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