Sonny and Ray, their friendship forged during the American involvement in the Nicaraguan Civil War of the 1970's, struggle to come to terms with the aftermath of that war and their memories of a woman one loved and the other murdered. The sudden appearance of a mysterious painting leads the two on an odyssey to uncover the truth about the woman's disappearance in the closing days of the war and their culpability in the tragedy. From a refugee camp in the Sudan to New Mexico, they search for the one person whose fate has haunted them for thirty years and whose destiny holds the key to their salvation. Joined by Harper, a photojournalist with a history and motives no less tangled, the puzzle lures them back to Central America, where they confront the consequences of their actions. The journey draws old allies and new deeper into a past filled with choices that cannot be undone and crimes that cannot be forgotten, and threatens to ruin the futures of those so desperate for the peace the war long ago destroyed.

Still Life in a Red Dress

Literature & Fiction

Jung, Dennis

Genre Fiction

Martin Brown Publishers, LLC

It’s Christmas time in Magnet Springs, but nobody feels merry. The weather is unseasonably warm, tourism is at a record low, and Abra has run away again. Six months pregnant, Whiskey Mattimoe worries about her lack of maternal instinct. If she can’t handle an Afghan hound, how can she raise a child? When eight-year-old neighbor Chester asks for help warning his private school headmaster that trouble is brewing in the PTO, Whiskey has no idea she’s about to witness a grisly murder. Then Jeb arrives with an engagement ring--and a rescued French bulldog who thinks she’s a femme fatale. Arrows fly, and they don’t come from Cupid. Whiskey and Abra find themselves on the same side in a battle where the enemy is hard to target

Whiskey and Soda

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Wright, Nina

Mystery

A grieving widow, an uninvited corpse, and a felonious Afghan hound who bears a grudge. . . Magnet Springs is a quiet little Michigan resort town enjoying leaf-peeping season, at least until a dead body turns up on a massage table and thirty-something realtor Whiskey Mattimoe finds one of her properties has become a murder scene. As her attempts to adjust to a new life as a widow are complicated by a kleptomaniac Afghan hound and her neglected eight-year-old neighbor, Chester, Whiskey becomes ensnared in a complex web of murder, identity fraud, dognapping, and art forgery. An unwitting sleuth in an unlikely scenario of mayhem, Whiskey must find a determined killer before the culprit drives property values in Magnet Springs down for good.

Whiskey on the Rocks

Just when she thought the past was behind her. . . It’s time for Magnet Springs’ annual ice fishing jamboree, but there’s something sinister afoot. Things begin going south as soon as Roy Vickers hits town. Not only did he try to kill Whiskey’s husband, Leo, nine years ago, but it now looks like Roy might have killed Magnet Springs’ missing self-aggrandizing mayor, Gill Gruen, Whiskey’s realtor nemesis. Then Chester, Abra and Prince Harry, Abra’s puppy, are kidnapped and newly deputized Whiskey, hot on their trail, finds herself up to her neck in the freezing waters of Lake Michigan after finding Gil’s corpse in a disserted ice shanty. Add in an ex-husband who shows up at all the wrong times trying to rekindle the sparks between them, the sexy, tempting father of her step-daughter’s twins, and the perverted male nurse imposter, and Whiskey’s life takes more twists and turns than a French braid. Helicopters, mixed up grandparents, murder, and the usual madcap mayhem abound as Whiskey searches for Chester and her dogs while accidently solving three murders.

Whiskey Straight Up

Dealing with the first anniversary of her husband's death would be much easier for Whiskey Mattimoe if the newly-crowned Miss Blossom wasn't scheduled to die on the very same day. It seems everybody in Magnet Springs knew about the not-so-secret curse of the Miss Blossom pageant except for Whiskey–full-time real estate agent, part-time sleuth, long-suffering owner of Abra, her willful and sometimes felonious Afghan hound, and reluctant guardian for the soon-be-deceased Miss Blossom. Any hope that Abra has reformed her purse-snatching ways is dashed when the dog disappears with the emerald-laden Miss Blossom tiara, a priceless--albeit horrendously ugly and gawdy--heirloom insured for more than Whiskey's net worth. Suddenly Whiskey finds herself tangled in a web of deceit and murder that spans centuries and involves her dearly departed husband, for better or worse. When the new Miss Blossom lands in the hospital and the former Miss Blossom turns up dead, Whiskey's got to catch a cold-blooded killer before another generation of Magnet Springs' royalty succumbs to a fate worse than wearing the Miss Blossom tiara.

Whiskey and Tonic

She’s at it again! In this fourth installment in the Whiskey Mattimoe series, Magnet Springs is in a frenzy over multiple sightings of dead mayor Gil Gruen and the self-induced exile of their resident Seven Suns of Solace adviser, Noonan Starr, just when she’s needed most. While opportunity knocks at Whiskey’s door in the form of a sexy Scotsman with real estate agent potential, a charming karma-obsessed self-help author with dating potential, and Whiskey’s ex-husband, who possesses the potential to drive her out of her mind, mayhem abounds. When one of Whiskey’s tenants is found murdered on the shores of Lake Michigan and the children in the young woman’s charge disappear, it’s up to canine-challenged Whiskey to rescue Magnet Springs from a scandal unlike any other it’s ever known. Can Whiskey help the town discover the truth about Twyla Rendel's death and lay Gil Gruen to rest for good before it’s too late?

Whiskey and Water

When untamed passion leads to murder, the lives of two people will never be the same. Cora Dalton’s world has spiraled out of control. Months of terror at the hands of a determined stalker who wants to claim her for his own culminate in the brutal slaying of her sister, and Cora goes on the run. She trusts no one, not even the police, until she meets a sexy stranger who can uncover her darkest secrets with a simple touch. Ryan McCabe senses what others cannot, and when he stumbles across the beautiful lead witness in his best friend’s latest homicide case, one caress tells him she’s desperate…and lying about something. Ryan knows what it’s like to be all alone in the world, and he can’t just walk away, but he can’t trust the beautiful liar hiding out in his bedroom, either. Forming an uneasy alliance, they frantically search for a madman determined to possess Cora one way or another while fighting an attraction that could get them both killed.

The Problem with Goodbye

Romance

Hollifield, Jana

Romantic Suspense

Have you been feeling stuck?  Do you find yourself trapped in negative patterns of thinking and behavior?  Have you tried conventional methods to break free of your self-destructive cycles with no success? The Emotional Yoga Experience technique is different than anything else you’ve tried and has the power to radically and permanently help you. Whatever your complaint, The Emotional Yoga Experience will provide you with a step-by-step approach that can help you become free of your self-limiting problems once and for all. Instead of spending more hours on a therapist’s couch trying to rewire your brain, this book will show you that, when your mind can not help you get unstuck, your body can.Your body stores negative emotions and, because these feelings are retained in your body, trying to think away your negative thoughts will not work. So many times “talking cures” are ineffective because they rely on the mind to diagnose issues that exist beyond the scope of its understanding. The mind lies. The body doesn’t.  We too often trust our minds to heal us, when our bodies hold the keys to emotional freedom. So what does that mean?  It means that, armed with The Emotional Yoga Experience (EYE) techniques, you can use yoga to connect with your body and find stored negative emotions, then use the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to release them and take your first steps to leading a more joyful, balanced life.

The Emotional Yoga Experience: Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind

Self-Help

Lyons, Daralyse

Emotions

Nine months pregnant, real estate broker Whiskey Mattimoe is literally living large. She needs a driver now and a nanny very soon. What she doesn’t need is another murder to solve… Magnet Springs is re-branding itself as a pet-friendly vacation destination, but the transition is bumpy. Someone is shooting at unleashed dogs, including Whiskey's own escape artist Abra. The shooter could be a disgruntled resident, a crazed tourist, or someone closer to home. Then two humans die in an explosion, and, even though she’s on maternity leave, Whiskey finds herself in the middle of the investigation. Is it an accident or murder? And who's going to drive Whiskey to the hospital when her water breaks?

Whiskey, Large (Whiskey Mattimoe Mystery series) (Volume 7)

Blogger Amy Koko bears her soul in her witty, bittersweet memoir, There's Been A Change of Plans: Divorce, Dating &amp; Delinquents in Mid-life. Expecting a trip to Italy, Koko is blind-sided by her husband’s confession that he’s been putting his shoes under a much younger and prettier woman's bed. After twenty-seven years of marriage and four children, she faces the unimaginable: her life as she knows it is unraveling around her and her family’s future is anything but certain.In the literary tradition of Nora Ephron's Heartburn and Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Koko’s memoir details her journey from hearing the news that her husband is in love with a blonde, thirty-something Swiss pastry chef to trying everything from thong underwear to a mini-facelift to save her marriage, only to see it die in the parking lot of gas station. With incredible honesty and humor, Koko takes the reader on a wild ride through the tough, emotional times of starting over through divorce, mid-life, finding a job, and Internet dating, all the while trying to keep her four teenagers out of jail. There’s been a change of plans, and that’s just the beginning.

There's Been A Change Of Plans

Parenting & Relationships

Koko, Amy

Family Relationships

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