After 50 years in the funeral business 80-year-old grandmother-undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all at least all of what goes on before during and after lifes ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries she combines equal doses of charm humanity humor and reality to tell it like it is on this taboo subject. A kind of Prairie Home Companion set in a mortuary the book features memorable stories of regret I wish I had kissed him on the morning he had the accident and renewal as the less...

Take the suspense and action of B.J. Daniels's Montana Justice series, add the loyal cowboys of Joanne Kennedy's Cowboys of Decker Ranch, mix with June Faver's authentic voice and genuine family dynamics, and you won't be able to put this one down!Cowboy musician Tyler Garrett has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put aside his rough-and-tumble rancher's lifestyle and realize his dream. There's no room to add love in the mix. He's on the road to Dallas to record a dem...

Those are my monsters, to be beaten with my magic. I don't need his unsolicited, and very unwanted help.I know what I am doing. But this man has to jump in as if I need his help. Maybe the monster's claws are right in my face, I'm fine. But he laughs at me and flexes his magic.He can have magic, I also do, but I have never seen his type of magic. Apparently, if I want to save more people from the monsters quicker, I have to work with him. Ca...

ESCAPE to Italy and fall in love with this feel-good travel romance.Isla's life is in shambles after her fiancé dumps her and she loses her beloved grandmother, and she knows she needs an escape from it all. Her grandmother's tales of her childhood on the Italian Riviera beckon Isla to the small coastal town of Mare Sereno on the glittering Ligurian Sea.She leaves her life in San Francisco behind and books a one-way ticket to the Riviera, ready to dive into...

Stitch your way across Middle-earth with 24 enchanting, beginner-friendly embroidery patterns inspired by Tolkien's legendary world; a first-of-its-kind, giftable craft book for The Lord of the Rings fans.Discover the magic of Middle-earth in an entirely new way as embroidery artist Emily June guides you through 24 beautifully designed patterns inspired by The Lord of the Rings. From the round green door of Bag En...

What if the most powerful solutions for the crises of modern life are actually found . . . in our past?We see it in headlines, in trendlines, in our own lives: We’ve never been more anxious, more divided, or more lost.The problem isn’t that we lack solutions. It’s that we abandoned the ones that actually worked.For thousands of years, across every culture on earth, humans built sophisticated “wisdom systems” to meet our deepest needs—rooted in physi...

A penniless governess, a haunted Welsh castle, and a love story edged with danger. The Ruby Ghost revives classic gothic romance for modern readers who crave atmosphere, intelligence, and emotional bite.A haunted Welsh castle. A penniless governess. One ruby necklace that could change everything—if it doesn’t destroy her first.Penelope Jones has three things to her name: her sketchbook, her stubborn pride, and dreams she cannot exp...

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain is a monumental modernist novel set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, where the young engineer Hans Castorp arrives for a brief visit and remains for seven years. Through languorous conversations, medical rituals, erotic awakenings, and philosophical debates, Mann transforms the Alpine retreat into a symbolic microcosm of prewar Europe. Its style is ironic, expansive, and intellectually orchestral, blending Bildungsroman, satire, philosophical fiction, an...

This is the story of Dana White the President of the UFC, one of the most recognized faces in mma, but he's not a fighter, he's part owner of the UFC and the President of the multibillion dollar, international company.The reader gets to see a side of Dana few know and it comes straight from the person who knows him best, his mother. She brings the reader from his birth to the man he is today."Some people think Dana White is horrible, a money making dictator, a womanizing tyra...

Sienna Frost, a sharp and ambitious acquisitions liaison for a luxury Los Angeles hotel chain, arrives on the snowy streets of Prague just before Christmas with a mission: to oversee the acquisition and modernization of the historic Novák Hotel in Prague's Old Town. If the sale goes through, it would mean a huge promotion for her.Her professional resolve is steadfast until she meets the enigmatic Ondřej Novák–the middle Novak sibling fiercely determined to protect his family's lega...

Professor Madeline McPhee has perfected the art of pursuing pollution, not criminals. But terrified residents of Dunnett Village don't appreciate that distinction when a murder turns the tranquil village upside down. An adorable Maine Coon kitten is found early one morning snuggled next to a body in the middle of the village bookstore. Despite Madeline's reluctance to get involved, the villagers prefer her sleuthing skills to those of the taciturn detective assigned to the case. Madeline a...

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies presents C. S. Forester's naval hero in the comparative calm after Waterloo, when empire is maintained less by grand battles than by diplomacy, vigilance, and moral nerve. Structured as a series of linked Caribbean episodes, the novel combines crisp maritime detail with ironic psychological realism. Its restrained prose, tactical precision, and attention to imperial aftershocks place it firmly within the classic tradition of twentieth-century historica...