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8 Sandpiper Way
By Debbie Macomber

8 Sandpiper Way
Cedar Cove, Washington

Dear Listener,

I have something to confide in you. I think my husband, Dave, might be having an affair. I found an earring in his pocket, and it's not mine. I'm also worried because some jewelry was recently stolen from an old woman-and Dave used to visit her a lot. You see, he's a pastor. And a good man. I can't believe he's guilty of anything, but why won't he tell me where he's been when he comes home so late?

Listener, I'd love to hear what you think. I also want to tell you what's going on with your other friends in Cedar Cove. Like Sheriff Troy Davis, to mention one. His long-ago love, Faith Beckwith, just moved here!

So come on in and join me for a cup of tea.

Emily Flemming

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Sealed with a Kiss
By Carly Phillips

Molly Gifford has it all - a hot legal career and Daniel Hunter, her equally hot boyfriend. But what she desperately needs is family. So when she discovers her real father, she doesn't hesitate to pack her bags. Even though it means leaving behind the man she loves...

A year later Daniel Hunter's still trying to get on with his life. Then Molly shows up at his door, begging for help. Her newfound father is under arrest for murder, and she's convinced Hunter is the only attorney with the skill and reputation to get him off.

Hunter can't resist helping an innocent man. But this time he'll be the one walking away - even if it breaks both their hearts to do it...

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Hide and Seek
By Fern Michaels

Together, the seven fearless friends known as the Sisterhood have served sweet justice to villains who thought they were above the law. But payback has its price, and the Sisterhood's last assignment almost landed them in jail. Now the women are fugitives with a bounty on their heads, but they're not planning on hiding out for long - not when good friends need the kind of help only they can give.

Mitch Riley, the ruthless assistant director of the FBI, intends to frame Cornelia "Nellie" Easter, the judge who helped the Sisterhood evade prison, and their lawyer, Lizzie Fox, in order to save his own career. He's created a special task force to hunt the Sisters down. Mitch has the entire FBI behind him, but he's about to discover that he's no match for seven formidable women with an unbreakable bond and a wickedly cunning plan to bring the fight right to his door...

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My Thin Lifestyle
By Karen Bentley

Can you imagine what it's like to not be able to fly on an airplane because you can't fit into two seats? Well, that's exactly what happened to 38-year old Scott Ballard who used to weigh a massive 481 pounds! The inability to do business travel got Scott's attention, but the really big scare came in the form of heart palpitations. Scott's doctor gave a dire prediction that Scott would be dead before he turned 40 if he didn't lose some serious weight. That was the last bit of inspiration that Scott needed.

Luckily, Scott teamed up with personal trainer, Brett Henderson, the current owner of e3 Performance & Fitness. Brett orchestrated two important services for Scott. For one thing, he got Scott (who happens to also be a vegetarian) lined up with a nutritionist who devised a totally custom eating plan for him. And for another, Brett immediately got Scott going on a fitness regime. It started with simple walking and eventually progressed to a more demanding program that enabled Scott to quickly shed pounds, body fat, and inches and morph into the handsome, hunky guy that he is today. Scott and Brett openly tell their success stories and fill listeners with hope about the prospect of losing weight. Host Karen Bentley shares the latest and greatest scientific news and another spiritual solution for recognizing yourself as a loving being.

Iwo Jima
By Larry Smith

On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American soldiers invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000 soldiers died, including nearly 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 Americans, making Iwo Jima one of the costliest battles of World War II.

Bestselling oral historian Larry Smith dug deep for exclusive stories from Iwo Jima veterans, including the last surviving flag raiser on Mount Suribachi, a Navajo "code talker," a retired general, two Medal of Honor recipients, B-29 flyers, and other die-hard Marines who secured the island. Along the way, Smith investigates the controversy surrounding the famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal and presents the groundbreaking story of Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, rumored to have committed suicide rather than submit to capture.

The 4-Hour Work Week
By

Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years - a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with a whole new way of living. Readers can lead a rich life by working only four hours a week, freeing up the rest of their time to spend it living the lives they want.

The Four-Hour Work Week shows and explains:

• What is a lifestyle entrepreneur - and why you should want to become one
• How to kill your job
• How to design a life
• How to replace your dreams with goals The 80/20 rule and how it increases productivity
• How to add life after subtracting work
• How to DEAL: Define, Eliminate, Automate, and Liberate

The Charlemagne Pursuit
By Steve Berry

Cotton Malone knows that his father died when his submarine sunk in the north Atlantic in 1971, but not much else. Using his government contacts to discover the details behind his father's demise, he learns that the sub was on a highly classified mission. And it turns out that the Nazis explored Antarctica by submarine a decade earlier than Americans, following clues discovered in a manuscript unearthed from Charlemagne's tomb that seemed to point to the existence of an Aryan civilization there. In order to answer the questions surrounding his father's death, Malone must find the submarine, but first he must embark on a dangerous adventure to locate the lost manuscript.

Cotton Malone sets out to discover the truth behind his father's death in a powerful new international thriller from New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry.

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Coraline
By Neil Gaiman

The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....

In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one window and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close, The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different....

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.

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Restless
By Tori Carrington

Straitlaced lawyer Lizzie Gilbred has had it with being a good girl. This Christmas, she's going to be naughty--very, very naughty. And lucky for her, she knows just the guy to help her....

Patrick Gauge, a footloose musician with a body to die for, is exactly the type of man Lizzie's got on her holiday wish list. What better way to take the plunge into the official world of "bad girl-dom" than jumping right into his bed! Gauge makes her body sing...and it's a wickedly seductive tune.

Lizzie can't believe what a wildcat she becomes in his arms. But it's clearly just a physical thing between her and the restless guitarist....

That is, unless she can find a new song for them to play--one with more permanent lyrics!

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Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things
By Wendelin Van Draanen

Sammy Keyes trades in her hightops for hiking boots--and winds up with blisters.

This is not the summer camping trip of Sammy's dreams. She imagined shady glades, meandering streams, a deer or two. What she gets are scrubby shrubs, blazing sun, rattlesnakes, ticks, and scorpions. Her fellow campers are desperate to catch a rare glimpse of an endangered condor. To Sammy, the trip is nothing more than the painful in pursuit of the unspeakably ugly.

But when she and two other girls find an injured condor, Sammy's intrigued at last. As they track down a clue, they stumble onto two classmates and wind up lost. Which leaves three girls and two boys in a canyon with one tent and six billion biting flies. Oh--and an armed and dangerous highstakes poacher.

S'mores anyone?

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Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett's Omaha
By Jeff Matthews

They come to Omaha by the tens of thousands, flocking to an annual meeting that has become legendary for investors, businesspeople, and fans of one of the most savvy capitalists on the planet. They come to eat steak, buy furniture at a discount, and bask in the brilliance of value investor extraordinaire, Warren Buffet.

Hedge fund founder, financial blogger, and professional skeptic Jeff Matthews got his own highly-coveted ticket to the Berkshire Hathaway meeting held only for shareholders and their guests--and proceeded to post reports on his blog, offering tempting glimpses into the much-discussed meeting. Now Matthews delivers a full-length account of his adventures at this infamous financial hoedown.he answers questions investor's are asking, including:

• Does Buffett's famed penny-pinching cripple his companies?
• Why does Buffet--a bridge partner and best friend of Bill Gates--not own any technology stocks?
• Is Buffet really an "Oracle"?
• Will Berkshire-Hathaway survive his death?

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Build It UP
By One For the Team

1. Apples

2. Best Supporting Actor

3. Dress up Party

4. A Better Job

5. Build It Up

6. Hey Kid

7. Questions and Panthers

8. You Know Culture

9. Deconstruction Site

10. What Are You Gonna Cry About?

11. Oh No

12. We Can Work It Out

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