Today I Loaded My Kindle With…

Reference books. It’s just one of those days with a lot of good, free nonfiction on subjects that interest me. Other than that, I picked up a dessert book with attitude, a recipe book for tea parties, a YA fantasy novel and a father/son memoir.

Recipe Books

28 Delicious Desserts with Attitude
Jennifer Roberts has been cooking all her life. In this mouth watering collection of dessert recipes she’s assembled some of her all time favorites. Some of them might have odd names – like Chocolate Salami – but they all taste absolutely terrific. Serve any of them up to your guests and they’ll be begging you for the recipe. The book contains a mixture of guilt-free healthy recipes you can eat with a clear conscience, as well as some rich and truly decadent ones. But they’ve all got one thing in common – they taste fantastic!

For the Love of Tea
Whether it’s a casual cup with a friend or an elegant afternoon affair, tea is a fun and flexible way to entertain. Award-winning author and Anglophile Leigh Michaels shares her favorite tea parties, complete with menus and recipes. Includes eleven themed tea party plans (including a formal tea reception, happy hour tea, lovers’ tea, picnic tea, high tea, Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, and more) and more than 50 recipes.

Fiction

Reckless Magic
16 year old Eden Matthews has been in and out of private schools for the last two years. She can’t seem to stop herself from closing them down. Kingsley is her last chance to finish high school and the last private school willing to accept her. She is focused on just getting through graduation until she realizes Kingsley is not like the other private schools she’s been to. The students may be different, but so is she. And after meeting Kiran Kendrick, the boy who won’t leave her alone and seems to be the source of all her problems, she is suddenly in a world that feels more make-believe than reality. To top it off, she is being hunted by men who want to kill Kiran and her best friend Lilly is taken away to a foreign prison. Eden finds herself right in the middle of an ancient war, threatening everything she loves.

Nonfiction

The Bookie’s Runner
‘The Bookie’s Runner’ is the gorgeously, hypnotically told tale of Brendan Gisby’s father, Derry, and his dream of the big win on the horses, the one that would relieve his adored family of poverty and redeem him in the eyes of his angry and disappointed wife. For decades he worked on his system. It had to be foolproof. He could only afford to run it once. He meticulously studied the form for every race ever recorded – the horses, their characteristics, their lineage, their combinations, the race track, the conditions, the outcome – and made his predictions for the next race.

Writing Conversations
Writing Conversations is about the daily life of the writer. How do you keep motivated in your craft when it’s just you? Spend a moment of each day listening to the voices of your favorite connoisseur of the writing craft. Learn what they know about how to become a successful author. Whether it’s the first line, the last line, how to find an agent or how to publish, it’s all here. Learn how to launch the bestseller that’s been incubating inside of you for so long. Writing Conversations has just what you need!

The Comic Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – A Beginners Guide
Getting on the first page of a search engine’s result pages is crucial for any business. If you have ever wondered why some websites rank better than the others then you must know that it is because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This beginners guide covers the core concepts needed for developing and managing a successful SEO plan.

21 Days of Eating Mindfully: Your Guide to a Healthy Relationship with Yourself and Food
Following two decades of research and practical experience, disordered eating expert Lorrie Jones developed the 21 Days of Eating Mindfully program, designed to encourage and support you in changing unwanted and unhealthy eating habits by transforming your relationship with yourself. This 21 day journey is not a diet or overnight cure. Rather, it’s an opportunity to inquire more deeply within, providing the keys to establishing a healthy, loving relationship with yourself and enjoying a favorable weight shift and wise eating choices as a natural result and sustainable outcome. With mindful awareness it’s possible to let go of the belief that eating or not eating will take away hurt, disappointment, loneliness-boredom, anger, emptiness. With mindful awareness you’ll learn skills and tools necessary to use food for only nourishment and healthy enjoyment.

The 8 Pillars of Motivation
Why care so much about being motivated? Motivation moves you beyond your goals. Motivation enables you to live your purpose. Motivation unlocks your fullest potential. Motivation stimulates your greatness. When you zone in on your true motivation, you will feel a surge of energy from within. It is addictive and you will refuse to let go of it. When you tap into your own natural source of motivation, it will feed on itself and you don’t need outside factors to constantly replenish it. When you feel this way, nothing – nothing at all – can stop you from living your life’s purpose.

Saving for Retirement without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery
Drawn from responses to questions from over 20,000 readers of the author’s personal finance columns. Over the years, Chicago Tribune financial columnist Gail Marks Jarvis has taken the time to listen and respond to thousands of her readers about the issues, questions, and concerns that are most important to them. Saving and investing for retirement has never been more important…and with this book, it’s never been clearer what you need to do and how to do it.

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