Captain's Log, Stardate 06.14.2011 I'm SO EXCITED!!! The fourth book in my Sushi series , Weddings and Wasabi , is now available! The print book is available now, but the ebook version won't be available for another 30 days. If you want to save a little money, you can buy the ebook version, which will be only $2.99, but if you prefer print book, it's ready for ordering right now! After finally graduating with a culinary degree, Jennifer Lim is pressured by her family to work at her control-freak aunty’s restaurant. But after a family dispute, Jenn is determined to no longer be a doormat and instead starts her own catering company. Her search for a wine merchant brings John into her life—a tall, dark, handsome biker in form-fitting black leather, who’s Hispanic to boot. It would be wonderfully wild to snag a man like that! Shy engineer Edward tentatively tries out his birthday present from his winery-owner uncle—a Harley-Davidson complete with the trimmings. Jen...

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Today's Wild Card author is: Sigmund Brouwer and the book: The Canary List WaterBrook Press (June 21, 2011) ***Special thanks to Lynette Kittle, Senior Publicist, WaterBrook Multnomah, a Division of Random House for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sigmund Brouwer is the bestselling author of Broken Angel and nineteen other novels, with close to three million books in print. His work has appeared in Time, The Tennessean, on Good Morning America and other media. Sigmund is married to recording artist Cindy Morgan and has two young daughters. Visit the author's website . SHORT BOOK DESCRIPTION: Best-selling author Sigmund Brouwer of Broken Angel, releases another suspense thriller in The Canary List (WaterBrook Press, June 21, 2011). Jaimie is just a twelve year-old girl, bumped around between foster homes and relegated to school classes for challenged kids, those lagging in their test scores or with behavioral issues. But her real problem ...

Dining With Joy by Rachel Hauck "Chef" Joy Ballard longs for a simpler life. But when a good-looking outsider arrives and spices things up, life becomes deliciously complicated. Host of a regionally syndicated cooking show, Joy Ballard has a little secret: she can't cook. But when her show is picked up by a major network and given a prime time slot, her world heats up faster than a lowcountry boil. Enter Luke Redmond: handsome, creative, and jobless after having to declare bankruptcy of his Manhatten restaurant. When her producers ask him to co-host the show, Joy sees Luke as her way out. But Luke sees much more than just a co-host in Joy. Their relationship begins to simmer on and off set. Until Joy's secret is revealed and her reputation is ruined on national television by her rival, Wenda Devine. But could Devine's cruelty be a divine gift? Losing Luke--and her sister--forces Joy to consider where her worth really comes from. Could God be cooking up...

Throw The Devil Off The Train by Stephen Bly It's 1880. Catherine's got to escape from her hometown in Virginia. She heads west to marry a childhood friend she hasn't seen in 17 years. She needs a fresh start and he's got a booming business in Paradise Springs. She'll do almost anything to get there. . .except reveal her true last name. Race heads west set to avenge his brother's death, with a body aching for sleep, and determined to avoid the conniving lady with a throw-away heart. But it's a long, cramped, chaotic train ride from Omaha to Sacramento. The only thing these two agree upon: they despise each other. And something evil's on board. As they gnaw on each other's nerves, a holdup, hijack, kidnapping and gold mine swindle shove them together, then push them apart. Fiery, opinionated and quick to react, can they team up long enough to throw the devil off the train? FINDING LOVE IN A CLASSIC WESTERN FINDING LOVE IN A CLASSIC WESTERN S...

Captain’s Log, Stardate 06.10.2011 Some of you might remember the Heart-Attack-Inducing Scones from late April. Well, after gaining TWO pounds in a week, I decided not to make another batch until I could run some of those pounds off my butt. I lost 2 pounds and then gained 1 back, so I figured that was close enough. I made scones the other day and tried my scone recipe, but instead of cream I used lowfat milk to see if that would make them slightly healthier but still tasty. Nope. They were rather dry. I think next I’ll try using cream, but half the butter and see if that makes them slightly healthier but still tasty. They will probably not be as amazing as the full fat version, but if I can get it close, I will be happy. Any suggestions?

The Fine Art of Insincerity by Angela Hunt Three grown Southern sisters have ten marriages between them—and more loom on the horizon—when Ginger, the eldest, wonders if she’s the only one who hasn’t inherited what their family calls “the Grandma Gene”: the tendency to like the casualness of courtship better than the intimacy of marriage. Could it be that her two sisters are fated to serially marry, just like their seven-times wed grandmother, Mrs. Lillian Irene Harper Winslow Goldstein Carey James Bobrinski Gordon George? It takes a “girls only” weekend, closing up Grandma’s treasured beach house for the last time, for the sisters to really unpack their family baggage, examine their relationship DNA, and discover the true legacy their much-marrying grandmother left behind . . . Excerpt of chapter one: Prologue Ginger “You can’t tell your sisters,” my grandmother once told me, “what I’m about to tell you.” I listened, eyes big, heart open wide. “Of all my grandchildren...