Welcome to A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2!A Warm Mug of Cozy was launched in October 2022 to promote the cozy mystery genre through interviews, reviews, resources, and news for readers and authors alike. Its creators, Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, are established multi-genre authors themselves who love promoting books, stories, movies, shows, and art that inspire people.A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2 featuresnine tantalising tales that...

Greg Heffley has always wanted to grow up fast—but reality hits hard. In The Ugly Truth, the fifth book in Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg is facing boy-girl parties, new responsibilities, and the weird changes that come with getting older.And to make things worse, he’s doing it all without his best friend, Rowley.With relatable moments, laugh-out-loud awkwardness, and middle school growing pains, this b...

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries.This compilation contains episodes 1-3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT. Here Jack and Sarah investigate a suicide in the River Thames - or was it murder? They investigate an "accidental" fire with deadly co...

Cherringham - a quiet town in the Cotswolds. Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems - until one morning a woman's body is found in the river. A terrible accident, according to the police. But is this true? Sarah believes there must be more to it. In Jack, a former NYPD homicide detective, she finds a partner who is willing to start investigating with her. They soon find out that things are not as clear as the police want them to be ... This first - of many cases brings Sarah and Jack t...

Do you believe in second chances?Romance Writers of America® brings together seventeen of today's hottest authors in an anthology of never-before-published tales that reveal true love always deserves a happy ending.Follow New York Times best-selling authors J. Kenner and Christina Lauren back to reader-favorite worlds.New York Times bestseller Alyssa Day sprinkles djinn magic in her humoro...

A The Washington Post 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019"A work of comic genius." — Mary Norris, The New Yorker"Darkly humorous and deadly serious." –Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post"A compulsively interesting feminist memoir." –Virginia Heffernan, Slate"Somehow hilarious, in the way that only E. Jean could have written it" –Leigh Habe...

When Cherringham Drama Society invite a local TV celebrity to direct their Christmas show, they get more publicity than they bargained for. Someone's out to sabotage the event, and rehearsals spin into chaos. Jack and Sarah are asked to investigate and soon discover that there's a darker mystery taking place behind the scenes ...Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new mystery thriller released each month. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the ...

When novelist Patience McKenna takes a job at a dubious publishing house, a corpse in her closet has her searching for the true crime culprit.Writing Enterprises makes Patience McKenna sick. A onetime romance novelist, she has recently vaulted into the arena of true crime—a happy side effect of being too close to a high-profile murder. Writing Enterprises preys on wannabes, offering vanity publishing, bogus "literary services," and, worst of all, the insipid Wr...

Good Night, Mr. Tom Classroom Questions is a book for English teachers who are teaching Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian and intend to set questions for homework or classwork. Good Night, Mr. Tom Classroom Questions contains 187 questions, divided by chapter, to keep students engaged and actively thinking about the novel.Why choose to study Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian ?Themes of war, abuse and the power of friend...

Twenty-two stories by members of Sisters in Crime in Canada. The crime stories range from light to dark in tone. This third entry in the Whole She-Bang anthology series includes stories by established authors as well as authors being published for the first time. Stories are by: Cathy Ace, Jane Bernard, Anne Barton, Miriam Clavir, Susan Daly, Lisa de Nikolits, Alice Fitzpatrick, Valerie Hauch, Elizabeth Hosang, H. MacDonald-Archer, J.A. Menzies, Lynne Murphy, Helen Nelson, Ed Piwowarczyk, ...

The Malice Domestic cozy anthology series returns with a new take on cozy mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition. Here are 22 original stories (and one modern classic reprint) set at conventions, conferences, and gatherings of all kinds! Included are:Conventional Wisdom, by Marcia TalleyDjinn And Tonic, by Neil PlakcyThe Vanishing Wife, by Victoria ThompsonThe Right to Bare Arms, by John Gregory BetancourtMessage in a Bottle, by Su KopilAnonym...

A collection of crowd-sourced quips and quotes from real-life dads—from the profound to the hilarious.The author of Like My Mother Always Said . . . presents a new volume that focuses on fatherly advice—gathered from contributors around the world. Dads may come from different places and have wildly varying personalities, but sometimes their wisdom is universal. Other times, it's just plain bizarre . . ."You can have as much freedom as you can p...