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#Giveaway and Interview: Gayle Leeson, author of The Calamity Cafe (new Southern culinary cozy series)

>>> Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! <<< The Calamity Cafe is the first book in a new cozy mystery series featuring Southern cooking Aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers is ready to open her own café offering old-fashioned Southern food. But her dream may go up in smoke when someone …

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Character interview and #giveaway: Mrs. Odboddy, Hometown Patriot

>>> Enter to win one of 3 e-copies of Mrs. Odboddy, Hometown Patriot <<< Since the onset of WWII, Agnes Agatha Odboddy, hometown patriot and self-appointed scourge of the underworld, suspects conspiracies around every corner…stolen ration books, German spies running amok, and a possible Japanese invasion off the California coast. This seventy-year-old, model citizen would …

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Interview: Shelley Freydont, author of historical mystery A Golden Cage

>>> Win one of three copies of The Golden Cage--your choice, e-book or print. <<< The author of A Gilded Grave returns to Newport, Rhode Island, at the close of the nineteenth century, where headstrong heiress Deanna Randolph must solve another murder among the social elite. With her mother in Europe, Deanna is staying with the Ballard …

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#Giveaway and interview: Rogues and Rascals in Goose Pimple Junction

>>Win one of three e-copies of Rogues and Rascals in Goose Pimple Junction <<< Like any good Southern belle, Caledonia Culpepper was raised by her mama to be gracious, charming, witty, and above all, a devoted mother and loving wife, so she's baffled when her marriage falls apart. Wynona Baxter is a master of disguise but …

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Kindle Press picks up the latest Professor Molly mystery, The Blessed Event

Exciting news: The Blessed Event has been selected via Kindle Scout to be published by Kindle Press. "You might wonder what my least-favorite student was doing in my living room. In a twist of fate that might seem hilarious if it happened to someone else, Davison was now my stepson."       Professor Molly …

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#Giveaway and Character Interview: Kathi Corbin of Tea Cups and Carnage (A Tourist Trap Mystery)

>>>Enter to win one of two e-copies of Tea Cups and Carnage by Lynn Cahoon<<< The kettle’s about to boil over . . . The quaint coastal town of South Cove, California, is all abuzz about the opening of a new specialty shop, Tea Hee. But as Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner is …

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You’ve seen the meme. Here are some actual college administrator titles

  By now you’ve likely seen the viral “University Title Generator” meme that parodies the culture of academic bureaucracy by listing made-up administrative titles such as “deputy vice president of the committee on community climate,” “principal deputy dean of the committee on learning affairs,” and “temporary lead deputy chancellor of facilities compliance of the task …

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Hawai‘i Summer 2016 Bon Dance Schedule

It’s time to celebrate obon season in Hawai‘i! (If you only learn one dance, it should be this one.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDYC4SdCq5U O‘ahu JUNE Saturday, June 4: Hawai‘i’s Plantation Village, 5:45–10 p.m., 677-0110 Friday, June 10: Pan Pacific Festival bon dance, 7–9 p.m. (tentative) Saturday, June 18: ‘Ewa Hongwanji, 7 p.m. following 6 p.m. service, 681-5222 Friday, June 24 and Saturday, …

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Character Interview: Éclair and Present Danger: An Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery

The first book in the delicious new Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery series from national bestselling author Laura Bradford. With her rent rising faster than her pie crust, bakery owner Winnie Johnson had hoped to be rescued by an inheritance from her wealthy friend and neighbor Gertrude Redenbacher. Instead all she inherits is the widow’s hostile …

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