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    The Chef's Secret

    Book Details: Book Title: The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King Category: Adult fiction, 352 pages Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Atria/Simon & Schuster Release date: Feb 12, 2019 Tour dates: Feb 11 to 28, 2019 Content Rating: R (for a couple of explicit, but loving, sex scenes (no abuse or rape) and minor curse words) Book Description: A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle’s secrets—including the identity…

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    The Sweetness of Friendship #WordlessWednesday

    In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Khalil Gibran It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus Tullius Cicero I met an old friend last week – after 10 years – and like all great friendships, we took up from where…

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    Dirty Trickster Corporate Spy

    Book Details: Book Title: Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy by Martin D. Kelly Category: Adult Non-Fiction, 410 pages Genre: Memoir Publisher: Strategic Media Books Release date: August 2018 Tour dates: Jan 14 to 25, 2019 Content Rating: PG-13 (One sex scene but humorous rather than explicit; some 4-letter words) Book Description: Not until Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy does a memoir exist by one of the principal Watergate saboteurs-provocateurs that exposes the full extent of the insalubrious side of politics and negative campaigning. And that is not all: After Watergate, Kelly became a corporate security consultant that provided undercover agents for client…