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[Book Blitz] Sugar Skulls By Lisa Mantchev And Glenn Dallas – Excerpt + Giveaway
Welcome to Cyrene, a city where energy is currency and music is the lifeblood of its young citizens. Everyone lives on the grid, and the residents of the world’s largest playground are encouraged to pursue every physical and emotional pleasure imaginable.
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Cafe Mocha Nightcap Recipe
One of my favorite things to do during the cold winter months is to add hot chocolate mix to my coffee and make a kind of improvised Cafe Mocha. The Cafe Mocha Nightcap recipe I want to share with you guys is essentially just making a rich hot chocolate and adding a shot of coffee booze, but it's perfect for cozy winter nights around the fire, alone or with company. Its rich and decadent tasting, with a nice boozy kick, and, once again, super easy to make! (You may be noticing a pattern here - I'm a big fan of simple recipes with minimal ingredients).
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[Book Review] The Dead House By Dawn Kurtagich & Gloria Jean’s Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Coffee With Inclusions
The Dead House is a fantastically dark, chilling mystery told in a very unique case-file style that uses newspaper clippings, transcripts, reports, and very detailed diary entries to tell the story of a very unique girl, two “sisters” trapped in one body, and the horrifying events involving her at Elmbridge High, an English co-ed boarding school, that ended in death and destruction.
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Monday Morning Coffee News
Happy Monday! A quick recap of some interesting coffee-related news stories from the last few weeks: South Sudan will soon begin exporting coffee for the first time ever, a study recently linked enjoying your coffee black with being a psychopath, and Stumptown Coffee Roaster is being bought out by Peet's Coffee & Tea. Starbucks is getting into the holiday season, unveiling their 2015 red holiday cups and once again offering a special, limited edition Halloween-themed frappuccino. Also, Walter's Coffee, the Breaking Bad themed coffee shop, may soon come to the U.S. with help from their recently launched Kickstarter campaign.
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Making My Own Coffee-Infused Vodka
I've really been having a blast playing around with coffee lately. With the holiday season coming up so soon, I thought it might be fun to try making some coffee cocktails. I decided to begin by making my own coffee-infused vodka. If you aren't aware, it's apparently all the rage to infuse your own vodka with all kind of fun things like fruit and spices and COFFEE - and here I am jumping on the bandwagon just in time to make some seasonal cocktails.
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[Short Story Review] Storytime By K. Lynn & Eight O’Clock Ground Dark Italian Espresso
In his first attempt to get out of the house and move on with his life after the death of his partner a year ago, author James Murphy decides to volunteer for storytime at his local library. It’s not long before he develops a fascination with the children’s librarian, David, who just happens to be the spitting image of his dead lover.
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