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A flash flood. A body in the river. A murder no storm could hide. Sheriff Ray Duke barely survives rescuing a family from the raging waters—but when the flood recedes, it leaves behind coffins ripped from an old mining cemetery… and a corpse that didn’t drown. The small town of Blue Sky erupts with whispers: a crooked caretaker, a feud between prospectors, and a fortune in gold rich enough to kill for. Every clue points to Charlie Flowers—violent, desperate, and caught red-handed with stolen flakes. But his rival, Lyle Martin, has more secrets than alibis.

Set in postwar Scotland, A Far Cry is a quietly powerful novel about childhood displacement, memory, and endurance. The story follows seven-year-old Andy–renamed “Meikle” upon arrival–after he is sent away to a remote boarding school governed by rigid routines, unspoken hierarchies, and sudden acts of discipline. Far from home, he must learn how to survive a world that feels both bewildering and absolute, where fear and tenderness exist side by side.

It was supposed to be a temporary autumn hookup. Now it's a situation. When my ex strolls back into town looking good enough to ruin my life twice and claiming he wants me back, I panic and blurt out that I'm seeing someone. The only man available is Nick Banks, the ex-hockey star with a smirk that should be illegal and commitment issues as legendary as his abs. Surprisingly, he agrees to play along if I help him figure out why his relationships keep going up in flames.

I’ve thrown some curveballs in my life, but none hit as hard as my one night stand showing up, telling me she’s pregnant. After losing my parents and spending eight years being “bro-dad” to my younger siblings, I’m ready for the chance to focus on myself again. And that starts with getting back on the baseball field, playing for the Cedar Creek Thunder. But I didn’t count on Sage McCallister, the gorgeous brunette who made me laugh with just one line, showing up in my small town, half a country away from where we met. We had one unforgettable night two months ago, and now she’s pregnant.

An invitation to be present with loss and discover the wisdom and beauty that can emerge from it. This program is read by the author. Grief and loss touch us all—tumbling into our lives and carving riverbeds through the soul. A partner dies, we lose our home, a marriage ends, and we find...

The Vigliones and Silvanis have been at war longer than any of us can remember. It's a battle we didn't start but are forced to fight in. But she's not my enemy. We're ruthless, but the Silvanis are cunning. Slick as a fox, Gia Silvani offers herself as a pawn—a proposition we can’t resist. We should have, but as the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. I find myself living with her under my roof, being driven mad by temptation, my true nemesis.

“If I catch you, I’ll own you. Now run.” I see a man in a mask with a grinning mouth and crossed out eyes unalive a man. But the mask slips and I see his face. Gray eyes. A scowl. I run. He catches me, and the next thing I know, the Bratva boss has taken me to his country estate, and I’m his captive. I beg, I plead. But he’s stone. I try to escape, but he anticipates my every move. Finally, he gives me a choice.

Peter Paddington is 13, overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When Peter's nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his secret desires to the world, Peter finds himself cornered in a world that seems to have no tolerance for difference. Peter's only solace is "The Bedtime Movies" - perfect-world fantasies that lull him to sleep every night.

A missing girl. A dead hunter. One sheriff caught in the storm. When a seasoned hunter is found murdered in the Colorado high country and a teenage girl vanishes hours later, Sheriff Ray Duke doesn’t believe in coincidences. Not in Blue Sky County. Not with the snowstorm rolling in. And not with fresh boot tracks pointing to a tangled trail of lies. As Duke digs deeper, what he finds isn’t just a missing girl—it’s a web of secrets that stretches across families, friendships, and the frozen wilderness they all call home.

Art to die for... Do you remember the most famous art heist in history... where 13 rare paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum? Rembrandt's, Vermeer’s, Manet's, now thought to be worth 2 billion dollars and still missing… well, except maybe one. What was not widely reported was that one, a Degas, turned up in an art gallery off of Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. Was it real or just a very convincing fake? A Gardner Museum expert said real, a New York Degas expert wasn’t so sure.

You’re not crazy. You’re being manipulated. If you constantly second-guess yourself at work, feel confused after conversations, or wonder why nothing you do ever seems right, you may be dealing with workplace gaslighting. And it can quietly destroy your confidence, your performance, and your mental health. In Gaslighting at Work, the author guides you through how toxic and narcissistic bosses manipulate reality and show you exactly how to protect yourself and fight back with clarity and strategy.

The first chemists were Sri Lankan steel forgers in the first century BCE, alchemists who emerged in Roman Egypt; herbalists in Tang Dynasty China and engineers in eighth-century South America. The Enlightenment is usually credited with the origins of chemistry. But in truth, the science...

*THE MUST-HAVE BOOK THIS FATHER'S DAY* *From the acclaimed author of Ragged Edge* Road racers don't race for money; they race for the sheer rush of it. Skimming stone walls at speeds of over 200mph on bumpy, treacherous public roads with no room for errors offers a buzz like nothing else on...

Seven days. That’s how long the humans selected for the Hunt must survive. On the island, the demons are set loose to hunt them down and indulge in their darkest desires with no rules to stop them. Vhaena never thought her town would turn on her, but when she’s voted as a sacrifice for the demons’ annual tradition, she’s forced into a nightmare designed to kill her. Alone and betrayed, she’s prepared to do anything to survive. What she isn’t prepared for is him. Daemon, her brother’s best friend and her forbidden obsession a demon hiding among them.

Sam has everything a girl could want: a good job, a boyfriend, a cute house, and great friends. She's living life to the fullest until she realizes she isn't really living at all. In a desperate move to jumpstart her boring existence, she decides to become a Phone Sex Operator. Even though she’s never really had phone sex herself, it can’t be that hard? Now all she needs to do is figure out how to describe a blow job and not blurt out her steady stream of dirty thoughts to non-paying customers.

When a stalker breaks into my home and sends me a picture of myself sleeping, I know it's time to call in professional help. What I don't expect is that my new live-in bodyguards are the hottest men I've ever seen. Now, somehow, we all have to figure out how to live together while figuring out who my stalker is and how to stop him. And resisting our growing attraction. Because I shouldn't get involved with one bodyguard, let alone three.

What if the problem isn’t your team… it’s how you’ve been leading them? In Stop Fixing. Start Leading., Reid Richards challenges the traditional leadership model that keeps high performers stuck, burned out, and constantly solving everyone else’s problems. Instead of fixing, this book introduces the power of enrollment—a leadership approach that creates ownership, accountability, and results without force.

The last U.S. draftee reported for duty in 1973. Part I of Draftee includes a description of the personal journey of a draftee who survived combat in Vietnam. Part II includes a draftee’s perspective as to why and how the U.S. got into and eventually out of the War and how both the U.S. draft and the South Vietnamese draft influenced the outcome. Part III includes a review of military drafts and a proposal to replace the seriously flawed legacy Selective Service System with a policy that enables choice, celebration of citizenship, and promotes unity rather than divisiveness.

A man's body is found floating on a lake in Charleston, South Carolina, with a knife embedded deep in his chest. Charleston homicide detectives, Nick Janzek and Delvin Rhett swing into action but get nowhere fast. Until they enlist the help of Savannah private investigator and Janzek girlfriend Ryder Farrell, and her sister Jackie, AKA, the Savannah Sleuth Sisters. That’s when dangerous suspects and tangled scenarios start coming out of the woodwork and romance ratchets up to whole new level.

For fans of Sara Cate and Jade West, this latest entry in the Sugar Life dark romance follows a college student who discovers that matching with four older professors on the SugarLife app can pay off her student loans, but doesn't expect to find she enjoys it. Four professors. One naughty...