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John Snyder's memoir of growing up the the Depression era south evokes a time gone by. It is written with affection and non-judgmental understanding of people dealing with hard times, sometimes with cruelty, sometimes with violence, including an unsolved case of arson that changed the author's life. In three parts, it is about early childhood among North Carolina mountaineers, living for a time with two eccentric aunts, and growing up on a sharecropper farm before the author went away to the University of Chicago.

It was supposed to be a ground-breaking demonstration: Melt, a newly created compound, promised to revolutionize waste processing. When things don't go as planned and the city begins to implode, Bill and Alice Everlee are caught on opposite sides of the divide. Stuck at ground zero as the city begins to sink around her, Alice races to discover what is causing the disaster and how to stop it - if she even can.

As Gary and Krystal drag Prince Larry and Princess Regan through the mud, a snapping turtle latches on to the prince’s manhood and a debate breaks out on whether to release the video. Will it help or hurt the Royal Ducats? Gary brawls with a man in a bunny suit at Wacky World. Venezuelans use Gary’s property for drug deals. Legendary dadaist Claude Balls stuns the world with his creations. Leotis, a giant Mekong catfish, becomes Gary’s friend and advisor, but only Gary can see the painfully shy Leotis.

Following his newfound fame for apprehending plastic surgeon to the stars and serial killer Dr. Vanderlay Mukerjee, Gary moves back into the five-million-dollar mansion he bought with his lottery winnings. What was formerly Turpentine Acres is now Kensington Gardens, an upscale community that frowns upon Gary's lawn ornaments and Confederate flag.

Fisherman’s Apprentice tells the inspiring true story of how God trained one stubborn fisherman to think and act more like a fisher of men. When the ride gets bumpy, the fisherman’s prayer life kicks into high gear, but this is just the beginning. Financial ruin, a death sentence, and breaking the fisherman’s will are all yet to come. The story is told with unflinching transparency that dares you to free the skeletons from your closet. The God-given lessons and tools in Fisherman’s Apprentice are sure to inspire and prepare you.

Rags Bertram is a man with a past. But he isn’t one to boast about it. A former soldier in the US Special Forces, Rags came to the island and bought an old marina to stay off the grid and out of trouble. He’s living the good life - working on the water by day and playing on it by night, often while holding a cold beer in his hand. No one on Hideaway Isle knows about Rags’ former life until trouble suddenly finds him.

Sometimes, good men have to do bad things. Ian Bragg returns to his roots while trying to lead from the top. Too much of one and not enough of the other. Change is constant and it comes harshest from those in charge. When their cover is blown, Ian and Jenny have to fend for themselves while trying to get the Archive’s contracts back on track. They fight an uphill battle against an establishment that both loathes them and needs them.

Darfur, Sudan. 2009. Two doctors employed by NGOs stumble across a strange metallic cylinder, which has been embedded for perhaps millions of years in desert rock. Mystified by the object, they gather four of the world’s leading experts in science and technology a computer scientist, a physicist, a biochemist, and a genetic researcher and head to London to study it thoroughly. The six have barely begun running tests on the cylinder, when they suddenly disappear telling family members not to go looking for them.

Odessa has targets in their sights and the clock is ticking as they prepare to unleash a blitzkrieg upon their sworn enemies. Their operatives are embedded at the highest levels of government in the United States and Europe. Exposing them is the key to preventing a biological disaster that can threaten the Western world's water supply and kill millions. Gunner Fox and the Gray Fox team face off with an enemy thought to be extinguished nearly a century ago.

They say lightning never strikes twice. Puck Reed certainly hopes not. The last time he was hit, the jolt wiped his memory clean. He was a boy then, on the island with a group of tourists when he got caught outdoors during a heavy thunderstorm. Admitted to the local hospital as a John Doe, Puck's caretakers never showed up to claim him. Now an adult, a strange chain of events sets Puck on a reluctant search for his real parents. Afraid of what he might learn and what it will mean for his future, Puck must confront his darkest secrets to find peace.

Ian Bragg is thrust into a world in between. An operator AND a manager. Can he teach morality to professional hit men? Know when a target needs to be taken down and when to walk away. What happens when operators get together? One place. One time. Will any of them live to see a new day? Jenny works to keep Ian sane just until she gets in the line of fire. Ian unleashes on his new reality, changing the world by his force of will alone.

A hitman with a conscience.... Ian Bragg is paid to kill people. Only bad people and not many, but for a great deal of money. Case the target. Make the hit. Move on until he meets the woman with sparkling green eyes who changes everything. Is his newest target deserving of death? Who is Ian to decide if the politician needs to die? He is the one who has to live with the consequences, that’s who. The contract deadline nears.

The Germans were defeated in World War II. The Nazis, however, were not. Odessa is real, and the Fourth Reich has declared war. Hiding in the mountains of Argentina and at the levels of the United States government, Odessa, well-funded and committed to exacting its revenge, plots to unleash terror across the heartland. Where they will strike and when is anybody's guess. But Odessa has targets in their sights, and the clock is ticking as they prepare to unleash a blitzkrieg upon their sworn enemies.

Buried in the darkest depths of the Bermuda Triangle lies one of the greatest drowned secrets of World War Two - a sunken German U-boat carrying a deadly payload that would've changed the course of the war. A team of research scientists stumble upon the sub while mapping the deepest part of the Bermuda Triangle along the Puerto Rico trench. Their divers disturb the wreckage and never make it back to the surface.

An instant New York Times bestseller From the bestselling author of The Cost of These Dreams The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a...