Double Blind
A lone trucker is ambushed, shot, and brutally stabbed. A tourist meets the same fate while out for a jog. Facing two crime scenes that could have come from a horror movie, Detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin search for a crazed serial killer. Five more attacks happen in a week, launching the entire city into a panic and causing the mayor to throw all of the city's resources into stopping the rampage. But while the detectives work around the clock, they don't know the killer has upped the game -- by making them his next targets.
Deuce Mora Mystery Series Vol. 1-4
Deuce Mora's one tough cookie--a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude-fiery, tough, athletic, a dirty fighter when she has to be. The scrappy lead columnist for the Chicago Journal normally writes about politics, and, rather than shying away from fights, she tends to pick them, but every once in a while, Deuce's search for a good story brings her face to face with more trouble than she was really looking for.
Escape
Blessed with a magic she doesn't understand, Ukrah must find her way in a world that doesn't always embrace her and her gifts. Accompanied by a talking bird and a strange young man who took her in, she must find the legendary dragon rider who saved the world from the Blight. Can Ukrah escape from those who would enslave her, or worse, and find the only person who can help her realize her destiny?
How to Make Money in High School and College
With the variety of options available for you to choose from, you don't have to worry about not having the skills or time for a side hustle. There are plenty of jobs you can do in your spare time that don't require you to be an expert coder. The big advantage of being young is having loads of energy to spare. Why not channel that energy to something that will bring you financial rewards? Whether college is still years away, or you're already in college and in debt, earning some extra cash today will give you a head-start on preparing for your future.
Finnegan Found: Surviving the POW Camps on the Yalu
A story untold. Left in the dark. For seventy years. This novel tells that story, shines a light on that darkness. Our prisoners-of-war in Korea are truly the forgotten men of the forgotten war. The prisoner-of-war camps along the Yalu River saw half the prisoners die during the first winter. Then the Chinese began their efforts at "re-education." Swede is one who fights back. Only nineteen years old, he escapes three times and pays a price for each.
Mask of Silence
Savannah has witnessed enough in her life. With a drug addict for a mother, she protects her younger brother and tries desperately to maintain a social life. But after a Halloween prank turns deadly, she's unsure she can conceal her friends' dark secret. And not even her close-knit group of friends can hold a stalking, demonic creature at bay forever... Through years of suffering the fury of his father, Evan learned to keep his head down and his mouth shut. And he's about to learn the hard way that they'll only pay for their secrets in screams.
Baksheesh
She spied for her country, blackmailed her president, and ran from more threats than she can remember. But when the love of her life proposes, covert agent Cassandra Sashakovich is finally ready to settle down. Unfortunately her past is not quite ready to let her walk away. Old enemies -- including a vengeful president -- want her dead, and they're willing to attack her loved ones, including her adopted teenage daughter, if that's what it takes.
Cast Away: Book #4 in the Cara Mia Delgatto Mystery Series
Stuart, Florida -- A priceless coral and gold artifact intended for a queen disappears from a locked hotel room. The item was on loan as part of a charity event--and Cara Mia Delgatto was one of the first people who entered the empty ballroom. Who else could have stolen it but her? The situation seems impossible! The philanthropic community of South Florida is blaming Cara for the loss--and the charity event is promptly canceled...
Summer Shorts (The Shorts Series Book 2)
From sweet to spicy, and contemporary to suspenseful, these sixteen Summer Short Stories will be sure to warm your heart and excite your spirit, helping you escape reality in a blaze of fun, drama, and romance.Sixteen popular NY Times & USA Today Bestselling authors have put together these delightful novellas to give you that spurt of entertainment you can often finish in one sitting. These Summertime stories will delight the romance lover until the sun sets in a blaze of glory.
My Ex From Hell
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has mastered the art of troublemaking. And her next stunt promises to take down her boarding school's leading mean girl. Locking lips with bad-boy Kai is all part of the plan, but Sophie never imagines his supernatural smooch will awaken her inner goddess. Kai burns for the top spot in Hell. But if his petty father Hades has his way. However, settling for second best seems almost bearable after a magical kiss reveals Persephone, the love of his life, trapped in a gorgeous teen girl's body. As if grappling with new mythical powers and a budding romance isn't enough of a hassle, Sophie's expected to save humanity too...
Florence Nightingale: A Life From Beginning to End
Florence Nightingale is usually thought of for her work in the Crimean War, where, as the "Lady with the Lamp," she tirelessly nursed wounded soldiers at all hours of the night and day. But while these two years were a significant part of her life, she was also much more. She was a daughter and sister who consternated her family by refusing to accept the role Victorian society assigned her. Later, she completed groundbreaking work in the fields of public health and statistics and wielded her vast influence to affect important reforms.
Atlantis: A Novel of Time Travel and Alternate Worlds
In 1945, Training Flight 19 disappears in the Bermuda Triangle. In 1963, the USS Thresher, a nuclear submarine, is lost under unusual circumstances, part of a secret government investigation into mysterious gates. Near the end of the Vietnam War, Green Beret Eric Dane led a team of operatives deep into Cambodia and encountered a strange fog near the legendary city of Angkor Kol Ker. His entire team disappears, attacked by strange creatures out of the fog. Only Dane survives to return. Now a plane goes down. In the same area Dane lost his team...
Saving Ferris
When Cecilia Chandler kills a house intruder, she claims it was to save a life -- but not her own. It was the life of her golden retriever, Ferris, a dog she's only warming to after her husband's death. If it had been up to her, they would never have gotten a pet. Police Chief Holden Owens thinks Cecilia acted lawfully, but few agree. The law says that pets are property, and that one can't use lethal force to protect property. Now, as the case draws to a close, Cecilia is finding she needs Ferris as much as he needs her. But will she be able to stay out of prison?
Danger In The Clouds
Major Dave Elliott's quiet farm life with his granddaughter and dog abruptly changes after a cyberattack causes an economic collapse. When criminals target his family, Major goes on the attack. Major's farm family grows when the sheriff's family and others take refuge at the farm. After thugs are thwarted by his granddaughter's uncanny gift to see danger, will Major succeed in exposing the conspiracy where others have so tragically failed?
Being Calm: Flutterpie's Yoga Adventures and Mindful Mantras
Squeaky needs help when she's bullied, so Flutterpie helps her out! Using yoga, she learns to stay calm and be more assertive. That bully isn't going to make Squeaky feel badly ever again!Can the butterflies convince the bully to join them? Kindness, friendship, and Joy flow out of this book and into children as they read it and absorb the positive messages. Being Calm will be a lifelong companion for helping your kids deal with difficult situations and handle their emotions diligently.
A Tour of the Heart
A Tour of the Heart: A Seductive Cycling Trip Through France, part memoir, part love story, is a romantic ode to the most visited country in the world. Told by a proudly-feminine and sophisticated travel writer, an expert in all things French, searching for harmony and true love with her super-cyclist boyfriend. A Tour of the Heart will keep you bien captivé through its many twists and turns. A Tour of the Heart highlights the life of a travel writer, France, cycling, food and wine, the Tour de France and the joys and travails of traveling à deux.
The Bank Robber
The story of an outlaw on the run, the girl he meets in the desert, and the posse that's chasing him -- led by his best friend. Swede Burdette is a legend in Texas -- as a Texas Ranger, soldier, Indian fighter. Things went bad while he was away at the war, though, and when he came back, he turned outlaw. John Kirby is a Texas Ranger who always brings in his man, usually dead. When Swede robs the bank in Temperance, Kirby leads the posse that goes after him. Kirby was Swede's boyhood friend, but now...
The Italian Assistant
When a married man's overseas business deal goes wrong, the one person who can help him has ideas of her own. A madcap comedy where true love finally prevails and everyone lives happily ever after -- but only after a lot of screwups. Family man Mike Torino lands an important business project in Italy, home of naked art, Valentino, and taxi-crashing yoga pants, so he brings along his wife, hoping to rekindle their marriage while securing a promotion.Mike is trapped. Leaving Italy will blow a promotion; staying might cost him his wife and family. While reeling from Mattie's frantic departure, a replacement liaison is assigned -- a top-notch, beautiful young Italian woman...
The Stepmother: an Everland Ever After tale
There's a Guild of Godmothers in Everland, Wyoming, and they're prepared to meddle. They can't stand the thought of handsome, newly arrived Doctor Jack Carpenter raising his precious little daughter all by himself, and they're determined to find him a suitable wife. Luckily, they know just how to do it: take out an advertisement in a Mail-Order Bride catalog, and make sure that the perfect candidate sees it. Too bad they didn't mention the plan to Jack first.
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928.The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.