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2020. A recently widowed architect moves into the home she and her late husband designed, heartbroken that he will never cross the threshold. But when disturbing things begin to happen, it's clear that someone is sending her a warning. Who is trying to frighten her away, and why? 1965. A young white female student becomes involved in the fight for civil rights in North Carolina, falling in love with one of her fellow activists, in a time and place where an interracial relationship must be hidden from family, friends and especially the reemerging Ku Klux Klan.

Ex-Navy SEAL Samson Caine has lost everything he's ever fought for - and nothing can bring back his wife. But when he's offered a new mission protecting brilliant, sharp-tongued biochemist Angela McAllister from those who want to exploit the deadly knowledge she carries, he's got no choice but to accept. He couldn't save his first love, but maybe he can finally find redemption keeping the fiery scientist safe.

Tinker Murtagh thinks his new job is simple, but he's never robbed a medical clinic before - and he's never dealt with someone like Dr. Henry Van Deman. In Fresh Frozen by Darden North, a childless young policeman and his desperate, infertile wife meet Lucille Wax and her sales catalogue of human embryo and egg donors. Suddenly their Mississippi community faces grisly murder, the world of Hollywood celebrity, and a physician with a hidden agenda.

Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, 28 years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide. Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see 16-year-old Marcie Calder alive, and as shocking forensic evidence at the trial reveals, he is the father of her unborn child. Probing the darkest recesses of love and friendship, Lord will discover things too disturbing to ignore.

Far North Queensland, 1993: at 74, former cane farmer Grace Maud is feeling her age, and her isolation, and thinks the best of life may be behind her. Elsewhere in town, high school teacher Patricia has given up on her dreams of travel and adventure and has moved back home to look after her ageing parents, while cafe owner Dorothy is struggling to accept that she may never have the baby she and her husband so desperately want. Each woman has an unspoken need: reconnection. And that's how they find themselves at Orange Blossom House, surrounded by perfumed rainforest.

Old Farmhouses of the North features ten tales of quiet, literary horror exploring the predators and plagues of the human condition. Called darkly poetic, haunting, emotionally crushing, enthralling, and stellar by listeners.

President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancée, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washington - the Sons of the Second Amendment (SSA).

Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice shows young listeners how the former First Lady evolved from a poor little rich girl to a protector and advocate for those without a voice. Although now seen as a cultural icon, she was a woman deeply insecure about her looks and her role in the world. But by recognizing her fears and constantly striving to overcome her prejudices, she used her proximity to presidents and her own power to aid in the fight for Civil Rights and other important causes. This biography gives listeners a fresh perspective on her extraordinary life.

84 pages written in easy-to-read large 16-point font for the early reader. . There were 3 great kings who ruled the Israel people after the judges. King Saul fought for many years the kingdom that tried to destroy the Israel people. Then King David, the shepherd who killed a bear to protect his sheep, built Jerusalem. Then wise King Solomon built a great temple to the one and only God..Buy the whole set of ten books: Adam & Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samson, 3 Great Kings, Jonah, and Daniel. . This is a practice-your-reading and ACTIVITY book – a step above a ...

When I grew up in Hull during the 1950s and 60s, the city was a major seaport and the home, at the time, of the largest distant water fishing fleet in the country if not the world.As a fifteen-year-old it was natural that I wished to chance my luck in this world-famous industry and I left Hull’s Trinity House Navigation School and signed on my first trawler as a galley boy – without my parent’s permission.I soon progressed to become a deckie learner but already realised that there were easier and safer ways to earn a living, so leaving the icy cold wild Arctic waters around Iceland, ...

Minoru Aose es un arquitecto de mediana edad cuya carrera y familia se desmoronaron con el estallido de la burbuja económica de Japón y que ha acabado refugiándose en la mediocridad. Sin embargo, su vida da un vuelco cuando recibe un encargo muy peculiar: diseñar una casa a su antojo en el espléndido terreno que sus clientes, los Yoshino, poseen en las montañas.

When DCI Finnegan’s team is called to investigate the apparent suicide of a farmer’s wife, DI Kumar's intuition tells her something more sinister is at play. As she delves into the woman’s past, she's horrified to discover a world of emotional coercion, servitude, and tawdry sexploitation. Angered, and unwilling to let the deceased woman become just another statistic, DI Kumar is determined to find the truth. But is she searching for a killer, or simply searching for justice?

Self-made millionaire William Lasko has an eye for wealth and the ear of the President and a talent for using both to get whatever he wants. But the Economic Crimes Commission wants to bring the corrupt, untouchable Lasko down, and they enlist the services of straightlaced U.S. Attorney Christopher Paget to do it. Paget has to walk a tightrope, gathering enough evidence to nail Lasko without alienating the White House, knowing full well that men like Lasko make their own rules - including the elimination of enemies like him.

A construction worker unearths a human skull dating to the 1960s on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Dr. Diana Bratton is a surgeon surrounded by bodies after the discovery of her Aunt Phoebe’s 50-year-old note detailing the manners of death. Suicide, accident, natural cause, and one death classified undetermined are soon crossed off this list - leaving Diana to believe that only murder remains. When Diana spots photographs in a 1966 university yearbook, Phoebe is linked not only to that death, but to the recent deaths of two local men.

Conquer the North Carolina Real Estate Salesperson Exam is your focused guide to passing the state’s real estate licensing test and launching a career in the property market. This concise and accessible study tool covers all the essential material tested by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission (NCREC), including agency relationships, contracts, ownership rights, financing basics, and state-specific laws. The guide walks you through the dual structure of the exam—the national portion and the North Carolina-specific portion—clarifying where they overlap and how to study for each. ...

A pesar de los dos mil años transcurridos desde su desaparición, el Antiguo Egipto aún ejerce una poderosa fascinación. Antonio Cabanas abandona el terreno de la ficción para presentarnos una apasionante visión del Antiguo Egipto a partir de sus historias más difundidas y también de las más desconocidas..., y nos desvela numerosos enigmas que arrojan luz sobre la historia, la costumbres,las creencias y la tecnología de los habitantes de la Tierra Negra.

It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband of nineteen years have just called it quits, leaving her with serious cash-flow problems and a looming divorce. More broke than ever, Link makes a seemingly impossible resolution: to hang on to her century-old farmhouse in northern Michigan and continue to raise her three boys on well water and wood chopping and dirt. Armed with an unfailing sense of humor and three resolute accomplices, Link confronts blizzards and foxes, learns about Zen divorce and the best way to butcher a hog, dominates a zucchini-growing contest and wins a year’s supply of local bread, masters the art of bargain cooking, wrangles rampaging poultry, and withstands any blow to her pride in order to preserve the life she wants.

La luz y las tinieblas se enfrentan de nuevo en la tercera parte de la saga de «Los dioses del norte». Un viaje donde la magia te conducirá a la verdad.

Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about a place like this? THE STRANGERS' HOUSE asks this question of the region’s greatest writers, living and dead. What have they made of Northern Ireland–and what has Northern Ireland made of them?

Eine erste große Liebe, die nicht sein kann. Maggie ist erst 16, als sie ungewollt schwanger wird. Die entsetzten Eltern schicken sie zu einer alleinstehenden Tante nach Ocracoke Island in North Carolina. Dort soll Maggie ihr Kind austragen und zur Adoption freigeben, erst dann darf sie wieder heimkehren. Die Insel scheint Maggie so trostlos wie ihr ganzes Leben - bis sie ihren Nachhilfelehrer Bryce kennenlernt. Er ist 16 wie sie, gutaussehend, intelligent und einfühlsam. Und er verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in sie. Es dauert, bis Maggie sich ihm ganz öffnen kann, doch dann verbringen sie die Zeit ihres Lebens miteinander.