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The handsome DR. SKELTON REDD is becoming famous for his innovative method of solving murders. But along with celebrity can come jealousy and desire, mystery and intrigue. In a tale of friendships and love, a dynamic new lust may shape matters in a twisting chase amid life and death. When young DR. CASSIE JANSEN joins the Medical Examiner’s team, her ambition and allure threaten to disrupt everything that’s been normal in Redd’s life, including his marriage, reputation, and career.

In 1920, as art and writing flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, W. E. B. Du Bois published The Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun—the first periodical for African American youth, collecting original art, stories, letters, and activities to celebrate their identities and inspire their imaginations and ambitions. Building upon Du Bois’s mission, esteemed professor and scholar Karida L. Brown and celebrated artist Charly Palmer reimagine the groundbreaking publication with The New Brownies’ Book, gathering the work of more than 50 contemporary Black writers.

Originally published in 1964, Fisherman's Fall brings a unique perspective to the world of fall fishing. In the preface, Robert L. Haig-Brown ruminates on the attempts to preserve the salmon and trout in the rivers of British Columbia. What we know could save them, yet what we do contradicts that knowledge. Gaining the knowledge in this book will help fishers learn the nature of the fish and might even inspire some to contribute to their preservation.

Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States. Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his "inner conservative" to win re-election.

A selection of magical stories to entertain your children whilst you are waiting at the airport and are flying to your holiday.

Filled with wisdom and understanding, this groundbreaking 1996 book paints a vivid portrait of conflicts transsexuals face on a daily basis - and the courage they must summon as they struggle to reveal their true being to themselves and others. True Selves offers valuable guidance for those who are struggling to understand these people and their situations.

Through these delightful classic short stories and fairy tales your little one will build the tools needed to help relax with their ADHD and build resilience. We know how hard it is to relax with ADHD which is why we've handpicked this collection of stories to help your little one to settle and relax.

After learning about her supernatural abilities, 30-year-old Emily Swift returns home to Kincaid to rebuild a normal life with her boyfriend. As she struggles to get a handle on her “door traveling” energy, a strange warning squawks from her car radio: a terrorist group called the Fringe is still watching her. Before she can figure out if the message is from a friend or foe, Emily’s quirky mother, Lydia, goes missing—and resurfaces in the Empire!

In Superstition Mountain Dreams the tantalizing legends of lost gold mines and buried treasures, which haunt these intriguing and formidable mountains, come alive for a whiskered old prospector, for Peggy Cahill, her family, and a soft-spoken stranger, who comes into the valley as the Cahill family work desperately to hold onto their ranch when a crooked banker is determined to foreclose on their property. Superstition Mountain Dreams is crowded with a variety of characters and events, which brings drama, suspense, and a warm understanding of human nature to the reader.

Albert Granger is a handsome and wealthy lawyer (some would say he is also a bit sober and stodgy for his years) who has recently inherited a mountain ranch. He is also engaged to marry the beautiful, but volatile, Agatha Woodward. While driving to his ranch his staid and ordered life is suddenly upended, when a brash young woman, whose car has broken down, steps out into the middle of the road, shouts and waves him to a stop, and demands that he determine what is wrong with her car. Nothing is ever quite the same again in his life. THE CABIN is a touching and thought-provoking story of ...

This audiobook tells the story of the Brown family of Caswell County, NC, and their journey over four generations, captured in short stories, vignettes, and whimsical narrative glimpses. The Brown family’s journey began two generations earlier with my grandmother’s grandmother, Queen Evans, who was kidnapped in Africa and brought to North Carolina as a slave on a plantation of a White slave owner. One of the many duties of Queen, the seven-year-old enslaved girl, was to serve as a “foot-warmer”.

There is trouble in the beautiful South Park Valley of Colorado, and Dan Walker’s father has written to his drifting son to “come home” and help his aging parents with the intimidation and turmoil. Walker rides from Wyoming into a hornets-nest of intrigue, intimidation, kidnapping, and to the rescue of a lonely mountain girl who is caught up in the violence gripping the valley. Help comes to Walker, in defeating this land and water grabbing scheme, from some surprising, almost supernatural, sources. THE MAN FROM WYOMING is a tender love story that will warm the heart of the reader as ...

When the World Stops is a timely yet timeless message for God's people that provides practical tools for not only weathering this current crisis, but emerging from it with a strengthened faith and deeper appreciation for the things that matter most. Like a reassuring hand on your shoulder, Dr. Michael L. Brown helps point the way forward for those seeking answers to questions like: Is this pandemic the final plague talked about in the Book of Revelation?

When the Doctors tell Clarie Rutledge that the cancer has spread and she has only a few weeks to live, she makes a dying request to her husband. “Please take the children, and go to the beach house this summer." She tells him a visit to the beach house, will bring healing to him and the children. When Clarie is gone, Alex is determined to carry out her dying wish. During an unforgettable summer at the beach house, he learns to love again as he and his children become a family again. A SUMMER AT THE BEACH HOUSE is an emotional and unforgivable novel, filled with love, pathos, and twists ...

America is at a tipping point, and never has this been more apparent than right now. We are in danger of losing our spiritual and moral heritage, making many believe that we have fallen beyond the point of recovery. This book is here to say that yes, we have fallen. In fact fallen much further than we realize, but our country's best days are ahead - with the help of a radical, moral, and cultural revolution, beginning with the church. This book is a manual for the revolution.

The year 2008 was the worst of Ouida Brown’s life. Her beloved mother, the heart of her life, died of breast cancer. Ouida found herself in a dark place - lost, depressed, and angry. She didn’t know who she was anymore. What had happened to her optimism, her energy, her bubbly personality? In her unhappiness, she turned to comfort food, abandoned her healthy eating habits, and gained weight. Her journey back to wholeness came when a trusted friend gently confronted her and told her she needed help.

She was placed under his command. He is dead-set against females in combat. And that doesn’t even scratch the surface of their relationship baggage. Everly Ryan is motivated by a promise she made to a ghost. She is one of the first females to have ever finished BUD/S, the Navy SEAL’s most elite training school. Now she is being placed with an operational SEAL team in an experimental military research project. This is what she signed up for. But, THE team is not happy about it. Her commander, Master Chief Eric Broussard, is dead-set against females in active combat situations, and he's ...

Rowan Walker - young college student and coffee house barista - believes that her twin sister, Eden, has been taken against her will. The Seattle Police - based on evidence to the contrary; as well as Rowan's sister’s free-wheeling, off-the-rails past lifestyle - believe otherwise. Rowan, however, refuses to let the case (or, for that matter, the SPD) rest and after a solid year of relentless badgering by the young woman a weary, and sympathetic detective gives Rowan an alternative solution. Enter Fallon Wylde, 17th Century pirate turned vampire turned soldier-for-hire.

Sail the high seas. Twelve original tales of swashbuckling glory are at your fingertips in this anthology. From pirates lured into traps, treasure hunting gone wrong, and epic battles on the open sea. From vengeful ghosts to gruesome mutinies. Living on the edge comes with high costs. Stories by J. VanZile, Robert Wenson, Andrea L. Staum, Russell Mickler, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Rob Nisbet, D.L. Lewellyn, Robin Brown, Jennifer Strassel, Douglas Allen Gohl, and Jared Thomason.

Box Set AMI Series 1. Lottie Loser It’s been twelve years since Lottie Luce ran away to Indiana, three weeks before her classes were to begin at IU, to avoid a confrontation with her best friend, and secret love, Nick Greyson. On the night she’d believed he was going to tell her he wanted her for more than a friend, Lottie caught Nick in a compromising position with her long-time nemesis, Ashley Marshall. The hurt and humiliation were more than she could bear. Now a product of personal reinvention, Charlotte Luce is the youngest, and first female market president of Olde Florida Bank, ...