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A deeply intimate and inspiring self-portrayal of Dawn Kohler, a young mother, and successful entrepreneur in the tech industry who awakens one morning into a relentless pull towards an unknown calling. What follows is a riveting odyssey as she resists the persistent force that is disrupting her life while the world around her begins to collapse. This heartfelt journey is fueled by the depths of an unconventional love, and the uncanny experiences that challenge Dawn to heal from a traumatic past and to release the shame that prevents her from knowing her truth.

What do a bartender, a priest, and a librarian have in common? They all work in New York City. They’re all true crime fans. And they’re all dead, courtesy of a predator with a chilling approach to murder. Talbot County, Maryland police lieutenant Sam Tate is in the Big Apple to find answers about her own tragic past, when she is pulled onto the case of the Dry Ice Killer by an old friend with the NYPD. She finds herself attracted to a new colleague and questions her longtime relationship with her FBI boyfriend. This may be Sam's most dangerous case yet - if she survives.

A dead brunette dressed like a bride shows up in Pickett County, Tennessee, the latest victim of an elusive killer known as the Wedding Crasher. Sam Tate is Pickett County’s poker-playing, yoga-loving new sheriff, a woman with a troubled past and an uncertain future. Even as she tracks the predator, she wonders: Who can she trust? Why is she a target? Can she stop more people from dying on her watch? Get this audiobook and find out more.

Approaching the end of her life, Alice Mayes, notorious caretaker of the anomaly known as The Garden of Sunray, is eager to tie up one last loose end before moving on. The last loose end. For decades, she’s been dreaming of finding someone to share her secret with, someone worthy of her truth, and in 20-year-old Emily Newell, she thinks she finally has. On a momentous stroll through her massive garden with her young friend, Alice delves back into the past, back to those five horrific, mind-bending days in the summer of 1944, when she was 16.

When 64-year-old Kay O'Brien hears her young Ojibwe neighbor, Shawna, scream out on the lake behind her house, she wants to help. Kay knows the girl's mother was killed years ago by a white man, but what she doesn’t know is that Shawna may soon be in trouble herself. At the same time, Kay and her son, Douglas, are both fighting ghosts of their own. Kay keeps her husband’s ashes on top of the TV and talks to him every day while drinking stiff Manhattans and trying to ignore the onset of Alzheimer’s.

Jessica James has a nose for a good story, but she isn’t sure how much she likes the story she’s getting from her mother’s charming, handsome new beau with the improbable name of Charlie Browne. Especially since the tale is attached to the Hare—a stolen painting that is now hidden under Jesse’s own bed. Jesse’s investigation into Charlie's background turns up a hole big enough to smuggle the Mona Lisa through, which has her worried about her romantic, not-altogether-practical mom.

Della Ralston is hosting her cousin Charlotte when she finds out a surprising fact - Charlotte is the mother of Tina, a young girl living at a nearby orphanage. Charlotte has kept the child a secret for many years and is set to be married to Joe Ralston, a man who does not know about this secret daughter. Della is quickly pulled into a plot to ensure that Charlotte is not separated from her daughter. When a series of circumstances ends with Charlotte and Tina moving into Della’s home, Della and Charlotte work to ensure that Tina has a chance at a good future.

Warner Saint James is a decorated Navy Seal. He is also a brilliant artist. From his imagination, he paints the woman of his dreams; an olive-skinned, black-headed, brown-eyed beauty. But when he hangs the canvas in the window of his Key West gallery, he inherited from his late Aunt, a Mafia Capo storms in the door and demands to know where the woman in the painting is. He angrily tells Warner that the woman in the painting is real and alive. Her name is Olivia DiAngelo, and he has been searching for her for over 10 years.

In a future where the U.S. has splintered into new nations, the Atlantic Coalition and Pacific Federation strive for equity and sustainability, while the original U.S. grapples with the consequences of traditionalism and deregulation. From the ashes of environmental and economic collapse, can a new form of democracy rise? Follow the intertwined destinies of Gov. Robert Callahan, Justice Marisol Reyes and Sen. Charlie McBride as they navigate this splintering and what follows.

When Arley Fitchett's body washes up onto Maryland's Eastern Shore, Lieutenant Sam Tate, just two months into her new job, is charged with finding out who murdered the popular guide and treasure hunter. Fitchett, she discovers, was hunting a rare carving he believed had been stolen by Chesapeake Bay pirates in 1718 and hidden nearby. No one knows if the story is true, but several locals seem to share Fitchett's interest in the wooden bird with the sapphire eye. Any one of them could be the next victim. One of them is definitely the killer.

FBI Agent Angel Blondeaux is the focus of a man the press has labeled the Blindfold Killer. With each victim, she receives the call informing her where the dead body is to be found. The New Orleans Police have no choice but to enlist her help in his capture.

In the fourth and final book in the Before Watson series, Sherlock Holmes and his companion and assistant, Dr. Poppy Stamford, embark on their greatest adventure yet. They are charged with solving not just one case, but three.

Private Detective Angie Stallone opens her fledgling agency in the quaint town of Buxton, North Carolina on the Outer Banks. Struggling to establish a credible business, she teams up with local bookstore owner Mee Mee Roberts to solve a cold case from the 1960s.

A drone mission gone awry just blew up one bride's special day, and she calls on celebrated war hero and justice-hungry lawyer Christine Sussman to bring the responsible parties to justice. But while court cases fought solely on US soil are tough, this international battle is near impossible to navigate. Especially when big oil spills into the mix.

Have you ever felt angry? Upset? Hurt? Overwhelmed? Not up to it? This audiobook, with its pithy teachings based in Zen, will help you find the jewel in the inevitable mud of life rather than wallowing in that mud. Not only does each day offer us a new start and a chance to press reset but so does each and every breath. It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be, and your history doesn’t have to keep you trapped.

In Anne of Green Gables, we meet Anne Shirley, the central character of the series. Anne is an orphan in Nova Scotia and is sent to a pair of unmarried siblings in the fictional town of Avonlea. The siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, meant to adopt a boy to assist on their family farm, but they eventually accept Anne when they meet her and experience her imagination and fancifulness. Anne begins to assist Matthew at Green Gables, and her adventure begins!

Jesse James has learned never to rely on the men in her life. When the going gets tough, they're sure to leave. Just like the grandfather she never knew. But now her grandfather is back--if the man who knocked on her door is who he claims to be. He's a down-and-out conman, a liar, and a thief, but he needs Jesse's help. "Gramps" has swindled a dangerous man and is in hiding for his life. Against her better judgment, Jesse allows herself to get involved.

I have made this audiobook so you can understand the theory without all the hard-to-understand equations and science speak. Once you understand quantum mechanics, you can use that knowledge to take control of your life.

It's springtime in upstate New York, where the lilacs are in bloom and love is all around—even for Jessica James, full-time investigative reporter and part-time fool. Well, why shouldn't she be? Everyone else is in love: her mother, still honeymooning with the mischievous Charlie Browne; and her sometime lover, mobster Marcus Andrelli, who seems to have forgotten Jesse and taken up with another woman. For Jesse, though, love is literally in the air, with a handsome pilot named Mac Devlin.

What begins as a bad date for Wendy turns into a nightmare for her brother-in-law and his girlfriend. The lead detective doesn't believe Wendy and her sister Jennifer when they tell their story to the police. The emails have vanished after being opened, and there's so much blood no one could survive losing that much. Their story reaffirms his thinking that Hunter is guilty. It's up to Wendy, Jennifer, and their mother to find Steven and free Valerie before it's too late.