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Enjoy this steamy paranormal short story by USA Today Bestselling sexy billionaire romance author Summer Cooper! What happens after the happily ever after...Anna and Dean have been dating for almost two years, but she has never met his family. They might live together, and Dean might know her better than anyone else, but with a five hour drive to his parents' house it wasn't something they had ever had the time to do. Anna is a detective, and when...
1082) The Sinews of Peace
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The first volume in this captivating collection of the prime minister's speeches brings to life the heady days after V-Day-and a nation newly at peace. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory but...
1083) Silence the Northwoods
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A painful past. A wall of steel. And an ex from hell.
Could the holidays get any worse? After his dad's death, Detroit FBI field agent Colton Ramsay didn't think so. His mom's on hospice and his ex-college sweetheart just married his ex-roommate--and now he's been assigned to investigate a murder in the icy wastelands of the Upper Peninsula. But when sexy ski hill manager Kyra Erikkson and her five-year-old son storm into Colton's life, he has a...
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This book will make you laugh, cry and cower at the same time. WARNING: Could contain echoes and ripples of yourself."Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight.Oops, sorry. That was Batman.Hmm.Ever DONE communal-living or shared a house or flat?Right, so,• Q: What do you get if you have eight people and a dog living above a derelict pub and a womanising, chain smoking, property landlord that doesn't give a flying fart...• A: Absolute mayhem...
1085) Betrayed!
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For ten long years Jodie Breault has been hounded by the mystery surrounding her mother's drowning and her father's disappearance in a boating accident on Lake Champlain, VT. A senior at a Connecticut high school, Jodie resides with her parents' friends,, a foreign-born couple that harbors many secrets. That year she falls in love with a classmate, C. Travis Jones, AKA Jonesy, but they are separated when he goes off to college in California and...
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THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE NOVEL YOU CAN'T MISS...
"A cracking read...Our Little Secret builds to a deliciously dark conclusion." -Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of TheWoman in Cabin 10
Roz Nay's Our Little Secret is a twisted tale of love, pain, and revenge that will stay with the reader long after they turn the last page.
They say you never forget your first love. What they don't say though, is that...
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American composer Lou Harrison (1917—2003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries and close colleagues: composers John Cage, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leonard Bernstein, Living Theater founder, Judith Malina, and choreographer, Merce Cunningham. Today, musicians from Bang on a Can to Björk are indebted to the cultural hybrids Harrison pioneered half a century ago. His explorations...
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John Rowland made his first flight with the RAF Volunteer Reserve on 1 October 1938 from Redhill in a DH60 Moth. He won a Prize Cadetship to the RAF College Cranwell and then posted to the School of Army Cooperation. He volunteered for 613 Squadron, which had been formed shortly before the war started. It was still not fully equipped with Lysanders and half of its planes were still elderly Hectors. On 25 May 1940 came the news that six Hectors were...
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Clive Evans had a lengthy front-line flying career in which he flew Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings. Apart from his personnel experiences he describes all these types in considerable detail, explaining technical details and the nuances of each type. The final fast jet he flew was during a three year posting to the USA to evaluate the General Dynamics F-111 that the British Government were considering purchasing. It was at the end of that overseas...
1090) Collin: Episodes 1-3
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"I think we're a little early in this relationship for you to be using 'sir' this often, though I must admit, I like the sound of the title on your lips, Collin." Mr. Reevesworth smiled a little. "Have you eaten?" Twenty-four year old Collin is a non-traditional college student. Three jobs and a full load of classes have his back against the wall. When he walks into the internship interview, all he's hoping for is experience and avoiding anything...
1091) Justified Retribution
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Come along for a gripping tale of resilience, redemption, and revenge in "Justified Retribution." Alicia Rogers, a determined pre-law student, faces a life-altering ordeal when she becomes the victim of unspeakable abuse by four privileged jocks at a college mixer. But her journey is far from over. As Alicia Rogers seeks justice and her special form of redemption, she embarks on a remarkable transformation. Fueled by her unwavering determination,...
1092) The West Country Crime Mysteries: Death in the Woods, Death on Dartmoor, and Death on the Coast
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Three novels in one volume featuring a police detective dealing with the darker side of Devon, England.
This trio of crime novels starring Dan Hellier includes:
Death in the Woods
DI Dan Hellier has returned to Exeter under a cloud. But a chance for redemption comes when the body of a talented young singer is found in the woods. When links are revealed to a recording studio boss, a predatory gang, and a school music teacher, Hellier has to untangle...
1093) Dare to Surrender
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Binge the first three stories of this small-town romantic suspense series now. CaptivatedNeeded: one fake boyfriend for the holidaysThis holiday season, Macy must make a choice. Marry a man she detests to save her family's company or fake date the man she secretly wants in order to escape her fate.Garrett has wanted Macy since college, but he made a promise that he wouldn't touch his best friend's little sister. But now that she is being pushed to...
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A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms.
Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled and could only wear clothes her father deemed modest. She was five years old the first time she was told her swimsuit was too revealing, to go change. There would be no college in her future, no career. She was a stay-at-home daughter...
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What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog...
1096) The Likeable Fraudster
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Jake Alexander has it all. Young, single and good-looking, he's living the high life as a successful doctor running a Sydney Harbour Hospital medical practice with Shane Kirkbride and Kevin Johnson, his two best friends from college.But then, Shane is found murdered in the back room of the clinic and the police are insistent the murder was an inside job. It's ludicrous to think that Jake or Kevin might be responsible, but the police have the two of...
1097) The Story of Wisconsin
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This is a short history that profiles the Badger State, which became part of the U.S. in 1848 but had settlements decades earlier. It also looks at the Native American history of the state.
"Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853-1913) was a librarian, historian and editor. He attended public schools, and, after moving to Oshkosh in 1866, put himself through a "college course" while teaching school and working on local farms. He worked for a time on various...
1098) Forever Innocent
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Book 1 of the USA Today bestselling series"Our baby died on prom night, and nothing was ever the same again." Corabelle doesn't feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned. Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters....
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"Detail[s] the grassroots interplay among the variety of ideologies, individuals, and organizations that made up the Chicano movement in San Antonio, Texas." –Journal of American History
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang...
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Its 1989. Jason and Chery were dating for almost nine months in Phoenix, Arizona. She was setting up for a reunion party with all her friends from Alaska that went to college in Arizona or California. His friend Joe invites them to go three-wheeling on the same day, but earlier allowing them to still make the party on time. She is not excited about the trip, but gives in. On the last run of the day, there is a terrible accident. The events to follow...
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