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This exciting addition to The Gary Graybill Murder Mystery series is a good old fashioned who-done-it that takes you through the streets and houses of the French Quarter in the party capital of America, New Orleans. Follow along with Detective Lieutenant James "Gator" McNeal and his team as they race against time to stop a mysterious hitman, known only as Lo Spettro, who has come to New Orleans. He has already killed once and he's going to kill again - and this time his target is Gator!

His name was Adam Kyler. He had eyes as black as licorice jujubes and a spit curl hooked across his forehead that reminded me of a young Superman. He was nine years old. It wasn't his fault he was standing in the alley, but I shot him just the same.... Dopple Dribble is a story of revenge from beyond the grave and I guarantee you without a shadow of a doubt that after you hear this story, the very next time that you hear the sound of some kid walking down the sidewalk under the streetlights dribbling a basketball you are going to spend the rest of the night scared stiff.

In the thrilling conclusion to the Jack Del Rio series, Endgames, the former FBI special agent has fallen off the grid and is content to let the rest of the world believe him dead. He has taken the name John Rivers and lives a secluded life on the Navajo Reservation...But the shades of his past are not yet done with him yet. Surviving elements of his enemies from London and Washington D.C. want to see him actually filling out a grave and are coming for him.

This story made the editor cry every time he read it. Most stories about Alzheimer's and dementia end with a depressing note, a bleak hope, a grasping at humanity as everything, eventually, fades. This story features a grown man whose dreams of tomorrow and his liturgy of life root him in the very reality of his existence, giving hope for all families who have ever had to deal with this disease.

Three tribal leaders have been murdered - murdered in a fashion that suggests the deeds were carried out by the COYOTE, a legendary evil trickster feared by many Native Americans. The tribal president contacts his old friend in the FBI for assistance in solving the crimes and preventing more murders. The FBI selects its star agent, Jack Del Rio, and dispatches him to New Mexico. Del Rio finds a situation tangled in political intrigue, and must work through those issues on his way to solving the mystery. Assisting him in his quest is Officer Lucy Chee. A romantic interest develops.

Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s? Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he never thought would happen when he walked into a basement in Union City, New Jersey, more than a quarter century ago. Now he's unthawed and ready to rumble, and his somewhat addled, former super-secret boss, "the Chief", is glad his favorite operative's active again.

The ability to read minds, to know the future, to see what others cannot all these things and more come with the power we all have within us. That is according to world-renown psychic David McCready.Watch as McCready explains about his own abilities and how we can all become psychic. Is this a real human source of higher being? Is this our destiny? Or is it something we have lost touch with because of the material world and society we have created?

Six mois se sont écoulés depuis que la reine des vampires s'est tue, et le monde est au bord du gouffre. Rejoignez les courageuses sœurs Dunraven, Darcy et Hope, alors qu'elles traversent l'apocalypse vampire dans un hiver sans soleil et sans fin qui devient chaque jour plus meurtrier. Préparez-vous à découvrir un royaume glacial rempli de poignards sacrés, d'épées puissantes, de grottes secrètes en bord de mer, d'incroyables fermes à sang humain et d'un vampire maléfique doté de super-pouvoirs à la recherche de ses proies. Darcy sortira-t-elle de sa cachette pour sauver sa sœur ?

After a rocky start to my freshman year at BCU, I was confident the threat was gone. The murders ended, and my name was cleared. All the while, three unsuspecting men took me by surprise… Ridge, my stalker turned lover. Maddox, the prince charming who swept me off my feet. And Lev, my villain who climbed out of the black hole he'd been living in, showing me a version of himself no one thought they'd ever see again. Then everything changed. Campus Alert: Shelter in place. Homicide suspect at large. That suspect… it's me.

The dysfunctional triplet gods of Sleep, Dreams, and Nightmares are kept separate by the deadly Gates of Horn and Ivory. Only one fact keeps them tightly bound: each of them is a suspect in their mother’s murder. Their knife-edge feud worsens when a mortal enters the world with astounding abilities that threaten to change the game for them all.

Calamitous driving disasters, letting Hollywood down, a cringe-worthy attempted pick-up, unfortunate sporting catastrophes, Theo Fennell's canvas of chapters of accidents never fails to entertain and lift the spirits—there but for the grace of God...

An immersive anthology of stories examining home and belonging, with an introduction from former Waterstones Children’s Book Prize category winner Sharna Jackson, Happy Here features stories and poems by 10 Black British authors exploring themes of family, friendship, laughter, magic and peril - in different genres and styles, but all about joy.

For your consideration: six devilishly twisted tales. For those who like them quirky. Includes "Saints & Sinners", "The Taking of Rhinoceros 456", "Truepenny", "When Gymkhana Smiles", "Ill Met by Moonlight", and "The Return of Truepenny".

S'appuyant sur des recherches novatrices dans le domaine de la psychologie, des neurosciences et de l'histoire, Jonathan Haidt montre dans cet essai fascinant que si nous avons tant de mal à nous entendre, c'est parce que notre esprit humain est naturellement porté à juger, à moraliser et à se croire dans son bon droit. En retraçant l'évolution de la morale, il explique comment elle a permis aux humains de coopérer et de créer des sociétés, mais aussi pourquoi nos valeurs morales ne reposent pas toutes sur l'égalité et la justice.

McHugh's back, drunk, and locked deep in a Mexican jail while the clock ticks down to doomsday! Someone is planning an international incident that would set off a revolution in one of the US's closest South of the border allies, plus provoke a shooting war between the US and Mexico - and it's up to McHugh, the two-fisted secret agent who always travels with a briefcase containing a fifth of Scotch and a .45, to stop it.

This coming of age tale follows Leisha Camden. She is the first person genetically altered before birth so that she does not need to sleep. Her rich industrialist father pays for the procedure so that his daughter will have a competitive edge over others. It's soon discovered that Leisha's mother is also carrying a "normal" child. As Leisha grows older she finds others who've had the non-sleep genetic alteration.

If you’re looking for a classic case of opposites attract—look no further. There’s me: Pretty. Flamboyant. Extra. Some even say ridiculous. I’m a tour dancer for the biggest pop star in the world with an exploding social media platform and a constant need for attention. I’ve got photographers banging down my door to take my picture, hot men blowing up my DMs to collaborate, and more thirsty fans to please every day. And then there’s Asher: Quiet. Reserved. Shy. Repressed. He’s the hot tattoo artist who pierced my septum. What he sees in me is an escape from his miserable relationship.

I wrote three paperback original novels for Berkley under the pen name Jill Emerson, two of them in diary form, the third a presumed collaborative novel written in concert by the three viewpoint characters. These were fun to do and worked out well, and they led to Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man. I riffed on the experience of my friend George Dickerson, who, like the novel's protagonist, had the magazine he was editing folded out from under him.

Kai lives in a mixed-race family on a rural council estate in Somerset, where he and his three older sisters have three different dads and his mum is being led into crack addiction by his petty-thief father. He idolises his dad, adores his friend, Saffie, and the school rabbit, Flopsy, and is full of ambition to be the fastest runner in Middledown Primary. He and Saffie build a secret world of friendship in the school garden.

Aventure à couper le souffle, secrets millénaires et héros inoubliables: une fantasy extraordinaire, par la conteuse anglaise la plus talentueuse de sa génération. Les aventures palpitantes de Mal et Christopher prennent toute leur ampleur grâce au talent et à l'énergie de Théo Frilet, qui nous emporte dans un univers particulièrement intriguant... Un régal !