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Abby Northrup finally has the quiet life she s dreamed of, living in Carmel at the former monastery she purchased and renovated. But The Prayer House is more than a peaceful home for Abby-unofficially it is an underground safe haven for abused women and children. And when an old friend and her daughter...

SHE’S A TOUGH CRIME REPORTER IN A LEAGUE OF HEAVY HITTERS. BUT THAT’S OKAY— SHE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY HARDBALL …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...

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...

She's been called headstrong. She's been called opinionated. Hell, she's been called everything in the book, and now, in this fourth mystery in the acclaimed series, the outlaw Jesse James rides again.It's springtime in upstate New York, where the lilacs are in bloom and love is all around—even for...

SHE’S ONE CRIME REPORTER WHO CAN HOLD HER OWN WITH ANY MAN. A SMART LADY IN A TOUGH BUSINESS. BUT THAT’S OKAY—SHE MEANS BUSINESS …Mystery usually follows murder, but when Baby Cakes Sloan bites the bullet, everybody in Rochester already knows whodunit. Beautiful Babs had been Marcus Andrelli’s...

It’s after midnight and Naomi Wing is having another vision. A full-blooded Wintu Indian, Naomi is no stranger to visions, but this one brings horror and sadness—for it reveals lovely Beth Lambert on the terrible, stormy night she died.It has been almost a year since 17-year-old Beth's body was recovered...

DON'T He watches her from across a crowded room. But is this handsome stranger trying to turn Kate's stay in Hawaii into a romantic idyll for two, or is he after something else entirely? TAKE From the moment Kate meets Dan, her world is turned upside down. She thinks that someone...

Peter: The Goblins - consists of three goblin volumes; Goblin Way, Goblin Feast and Goblin Power.  Peter: The Goblins - Short Poems and Tiny Thoughts is a fantastical collection of short poems based upon the surreal, magical story Peter: A Darkened Fairytale. Fans of Peter will...

In the old west, survival of the fittest was the only law worth knowing. When two long time bank robbers stumble across an ancient Aztec artifact, Sandy recounts a legend told to him by his Navajo grandmother. It is the story of Xipil, a young warrior born in shame who rises to become king under the...

The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has greatly influenced popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form.

The first Europeans to settle on the Aboriginal land that would become know as Australia arrived in 1788. From the first these colonists were accused of ineptitude when it came to feeding themselves: as legend has it they nearly starved to death because they were hopeless agriculturists and ignored...

McDermot, Nebraska, is a pleasant, scenic western cattle town situated in the Pawnee River valley—just the place for people seeking refuge from their hectic city lives. It is also just the place for those who have made their homes on this haunting prairie since the late nineteenth century. Ideal...