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Art curator Jessamine Rhodes has left behind her gig at a prominent gallery in the city to open her own community art center in the small town of Rose Shore. She's all set to host an extravagant opening watercolors class and has even booked a famous artist to teach it. Gabriella Everhart brings along her priceless painting Tranquil to showcase as the centerpiece of the event. The opening class is just wrapping up when suddenly Tranquil disap...

An idealistic humanitarian worker with a decade of field experience arrives in 1991 Southern Sudan hoping to save the world, but will the love of a child and the return of a love from the past end up saving and healing her instead? Qasim, charming and cosmopolitan, trying to save his homeland, Lebanon. Dianna, brilliant and beautiful, trying to save children in Southern Sudan. The two old flames bump into one another in Nairobi and fall ...

All it takes is one bad match. Charlie Starborne hops over the fence and strolls down the street to the police precinct, where she is serving a year-long court-appointed sentence. She signs in, name and date, May 3, 2042. She would do anything to escape the bland, bleak-walled precinct . . . until she is assigned to help develop the EASY program. This program can scrub through a person's memories to identify culprits in a crime. When trage...

In 1988, Sloan Hadfield's brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. Ridge's body was never recovered, and Sloan's mother-a brilliant ornithologist-slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive. Now, twenty years later, Sloan's life is unraveling. In the middle of a bitter divorce, she's for...

COME AWAY FROM HER is a boldly written mystery-suspense novel set in the rural town of Black Walnut. The story revolves around the arrival of Tess, a deaf woman running from her past, who unwittingly sets into motion a chain of disturbing events as she is forced to share her secrets with the strangers around her. Her presence upsets the status quo for the townspeople, none more so than for Cap, the pastor of the local church whose life has bee...

Mix together a little family, drama, ghosts, and tequila, and you get a hell of a cocktail! Sometimes, la sangre atrae, "the blood calls you back, " and when Maya gets the call to go back to her agave roots to claim the body of her long-missing father, her world changes forever. Set against the backdrop of her childhood in Mexico, Agave Blues is the story of ailing attorney Maya, in a broken relationship and butting heads with her teenage da...

Asking too many questions - even the right ones - can get a person in trouble. Laila Harrow knows the best way to track down anything-or anybody-ask Billie Farmer. As the brains of the Laguna Shores Research Club, Billie teaches fellow members how to reach into the ether and pluck out facts. Counting on Billie's guidance, Laila promises the St. Augustine Museum a catalogue of Florida Highwaymen paintings that will catapult her standing in th...

No one ever talks about what happened ... Summer 1971, Del Munro, a single mother of four, is struggling to make ends meet when Mother Franklin, a traveling evangelist, offers to take her daughters to the beach in Savannah. For nine-year-old Willie June and seven-year-old Glory, restless at the end of a long, hot summer in Charlotte, it's a dream come true. To their beleaguered mother, it's a much-needed reprieve. But what seemed like a bl...

A world at the mercy of an AI overlord. Who will lead the rebellion? Isobel Lemont, raised in an abandoned factory and orphaned at thirteen, talks to the saints and sees leaves of grass where others see only the ashes of a despoiled planet. She and others of her kind, branded heretics or 'Atrophines' for their refusal to embrace the new technological order established by The Architect, are driven to the ass-ends of the earth and left to fami...

Anyone who says there are no atheists in a foxhole never served in Third Platoon." Combat diaries from elite operators and commanding officers dominate the space. But what happens when regulars face the fire? Ronny Bruce is a renaissance man: philosopher, drifter, Gen X rock 'n' roller, and gentleman. At thirty-two, divorced and burnt-out with the burbs, Ronny bails on his teaching career and seeks army infantry. It's no joke when boot cam...

A story of friendship and acceptance. Bobby and Teddy the Dinosaur are best friends. But Teddy is just too big. Bobby really wants to go to the birthday party but will not leave his best friend's side, so they go in search of something fun to do.

A story of friendship and acceptance. Bobby and Teddy the Dinosaur are best friends. But Teddy is just too big. Bobby really wants to go to the birthday party but will not leave his best friend's side, so they go in search of something fun to do.

A soul mate trapped in purgatory.Dangerous alliances.The quest for ultimate power. After escaping Venice with their lives, Nick & Julia O'Connor have one goal: return home so they can end their nightmare vacation. But before they reach the American consulate, they're captured by Interpol and returned to Venice. Behind Nick's detention is Salvatore della Porta, the corrupt head of an ancient, enigmatic order that controls Paradise, Tintoret...

Sometimes a lie reveals a larger truth. After a grueling school year, Kate escapes to Pocahontas County, West Virginia to rest and rejuvenate. Unfortunately, a hundred-year flood hits and turns her vacation into an emergency evacuation. After relocating to a mountaintop resort, she finds an unconscious man in the woods, a man whose face she would recognize anywhere. Her celebrity crush, Jeremy Fulton. When Jeremy regains consciousness, he...

Southern Evil: Tales of Revenge, Greed, Lust, and Racism From the Heart of Dixie is a compilation of historical crime profiles written in a popular history form for the true (historical) crime genre. Written by experienced historian and author, Alan G. Gauthreaux, Southern Evil offers more than just documentation, the manuscript maintains an historical as well as societal record of the more notorious murders and murderers from the southern Uni...

Tim Swink is "a very good storyteller... and that's rare!"-Chuck Adams, former Executive Editor at Algonquin Books In 1969, during the crux of the Vietnam war, Jack Tagger is on the run. As the war in Southeast Asia rages on, he has made the moral decision to resist the draft. In his effort to avoid the authorities and the war, he seeks refuge on a desolate coastal barrier island where unbeknownst to him, while avoiding one war, he finds him...

A smart heroine with a haunted past . . . a who-done-it full of twists and turns." Haunted by a death she might have prevented, single mom Julie Goldman returns to the brooding Black Hills of South Dakota to turn the old Victorian she inherits from her aunt into a bed-and-breakfast inn. But mysterious deaths are piling up, and a series of vaguely escalating threats convince her that someone wants her gone. When daughter Lu is run off the roa...

Neva Bell attempts to help six troubled teenagers at a halfway house as her own demons lead her down a dangerous path. Kissproof World tells the story of Neva Bell, a young therapist, who grapples with her past as she tries to help six troubled teens living at a halfway house on the Texas coast. The teens have been committed to Morning House for a variety of reasons, but they all share a lack of trust for a world they feel has betrayed them....

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Johnny's bone marrow could save her life, but he'd vanished thirty years earlier. Blood Brother: A Memoir-an inspiring and nakedly honest memoir-reveals the hope, beauty, and meaning of cancer and a second chance at life. As a happily married, fifty-five-year-old professional woman, Susan had it all-or thought she did-until the day of her shocking diagnosis with stage 4 Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a rare and aggressive disease. Within minutes of...