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Meet Miss Zukas, the very proper, exceedingly conscientious, and relentlessly curious local librarian of Bellehaven, Washington. The Bellehaven police are baffled when a dead body turns up right in the middle of the library's fiction stacks. But Miss Helma Zukas - who never fails to make note of the slightest deviation from the norm - is not willing to let this nasty disruption stand. If the local law can't open the book on this case, Miss Zukas certainly intends to - with the help of her not-so-proper best friend, Ruth.

When the body of a man is found crucified at the top of a hill in the British midlands, AIDE Lock—the world’s first AI Detective—and Detective Kat Frank are thrust into the spotlight as they are given their first live case. When a second body is found the police issue an extraordinary warning to local males aged between 30 and 40 years old. With the national media and local men in an uproar, Kat and Lock have to combine their instincts and algorithms to catch the killer before they can strike again.

The world is ending. One by one the mighty cities are falling to earthquakes, to flood, to raiders on both land and sea. In a time of war and doubt, Gull is an oracle. Daughter of a slave taken from fallen Troy, chosen at the age of seven to be the voice of the Lady of the Dead, it is her destiny to counsel kings.

Watching others as they expose themselves - or reversing the equation by taking center stage - can be some of life's naughtiest delights. Hide and Seek proves that the eye is as much a pathway to pleasure as any other part of the body. The possibilities are endless: watching a lover undress from the safety of a hidden hole in the wall; peeking at the neighbors through a crack in the blinds when they think nobody's looking; visiting a local strip club to glimpse a beautiful dancer; or going to an orgy....

Meet Ollie, a clever and hard-working otter, who worries his OCD makes him different. As we learn more about his condition, his friends help him realize he has nothing to worry about, and that he is brilliant, just the way he is.

As Washington burns, Callista Brooke is trapped in the battle between her native England and her adopted homeland. She is on the verge of losing everything, including her life, when a handsome Englishman cuts through the violent crowd to claim that she is his. Callie falls into her protector's arms, recognizing that he is no stranger but the boy she'd once loved a lifetime ago.

When her child’s life is at stake, a mother will do anything to save him.? Clara McNair is running out of time to save her son, James. When the two-year-old is diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer, only an experimental treatment can save his life. She desperately needs money to pay for the surgery, but she’ll have to travel back to the site of her darkest memories to get it? Clara has escaped the demons of her youth - or so she thinks. It’s been 10 years since the mysterious disappearance of her parents.

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love.

Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on a seafront. In this second volume of her memoirs, Jo recounts wild times on the comedy circuit, the attempts to tart her up for the TV screen, running the marathon, rally driving, her numerous, occasionally extremely inebriated, Edinburgh festival appearances, her 'acting' career and much, much more.

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo gets up one morning, leaving behind his sleeping girlfriend, Dani, and his studies - never to be seen again. With too many unanswered questions, Dani simply can't accept Theo's disappearance and reports him missing, even though no one else seems concerned, including Theo's father. Ten years later, Dani returns to the college as a history professor.

Fantasizing about a sexy woman's poster in a bookshop window shouldn't lead to anything more than a sticky hand if you're a seasoned SEAL like Nix. Unless you happen to run into that woman while someone's attempting to kidnap her. A muffled scream in the night sends demolitions expert, Nixon "Wrench" Delano rushing through a dark alley where he faces off with a man determined to take someone that doesn't belong to him. The woman being the same one from the poster, reclusive writer, Everly Tollison. Sucked into Everly's nightmare by a jealous stalker, Nix makes it his personal mission to ...

Bronc riding champ Ames Carson is at a major crossroads in his career. His brothers are gonna die laughing if they ever find out the hardest part of his decision is this — should he kiss his best friend before leaving town?He wants to. That’s a given. But he’s afraid of ruining a perfectly good friendship, if it turns out she doesn’t feel the same way about him. That’s the tough thing about being best buds with the girl next door. He knows literally everything else about her but THAT. He knows who her first crush was (not him), and the first guy she kissed (also not him), as well ...

Desperately looking for answers to save her daughter from addiction to drugs and alcohol, Shelly Jo found tools to reduce addictions; and help children to adults beat the struggles of cravings, emotions, and weight gain. Feed your brain-brain food. What you eat matters. Get rid of negative self-talk.

Das kleine Os im Norden Norwegens ist ein Naturparadies. Der Tourismus boomt. Die Brüder Carl und Roy planen ein Wellness-Hotel und einen Vergnügungspark. Da droht der Bau eines Tunnels den kleinen Ort von den Touristenströmen abzuschneiden. Der sich ankündigende wirtschaftliche Niedergang lässt alle die Messer wetzen. Carl und Roy versuchen zu retten, was zu retten ist. Doch als die Dämonen der Vergangenheit ins Spiel kommen und Fragen nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern aufkommen, ist schnell klar, gemeinsam werden sie nicht gewinnen: nur einer kann hier König sein.

Set in one year, Three Rooms follows a young woman as she moves from a rented room at Oxford, where she’s working as a research assistant; to a stranger’s sofa, all she can afford as a copyediting temp at a society magazine; to her childhood home, where she’s been forced to return, jobless, even a room of her own out of reach. As politics shift to nationalism, the streets fill with protestors, and news drip-feeds into her phone, she struggles to live a meaningful life on her own terms, unsure if she’ll ever be able to afford to do so.

A las tierras más al norte de Noruega, donde nunca se pone el sol, ha llegado un sicario rebelde. Huye de su pasado y es un hombre sin futuro. Pongamos que se llama Jon y acaba de traicionar a uno de los reyes del crimen organizado de Oslo, El Pescador. En esta aldea remota de Finnmark viven los integrantes de una secta cristiana y Jon traba amistad con Lea, la hija del líder local. Ella le proporciona un lugar en el que esconderse, una cabaña de cazadores, y un rifle, además de alimentos.

Carlyle is a heavenly being who works as an agreement facilitator in the time outside of time. Here human beings are allowed to read the scrolls of their lives prior to their births. His first clients Julia and Nellie Jolicoeur – twins destined to be born on the cusp of the millennium in New York City - readily agree to their scrolls. When Carlyle is given the opportunity to read them, he is shocked. Who would agree to such things? And why would the Designer require it of them?

Ex's Son, Age Gap, Billionaire, BDSM, Gay, Very Spicy, Revenge, Standalone, Dark Contemporary Romance Dominic Westfield I've been obsessed with Oliver Hastings since before he was born. As the son of my former lover, Alexander, Oliver was always destined to be mine. For years, I bided my time, manipulating the circumstances to ensure our paths would eventually converge. And now, just before his twenty-first birthday, I'll finally make him mine forever. Oliver may try to fight it, to deny the undeniable connection between us, but in the end he'll submit to me completely. I'll shower him with...

Charles "Cash" Carmichael traded his high-rise condo and family-firm career for a job coaching soccer for Chicago's inner-city kids. He's adjusting to living on minimum wage when his young cousin, newly out and running away from home, shows up on his less than luxurious doorstep. Angsty teens definitely aren't Cash's thing. He needs local backup, and there's only one name he can think of: Stephany Tyler. Back in the day, the bisexual Steph was the perfect friend with benefits until she fell in love with a woman.

Written for all ages, this short simple story contains a powerful therapeutic metaphor designed to cause change within your personality. Though the story and language is deceptively simple, it would be difficult to give a full description of the process that occurs while reading this book. Embedded in the tale of a young boy's struggle to come to terms with a schoolyard bully is another story of another time. Within this story is yet another layer that gives a healing metaphor to the subconscious of the listener.