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In Sue Hinkin’s award-winning thriller The Burn Patient, TV news photog, Lucy Vega, thought she’d seen her uncle’s murderer die in Guerrero. He was incinerated in a Jeep explosion while trying to put a bullet through her head. She didn’t know officials had never found the body. Now, Gary Mercer, Hollywood bad boy, drug czar and psychopathic killer, is back from the dead with a new face, literally. This time his perverted sights are set on reporter Bea Middleton’s beautiful, naïve, 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa.

Getting Micky Dolenz is a funny, touching, heartwarming story that will appeal equally to young adults, pop-culture lovers, and Monkees fans of all ages. Peppered with humor and full of heart, this is the tale of Julie Desmond - or, as she likes to call herself, Julie Desmond Dolenz, a 13-year-old living in the psychedelic '60s who is absolutely ape over drummer Micky Dolenz of the sensational made-for-TV band The Monkees.

Lily Montgomery’s parents have died, leaving Lily and her younger sister, Hope, to struggle with the debts left behind. Jobs are sparser than ever—and it seems Lily’s only option is to become a Mail Order Bride.

Paisley Burger runs the best-known pet store in Wrangler’s Hill. She’s known as much for her clumsiness as her critters—snakes, turtles, and raccoons have a habit of escaping into the city, sometimes terrorizing schoolchildren. When Paisley is found dead in her store shortly before Christmas—having struck her head against the corner of a table—her friend Geneva Pomolo suspects foul play.

Amelia Turner is tired of living her boring, pampered life. She craves adventure and a new life out West. Ben Thompson is still grieving the loss of his wife, but he knows their son needs a mother, so with reluctance, he places an advert for a Mail Order Bride. He is immediately matched with Amelia. When Amelia arrives in Montana, their first meeting does not go well. Both fear they have made the wrong decision. This is not the adventure Amelia expected, nor is it the smooth transition Ben wanted.

Amateur investigator Geneva Pomolo is once again steeped in drama after she accepts a party invitation. After 10 years in the realtor business, Biff Wellington has finally obtained his PhD in history, and is about to achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a professor. But as often happens in Wrangler’s Hill, the serenity of the evening is shattered by a series of nasty confrontations. Biff has spent his entire life alienating anyone who ever loved him, and now these former friends and family are out for revenge.

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Rachel and the Smith Brothers are on the run, trying to escape the dangers they left in the city. But when they stop off for supplies, they suddenly find themselves in a whole new kind of trouble. Rachel realises the true nature of the men she is travelling with, but where exactly does she fit in?

Running low on funds, Macey Spade has accepted a new job—as a teaching assistant at Whaler’s Bay College, presiding over a class on Time-Travel in Film and Fiction. Macey anticipates a relaxed semester grading papers and browsing the stacks of the college library, but fate has several cruel tricks in store for her.

For Libby Cord and her best friend, cop Greg Rose, it’s like old times again in the Upstate New York town of Cooper’s Crossing when Deborah Woodward returns with her English husband, Clive, to open a bed-and-breakfast. The three of them had gone through school together before going their separate ways, and now, here they are in the same place again.

It’s Christmas in Coopers Crossing! What could be more wonderful than a thick blanket of snow covering the roofs and trees of a quaint small town in upstate New York? Except it’s been raining for weeks, and Libby Cord’s been roped into organizing a Christmas market at the newly opened Arts Center, and the decorations in front of it would make Las Vegas blush for shame. How could things get any worse? A murder, of course...but, considering how unloved the victim was, maybe this was somebody’s idea of a Christmas gift?

Afraid for his life, David Pine, longtime reporter with the Los Angeles Daily, drops a thumb drive in the snail mail for friend and colleague TV news correspondent Beatrice Middleton. Three hours later Pine is found murdered. At the same time Bea and partner photographer Lucy Vega cover the developing story of a military vet shot by police for throwing cement blocks off a freeway overpass, killing a young driver and injuring others. The man was supposedly off his meds. His parents swear it wasn’t true. No one believes them.

Amateur sleuth Geneva Pomolo is once again drawn into mystery when her investigating partner, Iris Reeves, signs up to read from her novel-in-progress during an open mic night at the local club. The proceedings are interrupted by a scuffle between best-selling young adult novelist William Miller and his former boss and fiancée, Ava Warner. Ava has been feeling salty toward William ever since he suddenly broke off the relationship. William was forced to file a restraining order when she began following him around hoping to humiliate him in public...

When you're learning a new language, a cognate is an easy word to remember because it looks and means the same thing as a word you already know. A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language. Using an algorithm that provides the ranking, this book will provide you with the 100 most frequently used cognate words that you have to learn first to get around when traveling or interacting with German-speaking people.

Last seen heading out of Ventura Harbor with a SCUBA group bound for the Channel Islands, Santa Monica High School Marine Biology teacher, Isabelle Abbott, has vanished. Drugged, bound, and gagged, she finds herself prisoner in the dark bowels of an underground aquarium complex. Once used by the military for marine mammal research, dolphins are no longer denizens of the big tanks. Instead, a menagerie of freaky razor-toothed predators including Piscum Auratus, a genetically engineered gold shark the size of an SUV, swims in psychotic circles.

Dutch and Italian are beautiful languages that are spoken by millions around the world. Learn Italian and Dutch for Beginner’s Easily & in Your Car is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language. It contains over 1,000 common Italian and Dutch phrases that will help you in everyday life. Each phrase is read aloud slowly and multiple times so that you can really learn the correct pronunciation, and each word equivalent English translation is also provided.

Celia welcomes any opportunity that will display her skills as a makeup artist and sell some of her products. She delights in rubbing shoulders with some of the movers and shakers in the small town of Sunny Cove at a charity event she's been invited to. When the organizer of the event, a prim and proper know-it-all, suddenly falls down dead, pandemonium breaks out in the room.

Wenn Sie Englisch sprechen, sollten Sie sich beim Lernen der deutschen Sprache auf die meistbenutzten englischen Phrasalverben konzentrieren. Lernen Sie die Bedeutung von den 100 englischen Phrasalverben zu verstehen, die am häufigsten im Alltag verwendet werden. Zur Kommunikation benötigen Sie eigentlich nur die 100 meistbenutzten englischen Phrasalverben. Diese Idiome werden am häufigsten genutzt und können mit einem rangvorgebendem Algorithmus bestimmt werden. Hier ist die Liste.

Celia loves her job. Seeing people look good after applying her makeup products gives her great satisfaction. She can't believe her luck when the wife of a famous sports star employs her services for a celebrity event. However, she's left speechless and confused when this client is found dead at the after party, and Celia is identified as the prime suspect.

It is a radical change for Mark when his father sends him to live with his aunt and uncle in South Africa. Mark sees poverty and racism everywhere and there seems to be no escape. When he befriends Sipho, a young black boy, his life becomes even more complicated. Suddenly Mark is caught between two worlds and must decide what he stands for and where he belongs.