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For Aloysius Tucker, taking his nine-year-old cousin Maria sledding is all about frozen toes and hot coffee in the warming house. It shouldn't involve chasing after Maria as she's led into a long black car by a stranger in a Bruins jacket. But by the end of the crisp December morning, Maria is gone, her mother is dead, and her father - Mafia don Sal - has been arrested for murder. Sensing blood in the water, would-be successors to Sal's criminal empire square off, agreeing on nothing but the idea that Sal's blood relative, Tucker, needs to be eliminated.

Down on the bayou, folks called the creature Zergopha. It had been around for quite a spell, slithering through the swamp, chowing down on the odd tourist here and there. Lately, though, it seemed to be after something more than a one-night snack. Affection, maybe. Possibly even...commitment. Now it's spring, and an immortal monster's bizarre fancy has turned to thoughts of weird love. Only one man is the unlucky object of Zergopha's affections.... Kent Montana.

He turns into a bat. Drinks the blood of the living. And never pays income taxes. He's the Vampire Lamar, and since he's come to New England, the body count's been rising every time he rises. But even eternal nightlife can take on a chill without companionship. The unholy fiend-in-need seeks a down-to-earth, flesh-and-blood girl who's his type for a very long-term relationship. But where there are vampires, there are vampire hunters. Unfortunately their stakeout for an eccentric "nobleman" sends them chasing a mortal target named Kent Montana.

What if the deepest, darkest secrets of your neighbors were at your fingertips? Jackson and Cull are about to lose their jobs at the sleazy tabloid, when they get an idea...build an app that will revolutionize the world. Create a voyeuristic destination to tell on your friends and enemies. Nothing is off limits. Nothing is sacred. Nothing is secret anymore.

New York. City of millions. Home to the largest subway system in the world. Miles of tunnels stretch far underground, home themselves to a vast, displaced populace. But now someone - or something - is slaughtering these homeless. And anyone else foolish enough to venture underground. And whatever it is, it is slowly rising toward the surface.

In this work of sporting and social history we have a biography of Canadian-born, Boston-raised boxer George Dixon (1870–1908), the first Black world champion of any sport and the first Black world boxing champion in any division. George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 chronicles the life of the most consequential Black athlete of the nineteenth century. Yet despite his triumphs, Dixon has been lost to history, overshadowed by Black athletes whose activism against white supremacy far exceeded his own.

The housing market is depressed. But not as depressed as anyone who spends a night at 668 Langford Place. The decaying mansion next door - number 666 - will soon see the return of Bog-Muggoth, an ancient, evil demon that makes the Amityville Horror seem like Casper the Friendly Ghost. But Bog-Muggoth isn’t making his haunted house call alone. Other vile gods from beyond time and space will be joining in the festivities to make the world their oyster - and leave it an empty shell.

Uber-geek Tucker and his beautiful wife, Carol, developed security software together for MantaSoft until the day he was fired and she was murdered. Now, six months later, another software engineer is dead, bringing new clues to light in Carol's cold case. Haunted by the memory of his wife, Tucker is determined to track down the truth behind the killings. He pulls strings to get hired back into MantaSoft, but office politics turn deadly as Tucker takes on the FBI, Russian mobsters, and a psychopath known as the Duct Tape Killer.

Eager to celebrate its history, and display its athletic potential, the United States hosted the nation’s first Olympic games in 1904 St. Louis. But within a few years, the publication of Coubertin’s memoirs turned the praised Olympics into the failed Olympics. America’s First Olympics corrects common misconceptions that began with Coubertin’s memoirs, and presents a fresh view of the 1904 games, which featured first-time African American Olympians, an eccentric and controversial marathon, and documentation by pioneering photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals.

When computer hacker Tucker is told that a dead man is lying outside his Boston home, he's shocked to discover that the body looks just like his father, who died 15 years ago. Tucker soon learns the terrible truth: The dead man is a half-brother he never knew he had. Determined to find answers, Tucker tracks down his father's second family.

Ruben Soto gives us an insightful and informative history of the leading Spanish-language television network in the United States. This book will show you how Univision changed American television from an all English-format to one that includes Spanish. You will also hear how Univision convinced advertisers that Hispanics had huge purchasing power.

One bruised Southern bombshell thinks he's her savior. It's time to exceed expectations...until the last dog is hung. Compulsively listenable! Highly entertaining!

Terror Flyers examines the "lynch justice" (Lynchjustiz) committed against American airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Using engaging first-person accounts of downed pilots, as well as previously unused primary sources, Terror Flyers challenges the notion that such lynchings were exclusively the domain of Nazi party officials and soldiers. New evidence reveals ordinary German people executed Lynchjustiz as well.

Conway Sax is a man on a mission - this time in Los Angeles, where he uses his race-driving experience in a desperate bid to rescue Kenny Spoon, a washed-up TV star who's been kidnapped. It's a favor for Kenny's mother Eudora, Conway's dear friend and a fellow member of the Barnburners, his tight-knit maverick AA group.

When Rogue Ambulance Search and Rescue owners Rye and Claire Anderson are called to remove a body from a remote cliff face, they are drawn into a family quest fueled by hate and deceit that has festered for over 80 years. Now, faced with serial killings that threaten their small town and have put Rye in the hospital with a bullet, it is up to Claire to discover the family secret, reveal the killer, and not become the next victim.

Fresh off a brutal divorce, he’s swapping handyman services for a roof over his head. Having staggered all his life from job to job, Arch is a newly minted private detective. His mentor throws him his first case specifically because it looks like an easy one. But when Arch starts digging, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a war between Nigerian car thieves and murderous Russians.

A young woman is relocated by the Witness Protection Program to a position as hospital admission director in another state. An illegal Latino immigrant loses his job and becomes homeless, and lives on the street. A young 19-year-old man, with an exceptionally high IQ, joins the US Army and befuddles his sergeant with his amazing knowledge. A married couple buy a cemetery lot in their hometown, planning ahead for the future. A 70-year-old widow is shocked to learn that she is pregnant at a routine medical examination by her doctor.

It should have been just another routine call for Rye and Claire Anderson, owners of Mad Dash Ambulance Service. But when the DOA they deliver to the hospital goes missing, their routine turns deadly. Greedy doctors involved in black market organ harvesting; innocent girls lured into the lucrative, dangerous world of xxx-rated films. Sex, murder, and deception in a small Oregon town. It's all here in Body Parts, Kit Crumb's latest Rye and Claire Adventure.

An innocent bike ride on Nantucket leads Detective Nia D’Amato to a quiet street, where she discovers a mother and daughter pinned beneath a fallen tree. Firemen arrive and work frantically to free them, and Nia later discovers evidence of likely sabotage. She teams up with Captain John Miller, the local police chief. Solving one mystery only plunges them into another: the seemingly innocent death of a girl 30 years earlier. Nia and Captain Miller race to uncover the clues and find a piece of critical evidence before it’s destroyed.

Nia D’Amato, a determined but impulsive Boston Police detective, struggling with demons from her past and a biased deputy commander, is called to a pawnshop robbery gone wrong. She questions an eyewitness with a suspicious cover story and meets him days later, dead in an alley behind a well-known jewelry store.