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When Minamoto Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family - and lost.…
His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.
Jason Stafford used to be a hot Wall Street trader, went too far, and paid for it in prison. Now…
a financial investigator, he's been asked to look into rumours of a hostile takeover of his firm, but he has no idea it will turn his whole life upside down. Suddenly embroiled in a grand jury investigation of Mob-related activities on Wall Street, and threatened by some very serious men, he is thrust into witness protection with his young autistic son. And then his son disappears. Has he been kidnapped, or worse? Sequel to "Long way down". 2016.
Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.
Turk Henry, an overweight, unemployed rock star married to a supermodel, has discovered that Thailand is probably the last place…
a recovering sex addict should go on vacation, yet here he is, surrounded by topless groupies and haunted by the stares of hundreds of luscious bar girls. Turk's struggles with monogamy, however, pale beside a greater challenge when his wife is abducted by a group of renegade, shipless Thai pirates. As Turk, his life skills limited to playing bass and partying, navigates the back alleys of Bangkok and the deadly jungles of Southeast Asia to save his wife, Salty heats up and sweats bullets. Featuring skinflint American tourists, topless beaches, a hypochondriac U.S. government agent, suitcases loaded with cash, an overeager full-service personal assistant, a horny Australian commando, inventive prostitutes, and an urbane pirate with a fetish for alabaster skin, this is a hilariously entertaining, thoroughly debauched caper novel--with a happy finish. 2015.
In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved…
rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. 2014.
From the moment rancher Jack Turner rescues Jenna Caldwell Merrick, he is determined to help her. Soon, he is doing…
more than tend her wounds; he is giving Jenna the strength she needs to reclaim her life. The hunted will become the hunter, but not before Jack and Jenna enter into a fight … for their lives. 2014.
Still reeling from her husband's untimely death, Deborah Robinson needs a fresh start. So she decides to pack up her…
family, box up her bookstore, and return to her grandmother's ancestral home on Cavanaugh Island. The charming town of Sanctuary Cove holds happy memories for Deborah, and, after she spies a gorgeous stranger in the local bakery, it promises the possibility for a bright new future. Followed by "Angels Landing". 2012.
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and…
art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture. Companion to "The Monuments Men". 2013.
Unassuming Rabbi Small is sharply criticized for permitting a suicide to be buried in his cemetery, so he attempts to…
prove that it was not suicide, but murder. By his Talmudic reasoning, the rabbi not only does this but identifies the murderer as well. 1997.
When hot-blooded mercenary Jackson Savor and Alani Rivers wake up next to each other, with no memory of how they…
got there, they race against time to find the truth even though it places their lives - and their newfound passion for each other - in danger. 2011.
Smoke Jensen is already on cattle baron Pogue Quentin’s bad side for outbidding him at an auction in Quentin’s town…
of Santa Clara, Colorado. Now Smoke must ride to Santa Clara and face Quentin again to protect his friend Pearlie. 2010.
After they are in a car accident together, video vixen Paisley Lawrence and gospel singer Warren Cobb are mobbed by…
media speculation. And if that's not enough, Warren's wife has a few questions of her own. With rumours flying and speculation rampant, these two must straighten out their stories before tempers get out of control. 2010.
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of…
the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package. Followed by "Bit riot". 2009.
Judge Deborah Knott's hopes for relaxation at a seaside judicial conference are dashed when she stumbles upon the murdered body…
of a colleague. And when more judges turn up dead, Deborah fears she could be next. Sequel to "Death's half acre", followed by "Christmas mourning". 2009.
With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether…
Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever. Sequel to "Abner and me", folloed by "Jim and me". Grades 4-7. 2010.
Sandhill County is the fictional Texas setting for these nine short stories that shine penetrating light on small lives. "The…
Baptism" features a solitary hardware store owner in the dust bowl of Agatite, Texas, who learns there are only two things certain in his world: death and Wal-Mart. In "Bush League," a jilted single mother meets an ex-boyfriend, now a sports agent; she wants revenge for their dirty, tacky little affair, and he wants to sign her baseball-prodigy son. 2008.
Assuming the role of deputy sheriff in a small town near the city, world-weary ex-Memphis cop John Turner investigates sordid…
cases in a community that time is slowly forgetting. Here his past catches up to him when his son rolls down Main Street riding in what appears to be a stolen car. Sequel to "Cripple Creek". 2008.