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Ten years ago, six-year-old Catalina's parents were murdered, and now she's come to Detective Stride for protection from a killer.…
Stride's instinct is to help Cat, whose parents' case still haunts him, but Stride's partner isn't convinced this damaged girl is the one who needs protection. Sequel to "The burying place", followed by "Goodbye to the dead". 2014.
Recent science shows that to achieve durable success, we need to be more than just achievers; we need to be…
compassionate achievers. New research in biology, neuroscience, and economics have found that compassion--recognizing a problem or caring about another's pain and making a commitment to help--not only improves others' lives; it can transform our own. Reveals the profound benefits of practicing compassion including more constructive relationships, improved intelligence, and increased resiliency. To help us achieve these benefits, Kukk, the founding Director of the Center for Compassion, Creativity and Innovation, shares his unique 4-step program for cultivating compassion. Kukk makes clear that practicing compassion isn't about being a martyr or a paragon of virtue; it's about rejecting rage and indifference and choosing instead to be a thoughtful, caring problem-solver. He identifies the skills every compassionate achiever should master--listening, understanding, connecting, and acting--and outlines how to develop each. 2017.
This book collects three stories from Brand's early work in Western pulps, in which a desperate rancher is falsely accused…
of robbing a bank, the devil's bargain story of Faust is given a Western twist, and a high desert love triangle plays out between a hero, a villain, and the woman they both love. 2018. Uniform title: Short stories.
When a trip of a lifetime to the Continent turns into a nightmare, apprentice cartographer Vaela Sun finds herself face-to-face…
with the reality of a war she's only read about, after an accident leaves her stranded. For senior high readers. 2018.
Senator Vinny Duto, a former CIA director, sends ex-agent John Wells to investigate leads about a station chief’s planned assassination.…
Meanwhile, John’s girlfriend Anne has given John a month to give up either his job or her. 2014.
There are millions of stories in the city--some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk's story is all…
of those things as he draws readers into his life in the city as a young boy, introducing his indomitable grandfather, also a "piano man;" his single mother, a struggling singer; and the heroes, villains, and everyday saints and sinners who make up the fabric of the metropolis in which they live--and who will change the course of Jonah's life forever. 2014.
Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where…
she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing career. 2013.
Upon acquittal, hired killer Ricky Lozada becomes obsessed with the jury forewoman, Dr. Rennie Newton. Meanwhile Fort Worth detective Wick…
Threadgill, on leave from the department, seeks to avenge Lozada’s murder of his brother. The policeman also falls for Rennie. 2002.
Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to…
know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to sort through Pierce's affairs. Pierce, however, did not intend for the job to be an easy one for Oedipa, and soon she becomes ensnared in a surreal, hilarious, and puzzling world-wide conspiracy centred around Pierce's strange business partners and dealings. 2005.
In a bleak Eastern bloc country, someone tries to kill Cardinal Bem. That night, he is kidnapped. He must find…
out the identity of his captors to avert the revolution that will result from his disappearance. 1998.
When former Confederate officer Colonel French returns to his North Carolina hometown after building his fortune in the North, he…
is a new man. He intends to create better economic conditions for those who have only known hardship. But there is a new social order in the South that stands in his way. The very men who used to look upon Colonel French with awe now berate him and his idealism - and they are determined to make him fail. 2005.
London, 1759. After a high-society electric-eel party leads to a duel that ends badly, Lord John Grey feels the need…
to lie low for a while. Conveniently, before starting his new commission in His Majesty's army, Lord John receives an urgent summons. An old friend from the military, Charlie Carruthers, is facing court-martial in Canada, and has called upon Lord John to serve as his character witness. Grey voyages to the New World where he soon finds that he must defend not only his friend's life but his own. Sequel to “Lord John and the haunted soldier”, followed by “The Scottish prisoner”. 2012.
While Frieda Moore hasn't found the Good Word, she has charted a path to really good, upscale life. And she's…
not about to let her surgeon husband and baby son get in the way of her good time. Frieda's more sensible cousin, Hope Taylor, was sure she and her spouse, Cy, were solid-in-the-spirit. But now a long-lost love is requesting an act of Christian charity that could be a second chance at temptation. And when Hope's best friend, Stacy, must decide if a money-making scheme will fix her rocky marriage, the consequences will have the saved and hardly-saved begging for deliverance. 2013.
In the fourth and final novel in the Seven Realms series, Queen Raisa 'ana Marianna and Han Alister join forces…
to right a thousand-year-old wrong. Sequel to "The Gray Wolf Throne”. 2012.
Having been trained in supernatural knowledge, thirteen-year-old Medea finds herself in a unique position to help when the Greek hero…
Jason comes to her father's kingdom in search of the Golden Fleece. Junior and Senior High. 2004.
Ellsberg draws on interviews with successful, wealthy individuals who never attended or finished college, identifying their winning principles to offer…
advice on networking with high-powered mentors and designing a lucrative career path. 2012.
Hoping to save their family and the citizens of Ferryport Landing from the evil plans of Mirror, Sabrina and Daphne…
Grimm seek counsel from the other magic mirrors, who advise them to join forces with the Scarlet Hand. Sequel to “The inside story”. Grades 3-6. 2012.
In Little Rock, Ray’s restless young wife skips out with his car and credit cards to join her odd ex-husband,…
who is charged with writing threatening letters to the president. In a mad pursuit that leads to Mexico and British Honduras, husband Ray meets several flaky characters. 2012.