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In Storm Front, readers will be immediately drawn into the life of recently widowed Joanna Bright. When she impulsively answers an intriguing ad seeking a caretaker for a small, century-old Chinese apothecary museum, Joanna has no idea what she’s in for. But as she begins her new life in the tiny coastal town of Dungeness Bay, Joanna quickly realizes that danger and excitement are lurking around every corner. From her mysterious taxi driver to an unexpected service dog and a dead body, Joanna’s life is turned upside down in just one day. As the accusations against her start to pile up, ...

One reporter's investigation into the strange and the unexplained.

Learn best practices on a motorcycle for maneuvering S curves to hairpins, rain, hail, and lightening. What to do when encountering animals ranging from skunks to cows. How to survive crazy drivers on cell phones. The author takes you around 92 curves typical of what can be found anywhere in the country and addresses dozens of threats to the motorcycle rider. Included are motorcycle myths.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post “A definitive and ideal biography—pound for pound, one of the sleekest and most judicious I’ve ever read.” —The New York Times A critical darling, Crumb is the first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and...

Stevie Cutter's father vanished on a flight over the South Pacific when she was 13. Now, 30 years later, when she visits her dying mother in San Francisco, she is given her father's diary and plunged into a dangerous chain of events that will change her life forever. In the back of the diary is a hidden message with a clue to her father's fate and a treasure map. But someone else is hunting for the treasure, too, and, in their pursuit, threatens to destroy all that she loves.

A secretive group of scientists and investors control a revolutionary machine that will change the course of medicine - and fortunes of those who must destroy it.

What should have been just another call takes ambulance owners Rye and Claire Anderson to the site of an overturned van where a dozen teenage girls are scattered across the interstate. In an effort to understand the chaos, they describe the incident to a detective friend who is just as baffled. But when his young daughter, Amy, disappears, the three follow a trail that leads to a camp deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.

When successful Psychotherapist, Theodore Bond, discovers that two of his patients are appearing in each other's night terrors, yet they've never met he decided to use Past Life Regression, and the detail of their nightmares is shocking.

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.

"M" takes on the case of one of her karate students when the girl's grandfather vanishes. M travels to San Francisco to unravel the case and discovers thousands of barrels of radioactive waste less than 30 miles from the Golden Gate. But now she knows too much and the government wants to silence her at any cost.

Deep in the Oregon woods, a young girl's life hangs in the balance in a battle between a corrupt sheriff and a ruthless drug cartel.

In 1927, a small Oregon town pays 10,000 dollars for 24 woman - then change their mind. Now 70 years later, two of the women have survived, but only one knows what happened to the money. But she has been arrested for a double homicide. It's now up to M to prove her innocence and find the money.

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.

Private investigator M's quiet, seaside home in Dungeness Bay, Oregon, is rocked by a series of murders. The only clue is written on a wall in Japanese, traced in blood - M's blood. She doesn't have to go far to find the killer...because he is coming after her.

When Billy Sloan, reporter for the tabloid Urban Legend, travels to Pirate island off the, Oregon coastal town of Dungeness bay to write a story about the haunting of Langdon Hall, she discovers a malevolent spirit that she must confront.

Life is never dull for professional photographer and Tai Chi teacher Joanna Bright. In the same week that she’s commissioned to shoot a series of beach scapes for an anonymous collector, Bud, the troubled young man she’s taken under her wing is accused of murdering his friend and employer, the owner of Dungeness Bay’s only gas station. As she develops the time-lapse photos, to her shock, one of them clearly shows the accidental image of a wetsuited person pulling a body into the surf. The chief of police doesn’t cope well when dead bodies keep turning up, and town politics of greed ...

George and Marion are veteran detectives, partners for ten years. But when a bust goes bad they’re killed. George from a shotgun blast, Marion a knife to the back. Filled with shock they watch as their bodies are bagged and taken away. Seemingly alone and with a thousand questions they venture to a hill top to look down on their funeral exchanging impressions as they watch. But their conversation is overhead by a homeless man. How can that be? They soon learn from a fortune teller, that they’ve left this mortal coil but not the world they lived in. They’re Ghosts. When they visit the ...

George and Marion are veteran detectives, partners for 10 years. But when a bust goes bad, they're killed. George from a shotgun blast, Marion a knife to the back. Filled with shock, they watch as their bodies are bagged and taken away. Seemingly alone and with a thousand questions, they venture to a hilltop to look down on their funeral, exchanging impressions as they watch. But their conversation is overhead by a homeless man. How can that be? They soon learn from a fortune teller that they've left this mortal coil, but not the world they lived in. They're ghosts.

Robert Crumb’s genius, according to author David Stephen Calonne, lies in his ability to absorb a variety of literary, artistic, and spiritual traditions and incorporate them within an original, American mode of discourse. R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self charts Crumb’s intellectual trajectory and explores the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works.

Veteran police officers Sally Edwards and her partner Layton Roland were crossing town at high speed responding to a report of a shooting when their cruiser was rammed from the side by an armed robber fleeing the scene of a crime. Roland was concussed but Edwards suffered a partially severed spinal cord in her neck.