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He is the most feared man in Dublin, and his reputation is hard-earned. As the second born to the Quinn family, while my older brother, Tag, navigates the politics of running of our territory, I run our army. The Dublin Devils is the Quinn motorcycle club, and we are a powerful force. Roaring through the Dublin streets, I command both fear and respect from everyone north of the River Liffey—and from much of the McGuire territory to the south of the river as well. Not that Quinns go south of the river.

Kai Drevon spent his whole life trying to blend into the background, doing whatever it takes to stay out of trouble. But on his eighteenth birthday—Christmas Day—everything falls apart. Fresh out of jail and heading to a strict halfway house, Kai hopes for a clean slate… except the universe has other ideas. When a run-in with an old enemy sparks a power inside him, he never knew he had, Kai’s world flips upside down. Magic is real—but it’s a far cry from a fairy tale. His abilities are raw, dangerous, and make him a prime target in a world where power means everything and ...

I hate Brendan Quinn. He’s half of the Dublin Brute/Dublin Beast enforcer twins and is suspected in all manner of violent crimes—that’s not my issue with him. Because of my father’s position in Europol, optics are everything. He background checks my friends, he forbids me to do almost anything, and he moves me all around the EU without giving my life a second thought. In the mind of Jordan Kelly, me toeing the line is a small price to pay for the important work he does weeding out organized crime to end the rule of mafia organizations.

My name is Madelaine Moneta and I am a survivor. I fought my way up from the streets of Chicago to claim a spot at one of the top-tier criminal defense practices in the city, but when the looming shadow of the local mob threatens to engulf the firm, I make a life-altering decision. Carrying my mother’s ashes, I escape to Ireland, intent on starting anew in my mother’s homeland.

Sunni Sanders grew up believing a woman should sacrifice everything for the sake of her family. She saw her mother do it, now persuaded to follow in her footsteps. Sunni repeats a cycle passed down by the cream of the crop. A generational curse from women who believed they had no choice but to be barefoot and pregnant. A time when women bickered against each other just for the sake of the man picking/choosing them. After a problematic marriage of her own, Sunni considers she wasn’t given a good example to live by when it comes to marriage. She finds herself going against the grain, the ...

At the age of seventeen, Jack joins a company and finds his true calling in sales. After meeting and falling in love with the boss' daughter they begin theirs happily ever after including the birth of their daughter, Katherine. Mindful of the business world Jack and his wife Sarah purchase the company from her father. They struggle for many years and it pays off in a successful enterprise. Life can be harsh and after a short 24 years of marriage, Sarah dies from cancer. After giving up control of the company to be with his wife during her battle, Jack is aimless and depressed. Over the next...

Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times—is a powerful figment of our collective imagination. An urgently needed emergent voice in big history, she offers a bold new account of Western history, real and imagined, through the lives of fourteen remarkable individuals.

THE FIRST THREE BOOKS IN THE CAM DERRINGER SERIES + a bonus Prequel Enjoy solving crime in the streets of Key West with Cam Derringer. If you love mystery novels with suspense, action, humor, a touch of romance and characters you’ll want to cheer for, then the Cam Derringer series is for you. Fast action, butt-kickin', crime thriller from Key West

When you think about the police, who do you think of: Do you think of one officer, or the police as an institution? From movies and TV to the real world, a police presence looms over most conflict. But if there was a defining feature of the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd, it was the collective confusion about how America got to this point. Despite fragmented media coverage about police unions, militarization, and systemic racism, the average citizen’s knowledge remained hazy on what exactly police officers had been doing all along. It’s probably different than you would expect.

Auri Fareview, practical and realistic, does what she can to serve her impoverished family. When she finds a golden key that could be the answer she needs to save her sisters from the unjust Marriage Laws of her land, she discovers the treasure might be more than she bargained for. Enchanted, the key is home to an imprisoned god, who wreaks havoc on her body, her heart, and her soul. And those aren’t practical matters. He has the power to break her. Nixus Uraiahs has lost track of how long he’s been imprisoned by the spell on the key.

The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media—where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before.

Funny Business is based around the theme of - what else? - humor, and if you’re familiar with Jon and the Guys Read Library, you already know what you’re in store for: 10 hilarious stories from some of the funniest writers around. Before you’re through, you’ll meet a teenage mummy; a kid desperate to take a dip in the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk; a homicidal turkey; parents who hand over their son’s room to a biker; and more.

What if the “aliens” are not from other planets?

Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!

On their own, pranksters Miles and Niles were pretty devious. Now that they've formed a pranking duo, they're terrible! But their powers will be tested when their favorite nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern and cunning father, former Principal Barkin. Now Miles and Niles will do just about anything to get their old antagonist back - including pranking alongside him.

Miles and Niles find themselves marooned for the summer at Camp Good Times, which is all about peace and good vibes. (Can you say boring?) With no clear prank-ortunities, the Terrible Two fail to see what about all of this is so good. But when kids from the nearby Yawnee Valley Yelling and Push-Ups Camp raid Good Times' super-secret candy stash, the campers look to Miles and Niles for help.

Tarley Fareview, idealistic and stubborn, does what she can to support herself in spite of an unjust Kaloma law that says she's beholden to a man's keeping. When she defends herself after being harassed by a man, she is forced to flee into the woods disguised as a boy. She happens upon a dying man and must decide if she will risk her life to save him. Unable to walk away, Tarley chooses to intervene and saves the stranger, only little does she know that by doing so, she’s risking the heart she promised herself she’d never give to anyone.

After saving the United States of America from a global Cabal, where was private investigator, Blake Moran, to go after that? How about international? Just think of it; “Blake Moran, International man of mystery”! It just works! Blake’s favorite billionaire, Mr. Triplehorn, got a call from INTERPOL asking if Blake could come to help them, and Blake was off to Europe to save the day! Instead of murder, this time he is confronting high-end art theft in Spain, Italy, France, and even the United Kingdom!

MURDER BY THE BOOK When Cam Derringer’s old friend, bestselling author Cody Paxton, comes to town for a writer’s convention, MURDER FEST KEY WEST, he unwittingly brings with him a script of murders and someone is following it to a Tee. Each book in his bestselling series plots a brutal, heinous attack in the prologue. Time isn’t on his side as Cam has only five days to prevent eleven murders. It seems he is always one step behind the diabolical butcher. With the whole town filled with thriller writers, it appears impossible to flush out the one responsible and it looks as if the law ...

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