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Filled with expert tips and hundreds of beautiful photographs, celebrated dahlia educator Kristine Albrecht shares her dahlia growing secrets. Drawing on 18 years of growing experience, she has written the most detailed and comprehensive book on dahlia care.

Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history—which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious...

For 56 years, the Black Dahlia murder case remained one of the most notorious and high-profile unsolved crimes of the 20th century. Now, Steve Hodel, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, believes he has finally solved the case. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short - "The Black Dahlia" - was found dead in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, her body horribly mutilated, bisected at the waist, and posed in a bizarre manner.

My yearly gift-wrapping fundraiser gets a lot of volunteers. But I’ve never had helpers like these three guys. Riley, Harper, and Logan are rangers for the National Parks Service. They’re as charismatic as they are handsome. And they’ve got their eyes on me. We’re getting hot and heavy during the holidays. Wrapping gifts and unwrapping each other. And when Harper uncovers a major problem with my charity’s finances? I’m going to need all the help I can get.

A New Year’s toast to healing, love, and milk-filled desires… Kira thought her life would never feel whole again after losing Ryan, her devoted nurturer and soulmate, in a tragic accident. Struggling to manage her hucow needs alone, she’s resigned herself to a quiet, lonely existence—until a glamorous New Year’s Eve party changes everything. Vincent is a nurturing and magnetic man who seems to understand Kira’s needs better than she expects. From the moment he meets Kira, Vincent senses her pain and vows to help her heal. What begins as a tender act of kindness quickly blossoms ...

I’ve never gotten a B in my life, so when Professor Miller gives me a B on a paper I know good and well is A+ work, I’m infuriated. A B is unacceptable. I’m going to talk to Professor Miller and convince him that I deserve better. That I’ll do anything to get an A. If you love quick and dirty stories about forbidden student professor romance, then you're going to love Dirty Professors!

Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee - and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn't intimidated by the house - nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper.

I lied to protect her… but now I’d burn the world to keep her. It started as a lie. I found the letter in my cellmate’s trash—his little sister reaching out, just wanting a connection. I missed my own sister, so I wrote back, pretending to be him. Just one letter. One lie. But I couldn’t stop. By the time I got out of prison, I only meant to give her one good memory—proof her "brother" was doing okay. But Sunny wasn’t what I expected. She was sunshine in human form… and the Wolf in me roared that she was mine.

Nominated for both the Agatha and Anthony awards, national best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert introduces a garden club of lady sleuths in Depression-era Alabama. The Darling Dahlias have just inherited a new clubhouse and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber trees. But before long, these genteel ladies must unravel the mystery about what’s buried beneath one of these trees and the enigma of the dead body that soon turns up.

Sometimes the most powerful secrets are the ones we hide within ourselves... I’ve always been confident in my career, thriving as a nutritionist specializing in dairy alternatives, but there’s one part of my life I’ve kept hidden from everyone but my best friend. I’m a hucow—a woman with a unique ability that sets me apart from everyone else. My body craves something that most people would never understand. And that’s why I’ve kept this secret locked away, living a normal life by day and managing my hidden truth in private. But then Damien Blackwood walked into my world. ...

Did we need to hold a Halloween party? No, of course not. Was I going to anyway? You better freakin' believe it. I didn't even feel bad! We needed a break! Even if it was for a day, a healthy work-life balance was essential…even if it was holding a bloody Halloween party and the work was determining who was sucking the magic out of people like goddamn juice boxes.

Charlotte is not very excited about the doll her aunt Edme sends her. It has a prim painted mouth and is dressed in lace and silk. Besides, Charlotte has never really wanted a doll. “We like climbing trees,” Charlotte tells the doll. Much to Charlotte’s surprise, the new doll doesn’t seem to mind her rough way of playing. By the time they are finished, Charlotte’s new doll is muddy and torn, but her prim mouth has softened into a warm smile. But what will Aunt Edme think when she comes to visit?

Cricket Wakefield had a bright future. A life filled with love and dreams of dance. A future that was shattered the night she was brutally murdered. But the dead don’t always stay dead. And the living moves on without them. A year later, Cricket is awoken by a necromancer’s magic with no choice but to join the woman’s carnival, to hone her newfound skills amongst others like herself. When the Carnival arrives at her old town, Cricket learns that more victims have been discovered. Victims decorated with black dahlias just as she had been.

Medea me cantó un corrido se conforma de seis relatos breves que Medea, la protagonista, conecta a través de su paso por la vida de diversas mujeres que enfrentan una vida compleja, violenta y ajena a sus propias decisiones y deseos en muchos casos. Medea se conecta con estas mujeres, se refleja en ellas y extiende su mano para ayudarlas, acompañarlas y mostrarle a sus lectoras y lectores que la suerte y el destino muchas veces dependen del entorno, pero que pueden ser ganadas entre nosotras.

In the winter of 1947, Los Angeles awoke to its most haunting mystery— a young woman, found bisected in an empty lot, her beauty as striking in death as it was in life. She was Elizabeth Short, forever immortalized by the press as The Black Dahlia. Her murder became an obsession that defined an era of noir, corruption, and the dark heart beneath the City of Angels’ gleaming surface. Ava Leighton’s The Black Dahlia: City of Shadows is a sweeping narrative of crime, culture, and consequence—part true crime, part cinematic history, and entirely captivating. Through meticulous research ...

He wants milk for the holidays… When overworked Natalie Brooks escapes to her family’s secluded, snow-covered mountain cabin for the holidays, she’s desperate for peace, quiet, and a reprieve from her demanding city life. What she doesn’t expect is Ethan Hart—a ruggedly handsome dairy farmer whose rough hands and smoldering gaze awaken desires she’s long buried. Beneath his nurturing demeanor lies a dangerously sensual man who’s all too willing to show Natalie the pleasure of surrendering control. As a snowstorm traps her at Ethan’s cozy, rustic farm, the close quarters ...

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye. On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in...

Vincent LaRue is all wrong — too polished, too pretty, and too full of secrets. But when his brother turns up dead in a motel room dressed to scandalize, he walks into detective Nash Vega’s office with blood on his hands and a plea for help. Nash should’ve walked away. He’s been burned before. But Vincent’s kiss is as dangerous as the case — and someone out there is filming their victims like it’s high art. Lies. Lust. Murder on reel. Hollywood’s dirty secrets are about to light the screen on fire.

If Arielle Becker has to serve as a bridesmaid one more time, she's going to scream. Between the expense, the collection of dresses she'll never wear again, the shower planning, the Spanx, the bridezillas, the family time, the heels, and a certain judgmental wedding singer she can't stop bumping into, she is exhausted, burned out, and seriously beginning to hate romance and all its celebrations. Besides, it's not like any of these girls are ever gonna turn around and do the same for her; Ari is not the kind of girl a good Jewish boy is looking to marry.

In this twisted world, there are no heroes, only survivors. Graciela Archer is a walking contradiction, a kaleidoscope of beauty and terror. Her angelic appearance belies the darkness that resides within her heart. She is a prisoner in a glittering world of seductive demons with wicked intentions. But then he appears, a rogue amidst the polished demons. He sees her for what she truly is: a weapon waiting to be unleashed. Her name becomes a whispered legend, a warning to all who dare to cross her path.