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When techno genius Nola Billingsley finds her former employee, an amoral creep who stole secrets, murdered, she doesn’t exactly shed tears. Instead, she begins a flirtation with the inspector assigned to the case. With her shorthaired pointer Skootch watching her back, Nola and her group of techno pals try to help solve the murder, bringing into play Nola’s feisty feminism and idealism, and putting both her life and her love affair at risk.

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and...

Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England’s queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry’s second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne, was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do we know of the achievements and the legacy of her short reign? In The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy, Eric Ives provides the most detailed and convincing portrait we have of the queen.

The Skye Ball, an annual event steeped in tradition where the next generation of the great and the good meet to celebrate their coming of age and present themselves to one another, has always been something of a spectacle for the islanders. This year, a dozen teenagers go into the water...only one fails to resurface.

Brady Coyne never meant to become the private lawyer to New England's upper crust, but after more than a decade working for Florence Gresham and her friends, he has developed a reputation for discretion that the rich cannot resist. He is fond of Mrs. Gresham - unflappable, uncouth, and never tardy with a check - and he has seen her through her husband's suicide and her first son's death in Vietnam. But he has never seen her crack until the day her second son, George, leaps into the sea at jagged Charity's Point.

This is a vastly expanded and revised edition of the 2007 classic, Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite, now updated after a decade, containing many gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in one the most famous national parks.

This is a vastly expanded and revised edition of the 2001 classic, Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon, now updated after a decade, containing many gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders.

Muffins, morning fog, and a body staged to look like an accident. Blakely Monroe arrives at Beacon Point Lighthouse before sunrise with her grandmother’s muffins, craving a quiet start to a packed weekend at the Oceanspray Bed & Breakfast. Instead, her dog Scout drags her down the cliff path to a corpse arranged a little too perfectly. The victim wasn’t loved. Grayson Pike extorted vendors and threatened to control Beacon Point, leaving plenty of locals with reason to celebrate his fall. As gossip churns and suspicion spreads, Blakely teams up with farmer Bobby Zion, whose steady ...

A Book for Grieving Christians on Death and the Hope of Heaven Perfect for gifting to a grieving friend, church member, or family member walking through loss. If you are grieving the loss of a Christian loved one, facing death, or seeking biblical comfort and hope in heaven, this book is for you. O Death, Where Is Your Sting? is a carefully selected collection of six powerful sermons by Charles H. Spurgeon, the beloved Prince of Preachers, offering timeless comfort to grieving believers through the promises of Scripture and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Death brings sorrow, pain, and ...

Thayne Wolfe and Jarrett Evans have been working together for nearly a year. Now, living together as well, their relationship has taken on a whole new meaning for both men. It seems that danger has always been a part of their lives in the ATF, but when SAC Stanger sends them to a relatively routine crime scene, things quickly get complicated. Someone has been arming Los Angeles street gangs with automatic weapons missing their serial numbers.

Welcome to Anderson Springs, Where Hijinks and Homicide go Hand in Hand Lyndy Walsh, newly divorced and ready for a fresh start, relocates to the charming small town of Anderson Springs to open her dream craft shop, Stitch N’ Stuff. Her excitement is tempered by the discovery of a mysterious handkerchief and a whirlwind of small-town secrets. As Lyndy settles in, she quickly befriends her quirky neighbor Matilda and crosses paths with the handsome and enigmatic Sheriff Cody Remington. When a series of suspicious events, including a vandalized shop and the death of a local man named Stan, ...

Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view. On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, more than...

The first book that explains how to open to the immensity of living with death—and how participating fully in life is the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. In Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, the Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama of death. A meaningful insight how to participate fully in life as the perfect preparation for whatever may come next, be it sorrow or joy, loss or gain, death or a new wonderment at life.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FOR FANS OF A DOG'S PURPOSE. This tenderly told story reveals a comforting narrative ... told from the point of view of a loving angel dog, who wants you to know, “I’m still here ... But I’m also there where all the animals run free, with no pain, waiting for you...

EDITORIAL REVIEW: BLEEDING POINT doesn’t tease the horror—it drops you into it, where panic becomes contagious and the body turns against itself with no warning and no mercy. Presented like a documented account pulled from missing reports, it escalates with brutal clarity, forcing every choice to cost someone else. This is relentless wilderness terror—fast, cruel, and unforgettable—built to leave readers shaken long after the final page. BLEEDING POINT The Khamar-Daban Incident — A Documented Account of Unexplained Death by Ted Lazaris They were experienced. They were prepared. ...

A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it. In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls “prophetic about 21st-century...

Revised and updated, this classic audiobook is one of the first recommended to newly bereaved parents to offer guidance in decision-making after their baby’s death and to assist caregivers as they support families. Empty Arms encourages families to meet their babies and say hello before rushing to say goodbye.

What if the real entrepreneurial journey isn’t about the companies you build — but the person you become? After guiding ventures worldwide and living through his own rise, fall, and reinvention, Ashwin Gulati offers a rare kind of book — one that blends strategy with soul and reveals the deeper forces that shape every founder’s path. In Soul Venture, he pulls back the curtain on the myths we inherit, the stories we chase, and the wounds and ambitions that silently drive us.

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) From the “author to watch” (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes an “equal parts sarcastic and profound” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving. Henry...

A body on the beach. A lighthouse full of secrets. A keeper who won’t stop until the truth shines through. And a May/December pairing that will keep you riveted! When Eliza Scott inherits her late aunt’s lighthouse on the rocky coast of Maine, she expects solitude, not scandal. But when a man’s body washes ashore beneath the cliffs, Eliza is pulled into a mystery her aunt tried—and failed—to keep buried. Coded journals, missing files, and whispers of corruption trace back to Harbor Haven’s most powerful residents. With the help of Henry Cole, a widowed former Coast Guard captain...