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Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation-performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's two years of training, taking listeners behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple.

Welcome to the Venue - a place where the super rich can get away from it all...and get away with anything they want. You're invited to Caleb Hunt's wedding! Sure, you haven't spoken since you two had a falling out in high school, but Caleb has gotten over that. He's a forgiving person. It was all a misunderstanding. He credits you with turning him into the man he is today. He wants to repay you and everyone else from his life with an invitation to his destination wedding. An all-expense paid trip to a luxurious resort. High up in the Alps. Secluded and private.

War is brewing between England and France. Impressed into the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Merrick, against all odds, advanced through the ranks to become an officer, but he is not a gentleman. A man with a tainted past from a traitorous family, cast down by King George—a stain no man can remove. Merrick’s thrust into the role of captain, when the HMS Boudica is attacked by pirates off the coast of Nova Scotia. On a captured enemy vessel, he discovers a king’s ransom in treasure and a woman chained in the hold from a passenger ship that mysteriously disappeared at sea.

It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window.

“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story.”—Malachy McCourt Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy...

Our emotions are complex. Some of us seem able to ignore our feelings, while others feel controlled by them. But most of us would admit that we don’t always know what to do with how we feel. The Bible teaches us that our emotions are an indispensable part of what makes us human―and play a crucial role in our relationships with God and others. Exploring how God designed emotions for our good, this book shows us how to properly engage with our emotions.

All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer. Field of Graves reveals the origins of some of J.T. Ellison's most famous creations: the haunted Lieutenant Taylor Jackson; her blunt, exceptional best friend, medical examiner Dr. Samantha Owens; and troubled FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin.

After the events of The Import, Riker finds himself on the wrong side of his former employers, an elite mercenary group called QS-4. To escape with his life, Riker agrees to take on a job even they can’t touch: protecting a wealthy young man with political connections and possible ties to a terrorist organization. Riker quickly finds himself sucked into a world of fast cars, big money, and no consequences. But his client isn’t interested in making his job easy, and a chance encounter with a beautiful heiress makes things even more complicated.

Katie is out for an early-morning jog when she notices a white minivan parked nearby. A baby's cry echoes from inside. Concerned, she stops to investigate. Then—everything goes black. She wakes up in the back of the van. Her wrists are tied with plastic straps, and a baby doll lies discarded near her head. There are two men. One is driving. The other crouches beside her, his face hidden behind a balaclava. She catches a glimpse of his beard-stubbled chin.

Earth’s days are numbered… …the only way to survive is to leave. And for women, this mean joining an agency. Throughout the galaxy, aliens seek brides. On Earth, after the devastation brought by the wars, food and medicine are in scarce supply. There doesn’t seem to be any hope. If Aliyah wants to survive, she’s got one choice…become a Mail Order Bride for Alien suitors. Then it happened. On a planet called Sumirion, a warrior wants to marry Aliyah. She’s not thrilled, and is starting to wonder if it was the right choice, but it’s too late. Vrak is here to deliver Aliyah to ...

Deep Discipleship equips churches to reclaim the responsibility of discipling people at any point on their journey.

Theology can be intimidating. But it doesn’t have to be. Whether conversations about theology have felt out of reach, over your head, or irrelevant, consider this book an invitation to the dialogue. The goal of theology is knowing and loving God well. This is a lifelong endeavor, a never-ending pursuit, not for the sake of knowledge, but for an ever-deepening relationship with God Himself.

The dragon can’t remember destroying my world, but he’s sure I’m his mate? No ‘effin way… Fallon The black dragon hunted me down and took me to his nest where I remain trapped… and confused. This alien invader who destroyed most of my world and helped the Asseptians enslave my people is not what he seems. He shifts to a man, one who claims to know nothing about what he and the other invaders have done. He claims I’m his mate, that my blood cleansed his blood of the drug the Asseptians used to control him. And he’s angry… but not at me. For me, for what he’s been forced ...

Glenn Garcia was as average as they come—forgettable face, no purpose, and a life no one noticed. Then he dies alone, unloved, and insignificant. Struck down in a freak accident and barely mourned, Glenn is swept into the afterlife. When his soul registers as perfectly balanced—neither good nor evil—he becomes a cosmic anomaly. Anubis, a god of death, gives him a choice: fade into oblivion, or take a job as a Reaper.

Eva knows what it’s like to be imprisoned by a man’s twisted obsessions. But after running, hiding, and finding refuge in a rescuer’s arms, she’s suddenly pulled back into the black hole of her past. Kidnapped by her sadistic ex, Dimitri, and with the love of her life left for dead, Eva is facing down the worst of her demons alone. If Dimitri wants to play sick games, Eva’s ready. She already knows how dark they can get. But despite her fears, she hasn’t been abandoned. Naz is in hot pursuit. And the last thing Dimitri expects is for a dead man to come calling.

The Cold War Never Truly Ended. For decades the Arctic was believed to be silent. Frozen. Forgotten. But something beneath the ice has just come alive. When a U.S. reconnaissance satellite detects an impossible heat signature buried miles beneath the polar ice shelf, Pentagon analysts make a chilling discovery. Hidden beneath the permafrost lies a Cold War weapons complex long believed to have been dismantled after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now it is powering up. No one knows who activated it. Not Washington. Not Moscow. Not Beijing. Because the system awakening beneath the Arctic ...

DAY ZERO: ALIEN INVASION Seven Objects. One Planet. Zero Time. At 4:07 A.M., The Sky Changed. No warning. No broadcast. No demands. Seven colossal geometric objects appear in low Earth orbit—silent, unmoving, impossible. Within minutes, NORAD confirms what no nation wants to believe: the objects are not Russian. Not Chinese. Not American. They emit no heat signature. No propulsion trail. No known technology can explain them. And then… they begin to descend. The White House Has Minutes To Decide Humanity’s Fate President James Harwood is rushed into the Situation Room as global radar ...

THE NEXT WORLD WAR WILL NOT BEGIN WITH A DECLARATION It will begin with a miscalculation.In the icy waters of the Baltic Sea, tensions between NATO and Russia have reached a breaking point. Warships shadow one another through storm-filled seas. Fighter jets scream across contested airspace. Intelligence agencies intercept fragments of alarming signals.Then the unthinkable happens.A sudden military incident detonates a chain reaction of retaliation, escalation, and political panic. Within hours, governments across the globe realize the terrifying truth:The world is sliding toward World War ...

Originally published in the "As Fate Would Have It" Anthology, this Greek retelling of Apollo and Hyacinthus explores the delicate balance between love and sacrifice. Apollo, The God of the Sun, had never known love. After living a millennium, he has only known lust. That is, until a dare with his comrade and friend, Zephyrus, leads him to meet the courageous and handsome Prince of Sparta. Hyacinthus is captivated by the immortal's beauty and sincerity, even after he discovers the god's secret.

Sarah never admits that she’s his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a “lot lizard”: a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever.