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This autobiographical book by the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack recounts her childhood in a home surrounded by music and love: it all started with a beat-up piano that her father found in a junkyard, repaired, and painted green. Growing up in a Blue Ridge mountain town...

Shane Trevisano knows what the town of Steam Valley, California thinks of him, and he's happy being their bogeyman in the woods. After suffering horrific burns that left him disfigured, all the former SEAL wants is to be left alone in his remote cabin with his demons. But the outside world keeps encroaching, and when a woman shows up on his doorstep with two bullet holes, Shane's already tenuous hold on sanity starts to slip.

Dahlin' things can change in the blink of an eye. Even in an idyllic tourist destination like Honey Springs. A string of purse snatching along the boardwalk has left one victim dead. locals, Loretta Bebe and Maxine Bloom, have joined forces to make Sheriff Shepard and the Mayor accountable for the crimes. After all, they too were victims. Dedicated to her community and the safety of her customers, super sleuth Roxy Bloom is determined to track down this ruthless purse snatcher before someone else is bumped off.

Urban Books' popular Around the Way Girls series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets. Growing up poor and biracial, Shannon never quite fit in. Not truly accepted by either side of her family, the confused teenager turns to the one thing that loves her back unconditionally - the streets. With a bottle of liquor at her side and a worthless mentality in tow, Shannon allows the local strip club and the pole to become her new family.

Paranormal cozy mystery with witches and murder When several women are found dead and the only link between them is SKUL special agent Mick Jasper, suspicion falls fast—and hard. Stripped of his badge and placed under investigation, Mick is running out of time to prove his innocence before the case destroys his career. Desperate to uncover the truth, SKUL brings in Maggie Park, a skilled undercover operative known for blending seamlessly into any situation. What the agency doesn’t know is that Maggie has a secret of her own. Maggie is a witch. With an uncanny ability to know things she ...

Yes: a small word, but the key to opening doors both professional and personal. The power of The Yes Factor gets you the job, the promotion, or the second date. But getting a "yes" can be tricky. Tonya Reiman explains how communication works-what the words you speak actually say about you, and how the perfect pitch can help you achieve your goals, convince your boss or client you should get the account, give a killer presentation, or win control of the remote (without ticking off your spouse!).

Fans of Tonya Sharp Hyche will devour In Plain Sight, her newest novel, another fast paced, unpredictable thriller that her readers have come to love and expect. When Addison Shaw learns that her only sister, Cassandra Rose, has died in a tragic boating accident along with her husband, Keith, of a few years, she returns to Tampa, Florida, to put her affairs in order. Once arriving, Addison finds the house all packed up in boxes under the lawyer’s direction. Then on the first night, the house alarm goes off in the middle of the night, and the FBI arrive- but why? When FBI Agent Aiden ...

Have you ever felt that no matter what you do or how hard you try, you'll never be enough? This book will show you that you are enough and always have been. Do you work hard to live up to everyone's expectations but keep coming up short? Do you feel like you've become the person everyone expects you to be, and you're miserable? Author and confidence coach, Tonya Murray, spent over a decade learning how to overcome the belief that she wasn't good enough. Let her story show you how to calm your inner chaos and live your best life. This book will help you improve your relationships with your ...

It’s spooky season in Holiday Junction and Halloweenie Festival is a hauntingly great time. Holiday Junction really knows how to throw holiday festivals, and it goes all out for Halloween. The weeklong celebration includes a ghost walk of haunting tales, a hay ride, carnival games, pumpkin carvings and costume party.

June discovers she was born into a family of psychics and her homeopathic cures truly are magical. Unfortunately, they are not magical enough to save her from being the number-one murder suspect when a member of the community that she had just had a disagreement with shows up facedown in the lake with June’s lucky charm in the victim’s grasp. Add to that an attraction to her high school best friend, Sheriff Oscar Park and that Mr. Prince Charming, her cat, is stealing charms from Belle’s Baubles, and June is forced to clear her name in more ways than murder.

Splitsville.com is more than Olivia Davis ever dreamed of when she launched the online break up service where she does the dirty work under the alias of Jenn. No one can find out she's the mastermind of her internet sensation, especially when they threaten her for breaking their hearts. More importantly, Olivia can't keep a job. The problem is, she has a 'gift'. Or what she considers, a curse - reading auras. When a bunch of auras collide, Olivia isn't able to function. So having an online business works out great.

A beloved resident of Normal, Kentucky is found dead on the floor of the Normal Diner, leaving the entire town on high alert. Faster than the short order cook can say order up...the laundry ladies are in the scene. News spreads fast about the murder and Detective Hank Sharp is hungry for answers. Mae West along with the Laundry Club ladies come up with a list of suspects and the evidence is piling up faster than a juicy double cheeseburger. Who murdered the beloved citizen? Was it a hit to score some extra lunch money?

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass' story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated and, at times, perplexing person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.

Small-town cozy mystery with divorced sleuths Holly Harper’s life is finally back on track after her divorce from “what’s-his-name.” Along with a group of women who’ve sworn off bad marriages and worse men, she’s formed a self-help group known as the Divorced Divas—meeting regularly inside her bead shop, The Beaded Dragonfly, in the heart of Swanee, Kentucky. The Divas may joke about revenge, but things turn deadly when the town’s wealthiest bachelor, Doug Sloan, is found murdered on the floor of Holly’s shop—with a string of cat-eye beads wrapped around his neck. With ...

Featuring a captivating blend of small-town charm, holiday hijinks, and a puzzling mystery, Fourth of July Forgery is a firecracker of a summer listen, sure to delight cozy mystery fans and holiday enthusiasts alike. This book is more entertaining than a grand finale of fireworks, proving once again that when it comes to holiday mysteries, Violet Rhinehammer is the bomb!

In this historical gothic, a young medical artist must face her grief-stricken past. The man she’s been hiding from has found her, and he wants revenge.

A past shrouded in secrets. Memories tainted by lies. One look and Ford Hammersmith was mesmerized, haunted by amethyst eyes. Obsessed with a woman he doesn't remember...yet can't forget. The mysterious Callie Rose holds the secrets to his past, the key to his future happiness. His soul ravaged by the echo of love lost, the heartless bastard will stop at nothing to reclaim her heart. A cruel twist of fate brought them back together. Will a decade of pain and betrayal keep them apart?

Mae West knows tourism and nothing stops tourists like a dead body found in the Daniel Boone National Park. Unfortunately, Yaley Woodard, a local tour guide, is found dead at Happy Trails Campground. Mae is determined to put her amateur sleuth skills to investigate along with the help of the Laundry Club gals. But when Yaley's past ends up being tied to forest trails and local Joel Grassel, Mae realizes Yaley's death has caused much more turmoil than she'd originally thought - and the killer might want to close the tourism in the Daniel Boone National Park for good.

In Ghostgirl: Homecoming, Hurley continues the story of Charlotte Usher, who finds herself dead but unable to rest in peace…yet. Before she can cross over, Charlotte must help other teens through problems of their own. When Petula, a popular cheerleader, and her sister, Scarlet, end up in comas, Charlotte aims to save them—but her helping hand may do more harm than good.

While Maggie waits for her Witchy Hour, she works at the family diner with her mom, aunt Meme and Lilith, her sister - all witches. Soon Maggie gets entangled with a mysterious handsome stranger, Mick Jasper, and his secret U.S. organization, SKUL. Has she found her calling?