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10 year old Benedict has been moved from one foster home to another, and he's hated every one. When he arrives at Sunshine Ranch, he doesn't bother unpacking. What's the point? But his new foster parents and siblings are very different from what he's become used to. David and Martha Credence strive to instill love and Christian values in their family and it inspires hope in each child. Benedict is not into "religion," but Sunshine Ranch is the home he's secretly been yearning for. Still, he fears it's all just a little too good to be true, and his sentiments are validated when he learns ...

The Pan of Hamgee doesn't believe in miracles but if he’s going to save K'Barth it looks as if he might need one. He's not quite as alone as he thought. The punters from The Parrot and Screwdriver are right behind him and he has rescued three of his friends from the Grongolian Security Forces, who are now of course, three of the nation's most wanted, which doesn't make life easy. He even has something of a plan for once. It involves making peace with the Resistance, trying to resurrect the Underground movement, and toppling Lord Vernon.

This captivating Junior Library Guild Selection is a rhyming dramatization based on 19th-century accounts of a mysterious sea creature swimming the coastal waters of Massachusetts. As startling news sweeps the summer streets, a curious lad races toward the harbor in disbelief. And yet it’s true! There, frolicking in the water is an enormous sea serpent. The wide-eyed boy can plainly see it. And so can the crowd gathering on Cape Ann’s sandy shores.

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Nessa McRae’s life is all she could ask for; a well-earned reputation as a kick-ass tattoo artist with a list of clients out the door. All she ever wanted was to be able to pay her rent and eat in the same month, and she’s finally found that stability. Little does she know, she has an admirer...an inhuman monster hell-bent on devastating her.

Anaya, a disillusioned 35-year-old doctor, has been looking after Gregory, a retired watchmaker and resident of an aged-care facility. On her last visit, he gifts her his final creation, an exquisitely crafted watch, knowing she will die tragically that very day. What he doesn't reveal is that it will turn back time, with one condition: she must choose the time and place to reset the clock and redo just one thing in her life.

An unforgivable crime. A murderous act of revenge. A killer with justice on their side. Once, the infamous Dahlia Rapist terrorised young women – and their parents alike – with his brutal acts of violence and sinister calling card. Today, Raymond Knox has shunned his former alias and is...

The first victim lived just long enough to describe his attack. First came a deep growling, then a sudden thrust for his throat. He died... convinced he'd been attacked by a werewolf. The grisly murders of Rochester's huge film manufacturing complex puzzled Chief of Detectives Tom McCabe. A werewolf prowling the corridors of the huge facility... attacking middle-management-level employees? Preposterous. But just to be on the safe side, he'd called in Ryerson H. Biergarten, the well-known parapsychologist.

Paula e Maurício são de Angra dos Reis e estudaram juntos dos 7 aos 17 anos, cultivando uma amizade invejável. Para seguir o sonho de ser médico, Maurício se muda para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro e Paula permanece em Angra, frustrada por não poder realizar o sonho de estudar moda. Apesar de todo o amor e carinho, o pior acontece: com o passar do tempo, eles perdem o contato. Agora, dez anos depois, Maurício é um médico em ascensão e Paula, empresária de uma loja de roupas.

In the wake of tragedy a new identity emerges in Winnifred Winters' life: Clarinda, the mother she always needed. One part of her believes she’s on the run with a serial killer, another feels she’s being held captive, a third is going to ‘take care’ of him. Uncertain how to navigate her new reality, she fears she may never be able to fully process her traumatic history without her doctor.

With fortunes at risk and old love broken, new passions flare. Graves are unearthed and three readied. Dreams set afire. Is the flute cursed, or are the townspeople hopelessly broken? Will madness of spirit prevail? Rowe craves answers to end the endless dash toward self-destruction and fear...and runs headlong into mysteries he could not have known existed within the murk of shame and substance of more than one bone flute.

When health care workers call a Code White, it’s an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help. But it’s one that goes unanswered in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care homes across the country. Code White exposes a shocking epidemic of violence that’s hidden in plain sight, one in which workers are battered, assaulted, and demeaned, but carry on in silence, with little recourse. Researchers Margaret M. Keith and James T. Brophy lay bare the stories of over one hundred nurses and personal support workers, aides and porters, clerical workers and cleaners.

SEPT JOURS. TROIS COUPLES. UN MEURTRE. Le Sud de la France, un temps de rêve, une villa somptueuse avec vue imprenable sur les vignes : tout est réuni pour que Kate, ses meilleures amies et leurs familles passent des vacances parfaites. Mais Kate bascule du paradis à l'enfer lorsqu'elle découvre à son arrivée un message qui ne lui laisse aucun doute : son mari la trompe. Et sa maîtresse est là, dans la villa, avec eux. C'est l'une de ses trois meilleures amies. Mais laquelle ? Laquelle est prête à piétiner vingt ans d'amitié et à détruire sa famille ?

In 2019, three years after recovery of a powerful Hopi artifact from a mystery cave in Arizona, Una Waters finds herself on special assignment from D.C. to Chinatown in New York City. Unexplained acts of violence, including a cyber breach at the NYPD threaten to disrupt the lives of immigrants, forcing military intervention from General Ashcroft, now with U.S. Cyber Security. When newshound and compadre Jack Howser arrives to investigate a reported UFO sighting, Una begins to realize an episode of "missing time" at the Chinese New Year's parade may hold the answers.

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Horribles asesinatos han tenido lugar en Bohemia Village, una zona peligrosa de la ciudad. Todos eran hombres y todos fueron vistos por última vez bailando en varios clubes nocturnos del Village. Los detectives John Yates y James William "Bill Jim" Coleman son asignados a la vigilancia de estos clubes en busca de "El Bailarín Asesino". Pero, la situación se complica cuando el detective Yates se obsesiona con una hermosa chica que ve en el club. Nadie sabe quién es. Nadie sabe de dónde ha salido. Todos los hombres se la quedan mirando y todos desean irse a casa con ella.

The Pan of Hamgee needs answers, although he’s not even sure he knows the questions. He has a chance to go straight but it’s been so long that he’s almost forgotten how. Despite a death warrant over his head he is released, given a state-sponsored business, and a year’s amnesty for all misdemeanors while he adjusts. On the down side, Ruth has left him for his nemesis, Lord Vernon. The Pan doesn’t have a year, either. In only five days Lord Vernon will gain total power and destroy K'Barth. Unless The Pan can stop him.

Griffith Crowe, the "fixer" for a Chicago law firm, falls for his current assignment, Helena Nicholson, the beautiful heir of a tech sector venture capitalist who perished in a helicopter crash leaving her half a billion dollars, a Learjet 31, and unsavory suspicions about her father's death. As he investigates, the ex-Navy SEAL crosses swords with Helena’s step-brother, the Pentagon’s Highlands Forum, and an all-star bad guy somebody has hired to stop him. When Griff finds himself on the wrong side of an arrest warrant, he wonders: Is he a player or being played?

When a stranger arrives in Charity Falls, Utah, he has one intent: get a drink and some rest before hitting the road again. An altercation with a lush brings back dark memories, and the woman's final taunt tips him over the edge. He abducts and drags her off to an abandoned farm...However, the farm isn't as secluded as he had hoped, and he is forced to deal with several others who have wandered too close to his lair. When just two innocents remain, only a battle of survival will decide who will walk away.

"The Millennium Man" was a short story that I wrote in late 1999. At the time, I lived in Washington, D.C., and there was much societal anxiety concerning the coming of the millennium. One night, I had a shocking dream. I remembered it so vividly - it started with a large number appearing like a digital stopwatch, images, another large number, and more images scrolling like a movie - I woke up and wrote all down.