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The snowbanks in a small Maine town start to melt, and the town's secrets begin to emerge. Bernie O'Dea, the editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, is jazzed to finally have a big story to cover when a body is found in a melting snowbank. But as spring turns into a long, hot, explosive summer in Redimere, Maine, the story gets bigger - maybe too big for Bernie to handle.

Nora Wexler is the FBI's newest agent, and she's about to discover her job is tougher and riskier than she ever imagined. It'll take more than her bag of high tech tricks to solve these cases. Fortunately, she has help from Travis Greer, an attractive Iraq War vet who wouldn't know a tablet from an Etch-a-Sketch.

When newspaper owner and editor Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea’s house burns down on New Year’s Eve with an unidentified body in the charred rubble – who may or may not be her missing tenant – it’s clear the new year won’t be nice and quiet after all. Bernie is already navigating boyfriend and police chief Pete Novotny’s increasingly challenging struggle with PTSD, so when the arson and murder investigation narrows its focus on her, she plunges into work trying to find an oasis of normalcy. Getting to the bottom of the local college’s plans for expansion is just the ticket. Or not.

A grisly discovery in the woods of Redimere, Maine, resurrects Police Chief Pete Novotny's old case of a missing boy - just one of the ghosts that haunts the town in the second of the Bernie O'Dea mystery series.

When Susan Miller’s parents leave to care for ailing relatives, she is to spend the winter with a kindly widow. Neither Susan nor the widow expect the arrival of the widow’s handsome grandson, Ezra, who suddenly turns up for the holidays.

Forced to leave her community with her family, Clara Burkholder is cast into a miserable life of work and drudgery. She misses being Amish and longs to return. When she hears that Jonas, her childhood friend, has returned to the community, Clara becomes even more desperate. She longs to reach out but can’t find a way. Not until tragedy strikes. Jonas Garber is putting his foot down. After growing up in the Amish community and being forced to relocate with his family, he has returned and is determined to remain.

When Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Lydia Manzo becomes lost in the woods of Maine and then found dead, it sets off a chain of events that upsets the fragile peace of Redimere, Maine. While state investigators are sure Lydia killed herself, some in Redimere are sure someone killed her. As newspaper editor Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea tries to sort out the truth, Police Chief Pete Novotny also disappears into the woods.

Sarah Lantz’s fresh start in Rock Point, Ohio, is meant to be a haven from the heartache and betrayal she left behind in Illinois. Seeking refuge with her aenti, Sarah starts working at her aenti’s quaint shop, hoping to rebuild her life and heal her wounds. Her resolve is tested when she meets Ethan Kennel, a kind-hearted Amish man who handles the bookkeeping for her aenti and several other local businesses. Despite a growing attraction to Ethan, Sarah hesitates to open her heart, fearful of repeating past mistakes and enduring more pain.

The High Call of Forgiveness exposes the strategy of the enemy that has caused too many of us to believe it is too difficult to forgive. Undeniably, forgiving someone who has wronged us is difficult, but we can, if Christ lives in us.

Your success each day depends on the condition of your mental, physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual well-being. Therefore, your purpose, peace, and joy are determined by the habits and mindset you adopt when you awake. These power-packed spiritual affirmations are just the thing you need to program yourself for peak performance today. And they are easy to implement too!

Katarina’s world of music, love, and laughter is shattered when the Nazis invade Austria. Because of her Jewish background, she must sever relationships to protect those she loves. Fear and anxiety become her constant companions. Time is running out for her and her family, and they know that at any moment they could be arrested, never to be heard from again. When an opportunity to escape the Nazis presents itself, a daring plan is suggested.

The Proven Secret of an Outstanding LinkedIn Profile shows how to create a LinkedIn profile that will get you noticed no matter what your expertise is. This audiobook, written by Silvia Vianello, well-known LinkedIn influencer, walks you through a step-by-step approach to creating a LinkedIn profile that recruiters and hiring managers will notice. It will change your life for the better. The Proven Secret of an Outstanding LinkedIn Profile is a personal branding road map that will help you generate a consistent flow of quality opportunities.

Melita Otto wants more than anything to get away. She’s not fond of the beau her aunt and uncle are pushing on her, nor is she fond of her routine life. But she has no idea what she’s getting into when she takes the job as housekeeper for three brothers who run an Amish horse farm.

Julia Bontrager’s world collapses when her husband is killed in a freak accident. Suddenly a single mother with three children to raise and a farm to work, she flounders to survive. Her in-laws pressure her to return to Illinois, but Julia won’t give up her late husband’s dream; nor can she imagine living with her difficult and dominating mother-in-law. In desperation, she hires a young Amish man to take over the bulk of the farm work.

Dorothy Hartzler, a restless young Amish woman, dreams of something more than the traditional Amish life. With her mother ill and her fear of being alone increasing, Dorothy is forced to make decisions. When she is thrown into Saul Beachey’s company, she questions her reluctance to open her heart.

When Nora visits old friends at Berkeley, a bitter college memory resurfaces: the unsolved murder of their late friend. No witnesses, no motive, just a faint memory of a handsome young man with whom she left the bar. While Nora decides to try and solve her lost friend's case, free time becomes scarce when Nora's friend's sister Lauren, a freshmen at Berkeley, experiences a terrible tragedy at a fraternity house.

While horseback riding in the English countryside, sisters, Electra and Emily Crippen find themselves trapped in a tear in time. Thrown back to 1357 England and caught by a local noble, they are in a place that is home but as frightening and unfamiliar as an alien world would be. With no idea how the tear in time came about, the one thing they do know is: they must stay together and stay near to where the event took place in hopes of discovering the way back to their modern life.

London attorney Shakira Constantine finally agrees to spend the day with her handsome client Alex Lancaster. While riding in the countryside, the couple finds themselves caught in a time warp and transported back to the 14th century - and an England preparing for war. Everyone believes Alex is the Baron Guy Guisard, a baron who died in the upcoming battle. If they can't find a way to return to the 21st Century, Alex will have to sail with the army to certain death. Shakira will be left alone to survive in the medieval world.

Hidden, abandoned, and betrayed, Klaus is a mysterious boy with an unknown past and uncertain future. Growing up in the post-World War II ruins of Eastern Europe, he struggles to find happiness as he is moved from one orphanage to another. As a lonely orphan, he yearns for love, a home, and a family.

This book is all about that simple (and complex!) issue of how to be happy. It includes neuroscience research about how the brain works, and explores lots of insights, tools, and techniques for how to create positive habits of happiness. Happiness for ourselves, for others and for the world.