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A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For 10 years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for 10 years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken?

The beloved Julie Andrews has captured our hearts on screen for decades, but she has never told the story of her life before fame—until now. In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn...

The Missing JFK Assassination Film is not the typical JFK assassination book. This book does not attempt to answer the question of who killed John F. Kennedy; instead it addresses why we should question the actions of those involved and why the truth was withheld from the people. Though copies of Orville Nix's film exist, the original film is missing. Why? The FBI confiscated Orville's camera for several months, then returned it in pieces. Were these actions sinister, or were they just examples of governmental incompetence?

¿Y si tu casa por fin se sintiera como un lugar donde respirar? Nada de sentirte abrumado en cuanto cruzas la puerta. Nada de vergüenza cuando alguien aparece de visita. Nada de empezar una nueva rutina y abandonarla, solo para volver al mismo desorden de siempre. Solo una tranquilidad y un orgullo silencioso que hace tiempo que no sentías. Si vives con TDAH, ya sabes que las soluciones de organización de siempre no funcionan.

In the early '60s, in a seemingly more "innocent" time, a group of teenagers were lured into a supposedly haunted house. The place on Sycamore Lane has a morbid history, but that's just hearsay and rumor, isn't it?

Oubreak - Week 1: Presidents, prime ministers, entire governments disappeared instantly, like a fragile house of cards in a hurricane. Some hid deep underground or holed up in fortified strongholds, but most were swallowed up by the dead, never to be heard from again. Having lost both parents just weeks apart - one to Omega, the other to a brutal beating inflicted by Chinese PLA soldiers - 12-year-old Raven Grayson finds herself in the nation’s new capital, battling loneliness and depression, all while trying to find her place among her fellow transplanted Eden survivors.

They were my entire world, then everything fell apart. I didn't get to say goodbye, I didn't get to explain to them that my dad had finally gone off the deep end. Of course, they wouldn't have understood anyway—we were only eight and I never told them how bad it had gotten. Maybe if I had I wouldn't be in this fucked up situation.

Winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man "Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity...

La Guía Práctica Montessori es un libro dirigido a padres y madres que quieran integrar la filosofía Montessori en casa con sus hijos. Éxito internacional de ventas, traducida a cuatro idiomas.

In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino culture since the 1960s that has challenged this omission in collective memory. He maps a new awareness of the United States as intrinsically connected to the broader context of the Americas. At once native and new to the American Southwest, Mexican Americans have “come home” in a profound sense: they have reasserted their right to claim that land and U.S. culture as their own.

Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton...

Safety is an illusion. Security is only a fleeting sense. Peace is a myth. Steve and the other survivors in the UK have rebuilt and healed after the brutal end to the reign of Richards. But removing a dictator was only the beginning.... Years after a mistake of compassion and humanity, an enemy...

When their traditional business - selling saris - is increasingly sidelined by the new fashion for jeans and stitched salwar kameez, the Banwari Lal family must adapt. But instead of branching out, the sons remain apprenticed to the struggling shop and the daughters are confined to the family home. As envy and suspicion grip parents and children alike, the need for escape - whether through illicit love or in the making of pickles or the search for education - becomes ever stronger.

It was supposed to be an easy housesitting gig. Kick back in a luxurious Victorian house for a few days. Hand out Halloween candy and score a payday. I wasn't counting on the home invasion. Everything was going to plan until my last group of trick-or-treaters was three tall, stacked men wearing...

An instant New York Times bestseller In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions. Including Felicia’s personal stories and...

In his latest book, Amazon's #1 best-selling author in the field of Senior Travel and Solo Travel, Jerry Minchey, takes readers step-by-step through the process of looking at the pros and cons of living the full-time RVing lifestyle. He says the lifestyle is not for everyone and probably not even the right choice for most people, but it's perfect for the adventuresome few who want to live a stress-free life filled with fun and the freedom to travel. Jerry has lived full-time in his motorhome for three years and he says that he wouldn't want to live any other way. One of the best parts of ...

They had survived the Zombie apocalypse and had escaped to an isolated location in the mountains in Western Pennsylvania. Then they had survived the roaming gangs of the living that appeared when civilization became a broken lawless free for all. Finally they had managed to live through the sub-freezing temperatures of a long Pennsylvania winter. Gary and Alyce hoped the cold winter had cleansed the world of the evils that taken over the world. As the warm sun of spring began to bring hope, Gary and Alyce leave their safe isolated cabin in the mountains in search of the answers to their ...

In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Lauren–designed environments of today, on a house tour like no other: one that delightfully explicates the very idea of “home.”

Will her transition ruin their friendship… or lead to more? Olivia, a beautiful trans woman, begins to fall in love with her older friend James one summer while staying with him over college break. They’ve been friends for years and years, and even after Oliva transitioned, they were still close friends… at first. Gradually, things began to change. Will this new relationship lead to true love or something else? Find out today in the latest from BJ Slippy.