Dark Paradise
Reality television just got deadly.
When a contestant on hit reality show Transformation in Paradise turns up dead, Detectives Cooper and Quinn find themselves out of their comfort zone on a remote holiday island. Amid growing pressure from the mainland to solve the high-profile case, Cooper struggles with the island’s lack of resources and the decision from up high that the show must go on.
With the million dollar winner-takes-all prize still up for grabs, the show’s five remaining contestants all seemingly have something to hide. Did one of them commit murder?
Welcome To Dong Tam (Jayhawk Two One Book 1)
This is the first in a series of true stories about a young helicopter pilot’s tour of duty in Vietnam.
Trout returned from Vietnam in 1969, at the ripe old age of twenty. At the time, public opinion and to some extent his own emotions kept me from talking about my Vietnam experiences, but he made a resolution to someday tell his story. Although many of the events were permanently seared into his memory, Trout wanted to ensure that when the time came to make good on his promise, he could recall the events truthfully and accurately.
Sticks and Stones
For Lou it was always Dylan.
She loved him from the moment they first met across a cadaver in the dissection room at medical school. The most gorgeous man she’d ever laid eyes on, with more Welsh charm than you could shake a stick at; she was a goner.
But Lou, despite her beauty, was just too extrovert to interest Dylan, who was convinced that a quiet, shy girl, like Lou’s best friend Frankie, was much more his style.
The Butterfly Code: GMO Humans (Girl On Fire Book 1)
My name is Aeris Thorne. I am a genetically modified human. And I’m in serious trouble.
Strange how all it takes is a tingling glance across a darkened street to change one’s life . . .
It’s close to midnight when I burst out of the crowded Zenith Club onto an empty sidewalk.
That’s where I come face to face with him. The mysterious Hunter Cayman. Dark-haired, tall, and leaning against this insane sports car, he’s honestly the hottest guy I’ve ever seen. My pulse goes haywire. The young doctor watches me, his muscular arms crossed over his leather jacket clad chest. All his six-foot something would make any girl’s knees turn weak.
The Witches of Dark Root (Daughters of Dark Root Book 1)
“There are some secrets darker than witchcraft.” – Dora Maddock
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest is a small village called Dark Root, a town steeped in magic, mystery, and secrets.
But for Maggie Maddock, Dark Root is also a prison – a place where she is forced to work in her mother’s Magick Shoppe while the rest of the world moves forward without her. When a mysterious stranger offers to take Maggie away from it all, she leaves without looking back.
Seven years later, Maggie is called home by her beloved older sister. There she is confronted with a renewed sibling rivalry, a mother suffering under a mysterious illness, and a town that’s lost it’s literal magic.
Shadow Games (Time Jumper Series Book 1)
Humanity Will Change Forever, Because of One Girl . . .
15-year-old Emily Heart has powerful abilities she can’t control.
But she wasn’t born this way. Someone made her, genetically altering her against her will.
Someone stole her life away and erased everything she knew to be true.
They gave her superpowers she’s just beginning to understand, just beginning to harness.
Now a social outcast and on the run from deadly gangs, relentless cops, and a determined reporter, Emily wants her old life back.
And she wants revenge.
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Sweet Ache: A Driven Novel (The Driven Series)
Hawkin Play, the bad boy rock star with a good guy heart, has lived a lifetime of cleaning up after his twin brother’s mistakes. Hunter’s most recent screwup could land Hawke in jail and risk the band’s future. Hawke agrees to guest lecture at a local college to stay in the judge’s good graces—and a bet with his bandmate to seduce his sexy teaching assistant is icing on the cake.
Quinlan Westin is harder to bed than Hawke imagined. She knows his type and is determined to avoid the rocker at all costs—even if their attraction runs deeper than simple lust.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, Book 13)
New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn’t. And if you think Reacher isn’t going to get involved . . . then you don’t know Jack.
Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan—by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.
Close Enough to Touch: A Romance Novel (Jackson Hole)
A sizzling fan-favorite from USA TODAY bestselling author Victoria Dahl, previously published in 2012.
Grace Barrett never expected to find herself living with her aunt in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She figures she’ll spend a little time in the sticks to figure out her life, and then move somewhere exciting to live out her dreams. But she wasn’t counting on meeting Cole Rawlins.
Cole is a rugged Wyoming cowboy born and bred. Yet he can’t help but be drawn to the fascinating big-city girl who moves in across from him. But as they discover a sizzling attraction, it becomes harder for him to keep his demons at bay—and those fires from long ago may burn them both.
A Friend in Me: How to Be a Safe Haven for Other Women
Young women long for relational connection with women further ahead of them on the journey. Yet, without realizing it, many of us tend to distance ourselves from those in younger generations. Can we really have close relationships with women who have different thoughts on church, different experiences with family, and different ways of talking about God? Where do we start?
In A Friend in Me, Pam Lau shows you how to be a safe place for the younger women in your life. She offers five patterns women need to internalize and practice for initiating relationships and talking about issues such as faith, forgiveness, sexuality, and vocation.
World War One: History in an Hour
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
The ‘Great War’, from July 1914 to November 1918, was without parallel. It brought to an end four dynasties, ignited revolution, and forged new nations. It introduced killing on an unprecedented scale, costing an estimated nine million lives. It was the war that destroyed any notion of romance or chivalry in battle; it pulled in combatants from nations across the globe and shattered them, body and mind.
The Poseidon Adventure
On its maiden voyage, luxury ocean liner SS Poseidon is capsized by a massive undersea earthquake. A handful of survivors must fight for their lives—struggling to make it from the upper deck of the ship to the hull, the only part above water, before the ship sinks. Faced with rising water and the violence of desperate passengers and crewmembers, the group must do everything it can to survive—before time runs out. Adapted into an award-winning film by Irwin Allen, The Poseidon Adventure is a thrilling tale with timeless suspense and excitement.
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