What happens when a small town girl moves to Hollywood to pursue her dreams and winds up smack dab in the middle of a murder investigation, haunted by famous dead celebs, and working for the biggest pop star in the music industry?<\/p>\n Introducing Evie Preston: Small-town girl and under-the-radar healer, currently trapped in a po-dunk Texas town but yearning for something more. When fate gives her the opportunity to move to Hollywood to follow her dreams, Evie finds herself navigating through the land of glitz and glamour, and the realm of (dead) celebrities\u2026<\/p>\n Raised in Brady, Texas by her minister father and her beauty shop-owner mother, Evie has been trying to get out of town for years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Cities tend to be glamorized by movies and Instagram pictures, but the truth is it\u2019s harder to live in urban areas than expected. 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Just as they are adapting to their trusty housekeeper’s ill-timed vacation, they are confronted by the strangest mystery they’ve encountered since they started their private investigation firm.<\/p>\n In this bonus e-only novella, what begins as the search for a missing cat leads to a rabble-rousing suffragette and the disappearance of several young women from St. Jerome’s Reformatory for Incorrigible Females. From the women’s courts of City Hall to Toronto’s seedy docks and into the cold heart of the underground shipping industry, this will be the most exciting Christmas the girls have had yet…if they can stay alive long enough to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n At Everett, perfection has a dark side…. Seventeen-year-old Rema lives in a brutal kingdom where travel between regions is forbidden, people are starving, and looking at someone the wrong way can mean death. Nineteen-year-old Darmik is the king s son and Commander of the King s Army. He spends his days roving the island, doing his father s bidding and trying to maintain control over the people.<\/p>\n When a chance encounter throws Rema and Darmik together, they share an instantaneous connection, but any sort of relationship between them is strictly forbidden. Darmik s brother, the Crown Prince, notices Darmik s interest in Rema and, in a calculated, political move, blackmails her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n How does a lost civilization keep its most precious and dangerous artifact from falling into the wrong hands? The relic’s guardians scatter clues to its hiding place across the entire planet. Three thousand years later, a secret society and a fanatical religious cult vie against one another in a global treasure hunt to claim the prize. The Arkana wants to preserve it for posterity. The Blessed Nephilim wants to exploit it to create a terrifying new world order. Only one faction can win. More importantly, only one can survive.<\/p>\n THE GRANITE KEY opens the door to unexpected mysteries for nineteen-year-old Cassie Forsythe. In a nightmare, the girl sees her sister attacked by a man in a cowboy hat who demands something called “the key.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In The Lacuna<\/em>, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible<\/em> and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life<\/em>, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds\u2014an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century\u2019s most tumultuous events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n As the sole assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon is accustomed to visiting opulent homes. So her latest job at a modest New Jersey townhouse is unusual. Then she learns the home belongs to the wife of disgraced finance magnate Parker Bennett, who vanished two years earlier, along with the five billion dollar hedge fund he managed.<\/p>\n The debate over whether Bennett was suicidal or staged his disappearance still continues. Both his clients and the federal government want to trace the money and find him. But Lane is surprisingly moved by Mrs. Bennett\u2019s steadfast faith in her husband\u2019s innocence. Gradually, Lane is also drawn to the Bennetts\u2019 son, Mark, who is equally determined to prove his father is not guilty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review<\/i> as a groundbreaking idea of the year.<\/p>\n The path to personal and professional fulfillment is rarely straight. Ask anyone who has achieved his or her biggest goals or whose relationships thrive and you\u2019ll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates those who master these challenges and those who get derailed? The answer is agility\u2014emotional agility.<\/p>\n Emotional agility is a revolutionary, science-based approach that allows us to navigate life\u2019s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind. Renowned psychologist Susan David developed this concept after studying emotions, happiness, and achievement for more than twenty years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Jon Bennett is a top Wall Street strategist turned senior White House advisor. But nothing has prepared him for the terror that he will face. Saddam Hussein dispatches his top hit men to assassinate the President of the United States. Iraqi terrorists spread carnage throughout London, Paris, and Riyadh . . . and the Butcher of Baghdad has a nuclear ace in his hand that he has not yet played.<\/p>\n Only a solid Arab-Isreali coalition against Iraq can keep the U.S.–and other Western nations–from certain devastation. And only Bennett and his beautiful partner, Erin McCoy, can make that happen. Their secret project–a billion-dollar oil deal off the coast of Gaza–could be the basis for an historic peace treaty and enormous wealth for every Isreali and Palestinian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who’s fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend’s death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After years of bad behavior with his department, he’s in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this man was a friend and Cody’s determined to find his killer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field Manual<\/em> released by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees.<\/p>\n In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)\u2014the predecessor of today\u2019s CIA\u2014issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual<\/em> that detailed sabotage techniques designed to demoralize the enemy. One section focused on eight incredibly subtle\u2014and devastatingly destructive\u2014tactics for sabotaging the decision-making processes of organizations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Brandon Webb’s experiences in the world’s most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle<\/i> provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S. military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist.<\/p>\n Yet it is Webb’s distinguished second career as a lead instructor for the shadowy “sniper cell” and Course Manager of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program that trained some of America’s finest and deadliest warriors-including Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle-that makes his story so compelling. Luttrell credits Webb’s training with his own survival during the ill-fated 2005 Operation Redwing in Afghanistan.<\/i> Kyle went on to become the U.S. military’s top marksman, with more than 150 confirmed kills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Sandman Slim<\/em> has arrived\u2014a wild and weird, edge-of-your-seat supernatural roller-coaster rider that propels author Richard Kadrey to the forefront of the fantasy, thriller, and a host of other literary genres. This spellbinding, utterly remarkable tale of a vengeful magician\/hitman\u2019s return from hell is part H.P. Lovecraft, part Christopher Moore, part Jim Butcher, and totally, unabashedly dark, twisted, and hilarious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow<\/em>. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience<\/em> teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Sometimes the best man is the one you least expect\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Faith Holland left her hometown after being jilted at the altar. Now a little older and wiser, she’s ready to return to the Blue Heron Winery, her family’s vineyard, to confront the ghosts of her past, and maybe enjoy a glass of red. After all, there’s some great scenery there\u2026.<\/p>\n Like Levi Cooper, the local police chief\u2014and best friend of her former fianc\u00e9. There’s a lot about Levi that Faith never noticed, and it’s not just those deep green eyes. 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