To the outside world, they look like American royalty, giving to charities, feeding the homeless, and rebuilding the city. But behind closed doors is a constant battle for dominance between two bosses, cultures, and hearts.<\/p>\n Ruthless People is a romantic crime fiction set in modern day Chicago and follows the life and marriage of Melody Giovanni and Liam Callahan – rivals by blood and leaders through fear. Theirs is an arranged marriage with the goal of ending years of bloodshed between the Irish and the Italians. Liam assumes he’s getting a simple-minded wife, one he can control, one who bends to his every need…he\u2019ll soon find out that his wife to be does not fit that mold.<\/p>\n Melody knows exactly what type of man Liam is and would rather die than give up the power she has spent her life earning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Desperate to gain the funds needed to start a new life, Hannah decides to work as a submissive, agreeing to be auctioned off to the highest bidding dominant at Baton Timide, an exclusive members only club. The winning bidder owns the submissive for a weekend of whatever they command. It’s her first auction and she’s prepared herself for whatever may come. A lot can happen in three days. Friends can become enemies, enemies can become friends, and the truth, if you can find it, can get bloody.<\/p>\n When a mistake in a run-of-the-mill reconnaissance mission is ruthlessly exploited as a pretext for war, the Grangers must scramble to expose the plan before casualties start mounting. To make matters worse, someone is using a powerful computer algorithm against the international intelligence community, raiding files and manipulating reports.<\/p>\n Ron, Valerie, and Leecy go undercover to try to identify the real mastermind before the CIA and Interpol arrest the wrong person, leaving the world\u2019s data vulnerable. But can they do it before they are exposed as agents?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Whipper Will Junction, a small coastal town in Maine, offers beautiful beaches and views of mountains in one destination. Small shops line Main Street, the hub of the town. The residents all know each other and each other\u2019s business. Tourist season brings the place to life, when the locals are outnumbered by visitors, fifty to one. It has been a safe, quiet place to live, until now. Meet Joe and Tanja Shepherd, two newlyweds who’ve given up their law enforcement careers to become private detectives. Unfortunately, the timing couldn’t be worse. The economy is bad, jobs are scarce, and they’re about to lose their home. To make matters worse, Tanja is pregnant and expecting any day.<\/p>\n Then Joe’s old friend Sheriff Diekmann approaches the couple with an offer. He will pay the detectives as consultants to investigate a cold case that he wants solved. It won’t be easy: the victim has been dead for five years, the trail has gone cold, and the case was bungled by the original investigators. But the Shepherds are willing to do whatever it takes to save their home, even if it means risking their lives to bring the cold-blooded killer to justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Private Investigator Nicoli \u201cNikki\u201d Hunter has lost enthusiasm for the bar and restaurant surveys that pay the bills but no longer challenge her. When the brutal murder of socialite, (and stripper), Laura Howard lands on her desk, she finally encounters a case worthy of her talent.<\/p>\n Murder on the Menu is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Nikki Hunter. The only child of a Cossack and a former nun, Hunter is a smart, tenacious thirty-five-year-old, who lives aboard a sailboat in the San Francisco Bay Area and works out of a ground floor office in the marina complex where she lives.<\/p>\n When the Howard murder goes unsolved, the victim\u2019s mother contacts Nikki, who agrees to a preliminary investigation, and discovers that Laura was about to inherit several million dollars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The Boudreaux Series – Sexy. Intriguing. Easy.<\/p>\n Eli Boudreaux\u2019s family has built ships and boats in Louisiana for generations. He comes from a hard working, wealthy family and his empire is growing by leaps and bounds. At thirty, he is the youngest CEO to ever head Bayou Enterprises, co-chairing with his eldest brother. His head for business and his no-nonsense work ethic is also quickly making him the best the company has seen in generations. His staff admires him, women adore him and Eli\u2019s family is solid. But he\u2019s recently discovered that someone on the inside of his business is stealing from him and he\u2019s determined to find out who.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation “a new birth of freedom” in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece.<\/p>\n By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n She’s always been off-limits…<\/p>\n The Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning, bestselling biography of America\u2019s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.<\/p>\n In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as \u201cout of his senses\u201d; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Chris Harrison, the beloved longtime host of ABC\u2019s The Bachelor<\/em>, explores the perils and rewards of risking everything for love in his first novel.<\/p>\n As the longtime host of ABC\u2019s hit shows The Bachelor<\/em> and The Bachelorette<\/em>, Chris Harrison has witnessed the joys and heartbreak of men and women searching for everlasting love. A true romantic at heart, he believes that everyone deserves their own fairytale ending. Now, in his first work of fiction, Chris draws on his unique insights and wisdom in a remarkable debut novel that explores love and its consequences\u2014a must-read for Bachelor<\/em> fans and hopeless romantics everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n REAL FOOD. REAL LIFE. REAL FLAVOR.<\/p>\n Forever short on time, Associated Press food editor J. M. Hirsch is a master of kitchen shortcuts; his favorite, letting high-flavor ingredients do the heavy lifting, was the inspiration for this collection of nearly 150 boldly delicious recipes. Because nobody has time to make a bland meal.<\/p>\n His approach to cooking is simple: Foods that taste great going into the pot need less work from you to taste great when they come out. He shows busy cooks how to use ingredients with intense flavor to make the meals they want in the time they have.<\/p>\n The recipes are easy and the flavors are robust. Try Four-Cheese Baked Gnocchi, Pork Chops with Red Wine Cranberry Sauce, Red Curry Beef, Sweet-and-Savory BBQ Chicken, Chili Balsamic Marinated Sirloin with Fettuccine and Sun-Dried Tomatoes, and Bacon, Beans, and Beer Chili. There\u2019s even dessert, with Balsamic Chocolate Cookie Ice Cream and Grilled Cinnamon-Sugar Breadsticks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Moments.<\/p>\n Our lives are a collection of moments. Some utterly painful and full of yesterday’s hurts. Some beautifully hopeful and full of tomorrow’s promises.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve had many moments in my lifetime, moments that changed me, challenged me. Moments that scared me and engulfed me. However, the biggest ones\u2014the most heartbreaking and breathtaking ones\u2014all included him.<\/p>\n I was ten years old when I lost my voice. A piece of me was stolen away, and the only person who could truly hear my silence was Brooks Griffin. He was the light during my dark days, the promise of tomorrow, until tragedy found him. Tragedy that eventually drowned him in a sea of memories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn’t prepared to deal with them.<\/p>\n Steve Orlandi, happily married, father of two and step-father of three, was living the typical middle class American life. But since the age of eight, when he discovered he was adopted, he had led that life dealing with inner questions about his self-identity and genetic history. Always on his mind was one simple, yet complicated and loaded question: Who am I?<\/p>\n In One Perfect Day<\/i>, Diane shares with readers how she came to the heartbreaking conclusion to give her baby up for adoption and how this decision has affected her life sense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/i>Karleen Koen’s sweeping saga contains unforgettable characters consumed with passion: the extraordinarily beautiful fifteen-year-old noblewoman, Barbara Alderley; the man she adores, the wickedly handsome Roger MontGeoffry; her grandmother, the duchess, who rules the family with cunning and wit; and her mother, the ineffably cruel, self-centered and licentious Diana. Like no other work, Through a Glass Darkly is infused with intrigue, sweetened by romance and awash in the black ink of betrayal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In the final pages of the spellbinding novel The Second Ship<\/i>, NSA director Jonathan Riles failed to halt the Rho Project\u2019s infiltration of the US government. Now the Project\u2019s alien nano-serum is loosed upon the world, disguised as a miracle cure and leaving too many people\u2014good people\u2014dead. And anyone still alive to challenge the Project won\u2019t be for long: an assassin known only as El Chupacabra is systematically eliminating any and all opposition.<\/p>\n At the top of the hit list is NSA fixer Jack Gregory, along with Heather McFarland and Mark and Jennifer Smythe, the three teenagers who first exposed the Rho Project\u2019s evil agenda. 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\nThere hasn\u2019t been a murder in Whipper Will Junction for over forty years. Now, bodies are popping up everywhere. To make matters worse, Richard Wells, the beloved elder of the town has disappeared. Who or what is causing the upheaval in the quiet town of Whipper Will Junction?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHe said, She said, “Murder” (He said, She said Mystery Series Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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