After four lonely years, music professor Gus LeGarde is still reeling from the death of his wife Elsbeth. To deal with the loss, he plays endless Chopin etudes on his piano and lavishes love on his grandson and dog, but nothing lessens the pain.<\/p>\n Life spirals out of control when Gus heads for the snow-covered hills on an early morning skiing excursion to find a mute child shackled to a bedpost in a cabin. Gus rescues the child but the kidnapper, Baxter, escapes into the woods to stew in hot revenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Last Jump is a story of discovery as a modern day journalist explores the military experience of his father in World War II. Aware of the existence of a long lost family secret, our protagonist enlists the aid of four aging World War II veterans who knew his father. When he finds out they know about the secret and have sworn an oath never to reveal it, he begins the difficult task of carefully cajoling the information from men he considers to be true heroes. His odyssey takes him back in time to a country vexed with racial and gender issues but united as never before or since.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Five-Star-Chef Zoe Griffin walked away from her dream job. Did she make a mistake?<\/p>\n Her engagement off, Zoe Griffin retreats to tiny Wildflower Island in the Puget Sound. Hiding out as a cook and maid at a shabby bed-and-breakfast seems crazy for a chef who\u2019s used to running her own five-star kitchen. And just as she starts to feel at home, her klutzy mishaps make Zoe fear her handsome new boss will fire her.<\/p>\n Dr. Nick Jackson is done with medicine, and owning a B&B is as far from doctoring as he can get. He needs help, but his only employee\u2019s mistakes give him doubts. As Zoe lets her defenses down, Nick begins to see a competent and caring woman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Billionaire Hunter Knox comes straight up \u2013 with a side of trouble.<\/p>\n Heir to a bourbon fortune, he\u2019s hired my ad agency to save his family business. It\u2019s my chance to win a star client and prove I can play with the big boys, until my one-night stand comes back to haunt me like the ultimate hangover.<\/p>\n Now I have to think up a killer campaign, and keep from falling into bed with Hunter again. Which is easier said than done when he\u2019s the most handsome, arrogant, downright sexiest man Newly retired from the FBI and alone after the tragic death of his wife, Cliff Knowles takes up geocaching. While looking for a cache in the mountains he comes across a human skeleton and reports it to the sheriff’s office. Then a second body is found – a fresh corpse this time – right after Cliff found another geocache nearby. When it turns out the first remains are those of a fugitive he was supposed to arrest years earlier, he becomes a suspect in a multiple homicide investigation. He has no choice but to use his sleuthing skills to identify the mysterious cache owner, known only as Enigmal, and free himself from suspicion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ride along with Natalie, a bitter-before-her-time city girl, as she travels from one side of the Lone Star State to the other, searching for the One and gathering important travel tips every single gal should know before setting out alone on the open road.<\/p>\n While trekking between towns presents its own set of difficulties, dating isn\u2019t any simpler. With so many Texan men to choose from, how is Natalie supposed to decide which is the one for her? 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WHO IS TO BLAME?<\/p>\n When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found.<\/p>\n Three years later, during the worst blizzard in a century, a husband and wife are brutally killed in the farmhouse where Tash McBain once lived. A suspect is in custody, a troubled young man who can hear voices and claims that he saw a girl that night being chased by a snowman.<\/p>\n Convinced that Piper or Tash might still be alive, clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin and ex-cop Vincent Ruiz, persuade the police to re-open the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n For the first time, rock music icon Gregg Allman, one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band, tells the full story of his life and career in My Cross to Bear<\/em>. No subject is taboo, as one of the true giants of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll opens up about his Georgia youth, his long struggle with substance abuse, his string of bad marriages (including his brief union with superstar Cher), the tragic death of brother Duane Allman, and life on the road in one of rock\u2019s most legendary bands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea, while the black glaciers descended upon the northern holdfasts, entombing the cities of Min-Ceruth in ice and sorcery. Then from the ancient empire of Menekar the paladins of Ama came, putting every surviving sorcerer to the sword and cleansing their taint from the land for the radiant glory of their lord.<\/p>\n The pulse of magic slowed, fading like the heartbeat of a dying man.<\/p>\n But after a thousand years it has begun to quicken again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kristan “Stan” Connor is thrilled to be invited to the Groundhog Day festivities in quirky Frog Ledge, Connecticut. Her organic, home-baked pet treats are a big hit at the annual celebration, though an important guest is curiously absent . . .<\/p>\n When Helga Oliver, the town’s elderly historian, is found crumpled in the basement of the Historical Museum, the close-knit town is devastated. But after some tenacious digging, Stan discovers Helga was pushed down the stairs–and that this picture-perfect New England town may hide some dark secrets . . .<\/p>\n Stan’s dogged determination reveals Helga’s ties to an unsolved death in 1948 . . . but how does that connect to Adrian Fox, who’s just arrived in town to shoot an episode of Celebrity Ghost Hunters<\/i>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Two people stranded on an island struggle to survive\u2014and slowly fall in love\u2014in the runaway New York Times<\/i> bestseller from the author of Covet<\/i>.<\/p>\n Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher desperately in need of adventure. Worn down by the cold Chicago winters and a relationship that\u2019s going nowhere, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T.J.<\/p>\n T.J. Callahan has no desire to go anywhere. His cancer is in remission and he wants to get back to his normal life. But his parents are insisting he spend the summer in the Maldives catching up on all the school he missed last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Developing the Leader Within You<\/i> is Dr. Maxwell\u2019s first and most enduring leadership book, having sold more than one million copies. In this Christian Leaders Series edition of this Maxwell classic, you will discover the biblical foundation for leadership that John Maxwell has used as a pastor and business leader for more than forty years. These same principles and practices are available for everyday leaders in every walk of life. It is a lofty calling to lead a group\u2014a family, a church, a nonprofi t, a business\u2014and the timeless principles in this book will bring positive change in your life and in the lives of those around you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed’s deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the paths they have taken thus far. In “The Prettiest Girls,” a location scout for a Hollywood film studio falls in love with a young Mexican woman who is more in love with the idea of stardom than with this older American man who takes her with him back to California. “Clear Conscience” focuses on the themes of family loyalty, divorce, motherhood, and whether “doing the right thing” is, in fact, always the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n When Apple’s mother returns after eleven years of absence, Apple feels almost whole again. 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