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Once a rising star in print media, journalist Gretchen Sparks just wants to be left alone. Four years have passed since an IED killed her brother in Afghanistan, and Gretchen has managed to shut out everyone who cares about her-except for Marty Mitnik, her editor at a large New York daily. Hard drinking, cynical and surly, Gretchen no longer takes on challenging assignments but resignedly edits her newspaper's Borough Features blog, writing listicles and puff pieces designed to garner clicks.But when Marty suffers a heart attack, she follows the last assignment he gave her-to a Coney Island woman who claims to possess a crime-fighting seagull. Gretchen is determined to ignore the signs of a career-making story, but the facts call to her through a host of New York characters: a former beauty queen with a philandering husband, a state senator accepting suspicious campaign contributions, a nefarious Nashville heart surgeon, and a teen boy who begs Gretchen to find out just how and why his grandmother died in the psych ward of a Brooklyn hospital.Borough Features is about fighting to bring the truth to light in a world that's been dimmed by grief.
A suicide bomber from the Palestinian Islamic Front for Jihad and Liberation (PIFJL) tries to blow up Waterloo Tube Station in London. Thanks to the efforts of the Mossad, the Semtex bomb fails to detonate, but it explodes later in a PIFJL safe house. Leaders of the PIFJL need a new place to set up base, and choose a remote Greek island. However, members of the anti-Moslem Greek Spartan League intercept the motor launch carrying the PIFJL explosives and weapons. When the League sees a letter describing the British Government's secret plans to recognize the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus, leaders plot retaliation using the stolen munitions. Despite the best efforts of MI5 and the Mossad, London's Tube commuters are once again in serious danger.
After suffering years of physical and verbal abuse at the hands of his father, young Tom Rollins takes off on his bicycle with the intention of never returning to his hometown. Life on the streets is lonely at first, but as he makes his way toward Boston to become a crab fisherman, he finds it manageable. He even meets a girl who makes him forget about the high school crush he left behind, and things begin looking up. The way people stumble upon each other's paths and affect each other's lives is unimaginable and undeniably happenstance, directed entirely by personal needs and goals and moods. It's just crazy. I wonder about how my life would be changed had I made a single decision differently or walked down a different road... All these consequences are absolutely nuts. How are we able to ever take on all this responsibility, knowing that if we totally screw up, we could ruin, or even kill someone?. Summer can only last so long, though, and when autumn moves in, it brings with it something sinister that rots the edges of Tom's soul. On his travels, he meets up with some fellow runaways, and together they hatch a plan that will not only bring Tom's life full circle but will also change any hopes he may have had for a better future.
In his hotel room in Kyoto, Japan, Oliver Thompson-a highly successful CPA who specializes in offshore trusts-finds the blood-covered dead body of Yoko Azuma, a bellhop, lying in his bed. He immediately finds the hotel manager, but when the two head to the elevator, the doors open to reveal an unscathed Yoko. Strange things continue to happen that put Oliver's and others' lives in danger, so Oliver consults the police, who cannot seem to corroborate anything he says. At first, Oliver wonders if his good fortune has finally come to an end. Is he going crazy? He consults a Kyoto private detective, who suggests that Oliver is the victim of a large-scale conspiracy. But what is the aim of the conspiracy? And why are the conspirators plaguing Oliver?
Imprint is Book Two of "The Dusty Chronicles," the sequel to BJ Sheldon's award-winning debut novel, Haunting. Imprint follows Dusty and Jack through the next stage of their doomed romance. Sixteen-year-old Dusty Vermeer starts off another school year as Mark Schutt's girlfriend. At the same time, she continues to hide her feelings for Jack Olson, the ghost who haunts her heart. Other entities make an appearance, and Dusty begins to wonder if seeing ghosts has become a permanent part of her future. Tragic past events resurface and imprint themselves in Dusty's world. When Jack is ripped from her arms and imprisoned in a dark void, his absence is more than she can bear. An invisible enemy grows increasingly violent, and Dusty's health begins to deteriorate. When she tries to discover what it is that hides in the shadows, Dusty must turn to her family for help and convince her loved ones that she is not insane. Ultimately, she must battle evil, accept her fate and grieve for a love she was never allowed to keep.
Dr. Ulrich zu Westerheimer is a German-born nuclear physicist working on the American atomic bomb project in Los Alamos. In 1943, he flies to Novosibirsk in Siberia for a meeting with his younger brother, Carl Friedrich, a fanatical Nazi who is also a nuclear physicist. Carl Friedrich was captured at Stalingrad and is to be flown to Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia with a Soviet peace proposal for Hitler. Hidden in the briefcase is a report by Nobel Prize winner Dr. James Chadwick regarding the infeasibility of a plutonium bomb. The report is genuine, but wrong. The Americans want to deceive Hitler with the report. But the NKGB (the Soviet Secret Police) play some deceptive tricks of their own.
A near-fatal car accident leaves recording artist Jessie Lee mangled beyond recognition. After endless surgeries and months spent in intensive care, Jessie is transferred to the state-owned Carnation House nursing home in Nashville, Tennessee. While undergoing rehabilitation, Jessie finds herself once again fighting for her life, battling the very people put in charge of her care. Is it all the medication? Or has Jessie uncovered dark secrets that have truly put her life in danger? Jessie clings to the friendships she has formed with four other patients and two feral cats in the hopes that one day she will be healthy enough to follow her dreams-that is, if she can ever break free of the evil that runs the halls of the Carnation House.
In August 1942, an Egyptian antiquities dealer buys photographs from a South African traitor and passes them on to Field Marshal Rommel. The photos reveal the highly successful weapons trial of a new anti-tank shell, made from an alloy of promethium, that will critically affect the outcomes of the pending tank battles at El Alamein and Stalingrad. The Abwehr dispatches agent Gretchen Konrad to New Zealand to locate the promethium mine. A Nazi agent already in New Zealand manages to acquire a government document that contains the locations of four secret mines. But which is the promethium mine? Gretchen struggles to visit each in turn. Eventually she manages to penetrate the exclusion zone in the southern tip of New Zealand to reach Coopers Island. But have the Allies really found a source of the rare-earth element there? And what effect does the new shell have on the war in the Western Desert and on the Eastern Front in Russia?
New Bottom - Turning the Other Cheek is the sequel to author and therapist Tammy Roth's raved-about first memoir, High Bottom - Letting Go of Vodka & Chardonnay. In New Bottom, Tammy does the hard work of excavating her roots, no matter the consequences, and the even harder work of letting go. Using various recovery methods, she continues on her sobriety path and finds new ways to cope with life's difficult triggers. Her new memoir uncovers truths about forgiving, healing, seeking independence, and finding authenticity. Tammy's honest account of her journey will inspire readers to go on their own vision quests.
Gorb the gnome operates an elevator in an upscale hotel. When three businessmen get stuck in his lift, their only chance of escape is to work together. But with a clashing of personalities, that proves difficult. Gorb has a plan. Will his tale about the fantastic kingdom of Eggslandia be enough to inspire the group to collaborate and find a way out? The Elevator and its story within a story share a lesson in the importance of teamwork.
What if you held the fate of the world in your hands, but you had no idea? When a mysterious woman helps Cary Walker escape from a team of kidnappers, he is thrown into a world of ancient secrets, reincarnation, grave robbers and oaths from beyond the borders of time. With the help of Ally Profett, a member of a secret society known as the Namayan, Cary embarks on a journey to recover the last remaining threads of his unraveling sanity, and to stay alive. Ally and Cary flee to Washington, D.C., then to Tampa's Ybor City, and finally they return to Cary's home in the Black Mountains of North Carolina. Can the pair keep one perilous step ahead of the cold, efficient killers hunting them? Long ago, before time was time, when the Black Mountains were but children, a young woman pledged a sacred vow of protection. Now that promise has come due. Who will step forward to keep it?
Haunting is a recipient of the Reader's Favorite Silver Medal. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Dusty Vermeer has to start her sophomore year in a new town and a new school. Rural Iowa introduces her to Mark, a charming football player. Dusty can hardly believe her heart. Then, to her surprise Dusty meets another guy. The chemistry between Dusty and Jack could spark a prairie fire on a rainy day. The only problem? Jack's dead. The handsome soldier comes to Dusty in her dreams and introduces her to the horrors of a foreign battlefield and the enchantments of first love. While Dusty tries to balance her feelings for the two new guys in her life, Jack steps out of Dusty's dreams and into her reality. And he wants something. Jack has no memory of how he died more than half a century ago. Dusty vows to uncover the mystery, but her quest for justice puts her in the path of evil, a force that won't stop until she's silenced.
Empress Maria Theresa of Austria has sent secret agents Paul Müller and Franz Braun to Prussia to assassinate King Frederick the Great. The King's preoccupation with the visiting musical master, Johann Sebastian Bach, offers a host of opportunities for the two secret agents to make inroads. However, the pair mistakenly underestimates the unscrupulous and cruel Prussian Minister of Police, Baron Manfred von Hochenheimer. Paul and Franz concoct plans to deceive the Minister, but their trickeries merely thwart their own efforts. The two conclude that, in order to kill Frederick the Great, they will have to first eliminate the man who so staunchly protects the royal subject. They carry out a revised strategy and unexpectedly receive aid from an insurgent on his own crusade. However, each small success Franz and Paul achieve seems to set them further back from their ultimate goal of slaying the King. Pursued by Prussian border guards, they are forced to flee Berlin on foot and seek the guidance of their prudent spymaster. In the safe haven of Vienna, the three men employ various tactics for gaining intelligence on the King. Ordered back to Prussia to finalize their mission, Paul and Franz must fool overzealous innkeepers, foresters, soldiers and secret police. Can they outwit the Prussian forces and attack the throne? Or will their fraudulent behavior have a rebound effect that propels them toward a future of torture and execution?
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