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Dr. Randall Archer is a misfit... ...in the brutal blue-collar home where he grew up. ...as a sixteen-year-old escaping to college, then medical school, on a full scholarship to Harvard. ...in the highest echelons of Boston society, where the woman he marries and the blueblood research partner with whom he shares his laboratory belong. Even Archer's brilliance as a pathologist catapults him into direct and dangerous conflict with the m...

It's The Sopranos for 7-year-olds." - Anselmo "Sweat Beak" Rossi A misfit mafia of seagulls try to stay the top birds in Shoretown despite their many blunders and bonehead decisions. The Gullfather, Birdsy Seagull, rules the roost with a fistful of feathers. And with a little help, but not much, from his ragtag crew-the salty-mouthed Joey "One-Wing, " the handsome slacker Vinny, the glamorous and dangerous Birdabella, and Birdsy's well-fed...

Raised in Karkov, a military, male-dominant kingdom, twins Natalia and Jillian know nothing but battle. When Jillian emerges as the dominant twin and apparent heir to the throne, Natalia, the softer and more diplomatic sister, ceases her military training. As Natalia prepares to marry the prince of her father's favored Western ally, Jillian is set to become the first woman Lion of Karkov. But things don't go as planned when the older generatio...

...one of horror's rising stars..." -Signal Horizon Harry Potter meets The Exorcist in this supernatural thriller duology about a malevolent ghost, a greedy shapeshifter, a boy with memories he has no right to possess-and the mysterious painting that has the power to change their destinies forever. Dear Jack, It's been another terrifying night. I'm bloody, exhausted, and scarred. But there's nothing more important than writing this lett...

What is the inner marriage? The inner marriage is the relationship with our vast range of feelings from ecstasy to despair, from love to hate. The inner marriage is our relationship with thoughts, ranging from irrational to clear objectivity. The inner marriage is our relationship with dreams at night, day dreams, and fantasies of any sort. The inner marriage is our relationship with longing for people, situations or anything. The inner m...

Relinquished at birth to Catholic Charities in 1959, Kathe Linn Caire adores her adoptive family and has never considered searching for her birth parents. At age fifty-two, though, a sudden pull to learn more about her medical history sends her on an unexpected journey. Kathe isn't interested in learning her birth parents' identities, just the details of their health. But what begins as a simple investigation takes a startling swerve when th...

Relinquished at birth to Catholic Charities in 1959, Kathe Linn Caire adores her adoptive family and has never considered searching for her birth parents. At age fifty-two, though, a sudden pull to learn more about her medical history sends her on an unexpected journey. Kathe isn't interested in learning her birth parents' identities, just the details of their health. But what begins as a simple investigation takes a startling swerve when th...

Ghost-touched teen Jack Kelly returns in this polished urban fantasy/horror sequel to Moore's The Book of Souls. At times an intriguing mystery, at others a chilling thriller, The Book of Demons offers a sensational stroll through the hustle and bustle of an inventively paranormal version of 80s New York City. Jack's development throughout is an adventurous, if spooky, coming of age story that will thrill and at times scare readers of classic ...

Mid-August 1975, Maurice "Mo" Lumen is exiled from his home in Virginia, bearing the weight of what he's left behind-accusations, a half-brother, and an inhospitable cot. With the mind and heart of an eleven-year-old-the result of a self-described "accident"-and a love of baseball, Mo emerges in Rhode Island just shy of his twenty-fifth birthday. As summer yields to a rain-soaked fall, his frustration rises when news of a prolific killer in th...

Have you ever wondered why someone is behaving the way they do? Whether it's a loved one, a stranger, even yourself - human behavior can be puzzling. Our actions can seem counterintuitive, destructive, shocking and even frightening. Yet each of us is a window into the other, when we are willing to look without judgment. When you wonder instead of worry. In Unleashing the Power of Respect: The I-M Approach, Dr. Joseph Shrand illustrates throu...

Can you ever really hide a secret from your best friends? Annie, Sondra, and Jo were the best of childhood friends-but they haven't seen each other in far too long. To the outside world, their lives are perfect. But appearances can be deceiving... Married to a pastor in a small town she's never left, Annie's devoted her life to family and the church. Most people consider her a saint-but they don't know she's hiding a big secret. Sondra's ...

Adrian Spratt explores the past with a deft hand in his new book, pulling from the best of literary and historical fiction, with a touch of mystery.In 1980s New York City, young lawyer Nick Coleman meets free spirit Caroline Sedlak in an evening fiction writing course. A vivacious fixture at a Greenwich Village bar, she remains mysterious about her life until their teacher reads her story submission to the class, and Nick realizes that a darke...

We live in a world where, all too often, our public conversation is reduced to sound bites, which is no conversation at all. Sound bites are a particularly prominent example of the short cuts that give us ways to avoid hard thinking. They are used for their attention-getting power, not for their informational value. They are simple, easy to remember, and are never the whole story.This book provides an alternative to sound bites in the form of ...

Sarah B. Cochran probably didn't expect to own businesses that competed with Henry Clay Frick's or to exceed Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic giving in certain circles. But when her husband and son died suddenly, she had to take over the family coal and coke business at a time when it was illegal, and some thought unlucky, for women to work in or around coal mines. Rather than retreating from the world, from her forties through her seventies sh...

Brandon Chane's life is spinning out of control. After an altercation outside a performance venue nearly proves fatal, he's feeling at the mercy of dark forces threatening to tear his life apart. Even as a gifted poet and musician, his efforts to channel pain, frustration, and thwarted love into his music may not be enough to save him. Then he meets Saul Mason, a crisis counselor with the soul of a medicine man, who insists that Brandon's life...

In 1918, in a dramatic battlefield scene on the Western Front, young American soldier Peter Montgomery sustains a severe wound. He's transported to a British hospital, where he falls hard for Elizabeth, a young English nurse, and she for him. Upon his release, they engage in an intense love affair, forever changing both of their lives.Separated and shipped home, Peter tries desperately to reconnect with Elizabeth, but the War and the Spanish f...

A COMPANION VOLUME TO THE EXODUS SERIESAfter nearly a century of oppression, the human race can finally explore the stars. Now part of a newly-formed alien alliance, the military commemorates this new age by building their first generation of starships to explore the unknown.When the crew of the INFINITY embarks on the starship's maiden voyage, they're primed for a mission of exploration and discovery-not confrontation. But when an unimaginabl...

Is an unproven, experimental starship the key to finally opening up the cosmos to human exploration?As a mysterious alien race destroys space ships attempting to leave the solar system, humanity's dreams of interstellar travel seem as distant as the next star. With an aggressive and uncommunicative alien power blocking interstellar travel, military and government leaders had accepted that humans would never explore the galaxy. But hope springs...

In 1918, in a dramatic battlefield scene on the Western Front, young American soldier Peter Montgomery sustains a severe wound. He's transported to a British hospital, where he falls hard for Elizabeth, a young English nurse, and she for him. Upon his release, they engage in an intense love affair, forever changing both of their lives.Separated and shipped home, Peter tries desperately to reconnect with Elizabeth, but the War and the Spanish f...

A man who shot his computer, a woman who won her husband in a pully-bone snap, a horse-trader who wound up owning a camel, an elusive moonshiner, a woman who was married to a New York gangster, a man who believed he was the son of the Queen of England ... these are just some of the 22 stories-all true!-contained in Wayne Christeson's hilarious and heartfelt memoir of his life in the small rural community of Leiper's Fork, Tennessee. Christeson...