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Jack Duncan likes women-even married ones. An amateur actor in 1960s Omaha, Nebraska, he's started a steamy affair with his married costar, Louise Thompson. But when her husband discovers them in flagrante dilecto, Robert Thompson takes a peculiar revenge on Duncan, giving him his prized recording of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. While listening to the record, Duncan is disconcerted by a scream he hears embedded in the climactic chord. A...

One of the things that seems to happen in the busy world in which we live is that we take advantage of those closest to us. The assumption that our loved ones know we care about them and love them leads us to ignore the need to communicate our feelings to them on a regular basis. This delightful work by Kim Beckham is a wake-up call and will have a profound effect on my life and the lives of many others." -William R. Crowe, PhD, president, Tyl...

Landmark Status careens madly through a subtropical tangle of legal action, spirits, spells, kung fu, car wrecks, football, phobias, fetishes, wooden flutes, pet rabbits and vintage aircraft, while the fate of Miami's famed Century Club hangs in the balance. Once a notorious nightspot, the Club just awoke from decades of slumbering decay--thanks to a local building boom. Now everybody's scrambling to bury it under a fabulous high-rise. Lawyer ...

Clayton Howard has stopped experiencing life. A troubled childhood has left him "going through the motions." One day, he happens upon a terrible accident and he's the first to discover the youngest victim. Immediately after, Clayton's dreams lead him to the location of buried wealth. Clayton's life changes instantly as he becomes rich beyond his wildest expectations.While he considers himself extremely lucky at first, he begins to realize that...

After Jack finds a mysterious blank book titled The Unusual Adventures of a Usual Boy named Jack, he's astonished to see that his mother's porcelain figurines have come to life. A little boy and a little girl want to hear of his adventures, and when Jack opens the book, the pages are suddenly no longer empty. Another planet, blue trees, and little giraffes are just a few of the strange things that Jack sees in a series of fantastic trips. Trav...

Hannah KaReese and her best friend, Tara DeMoss, are just two typical small-town girls. They're preparing to take a ski trip to Colorado when tragedy strikes. KaReese's father has died in a car accident, creating a chain of events that will send these two friends on the adventure of a lifetime. Tara's father convinces KaReese's mother, Abbey, to take a job with his company, a business that has recently obtained a government grant to study vari...

CLASSIC FRENCH CUISINE MEETS HEART-HEALTHY LIVING The HAPI Heart Diet and Cookbook takes the fundamental principles of classic French culinary art and combines them with the proven health-promoting and disease-preventing powers of the Mediterranean diet. Using expert advice on nutrition and exercise, and more than two hundred fifty pages of gourmet recipes, Michael P. Varveris, MD shows how best to prevent the development of cardiovascular dis...

Every small town has its secrets, and Far Haven is no exception. Swaying gently, cocooned in the cold, murky depths of Eagle Lake, is the body of Belinda Graham. The Northeastern village of Far Haven is full of bizarre speculation regarding Belinda's disappearance forty years ago, and many of the town's residents are still wondering: What happened to her anyway? Carter DeWitt, the owner of the town newspaper, is helping Everett Graham, former ...

Many times, in trying to discern life's journey-the good and the bad-writing has made it possible for me to find understanding. Maria Pisciotta-DellaPorte reflects on the joys and sorrows of life's journey in this highly passionate and intellectually stimulating collection of poems. With a unique combination of realism and mysticism, Pisciotta-DellaPorte delves into and captures the emotional turbulence of the human mind. From the nostalgic se...

A novel of real imaginative power. -Trinidad Guardian "A novel for those looking for something meaningful as well as entertaining to read."-Daily Express The liberalism of eighteenth-century Trinidad, epitomized in the love between the black heroine and white hero, provides the ideal microcosm wherein Belgrave works out her humanitarian concerns that ultimately take on universal dimensions. -Vision Magazine In 1796, the Caribbean is rife with ...

This book is about living in a larger world than we now see. It is about being involved in a cosmic tapestry of our own choosing and yet of God. You can understand who, what, and why you are at any given moment, explore understanding your greater purpose, your higher nature, and how it all fits into divine order. The word metaphysics simply means "beyond the physical." The American Heritage Dictionary says: "Investigating the nature of first p...

This book is about rednecks. Some of it is about a hard life and some of it is funny. Like the time my sisters gave me a permanent and made me look like a Brillo pad and the time my mother-in-law stepped on a package of mustard and the time that she got her new teeth stuck together with chewing gum. There was the time dad came home drunk and threw his teeth and the dog got them and ran.

The Reapers is an enthralling cautionary tale which tackles hot-button issues of our times such as rumor-mongering and destructive innuendo, love and broken trust, infidelity and revenge, powerlessness and the arrogance of power, sexual libertinism and sexual coercion. It is a no-nonsense look at what happens on college and university campuses, from the temptations and challenges faced by students to the rapacious behavior of lecturers who pre...

Powerful People Are Powerfully Meek is composed of daily assignments regarding the dichotomy of powerful meekness to enable you to discover the untapped wealth of inner strength available to you. These lessons are laid-out in four sections. The first part of the daily drill is an inspiring quotation from a powerful person. The idea is to thoughtfully reflect upon the passage as it relates to the subject matter. Meekness power and ability are g...

Bill Haithco was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1923. Being an African-American raised in a Dutch-German neighborhood provided Bill with many valuable lessons about multicultural diversity. These lessons helped to shape the person, personal goals, and achievements which are highlighted in this autobiography. This book chronicles the life of an African American whose life adventures began prior to enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Frien...

What you believe forms your world. Your intuition may be telling you to go in an unknown direction. Your choices and instincts may disagree with professional advisers and friends. What and whom do you trust? In our modern, time-stressed society, it is all too easy to think: I can't. It will never happen. It is not within my range. Bliss 101 takes you out of your day-to-day chaos and pulls you into a world where you are the individual that matt...

What NBA team was the greatest ever? For basketball fans, that question can lead to widespread debate. Sports journalist and basketball enthusiast Kyle Wright has created a new and unique computer formula to rank every team in NBA history. Coining it as the POST formula, Wright assigns ratings to all NBA teams based on how they stack up to other comparable teams during any year-from the number of wins and losses to points scored and points all...

Every small town has its secrets, and Far Haven is no exception. Swaying gently, cocooned in the cold, murky depths of Eagle Lake, is the body of Belinda Graham. The Northeastern village of Far Haven is full of bizarre speculation regarding Belinda's disappearance forty years ago, and many of the town's residents are still wondering: What happened to her anyway? Carter DeWitt, the owner of the town newspaper, is helping Everett Graham, former ...

Terrorism and fraudulent election practices make for great headlines and documentary films, but for FBI Special Agent Donald Corbbitt, it's all in a day's work. In the wake of one of the most exciting presidential campaigns in United States history, Corbbitt is nearly stretched to his limit as he hurriedly works to thwart widespread death and destruction with a counterattack against a group of terrorists. The terrorists' goal: terminating rail...

After ten years on the Texas cattle trail with little to show for it, twenty-six-year-old Clinton James heads west in hopes of striking it rich in the California gold fields. Lady, his salt-and-pepper gray, is getting old, he knows this will be her last drive. Riding into the dusty little town of Bitter Creek, James is broke, out of grub, and he has to find work-quickly. While wondering if he made the right decision, Clinton meets the first of...