Beneath Copper Falls by Colleen Coble5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The two years she has spent being belittled and intimidated have taken their toll on her confidence. ![]() This one is a recommended read!ĭana is escaping an abusive relationship when she returns home to Rock Harbor. Show More setting of a small town hugging the shore of Lake Michigan are all part of a great reading experience. It's a game of cat and mouse as she and Boone fight to catch one killer while evading another. When Dana's ex-fiance locates her, she's caught in the middle. Romance quickly blooms between Dana and Boone but the game is much more complex than either of them imagined. Did someone want to keep her quiet?Dana continues to look into the accident with the help of Bree and also Allyson's cousin Boone. She knows Allyson-an investigative reporter-was researching a new story. Allyson's death is ruled an accident, but Dana just doesn't believe it. Dana immediately dispatches a deputy, but it's too late. The abusive relationship she left behind seems a distant memory in this perfect place.Her first day on the job, Dana receives a call from her friend Allyson who screams "He's going to kill me too" before the phone goes dead. Dana Newell has just moved to Rock Harbor to take a job as a sheriff's dispatcher and is settling in next door to Bree and Kade Matthews. ![]() USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble returns to her beloved Rock Harbor-but both danger and romance hide in this idyllic small town. ![]()
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The song of the dodo by david quammen5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() I tried hard to deliver the science, the history, the mystery, and the human anguish as page-turning drama.įrom what innocent creature, in what remote landscape, will the Next Big One emerge? A rodent in southern China? A monkey in West Africa? A bat in Malaysia that happens to roost above a pig farm, from which hogs are exported to Singapore? In this age of speedy travel between dense human populations, an emerging disease can go global in hours. I found surprises in the latest research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in the eyes of researchers. I interviewed survivors and gathered stories of the dead. For five years, I shadowed scientists into the field-a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a Chinese rat farm, a suburban woodland in Duchess County, New York-and through their high-biosecurity laboratories. ![]() Spillover is a work of science reporting, history, and travel, tracking this subject around the world. Odds are that the killer pathogen-most likely a virus-will spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal. ![]() ![]() The bug that's responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won't come from outer space. The next big and murderous human pandemic, the one that kills us in millions, will be caused by a new disease-new to humans, anyway. ![]() Reborn jaymin eve5/13/2023 ![]() It’s my nature after all.Īs I search out random growls, flutters in my chest, and a suspicion that there’s so much more going on than I could even imagine, I sense that I’m racing against an unknown clock. Whoever did this to me should have known I’d pick at it until it bled. Someone messed with me and no matter how often I’m told to forget it and move on as Torin’s mate, there’s no way I can. I’m being lied to, missing weeks and months of time. ![]() Funny how quickly dreams turn into nightmares. My childhood dreams were finally a reality. I’d all but given up, until a quirk of true mate genetics gifted me a true mate like no other. Of course, that dream existed before my father betrayed the pack and turned me into their punching bag. Growing up in Torma, the strongest of the shifter packs, I wanted nothing more than to find my true mate and live my best life. ![]() So why does it taste like ash on my tongue? I finally have the life I always dreamed of. The epic conclusion to the Shadow Beast Shifters. ![]() Survivor by jf gonzalez5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() He layers on the suspense and makes Survivor into a real page-turner, despite its horrific subject matter. Gonzalez expands his novella Maternal Instinct into a gripping full-length novel that is better than a novella expansion has any right to be. ![]() She'll soon be a movie star unlike she ever imagined unless she can somehow bargain her way out, letting her maternal instinct guide the way.īut that's only the beginning. The kidnappers are snuff-film producers, and Lisa was the specific request of one of their best clients. Gonzalez has managed to create, with Survivor, an emotionally resonant moral commentary on the underbelly of society, showing how the top and bottom blend until there is little or no difference anymore.īrad and Lisa Miller are on their way to a romantic vacation (where she will announce her new pregnancy to him) when with the unwitting help of the police, Brad is arrested and Lisa is kidnapped. Under the guise of an extreme horror novel, author J.F. ![]() Red Sky in Morning: a novel of World War II by Max.Jesus Coyote by Harold Jaffe (a novel based on the.Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (literary fiction). ![]() Cracked by R.K. Belford5/13/2023 ![]() He and his wife had made their home at the Huffman farm near Deer Lick for the last several years. ![]() In addition to his own farms, he had worked during the latter years of his life as a farm manager for the late John Carter, of Ninevah, and the late Edward G. He was a member of John Corbly Baptist Church, Garards Fort.įor many years he had been a farmer and stock raiser. ![]() Va., on March 7, 1884, but most of his adult life was spent in Greene County. He had been hospitalized for more than a year after suffering a massive stroke. His death followed an extended illness and a gradual decline in health the past few years. Tuesday, December 19, 1972, in Greene County Memorial Hospital. ![]() 2, near Deer Lick, but who spent most of hs life in the immediate Waynesburg vicinity and at Garards Fort died at 10:30 a.m. ![]() The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() and impossible to put down! The Fourth Monkey is everything a thriller should be-a must-read!"-Heather Graham, New York Times best-selling author of Law and Disorder ![]() Time is running out as the Four Monkey Killer taunts from beyond the grave in this masterfully written fast-paced thriller. With only a handful of clues, the elusive killer's identity remains a mystery. When he discovers a personal diary in the jacket pocket of the body, Porter finds himself caught up in the mind of a psychopath, unraveling a twisted history in hopes of finding one last girl, all while struggling with personal demons of his own. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves he has taken another victim who may still be alive.Īs the lead investigator on the 4MK task force, Detective Sam Porter knows that even in death, the killer is far from finished. Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called "a talented writer with a delightfully devious mind."įor over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. ![]() Murder most unladylike arsenic for tea5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The many readers enthralled by schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong’s first adventure Murder Most Unladylike will be thrilled to discover this new book, which offers another clever dose of subterfuge, murder and top-rate detection.
William h armstrong books5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1956, at the request of his school headmaster, he published his first book, a study guide called Study Is Hard Work. More than once he was known to send a text book flying across the classroom with unerring accuracy to awaken one inattentive student or another. ![]() A truly formidable character and head of "study hall", he suffered no fools lightly. In 1945, he became a history master at Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, where he remained for fifty-two years, teaching general studies and ancient history to generations of third formers (ninth graders).Īrmstrong was loved, admired, and feared by his students. ![]() Armstrong (Septemnear Lexington, Virginia - Apin Kent, Connecticut) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder.Īfter growing up on a farm near Lexington he graduated cum laude from Hampden-Sydney College in 1936, then continued his higher education with graduate work at the University of Virginia. ![]() Luminary krista mcgee5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() She hears stories of a Designer-stories that fill her mind with more questions: Who can she trust? What is this emotion called love? And what if she isn’t just an anomaly, but part of a greater design? The more time she spends in the Scientist’s Pod, the clearer it becomes that things are not as simple as she was programmed to believe. But before that can happen, Berk-her former Pod mate who is being groomed as a Scientist-steps in and persuades the Scientists to keep Thalli alive as a test subject. Seen as a threat to the harmony of her Pod, Thalli is taken to the Scientists for immediate annihilation. Thalli has kept her malformation secret from those who have monitored her for most of her life, but when she receives an ancient piece of music to record as her community’s assigned musician, she can no longer keep her emotions secreted away. The Ten scientists who survived the nuclear war that destroyed the world above believe that emotion was at the core of what went wrong-and they have genetically removed it from the citizens they have since created. Thalli is different than others in The State. The toxic gas that will complete her annihilation is invading her bloodstream. ![]() ![]() Thalli has fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds left to live. About Anomaly – first book in the series: ![]() ![]() ![]() His first in the series, Imaginative Realism, was widely acclaimed in the fantastical art world, and was ranked the #1 Bestseller on the Amazon list for art instruction. This book is the second in a series based on his blog,. A glossary, pigment index, and bibliography complete what will ultimately become an indispensible tool for any artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gurney cuts though the confusing and contradictory dogma about color, testing it in the light of science and observation. Beginning with a survey of underappreciated masters who perfected the use of color and light, the book examines how light reveals form, the properties of color and pigments, and the wide variety of atmospheric effects. A researched study on two of art's most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter. This art instruction book will accompany the acclaimed Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist. From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. ![]() |