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AJ Docker (Doc) and his guard dog, Banshee, move to a small town in the mountains for a slower-paced lifestyle. Doc settles into the idyllic setting with a rewarding job and enriching colleagues, as well as with a romantic interest who leads him to contemplate marriage. His new life seems perfect until he begins to uncover the town's dirty secrets. A serial killer hunts in the woods, and dirty money flows throughout the town. 

Januaries is a collection of new and iconic short stories and novellas from New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake.

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, the tutelary spirit to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a Victorian orphan gains literacy for her occult situationship, and a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away. Escape the sl

Barry's Bay Book #2

 I never anticipated Charlie Florek.

Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. 

 Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. 

Chuck Brewster, the former business partner of Ali Reynolds’s husband B. Simpson, was once involved in an affair with Clarice, B.’s first wife. So when he’s found murdered with Clarice nearby, covered in blood, it appears to be an open and shut case. 

However, Clarice insists she’s innocent and pleads for Ali’s help. Meanwhile, someone is targeting Camille Lee while she’s on the road for High Noon.

Outlaw violence and the swift hand of Western justice are on a collision course…

When farm boys Jed Tully and Ty Brody seek retribution against a greedy merchant by robbing his store one fateful night, they unexpectedly stumble upon a scene where the store has already been looted, and its owner has been slain by the notorious Hennessey gang.

Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman named Josie Fair. As it turns out, Josie is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday, making them birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie, who has been an avid listener of Alix’s podcasts, thinks she might make an interesting subject for her series.

 James W. Loewen, a sociology professor and distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope-and what he discovers will surprise you. In his opinion, every one of these texts fails to make its subject interesting or memorable. Worse still is the proliferation of blind patriotism, mindless optimism and misinformation filling the pages. 

 Discover more than 70 quick, easy, and stylish decorating ideas that will add seasonal warmth and charm to your home. Seriously, these projects are so easy—you can do these!

You don’t have to be an expert or carve out a lot of time to add some delightful touches to your home. If you have ten minutes, you can try one of these simple seasonal ideas. These fast projects don’t require fancy tools or any decorating experience and many use supplies you already have at home. 

In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.

A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and grieved.

Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, laid in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story...

In this gripping new thriller, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett returns, crafted by #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.

In June 1946, as the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season following the sacrifices of war, a glamorous new figure arrives at the guest cottage of Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate owned by the affluent Peabody family. For Emilia Winthrop, the daughter of Summerly’s year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island’s early settlers, Olive Rainsford introduces a glimpse into a world filled with sparkling possibilities. While Emilia devoted her war years to caring for her incapacitated mother, Olive explored the globe.

In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families are planning a delightful night of dinner and cocktails to kick off the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their usual bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never make it to the dinner.