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I gasped, or tried to. My mouth opened, but I couldn't draw breath. His lips, pearly wet, parted and he blew into my mouth. My lungs expanded beneath his weight. When I exhaled he sucked my breath in and his weight turned from cold...

When it comes to dating woes and issues, Renz has dealt with more than his share. One-night stands and steamy afternoon trysts have left him feeling vulnerable, used, and lonely. He decides celibacy may be what his life needs.Lauryn walks into his life and...

The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, Third Edition, is updated for MongoDB 3 and includes all of the latest MongoDB features, including the aggregation framework introduced in version 2.2 and hashed indexes in version 2.4. The Third Edition also now includes Python. MongoDB is the...

Based on the tabletop RPG Super Dungeon Explore, fans beloved characters continue their adventures to save the life of their king and defeat the forces of evil. Author: Christopher KeenePublisher: Future House PublishingPublished: 12/31/2022Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.75h x 5.25w x 0.70dISBN: 9781950020577Audience:...

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black's Locard Institute thriller series continues in this explosive page-turner as forensic experts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies are enlisted to assist a powerful and wealthy Florida family pulled into the dangerous waters of conspiracy, deception, and murder....

During an interval in the Melvinski trial in the large building of the Law Courts the members and public prosecutor met in Ivan Egorovich Shebek's private room, where the conversation turned on the celebrated Krasovski case. Fedor Vasilievich warmly maintained that it was not...

A mystery of unrelenting suspense and penetrating characterization, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter, and buried secrets in a superb blend of romance and Gothic drama. Reprinted here in the only critical edition available, is the text...

The Deadly Steps, is a Police Procedural thriller that is set in Cork City, Ireland. Detective Inspector John Cahill is originally from Cork City but circumstances brought him to Northern Ireland in the mid 1990's. D.I. Cahill joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary and progressed...

DCI David Vogel investigates a sudden death at a local book festival in this gripping police procedural: Agatha Christie with an edge! When Delia Day, the world's most successful living romantic novelist, accepts an invitation to be the headline author at a prestigious book...

One morning in March 2020, Mom starts behaving very mysteriously: she is wearing a mask to go get groceries! What is going on here? Why would she put on a mask just to leave the house? The inquisitive young Detective Dillard is on the...

Day after day, Robbie's words line up, waiting for their turn to be used. However, no matter how patient he is, Please never gets his turn. One day, Please decides not to join the line of other words, but rather stay in bed. However,...

A Joe Hayes' classic, revealing the wit and wisdom of Hispanic New Mexico folklore.Kids of all ages are always asking Joe Hayes, How can it snow tortillas? Well, now they can find the answer in the bilingual edition of Joe's signature book The Day...

As I stare at the girl, I feel my heart pound inside my chest. There she is, my daughter, right in front of me after all this time. I have to reach her, to hold her, before I lose her all over again... I...

This award-winning series marries a unique scifi set-up with an examination of social issues surrounding veganism, animal exploitation, and ecoterrorism. Everyone's eyes are on half-human, half-chimpanzee Charlie after the Animal Liberation Alliance orchestrates a mass shooting at his high school. The FBI wants to...

In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton's band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz and jazz training....

Disturbed psychological states have baffled both religion and medicine for as long as human beings have existed. Despite the explorations of modern psychology we are no closer to understanding these expressions of human suffering than we were a thousand years ago. Although it can...

A groundbreaking and superlatively accurate new translation of Laozi's The Dao De Jing, from the bestselling translator of The Art of War, promising to be the first English edition based on direct translation from the oldest known copies of the ancient Chinese text. One...

The Dalai Lama regarded their flushed, animated faces, his forehead wrinkling. "The materialist approach," he nodded. "Seeking to change what you believe to be entirely outside you. It has many problems. For example, why must you constantly postpone your happiness?" India's Top Ten Social...

Incorporating archeology, anthropology, cartography, and Indigenous studies into military history, Wayne E. Lee has argued throughout his distinguished career that wars and warfare cannot be understood by a focus that rests solely on logistics, strategy, and operations. Fighting forces bring their own cultural traditions...

The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have...