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Looking back one last time at the home that used to hold everything she loved, Hannah Blaine turned back toward the road. Her lucky cowboy boots made impressions in the dirt path with each step. After 15 years with the only man she ever loved, it was time to go back home to Louisville. She hoped heading back to where her life began would help ease the pain from that horrific day. Hannah's heart was, and always would be, with her husband. Hollis Ackers...
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A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor.
In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the 1940s. Yet for all that has changed, much of Brombert's long experience as a reader and teacher is richly familiar: the rewards of rereading, the joy of learning from students, and most of all the...
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A vampire assassin shouldn't fall in love. So when I did, I knew it couldn't last. I walked away and didn't look back...until the man I loved was threatened by those I trusted. The government agency I worked for had betrayed me in the worst way. They wanted to control me. Use my mate as leverage.I'd spent eighty years being the perfect killing machine. After all this time, they thought I'd bend to their will so easily? Didn't they know my bite was...
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This isn't just TD's story; it's Everyman's story.
In AWOL, TD Dierker shares a raw and deeply personal journey that transcends the commonly used military term, instead delving into the universal experience of being missing from one's own life. Through his own struggles with false personas and self-deception, Dierker unveils a narrative that resonates with every man grappling with the challenge of true self-discovery.
In a world where many of...
85) Play
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Tyler Thompson is a bona fide rock star. He went on tour at seventeen and never looked back. And now, fifteen years later, he has more fame, fortune, and success than he ever imagined. He's the bass player for a new band, Nobody's Fool, and all he wants to do is get back on tour. But business and personal issues are blocking his next move. Pop star Ariel Fox has been under her father's thumb for so long she doesn't remember what freedom is like. When...
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"Putman's legal expertise shines in this compelling and intricately plotted romantic suspense. Highly recommended!"
--Colleen Coble, USA Today best-selling author
Janae Simmons left the small town of Kedgewick, Virginia, ten years ago to pursue her legal career and never looked back--until a professional mistake leads her to her grandmother's historic carriage house and to the town where her past threatens to find her. The quiet streets echo with...
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John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news. Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to handle Gacy's final death row appeals. The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting...
88) Benito Mussolini
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Ironically, when we think of fascism, we often look at someone as brutal and influential as Adolf Hitler, but the word "fascism" originated from Italian. The ideology that was carried out in the vicious Spanish War right before World War 2, and was embraced by Nazi Germany, was actually pushed and more or less invented by the Italians during a critical time in history when many changes were made, and when fear and uncertainty were all in the air....
89) Hidden Hills
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I know there are others like me who also have some hidden hills in their life. Some uphill climbs, some downhill slides. Occasionally you may look back to see how far you have come. There are also some beautiful things in those hills, some weariness, some lost loves. Someone we loved always stays in those hills. People come and go in our hills. We seem to come upon patches of flowers we admire and some we choose. Then there are the birds. So many...
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This colorful memoir brings the Texas frontier to life, from smuggling adventures to fighting in the Texas Revolution and serving as a Texas Ranger.
Having left Kentucky at nineteen, Noah Smithwick arrived in Texas in 1827 to seek his fortune in a "lazy man's paradise." He left in 1861, when his opposition to secession took him to California. Looking back at that time, blind and nearing ninety, Smithwick recounted the story to his daughter, and so...
91) Unfortunate Son
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He ain't no millionaire's son. The Eyndar War is heating up, and Earth has implemented a draft. With one child already lost to the fighting, there's no way notorious swindler Chuck Ramsey is letting Earth Navy get a hold of his son. He'll do everything in his power to prevent another tragedy. Meanwhile, with the clock counting down to his eighteenth birthday, Brad Ramsey has a different plan in mind. His version focuses on preparation, responsibility......
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How many Christian's have asked themselves whether they are "in God's will"?
As you think about serving God, the questions about which person to marry, which job to take, which ministry to be committed to are paramount for all believers, seeking God's will for their lives. This book is a Quick Look at the life of one man who made those decisions and now, looking back is able to see that the people, jobs, and events which seemed to have no connection...
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Dani will not allow The Grinch to hide from Christmas. She will cure Hunter of his nasty mood, even if it kills her. But who will save her from his passionate kisses. War hero, Hunter Armstrong, has seen enough devastation to last a lifetime. At the end of his latest Army term, he accepted his discharge papers and never looked back. His uncle's home is tucked away in the majestic mountains, a perfect place for him to hide from Christmas and his own...
94) Borderline
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Alone. Double-crossed. Pursued across thousands of miles of alien desert on his beloved hoverbike, Finnegan is holding onto two things dearer than life itself: the priceless biotech prize he's stolen, and the opportunity for revenge against the treacherous employer who left him for dead. He's never met her, but he knows all about her family, the most ruthless criminal syndicate of the inner colonies.But when he finds a beautiful stranded woman badly...
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She wants to the restore the ranch to its former glory. He needs to sell it to save his company. Old crushes and new secrets clash in the first title of the Dynasties: Willowvale saga by fan-favorite Reese Ryan!
An inheritance stirs up old resentments…
And revives undeniable sparks.
Dray Walker is devastated when tech entrepreneur Kahlil Anderson inherits the horse ranch she's managed for years. Her friend (and secret crush) left town decades...
96) Savored
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Cooper Clark never liked me.From the time we were kids, we bickered and fought. We argued. We battled it out on the playground and later, when we were teenagers, in the schoolyard. I kicked his ass more times than I cared to count, but then something happened.I realized that I was totally, completely, madly in love with him the same week he started dating my best friend.After graduation, I left, and I didn't look back. I didn't keep in touch with...
97) Finding Ava
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If it were not for the memories of Sean's warm smile to hold onto through her captors brutal attacks, Ava Kelley might never have had the strength to try and escape. As her heart is beating louder than the breaths she tries to silence, she watches as the blackened room lights up, and evil appears in her sights. She has but one opportunity to escape. Once she does, she can never look back and never stop hiding because Spencer Jefferis will never stop...
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This anthology of historical war studies looks at military expansion from the French Revolution to WWII-and the enduring lessons for today. In the years after the Cold War, many governments sought to reduce the sizes of their armed forces. Along with this general reduction came a shift in military doctrine away from conventional warfare and toward counterinsurgency operations. However, in light of new geopolitical developments, the pendulum is swinging...
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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING POSITIVE THINKING is defined by Remez Sasson as a MENTAL ATTITUDE that admits in the mind thoughts, words and images that are conducive to GROWTH, EXPANSION AND SUCCESS. Make a POSITIVE COMMITMENT to yourself, with the acquisition of knowledge, work, loved ones, acquaintances, nature and other worthwhile causes. Praise yourself and others. DREAM OF SUCCESS. Be enthusiastic. Keep your MIND FOCUSED on important things....
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Created from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, Gangsters and Grifters is a collection of photographs featuring infamous criminals, small-time bandits, hoodlums, and more at shocking crime scenes. These vintage glass-plate and acetate negatives were taken from the early 1900s through the 1950s, and they have been largely unseen for generations. That is because most have never been published, only having been witnessed by the photographers and police...
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