Sarah Turner has led a very sheltered life. So when her parents pass away tragically, suddenly she's left in charge of the family ranch with little know-how but plenty of will to keep it afloat. Determined not to lose her parents' legacy or her newfound independence, she needs a hero fast-not to save her, but to show her how to save herself. But she's unprepared for the ruggedly handsome cowboy who answers her ad. "Cowboy for Hire," the ad said, and Cade Walker is quick to...
How did we come up with that? Everyone knows about mousetraps, but did you know they were originally inspired by burglar alarms? What was so important to Samuel Hopkins that he became the first person to have a US patent? Many curious creations have been born over the centuries, and author and historian Sophie Stirling dives into the curious minds behind these unique (and sometimes wild) ideas throughout history. How about strange beauty and fashion fads-where did they come from? The phrase...
Another magical clue takes Lily Antony to a burned-down house in Colorado with her fave werewolf by her side. The house might be ruined, but the magical message hidden in the walls remains… Someone wants to keep Lily from finding out about her world-traveling mother, but Lily has a Winnebago and will travel, and the truth is going to come out. Lily and Romeo decipher her mother's message and end up back on the road-this time heading to Mexico and a potion witch with a few secrets of her...
In 2035 Portland, Oregon, a Homicide Detective awakens from a coma with the ability to see into parallel worlds. A Doppelgänger teaches her to stream the soul and memories of her Department's murdered victims to bring their killers to justice. Dying was the break she needed… Or so she thought. Homicide Detective Katie Hanson prided herself on being an advocate for the dead. When she returns home from the hospital after a near-death experience, she realizes the door to the spirit world...
El 26 de diciembre 1991, tuvo lugar un hecho de extraordinaria importancia en la Historia universal. Se trató de la disolución de la Unión Soviética, un acontecimiento de enormes repercusiones que pocos habían previsto. A decir verdad, sólo el historiador Andrei Amalrík y el premio Nobel Alexander Solzhenitsyn , disidentes rusos, habían tenido el valor y la visión para anunciar que semejante seísmo tendría lugar. Aunque es indiscutible que la Guerra fría concluyó, no son pocos los que pretenden...
Okay, so I accepted Kronin's call to defeat the Forgotten Gods and save the earth, but don't thank me yet. Just because I'm on the job doesn't mean it will be easy-even with the Gladius Solis at my side and the power of Carcerum coursing through my veins. The problem is that the Forgotten aren't your run-of-the-mill villains. They're, well, gods…which means they're violent, powerful, and crafty as hell, and all manner of human scum is flocking to their side. ...
Thirteen-year-old Quinn Parker knows that there's something off about her neighbors. She calls them «the Oldies» because they've lived on Goodie Lane for as long as anyone can remember, but they never seem to age. Are they vampires? Or aliens? Or getting secret experimental surgeries? Or is Quinn's imagination just running wild again? If her dad were still around, he'd believe her. When he was alive, they'd come up with all sorts of theories about the Oldies. Now,...
The guardian of the underworld has been awoken, and he's coming after someone very important.But not if Liv can do something about it. Meanwhile, Kayla Sinclair is tracking down the Mortal Seven, preparing to kill them. Talon Sinclair is growing stronger. And Liv has no idea either are alive. Additionally, the House of Fourteen struggles to maintain power.What's the point in policing magic if no one respects your authority? Liv knows that there is only one solution to this: everyone...
With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes listeners from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark-and the historic thirteen-years of litigation that followed-through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon Burge, the...
Der Erfolgs-Psychothriller als Hörspiel mit hochkarätiger Besetzung! Nach dem Mord an ihrer Familie ist FBI-Top-Agentin Smoky Barrett ein seelisches Wrack. Ihre Karriere scheint beendet. Doch dann wird ihre beste Freundin grausam ermordet. Der Mörder gibt sich als Nachfahre Jack the Rippers aus – und Smoky kann sich dem Sog der Ereignisse bald nicht mehr entziehen … Spannend, brutal, clever – und nichts für schwache Nerven
Black Machetes is a powerful page-turning thriller that all readers agree is both shocking and endearing, written in gritty-cinematic tones that paint a painfully intimate portrait of life framed by abuse, tragedy, and inhibited love. Disclaimer: Author cannot be held responsible for any sleep deprivation caused by reader's inability to stop turning pages into the wee hours of the night. Book Synopsis… Benjamin Wilder grew up with sparse shelter, infested provisions, and constant abuse...