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Steve and Mie are a pair of globetrotting journalists, based in Paris, who make up fanciful stories about strangers they see at nearby tables in bistros, bars and brasseries. When they start spinning yarns about a waitress, Mireille, and a down-and-out American novelist named Cavendish, they find themselves peeking into a pair of tempestuous love triangles.One love storm—among Mireille, her possessive lover Serge, and Cavendish—takes place in present-day Paris. The other ill-starre...

Josie Dobbs, sweet sixteen and beautiful, is everybody's angel. Or is she?Police chief Jim Otis, fired from the Chicago Police after an affair with an underage hooker, is a lost cause. Or is he?Josie has secrets nobody in little Hercules, Wisconsin, wants to uncover. Nobody but Jim Otis.In his last month on the job, the lame-duck chief must unravel the dark side of Josie Dobbs, or a young Marine could go to jail — and innocent people might die. Otis wades into a swamp ...

Something is rotten at Hercules High School. Student Heather Sundergard has been caught cheating on the state's most prestigious scholarship exam. One of Heather's teachers, Carol Demeter, has been implicated—and fired by the school board. But Carol happens to be police chief Jim Otis. fiancée. Otis sees the fine hand in this scam of teenage femme fatale Josie Dobbs. But Josie's "back east," in college.Or is she?Jim Otis' struggle to exonerate Carol sends him into ...

Welcome to our 2025 edition of Best Cycling Great Escapes, an exciting, quality, annual travel adventure guide highlighting fabulous cycling getaways across Canada, the USA, and Cuba. Featuring great articles on trails, routes, lodging, dining, events, amenities, attractions etc. along with superb photos, there are top spots for road, MTB and gravel, including e-bikes, for fabulous cycling adventures this cycling season.

Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away in acclaimed writer Benjamin Percy's terrifying new horror novel The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret, far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. These demons are threatening to spread virally into the real world unless they can be stopped by members of a ragtag c...

A Ring. A Secret. A Mind Unraveling Through Time.When a tragic accident lands young lawyer Rafi Ciprone-Hantz in a coma, his recovery takes a terrifying turn. As he begins to awaken, Rafi is gripped by inexplicable memories: lives he never lived, places he's never been, and traumas he can't possibly have endured. But what if they were his?A Multigenerational Journey of Trauma and Truth.Traceback brilliantly fuses historical fictio...

Sumo is a fresh and funny introduction to the fascinating world of sumo, Japan's national sport. Author David Benjamin peels away the veneer of sumo as a cultural treasure and reveals it as an action-packed sport populated by superb athletes who employ numerous strategies and techniques to overcome their gargantuan opponents. Sumo provides an engaging, witty, behind-the-scenes look at sumo today.

Thank you for your interest in the French for the intermediate level audioacourse by Audioacademyeu. The course is aimed at advanced learners who have already learned English for three or four years h and who should have almost fluent communication skills. The course is based on contextual learning, which means that you will not only learn words but also sentences in which you can use the words you have learned. In this course you will find you will find a total of 1,400 words and practice...

David Benjamin pays homage to the exuberance of countless untamed boys who grew up in Middle America at mid-century.Whether he's stalking snakes in the bogs of Wisconsin, playing four-kid baseball with his bothersome little brother and two favorite cousins, leaping garbage cans for a beautiful little redheaded girl, or joining Chucky Dutcher for a movie marathon at the Erwin Theater, Benjamin is the kind of precocious ironist who would have found a sidekick in Huck Finn.His...

What happens in Vegas ends in Paris. Chip, Bud and Rudy, three nerdy conventioneers who meet annually at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas become so consumed by sexual fantasy in their annual pilgrimage to a North Vegas strip club that they hatch a plot to rid themselves of their wives. They lure their unsatisfactory spouses to the City of Light where they wine them, dine them and and kill all three on the same bloody night. They ve committed the perfect crime... except... Well, t...

Saint Paul, Private Eye!It is written, in Matthew, that Jesus, on the cross, cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"Was this all Jesus said? Who was present to hear him say anything at all? His disciples had fled in fear. Roman soldiers surrounded him. Was there a secret revealed at the Crucifixion — lost forever because there was no one to bear witness?Paul, the "saint" who for ten years tormented the followers of Jesus, suffers visions of the Cruci...

Where the hell is Carrie Crowfoot? Jim Otis, police chief of Hercules, Wis., doesn't know. But he suspects that the disappearance of the popular high-school cheerleader connects somehow to his nemesis, teenage femme fatale, Josie Dobbs. But Josie has left town for college in Philadelphia. How does a scheming seductress in Philly pull off an abduction a thousand miles away? Meanwhile, how can Jim Otis — who does NOT understand women — cope with all the other women in his life? His "trouble"...