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Michael Bronte

Paul Henley is a lawyer from New York, and his wife Elena is an author of children's books. After almost four years of marriage, they think the time is right for them to become parents. If they're lucky, their hope is that Elena will become pregnant during their vacation to Guadalajara, Mexico. What Paul doesn't know is that the current Elena Henley is formerly Elena Díaz, sister of Sergio Díaz, who is the head of the Calle Santiago cartel. The revelation is mind boggling to Paul. How is i...

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Michael Bronte

He'd been up there with the biggest of them, shock-jock extraordinaire, on the biggest stations, in syndication in every major market in the country. It had been quite the fall, all right, his last gig ending when the station manager didn't accept the fact that jail time was a valid excuse for not showing up for work. With good behavior, he was out in two years, but he'd become a media scum at that point, blackballed and forgotten, doomed to doing the graveyard shift on godforsaken AM at a...

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Emily Bronte

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Michael Ward

Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.Whilst it is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its cha...

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Emily Brontë

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Michael Page, Laural Merlington

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Emily Bronte’s time-tested story of love turned on itself and the violence and misery that result from thwarted passionA novel of immense power, Wuthering Heights is filled with the raw beauty of the English moors and a deep compassion for the conflicting destinies of men and women. The novel begins with Lockwood, a tenant who takes up residence close to Wuthering Heig...

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Michael Bronte

Jake Blackwell wasn't always a handyman. As an Army Ranger and part of the elite 75th Ranger Regiment, he'd done four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, only to be taken out by an IED while closing in on a sniper nest outside of Ramadi. The result? Traumatic brain injury, otherwise known as TBI. His life as a close combat and special operations specialist was over. What was not over, however, were the lingering effects of his TBI. Seizures, blackouts, and memory loss were all part of t...

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Michael Bronte

We had just come off one of the most memorable years in American history. Our boys were dying by the thousands in the jungles of Vietnam and the war protests were rocking our world. The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy rocked it even more. Our cities were being torn apart by riots, and then 1969 slung off '68 like a skater in a roller derby.The Mets and Jets won their respective titles in 1969, two unbelievable victories almost impossible to imagine. Neil Armst...

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Michael Bronte

The date on the newspaper reads Saturday, September 25th, and the entire population of Sea Beach, New Jersey, wakes up with no recollection of what happened to Friday the 24th. Reporter Johnny Pappas is among the baffled residents, as is Chief of Police Roy Mulroney. It's only when Johnny discovers the disappearance of high school quarterback David Robelle that the fog over this mystery begins to lift. It seems that the ransom note left by David's kidnappers was written with no known techn...

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Michael Bronte

When Tom Slater and his eight-year-old son walk to their car after seeing a New Jersey Devils hockey game, they are accosted by two loudmouths who were sitting near them during the game. The loudmouths try to rob Slater, but he fights back, inadvertently killing one of the attackers. Slater is subsequently arrested and charged with manslaughter. Enter Sidney Diamond, the flashy female attorney who maintains that the only way for Slater to save himself from being convicted is for young Nola...

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Michael Bronte

Y.I.T.B.: It means Yours In The Bonds. It was how they signed their letters and their emails to each other. They were The Brothers of Zeta Chi, and they vowed decades earlier that their pledge meant more than having drinking buddies for life. For these brothers it was an assurance that they'd be there for each other in good times and bad, and that their bond would go far beyond the occasional stock tip or job reference. For them, being able to count on each other was for real.It was...

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Michael Bronte

Giselle Silva is twenty-one years old and living with her disabled father in Jackson Heights Queens. Between his disability payments and what she makes working at the Simply Chic boutique, they can barely pay the mortgage on the house she's been living in her entire life. She also works as a backup singer in a local band to help make ends meet. When her father dies, her world is turned upside down and she's left with bills she can't afford to pay. Suddenly, she owes thousands with no money...

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Michael Bronte

Homicide: Party of Twelve takes you to Jersey City where the boss where the boss of Chez Alain restaurant has just been gunned down in a drive by shooting. Frankie Fortunato, a hardworking server, moves up to become the new manager. New Jersey State Police Detective Matt Klimecki catches the case and leans heavily on the restaurant's employees to help solve the murder, including Frankie and his girlfriend, Gabby D'Angelo, who also works at Chez Alain. The plot twists and turns as Frankie s...

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Michael Bronte

Scott Campbell has been a mailman in since his days as a Marine in Afghanistan, and the house where his high school sweetheart used to live is on his route. What was once a lovely home is now a run-down mess, and Scott wonders how anyone could let it deteriorate the way it has. His curiosity getting the best of him, he discovers that the house is being used as a transportation hub in a sex trafficking operation. Scott's curiosity quickly becomes an obsession, and he becomes inextricably ta...