Grace has built her life on order-quiet routines, careful research, and the belief that the past belongs safely behind glass. As a university librarian in the rainy Pacific Northwest, she has always found comfort in systems that behave as expected. But when a forgotten photograph slips from between the pages of a library book, her carefully controlled world begins to fracture. The woman in the image has red hair, a radiant smile-and Grace's face. What follows is not imagination. Vivid memo...

How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of SingaporeIn the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes with the progressive retreat of Great Britain from its Southeast Asian colonial empire. The United States, under the Eisenhower administration, sought to fill the vacuum left by the British retreat and launched into a campaign to shape the emerging Singapore nation-state in accordanc...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book is also dedicated to people who brainstorm a lot but can't make heads or tails of their brainstorm results. If you're the type of person who is great at connecting the dots and making all sorts of random logical connections, it may seem like you are never at a loss for ideas. This may seem like a good thing, but if you actually try to implement any of these ideas, it may turn out that they're incomplete. It may turn ou...

Of all the dreams I'd ever chased, the last thing I expected was for a nightmare to be the one that came true.I'm no stranger to survival. I've always acted a lot tougher than I am, but I'm a big believer in fake it until you make it. But even I couldn't imagine the relentless pursuit of my former kidnappers, and the only thing standing in their way is four calculating and dangerous men.Each time I think I've found some measure of relief, a new danger threa...

Walter "Dake" Dockery and Billy Bates sense a unique chemistry on the day they first meet in the lobby of Global Sports Network's headquarters. Pivotal career crossroads bring them to GSN's door, ready to challenge the likes of ESPN by unconventional means-creating a talk show playing directly to sports fans in the 55-and-older audience segment. However, Barrett Simpson, the hotshot program manager assigned to oversee the fledgling Dake and Bates Show, finds little value in the neophyte co...

On the morning of December 22, 2005, New York City firefighter Matt Long was cycling to work when he was struck by and sucked under a 20-ton bus making an illegal turn. The injuries he sustained pushed him within inches of death. Miraculously, after five months in the hospital and more than 40 operations, Matt was able to start his recovery. In addition to his physical injuries, Matt found the psychological consequences of the accident nearly as hard to process. In the 18 months before the...

He'd do absolutely anything to protect her in novel filled with heart-racing romance and breathless suspense that kicks off the Wingman Security series.Security expert Royce Morgan has fought like hell to change his ways. Since Jules Cambridge left him and married someone else eight years ago, he's not the man he once was. But he casts the past aside once death threats propel Jules back into his life again, this time in need of his protection.In Las Vegas for...

Francine was doing really badly in her math class as she was unable to focus. She had a crush on her teacher and Ms. J. offered to tutor her after school. However, the mature woman knew what was behind Francine’s bad grades and she used it to her advantage with passion. For Mature Audiences Only (18+)

Nineteen-year-old Rose Bender is a bridal attendant for Priscilla King's upcoming wedding and has recently become engaged to handsome but sober, Luke Lantz. Rose and Luke have known each other since childhood and their families have both joked about a possible union in recent years.When Luke asks her to marry him, Rose agrees out of a sense of duty and a willingness to settle for solid friendship as a basis for the engagement. But, as she witnesses Priscilla's excitement, despite a...

Forced to join the ranks of the undead against her will after being kidnapped by the vampire Adolphus Krieger, fierce Kislevite noblewoman Ulrika Magdova can no longer return to her mortal life, and is forced to seek new allies and purpose. Crossing into the Empire, she is given sanctuary in the city of Nuln by a coven of vampires and taught how to control her powers. However, her headstrong nature soon drives her into fresh danger... Read the tale of Ulrika’s adventures as she travels the...

Rory and Alice were the perfect couple, burning with an almost unlimited passion for each other...until they weren't. It was the kind of love you can't replace...or so Alice thought once it was over all those years ago.But when a cryptic message from Rory leads her to meet with him, she doesn't get the mended heart she wants...she gets a bullet in her head and a dead ex-love.Left for dead, Alice is rescued by Jacob, a man with his own mission; finding the serial killer that...

A practical handbook for the artist or writer—experienced, aspiring, or somewhere in between. Long draws from her extensive background as a poet, writer, and master teacher, but also gathers the insights and practices of a wide range of high-achieving artists, including mystery writer Raymond Chandler, choreographer Twyla Tharp, poet and performance artist Patti Smith, and the painter Joan Miró.