After years of denying a legacy of mystical healing powers, Dr. Rachel Morgan must use her heritage to rescue her son, kidnapped by her mother's enemies, as she follows a dark trail of evil that reaches back to the brutal medical ...
... shaking her head as she fumbled for her house key and reached for the door. It openedwhen shetouched it,wasn't even closed all theway,muchless locked. “Gee, for supermom, she sure messed up thistime,” she muttered, pocketing her ...
“Daniel. You watch your mouth.” “It's an apartment building,” I say to Lexi. “You know, a condo. Like that place you stayed at the beach last summer.” Matt ruffles her hair. Thank you, he mouths to me. “Seriously,” says Ben.
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I heard Kristian softly calling me over the din of Lou Reed's deadpan crooning in my ears and roused myself from slumber. I'd often listen to music while sleeping to drown out Torsten's snoring in the bunk above me. I checked the time.
“ Mother , this is Mr. Pilkington - Smith , the director of Shady Acres . ” Isabel Keene lowered her bifocals to inspect the little man from head to toe . “ Heil Pilkington - Smith , ” she muttered under her breath .
In Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis, journalist Erica Cirino brings readers on a globe-hopping journey to meet the scientists and activists telling the real story of the plastic crisis.
A common element in all of the essays is honesty. A sibling writes...I did the usual things kids do while growing up--had friends--just never brought them home.
Comprehensive in its scope and provocative in its argument, this book examines beliefs and rituals concerning blood in a range of regional and religious contexts throughout human history.
She then set about dealing with the Highland flingers in her hair, first by bending over and trying to shake them out, and then by running her hands every which way including loose amongst them. She ended up with the same look she'd ...
A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the ...
These are writers who are emotionally complex and critically engaged. They are the heirs to a multistoried and multifaceted Caribbean literary tradition that is as multichromatic and multilayered as its complicated history.
He was also Cal Flyn's great-great-great-uncle. Inspired by his fame, Flyn followed in his footsteps to Australia, where she would face horrifying family secrets.
When Thomas Bellweather is framed for his mother's murder, the only person who believes him is Charlotte Rooker, whose friend was murdered similarly twenty years ago, and both investigate to find answers that may get them killed.
Zack Bernard has a thing for crime shows, especially the forensic-investigation kind.
Cecelia Price killed her brother. At least, that's what the police and the district attorney are saying. Although CeCe is now locked up and forced into treatment, she knows the story is much more complicated.
A captivating novel that gives new meaning to Freud’s “family romance,” Thicker Than Water vividly illuminates the fragile line between love and the darker sides of passion.
Four smart young women looking for love navigate the smooth-talking players of New Jersey’s infamous Brick City in this gritty urban series debut.
For years Leo Waterman eked out a meager living as a PI in Seattle.
. ..These are just some of the sticks life uses to beat Felix Castor with, as things go from bad to worse for London's favorite freelance exorcist. See, Castor's stepped over the line this time, and he knows he'll have to pay.