Linda Jones
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DEATH, FEAR, LOVE, EMOTIONS, SPIRITS
Step inside the mind of Donna Francart, a former deputy coroner, as she describes to you her years of medicolegal death investigations. What began as her personal diary written to herself, her way of debriefing, began to form a heartbeat of it's own.
She has allowed her innermost thoughts to be shared, with you, Of the fears, tears, and anger she battled with, along the way and the profound lessons she learned,...
42) Twilight Sleep
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Twilight Sleep, a gothic satire of Jazz Age New York, was an instant best-seller when it was released in 1927. Quintessential Edith Wharton, it is stylish and sharp, at turns scathing, hilarious and melodramatic, but also deeply and surprisingly human. In a modernist twist, the story is told by three distinct narrators-19-year-old Nona Manford, her unflappable socialite mother Pauline, and Nona's father and Pauline's second husband, divorce lawyer...
43) Even So
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A novel that explores the challenge and necessity of loving difficult people. Angela Morrison has it all. She's married to a wealthy man, adores her son, grows orchids, and volunteers at Our Daily Bread Food Pantry. What more could she want?
She's willing to risk everything after meeting Carsten, the landscaper with the glacier-blue eyes. Sister Eileen, who runs Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, struggles with the silence of God and harbors a secret she...
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Our Own Unique Affliction is the story of Alice Ann, a dejected immortal who longs for her life in the sun. Navigating guilt, loss, family, meaning, murder, and all that comes with the curse of living forever.
"Unexpected and grim, Scott J. Moses' Our Own Unique Affliction is the most inventive and bombastically gruesome vampire story I've read since The Light at the End by John Skipp and Craig Spector. An exquisitely written meditation on grief,...
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Winter in Anchor Point is quiet. Most businesses are closed in the off season, so when Jay organizes a Saint Patrick's Day party at the Shipwreck Cafe, the locals jump at the chance to attend.
The party is going great when it is brought to Jay's attention that his brother, Robbie, has disappeared. The celebration is shut down a short while later when Phil Cook, the local jeweler, drops dead on the floor in front of the bar.
Days pass and there is...
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On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII, the US unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in New Mexico.
In The First Atomic Bomb Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely been discussed-the men and women who constructed,...
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The downtown core of Toronto is being consumed by Elysium, a drug that allows its users to slip through the permeable edges of this world into the next, before consuming them utterly. Peddled by the icy Srebrenka, few have managed to escape the drug and its dealer. But Maggie has. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," and woven through with northern folk tales, The Grimoire of Kensington Market is the story of Maggie, proprietor...
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This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace-exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it.
Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race-and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment,...
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Summer had passed, and the holidays were fast approaching. Everyone at the Shipwreck Cafe was getting ready for The Seashells and Christmas Bells Ball.
Jay, true to his word, delivers a letter to the selectman of Anchor Point stating his intentions of taking his privately-owned beach and parking lot back from town use.
Sid Swann, a selectman used to getting his own way, confronts Jay in public about his decision and heated words are exchanged. The...
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A restauranteur is faced with a choice he thought he'd left behind when his dying uncle, a Milwaukee crime lord, taps him to become the next Don.
Haunted by the murder of his fiancée, Chance McQueen-once a musician on the cusp of success but now a restaurateur-knows alcohol and toxic relationships are choices slowly killing his soul. Trying to balance the scales between guilt and redemption, Chance takes under his wing a fatherless teen and mentors...
51) Death by Chowder
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Jay Hallett leaves a flourishing law career in Boston to return to his hometown of Anchor Point on Cape Cod. He secretly purchases the local lighthouse and surrounding property to open The Shipwreck Cafe.
Rich in history, the lighthouse is rumored to be haunted by multiple ghosts and hiding a buried treasure worth millions.
Robbie, Jay's brother, surfs by day and tends bar at the cafe by night. He doesn't like the ghosts, but it's okay because they...
52) Lobster Trapped
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Good weather is returning to Anchor Point. Jay has been coaxed by his mother into giving his cousin, Jenny the Jinx, a summer job. Robbie doesn't want her around after she set fire to her school. He is afraid the same thing will happen at the cafe.
The renovations have begun on the bed and breakfast building. The first day of work, a skeleton is found concealed in one of the walls. Who is he and how did he get he there? Roland knows but refuses to...
53) Blood Born
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Vampire novels (Linda Howard) volume 1
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2010
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When the human and the vampire worlds collide, there will be hell to pay.
Luca Ambrus is a rare breed: vampire from birth, begotten by vampire parents, blood born. He is also an agent of the Council—the centuries-old cabal that governs vampirekind, preserving their secrecy and destroying those who betray them.
When a cryptic summons leads him to the scene of the brutal killing of a powerful Council member, Luca begins the hunt...
Luca Ambrus is a rare breed: vampire from birth, begotten by vampire parents, blood born. He is also an agent of the Council—the centuries-old cabal that governs vampirekind, preserving their secrecy and destroying those who betray them.
When a cryptic summons leads him to the scene of the brutal killing of a powerful Council member, Luca begins the hunt...
54) The Fearing
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What if all humanity's fears were unleashed on the world... all at once?
A series of cataclysmic events are felt around the globe, and throughout the United States the last vestiges of society band together in rag-tag groups to face off against the ghastly horrors of their shattered world.
Opposing them is the enigmatic Adam Sigil - a man seemingly able to inflict others with his own darkest fears - and his equally mysterious companion Jelnik. As...
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Formula One has long maintained a glitzy aura that masks dark and strange goings-on in the background. But with the 2019 season came a force louder than Formula One could dream of muffling: William Storey, the founder of British energy drink startup Rich Energy.
Storey became a multimillion-dollar sponsor of the Haas Formula One team a year after records showed Rich Energy having a mere $770 in the bank. He equated his doubters to moon-landing truthers...
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Conventional wisdom says that women are the manipulative ones-but tell that to the thousands of desperate women suffering at the hands of a manipulative man. Men can be just as sneaky, passive-aggressive, needy, underhanded, whiny, guilt-inducing, and emotionally demanding as women are accused of being-and more so!
As any woman in love with a manipulative man can tell you, it's not easy to get past his charm and your guilt to a place where you can...
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Discover the real-life inspirations behind history's most infamous serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and so many more.
Gothic media moguls Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl, authors of The Science of Monsters, The Science of Women in Horror, and The Science of Stephen King, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called "the best horror film podcast out there" by Film Daddy, present a guide to the serial killers who...
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Every year America becomes more diverse but the change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem has become an urgent matter of national debate. How do we fix it? Arguing that it's time to focus on changing systems rather than individuals, two of the world's leading experts on workplace diversity show us a better way in the first comprehensive, data-driven analysis of what succeeds and what fails. The surprising results will change...
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People issues. They seemingly arise out of nowhere and just don't go away.
It's critical that managers handle them right. As a manager, you need to know so many things about managing people, but you don't even know what to ask! The Decisive Manager can help. With examples of typical situations that managers encounter and advice on how to handle them, it's an easy-to-use guide for people managers and has information on hiring to firing, and everything...