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Winning The Rancher's Heart (Mail-Order Brides of Salvation 2)

A MAN WITH A RANCH TO SAVERancher Paul Hart moved out West to escape a broken heart and the dead-end factory job that was crushing his soul. He's succeeded in making a new home for himself and his sick mother, but he's failed to find a woman who can teach him to love again.A WOMAN WITH A HEART BIGGER THAN THE LONE STAR STATEWidow Elizabeth Saunders is in dire straits: her late husband lost everything at the card table, and his family blames her for his suicide. Her biggest regret is that she remains childless. Elizabeth asks God for a second chance at starting a family--and His answer seems to come in the form of a letter from Paul.A FAMILY IN PERILWhen Elizabeth agrees to become Paul's mail-order bride, she falls in love with his home, his mother, and the simple freedom of the wide-open Texas sky. But Paul is another matter--although he's unfailingly kind to Elizabeth, he's reluctant to bare his soul to her.As cattle rustlers force Paul's ranch to the brink of financial ruin, Elizabeth must convince her husband to let her help save his home--and his heart
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Urban Flight

A birds-eye view of corruption in the Big Apple. Urban Flight takes place in New York City in the despairing days of 1975, when the Big Apple flirted with bankruptcy and its mean streets teetered on the edge of anarchy. A year after Nixon's resignation, Jason Sims, one-time sixties idealist and part-time musician, finds himself piloting a helicopter for a television news station's traffic reports. Jason agrees to do some extra flying for the station's mysterious owner, and during these extra-curricular flights observes activities that could be related to the urban corruption scandal and possible murder that his best friend, journalist Adam Shaker, has been investigating. As Jason becomes inadvertently enmeshed in the City's political crisis (and a new love interest) he confronts the demons of his past and experiences a personal re-awakening.
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Claimed by Pleasure: King of Spades (Wonderland Book 2)

March 2015: The Wonderland series is back and Claimed by Pleasure: King of Spades has been expanded by almost SIXTY PAGES of new and expanded, never before published scenes! St. Martin’s Press published Claimed by Pleasure in trade paperback only, with the pseudonym Jaymie Holland. Ellora’s Cave published the series primarily in e-book, the second as King of Spades under the name Cheyenne McCray. Alexi O’Brien is pissed and will stop at nothing to locate her missing twin. Even when she’s abducted into a beautiful and highly sexual world, she is determined to escape and resume her search—even though the dark and dangerous man who captured her excites her in unimaginable ways. King Darronn prefers his women submissive. His future queen is anything but. Whatever it takes, Darronn intends to convince the fiery and spirited Alexi that her body, heart, and soul belong to him. More great news for Wonderland fans! As countless readers have requested, a new fifth book will be coming soon in the series this summer, entitled Owned by Fire.
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Hunted

Get hooked on Heck: the maverick detective who knows no boundaries. A grisly whodunit you won’t be able to put down, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride and TV series ‘Luther’. Heck needs to watch his back. Because someone’s watching him... Across the south of England, a series of bizarre but fatal accidents are taking place. So when a local businessman survives a near-drowning but is found burnt alive in his car just weeks later, DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg is brought in to investigate. Soon it appears that other recent deaths might be linked: two thieves that were bitten to death by poisonous spiders, and a driver impaled through the chest with scaffolding. Accidents do happen but as the body count rises it’s clear that something far more sinister is at play, and it’s coming for Heck too...
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Sanctuary Bay

When Sarah Merson receives the opportunity of a lifetime to attend the most elite prep school in the country-Sanctuary Bay Academy-it seems almost too good to be true. But, after years of bouncing from foster home to foster home, escaping to its tranquil setting, nestled deep in Swans Island, couldn't sound more appealing. Swiftly thrown into a world of privilege and secrets, Sarah quickly realizes finding herself noticed by class charmer, Nate, as well as her roommate's dangerously attentive boyfriend, Ethan, are the least of her worries. When her roommate suddenly goes missing, she finds herself in a race against time, not only to find her, but to save herself and discover the dark truth behind Sanctuary Bay's glossy reputation. In this genre-bending YA thriller, Sanctuary Bay by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz, Sarah's new school may seem like an idyllic temple of learning, but as she unearths years of terrifying history and manipulation, she discovers this...
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Bagels the Brave

In this sequel to Bagels Come Home, Josh, his younger sister, Becky, their parents and Bagels head off on a three-day trip to Sasquatch Lake. But the vacation gets off to a rocky start. The cabin is a bit more "rustic" than advertised, with a few too many holes in the roof. Then Josh starts catching glimpses of a hairy figure in the woods nearby. When household items begin disappearing, from pickles to pj's to Becky's birthday cake, the family heads out to investigate, with Bagels in the lead. Who's behind the mysterious happenings at Sasquatch Lake? And could Sasquatches be real?
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The Edge Becomes the Center

Winner of the 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize!The groundbreaking oral history that tells the stories of New Yorkers effecting and affected by gentrificationIf you live in a city—and every year, more and more Americans do—you've seen firsthand how gentrification has transformed our surroundings, altering the way cities look, feel, cost, and even smell.Over the last few years, journalists, policymakers, critics, and historians have all tried to explain just what it is that happens when new money and new residents flow into established neighborhoods, yet we've had very little access to the human side of the gentrification phenomenon. The Edge Becomes the Center captures the stories of the many kinds of people—brokers, buyers, sellers, renters, landlords, artists, contractors, politicians, and everyone in between—who are shaping and being shaped by the new New York City.In this extraordinary oral history,...
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