Author: Hildred Billings Publisher: ISBN: 9781691135622 Category : Languages : en Pages : 236
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Welcome to Paradise Valley, where the locals thrive on the rural landscape, the quirky Oregonian living, and the history of the lesbian commune that founded it. Mixing small town attitudes with lesbian dating? Sounds like another day in Paradise.Firefighter Krys Madison is used to the single life. Although a womanizer, she's been experiencing a dry spell for the past... year.By choice. Kinda.She doesn't realize what's missing until she discovers a litter of kittens after a barn fire. The only one who can help is rural veterinarian Siobhan O'Connor, a reclusive woman who prefers a life of solitude - and doesn't need someone like Krys causing trouble in her life.Too bad Krys is instantly smitten with the redheaded beauty. Too bad Siobhan doesn't think she's too bad, either!But it will take a lot of healing for Siobhan to finally move on from the breakup that still haunts her heart. Someone like Krys? Her heat may start fires Siobhan never asks to have extinguished.
Author: Andrea Camilleri Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440698988 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” —Donna Leon When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vigàta and endure the August heat. Montalbano's long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friend—husband and young son in tow—to keep her company during these dog days of summer. But when the boy suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden under the family's beach rental, Montalbano, in pursuit of the child, uncovers something terribly sinister. As the inspector spends the summer trying to solve this perplexing case, Livia refuses to answer his calls-and Montalbano is left to take a plunge that will affect the rest of his life. Fans of the Sicilian inspector as well as readers new to the popular series will enjoy following the melancholy but unflinchingly moral Montalbano as he undertakes one of the most shocking investigations of his career.
Author: Jenny Plumb Publisher: Blushing Publications ISBN: 1645633306 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 178
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Angie's natural dominance has always served her well in both her job as a cop and her personal life as a Domme, but lately, she's been feeling unsatisfied. Deep down, she knows she's actually a switch, but letting out her submissive side has always seemed too risky. She's certain that her male co-workers would ridicule her if they knew and her male submissives would turn their backs on her. Even a new case, involving a shooting, mistaken identity, and a possible rapist on the loose can't alleviate her inner turmoil. Jessie is taking summer classes at the local college to get away from his disapproving mother. His submissive nature has been flourishing since forging a close friendship with fellow submissive, Olivia, and receiving acceptance and guidance from his new Domme, Angie. But he's been carrying around a secret that could ruin their budding relationship. Isaac's low-key dominance always helps him stay calm in a crisis, which is necessary for his job as an emergency medical technician. He knows what he wants in a submissive, and he thought he'd found the perfect woman a few years ago, but her addiction to pain medication had ended their relationship on a sour note. But playing with different women every night at the lifestyle club he frequents has started to lose its appeal. Angie decides the best way to explore her submissive nature is to go to a new lifestyle club, but when she runs into Isaac there, she's terrified. Not only does he know she's a cop, but they see each other at crime scenes all the time. Once he convinces her that he won't out her, he tries talking her into playing with him. But if she lets her submissive side out to play, what will that mean for her dominant side, and what will it mean for her male subs? Publisher's Note: This contemporary ménage contains themes of power exchange.
Author: Michael Mann Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0008222762 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 531
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NOW A NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat – an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film.
Author: Rachel Caine Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101133961 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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Mistaken for a murderer, Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is hunted down and killed by her colleagues. Reborn as a Djinn, she senses something sinister entering earth's atmosphere-something that makes tomorrow's forecast look deadly.
Author: Michael Lister Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1440530963 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 447
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From the pine-tree lined rural highways of North Florida through the tourist traps of Central Florida to the tropical, international environs of SOBE, come stories of sun-faded noir, orange pulp served up freshly squeezed by the Sunshine State’s very best practitioners.
Author: Richard C. Keller Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022625111X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 253
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In a cemetery on the outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of a hundred of what many have called the first casualties of global climate change. They are the so-called abandoned or forgotten victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck France in August 2003, leaving 15,000 people dead. They are those who died alone in Paris and its suburbs, buried at public expense when no family claimed their bodies. They died (and to a great extent lived) unnoticed by their neighbors, discovered in some cases only weeks after their deaths. And as with the victims of Hurricane Katrina, they rapidly became the symbols of the disaster for a nation wringing its hands over the mismanagement of the heat wave and the social and political dysfunctions it revealed. "Chasing Ghosts" tells the stories of these victims and the catastrophe that took their lives. It explores the official story of the crisis and its aftermath, as presented by the media and the state; the anecdotal lives and deaths of its victims, and the ways in which they illuminate and challenge typical representations of the disaster; and the scientific understandings of catastrophe and its management. It is at once a social history of risk and vulnerability in the urban landscape, and an ethnographic account of how a city copes with dramatic change and emerging threats.
Author: Mike Lupica Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780142407578 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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The #1 Bestseller! Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system—or worse, sent back to Cuba. Together, the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and anyone who asks too many questions. But then someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws. With no way to prove his age, no birth certificate, and no parent to fight for his cause, Michael’s secret world is blown wide open, and he discovers that family can come from the most unexpected sources. Perfect for any Little Leaguer with dreams of making it big--as well as for fans of Mike Lupica's other New York Times bestsellers Travel Team, The Big Field, The Underdogs, Million-Dollar Throw, and The Game Changers series, this cheer-worthy baseball story shows that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.
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