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Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience’s attention. Her latest story - a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal - is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner’s office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: The victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a chilling last phone call to her sister, Victoria begged her to prove her innocence.

From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible...

Marianne Bohr and her husband, about to turn sixty, are restless for adventure. They decide on an extended, desolate trek across the French island of Corsica—the GR20, Europe’s toughest long-distance footpath—to challenge what it means to grow old. Part travelogue, part buddy story, part memoir, The Twenty is a journey across a rugged island of stunning beauty little known outside Europe.

Als DCI Adam Bishop mitten in der Nacht am Tatort eintrifft, ist der Anblick der ausgebluteten Leiche schon schlimm genug – aber was Adam als Nächstes bemerkt, erschüttert ihn zutiefst. Weitere Leichen tauchen auf. Und die aufgesprühten Zahlen über den Leichen offenbaren die grausame Wahrheit: Der Killer zählt den Countdown. Aber mit welchem Ziel? Adam hat keine Ahnung – bis Dr. Romilly Cole mit belastenden Beweisen an seine Tür klopft, die auf eine dreißig Jahre zurückliegende Mordserie hindeuten – ein Fall, den sie aus ihrer Vergangenheit bestens kennt.

A Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal...

Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties—Florida’s fifth mass shooting in as many years—in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize–winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious...

Each year the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets the Doomsday Clock after consultation with its board of sponsors, which includes nine winners of the Nobel Prize. The clock is a universally recognized indicator of the world's vulnerability to global catastrophe brought about by man-made technologies. On January 29, 2025, the Atomic Scientists shifted the clock's hands to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the combined threats of climate change, nuclear war, and misuse of artificial intelligence.

Are you ready to find the love of your life? Are you tired of dating all the wrong people? If you are ready for some doses of reality, ready to stop hurting about a relationship and ready to start a path of wonder, romance and finding the right person for you... and ready to change... you have the right book in your hands. The Twenty — things you need to learn in order to find the love of your life. This book can change your current relationship, your future relationships and make love and life more rewarding and romantic. Are you ready for love?

Plants are easier than people - that’s Leo’s rule of thumb. After all, nobody really wants a man who looks like he belongs in a biker gang but would rather spend his time buried in books and flowers. It’s just easier to be single. Until he meets the owner of the new book shop. Jacob Morris knows two things: He’s really attracted to the man who runs the local flower shop, and he doesn’t date. Not when he’s still healing from a bad breakup, has a new business to run, game nights to organize, workshops to host, and a website to build.

The most exciting underwater adventure ever! In 1866 a mysterious giant whale savagely attacks ships in international seas. A famous French marine biologist, Pierre Aronnax, joins the hunt to track down and incapacitate the creature. With him are his loyal servant, Conseil, and redoubtable Canadian harpooner Ned Land. They soon find that their enemy is no sea beast but a brilliantly designed submarine. They are captured and imprisoned by its master, the sinister Captain Nemo.

Hello! You’re very welcome to Twenty-Five. hosted by me, Clodagh Traynor. In this series, I sit with South Armagh women as they reflect on their life when they were around the age of 25.The purpose of this podcast is to act as a time capsule, preserving and amplifying the stories of South Armagh women, in their own words, so they can be heard now and in the future.Each episode starts with similar questions, but what I found is that every woman has a completely different experience of that time in her life. And at the same time, we get to see the thread that connects us, no matter the era or ...

In 1866, sightings of a legendary sea monster prompt a daring expedition out of New York City. Professor Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and whaler Ned Land are among the crew of the United States Navy frigate Abraham Lincoln. Though they are fearless, nothing prepares them for the "creature" itself - the Nautilus - a powerful, destructive submarine years ahead of its time. At the helm of the vessel is the brilliant Captain Nemo, who pulls the men deep into the wonders of the seas and the dark depths of his mind.

Stephanie Plum is back in all-new adventure from #1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich.

This is the omnibus of the first three books in the urban fantasy series Twenty-Sided Sorceress, collected together for the first time in one convenient volume.

The plan is simple: Get accepted into a PhD program. Though the odds seem impossibly long, an objective analysis of the deliverables yields promise. An essay, a standardized test, a handful of convincing recommendations? Certainly these are items that can be willed into existence. But let us not be fooled. We are embarking on a full year of unwavering focus and studious virtue. There can be no distractions, no digressions, no sudden feats of fleeting whimsy.

In 1941 Hollywood, a movie studio hires a down-and-out private eye to watch one of their leading ladies, an actress who thinks she’s being stalked. Is there really a mysterious man after her? After another actress is brutally slain, the detective discovers the truth, uncovering corruption deep within the studio system.

Returning east for the reading of his first wife’s Will, a desperate man - drunk and down to his last penny - is pushed over the edge when he learns that another man is the sole beneficiary. How far will he go to get what he believes he’s due? And afterwards, will he be able to escape the long arm of the law? Set in 1951 and written in the style of noir master Jim Thompson, Police at the Funeral is the third volume of Ariel S. Winter’s extraordinary debut novel, The Twenty-Year Death.

1931 - The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man’s beautiful daughter - and to her hot-tempered American husband. 1941 - A hardboiled private eye hired to keep a movie studio’s leading lady happy uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet. 1951 - A desperate man pursuing his last chance at redemption finds himself with blood on his hands and the police on his trail...

Mercury Raine has spent his entire life surrounded by ghosts. Little about them can surprise him any longer. But when the Violet Giant, a ghost well over seven feet tall and built like a boulder, floats into his local pub, Mercury is as shocked as everyone else. And when the mysterious mountain of a specter knows Mercury at first glance, he is justifiably wary. Mercury’s identity is a closely guarded secret. His past is a mystery even to himself. And, for the first time in his life, the fortifications around his heart have begun to crack.

Erewhon began as a ten-by-twenty-foot basement on Newbury Street in 1960s Boston: planks on cinder blocks, barrels of brown rice and miso, and a macrobiotic couple convinced that changing what people eat could change how they live. Half a century later, the same name has become global shorthand for twenty-dollar smoothies, paparazzi-stalked parking lots, leather grocery totes on a Balenciaga runway, and a Tribeca gourmet market instantly christened “the Erewhon of New York.