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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.

In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery and his age, which was put at over 5,000 years, fascinated scientists and newspapers throughout the world. But what made Sykes's story particularly revelatory was his successful identification of a genetic descendant of the Ice Man, a woman living in Great Britain today. How was Sykes able to locate a living relative?

As war moves ever closer, the sleepy English village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. The nightly German air raids become grimly mundane. Rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge a bond of friendship that will change their lives forever in this engrossing novel of loyalty, loss, and love in the shadow of World War II.With the hardships of war intensifying every day, the women band together to defeat formidable enemies and find remarkable strength within themselves to help one another. It is a war-forged loyalty certain to endure years and distance. When four of the women return for a celebration fifty years later, their mission is not simply to commemorate or remember. They’ve returned to confront a traitor whose actions cost countless lives — and to avenge one of their own at last.

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Cooper didn’t mean to summon a demon. He may be a hacker for the Mafia, but he’s not exactly brave or adventurous by nature. He was only trying to do a small, easy job for his terrifying boss and then get back to not leaving the house for days on end. Only now that the demon’s here, promising to be Cooper’s friend for as long as he needs one, Cooper might just be lonely enough to let him.

The case began in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1922 and lasted for over a decade. The killer has never been found, and the case continues to fascinate true-crime aficianados. A bon vivant Episcopal minister, a not-so-virginal soprano in his choir. The wealthy wife. Her oddball brother. Their furtive maid. The snooping congregants. The bumbling detectives. And in the denouement, a trial, one of the more notable of America’s Jazz Age, covered by the likes of Damon Runyon, Dorothy Dix and James Thurber. All of it hanging on the dramatic testimony of a single, strange witness.

Ideation. Transition. Execution. These are the three stages of business growth every C-suite leader must navigate throughout the life of their company. Surviving each one is not good enough. You want to thrive, evolve, and, when necessary, transform. But who do you market to? What do you need to operate effectively? When can you scale your business, and in which areas can you grow the most?

Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. The #1 New York Times bestseller from “America’s historian-in-chief” (New York magazine). An...

Après la tentative de meurtre de Perceval sur le roi Arthur, Marvin et ses compagnons doivent fuir et se cacher. Poursuivis par les chevaliers qui cherchent à venger leur souverain, soumis aux épanchements de Perceval qui se désespère de Guenière et contraints de disparaître afin de sauver leur vie, les aventuriers trouveront refuge dans le monastère du Prieur Lothaire du Trou d’aile de l’Ordre de l’Asne, un fieffé harpagon.

New York Times Bestseller Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor! A gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi...

When a Republic spy goes missing on the Moons of Varl, the Jedi Council asks Obi-Wan and Anakin to infiltrate an underground podracing circuit run by a crime boss believed to be holding the spy prisoner. With Anakin posing as a hotshot racer and Obi-Wan as his attendant, tensions between the two threaten to run even higher than usual. But when Obi-Wan is forced to leave Varl, Anakin is on his own as he faces a series of increasingly treacherous races that will determine his fate—and that of the spy.

The chronically shy Erin flees University is not for her and blunders into a foreign student from Italy. Gianna is confident, sassy and eccentric, everything Erin's not, and for some reason, she's taking the timid girl under her wing. It should never have happened, they were so different, yet unexpectedly, they fall in love. Then Gianna disappears. When fate repeatedly conspires to remind Erin of her lost love, she must decide whether to risk destroying everything she's built to find her.

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit.

Being close to God means communicating with him—telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and hearing, and understanding what he is saying to us. But how do we hear God's voice? How can we be sure that what we think we hear is not our own subconscious? What role does the Bible play? What if what God says to us is not clear? The key, says bestselling author Dallas Willard, is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on building our personal relationship with our Creator.

An anthology celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Predator franchise, If It Bleeds includes 17 brand new, never-before-seen or heard stories featuring the Predators throughout space and time. Based entirely on the original films, novels, and comics, Predator: If It Bleeds reveals the Predators stalking prey in 12th-century Japan, ninth-century Viking Norway, World War I, Vietnam, the Civil War, Hurricane Katrina, and the modern day, as well as across the far reaches of future space.

For over 100 years, Insurers have stood by customers at some of the toughest moments in their lives, and helped allow people to go about their lives and pursue their business ideas without having to worry about the risks involved. Today, those customers have different expectations for how they want to do business and be served. And those expectations are changing faster than ever before. The industry has faced many headwinds, making it difficult to keep up with change - regulation, bureaucracy, system constraints, past technology project pain, thin margins, etc.

Do you want to learn how to take advantage of one of the most powerful social and business platforms? Would you like to know how you can build a professional rapport along with providing goods and services to people? Then look no further, as this audiobook covers the essentials for using LinkedIn for business ventures and for selling! LinkedIn is a beast of a social and business platform and there’s so much to learn. With the content in this audiobook, it will help you get up to speed on how you can learn all of this information and apply the information, today!

An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No." Fifty years...

This program is read by the author, Kenan Thompson, beloved longest-tenured cast member in Saturday Night Live history. This hilarious new audiobook is perfect for fans of Jory John and Grumpy Monkey. Unfunny Bunny offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your...

「スター・ウォーズ／ファントム・メナス (エピソード1)」の３年後、ジェダイ・ナイトのオビ＝ワン・ケノービと彼のパダワンのアナキン・スカイウォーカーは、スリリングな銀河系の冒険に乗り出す。共和国の情報士官がヴァールの月で行方不明になり、ジェダイ評議会はオビ＝ワンとアナキンに闇ポッドレース・サーキットへの潜入を命じる。士官はサーキットを運営する犯罪組織のボスに捕らえられているらしい。凄腕のレーサーに変装したアナキンと、彼の従者に変装したオビ＝ワンの間の緊張は普段以上に高まりそうだ。