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Ann Silver is a cop’s cop. As the Midwest Homicide Investigator, she is called in to help local law enforcement on the worst of cases, looking for answers to murder. Hers is one of the region’s most trusted investigative positions. Paul Falcon is the FBI’s top murder cop in the Midwest. If the victim carried a federal badge or had a security clearance, odds are good Paul and his team see the case file or work the murder. Their lives intersect when Ann arrives to pass a case off her desk and onto his.

With the public eye fixed on the governor's new Missing Persons Task Force, Detective Evie Blackwell and her new partner, David, are under pressure to produce results. While they investigate two missing persons cases in Chicago, Evie and David's conviction that justice is truly possible for all will be tested to the limit.

King of comedy? Well if anyone were to be accorded that accolade right now it would have to be Peter Kay. In the last five years he has risen to the top of the comedy world with astonishing speed. He has had record-breaking tours, TV shows, and even a number-one single. Add to that an appearance in Dr Who and what else is there left to do? More of the same one suspects, as Kay is still a young man.

When Simon walks into Jay's bar for a drink, he never expects to find himself having an afternoon quickie in the back room. Although attracted to the hot bartender, Simon's never had a real relationship and isn't ready for that kind of commitment. Jay is ready for Mr. Right, and when he meets hot, hunky Simon, he believes he's found his match. But convincing the reserved man that their brief encounter could become something more will take all his persuasive skills.

Evie Blackwell loves her life as an Illinois state police detective...mostly. She's very skilled at investigations and has steadily moved up through the ranks. She would like to find Mr. Right, but she has a hard time imagining how marriage could work, considering the demands of her job.

Following the huge success of his sell-out 100-date UK tour, the nation's favourite deadpan stand-up returns to the Hammersmith Apollo to deliver some of his most scathing and hilarious material for years.

When Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny boarded a train to help the Reddimus Society return a stolen treasure, they didn't plan on traveling around the world. But after a close call with the society's archrivals - the Argents - it's now up to the Boxcar Children to return the remaining six artifacts to their rightful homes. As the children travel through Egypt, Kenya, England, and Italy, can they stay one step ahead of those trying to sabotage their plans?

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny didn't think the old trunk in their house held anything interesting. But an unusual statue they find inside leads them to the Reddimus Society, a secret guild dedicated to returning lost treasures to where they belong. Now the Aldens must help their new friends by traveling across the country with the statue and six mysterious boxes! Can the Boxcar Children keep these seven treasures out of the wrong hands?

For the first time, comedian Jack Dee reveals the highs and lows of his early life and disastrous day jobs. You don't just wake up jaundiced and bitter; it's taken Jack years of dedication and commitment to brew his unique cocktail of disillusionment and bile. What turned this once optimistic young man into a grumpy middle-aged git? Was it working in an artificial-leg factory?

Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions. Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated.

The president's retreat, Camp David, is one of the safest places in the United States. So why can't the President's son, Luke, and his friends Theo and Callie stay there without Secret Service agents constantly hovering over them, watching their every move? And yet, when an earthquake sets off a raging wildfire, causing a chain reaction that wreaks havoc at Camp David, they are suddenly on their own. Now Luke needs a plan....

After her divorce, librarian Annie Reynolds thought she'd closed the book on love for good - it just wasn't part of her safe, comfortable routine. But if there's anyplace she can relax and have a little fun, it's Dune Road, where she and her closest girlfriends return for their annual getaway in the Hamptons. She knows it's just what she needs to escape her empty nest (and empty bed).

Attenårige Bella er rejst på kibbutzophold i Israel; hendes mor, Julie, er blevet hjemme i København. De skriver lange breve til hinanden, fortæller hinanden om deres daglige tilværelse, indgående, kærligt, forstående. Det bliver imidlertid hurtigt klart, at alt ikke er så idyllisk, som de hver for sig gerne vil give indtryk af, og deres breve bliver efterhånden et skarpere og skarpere opgør om den opvækst og den opdragelse, datteren og hendes to søskende har været udsat for i et "progressivt" miljø i 1970'ernes og 1980'ernes København.

Fysikeren Lennart og forfatteren Nana er midt i en stor forelskelse. De rejser sammen og de rejser alene og medbringer begge foruden rygsæk og skitsebøger en usynlig bagage fra tidligere liv. Undervejs konfronterer de i deres breve hinanden med forskellige opfattelser af først og fremmest kærligheden, men også alt andet mellem himmel og jord - børn, bøger, billeder, venner, andre relationer, livet... Både Lennart og Nana tror, at de har lagt deres fortid bag sig. Men det billede, de hver for sig tegner af sig selv, krakelerer med uventede og intense følelsesmæssige eksplosioner til følge.

I Dea Trier Mørchs roman "Aftenstjernen" udfoldes historien om tre søskende, der efter et ni måneder langt sygdomsforløb har måttet tage afsked med deres kræftsyge mor og som sammen opholder sig i et sommerhus for at rydde op efter hendes død. I løbet af oprydningen bearbejdes tanker og følelser om sygdommen og sorgen. Romanen leger samtidig med forskellige genrer og skifter mellem portræt, debat og lyrik.

"Vinterbørn" foregår på fødeafdelingen på Rigshospitalet omkring nytår 1975. Her flettes vidt forskellige kvindeskæbner sammen. De kommer fra forskellige dele af samfundet, fra forskellige familieforhold og med forskellige værdigrundlag. Men på hospitalet ophæves forskellene, de bliver klædt i ens hospitalsskjorter og har alle lige svært ved at sove i den kølige hospitalsnat. "Vinterbørn" er en bog, som fortæller om et bestemt sted på et bestemt tidspunkt - Rigshospitalet i vinteren 1975-1976, men den fortæller også om noget almenmenneskeligt.

This bundle includes three romantic suspense novels: Betrayal, Deadly Isle, and Code of Ethics.

Saki has always followed the Blossom girls' house rules: Thou shalt prank the Dudes, thy beautiful fraternity neighbors, all day, every day; thou shalt not lose thy heart to them: no fraternizing with the arch-frat-enemy. Easy enough, right? Minor complication one: Saki gets warm all over whenever she sees Picasso, the dark-haired, hyper-sensual painting student with bright grey eyes, over there in the Dude den. Minor complications two through five: Picasso is head-over-heels for Saki, has an obsessive personality, and craves working her up. He brushes up against her.

The all-girls, non-sorority house on Blossom Field Avenue number 246 is across the street from the home of the gorgeous jerks of the Iota Fraternity. The only thing the two houses agree on is that they live and breathe for the next battle in the longest standing prank war in the history of rivalries. But the real challenge is the one I never saw coming: an alliance with Lucian, who lives in number 247 and is the hottest stripper-slash-social-science student you'll ever meet.

Criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee goes behind bars to get the last word from some of the worst criminals in the world. They speak of their violence and shocking deeds in their own words, from within some of the hardest prisons on earth. These interviews have been collated into this disturbing and unflinching analysis of the criminal mind. Here is what happens when you meet the people most of us know only from our nightmares and newspaper headlines.