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The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard... Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer?

Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. In this brilliantly documented biography, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.

A surprise wedding invitation. A cliffside villa on the glittering Amalfi Coast. And a murdered guest before the celebrations even begin. Posie Parker has just landed in her most glamorous case yet. Amalfi Coast, Italy, Spring 1926. Posie Parker—London’s premier female sleuth—is abroad and moments from boarding her train home when an urgent telegram stops her in her tracks. An old friend is getting married in Italy, and Posie heads to the sun-soaked, secretive Villa Amalfi, a clifftop paradise with a dark past and a dazzling roster of American guests.

Midge Everette: I'm 41 today. It's my birthday, and I'm crying over burnt toast. That's not some euphemism. Literally, I'm sobbing over crusty bread, so I call a crisis center. I just need someone to talk to about life. Only I recognize the smoky voice of the man on the line. Sweet cheese, don't let it be... Hank Paige: As a former rock star, I once had it all. Fame. Fortune. Females. Except for the one thing I wanted most. Then I lost everything. I fix cars now and restore other people's dreams. I just want to be somebody's someone.

Sarah's been sequestered to her grandparents' house for the summer - again - and she's convinced it'll be the most boring summer ever. That is, until she discovers who's been stealing her grandmother's beets. It isn't long before Sarah realizes she's in for the adventure of a lifetime.

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is unforgivable. She wanted to forget her past. He wanted to change the course of his future. She was everything he never knew he needed. He became her unexpected. Everything was perfect. Until....

My name is Alexis, though everyone calls me Lexie. I'm a Necromancer. I see the dead, talk to them, and help them move on. Well, I used to. Now, with the Veil closed, I'm the only way for a soul to cross over. It's wearing me out, and according to my doctor, it's going to kill me. I don't know how to tell the guys. I'm working on it, but there is so much going on right now; Isaac's acting strange, Ethan's worried that his brother isn't eating or sleeping, Asher's dad is back, and Tara is still snooping around my bedroom. My symptoms are getting worse, and we're running out of time.

With the Veil finally open, I hoped that would be the end of the fight. But I was wrong. Jadis is still in town, people are still going missing, and things are getting worse. Choices will be made, lives will be lost, and friendships tested. Not all family is blood; not every family is the norm. What would you do to hold onto yours?

The Reconstruction Essentials Collection gathers ten works on slavery, emancipation, race, memory, leadership, and the long aftermath of the Civil War. This collection offers a powerful body of testimony and historical reflection on the central struggles of nineteenth-century America.

She was the good girl raised to follow the rules. He was the street king who made his own. Twenty years later, fate is ready to play dirty. Chanel "Channy" Davis had plans. Graduate, leave Crestwood behind, and never look back. But the night her first love, Xavier, is ripped away in a blur of...

He didn’t ask for my heart. He took it with his teeth. KinsleyI hate jocks. The swagger. The entitlement. The way they look at girls like we’re trophies. West Monroe is the worst of them. Hockey captain. Heartbreaker. He’s fast, brutal, and untouchable. And for some reason, he wants me. It starts with a dare. One kiss. One secret. One night I can’t take back. Now he’s everywhere—In my classes. My texts. My head. He doesn’t care that I’m not like the others. He doesn’t care that I told him no. He wants me in his jersey. In his bed. In his blood. And the worst part? I want him too.

Hosted by Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman, Redacted Opinions, Unfiltered and Raw is a YouTube podcast featuring candid conversations on current events, security, public safety, risk, leadership, and the issues shaping our communities. Direct, honest, and unscripted.Whether you agree or disagree, this is the conversation your risk manager should be having. Unfiltered. Raw. Redacted.🎙️ Follow Redacted Opinions on LinkedIn | Available on Spotify and all major podcast platforms.

Ten years ago, Ayva Lenox did something she never does: she stopped planning and said yes. A Bentley arrived. A stranger waited. And for two days, she remembered what it meant to feel alive. Now, success surrounds her, but satisfaction does not. Between company launches and late-night loneliness...

Damned by gods and threaded by fates, two mortals must embrace the darkness to find their true destinies. Lilith Clarke is supposed to be dead: murdered by the vicious King Oren, her blood staining a field of daisies. But death would have been merciful. After years of having no name, she is...

Silence betrayed her, rage will define her. In a world where shadows lurk and silence screams, Raine has lived under the suffocating thumb of her father, a man whose twisted desires have turned her life into a waking nightmare. When Cole “Huxley” Rhodes, an undercover special ops agent, enters her life, everything changes. Tasked with dismantling her father's dark empire, he is drawn to Raine—not just as a mission, but as a woman who ignites a fire within him that he never expected.

He didn’t steal my innocence. He rewrote it in blood. BlairI live by rules. They keep me clean. Untouched. Invisible. I used to be the girl no one saw. The quiet one. The awkward one. The one who flinched when people got too close. Then Kane Fischer looked at me. The first to see me instead of through me. And everything I built to keep myself safe began to rot. He’s my best friend’s older brother. The one with the bruised knuckles and the blacked-out Range Rover. The one who never noticed me—until I changed. Now he breaks in. To my room. My routines. My skin. He says I belong to him.

Dart Rivers is my ex-husband, or so I thought. Three years ago, he drove out of our small town to chase racing dreams, leaving me and my broken heart in his rearview mirror. Couple goals and shattered promises brought feelings of failure on both our parts.

He took her voice. She will take time. Thealina's husband carved out her tongue, silenced her in the most barbaric way, but not her will to fight. After decades of emotional abuse, this brutal act of violence pushes Thealina to fight back! Determined to reclaim her stolen voice and identity, she...

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela.

True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary on the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. In this second edition, the scholarship is cutting-edge, updated, and expanded to be in tune with African American culture, education, and churches.