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The Merino Rose. Ted Spencer has a hard enough time believing the celebrated violin really exists. To find it sitting on his coffee table is nothing short of incredible. The stuff of legend, the exquisite Guarnerius has been missing for centuries. But even though the renowned instrument is a violin lover’s dream come true, it holds only heartache for Ted. The value of the Merino Rose may be beyond measure, but he has acquired it at too high a cost. Ted found his soul mate when he met Olivia de la Vega his senior year in high school. In the school’s production of Camelot, Ted was cast as Lancelot, Olivia as Guenevere. They should have spent their lives together but strings got in the way—family ties, career objectives, and the tangled web of fate. Will the Merino Rose bring the two star-crossed lovers together at last, or will their love always remain the melancholy sound of distant violins?
For the first time in over 20 years comes the definitive biography of the world's most famous Witch - Alex Sanders. For the first time ever, Jimahl do Fiosa tells the true story of the "King of the Witches" - neither demon nor saint - but somewhere in between the two. There are only 100 copies made of this book. They will be all numbered and signed by the author.
A scorching Las Vegas summer is about to get even hotter. Aspiring journalist Copper Black has just found out that her boyfriend is responsible for his not-quite-ex-wife’s pregnancy. An unexpected house-sitting job at a notorious Las Vegas “party house” should provide not only a private swimming pool but also much-needed distraction. While researching a story about an exclusive private school, Copper accidentally discovers the dead body of the school’s beloved founder. Now involved in a high-profile murder investigation, Copper turns to her brother, a civic-minded pastor who is overseeing the construction of a center for the homeless. A Paiute medicine man claims the site is a sacred burial ground, attracting hordes of protesters. As she tries to solve the murder, help her brother, advance her career, and sort out her love life, Copper stirs up a world of trouble. Her escapades as she evades a sociopath, a disturbed cowgirl, and a suspicious homicide detective make Megan Edwards’ rousing debut Getting Off on Frank Sinatra a nonstop roller coaster of a read.
A working girl is found dead in the desert. Can a calendar girl uncover the truth? In this award-winning prequel to GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, it’s Christmastime in Sin City. Aspiring journalist Copper Black meets Victoria McKimber, an outspoken prostitute at one of Nevada’s legal brothels. She’s offered Copper the exclusive right to tell her story. Not only will the Las Vegas Light’s “calendar girl” get a byline, but she can also impress her boyfriend and parents when they arrive for the holidays. Copper is busy with work, Christmas shopping, and fantasizing about a whole week with her long-distance boyfriend. She’s also helping her brother, a civic-minded pastor who is spearheading plans for a new center to serve the homeless. Things are hectic but under control when shocking news breaks. Victoria McKimber has turned up dead. As she investigates the violent death, Copper evades enemies, juggles boyfriend, work, and family, and races against time to save her brother from a sinister plot. Unless she can expose the truth about Victoria McKimber, somebody just might get away with murder. -- Megan Edwards
Their fifteen-year high school reunion proves fatal for The Six, a clique of popular bullies who made school hell for their classmates. Is one of their victims exacting revenge more than a decade later? Plastic surgeon Kate Dalton, who was the victim of bullying during high school, is the prime suspect in a murder investigation after members of the bullying clique, known as the Six, are killed. "A bullied teenager returns home to find someone killing off her former tormenters. Stuyck (A Novel Way to Die, 2008, etc.) offers a peek back into the creepy side of high school, with an equally creepy puzzle thrown in." —Kirkus Reviews
When a wildfire destroyed her home and worldly possessions in the hills above Los Angeles, it didn’t take Megan Edwards long to recognize an opportunity. It took her husband a little longer (“Give me five minutes to grieve!”), but they were both soon planning to make the most of their sudden “stufflessness” and hit the road. They did so a few months later in a freshly built four-wheel-drive motorhome that was even more unusual because of the office in the back instead of a bedroom. This all happened back when “Internet” had not yet entered the lexicon but “email” had. The mobile office would allow Edwards to file stories with the newspapers she wrote for by cell phone. That...
"Packed with over 200 funny signs, this book is the ultimate collection of accidentally entertaining bits of roadside Americana. Open to any page and you'll find an ironic, suggestive, mislabeled, off-color or otherwise amusing sign that was spotted and photographed by an everyday traveler on a road trip somewhere across America"--Back cover
Jewels Jones believed herself to be dull and unattractive. Living in the shadows of her empty life, where she was comfortable. Never wanting for attention and certainly never receiving it. Love didnt fit in the lonely and isolated world she created for herself. Until she received a special gift from her parents a two week European vacation. In a smoke filled pub, Jewels meets the perfect English gentleman, the strikingly handsome Kyle Edwards. While Kyle is on a Mini Holiday from his second home in California, he offers Jewels a personal tour around his home town, London. One weekend of sightseeing was all it took to change her life forever. The story begins During a romantic Valentines Day ...
This book examines the deep connection Australians have with their climate to understand contemporary views on human-induced climate change. It is the first study of the Australian relationship with La Niña and it explains how fundamental this relationship is to the climate change debate both locally and globally. While unease with the Australian environment was a hallmark of early settler relations with a new continent, this book argues that the climate itself quickly became a source of hope and linked to progress. Once observed, weather patterns coalesced into recognizable cycles of wet and dry years and Australians adopted a belief in the certainty of good seasons. It was this optimistic response to climate linked to La Niña that laid the groundwork for this relationship with the Australian environment. This book will appeal to scholars and students of the environmental humanities, history and science as well as anyone concerned about climate change.
The enemy of my enemy is my sister Career criminal Vic Doloro isn’t the kind of guy you’d send a card to on Father’s Day. Layla Shawn never has. She’s spent most of her thirty-two years estranged from her father and haunted by the mysterious death of her mother. Then Vic dies, leaving Layla—an unemployed artist—a tempting inheritance of ill-gotten money. Urging her to take the money is Vic’s other daughter, Bette, with whom Layla shares a troubled past. On a cross-country road trip, the two women mend fences, but Layla finds herself caught in the middle of an unsettled and lethal score between her father and a man who knows more than he should about her mother’s death. As Layla zeroes in on the truth and wrestles with her own demons, she finds herself face to face with a killer. -- Beth Castrodale