The author of the celebrated memoir Blue Blood (“May be the best account ever written of life behind the badge.” —Time) delivers a mesmerizing, relentless thriller that rings with the truth of what it takes to be an NYPD detective. Nick Meehan is introspective, haunted, and burned out on the Job. He is transferred to a squad in the upper reaches of Manhattan and paired with Esposito—a hungry, driven cop who

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A collection of stories includes an original novella and a selection of speculative-fiction tales that reflects the author's visions about the origins of life and the state of the universe in the near and distant future.

You'll never look at a hand-me-down dresser the same way again! This book offers twenty-six easy-to-follow techniques that can be applied to all different types of pieces, from bookshelves to desks: painting, applying gold leaf, wallpapering, distressing, dip dyeing, and more. In addition to the core techniques, author and Knack Studios founder Barb Blair shares thirty beautiful before-and-after makeovers from her studio and outlines how to achieve...

Psychic master talent Sykes Millet can vanish at will, read minds and control others with hypnosis. What Sykes can't escape is his destiny - an ancient curse foretelling the misery his dark beauty may bring to everyone he loves. Poppy Fortune knows all too well the burden of having paranormal gifts. The supernatural world has fractured her entire family, and now it's keeping the one man she wants more than life itself at bay. Driven by hatred for...

After single college professor Joy Harkness takes a position at Amherst College, she begins to restore the old Victorian home she lives in, meets a friendly handyman and embraces the close-knit community, all of which gives her a new lease on life.

In many ways, Reeve LeClaire looks like a typical twenty-two-year-old woman. She has finally landed her own apartment in San Francisco, she waitresses to pay the bills, and she wishes she weren't so nervous around new people. She sees herself as living a pleasant structured life. But Reeve's life has been anything but normal. Ten years ago, she was kidnapped and held captive for four years. After a lucky escape, she has spent the past six years working...

Running a Kabul coffee shop that is patronized by ex-pats, American Sunny reaches out to a growing circle of new friends including a pregnant rape victim, a journalist with a painful secret, and a den mother who is engaged in a complicated affair.

For Cassie Beaumont, it's meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing's worked. Not blind dates, not the Internet and certainly not leaving love to chance. What's left? A professional matchmaker. He's Simon Dodson, and he's very choosy about the clients he takes on. Cassie finds Simon a di[fb03] cult, acerbic know-it-all, and she's astonished when he accepts her as a client. Claiming he has...

As young vampires, Larten Crepsley and his blood brother Wester travel widely, trying to experience fully the violent, hedonistic pleasures of the human world before committing to the vampire life.