The second novel in the PI Jim Keegan series.A reclusive millionaire hires PI Jim Keegan to look after her interests, she is currently hidden away at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel. All Keegan has to do is humour her, keep her important papers in his office safe, and make weekly checks of her LA properties, but within a week she goes missing. Keegan suspects her ne'er-do-well young nephew of murder-but all the evidence he can find is circumstantial,...

When the Heir to the Firstborn is chosen by the Mother, the lore dictates that they must find their Companions among the tribes, and the first of those shall be Water. But when Aeris, oldest daughter and Heir to Firstborn Aria makes her Progress, her Water is nowhere to be found. The lore has once more been broken, threatening to throw the world out of balance. Two years later, as Aeris comes of age and continues to seek her missing Companion, an...

Danger lurks while love blossoms in Shirlee McCoy's exciting stories Valley of Shadows It isn't just DEA agent Hawke Morran who's at risk when his undercover assignment is blown. The lovely Miranda Shelton saved him-;so now she's in danger, too. It's up to Hawke to keep them both safe. His heart will accept nothing less. Stranger in the Shadows When disaster shatters Chloe Davidson's life, she comes home to Lakeview, Virginia, to find some peace....

Three Warriors have fallen, stricken by a mysterious malady. To save them, another Warrior must lead four green trainees into the last place on Earth any sane person would venture....the Valley of Shadow. Once the domain of a madman, the fog-shrouded stew of virulent toxins harbors creatures born of nightmare. To make it there alive is the ultimate challenge. To make it out again is a feat few have achieved. The 30th book in the long running...

A paratrooper's memoir of survival and close-quarters combat in WWII: "Well worth reading" (Flight Journal). When Dwayne Burns turned eighteen, he decided he wanted to fight alongside America's best. He joined the paratroopers and was assigned to the 508th Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. Little did he suspect that a year later he'd be soaring in a flak-riddled C-47 over Normandy, part of the very spearhead of the Allied drive to seize back...

Have you ever wondered how to escape from depression? Or indeed, how to help someone escape from such a prison? This book finally opens up the doors to a mysterious world that an outsider cannot normally experience. Up until now, there existed an almost unbridgeable gap between the 'normal' world and the 'depressed person's' world. Using a personable and honest narrative, the text provides a unique window of experiential understanding, whereby the...

The season premiere finds Johnny still shaken by his Armageddon visions and growing increasingly obsessed with Stillson whom he's secretly investigating.

When two daughters of the South, Director Frances Causey and Producer Sally Holst, set out to find causes for the continuing racial divisions in the United States, they discovered that the politics of slavery didn’t end after the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the history of anti-black racism in the United States, THE LONG SHADOW traces the blunt imposition of white privilege and its ultimate manifestation-slavery. Causey and Holst...

With the world's media attention focused on repression in Syria and the threat to the Euro, the Indian state of Kashmir, nestling in the shadow of the Himalayas, is in danger of becoming a forgotten conflict. But two years back this Valley in the shadow of the Himalayas erupted in some of the most violent street protests it has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of stone-throwing teenagers took aim at heavily armed Indian Security Force troops, who...

Caleb Kenna's vertiginous views of Vermont invite a new way of looking at the Green Mountain State. These stunningly abstract drone images reveal hidden patterns and are rich with detail, color, shadow, and mood. Tractor tracks on a field in Weybridge; fresh snowfall on an apple orchard in Cornwall; the swirling Nulhegan River in Brunswick. The 130 color photographs, most of them taken around the Champlain Valley, were inspired by Alfred Stieglitz's...