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He was a thirty-year-old bull rider. In his mind, he knew he was nearing the end of his career. But in his heart, he wasn’t ready to give it up. But we don’t always get what we want. Shortly after his thirty-first birthday, Cooper Calaway took his last ride. Suddenly forced to face a life without rodeo. Copper returned to the family ranch to heal. But even his loving family couldn’t keep him from spiraling from the pain and self-medicating. When Cooper finds a runaway horse and returns it to its owner, Lyric, a widow with two young boys, he gets a new perspective on dealing with loss.

1931. As Thomas Edison was dying, he left test tubes of what he believed would be his final breath, until it was. His intent was to leave his “last breath,” for his protégé, friend, and confidant, Henry Ford. But forty-two tubes were lost after he died. Then, year after year, one of the tubes of Edison’s breath would arrive at Ford’s Florida winter home where Ford would open it and breathe in the breath of his dead friend. He thought it brought him strength and wisdom.

Deputy Clementine Calaway spent her whole life trying to prove she was just as tough as her six older brothers. Becoming a deputy in the small town of Calaway Crossing was one way to do it. And it was relatively safe. She was related to half the people in a town whose crime rate was practically non-existent. She loved working with her Chief, the man who had been in charge of the department for thirty years. But an unexpected heart attack led to an early retirement for Chief Masters, and his replacement, an outsider, was a surprise to everyone.

Kalen’s world is turning upside down. His trusted partner, Mitchell, is in the hospital and the timing couldn’t be worse. The threat that Karina poses to his family grows by the hour as another mysterious threat emerges. Who is the man lying in a hospital bed named Max? Is he the victim of a stalker? Is he as innocent as he claims, or are there more complicated circumstances brewing under the surface?

Kalen needs to escape his prison, but the people who have taken him want something. What they want will end his life and put his long-time friend, Mitchell, in great danger. Kalen never saw the woman stuck on the side of the road with a broken-down car as a threat until it was too late. Now, his only link to Mitchell is the visions in his head of a terrible coming peril. A thrilling game of psychological terror is ongoing, and Kalen must find a way to help his partner.

A brutal killer haunts the streets of Kennington, leaving dead bodies in his wake–dead bodies, gruesome murder scenes, and nursery rhymes. The media dubs him NRK, the Nursery Rhyme Killer. When NRK targets his brother, ex-military intelligence analyst Owen Day taps into the skills he developed in the Army to bring the killer to justice–before he strikes again.

Being away at school has crushed Abby’s adventurous spirit, and she’s been counting the days until the end of the semester. When her brother Tanner shows up with devastating news, she packs up her dorm to head home to the Starlight Ranch. As she deals with a tragic loss, Abby reconnects with Skyler Fremont and discovers he’s engaged to the daughter of a wealthy ranching family from Dallas. The news is a shock and Abby is afraid in her absence her friend has become the person he always swore he wouldn’t.

Dr. Dean Graves, M.E. is asked to help the Atlanta Health Department investigate a respiratory illness that’s infecting—and killing—mostly young, healthy individuals. The victims of the deadly disease seem to be random, with no traceable source for the exposure. As the illness with a 100% mortality rate spreads across Georgia, including Augusta where Dr. Graves lives and works, he starts to question whether this could be an act of bioterrorism.

Moral Articulation outlines an ethical framework that allows us to embrace a version of the latter, transformative view without sacrificing notions of moral truth, objectivity, and knowledge. The book presents a view of moral meaningfulness as extending beyond what we can presently put into words, urging that expansions in our moral vocabularies often begin in dissonant experiences of conceptual and linguistic limits.

Kalen McDonald is a normal man with an exceptional gift and an unusual talent. Kalen has been blessed with a third sight. The visions that invade his mind show horrific scenes of death and murder. Kalen’s talent is the countermeasure to the things he is shown. Over the years, Kalen has honed his skill in eliminating the perpetrators of the violent crimes he sees. Kalen is a serial killer in his own right. The profile of his victims is a simple one: Kalen murders killers.

Tobias didn’t mind not being the oldest. He was actually glad. He got all the advantages of being a Carmichael without all the obligations. He wasn’t a slacker by any means. But he didn’t carry around the weight of the Starlight Ranch on his shoulders. While Deacon kept everything running smoothly, Tobias was out in the trenches, so to speak. He was a working cowboy and proud of it.

The mysterious man known as the Radio Killer has figured out where Kalen McDonald and his family live. It is only a matter of time before he strikes. He needs Kalen to die. He cannot continue his depraved game of murdering prostitutes with the Kalen hunting him, promising to end his life and his sadistic game. As the Radio Killer draws ever closer, another man comes to the attention of Kalen. He is a man who has determined he must have a woman he desires. The lovely Shelby Marris is in his crosshairs.

Tanner grew up as the sweet younger brother. He could live with that. And he was fine being an uncle to all his nieces and nephews. But marriage and children weren’t on his to-do list. When the new vet, Harper Waverly, moves to town, Tanner’s not sure what to think about her. With her vegetarian lifestyle and her holistic approach to healing, she’s out of place in cattle country.

Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened to undermine its aspirations and ideals, even its very existence. Spanning the period from the Revolution to the War of 1812, and focusing on the presidency of James Madison, it reveals a nation adjusting to rancorous partisan politics, aggravated by the untested and imperfect new tools of governance and the growing power of media.

It only took five months for Tanner to go from being single and happily unattached to becoming a married man. That is, if a northern Texas blizzard doesn't keep him and Harper from tying the knot.

The Whitecap Hotel is a former retreat, a vacationer’s castle amongst the Rocky Mountain Peaks. The Whitecap has been closed for years now, a fading memory in a Colorado tourist town. Someone, though, is breathing new life into the Whitecap. This person has created a game and Kalen and Tisha McDonald have been invited. The game is a murder mystery party to be held in the heart of the hotel. Multiple past employees of the Whitecap will attend with Kalen and his wife to help solve a murder. The crime has been presented to them as a fictitious evening of clue solving–but is it?

On a small poultry farm located in Delaney, Georgia, an antigenic shift causes the H7N9 bird flu virus to jump to other species. The contagion burns through everything in its path despite the federal government’s ham-handed efforts to mask its true nature. The unprecedented mortality rate paralyzes the nation and paves the way for establishing FEMA’s martial law across the country.

It was hard on Remington Calaway when Brynlee broke off their engagement and left town. But hearing she married someone else six months later was devastating. He learned to live with it after a while, and kept himself busy running the family restaurant and bar with his brother. The final straw was when Brynlee moved back to town and bought the struggling coffee shop down the street from Remington’s restaurant.

Kalen McDonald will find himself in one of the most unusual battles of his life as he faces off against Davie, a brilliant and psychopathic murderer. Kalen knows Davie, and he knows what he must do to save his family. What he doesn’t know is that another storm is brewing. Another killer, a woman, is coming and the only thing she wants in the entire world is - Kalen. His son Brent knows she’s coming and must convince him to take this emerging threat seriously. Brent can see a future and it’s possible that it won’t include his dad.

Something has invaded the homeless community in Fort Collins, Colorado. Violence in the streets has escalated beyond control. Peaceful people have suddenly become angry and aggressive, harming those around them. For Kalen McDonald, the impact of this trend is personal. A local homeless man, a friend, has begun to spin out of control, and Kalen witnesses his out-of-control rage in person. What or who is behind the drastic change in the people who have typically lived invisible, behind-the-scenes lives?