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This collection contains: Twelve Years a Slave, Up from Slavery, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains), The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, and many more.

From USA Today best-selling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes double the murder and double the sleuthing in a Danger Cove Crossover event! The Danger Cove Lighthouse Farmers' Market is holding a salsa contest to celebrate the tomato harvest, and market manager Maria Dolores is thrilled by the large number of entries. But when the judge, a local sports coach, goes missing, Maria realizes she isn't the only person looking for him. He may have information on the recent murder of a quilt collector, so appraiser Keely Fairchild has some questions for him.

Quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild just wants to have a quiet little Thanksgiving dinner at home with her boyfriend, but as the guest list grows, so do the distractions from meal preparations. First, she gets dragged into investigating the theft of miniature quilts that were supposed to be featured in the guild's entry in the Danger Cove Thanksgiving Parade.

Starships come in many shapes and sizes. Their crews and passengers are an eclectic lot. They venture into the deep voids of space on their assigned missions. Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they do not. This collection tells the stories of the crews and passengers aboard six of these starships.

It's Independence Day weekend, and Maria Dolores is the new manager of the Lighthouse Farmers' Market. From the very beginning, though, events conspire against her. Her mentor and attractive local farmer, Merle Curtis, fails to show up to introduce her to the vendors, the stalls are all in the wrong place, and an earthquake shakes up everyone in the market! In its aftermath, Maria realizes the flower vendor is more than shaken up.... She's dead.

You know the tale of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. But what happened after Ebenezer Scrooge turned his life around? What about those that helped to rescue him? Charles Dickens’ redemption story is not just about saving one man, but about saving many. Return to the world of Dickens’ best-loved story to see how other characters were redeemed through the efforts to save one cranky old miser.

Hosted for Season one and two by Elizabeth Bowman, former Editor-in-Chief of Opera Canada. Season three will be hosted by Michael Jones, the new Editorial Director of Opera Canada. This is a place to hold discussions about the opera business that are tougher to editorialize in print and to expand on the current whims of the business.

Have you ever felt like one of the least of these? What do you know of the woman at the well? What led her to the well that day - the exact day Jesus would be there? What of the lepers, the blind man, the woman who dried Jesus' feet with her hair? What of the Centurion who said at the cross, "Surely this was the Son of God?"

For quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild, the opportunity to appraise more than a hundred quilts feels almost too good to be true. And then, she learns the bad news: The quiltmaker was murdered and the police have no leads. Keely suspects that the quilts hold the key to the dead woman's death as well as to her life. While looking for answers in the quilts, Keely uncovers a variety of suspects, including the greedy heir, a smarmy used-car salesman, a feuding neighbor, and even a rival quiltmaker.

Quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild is thrilled that the Danger Cove Quilt Guild has teamed up with the Historical Museum to make miniature quilts to decorate the museum's Christmas tree. To join in the holiday spirit, she offers free appraisals of holiday quilts during the ornament-making workshop.

Keely Fairchild left her previous profession as a high-powered attorney to lead a quieter life as a certified quilt appraiser. But when she's asked by the Danger Cove quilt guild's president to prove that a local dealer is selling cheap reproduction quilts as expensive antiques, Keely's "quiet" new job turns dangerous. While Keely and the guild president are in the dealer's shop, the crooked quilt peddler is killed.

It's Halloween, and Maria Dolores is hoping for a trouble-free weekend, the last one before the Lighthouse Farmers' Market closes for the winter. But her hopes are dashed when a state agricultural inspector threatens to shut down the market prematurely...right before a young woman falls to her death from the lighthouse cliff! The local homicide detective thinks it was suicide and won't listen to Maria's extensive list of possible suspects for foul play or the fact that the victim was known for getting into fights that went beyond mere words. Now, it's up to Maria to unearth a secret.

The year is 2037. The Earth is about to be destroyed along with the human race. Fortunately, Aaden’s father is an astronaut. Unfortunately, Aaden’s family is not on the planet’s escape list. With only two weeks before Mercury blasts through the Earth, the Prescott family must travel by foot to the Ophir mountains in Utah where a space plane is waiting. They must hide themselves within the plane’s walls and escape Earth before it’s too late.

Labor Day weekend starts with a bang in Danger Cove when a dead body is found in the orchard of Maria Dolores' mentor and maybe-boyfriend, Merle! While it's clear the murder took place long ago, the police are still keeping Merle tied up, leaving Maria on her own to run the local farmers' market. She's prepared for the petty squabbles, disorganized vendors, and even a rowdy group of costumed pirates - it comes with the territory. But she isn't prepared for the fresh body found in an isolated corner of the market!

When Janice Ingledue, 70, is found dead in the cellar of an old inn with the tips of her shoes and fingers emerging from the cement-like ice, there is only one thing that they can do....

When 18-year-old Brianne James discovers a murdered young girl at Montgomery Park - a 15-year-old who has been left for dead in the icy snow - there is only one thing she can do: search for the killer. Brianne has a nose for sleuthing. She can connect with people; even scary people. She has the smarts to solve even the most underhanded crime, and she can solve it with or without the help of the police or her parents. When it comes to Conner Ryan, however, his unrelenting assistance is quite another story.

When a young woman is found dead at the yearly Halloween Bazaar, Susan's life becomes anything but easy. So, she's a magnet again, attracting death like lint. In the midst of Henry's heart problems and her daughter's great desire to be the next teen detective, Susan is befuddled about the murder weapon. A stiletto heel of all things. Her family wants to help. Well, all except for Oscar. Still, finding the murderer of a college student is about as easy as eating mud pie, or the not too distant - runny egg.

What would you do if you returned home from vacation only to find out that someone you knew had been murdered? Would you plan your life as far away from any and all connections? Would you get a new alarm system for your house? Move to another state? Try to find the killer? Find out what Susan does, whom she meets, and what finally opens her mind to the truth - the whole hard boiled truth. It may be the hardest reality she's ever faced.

A leisurely vacation turns deadly when an old man falls dead at Susan's feet on the cruise ship Aloha. Was she some sort of death magnet? Maybe so. Maybe not. One thing was for sure. Through the lies, secrets, and surprises to be discovered on board and off, Susan will learn at least one important thing, and this thing called "love" will be something she wished had never followed her out to the high seas.

What happens to an unhappy woman who leaves her husband only to discover that she may have just made a terrible mistake? So horrible, her choice threatens to end her very life?