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After Jacob Friedman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, dies at the age of ninety-eight, his daughter, Ellen Singer, finds a stack of love letters he wrote in 1947 to a Mennonite farm girl named Anna. With the help of two good friends, Ellen matches her father’s letters to Anna’s corresponding diary entries and recon-structs their unlikely romance. Love, Faith, and the Dented Bullet is the story of two emotionally damaged people from two different worlds. Jacob is a Polish Jew who has managed to live through the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the death camp Treblinka.

Amsden longed to understand death and the afterlife since early childhood. In NDEs Unveiled she shares many captivating stories of near-death experiences (NDEs). Is there a heaven? What will it be like on the ‘other side’? Is there a God who will greet me? Who judges the life review? This book discusses the challenges of near-death experiencers, and also what family and loved ones face when someone close to them has an NDE.

Lucy Howard has arranged her life around the philosophy honesty is mostly the best policy. But her dream to work in research at a reputable museum doesn't materialize. Instead, she finds herself investigating a charming elderly woman who's running an insurance scam involving the company Lucy works for. She catches her "perfect" boyfriend with another woman. And her favorite narcoleptic- antiques-dealing uncle needs her to prove he's not a murderer, unless he actually is.

Before Commander Torek Renaar can return to active duty, he’s ordered to purchase an animal companion to help relieve his PTSD symptoms. But having been a caretaker for and lost a loved one, keeping even one little human alive is a challenge he feels doomed to fail. After witnessing the murder of her domestication specialist, Delaney McCormick allows her new owner to treat her like the pet he believes her to be. But in Torek’s care, she finds something unexpected on this planet, something she never had in all her years on Earth while house-hopping between foster families: a home.

After a fire destroys her home, Abby Bennett emerges from the hospital horribly scarred. Her husband has abandoned her, and her two little boys are gone. Determined to reclaim her life and get her boys back, Abby returns to her hometown in Iowa. With the help of a reclusive neighbor, Jack, she begins renovating her sister's rental property. But the old cottage has a tragic pasta grisly unsolved murder.

From the day her five-year-old was abducted, Abigail Fisher vowed never to stop looking until her daughter was safely back home. But despite multiple searches, 23 years have passed without a trace of Becky Ann. When Abigail learns that death row inmate Megan Winnaker is the same age as her daughter, she begins to wonder if the kidnapper had Becky Ann’s face surgically altered to prevent identification.

Inspired by that British (BBC) television program called The Great British Bake Off and love, more pet owners are making homemade treats for their furry companions. Fueled by the rapid spread of information on the internet, there is, what seems like, an unending array of pet recipes. It’s never been easier to treat Fido and King homemade artisan dog treats. And for those dog owners who haven’t yet jumped into baking for their pets but are more than willing to buy gourmet treats, some of the best options can be found at places often called pet bakeries.

Vanessa thought she found her soulmate in August. Mind-bending sex. Soul-baring conversations. Safety and acceptance and being seen. Perhaps too perfect? Yes. August is married to his college sweetheart, Cassidy. When Vanessa gets pregnant, August manipulates Vanessa into getting an abortion with promises of a future together, but dumps her soon after. Vanessa plots her revenge, kidnapping August’s baby, Daisy, from her nursery.

Ivan Jenson’s The Tigress is a tour de force of psychological suspense that will take the listener deep within the inner workings of Wendy’s fragile mind, as she finally discovers that for her, love and death might be irrevocably intertwined. When Wendy’s sister sets her up on a blind date with a local home contractor, she wonders if she can ever allow herself to love again. Is Wendy’s love life forever tainted and cursed? This traumatic shift reveals the dangers of being a fatally passionate woman like Wendy.

Melinda lost everything...again. Starting over had become her norm. This time she’d return to teach at the technical school she attended years before, the Cleveland Business Academy. As usual, no one was coming to save her. It was all on her. Miss M was a bitter, rich, 89-year-old widow whose family ran the Cleveland Business Academy. Her ungrateful children feared and resented her, but she held the keys to their past and their future. What could these two women possibly find in common? Nothing and everything!

This book is a ride through Oregon’s swamp, dirty lobbyists, corrupt media, push polls, pseudo patriots who really aid the left, a voting infrastructure built for fraud, voter apathy—and yet, also some of the best, salt-of-the-Earth fighters a person will ever be lucky enough to meet.

The serial killer known as The Reaper is loose on the streets of Norfolk. Its victims have two things in common: They have each hurt a child but served little to no time in jail for it, and none of them regret their actions. Detective Mel Tanner is close to retirement when she is assigned to investigate a murder that leads her in a hunt for the serial killer known as The Reaper. As a seasoned homicide detective of 15 years, she now finds herself jaded and unfeeling about the atrocities that she has had to witness every day.

Buffy held the knife even tighter to Harrison’s neck. “Tell me what you have done, or I will kill you here and now,” she demanded. Fearing for his life, Harrison, for once, gave an honest answer. “I changed one number within the software for the bank robbery.”

Since the dawn of civilization, a clandestine brotherhood has been secretly organizing a hidden agenda. As the Illuminati orchestrate worldwide catastrophic events to establish a New World Order, only Serena Mendez and an ancient society with ties to Atlantis can save humanity from centuries of manipulation. Still, she is a warrior without a weapon. As Serena and her allies work to defeat the Illuminati, she must decipher seven mysterious messages that hold the key to survival in this thrilling race to unlock a secret that will change humankind—forever.

May, one of the new generations of Chinese super-rich kids, has outgrown Beijing and has come to California for an exciting life. She meets two American men: a Jewish American Harvard-educated professor named Leaf, and Mentor, a Silicon Valley self-made billionaire. As her relationships with Leaf and Mentor progress, May's past traumas in patriarchal China are revealed, while her cultural naivete leads to divergent interpretations of trust, personal boundaries, respect, fetishism, and sexual deviancy. May's life descends into a mad triangle of deception.

On the heels of her 13-year-old son’s suicide, public defender Andrea Harrison throws herself into her work. In trying to uncover the truth about her serial-killer client, she follows his exploits on a cross-country odyssey - only to discover, instead, a bombshell that will turn her life upside down.

Reagan Nichols is a small-town woman trying to make her way in the world. Timid by nature, she has made a lifelong, relentless effort to remain invisible. When she catches the eye of handsome construction worker Jackson Holloway, Reagan’s trust issues have her wondering if his interest is a cruel joke. When the unimaginable happens, her hope for the good in others may be restored.

Gem Stone Swenson wants her life back. Dominated by her big-shot husband, meddling mother, and demanding teenaged daughters - not to mention everybody else in her hoity-toity world - the 40-year-old socialite escapes into memories of a madcap road trip she and her hippie sister, Garnet, took 20 years earlier. It was the summer of 1978, the summer Gem fell in love with Harley, a small-town deputy sheriff. She fantasizes about once again running her fingers through his thick, black hair. Do his jeans still hug his buns in a way that melts her knees?

Damina Nicaud, a beautiful, successful art buyer in Washington, DC, is plagued by hauntingly romantic dreams of a mystery man every night. While she knows she shouldn't consider her dreams to be anything more than anxiety brought on by her upcoming nuptials, she can't help but be lured into its entreat. Unbeknownst to her, the dreamscape that plagues her mind will be all that carries her through eventual heartbreak and learning the truth of her orphaned lineage.

My name is Jazz, and I’m a Justice Reaper. Sounds grim, but it’s not all bad—I make sure the worst of the worst get what they deserve. And sometimes, that means working with the police to bring killers to justice. Like now. Just after my best friend joins a coven, someone starts murdering witches, and all signs point to the killer being a vampire.