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The first four books in the Amazon best-selling Mackenzie and Manny killer mystery series. Mackenzie August's new life doesn't suit him. When he quit the LAPD to open up a private shop, he expected to settle into a quieter lifestyle, hiring out to law firms, home by dinner. Now, however, the feisty detective is bored and missing the action of a hot homicide investigation. It's a good thing, because the sleepy city is about to erupt...

Are you always trying to make your relationship better, but somehow, only make your partner upset? Now, you can put an end to your frustration and get the love you want more easily. This guide takes the struggle out of overcoming neediness. Using clear examples and down-to-earth explanations, you will quickly begin to experience closer relationships. And by overcoming neediness, you will become more confident and attractive.

After waking up, Steve doesn't know where he is. Heck, he doesn't know what he is. Despite his spotty memory, he's pretty sure he didn't used to be a floating ball of light. He's also certain that he's not originally from this dangerous fantasy world...maybe. Okay, fairly certain. To make things stranger, he seems to be involved in something big, something magical...a game. Who was he before? Will his memories come back? Why does he have an assistant explaining the game's rules to him? He can evolve? There's a countdown timer?

Mackenzie is a private investigator, and the first client at his new office is a knock out. Trouble is, she's also the Sheriff. A dangerous criminal has moved into Mackenzie's hometown, and to help identify him the Sheriff wants Mackenzie to accept a job teaching at an inner city high school. He'll be a bull in a china shop, so to speak. A china shop full of angry gang members.

Jake Shepherd is piloting a flight to Seattle when out of the blue, his aircraft falls from the sky. The power-grid across the United States crashes, leaving all computerized machines crippled, sending the country into a disastrous tailspin. Alice Shepherd is working the emergency room when hundreds of injured people pour in needing help. With no electricity, resources are limited - once the back up generators fail, all hell will break loose.

Do you want to turn your relationship crisis into relational connection? Do you want a way to improve your relationship without counseling? What if the way you say things to your partner could re-connect you? And, what if it's easier than you think? For more than two decades, Jack Ito, PhD, has coached thousands of men and women to rescue and rebuild their relationships in the wake of relationship disasters including affairs, psychological problems, addictions, and total loss of love by one partner. In this groundbreaking book, he uses effective communication techniques to help you turn any marital conflict situation into an opportunity for emotional connection.

If you want to know how to do stand-up comedy, then get the How to Be a Stand Up Comedian guide now. You will discover simple step-by-step secrets on how to succeed at improv stand-up comedy.

Deism is a natural and rational bridge that unites our reason to our belief in God. It propels us from the false and destructive ancient myths of the "revealed" religions to a space-age belief system that is in line with our God-given reason.

All of us have a God-given calling. Our faith is not a passive one. We are purposed for the action of great and mighty deeds. We are called to advance against an unseen enemy, take the high ground, and take back lost territory in the spiritual realm.

Grady Huff, a wealthy and insufferable pain in the neck, killed his cleaning lady and confessed to the crime. No jury in the world could find him innocent and no amount of money can convince Mackenzie August to work for his defense. That is, until Veronica Summer's fiancé arrives in Roanoke and joins the prosecution. Darren Robbins has more on his mind than just convicting Grady - he's come to collect Veronica. And he's come to settle things with Mackenzie, a reckoning that will certainly spill violence into the streets.

Garret Cartel. Cessna University’s starting shortstop. Painstakingly gorgeous. Reserved. Friend-zoned since freshman year. I have a knack for falling for unattainable guys. Blame my trust issues. They keep me safe. But this is our final year. My last chance to break the dreaded friend-zone chains before graduation. There’s one slight problem. Every time we get close, Garret pulls away. There’s a secretive side to him I haven’t tapped. And I need to know. Is it his secret keeping us apart, or something bigger?

From the outside, the Davenports look like any other family living a completely ordinary life - until that devastating day when five-year-old Jonah is killed, and the family is torn apart. As the fury of guilt engulfs them, the Davenports slowly start to unravel, one by one. Losing her son forces Rachel to withdraw into a frayed, fuzzy reality. Her husband, Sam, tries to remain stoic, but he's consumed by regret with the choices he's made. Eden mourns her brother, while desperately fighting to regain a sense of normalcy.

Kelly McBride and Sgt. Tom Turbulo of the Carson City PD are enjoying an ideal honeymoon on a Caribbean resort island when something awful happens to Kelly...While on an innocent shopping trip to buy a teddy bear for her nephew, she runs into a bear of a man who is up to no good...Curiosity overcoming caution, before long she and Tom are caught up in international intrigue and a dangerous plot to blow up North America. What will it be? What will happen?

The Valentine Lines is a fun, throwback comedy suitable for all audiences. The story reimagines Cupid—aka Bart McGee—as an underdog ditching the corporate grind of Mt. Olympus, Inc., for small-town life in quaint Mineral Point, Wisconsin. When Bart launches a matchmaking business and falls in love with a local baker, chaos ensues as his meddling Olympus relatives crash the scene.

Inspired by the events of his 2022 award-winning book, Captured by COVID: Deceit, Conspiracy, and Death—A True Story. Michael E. Bowers’s Olivia is a story of adoration, hatred, desolation, exhilaration, and heartbreak. Caught between two forces far beyond her control, Olivia’s quiet life is shattered when she becomes collateral damage in a deadly clash between the DEA and a ruthless Mexican cartel. As her world unravels, those around her spiral into darkness—none more than Allen, whose descent into unthinkable acts reveals a side no one ever imagined he possessed.

After the shocking murder of Ed Netherland at a secluded location in the Virgin Islands, architect Kem Hinton (Tennessee Bicentennial Mall) is stunned and confused by a mysterious occurrence at the funeral of his former classmate. Given a haunting challenge, he embarks on a decade-long investigation into the lifetime exploits of this ingenious person after their shared time in school, uncovering a fascinating yet bizarre, tangled web of toxic waste endeavors, controversial life insurance techniques, enticing investment schemes, accumulation of enormous wealth, and then the loss of millions...

What would you do if you discovered that you were disappearing? Not physically, but a piece at a time: all tangible evidence that you exist as a person—beginning with your driver's license, bank accounts and your birth certificate...and soon you are a loose thread, being pulled from the fabric of reality—into the twilight of your physical existence. This is what happens to Wiley Hood, a 25-year-old artist-turned business executive who still struggles with his older brother’s suicide.

A brilliant computer scientist/engineer assists a retired SJPD detective with solving cold cases. They take on a nearly 10-year-old bank robbery of a bank in Willow Glen, CA. The robbers made off with $60 million in cash and safe deposit box contents. Law enforcement was baffled that they never found the team or any of the cache. Enter computer expert Damian, who has a scientist's way of looking at how to trace the robbery's contents.

She is all blond, beautiful motion; tanned and lithe, she represents freedom, youth, and a playful sexuality that is at once seductive and dangerous to a man's soul. The California girl became a national fantasy in the Sixties, a myth that embodied every daydream, set to the rhythm of a Beach Boys anthem. The story is told in the first person by David Levine, a Jewish New Yorker. In 1965, at the beginning of his senior year in high school, he moves with his family to the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.

Damian Green lives in seclusion on Red Rock Island, a small private island inside San Francisco Bay. His wife and children were murdered by a mistakenly released convict seven years ago. He's been asked by the now-retired detective that solved the murders of his family to assist her cold cases with his computer skills.