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Afghanistan was a beautiful land until greed and ambition pillaged its fertile valleys. She was beautiful, too. Betrayed and broken, she journeyed through 40 years of nomadic longing as her picturesque village disintegrated along with her hope. Unlike her beloved land, she at last discovered her place of rest.

Every crime scene has a smell, a look, a trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers...floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed, to be experienced, to be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this. It starts with a "pull" they can't quite explain. All three of them feel it - Kate, Weston, and Christopher - but none of them know why they are drawn to this small town in Southeast Michigan in the middle of winter.

He's called the Harbinger, a serial killer using Georgia and Florida as his hunting and dumping ground. But when he sends a letter to the federal/state task force that has assembled to find him, he leaves a mark that immediately catches Kate and Weston's attention: The circumpunct. The symbol of the Beast.

After Zach and Kelsey go into the bounty hunting business together, Kelsey handles her first solo gig - a simple babysitting job transporting a bail-jumping con man from Houston to L.A. But to Kelsey's surprise, this particular con man has ties to her past - and a very deadly target on his back.

All graduate student Kelsey Coe wants after a hard day of school and work is to get some much needed sleep. But hunky Zach Parker - former deputy U.S. Marshal turned bounty hunter - has different ideas. He's gotten a tip that Kelsey's a wanted fugitive and he aims to take her in for a nice hefty reward. But when the bullets start to fly on a bus ride home, a simple case of mistaken identity soon finds Zach and Kelsey running from some very dangerous men.

The magic was already there when cigar-smoking matriarch Elizabeth Calhoun established an artist's colony on an island off the coast of Georgia and named it Whimsey. Elizabeth's ghost still drops in from time to time to make sure things are going as she planned. There's also a wicked pixie named Earlene who fancies tight-fitting designer clothes and Louboutin stilettos.

For The Love of Ireland is a historical novel of love and loyalty, deception and honesty. It is about women fighting against traditional roles and gender discrimination during the 1880s. For The Love of Ireland is a work of fiction woven around actual events of the Irish Land League, a Chicago couple and the covert activities of the Clan na Gael.

Sisters of a Different Dawn is the tale of two women -- New Englander Sara Gray, daughter of a Methodist Episcopal minister, and an eastern Oregon Country Shoshoni, Umentucken. Both women strive to retain their individuality during a time when change threatens all that they had once believed to be truth. Set in the 1840s, Sara Gray and Umentucken have a common bond, Sara's brother Myram, who left their New England home years earlier to venture west as a trapper for the Hudson's Bay Company.

Janet had been longing for a work and sales space for her growing medicinal plant business, so when one day in April a real estate sign showed up in the parking lot of the vacated roadside café located in her small, hometown community of Wheeler’s Bent, she saw an opportunity. One major obstacle in fulfilling her vision was financing the project. Janet found six women to join her in the purchase of the café. As the women struggled amid the hardships of working together in a faltering business, James, a small injured bird entered their lives.

Memoir of a young woman from a Catholic family in St. Martinville, Louisiana, who falls in love with a Jewish New York college student studying to be a doctor. She runs off and marries him, then they spend time in the Peace Corps in India. After two years abroad, they return home to the States in the summer of 1968 to a country in the midst of social revolution and protests against the war in Vietnam.

After a young girl goes missing, former TV crime reporter Vicky Robeson joins the search with the help of her attractive new love interest. They take his RV to a tiny town in rural Missouri that's filled with odd characters and darker secrets. But Vicky has secrets of her own. She believes this kidnapped girl may be linked to a case she reported on nine years ago, when a mystery child was found walking on levee, bloody and unable to speak. Back then, Vicky failed to follow up clues only she knew. Now, she has a chance to redeem herself.

In this heartfelt compilation by Mya Patel, you're invited to join an empowering journey of healing and resilience, providing you with a comprehensive guide to overcoming mental health challenges without losing your identity in the process.

Julie White's once-sweet son has morphed into a teenage terror. She hoped it was normal growing pains but a glimpse into his private messages shatters that illusion. Now she wonders if her moody teen is actually a ticking time bomb. Varvara Perlman's researcher job is hard, but caring for her emotionally-complex daughter is harder. After dismissing the latest call from the school counselor as another ploy for attention, she can only hope it's not too late when she finally understands. This latest crisis may not only be real, but deadly.

In 1980, I was thirty years old, and my son, ten, when we traveled to Guinea, then a closed country in West Africa. My fiancé was a geologist working in a diamond exploration camp in Baoule Valley, near Kérouané. During my time there I kept a diary. Once back in the United States, I wrapped the diary in a silk scarf and tucked it away. I had had planned to return to Guinea and the diamond camp, but life took me in a different direction. I didn't open and read the diary until autumn of 2023, forty-four years later.

Albert, a Princeton mathematics professor, has discovered a secret known as The Tree of Knowledge–a method of predicting and manipulating the future with mathematical precision. But he’s not the only one. Cristina Culebra, and her insurgent RED movement, seek to harness this same power to gain control of the United States and the world.

Welcome to "Agile Mastery: Navigating the Path to Agile Excellence." In this book, we embark on a journey into the world of Agile development, where responsiveness, collaboration, and adaptability reign supreme. Whether you are a software professional, project manager, or business leader, this book is your guide to understanding, implementing, and mastering Agile practices.