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A Minute to Midnight (An Atlee Pine Thriller #2)
by David BaldacciIn this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, FBI Agent Atlee Pine returns to her Georgia hometown to investigate her twin sister's abduction, only to encounter a serial killer.FBI Agent Atlee Pine's life was never the same after her twin sister Mercy was kidnapped -- and likely killed -- thirty years ago. After a lifetime of torturous uncertainty, Atlee's unresolved anger finally gets the better of her on the job, and she finds she has to deal with the demons of her past if she wants to remain with the FBI.Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum head back to Atlee's rural hometown in Georgia to see what they can uncover about the traumatic night Mercy was taken and Pine was almost killed. But soon after Atlee begins her investigation, a local woman is found ritualistically murdered, her face covered with a wedding veil -- and the first killing is quickly followed by a second bizarre murder.Atlee is determined to continue her search for answers, but now she must also set her sights on finding a potential serial killer before another victim is claimed. But in a small town full of secrets -- some of which could answer the questions that have plagued Atlee her entire life -- and digging deeper into the past could be more dangerous than she realizes . . .
A Miracle by Christmas
by Shawn BaileyPlayboy billionaire and mama’s boy Mackenzie Walker made his money in technology and is one of the most brilliant minds in the world. He has given up on love since everyone he’s opened his heart to has cheated on him. After finding his current boyfriend Cavanaugh in his bed screwing another guy, Mack decides to give up on one-night-stands. It is getting close to Christmas and the only wish he has is for a miracle to happen to bring his Japanese pen pal Kai Moore to America.Kai Moore is the inventor of Mayhem, a social media video making program that has taken the world by storm. Gay and reclusive, Kai, who goes by the moniker K, at 25 has been saving himself for Mr. Right. But the guy he thinks is perfect for him only considers him a friend, and someone to tell his deepest, darkest secrets to. Since the possibility of them ever meeting has been slim to none, Kai can only love from afar.Then a miracle happens -- his company is moving to the United States. And the newest incarnation of Mayhem, called My Life, is making its debut into society in New York at a media conference to introduce it and him to the world. Will Kai and Mack hit it off when they meet face to face?
A Miracle for Maggie
by Stephen Eaton HumeMaggie Davis is a young girl who lives in Chester, Nova Scotia, near Halifax, when her beloved Uncle Nick is killed by diabetes. Maggie’s father, a doctor, is greatly saddened by his brother’s death, and soon has to deal with his own daughter’s diagnosis with the dread disease. Various remedies are tried, including starvation diet popular at the time, but nothing works and Maggie’s condition worsens. Meanwhile, in Toronto, Banting and other doctors work night and day to perfect insulin. Will they succeed in time to save Maggie and thousands of others?
A Miracle for Miriam: An Amish Christmas Novella (Amish Christmas Novellas)
by Kathleen FullerSeth is no longer the arrogant young man who shattered Miriam's confidence and broke her heart. Will he be able to show "plain" Miriam that she is truly beautiful to him?
A Miracle for St. Cecilia's
by Katherine ValentineIn the New England town of Dorsetville, the citizens are poor in worldly goods but rich in faith and compassion. For generations-long before the last woolen mill closed five years ago-Dorsetvillians have been bound together by the massive St. Cecilia's Catholic Church, slated to close after mass on Easter Sunday. On a bitter cold Ash Wednesday morning, Father James Flaherty despairs of ever turning the parish finances around. What will become of his flock and the beloved, ancient Father Keene, who had planned to live out his days at St. Cecilia's? Delightful and moving, with a cast of endearing and quirky characters, A Miracle for St. Cecilia's warms hearts and enchants readers everywhere.
A Miracle for the Baby Doctor
by Meredith WebberConceived in paradise... When beautiful embryologist Fran Hawthorne is offered the opportunity to work on a Pacific island for a month, she seizes the chance to escape the humiliation of her ex-husband's betrayal. But Fran isn't prepared for Steve Ransome, the handsome doctor heading the clinic. After years of struggling to conceive with her ex, Fran is tempted to give in to the pure passion that burns between them. Only their "temporary" fling results in her carrying the child she thought she'd never have...
A Miracle in Paradise: A Lupe Solano Mystery (Lupe Solano #4)
by Carolina Garcia-AguileraThe Lupe Solano mystery series continues with a “gritty and witty” (San Francisco Examiner) case that will test Lupe’s faith in more ways than one…Miami PI Lupe Solano has always considered her sister Lourdes an easygoing free spirit—unusual attributes for a Catholic nun. But Lourdes is quite tense when asking for Lupe’s help looking into the Order of the Illumination of the Sacred Virgin.Over the years, the Order gained a reputation for predicting verified miracles. Their latest claim is that a revered statue of a Cuban religious icon—the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre—will weep real tears on Cuban Independence Day.But Lupe’s investigation into a possible religious hoax turns far from heavenly when people begins dying in eerily ritualistic ways. Someone is determined that the miracle of tears will go on without a hitch—and they’ll be damned if they’re going to let Lupe stop them.Praise for Carolina Garcia-Aguilera“A memorable tale of Cuban-American life, this novel boasts an engaging plot and a fiery heroine armed with sharp insights into Cuban and Catholic ways that will lead readers happily into the sultry heat of Little Havana.” —Publishers Weekly“Lupe Solano is intelligent, witty, and eloquently hard-boiled. The realistic Miami description radiates heat from the page.” —Booklist“Solano just happens to be one of the freshest protagonists to come along in the last few years… Garcia-Aguilera has built an interesting support team around her and Miami continues to be a terrific place to stage mayhem.” —Chicago Tribune
A Miracle of Catfish: A Novel In Progress
by Larry BrownLarry Brown has been a force in American literature since taking critics by storm with his debut collection, Facing the Music, in 1988. <P><P>His subsequent work—five novels, another story collection, and two books of nonfiction—continued to bring extraordinary praise and national attention to the writer New York Newsday called a "master." In November 2004, Brown sent the nearly completed manuscript of his sixth novel to his literary agent. A week later, he died of a massive heart attack. He was fifty-three years old. <P>A Miracle of Catfish is that novel. Brown's trademarks—his raw detail, pared-down prose, and characters under siege—are all here. This beautiful, heartbreaking anthem to the writer's own North Mississippi land and the hard-working, hard-loving, hard-losing men it spawns is the story of one year in the lives of five characters—an old farmer with a new pond he wants stocked with baby catfish; a bankrupt fish pond stocker who secretly releases his forty-pound brood catfish into the farmer's pond; a little boy from the trailer home across the road who inadvertently hooks the behemoth catfish; the boy's inept father; and a former convict down the road who kills a second time to save his daughter. <P>That Larry Brown died so young, and before he could see A Miracle of Catfish published, is a tragedy. That he had time to enrich the legacy of his work with this remarkable book is a blessing.
A Miracle of Hope (The Amish Wonders Series #3)
by Ruth ReidShe's heard about forgiveness all her life, but how far does God's mercy truly reach? Lindie Wyse thinks an arranged marriage is the only way to preserve a future for herself and her unborn child. Josiah Plank is certain he'll never love again, but he needs someone to care for his deaf eight-year-old daughter, Hannah. The two take on their arrangement tentatively at first but soon realize they are each in for more than they imagined. After a short time, Lindie experiences a breakthrough with Hannah when she recognizes the child's special gifts, but a risky pregnancy and serious health issues threaten to demolish the foundation Josiah and Lindie are building--and the love that is growing between them. Will their marriage survive their struggles, or will their hearts become as cold as the northern winter?
A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables)
by Alix E. HarrowA Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series.Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues.Just when Zinnia’s beginning to think she can't handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for her help. Because there’s more than one person trapped in a story they didn’t choose. Snow White's Evil Queen has found out how her story ends and she's desperate for a better ending. She wants Zinnia to help her before it’s too late for everyone. Will Zinnia accept the Queen's poisonous request, and save them both from the hot iron shoes that wait for them, or will she try another path?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A Mirror for Observers
by Edgar Pangborn Peter S. BeagleIn their attitude towards the Planet Earth, the Martians had long been divided into two camps: the Observers, benevolent meddlers in human affairs; & the rebellious Abdicators, who sought the Earth's collapse. But it wasn't until the extraordinary matter of the Earth-Boy, Angelo Pontevecchio, that the enmity between these two factions came to a definite head.<P> It started as a contest of wills, waged between two opposing Martians for the soul of a single human child. Before the end, it threatened all life on both Earth & Mars.
A Mirror for Observers (Gateway Essentials #104)
by Edgar PangbornThe Martians, long exiled from their home planet, have for millennia been observers of the world of men. Forbidden by their laws to interfere with human destiny, they wait for mankind to mature.From the turmoil of mid twentieth-century America, word comes to the Observers that one of their renegades is hoping to encourage humanity in its headlong rush to self-destruction through corruption of a single rare intellect. The struggle between Observer and Abdicator for the continuance of the human species is one the classic conflicts in the annuals of science fiction.
A Mirror for Witches (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
by Esther ForbesDoll Bilby is an outcast in the rigid town of Cowan Corners near Salem, Massachusetts. Orphaned after her parents were executed as witches, Doll is suspected of witchcraft by her adopted mother and the townspeople due to a series of unfortunate events. Esther Forbes’s hauntingly beautiful 1928 novel, set during one of the darkest chapters of American history, explores the witch hysteria that gripped seventeenth-century New England. An enthralling tale of magic, betrayal, love, and deception, the novel delves into the destructive power of superstitions and allegations.Mirror for Witches masterfully intertwines historical accuracy with psychological insight, capturing the paranoia and fear that permeated Puritan society around the Salem witch trials. Esther Forbes was an American novelist and historian. Her biography of Paul Revere, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1943, and her children’s book, Johnny Tremain, won the Newbery Award in 1944.
A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
by Morris DicksteinIn a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, questioning whether literature had any real reference to a world outside its own language, while traditional historians challenged whether novels gave a trustworthy representation of history and society.In this book, Morris Dickstein reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of a wide array of twentieth-century writers, from realists like Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, through modernists like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, to wildly inventive postwar writers like Saul Bellow, Günter Grass, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Philip Roth, and Gabriel García Márquez. Dickstein argues that fiction will always yield rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding. Writers refract the world through their forms and sensibilities. He shows how the work of these writers recaptures--yet also transforms--the life around them, the world inside them, and the universe of language and feeling they share with their readers.Through lively and incisive essays directed to general readers as well as students of literature, Dickstein redefines the literary landscape--a landscape in which reading has for decades been devalued by society and distorted by theory. Having begun with a reconsideration of realism, the book concludes with several essays probing the strengths and limitations of a historical approach to literature and criticism.
A Mirror to the Safe
by Greg KeelerThis is perhaps the most sober and serious collection to date from a writer otherwise known for his humorous poems and songs. Anyone who considers his or her life safe from physical and emotional disaster should read this book.
A Misalliance
by Anita BrooknerAfter twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric--making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to read, and chatting at great length about characters in fiction. She resolutely fills her unwanted hours with activities, maintaining her excellent appearance, drinking increasingly more wine, and, in an attempt to turn her energy to good works, becoming severely enmeshed in the life of a disordered young family.
A Miscellany (Revised)
by E. E. Cummings George James FirmageA Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings. Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings’s groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to “a cluster of epigrams,” a poem, three speeches from an unfinished play, and forty-nine essays—most of them previously written for or published in magazines, anthologies, or art gallery catalogues. Seven years later, George J. Firmage—editor of much of Cummings’s work, including Complete Poems—broadened the scope of this delightfully eclectic collection, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings’s unpublished line drawings. Together, these pieces paint a distinctive portrait of Cummings’s eccentric, yet precise, genius. Like his poetry, Cummings’s prose is lively; often witty, biting, and offbeat, he is an intelligent observer and critic of the modern. His essays explore everything from Cubism to the circus, equally quick to analyze his poetic contemporaries and satirize New York society. As Cummings wrote in his original foreword, A Miscellany contains “a great deal of liveliness and nothing dead.” This remains true today, more than fifty years after its original publication.
A Miscellany of Men
by G. K. ChestertonFrom The Nameless Man: There are only two forms of government the monarchy or personal government, and the republic or impersonal government. England is not a government; England is an anarchy, because there are so many kings. <P> <P> But there is one real advantage (among many real disadvantages) in the method of abstract democracy, and that is this: that under impersonal government politics are so much more personal. In France and America, where the State is an abstraction, political argument is quite full of human details -- some might even say of inhuman details. But in England, precisely because we are ruled by personages, these personages do not permit personalities. In England names are honored, and therefore names are suppressed. But in the republics, in France especially, a man can put his enemies' names into his article and his own name at the end of it. . . Chesterton writes here on subjects that range from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, and does it gloriously well. Sad that the world should have lost such a wit -- and glad, too, becasue he left so much behind.
A Miscellany of Men
by G. K. ChestertonCovering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pens. With chapter titles ranging from "The Miser and His Friends" to "The Red Reactionary," from "The Separatist and Sacred Things" to "The New Theologian" and "The Romantic in the Rain," this volume includes 39 brief sketches of individuals, each one of whom illustrates an aspect of contemporary society. Social, historical, and religious thought all figure prominently in this book, making it of great use in any study of the literary, religious, and social aspects of early 20th-century England and Europe generally. It will be of interest to students and scholars of the essay in English literature. It is a fine introduction to Chesterton's social criticism, which remains unique for its willingness to criticize some of the uncomfortable truths about capitalism without straying toward an inhuman bureaucratic socialism.
A Miscellany of Men (Classics To Go)
by G. K. ChestertonCovering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pens. With chapter titles ranging from “The Miser and His Friends” to “The Red Reactionary,” from “The Separatist and Sacred Things” to “The New Theologian” and “The Romantic in the Rain,” this volume includes 39 brief sketches of individuals, each one of whom illustrates an aspect of contemporary society. (Goodreads)
A Mischief in the Snow
by Margaret MilesA winter of discontent. . . January 1766. A dangerous mishap brings young widow Charlotte Willett unexpectedly to bleak and marshy Boar Island, a few miles from the village of Bracebridge and home to two eccentric elderly women. Some say that arrogant, unpopular Alexander Godwin — the only villager to regularly call upon the island's two residents — hopes to inherit the cavernous house when its owner finally passes on. But when Alexander is brutally murdered after the town's annual winter fête, Charlotte and her neighbor Richard Longfellow can't help but wonder who among Alexander's detractors might be responsible. Is his death connected to his activities on Boar Island — or to the unearthly trickery rumored to take place there? Could the rivalry over a beautiful young woman have sparked a more dangerous passion? And will the answers reveal themselves before death strikes Boar Island again? From the Paperback edition.
A Missing Suspect
by Laura CoburnFrom the back cover: She was the perfect wife: young, beautiful, and blond. But when Becky Symons showed up at the police station, her frightened eyes belied her appearance. Before homicide detective Kate Harrod could draw out what unspoken danger Becky feared the distraught woman felt. Later that day, Becky is found floating in her BATH tub, a victim of a brutal drowning. Tormented by guilt, Kate vows to find the killer...at any cost. Her investigtion scratches the surface of Becky's life -- and exposes a vulnerable woman caught out of her depth in the passions and jealousies of a powerful family. As Kate struggles with her own self-doubt, her personal and professional lives spin out of control. And she'll bend the rules until the break to corner an elusive killer....
A Missouri Schoolmarm
by Zane GreyZane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his bes selling book. This is one of his stories.
A Missão Encélado: Hard Science Fiction
by Brandon Q. MorrisUma odisseia no espaço tão aguardada (Kirkus). No ano de 2031, uma sonda robô detecta traços de atividade biológica em Encélado, uma das luas de Saturno. Esta descoberta sensacional mostra que realmente há evidências de vida extraterrestre. Quinze anos depois, uma espaçonave construída às pressas inicia uma longa jornada ao planeta anelado e sua lua. A tripulação internacional não enfrenta apenas 27 meses difíceis: se a espaçonave conseguir chegar a Encélado sem incidentes, deve usar um veículo-sonda para penetrar na camada de gelo de um quilômetro de espessura que sepulta a lua. Se a vida de fato existe em Encélado, ela só poderia estar no fundo do oceano salgado e coberto de gelo, que se formou há bilhões de anos. No entanto, logo após a decolagem, o desastre atinge a missão, e as chances de a tripulação chegar a Encélado, quanto mais voltar para casa, parecem sombrias. Do autor Brandon Q. Morris, tão aclamado por suas obras de ficção científica, chega uma nova história para os estusiasta de uma boa ficção científica. Como físico e especialista em ciência espacial, Morris descreve a jornada de uma expedição internacional pelo hostil vácuo do espaço, usando as mais recentes inovações e tendências científicas e tecnológicas como inspiração. Não se trata de uma obra sobre 'E SE', mas de 'QUANDO'.
A Missão do Feiticeiro
by Rain Oxford Christiane Jost Karine Lima Ayrton Jost de LimaNão é fácil ser o mais jovem de sete filhos em uma família de feiticeiros notórios, especialmente para Ayden Dracre. Em um mundo em que feiticeiros só praticam magia sombria e bruxos só praticam magia de luz, Ayden tem um problema: ele é muito ruim em ser mau. Por mais que tente, nenhum de seus feitiços causa o mal. Quando descobre que a família se cansou de seus erros, ele decide cuidar do próprio destino. Ele tem uma chance de provar para a família que merece o nome de feiticeiro, caso contrário, sofrerá a fúria da mãe: deverá derrotar o maior bruxo de todas as terras. Só há dois problemas: ele não sabe lutar com magia e não quer ferir ninguém. Se quiser sobreviver a esta missão, terá que confiar nos aliados mais improváveis.