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Give a SEAL an inch, and he’ll take your heart. For almost a year, Shelby has lusted over swoon-worthy Garrett, but she can’t figure out why he’s not interested...until she overhears him saying she’s too vanilla for his taste. When a heat wave sends the sexy Navy SEAL into her bakery, she finally has the opportunity to show him exactly what he’s missing....

For FBI agent Blake Wilder, the past is inescapable. And the one lead she had, regarding the mysteries of her past, only led to dead bodies and dead ends. When Blake is assigned a new case, they find that their victim has been stuffed into a barrel — in pieces. Their search for the killer propels them onto a grim and twisted path filled with confusion and false leads. And for the first time in her career, Blake fears that she may not be able to solve this gruesome case.

After finally closing the chapter of Blake’s painful past, FBI Agent Blake Wilder and her team are sent to Las Vegas, where two young women have gone missing after a night out. Both are socialites, with well-earned reputations as party girls. One of the women is the daughter of Dylan Powers, a wealthy tech mogul, casino owner, and power player in Sin City politics. Unfortunately, the list of people who would love to take Powers down is longer than the Vegas Strip itself.

Unorthodox success principles from a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Eli Broad's embrace of "unreasonable thinking" has helped him build two Fortune 500 companies, amass personal billions, and use his wealth to create a new approach to philanthropy. He has helped to fund scientific research institutes, K-12 education reform, and some of the world's greatest contemporary art museums. By contrast, "reasonable" people come up with all the reasons something new and different can't be done, because, after all, no one else has done it that way.

Celebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon's shocking death in his favorite place on earth, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage, his (messy, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon's three wives, his children, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell.

Former SEAL and shining Hollywood starlet struggle against their burgeoning desire while trying to stay alive in the crosshairs of a murderous stalker. Hank "Montana" Patterson never thought his call to duty would force him to leave his band of brothers in the Navy SEALs to return to the family ranch in the foothills of Montana's Crazy Mountains. News that his father was shot sends him rushing home. His forever-belligerent father refuses his help, insisting Hank find the person who shot him.

Capturing an era - and preserving the stories they have told their daughters, their mentees, their husbands, and their friends - a dozen women Imagineers have written personal stories from their decades designing and building the Disney worldwide empire of theme parks. The book represents a broad swath of Imagineering's creative disciplines during a time of unprecedented expansion.

After five years of running the Holiday Haven Inn, Carolyn Highcrest thinks she can handle anything. She and her best friend Mercy are determined to make their festive weekend celebrations the best they can possibly be, despite being surrounded by scheming rivals, melodramatic theatre group members and overenthusiastic carollers.

In A Giant Win, Coach Tom Coughlin reveals the intricacies of football, sharing details only a coach would know. He also details relationships with some of the most iconic players from the Giants, including Eli Manning and Michael Strahan. A Giant Win provides a frame for Coach Coughlin to discuss his life in football—including his years with the Giants as an assistant coach in the late 1980s and 1990, when he helped win a Super Bowl working under Hall of Fame Head Coach Bill Parcells and alongside the coach he’d oppose in Super Bowl XLII: Bill Belichick.

Prospective bride Allie Patterson, thinks she's marrying the man of her dreams. He's rich, he's handsome, and mysterious - everything a woman should want. Until his secrets threaten her life. After several near misses, Allie reluctantly allows her fiancé to hire one of her brother's bodyguards. The big, sexy, tattooed SEAL assigned to protect her is the kind of guy women drool over, and makes Allie question her decisions. Perhaps she's marrying the wrong man for the wrong reasons. But her brother's gruff friend can't possibly be Mr. Right.

After thirty-five years as the Chief of Police on Nantucket, Ed Kapenash's heart can no longer take the stress. But his plans to retire are thwarted when, with only three days left on the job, he receives a phone call. The Richardsons' 22-million-dollar summer home has been burned to the ground. The couple are far from hurt - they were out on the water at one of their lavish yacht parties. But their dependable personal assistant has vanished. To solve the case, the Chief will have to contend with small town gossip for one final act of service to the community he knows and loves.

Hailey Taylor Emery has a hunch that her favorite client at Fetch - an anonymous virtual assistant service - is actually hockey star Matt Eriksson. Although it's against the rules for her to check his file, she's 95 percent sure she spends at least part of each day texting with her lifelong crush and catering to his every need. Still nursing a wounded heart thanks to her recent breakup, Hailey is perfectly content with some harmless online flirting...until she has to meet her client.

Kill? That's easy. My family runs a murder-for-hire business. I can end a man in my sleep without so much as taking off my eye mask. Marry? If my mother has her way, I'll be walking down the aisle with her rival's psychopath son. But Riddick is more likely to stab me during his vows than love and cherish me for a lifetime. Kiss? My history with men says I'm better off with a vibrator. But then Augie Mitchell looks at me with his ocean blue eyes and I want to let him prove he's as talented with his tongue as he claims to be.

Authors Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, and Kris James Mitchener argue that the ability of governments to issue debt has played a critical role in addressing emergencies—from wars and pandemics to economic and financial crises, as well as in funding essential public goods and services such as transportation, education, and healthcare. None of this is to deny that debt problems, debt crises, and debt defaults occur. But these dramatic events, which attract much attention, are not the entire story. In Defense of Public Debt redresses the balance.

While following a trail of clues left by his long-dead wife, Paxton finds himself embroiled in a game of cat and mouse against an unknown adversary who is willing to do anything to keep their secrets buried. But what Paxton finds at the end of that trail proved even more elusive and shocking than he had ever imagined. Old foes emerge to stop him, while new friends help Paxton along the way to discover what happened to his wife that cold autumn night. Finding the truth will require him to confront the darkest parts of himself.

FBI agent Olivia Knight has seen the realities of what happens when nightmares come to life. When she’s called to investigate a case of an apparent murder-suicide in an affluent community, she finds herself buried by the unexplainable questions that arise regarding the couple's seemingly perfect life. When a deep dive into the life of the philanthropic couple leads to a revelation to a potential double life, Olivia finds herself wondering if their hidden life finally caught up to them.

Superstar actress Paige Mills is America's sweetheart. But with a shocking divorce, she's burning her powerful husband's house of lies right down to the ground. Reeling from ugly revelations and unable to trust anyone, she takes refuge way off the celebrity grid in her family's remote Michigan lake house. But the brilliant agent who helped shape her success won't give up his client - or his long-simmering passion for her - without a fight....

Fall marks the beginning of the town’s many festivities, and no town celebrates Halloween quite like Hollow Nest — with the brutal death of a teen girl dressed in a black cat costume sparking strange speculation and rumors. It’s up to Olivia and Brock to discern the truth and solve one of the most bizarre cases yet.

Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early 20th-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected.

Whitney Ainsworth has had a very tough year. First up was the very public divorce from an A-list actress, and then, the third book in her popular suspense series bombed. She’s got a chronic case of writer’s block and feels like a fraud getting paid to give speeches about achieving success. After a particularly disastrous event, Whitney’s manager suggests a romantic distraction might be in order.