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Supernatural creatures exist...and I could be one of them. As a private investigator who has recently learned what's hiding just below the shadows of ordinary, l was surprised to learn that I wasn't as normal as I'd imagined. After surviving a homicidal vampire, a werewolf pack war and a vindictive witch, I'm happy to be alive and in love...with a vampire. Instead of running away from the trouble-magnet that I am, Adam asked me to marry him. To realize a future with Adam, I must learn what’s lurking in my past.

Rich Bickle’s rock star lifestyle of fast cars and legendary partying, ranks among the more colorful journeys in auto racing history. Bickle, with the assistance of author John Close, describes the relationships, good and bad luck, and garage politics that often play a larger role in determining fame and fortune than talent alone. The brutally honest narrative pulls no punches in giving race fans an inside look at a career that both benefited from, as well as was hindered by dealings with some of racing’s biggest stars.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of...

She knows what hides in the shadows...and now they won't leave her alone. Private Investigator Samantha Chase has survived one immortal killer. But while Sam believes the danger has passed, a wave of deadly animal attacks throws the city of Phoenix into a panic. Are these unfortunate deaths the result of a wild animal, or something...premeditated? During the chaos, a college student goes missing, and Sam is hired by the family to find her. She quickly discovers the powerful Taylor family hide dark secrets. Secrets they protect at all costs.

With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An “irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel” —Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling...

A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the...

You know you want it. In the dusty wastelands of postmodern Kansas sits a motel that serves as a cheap place to bring cheap dates for cheap tricks, but that all changes when a shot up hot rod crashes into the parking lot. There's a dead man in the passenger seat, a treasure map on the dashboard, and a trunk full of guns. Before the driver gives up the ghost he tells of a daring heist and bags of cash.

A postmodern tale of the fae. Pike is a reckless half-human changeling living in Seattle, one of the last strongholds of magic in the world, and she is having one hell of a month.

Enter a world of grim romance and dark erotic encounters, in which the leading women are warriors, witches, concubines, and even gods, capable of savage sexuality while aggressively seeking their own pleasure, power, and triumph. They weave their way through epic worlds of science fiction, fantasy, and myth in this six story collection.

In the aftermath of World War III, a reptilian army emerges from the darkness of space to launch a ruthless campaign of conquest and genocide. All that remains of the world is a wasteland of concrete ruins and shattered architecture, now the dystopian battlefield upon which the human resistance wages its defiant war of survival against the invaders. Includes five books of the Alien Resistance series.

Something has boarded the interstellar cargo vessel Kraken, and it is hungry for more than just meat. After days of being both the hunters and the hunted, Captain Tasha and a desperate few struggle against a shape shifting alien menace intent upon devouring most of the crew and has worse in store for the survivors.

Kelly Killjoy is a gun-slinging mercenary and skin flick scream queen on an endless quest for adventure, cash, and a good hard fight in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. This omnibus includes Fallout Girl, Straight to Video, Freak Legion, Lady Wasteland, and Frankenstein.

In a post-apocalyptic world the lone warrior Cassandra must use her supernatural gift, the ability to control life-force energy through sex, and all of her skills as a bounty hunter in an attempt to rescue the daughter of a handsome stranger from certain abuse and death at the hands of a raiding vampire cult and their enigmatic overlord.

Welcome to the House of Red and Black, a mansion nestled amidst several hundred acres of rolling hills and quiet forests in upstate New York, a temple to power and pleasure. Only those who find the perfect blend of sensual passion and enlightenment amidst the pain and humiliation are worthy of ascension in its hallowed halls.

A memoir by Glenn Close's sister, Jessie, about the challenges of living with severe bipolar disorder—includes chapters by Glenn Close. At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly...

Are we alone in the universe? This is one of the most profound issues facing mankind - and one of the unresolved questions that science may finally be able to answer in this century. These 24 mind-expanding lectures reveal the cutting-edge research leading scientists to believe that life is not exclusively the domain of Earth. Professor Close offers an unparalleled look at the subject of life and the mysteries that remain.

In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely tiny particle—today known as the Higgs boson—which is the key to understanding why particles have mass, and but for which atoms and molecules could not exist.

The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he resurfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

Quins són els límits que cal posar als fills i filles i, sobretot, com s'han de posar és una de les preocupacions de moltes famílies. El paradigma de criança tradicional, que tirava d'autoritarisme, d'arbitrarietat i del «perquè ho dic jo» no serveix quan les mares i pares volem establir una relació amb els fills i filles basada en el respecte mutu i la connexió. Tanmateix, ens falten referents i, a més, ens trobem amb una altra dificultat: sovint no tenim clars els nostres propis límits i, sense base pròpia, fem aigües.

The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass, had...