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Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor,Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.
Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up.
Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching...
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Morgette and the Shadow Bomber is the sixth volume of the adventures of Dolf Morgette, the legendary gunfighter and lawman of the Old West. While in Alaska, he hears about a series of mysterious bombings in Pinebluff, Idaho. At first he doesn't think that he and his family are in any danger. It sounds to him like the bombings are directed at mine owners, probably by disgruntled miners who are unhappy about recent cuts in wages. But he is very wrong....
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For Kalvin Barnes, the only thing that comes close to the rush of playing the knockout game is watching videos of the knockout game. Kalvin's crew always takes videos of their KOs, but Kalvin wants more-something better. He thinks if someone could really see the game for what it was, could appreciate it, could capture the essence of it-that would be a video for all time. The world would have to notice. That's where Erica comes in. She's new in town....
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Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter.Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is afoot-despite the distractions caused by the Honorable Freddie Threepwood's hapless affair of the heart.Freddie...
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In galactic terms, the Earth lives in a dangerous neighborhood. Seven times in the past humanity has reached for the stars, only to have their civilization destroyed by an extinction event. The scattered surviving pockets of humanity returned to a meager agrarian existence, with little or no retention of their prior technology and knowledge base. As fuel and food stocks were depleted, those survivors without the ability to acquire more, perished.This...
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Hablemos sobre nuestros adorables amigos, la relación entre los seres humanos y sus queridas mascotas, en particular los perros, ha evolucionado a lo largo de los años. En la actualidad, muchos consideran a sus perros como miembros de la familia, compartiendo con ellos un vínculo profundo y afectuoso. Como resultado, la salud y el bienestar de nuestros fieles compañeros de cuatro patas se han convertido en una prioridad en nuestros hogares. Una...
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The Independent Guide to Universal Orlando 2024 is the latest and greatest edition of the best-selling theme park guidebook series. This guide is fully up to date with new additions and changes to the theme parks.Book Highlights:Theme Parks - Details on every ride, show, restaurant and activity at Universal Studios Florida, Universal's Islands of Adventure and Volcano Bay Water Park.Hotels - All the hotels at the resort and what advantages they offer.Skip...
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Grigori & Matisse must accept their destiny and learn to trust each other before they can face the enemy they know...and the one they never saw coming The first time Grigori Federov, Zenith of the Wall, dreamed of his Kindred, he feared Crowley's good fortune was making him wish for things he couldn't have. As much as he doesn't want to get his hopes up, the man in his dreams is in trouble, and every time they connect, the threat is worse. Accepting...
11) Dressed in White
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When love is real there are no obstacles toprevent a couple from rejoicing. Harry and Dina believed itwell, but fate taught him that happiness can beas ephemeral as life itself and that at the end of everythingonly vestiges of suffering remain and the memory of aglorious love that, ironically, afflicts the heart.
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Now a days glasses are becoming very important material with different compositions in many preferred forms like lenses, screens, prisms and optical communication fibers which are in demand in regular life. These can be produced by many conventional techniques based on application [1-5].Glasses with heavy metal elements which are doped with different lanthanide ions have much attention fabrication of optical fiber amplifiers and solid state lasers...
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Elizabeth G. was twenty-two years old and travelling around Australia when she came across a job opportunity at an erotic massage parlour in Sydney. Fast forward eighteen years and she had built up a trusted list of regular clientele working as a high-end London escort and was frequenting some of the city's most exclusive hotels.
This is an inspirational story of resilience and self-belief in the face of adversity. It gives a fascinating insight...
14) Watching Porn
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Lynsey G. never imagined that she would ever work in porn, but at 24 years old, with a degree in English literature and an empty bank account, she found herself reviewing the film East Coast ASSault for an adult magazine in New York City. One interview later and it was official: she was a porn journalist. The job was supposed to be temporary-just a paycheck until she could spark her legitimate writing career-but she loved it and spent nearly a decade...
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"That is what you get, my friend. That… is what you get."
Set in Long Island, NY, in the little town of Bay Shore at the beginning of the twentieth century, "The Rain Drinkers" is the story of a young man's passage to adulthood.
Sent to stay with an abusive relative he has never met and the man's unfortunate young wife, the younger man is forced to learn lessons of life, friendship, love, and loss.
The story touches on many topics, such as racism,...
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Two best friends. Buried feelings. A secret holding them apart.
Two friends since university, each holding something back.
Tilly's been running from her secrets for far too long. Evie, carrying a buried flame for Tilly since they met, has always been there to welcome Tilly back with open arms. That is, after all, what one does for a friend.
When Evie unexpectedly falls pregnant, she's left with a lot of hard decisions to make. That includes choices...
17) Runes of Truth
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What happens when your rumored name destroys your life? When the very runes engraved on your skin since birth are a death sentence? Evie doesn't remember a life before she was on the streets, a life before thieving to live and killing to stay alive. When a royal family she didn't know anything about goes missing, Evie finds herself thrown into the royal court of the protectors, and they demand her help. Help in exchange for a chance at freedom and...
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Evie survived a trip to hell, literally, to find herself somewhere even more dangerous: with the angels-angels who do not want to let her leave, not without paying a price for the life they saved. Angels. Demons. Protectors and more secrets than one world should hold. Who can Evie trust when everything is a lie? When it's time for the assassin to return, and to claim what is hers, who will be on her side?
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Lo único que quería en mi trigésimo cumpleaños era una noche de locura de la que me acordase toda la vida… Y en vez de eso, acabé embarazada de mi jefe.
Vale, espera.
Antes de que empieces a juzgarme -que te estoy viendo-, la verdad es que no sabía que era mi jefe en esos momentos. Lo único que vi fue al hombre más sexy con el que me había tropezado nunca, con acento británico incluido, y unos labios que me devoraron durante horas en...
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Defending my claim to the throne will be easy, but defending my heart? That's where everything could go wrong. Entering the royal court of the protectors was never going to be easy for someone like Evie, but at least she isn't alone. Trex, Connor, and Nix are determined to show everyone who Evie really is-that she's not just the heartless assassin they all fear and believe her to be. With whispers of war, the angels going missing, and tests that are...