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Being a Secret Service agent is one of the most treacherous jobs in the world and never more so than in today's highly polarized America. Facing threats from fence jumpers and manifesto writers, and from murderous terrorists and sophisticated spies, protecting the president is harder than ever. In an age of hyper-partisan politics, emotions are high and threats are everywhere. On top of that, with international tensions reaching a boiling point, it's...
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To save his favorite newspaper, Nero Wolfe steps into the crossfire of a tabloid war.
Master sleuth Nero Wolfe's small circle of friends is limited to his assistant, Archie Goodwin; his chef, Fritz; and Lon Cohen, the head man at the New York Gazette. Cohen knows more about the city's power structure than any man in Manhattan, and for years, he happily passed Wolfe information in return for the odd exclusive scoop. But now Cohen needs Wolfe's help,...
83) No Time to Hide
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Rob Palmer delivers a red-hot thriller with his riveting first novel No Time to Hide. Psychologist Ben Tennant and ravishing con artist Patrice Callan cross paths and soon find themselves on the lam. Hunted by the CIA and mixed up in an international arms deal, the unlikely partners find themselves staring down ruthless enemies and a desperate situation that seems to worsen by the moment.
84) Panic
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The recipient of multiple nominations for both the Edgar and Anthony awards, Cut and Run author Jeff Abbott crafts no-holds-barred thrillers of almost unbearable suspense. Abbott's go-for-broke style is on full display in Panic, the tale of a man dodging threats on his life after his world is turned upside down. Evan Casher discovers his mother's murdered corpse and is then rescued from certain death by a shotgun-wielding stranger. His life in immediate...
85) Archie Goes Home
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Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker.
Archie Goodwin's aunt Edna is about to lure him away from his work at Nero Wolfe's New York brownstone. After a phone call, he heads off to Ohio, where the president of Farmer's State Bank and Trust, an elderly widower, has died in an apparent suicide. But Archie's aunt has expressed nagging suspicions-which only grow stronger when someone takes a shot at...
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The Body Fat Solution is Tom Venuto's complete program designed to help you lose body fat, build muscle, and keep the weight off for good.By now, we all know that we gain fat when we take in more calories than we burn. But we're not always rational creatures when it comes to food. Venuto provides a sound plan that will help us put the brakes on overeating by pinpointing the mental roadblocks and emotional eating patterns that are preventing us from...
87) Manxome Foe
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A leading voice in military SF, best-selling author John Ringo teams with real-life rocket scientist Travis S. Taylor for an explosive entry from their Looking Glass series. Recovering from their first mission, the crew of the Vorpal Blade-humankind's first interstellar craft-is called into emergency action when an alliance gate colony is attacked. Who was the lethal alien enemy? What exactly happened at the colony? And dare the Vorpal Blade's battle-weary...
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In this engaging collection of essays, author and athlete John Jerome celebrates the simplicity and freedom of running. With contagious passion, he strips away fads and myths to offer basic guidelines for participants, from beginning joggers to those preparing for marathons. For years Jerome recorded his thoughts and experiences during his daily training. As he ran, he discovered not only physical benefits, but philosophical ones as well. His wry...
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A shake-up in the New York Police Department's homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for private investigator Nero Wolfe. When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the public outcry forces the NYPD to restructure its homicide department. As the deceased was highly critical of Inspector Lionel Cramer, the longtime head of homicide is temporarily relieved...
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After the heir to a frozen-food fortune gets iced, Nero Wolfe's right-hand man becomes a suspect
When Lily Rowan doesn't laugh at his jokes, Archie Goodwin knows something's wrong. Her niece Noreen has been running around with Sparky Linville, a club-hopping bad boy who's the terror of Manhattan nightlife, and the last time she went out with him, Noreen wasn't herself when she came home. All she would tell her aunt was that she had been assaulted....
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To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?
Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant, post-menopausal, or between fertile cycles). A human...
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Harvey Diamond The # 1 New York Times Bestselling Co-Author Of Fit For Life Shows You How To: • Lose Weight • Relieve Pain • Improve Digestion • Boost Energy Plus • Breakthrough Information On How To Prevent Breast Cancer • The Key To Well-Being -Unlock And Unleash Your Lymphatic System! • Autism: Inspiring Hope Through Practical Approaches And Life-Changing Success Stories.
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Every day another company cuts jobs or slides into bankruptcy, forcing thousands of people into uncertainty, anxiety and a sense of helplessness. With a failing economy, even the normal tribulations of life have been intensified so that everyday hardships seem insurmountable. For 1.5 million wildebeest of Africa, their Serengeti is a 1,000 mile-long migration filled with hunger, thirst, predators and exhaustion. The journey is impressive, dangerous,...
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The full true story of the lululemon murder and what really happened to Jayna Murray and Brittany Norwood.
It was a crime that shocked the country. On March 12, 2011, two young saleswomen were found brutally attacked inside a lululemon athletica retail store in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the nation's wealthiest suburbs.
Thirty-year-old Jayna Murray was dead-slashed, stabbed, and struck more than three hundred times. Investigators found blood spattered...
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In The Heart-Led Leader, Tommy Spaulding turns his focus to ourselves, to who we are. Authentic leaders, Spaulding says, live and lead from the heart. The values and principles that guide our lives and shape our ability to lead others are far more important than our title, or our ability to crunch numbers, or the impressive degrees we display on our walls. To effect true transformational change, heart-led leaders draw on the qualities of humility,...
96) Stands a Ranger
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Cotton Smith fortifies his acclaimed Westerns with a psychological edge. Texas Ranger Time Carlow is on the trail of Silver Mallow, a ruthless outlaw. Mallow broke out of jail in Bennett, Texas, and he's got a three-day headstart. But with a little luck and some sharp shooting, Time will bring him to justice.
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Mystery fans will devour this entry into the classic, wisecracking Nero Wolfe series, in which Wolfe must track down a dangerous gunman-or risk losing his right-hand man.
Archie Goodwin is chipper as he strolls home from his weekly poker game, money in his pocket and a smile on his lips. He has just reached Nero Wolfe's stately brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth Street when a sedan whips around the corner and two gunshots ring out, nearly hitting Goodwin....
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Critically acclaimed children's author Jonah Winter reimagines a true story from 1987. The small Long Island town of Islip has a big problem-3,168 tons of garbage and no place to put it! So workers pile the smelly refuse on a large barge, hire a tug boat, and send the stuff south to find a final resting place. But as the barge travels from North Carolina to New Orleans and from Mexico to Belize-nobody wants Islip's rotting mountain of garbage.
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Formerly of the 82nd Airborne Division, New York Times best-selling author John Ringo brings unmatched authenticity to his military science fiction. When a subatomic physics experiment causes a massive explosion, interdimensional gateways open in Florida-and aliens pour out. Some intend to bring Earth to its knees. Others seem willing to help, but will annihilate the planet if Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller can't stop the menace from...