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Nobody at the nursing home takes old Amy Tapin seriously when she brags about her summer frolics with Albert Einstein. Sure, it's well known the great smarty pants used to vacation on these Adirondack lakes. But that was long, long ago. And now Amy is unwell. The poor dear is liable to say anything.

Ten magical children. One unforgettable home. And a heartwarming series begins... Welcome to 788 Lulu Lane, where every child has a secret—and every door opens to something extraordinary.

Ronan Carver has done everything he wanted to do. He served in the Navy SEALs. He fell in love with a beautiful woman. And he successfully avenged her death. Now he’s wandering the country, searching for a new purpose. It doesn’t take long. Carver discovers a woman named Naomi Downes hiding in the trunk of his car. She works for a US senator. And she claims to have evidence of murderous corruption.

From the first call to a Portland detective about a missing woman to the police’s growing certainty that she had been murdered, from the heroic efforts to locate the body to the flight from Maine of their chief suspect, and from the painstaking work of collecting evidence and building a case to the struggles over jurisdictional questions to the twists and turns of the eventual trial, Finding Amy is a dramatic story of brutal murder and exemplary police work with the human beings and emotion behind the shield.

In "Statehood Matters: Achieving DC Statehood and Fair Representation," Sage Ellison addresses the significant lack of political representation for the over 700,000 residents of Washington, D.C. This book serves as a vital resource for those who feel marginalized in a democracy where their voices are not fully heard. It underscores themes of fairness, equality, and active participation in governance, advocating for DC statehood as a solution to these challenges.

"No Code AI Business Ideas" by VentureNest Books provides a vital guide for entrepreneurs and small business owners seeking to integrate artificial intelligence into their operations without needing programming skills. As AI becomes essential in today's business environment, this book serves to demystify its applications and illustrate how non-programmers can leverage AI to enhance their business strategies and unlock new opportunities. Addressing common challenges faced by those unfamiliar with technical aspects, the book outlines how to effectively utilize AI tools that require no coding.

At a time when Booker T. Washington is being rediscovered by African Americans today, the author offers a compelling look at the man and the qualities of leadership he embodied in his life and work. The result is a timeless message of hope, empowerment, and responsibility, which Washington himself characterized as the training of head, heart, and hand.

2021: Jack Storm a detective in York Massachusetts has been on the job for two weeks. Cavanaugh his boss is pressuring him to close a case, and to find out what is going on down at the river. Jack is also receiving text and emails from George a retired York detective working a cold case from 1982.

Despite his urgent warnings, the police dismiss his help, forcing him to conduct a solo investigation. Caviello uncovers vital clues piecing together a chilling puzzle, ultimately leading him to join forces with detective Juli Ospino. As the danger intensifies, an unexpected romantic connection with Juli adds an electrifying twist to his mission as they track the terrorists to a secluded farmhouse. As they close in on the terrorists, chaos erupts, turning the confrontation into a deadly battleground. In the face of imminent danger, Caviello realizes that he's become their primary target.

Born to a farming family, James knows plowing the soil must not be his destiny. He feels the call to care for the people of his isolated mountain community. After graduating from medical school in 1890, he returns to his north Georgia valley, marries beautiful Mary Alice Campbell, and begins what he thinks will be the ordinary life of a country doctor. What he could not have foreseen are demands that he draw deeply from the well of courage to save his people from gross incompetence, exceptional evil, and a worldwide pandemic.

In 1957, Lily and Sid Norell and their teenagers Lauren and Jordy move from Washington to Taipei. Sid is an eager new Foreign Service Officer. Taipei then was impoverished and unpaved. Shocked at first, Lily is soon enchanted by the foreignness, moved by the poverty, amused by the eccentric whirl of diplomats and expats around her, and charmed by debonair Rocky Perreira. Also a U.S. diplomat, he seems to live freely like no one she has ever known. Decades later Lauren, reading letters Lily wrote during those first years in Taipei, fills in her mother's elisions.

A teenage girl's body washes up on the beach near Deception Pass. Just another girl who disappeared in the night. Tess McClintock and Michael Carter dig deeper into the missing and murdered girls and young women in the Pacific Northwest sex trafficking ring, and in the process, Tess comes a bit too close for comfort to the danger.

The Unwelcomed begins with the arrival of a young Radcliffe student at the office of renowned psychotherapist, Dr. Morton Prince. Pursued by a city marshal hellbent on solving the murder of two infants strangled by her father, Clara Fowler relives the nightmare that was her childhood—exalted by Visitations from Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin, cursed by the emergence of a demonic presence obsessed with her demise.

The fourth installment in the Ted Mitchell Detective Novel Series pulls Ted into the ghoulish world of the black market in human organs. Runaways. Undocumented. Untraceable. Those in desperate need will do anything...pay any price for...SPARE PARTS

Jonathan Lennox, a successful immigration attorney in Los Angeles, is cruising comfortably, although predictably, through life. All that changes when the voluptuous and vivid Carmen Escobar bursts onto the scene. Johnny finds himself quickly under her spell and involved in a plot to rob Carmen's benefactor, Carl Roban, of his money and his yacht. The action moves out onto the high seas of the Pacific Ocean, but the storms and rough water and nothing compared to the twist of fate which lands Johnny on a Hawaiian fishing boat, captained by the wise and affable Kai.

1939, Canada unprepared but defiant, declares war on Germany and mass produces a mid-size warship, the Corvette. Thus starts the creation and journey of Canada's first Corvette, the HMCS Collingwood. Neither designed nor equipped for the North Atlantic, Collingwood is tasked to protect convoys and take on the predatory Sea Wolves lurking below the waves. Heart breaking wartime romance as Ian and Kate struggle with love in difficult times. Our hero Ian, takes command of the Collingwood. He is ready to fight with any weapon he is given having witnessed Nazi atrocities and now driven by hatred.

Two teenage boys went missing from a park in King County a decade ago. While one of the boys was found days later, his body discarded in a ravine in the forest on Tiger Mountain, the other boy was never found. Until now. After a property developer’s front end loader unearths the skeletal remains of several teenage boys from around Washington State, the missing boy’s remains are identified.

Get a deeper understanding of police shootings through interviews with officers involved in real-life cases. Today’s media is filled with discussions about officer-involved shootings. Too often missing from that discussion are the police officers’ voices and the reality of what happens in actual shooting incidents. Through actual interviews with involved officers, this book addresses common myths and misunderstandings about these shootings. Shots Fired is a journey “behind the shield” and the experiences of the real human beings behind the badge.