When his Boston home mysteriously takes on the atmosphere of a tropical rain forest, complete with poisonous insects, moss-bedecked walls and oppressive heat and humidity, Max is forced to acknowledge his deepest fear - the lords of death of the Mayan underworld are going to hold him to his promise to help them. To appease them, he must
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Most of us take our homes for granted, finding comfort in a familiar ambiance created by months, years or even generations of living in a house or apartment without examining how or why that comfort evolved. Bill Bryson opens our eyes to the rich cultural history of the past that resides in a typical home. Granted the typical home for Bill Bryson is a
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When two snipers begin killing corrupt Washington, DC bigwigs, Alex Cross is called in to investigate. He and Bree Stone are in the final stages of wedding planning, but the wedding must be postponed so that Alex can put a stop to the killings. Disappointed about the interference the case is causing for his
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Terry McCaleb's heart transplant has ended his career as a profiler, but it hasn't squelched his passion for the challenge of identifying and tracking killers. Although he now lives on Catalina Island and runs a charter fishing business, he is more than eager to volunteer his assistance when a former colleague asks him to look at a murder case. The victim in the bizarre killing was found with his arms and legs tied behind his back,
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It's no surprise that Becky Bloomwood Brandon's 2 year old daughter Minnie is starting to exhibit signs of being a shopaholic like her mother. With the downturn of the economy, Luke has put Becky on a strict budget and has made her promise not to buy anything for herself. Of course, Becky respects Luke's request, but surely that doesn't mean that she can't buy things for Minnie. When she spots a cocktail dress she loves, she buys it for Minnie, rationalizing that Minnie will probably be her size when she gets older and she'll love the dress, too.
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'It was an airport gypsy who told me that I had to kill my husband.' Ro Grandee, on hearing this advice, knew that the gypsy was only giving voice to the thoughts she'd been harboring in her brain for a very long time. Thom Grandee, her husband, had been using Ro as his punching bag for so long that she'd begun to believe his sins were her fault. It was no wonder that she accepted this situation as normal. Years before in Alabama as the child Rose Mae Lolly, she watched her mother suffer beatings at her father's hand.
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Do not let the title of this book mislead you . It is not about men and their dogs, but it is a story of a 35 year old woman who has made a shambles of her life. When she was eleven, Hannah's father's boat was found adrift far out to sea with no one aboard, except the family dog.
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