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Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he learns the tale of the intense love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrenders to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff visits the bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the the past. 

In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

The Visual Dictionary to American Sign Language (ASL) is arranged in a straightforward, easy-to-use dictionary format. It includes more than 1,350 signs, detailed illustrations, memory aids, and sample sentences as well as number and fingerspelling. Helpful hints and a comprehensive index facilitate easier signing and clear cross-referencing.

 
 

In 1965, twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother, who has shipped out to serve in Vietnam. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. But the real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. 

The book Along Came a Spider introduced Detective Alex Cross and his investigation of Gary Soneji, serial torturer and killer. But that wasn't their first meeting. Police discover that Gary Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer. It includes clues to missteps that Alex Cross made as a rookie homicide detective. Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face the Return of the Spider.
 

Nash has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Then Nash is approached by the FBI to become an 'inside man.' His purpose: To expose an enterprise, led by Victoria Steers, that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. 

Leyla King braids matriarchal memory into a vivid saga of love and survival as her ancestors flee war and poverty. From Haifa to Ramallah, Damascus, Beirut, and finally Texas, Leyla makes global politics deeply personal as family squabbles, ambition, mental illness, romance, and religion shape their immigrant journey. Daughters of Palestine is both an urgent testimony from Palestinian Christians and a timeless story of resilience.

Fourteen-year-old parentless Charlie Matters steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned from evacuation to a devastating reality: neither of her parents are in London. Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver. As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive.

1975 is a time of change in America. In the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. Their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the turbulent ocean, in a Maine village that bore his name. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house—a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings. And now, to break the curse and banish a malevolent spirit once and for all, a difficult task must be completed.

Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble. As a bank president, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. Recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime. 

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island. Then Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor, a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. He is convinced he is the only one who can bring justice to the woman known as "Nightshade." Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.
 

First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. Nothing is missing. Second—a store to buy a coat. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note with a desperate plea for help.

Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up covered in blood with a knife in his hand. Beside him, the dead body of his girlfriend Anna. His screams drown out his thoughts and then he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes Anna at the back of the classroom. She bolts when they make eye contact. Kierce knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment.