Obsessive compulsive or just meticulous? That is the question. Meticulous Maddy is a childrens poem which teaches children to use the word meticulous. There isnt a teacher or parent anywhere who hasnt secretly wished that his/her children would stop using the words crazy or stupid to describe everything! Read the poem over and over and your child will surprise you when he/she begins to use the word as well. From constantly cleaning to doing things over and over to get them right, Maddy seems to be a perfectionist, but is she really, or is she just meticulous?! Follow the pictures which show just how meticulous Maddy really is, and let the colors of Alijah McCormicks illustrations jump off the page to entice your child to read and use grown-up words.
The third installment of the Reckless Trilogy follows gregarious Maddy as she mourns a great loss, survives a pandemic, rekindles old friendships and continues the search for her happy ever after. Despite the complications he evokes, will the tall, dark, mysterious stranger provide closure and future happiness for Maddy? Will she choose the mild mannered environmentalist or the dashing rogue? Moving easily from London to Dubai, Milan to Princeton, Barcelona to the beach, Maddy’s life is anything but boring as she interacts with interesting characters along the way. Throw caution to the wind and join Maddy as she navigates between her independence, relationships and being a good friend - proving you can be relatively reckless at any age. Readers who met Maddy in Reckless and then again in More or Less Reckless will enjoy her journey as a mature woman with options. Surely, there’s a little of Maddy in all of us.
DA VINCI CODE meets TOMB RAIDER in this multi-award-winning and #1 bestselling thriller. A computer-app designer. An encrypted relic. Can she decipher the dangerous code before extremists trigger a high-tech apocalypse? Broad-shouldered marine turned covert agent named Bear Thorenson wants his girlfriend, Maddy Marshall, to join VanOps, but the software expert and aikido black belt isn't sure she's ready for a hazardous dark-operations role that might risk the life of AJ, the nine-year-old boy she wants to adopt. Things change when an armed Russian thief escapes over a wrought-iron fire escape carrying her ancient star chart. She chooses to join Bear in the pursuit, because if her royal family legends are true, the mysterious chart leads to a superconductive meteor capable of powering the ultimate quantum computer. Upon learning the lightning-fast machine would be used by fringe members of the Russian government to spark a global war, and those same extremists kidnapped AJ once before, Maddy’s heart drops and Bear’s arctic-blue eyes turn to ice. Setting off on a mad dash to uncover the chart’s celestial secrets at a Mexican archeoastronomy site, the VanOps team unearths a clue dating back to biblical times. As they race across the globe through the dangerous bazaars of Morocco, fallen Turkish temples, and Egypt’s perilous Valley of the Kings, they must fight to stay even a half-step ahead of sinister assassins. Worse, the place Maddy sent AJ for refuge becomes the enemy’s testing ground, where hungry gangs roam darkened streets. With millions of lives on the line, can Maddy and Bear rescue the boy and crack the chart’s secret code? SOLSTICE SHADOWS is the second novel in the fast-paced, multi-award-winning VanOps thriller series. A standalone, it follows THE LOST POWER ("A masterwork of international intrigue." - #1 NYT bestselling author James Rollins). If you enjoy smart edge-of-your-seat suspense by James Rollins, Dan Brown, Steve Berry, or Clive Cussler, you'll stay up late turning the pages of Avanti Centrae’s "rousing sequel." Kirkus Reviews. Genre Grand Prize Winner - Global Thriller Awards - 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner - Adventure - 2020 Readers' Favorite Awards An instant Barnes & Noble Nook #1 Bestseller and Amazon #1 Bestseller! THE LOST POWER (VANOPS #1) was an instant Barnes and Noble best seller. A rare multi-award-winning novel, it took home a genre grand prize blue ribbon at the 2017 Chanticleer International Book Awards, an Honorable Mention at the 2018 Hollywood Book Festival, and a bronze medal at the 2019 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. ____________________________________ "A tantalizing new series that combines historical mystery and cutting-edge science into a masterwork of international intrigue." ~ James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Odyssey "Avanti Centrae packs a thriller parachute with endless suspense and a rip-cord ending. SOLSTICE SHADOWS is meticulously researched, the history, science, and locales offering a rare 'you-are-there' authenticity. Brew a large pot of java, as you will read through the night. Brilliant." ~ K.J. Howe, international bestselling author of SKYJACK “Avanti Centrae is a name to watch. Powerful, evocative, gripping storytelling with characters you immediately relate to, love, or loathe.” ~ Ernest Dempsey, the USA Today bestselling author of the Sean Wyatt adventure series "Fans of complex and highly detailed espionage and action thrillers are certain to dive right into this mixture between Indiana Jones and Dan Brown." ~ Readers' Favorite - Five stars ". . . delightfully capable and convincingly vulnerable characters." ~ Kirkus Reviews "Fast-paced action adventure with an ancient mystery at its heart -- fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry will love the VanOps thrillers." ~ J.F. Penn, USA Today bestselling author of the ARKANE thrillers "Fascinating research, non-stop action, exotic settings, and a sixth sense for human nature in the battle between good and evil. It's a must-read!" ~ Saralyn Richard, award-winning author of Murder in the One Percent and A Palette for Love and Murder "With non-stop action and exciting global adventure to exotic cities, I couldn't put this modern-day Raiders of The Lost Ark down." ~ Tracey Phillips, author of Best Kept Secrets ____________________________________ For a heart-pounding mission you'll always remember, enjoy this wild thrill ride today!!
Sex & Drugs & Rock n Bowl This is serious business. Newly promoted Chief Homicide Detective Jack Diamonds first case is to solve the death of the towns most famous resident, professional bowler Biff Bower. Bowers body was found standing upright on the eve of his annual Memorial Day weekend bowling tournament. An illegal, grueling 72-hour winner-take-all marathon tournament. Detective Diamonds previous experience is of a 20-year veteran beat cop, whose duties were consisted of berating jaywalkers and checking parking meters. Promoted out of necessity and working with a skeleton crew, Diamond must do most of the legwork himself along with Lydia, Biff Bowers, mysterious, young personal biographer. Lydia was also the last known person to have seen Bower alive. Through Lydia, Diamond gets to know Maddys Place. A home for wayward girls that Bower frequented often during his turbulent youth. He gets to know the influences that he had on it, as well. Within Bower's fifty-year career and the people who shared his life may lie the clues that led to his demise.
The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination gives students a fresh look at how Americans view the afterlife, helping readers understand how it's depicted in popular culture. What happens to us when we die? The book seeks to explore how that question has been answered in American popular culture. It begins with five framing essays that provide historical and intellectual background on ideas about the afterlife in Western culture. These essays are followed by more than 100 entries, each focusing on specific cultural products or authors that feature the afterlife front and center. Entry topics include novels, film, television shows, plays, works of nonfiction, graphic novels, and more, all of which address some aspect of what may await us after our passing. This book is unique in marrying a historical overview of the afterlife with detailed analyses of particular cultural products, such as films and novels. In addition, it covers these topics in nonspecialist language, written with a student audience in mind. The book provides historical context for contemporary depictions of the afterlife addressed in the entries, which deal specifically with work produced in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Was Maddy Benson asking for trouble? Everyone knows everyone in a small town like Jarrett Creek. So Chief of Police Samuel Craddock is perplexed when he receives a call from a woman asking the police to rescue her sister. Who is Maddy Benson? Maddy said she had to get away, but she didn't get far. When Craddock finds her just off the highway, she's already dead, shot in the head. And as he learns more about the mysterious Maddy and the real reason behind her recent move to Jarrett Creek, his career is plunged into jeopardy. Can he unravel a terrible knot of lies, threats, dangerous politics and shocking secrets to reveal the truth behind the troubling death of Maddy Benson?
In the O’Hurley novel Skin Deep, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts zooms in for a close up in this story of a movie star being stalked by a dangerous admirer and the man determined to protect her. Beautiful and talented Chantel O’Hurley makes box office gold with every starring role. But fame and fortune come with a price: fans. While most of them are just average folks looking for an autograph or a photo op, there’s one fan who desires more and won’t take no for an answer. As his behavior becomes more threatening, Chantel reluctantly hires hardboiled P.I. Quinn Doran as a bodyguard. Initially unable to see past his client’s Hollywood glitz and glamor, Quinn realizes Chantel’s appearance is deceiving—and that there’s a tale of romantic suspense building between them.
Enjoy this Small-Town Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple To honor the town’s first responders, the Myerton Business Owner’s Association has decided to sponsor an all-expense paid trip to a Jamaican resort. Dan Conway is the lucky winner, and with Father Tom, Helen, and others taking charge of the Conway children, he and Miriam jet off to the Caribbean for one last vacation before their sixth child arrives. No sooner have the couple left than the body of a multilevel marketing representative is found in the backyard of the home of the host of the weekly meeting of Rosary Mom’s. Fortunately, Helen is on the scene, attending the meeting with Father Tom and the Conway children in tow. Unfortunately, Catherine Conway helps Helen find the body, bringing her the unfortunate woman’s red shoe. With the help of Father Tom, Junior Detective Conway, and two bored moms, Helen investigates who in the woman’s life would have wanted her dead . . . and why. The Rosary Revenge is the twelfth novel in the Mercy and Justice Mystery series, a contemporary small town mystery series. The series is a sequel to the Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters. It features Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest who is also an amateur sleuth in the tradition of Father Brown, and his wife Helen Greer, female Chief of Police and detective in the tradition of Kinsey Millhone.
