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"University of Oxford tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoodt has it all: acclaim, women, money . . . and an enemy or two. When he's found dead at the bottom of the stairs during a celebratory reception at St Rumwold's College, many wonder if seething jealousy of his literary success has turned someone's mind to murder. Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just becomes inescapably drawn into an investigation that takes him down the historic streets...

"From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and 'riots' that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation's streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression...

Visiting a prisoner to inform him that his reprieve has been denied and that his execution is scheduled for the next day, Inspector Maigret listens to the condemned man's story, undertaking a personal investigation that leads him to the Guinguette à Deux Sous, a bar by the Seine, and into the seamy underbelly of bourgeois Paris.-- Provided by publisher.

"No hay mejor Plot Twist que la verdad. Sus palabras solían causar absoluta devoción, pero una reacción viral en contra de su última adaptación cinematográfica obliga a la escritora Petra Rose a tomarse un descanso. Señalada como un fraude y como una oportunista hambrienta de fama, Petra aprende de la peor manera lo que sucede cuando internet se pone en tu contra y, desde entonces, pierde toda inspiración para escribir. Ahora, con su próxima...

Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.

Will Crockett and his brother Gid go from card players to bar owners when the winning poker pot includes the deed to a Belle Springs saloon. But Belle Springs is run by a crooked sheriff who is determined to get his special sheriff's tax.

"THE MATTHEW FARADAY SAGA CONTINUES... As our wounded nation heals itself in the aftermath of the Civil War, it is once more plunged into sorrow. In one treasonous moment President Abraham Lincoln is dead, and - though his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is quickly caught - the treachery is far from over. A plot is being hatched to kidnap Lincoln's body from the funeral train that will carry the fallen leader through the countryside of mourners, from...