FBI special agent Nick Bradley has seen his share of kooks during his fifteen years with the Bureau. But Rachel Sutton is an enigma. She seems normal when she shows up at the FBI office in St. Louis--until she produces a tattered Raggedy Ann doll she found and tells him she thinks something is wrong because of a strange feeling of terror it gives her when she touches it. Nick dismisses her, only to stumble across a link between the doll and an abducted...

A harrowing, adrenaline-charged account of America's worst naval disaster at sea---and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survived.

Can Inspector C. D. Sloan find his man when a dismembered appendage appears at a local farm in this mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird? When the Berebury Footpaths Society created their locally infamous motto, "Every walk a challenge," they couldn't have known just how apt it would be. Avid hikers Wendy Lamport and Gordon Briggs suffer from a good walk spoiled when, while reclaiming a public footpath from the greedy barbed-wire fences...

If no one knows you're in danger, no one can save you... The Baxter house in the Lowther Hills, in Scotland, has been up for sale for decades. It's dilapidated and near-derelict, and nobody is interested in it. But, for one potential buyer, the remote location and rat-infested cellar are just what he's looking for. For the first year, Mackenzie's marriage to Derek was ideal. Now though, Derek believes she is having an affair, and when she fears her...

Water, wood, metal, stone, salt, cotton -- these are some of the everyday talismans that Maureen Hynes encounters on her journey through Harm's Way. A soldier's gold fountain pen, like the war itself, lies buried for decades; the corrugated metal and glass shattered across the Australian outback teach her a new way to look at landscape; the silk of an old parachute recalls her first lesson in longing, and even the ribbed cotton of new undershirts...

HE DIDN'T LOOK MUCH LIKE A DETECTIVE... Maybe it was the whole Southern comfort thing--the sinfully rich accent, that lazy smile, his heated touch, kindness that nearly disarmed her. But Robin Andrews knew better than to trust a man...especially this one. Did Detective Mitch Winton really have her best interest in mind? Or was he just toying with his prime suspect? The cosmopolitan beauty hadn't killed anyone. Mitch would stake his badge on it--and,...

Director Otto Preminger’s epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor details the devastating attack on the Hawaiian naval base as well as the explosive, behind-the-scenes stories. An awesome cast – including John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda is interwoven into this account of the attack itself, as well as into the triumphs and tragedies of disobeyed orders, the American counter-offensive, father-son reunions, battles at sea, and layers...

A young WWII pilot, Jack Turner (Emile Hirsch), is saved by a young Chinese widow named Ying (Crystal Liu), who risks her life to hide the injured American pilot in her house.

"Winners of the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" Javier Auyero is professor of Latin American sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. María Fernanda Berti is an elementary school teacher in Buenos Aires. A harrowing look at violence among Argentina's urban poor Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are...

Natural disasters causing death and destruction are intensifying as the earth's climate changes, leaving billions of people in harm's way.