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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Elementary school teacher Jacqueline Jacks Morales's marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable. Familiar. Or at least she thought it was, until two police officers showed up at her door with devastating news. Her husband of eight years, the one who should have been on a business trip to Kansas, had suffered a fatal car accident in Hawaii. And he wasn't alone.
2) Bystander 27
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Who will save us from the heroes? For ex-navy SEAL Jon Hayes, the super-powered 'costumes' are just part of ordinary life in New York City -- until the day his pregnant wife Melanie is senselessly killed in a clash between Captain Light and the Jade Shade. But as Hayes struggles to come to terms with his loss, and questions for the first time who the costumes are and where they come from, the once sharp lines of reality begin to blur... If Hayes wants...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows that pedestrian traffic deaths are not unavoidable "accidents." They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the increase in pedestrian deaths in the US as well as programs and movements that...
4) Hideout
Author
Series
Richard Christie mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The new book in Kathleen George's stunning Pittsburgh-set police procedural series begins when a young mother dies in a hit-and-run accident caused by two young brothers. Desperate and afraid, Jack and Ryan Rutter flee to Sugar Lake, the summer community where they vacationed as children. As Detectives Colleen Greer and Richard Christie search for the brothers, Jack and Ryan create a terrifying hostage situation. As fast-paced and brilliantly plotted...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Millie Parkman Dayton is still healing from the fatal car accident that claimed her husband and subjected her to local gossip. When she's thrown together with the attractive rancher who shares her tragic past, new rumors begin to fly in Last Ride, Texas. Single dad Joe McCann is focused on running his ranch and raising his daughter. His daughter teams up with Millie, and the widower cowboy finds himself agreeing to help them with a project, thus opening...
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