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Description: "An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a flair for disguise. Bennett taps his best investigators and sources, and they fan out across the five boroughs. But the leads they're chasing turn out to be phantoms. The assassin takes advantage of the chaos, enticing an officer into compromising Bennett, then luring another member of Bennett's family into even graver danger. Michael Bennett can't tell what's driving the assassin. But he can tell it's personal, and that it's part of something huge. Through twist after twist, he fights to understand exactly how he fits into the killer's plan, before he becomes the ultimate victim.

Description: Miss Temperance Flowerdew is on her way to work when a stranger grabs her off the street and puts her on a Chicago-bound train before she can figure out what happened. Called upon to rescue a missing woman, Mr. Gilbert Cavendish follows the trail to Chicago only to discover that the woman is his good friend Temperance. Before they can determine who was behind the abduction, they're seen alone together by a New York society matron. With both of their reputations at risk, Gilbert is willing to propose marriage. Temperance will have none of it.

Description: Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase 'small town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will until the mayor of sorts (campaign promise: `I'll Do What I Can') comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of curious people and making the townsfolk rich overnight. Why not stage a prank in Pinion and do the same? No one gets hurt and everyone gets rich. What could go wrong? And then a dead body shows up. It turns out that lots can go wrong with a get-rich-quick scheme like this one and lots will. It'll take everything Virgil Flowers has to put things to right - before someone else dies.

Description: Seeking justice against the man who stole his birthright and destroyed his family, Logan Fowler arrives in 1890s Pecan Gap, Texas to confront Zach Hamilton, a hardened criminal responsible for his father's death. What he finds instead is a man not much older than himself with an unusual family. When Zach's sister, Evangeline, douses Logan with sunshine every time their paths cross, his quest is completely derailed. Who is truly responsible for his lost legacy, and will avenging the past satisfy if it means forfeiting a future with Evangeline?

Description: Contains a collection of thirty-five frontier tales of faith, adventure, and survival on the American frontier by twentieth-century author Louis L'Amour.

Description: For Signora Maria Ferraro, the sunflowers in the fields around Tuscany in summer carry bitter memories. Not even her cherished daughter, Anabella, knows what happened to her during World War II, when the Germans overran Florence. In the aftermath of loss and grief she found salvation through cultivating roses on her farm. Now the blossoms symbolize everything that is good and safe, and she nurtures them with as much care as she guards her past. Yet to Anabella, who longs for more, the rose farm has become little more than a pretty prison.

Description: Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely -- Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) -- to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope. They all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set apart in background, abilities, and temperament, these men shared a fierce ambition and a deep-seated resilience that enabled them to surmount uncommon hardships. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others.

Description: Kerry shares details of his life in public service. From decorated Vietnam veteran to five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, and Secretary of State for four years, he provides a personal and candid memoir as a witness to some of the most important events of our recent history. He tells tales about his colleagues, and major political figures he has met in his travels, while providing testimony for the importance of diplomacy and American leadership in a globalized world.