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Katie is dying to fit in. Literally. She’s a bulimic high school freshman who drinks and hangs out with the mean girls. Maybe you know someone like her? Or there’s Cindy, a high school junior who acts like everything is always OK. She plays three sports, earns straight A’s, and parties on the weekends, but also she struggles with depression, perfectionism, and addiction.

The Cornered Cat is the ultimate resource for women who choose to carry a firearm for self defense. It covers everything from cleaning a pistol to methods of carry. It tells women everything they ever wanted to know about how to carry a firearm for self defense.

Poems contained in this collection testify to a year-long effort on the author's part to capture the essence of human experience through poetry. Some of the poems are based on real places and concrete experiences; others were composed in the spirit of creative artistic exercise. But they all touch upon important aspects of the human experience, such as love, freedom, and social justice.

Discover the top 20 reasons Why Men Get Married... For any woman who has ever been married, is now married, or wants to be married, this book is an absolute must-have. Using 20 years of discovery through dialog with men, the author delivers a hard-hitting, brutally candid, and starkly revealing narrative about the way men really feel about marriage. Readers should brace for impact, as they learn all the reasons men themselves give for why they ever get married!

An unexpected alliance sends Riley to Canada and Mexico, making her an international woman of mystery! Riley searches for a kidnapped woman, with an FBI agent hot on her trail and a supervillain in her sights. Solid Gold is another funny, fast-paced adventure about an amateur vigilante out to make the world a better place, if she doesn't get herself killed first!

Detective Kate Morgan has settled into her position and, although straining under her new caseload, is working hard. Simon is still a big question mark in her world - and his “gift” even more so. Dealing with a frustrating series of drive-by shootings has brought a three-year-old drive-by case to the forefront....

The way a person's house looks and feels like is a huge reflection of his or her personality. However, most of the time, there isn't enough leeway to find the schedule, energy, and motivation to keep our homes clean and organized. As a result, a cluttered, messy, and disorganized space invades our lives day in and day out.

Detective Erin O’Reilly is no stranger to close calls. She and her K-9 Rolf have dodged more than their share of blades, blasts, and bullets as they’ve taken on the worst New York City has to offer. But the last perp came a little too close, leaving one of Erin’s fellow officers with a bullet-hole in his head and her own brain scrambled. Erin needs a break, but as her long-running infiltration of the O’Malley gang enters its final act, she can’t afford to slack off. And that’s not her only headache.

Detective Erin O’Reilly is used to people trying to kill her. She’s carefully established a false identity as a killer for the Mob, while secretly working to bring it down from within. She thinks she knows where the danger is. But now a fiendishly clever assassin is stalking the streets, targeting New York’s judges. His weapons are lethal traps, designed to kill without warning and look like freak accidents.

Teresa Tommasino has always avoided trouble. Never married, shes gone through life quietly, content to be a Brooklyn schoolteacher. She knows the Mafia run her neighborhood, but as long as she keeps her head down, she figures shell be safe. But trouble has a way of slipping into even the most peaceful life. After witnessing a terrible crime, Teresa is drawn into a world of gangsters, fear, and deception. With a contract out on her life, she agrees to a desperate plan: a car bomb, a faked death, and an escape from New York.

After months of nerve-wracking undercover work, Detective Erin O’Reilly is finally getting ready to bring down the Irish Mob. She has everything she needs: recordings, witnesses, and even the secret O’Malley ledger. She just needs to wait a few more weeks while the NYPD makes the final preparations to drop the hammer. If everything stays calm on the street, there’s nothing to fear.

A sleazy playboy’s private plane crashes in Brooklyn without a pilot, but with six kilos of cocaine on board. The playboy’s body washes up on the beach a few days later. Why did he jump out of his aircraft with a faulty parachute? It screams murder to Detective Erin O’Reilly. Meanwhile, the New York underworld is in turmoil after the death of a Mafia chieftain. The narcotics trade is up for grabs and everybody wants a piece of the action.

When a freak blizzard descends on Manhattan, Erin O’Reilly plans to take shelter and wait for it to blow over. But Irish mobster Evan O’Malley has other ideas. He’s heard there’s an undercover cop in his organization and wants Erin to unmask the infiltrator. Phil Stachowski, Erin’s handler, is in danger, and he’s gone missing. Erin finds herself plunging into the heart of the storm. She finds one dead cop and another clinging to life. And that’s not the worst of it.