In Burning Midnight, master of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman gives readers a hot new Amos Walker mystery. Amos Walker knows Detroit, from the highest to the lowest, and that includes the gangs of Mexicantown. When a friend asks Walker to get his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs, Walker gets in trouble fast. First, dead bodies start to pile up; then come suspicious fires and the bottle bombs. Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war. Whether or not a middle-aged gringo like him can cool things off between the Maldados and the Zapatistas, he's got to try; he did promise his friend. Once he gets involved, he realizes there's something else going on; the specter of an international conspiracy threatens to make this local trouble blow sky-high. And if he ends up dead or in jail for murders he didn't commit, he might have to put that promise on hold. It's tough being Amos Walker. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

For fans of The Maze Runner and The Fifth Wave, this debut YA novel from Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh pits four underprivileged teens against an evil billionaire in the race of a lifetime. No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the improvement—and the more expensive the sphere. Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn’t pay much—Alex Holliday’s stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers—but it helps him and his mom make the rent. When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. One day they find a Gold—a color no one has ever seen. There’s no question the Gold is priceless, but what does it actually do? None of them is aware of it yet, but the fate of the world rests on this little golden orb. Because all the world fights over the spheres, but no one knows where they come from, what their powers are, or why they’re here. PRAISE: “Burning Midnight is for (1) adrenaline junkies and gamers, (2) obsessive collectors, and (3) people who can’t get enough of crazy endings. I’m all of these things, and I loved it.” —Margaret Stohl, New York Times bestselling author of Black Widow: Forever Red and coauthor of the internationally bestselling Beautiful Creatures series

Solina Mundy lives a quiet life, running the family bakery in her small North Carolina hometown. But one night, she suffers a vivid nightmare in which a wolfish beast is devouring her twin brother, who lives in Alaska. The next morning, police notify her that Mani is dead. Driven to learn the truth, Solina heads for the Land of the Midnight Sun. Once there, she begins to suspect Mani’s friends know more about his death than they’ve let on. Skyla, an ex-Marine, is the only one willing to help her. As Solina and Skyla delve into the mystery surrounding Mani’s death, Solina is stunned to learn that her own life is tied to Mani’s friends, his death, and the fate of the entire world. If she can’t learn to control her newfound gifts and keep her friends safe, a long-lost dominion over mortals will rise again, and everything she knows will fall into darkness.

In Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great thinkers throughout the ages. Whether beguiling readers with glorious poetry or consoling them with prayers from fellow restless souls, Cousineau can relieve any insomniac's unease. From St. John of the Cross to Annie Dillard, Beethoven to The Song of Songs, this refreshingly insightful anthology soothes and inspires all who struggle through the dark of the night. These "night thoughts" vividly illustrate Alfred North Whitehead's liberating description of "what we do without solitude" and also evoke Henry David Thoreau's reverie, "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." The night writers in Cousineau's vesperal collection range from saints, poets, and shamans to astronomers and naturalists, and tells of ancient tales and shining passages from the most brilliant (albeit insomniac) writers of today. These poetic ponderances sing of the falling darkness, revel in dream-time, convey the ache of melancholy, conspire against sleeplessness, vanquish loneliness, contemplate the night sky, rhapsodize on love, and languorously greet the first rays of dawn. Notable night owls include Rabandranath Tagore, Mary Oliver, Manley Hopkins, Jorge Borges and William Blake.

Writing from home can be a challenge when you’ve got one or more kids tugging at your sleeve for attention. There are days it seems like you can’t get ANY writing done, and looming deadlines mean sleepless nights and frazzled nerves. Take heart: Writing parents who have figured out this writing parent thing share their stories and the lessons they’ve learned in trying to find balance between writing and parenting. If you’re a freelance writer, commercial writer, author or journalist trying to figure out how to keep your writing career going strong and be a capable parent at the same time, check out Burning the Midnight Oil Revisited to get some tips and techniques on how to make it happen for you!

In heart-wrenching detail, Louise Halfe recalls the damage done by the residential schools to her parents, her family, and herself in her new poetry collection.

Five years after the publication of Ignite (Midnight Fire Book 1), Kira, Luke and Tristan are back with a brand new adventure in this anniversary novella! After saving the world from sure annihilation, life can seem a little, well, boring. No one is trying to kill any of them…at least, not yet. But when the opportunity to go on a high stakes, dangerous mission comes up, obviously they're in.

A body in an alley. A killer on the run. An assassin seeking vengeance. ★★★★★ “Fantastic read. Edge of your seat stuff.” Alan Thomas Langridge A young woman’s blood-soaked body hangs in a dank, dark alley. As open and shut cases go, this one looks a nailed-down certainty – a boyfriend murdered his lover in a jealous rage. Except… did he? Ex-assassin Tess Williams dives into Manhattan’s seedy underworld to investigate because she senses things are not what they seem. Using her lethal combat skills, street savvy, and computer hacking expertise, Tess uncovers secrets far darker and far deadlier than she’d ever imagined. Yet still the pieces just don’t fit. Desperate to reveal the truth, Tess fights knife-wielding psychos, confronts deceitful witnesses, and battles her own inner demons, until finally, she believes she’s solved the mystery and can nail the killer. But her investigation has left two innocent people in the killer’s crosshairs and she has time to save only one. And just when she thinks things can’t get any worse… She’s out of time because the killer is far closer than she thinks. Tonight, someone will die. But who? ★★★★★ “Super series – fast paced, suspenseful, action packed, and great characters!” Sheryl Painter ★★★★★ “A well written fast-paced read, which hooked me from the beginning to end.” Julie Elizabeth Powell ★★★★★ “Lots of twists and turns as Tess tries to solve this who-done-it. Make sure you hang on tight for the wild ride.” Elizabeth Robb ★★★★★ “A really unique twist to crime solving... a gripping book I couldn't put down.” Kimberly Aisha Hashmi ★★★★★ “I love this series of books. Tess is the personification of angst, fury, passion, sensibility, regret and determination. She is what lies hidden in the dark recesses of our minds.” Teresa Hi If you love a troubled hero with a dark past, love pulse-pounding action and electrifying suspense, you MUST READ this series which has over 500 5-star reviews! >>> Click Buy Now <<< Absolutely FREE! You get Black File 04 free with this book (see the Table of Contents for details). Standalone? Yes, you can read this book as a standalone. Small sub-plots run through the series to make it more fun, but each book is a thrilling read in its own right, so you can read them in any order you like. Dark Crime Thrillers This series is gritty, action-packed crime fiction, not Miss Marple, so expect some violence, occasional strong language, and every so often, a scene of a sexual nature. The paperback edition is 200 pages long. ★★★★★ “Dang I like this gal and these stories, but that ending!" Becky Neilsen If you love the action thrillers of Lee Child, Stieg Larsson, Vince Flynn, John Sandford, David Baldacci, James Patterson - especially assassin books, vigilante stories, and revenge novels – you'll love Steve N. Lee's kick-ass hero, fast-paced plots, and Jack Reacher-style action >>> Click Buy Now <<<

This book is intended to help people who want to "spice up" the way they talk. It is especially effective for people whose native languages are not English. Verbal metaphors used in appropriate contexts can serve business, social, psychological and cultural purposes. Each metaphor occupies one page which makes learning consistent and easy. Each page has a cartoon and a text portion that consists of four categories of information: meaning, alternatives, origin and usage.

In the '40s, he was an American hero, a daredevil fighter pilot, a technological genius. a superhero. Captain Midnight originally started out as a radio serial, which ran from 1938 to 1949. It starred a WWI aviator pilot and expert inventor who leads the Secret Squadron. A longstanding mainstay in popular culture, Captain Midnight has been reimagined as a comic strip, on television, in film and even prose - but this new interpretation modernises the hero, bringing him into a contemporary setting.