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When you look at Steve Katz's career on paper, it rivals that of some of the biggest rock stars of the 1960s and 70s. Katz performed at the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project, he was at Woodstock with Blood, Sweat, & Tears, he even produced Lou Reed, rock's most celebrated speed addict. Katz was part of world tours, he has three Grammy wins and ten nominations. He won three Downbeat Reader's Poll ...

He seemed so normal.

Robert Lee Yates, Jr. was a respected father of five who piloted helicopters and served in Desert Storm and the National Guard. No one suspected him of having a deadly hidden life. By night, he prowled streets in search of prostitutes. He gained their trust then shot them in the head.

The bodies of two young women were discovered in Spokane, Washington on August 26, 1997. Four ...

Born Fighting chronicles the full journey of the between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish settles who migrated to America in the eighteenth century. This remarkable group of settlers played a profound, but often unrecognized, role in the shaping of America. James “Jim” Webb traces the history of his people, the challenges they faced, and the qualities they developed that helped to settle the American frontier and define the American character.

This story is both ...

Burl Barer is an Edgar Award–winning author and two-time Anthony Award nominee with extensive media, advertising, marketing, and public relations experience. He has garnered accolades for his creative contributions to radio, television, and print media, and his career has been highlighted in The Hollywood Reporter, London Sunday Telegraph, New York Times, USA Today, Variety, Broadcasting, and Electronic Media, as well as on ABC's Good Morning America. Barer, regarded as one of America's finest investigative journalists, ...

Milena Wellington, general manager of the Wellington Plaza, may have been raised in a world of privilege, but she’s worked hard for her professional success, and she’s not about to let anyone take that from her. The problem? Her love life is in shambles, she’s sleeping on her friend’s couch, her coworkers are constantly plotting behind her back, and she’s stalking an intense, slightly arrogant, tattooed firefighter she had a one-night stand with.

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I hear screams in my head.
I see blood on my hands.
When I look in the mirror I see a stranger.

How is it that I can remember bits and pieces of my life, but nothing of any importance and nothing that makes any sense? Everything is twisted and nothing is right. I’m choking with every breath I take, suffocating on the unknown.

Two days ago, everything changed. ...

The truck should have turned Libbi Piper into a Libbi Pancake -- and it would have, too, if Aaron hadn't shown up and saved her life. The problem? Aaron's the local Grim Reaper... and he only saved Libbi's life because he needs someone to take over his job. Now, Libbi has two days to choose between dying like she was supposed to, or living a lonely life as Death Incarnate. Talk about a rock and ...

Leksander is a Dragon Prince of the House of Smoke, and he is in love with the wrong woman. Leksander never meant to fall for an angeling, and he certainly never meant to hurt her. The protection of humanity is his most sacred duty, but how can he do that when he can't even protect the woman he loves? Saving Erelah means saving himself--he'll be useless for anything else until he does, including finding a ...

At age 12, Janis was thrust into a role that no one, not even L. Ron Hubbard, could have predicted. Commodore’s Messenger begins by taking the reader into the life of the first family of Scientology in Australia, Yvonne and Peter Gillham and their three children; Peter Jr., Terri and Janis. Life for the Gillhams is not without its challenges in Australia, but nothing compared to what happens when the family moves to ...

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had never met either victim—as the monster responsible. In what would become Pennsylvania’s first use of mitochondrial DNA in a criminal case, Patricia Rorrer ...