As she arrives at Bridal Veil Island in 1913 with the Bridgeport family, Callie DeBoyer's just received a letter from her parents, missionaries in coastal Africa, stating they are in dire need of more personnel. Should she give up her governess job and join their important work? When she enrolls young Thomas Bridgeport in golf lessons, Callie meets Wesley Townsend, who urges her to take lessons as well. Callie comes to care for Wesley -- until she...

"Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find peace, she heads to the seaside resort she loved as a...

With the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phenomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature ... and man against himself.

As the movie continues to broadcast all over the world, entire generations may know the Jaws story

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Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and...

Inheriting a luxurious oceanfront resort under a condition that she must run it profitably for one year to claim full ownership, food critic Peyton Lockhart is targeted by dangerous rivals and is protected from a threat against her life by childhood friend and attractive FBI agent Finn MacBain.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark turns up the heat in a drop-dead frightening novel about an idyllic beach community turned killer's hunting ground. Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story on "girls who cry wolf" for the season premiere of Hourglass, television's highly rated news magazine....

When Agatha Raisin and her old flame James Lacey go on a holiday, Agatha becomes the prime suspect in a murder at the hotel where they are staying.

Hollow man : After successfully experimenting on animals in a top-secret research project on invisibility, a defense department scientist decides to experiment on himself. Things go terribly wrong when it is discovered that the procedure cannot be reversed. Hollow man 2 : A Seattle detective and a biologist find themselves the targets of murder from an invisible assassin gone rogue. Other targets for assassination are the government forces who caused...

"With our much-anticipated vacation at the Casa Verde eco-resort in Costa Rica having turned into the case of the century, George, Bess, and I have hardly had a moment to relax. I've done a little digging and uncovered the ugly truth behind this beautiful place: Casa Verde is not as green as it seems. But, given that the inhabitants of Costa Rica and its visitors put such an important emphasis on the environment, why would the owners of Casa Verde...