Try Applebee's Copycat Recipes in Your KitchenIn The Unauthorized Copycat Cookbook: Recreating Recipes for Applebee's® Grill and Bar Menu, we recreate the casual dining experience of this neighborhood restaurant chain. We all like to dine out but that can get expensive, especially for an entire family. But what if you can recreate those recipes at home. The Applebee's concept focuses on casual dining, with mainstream American dishes such as salads,...

Pulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist Steven Pearlstein argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work.Thirty years ago, “greed is good” and “maximizing shareholder value” became the new mantras woven into the fabric of our business culture, economy, and politics. Although, around the world, free market capitalism has lifted more than a billion people from poverty, in the U...

Not him.Not that guy, Weston Lively.The one I've hated since law school.The man who gets by on good looks, a fat bank account, and a powerful, political father.Our more-than-just-a-kiss one drunken night changes nothing between us.We’re both still straight.And we still hate each other.It doesn’t matter that we work for the same law firm.We’ve put what happened behind us.Except....oops.It might’ve happened again...

When Mac Travis witnesses a poacher working lobster traps in the backcountry of the Florida Keys—too near his island home to ignore—he takes action. The traps belong to a friend who enlists Mac to search for the poachers—but along the way, Mac makes a discovery that changes everything.A story that highlights the beauty of the Keys while exposing their undesirable underbelly, Wood’s Bones features the unique character of the island chain. Filled with boating, diving, and fishing, wi...

On New Year's Day 1959, with Castro on the brink of overthrowing the Batista regime, the soon-to-be-deposed dictator looted the Cuban treasury and loaded it into four B26 Marauder bombers headed for Tampa.Only three planes landed.The fourth has never been found, and was rumored to contain three billion dollars in gold.For diver, fisherman, and salvor Mac Travis, things are never as easy as they seem. While attemptin...

When is it better to be dead than missing?A woman’s plea to find her missing husband sends Special Agent Kurt Hunter down a road he doesn’t want to go.For all its pristine beauty, Biscayne National Park can be deadly for those lost and unprepared. Open water and inhospitable islands are the most obvious obstacles in a life or death battle, but there is something even more dangerous than nature—man.The search leads to the mangrove-lined shores of the...

Terrorists target Lady LibertyThe Hudson River and Long Island Sound provide historic, vibrant, and simply beautiful settings—until terrorists begin setting off dirty bombs along their shores. Kendra Hale and Ian Starbuck, special agents for the FBI’s Special Projects Group, are called in to stop the mayhem, uncovering a sophisticated network of jihadists whose goal is to render Manhattan uninhabitable. Nuclear waste is their weapon of choice, and they have the fin...

Sport has long been a stage where identity is contested, visibility is earned, and social change takes root.In Boston, the Black athletic body has historically challenged the city's self image as a beacon of liberalism. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets this contested history through the lives and experiences of African American athletes who used their talent as a vehicle for social justice. Editors Robert Cvornyek and ...

Action and Adventure in the Florida KeysIt's easy to become invisible in the Florida Keys. Mac Travis is laying low: Fishing, Diving and doing enough salvage work to pay his bills until three fishermen trolling the Gulf Stream discover a square grouper. Besides the drugs, the package contains a secret that changes their lives and jeopardizes the very existence of the Keys. When his wayward deckhand brings him part of the package, he and his girlfriend Mel, are dr...

It’s 1852 and San Francisco is still in the thrall of the Gold Rush.Boomtowns can be dangerous places especially when there is gold to be had. Nick and the crew of the Panther aren’t interested in the riches. They want to get out alive.The city becomes a tinderbox ready to burn when an old nemesis kidnaps Nick’s son. Nick and the crew must navigate the gangs trying to take control of the lawless city—and its riches—in order to save him.Thei...

Travel from cherished orchards to mist-bound moorlands, deep mines to the icy grip of a frozen lake. Uncover strange carvings on ancient stones, the secrets at the bottom of the garden, and peculiar local customs.Discover new, folklore-inspired tales from Northern writers in this first anthology from Carnyx Press. These strange, dark and playful stories explore the nature of folklore and imagine new folktales for our age, examining themes of community, prejudice, climate change and...

After two years of clandestine operations, Agent Carrie Harris doesn’t know why she’s been attached to the Metropolitan Police. Could it be, as her superiors say, to hone her skills at breaking down doors and catching bad guys? Or is it to become accustomed to working as a team when she’s been so used to operating alone?Putting her uncertainties behind her, Carrie leans into her new role, taking pleasure as part of a special task force targeting organised criminals, until during an...