Grant Patterson moved to Mexico City and found a writing group at Café Comunidad — a half-vegan cafe, half-yoga studio where strangers gather on Wednesday nights to write from prompts for 30-45 minutes, then share.This collection emerged from those sessions: essays about childhood barbershops, football concussions, jail cells in suburban Texas, Bar Mitzvahs, and searching for an authentic self.Patterson writes with humor and unflinching honesty about family, race, sports, a...

Brazil: beaches, babes, samba. Will Bryant is not living in that Brazil.São Paulo is a seething megalopolis of twenty million, built on fast money and old lies. Will is a Canadian in exile, adisgraced ex-cop teaching English to feed his family when he lands a different sort of job, to find out why wealthy men with filthy habits are being blackmailed. The answer will take Will Bryant further than he ever wanted to go.This may be Brazil. But it’s no Carnaval.

The sequel to Southern Cross: A Will Bryant Thriller.   Rio de Janeiro. Underneath the tanned bodies, the scorching beaches, the sex and the sounds: a seething discontent and ever present violence. While the postcard city preens as the Olympics approaches, a struggle for control erupts in the favelas.   This isn't Will Bryant's city, and it's definitely not his fight. But if he wants to save his family from financial ruin, h...

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Grant Patterson moved to Mexico City and found a writing group at Café Comunidad — a half-vegan cafe, half-yoga studio where strangers gather on Wednesday nights to write from prompts for 30-45 minutes, then share.This collection emerged from those sessions: essays about childhood barbershops, football concussions, jail cells in suburban Texas, Bar Mitzvahs, and searching for an authentic self.Patterson writes with humor and unflinching honesty about family, race, sports, a...

In James Patterson's #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom, and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder.Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law enforcement skills have carried him far: from local highway patrolman to the honorable rank of Texas Ranger. He arrives in his hometown to find a horrifying crime scene and a scathing accusation: he is na...

A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series.Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hou...

Elvis is in the bedroom.Journalist Leslie Stern never wanted to write entertainment stories. So when she interviews Patton King, a rising country singer who claims to be Elvis's grandson, she decides to uncover the truth and write a scathing review. But there's more to Patton than meets the eye, and Leslie can't help falling for "The Next Elvis."BookShots Flames Original romances presented by James Patterson Novels you can devour in a few hours Impossible to stop r...

This book advances the conversation about the presence, aesthetic appropriation, and re-interpretation of the foundational English author John Bunyan (1628–1688), whose works and legend have had a vibrant afterlife in visual art.Focusing on the global reach of Bunyan's works and legend through multiple media and cultural adaptations provides a unique opportunity to discover the varied and generative influence of Bunyan on cultures past and present, promoting a more ...

The Dragon Kings ruled over everything from the beginning of time with power and magic - and the ability to shift into dragon form. When the humans appeared, they protected them at all costs. Now a new evil has risen and the Dragon Kings are reluctantly being pulled into a war not of their choosing. What they don't expect is to find a love so powerful it threatens to change everything they have ever known. Dive into New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant’s compelling Da...

The one guy who could make her stay...Penelope Davis is ready to leave Bear Mountain. Her brothers have left for the military, and her crush, ER doctor Hunter Gracin, thinks she's only interested in a fling. So when she's offered her dream job, she plans to take it, until Dr. Gracin comes knocking on her door....BookShots Flames Original romances presented by James PattersonNovels you can devour in a few hoursImpossible to stop reading

"I'm not a hero."Cam Warren is back from duty in Iraq. He's haunted by what he's seen, and the only thing he wants is to be normal again -- especially when he sees Hayley Arsenault, the girl he left behind when he went off to war. But how does a scarred soldier learn to let in love?BookShots FlamesOriginal romances presented by James PattersonNovels you can devour in a few hoursImpossible to stop reading