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Board Stiff (A Mattie Winston Mystery #5)
by Annalise RyanSorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner Mattie Winston is back on the job. . .in a nursing home examining the body of Bernie Chase--the now former president of the Twilight Home's board of directors--who is covered in a powder used to turn liquids to solids. The home's residents are certain Bernie was offing the patients who cost him too much. . .and the patient that found him can't remember a thing. Between her ongoing tug of war with Detective Hurley, fulfilling her new job requirement of seeing a shrink, and wrangling with the Twilight Home's board of directors, Mattie's got her scrubbed hands full. She'll need all of her outside-the-box forensic skills to crack a case that's turning out to be stranger--and more dangerous--than anything she's seen before!
Board Stiff (The Elliott Lisbon Mysteries #1)
by Kendel LynnAgatha Award finalist for Best First Novel: “Elli Lisbon is the Stephanie Plum of the South!” —Krista Davis, New York Times–bestselling author of the Domestic Diva Mysteries Elliott Lisbon, director of the Ballantyne Foundation on Sea Pine Island, South Carolina, scratches her detective itch by performing discreet inquiries for Foundation donors. Usually nothing more serious than retrieving a pilfered Pomeranian. Until Jane Hatting, Ballantyne board chair, is accused of murder. The Ballantyne’s reputation tanks, Jane’s headed to a jail cell, and Elliott’s sexy ex is the new lieutenant in town. Armed with moxie and her Mini Coop, Elliott uncovers a trail of blackmail schemes, gambling debts, illicit affairs, and investment scams. But the deeper she digs to clear Jane’s name, the guiltier Jane looks. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more treacherous her investigation becomes. With victims piling up faster than shells at a clambake, Elliott realizes she’s next on the killer’s list. “The most lovable OCD PI since Adrian Monk.” —Maddy Hunter, Agatha Award nominated author of the Passport to Peril Series
Board Stiff (The Xanth Novels #38)
by Piers AnthonyKandy may be bored stiff, but a magical mishap makes her problem literal in this hilarious novel in the New York Times–bestselling Xanth series. In the land of Xanth, where everyone has a unique magical talent, adventures come easily to most. But two inhabitants find themselves quite bored . . . until they&’re inadvertently thrust together on a mission to save Xanth from an anti-pun virus that could turn their world into just another Mundania. Irrelevant Kandy is gorgeous, but thanks to a mental typo and an ornery wishing well, she&’s now an actual board—with mind control powers. So much for her big plans for adventure, excitement, and romance. And Ease has his own problems, namely that everything is just too easy. He craves a challenge. Fortunately, Humfrey the Good Magician is more than happy to provide them with a quest. The duo—along with a basilisk bodyguard in the form of a young woman and nefarious android Com Pewter—is tasked with saving the puns of Xanth. But who could have released a virus that would destroy Xanth&’s essence, and can Kandy and Ease figure out how to stop it in time?
Board Stiff: A Dead-end Job Mystery (The Dead-End Job Mysteries #12)
by Elaine VietsFrom Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets—the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.Helen Hawthorne and Phil—her husband and PI partner—are on the case when Jim Sandusky asks them to save his business. Because while “Sunny Jim’s Stand-Up Paddleboard Rental” is garnering a lot of attention, it’s not the kind the beachside business ever hoped to attract.There’s a local restaurateur who wants the land for a parking lot, a competing board rental place aiming to poach customers, and a gang of local politicos who just want Jim gone. And Jim wants Coronado Investigations to find proof of dirty dealings.They don’t have to try very hard, because it’s not too long before a customer of Jim’s dies after an accident. But when Jim insists it was a murder set up to make him look bad, it’s up to Helen and Phil to prove it before Sunny Jim’s is sunk for good.
Board Stiff: Ein Elliot Lisbon Mystery
by Kendel LynnBeginnen Sie Ihr nächstes Lesevergnügen mit der angehenden Privatdetektivin, die als "die Stephanie Plum des Südens" bezeichnet wird. Mit einer herrlich schrulligen Besetzung serviert die für den Agatha Award nominierte Autorin Kendel Lynn Unfug und Missgeschicke am Meer, die Sie nicht verpassen sollten. Als Direktorin der Ballantyne Foundation auf Sea Pine Island, SC, kratzt Elli Lisbon ihren detektivischen Juckreiz, indem sie diskrete Nachforschungen für Spender der Stiftung anstellt. Normalerweise ist das nichts Schlimmeres, als einen gestohlenen Pomeranian wiederzufinden. Bis Jane Hatting, die Vorstandsvorsitzende von Ballantyne, des Mordes beschuldigt wird. Der Ruf von Ballantyne leidet, Jane landet in einer Gefängniszelle und Ellis sexy Ex ist der neue Leutnant der Stadt. Mit viel Mut und ihrem Mini Coop deckt sie eine Reihe von Erpressungsversuchen, Spielschulden, unerlaubten Affären und Investitionsbetrug auf. Aber je tiefer sie gräbt, um Janes Namen reinzuwaschen, desto schuldiger sieht Jane aus. Je näher sie der Wahrheit kommt, desto tückischer werden ihre Ermittlungen: ein brutaler Angriff auf ihren eigenen Verdächtigen und der Mord an einem Zeugen. Die Opfer häufen sich schneller als die Muscheln bei einem Muschelessen, und Elli wird klar, dass sie die Nächste auf der Liste des Mörders ist. - - - - - - - - - - - - - BOARD STIFF von Kendel Lynn | Ein Henery Press Mystery. Wenn du einen magst, wirst du wahrscheinlich alle mögen. BARNES Schlüsselwörter Booktok-Mystery, gemütliches Mystery, humorvolles Mystery, Südstaatenhumor, Strandlektüre für Frauen Lobung: AGATHA AWARD FINALIST für den besten Erstlingsroman "Lynn fängt das Flair des Südens ein, bis hin zu den herrlich schrulligen Charakteren in dieser cleveren neuen Mysteryreihe. Elli Lisbon ist die Stephanie Plum des Südens!" - Krista Davis, New York Times-Bestsellerautorin der Domest
Board to Death (A Board Game Shop Mystery)
by CJ ConnorIn a trendy Salt Lake City, Utah, neighborhood, Ben Rosencrantz&’s board game shop has become a community hotspot for players of all ages—and for killer collectors. Back in his hometown of Sugar House, running his family&’s board game shop and café, Ben Rosencrantz just can&’t seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. Now he&’s a divorced caregiver, looking after his ill father and a Chihuahua named Beans while still figuring out the rules of retail management. At least the town has become more LGBTQ+ friendly than when Ben was a teenager—and that flower shop owner, Ezra McCaslin, enjoys flirting with him. But despite his usual clientele of gamers, Ben is barely earning enough to keep the store running and stay on top of his father&’s medical bills. Then a local toy and game collector named Clive offers him a winning strategy—to purchase a turn-of-the-twentieth-century edition of The Landlord&’s Game, the realty and taxation game that inspired Monopoly, at a tenth of the rare edition&’s true value. Suspicious of Clive&’s shady, low-priced deal, Ben turns the offer down. Then Clive turns up dead at the front door of Ben&’s shop and a backpack full of $100 bills appears on his doorstep. Now Ben is the #1 suspect in Clive&’s death, and unless he and Ezra can prove his innocence and find the real killer, he&’ll go to jail for murder—and no amount of double dice rolls will set him free . . .
Boarded Windows
by Dylan Hicks"Do yourself a favor and read this smart, tender book. The characters will haunt you with their longing and inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit. Dylan Hicks knows his music and his prose is a song in itself."--Sam Lipsyte"A continually hilarious, hopes-dashed account of an indelible American character: the con man."--Greil MarcusWade Salem is a charismatic aesthete, drug dealer, and journeyman country musician. He's also a complicated father figure to this novel's narrator, whose cloudy childhood becomes both clearer and more confusing through Wade's stories, jokes, and lectures. Through the eyes of a keenly observant, underemployed record collector, Wade emerges as a sly, disruptive force, at once seductive and maddening.Shifting between flashbacks from the seventies and nineties, Boarded Windows is a postmodern orphan story that explores the fallibility of memory and the weight of our social and cultural inheritance. Stylistically layered and searchingly lonesome, Dylan Hicks' debut novel captures the music and mood of the fading embers of America's boomer counterculture.Dylan Hicks is a songwriter, musician, and writer. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Star Tribune, City Pages, and Rain Taxi, and he has released three CDs under his own name. A fourth, Sings Bolling Greene, is a soundtrack to this novel and will be released in May 2012. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife Nina Hale and his son Jackson. This is his first novel.
Boarder Patrol (Orca Sports)
by Erin ThomasRyan is determined to be a professional snowboarder but he's learned from what happened to his whistle-blower father that doing the right thing doesn't always pay off. When his parents leave Kamloops, Ryan decides to stay with relatives so he can be near the Salmon Valley Ski Resort. He spends all his time at the ski hill, volunteering with the Junior Safety Patrol to cover the cost of his lift pass. When his board is stolen, he discovers that his cousin, Kevin, knows more than he should about recent thefts at the resort. Kevin's in way over his head, and soon Ryan's involved, whether he wants to be or not. As Ryan prepares for the video shoot that could be his big break, he learns that Kevin's in danger. Ryan has to choose between career and family, and hope that, for him, doing the right thing will pay off.
Boarding Party
by Robert F. YoungThe fey Mr. Young continues his scholarly researches in the scientific origins of our myth and legend with this tale of an agile—and avaricious—one-man Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier&’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
Boarding School Mysteries Fading Tracks (Faithgirlz / Boarding School Mysteries)
by Kristi HollOn the way home from a field trip, the Landmark School for Girls van, with the driver and six girls, disappears somewhere along the Two-Mile Stretch leading into town. Jeri McKane desperately searches for her missing friends, including her roommate Rosa.
Boarding School Mysteries Smoke Screen (Faithgirlz / Boarding School Mysteries)
by Kristi HollWhen an "accidental" fire at the Landmark School turns out to be arson, Jeri McKane is determined to discover who is setting fires-and why.
Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak
by Arnold KrupatBoarding School Voices is both an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and a study of that writing. The boarding schools&’ ethnocidal practices have become a metaphor for the worst evils of colonialism, a specifiable source for the ills that beset Native communities today. But the fuller story is one not only of suffering and pain, loss and abjection, but also of ingenious agency, creative syntheses, and unimagined adaptations. Although tragic for many student, for others the Carlisle experience led to positive outcomes in their lives. Some published short pieces in the Carlisle newspapers and others sent letters and photos to the school over the years. Arnold Krupat transcribes selections from the letters of these former students literally and unedited, emphasizing their evocative language and what they tell of themselves and their home communities, and the perspectives they offer on a wider American world. Their sense of themselves and their worldview provide detailed insights into what was abstractly and vaguely referred to as &“the Indian question.&” These former students were the oxymoron Carlisle superintendent Richard Henry Pratt could not imagine and never comprehended: they were Carlisle Indians.
Boardroom Baby
by Molly LiholmVivacious, gorgeous, break-the-rules Kate Ross drove conservative, straight-arrow Robert Devlin crazy-or as crazy as he ever let himself get. But when the long-standing rivals were thrown the corporate challenge of their lives-saving the Boardroom Baby baby-food launch- suddenly do-the-right-thing Devlin began having some very unprofessional ideas about his sexy co-worker. Then he learned she was pregnant...the modern way- via a clinic. Having grown up in foster homes, Robert believed in families, not in single mothers. Moreover, he had a dreadful suspicion that he was the father. (It's complicated!) And Robert realized he was an old-fashioned guy determined to "do the right thing" by his woman,... Harlequin Temptation #643
Boardroom Baby Surprise
by Jackie BraunWhen pregnant Morgan Stevens arrives at wealthy businessman Bryan Caliborn's office looking for her baby's father, two things become apparent: she's mistaken him for his late brother and she's in labor--in the boardroom! Now Morgan's a single mom, and she's bowled over by the take-charge tycoon's support. But surely the once-burned bachelor is just doing it out of duty. . . .
Boardroom Bride and Groom
by Shirley JumpFor gorgeous lawyer Nick Gilbert, an after-hours rendezvous with a woman usually means a romantic dinner, not a children's charity picnic. But he's game! Especially as his date is his rather prim but intriguing colleague, Carolyn Duff. . . . Watching her with the little kids, Nick sees a new side of Carolyn. He starts to understand the glimmer of sadness behind her dazzling green gaze. When the real woman behind the all-business facade is laid bare, Nick has never seen anyone more beautiful. . . .
Boardroom Proposal
by Margaret WayEve Copeland looked too prim for the tough world of Australian big business. But despite her disapproval of him, the vulnerability that Drew Forsythe had glimpsed beneath Eve's professional exterior had got under his skin. Before he knew it, he was offering her a job.
Boardroom Rivals, Bedroom Fireworks!
by Kimberly LangJack Garrett enjoys biddable women- sharing the vineyard he's inherited with his fiery ex-wife does not appeal. His agenda is clear-visit Brenna, make her a deal... and leave. Immediately.Her steamy surrender!But one glimpse of Brenna's sun-kissed skin has Jack's rugged body recalling their fevered nights together.... As their red-hot passion erupts, ten years of ice-cold separation melt away. Now they're back where it started all those years ago-in bed! Suddenly negotiations are looking much more pleasurable....
Boardroom Seduction
by Anita BunkleyWhen Kacey Parker leaves her hectic, big-city life for small-town Texas, the ambitious swimwear designer doesn't expect to go overboard for her new boss. Sensual and sensitive, Leon Archer is a man few women can resist. Ignoring the rumors swirling around the plant, Kacey enters the uncharted waters of passion....Kacey may know what women want. But Leon knows exactly what the sexy designer needs. The tidal wave of desire engulfing them is just the beginning. Even when a backstabbing colleague threatens to submerge their relationship-and the future of his company-Leon knows that, together, he and Kacey are an unbeatable team. If he can convince her that she's his one true desire....
Boardroom Sins: Burn Me Once / Boardroom Sins (Sin City Brotherhood #1)
by J. Margot CritchIt’s just business…Until it becomes deliciously personalIn college, Rebecca Daniels and Brett Collins had a hot rivalry—with sexy benefits. Brett’s company has competed with the Daniels family business for years. And with Rebecca back in town as CEO, Brett has initiated a hostile takeover…just after they share a seriously naughty encounter! Now the battlefield is in both the boardroom and the bedroom. But sometimes the line between love and hate is thinner than you think…“Dare is Harlequin’s hottest line yet. Every book should come with a free fan. I dare you to try them!” —Tiffany Reisz, international bestselling authorSexy. Passionate. Bold. Discover Harlequin DARE, a new line of fun, edgy and sexually explicit romances for the fearless female.
Boardroom to Bedroom
by Penny Jordan Carole MortimerTHE BOSS'S MARRIAGE ARRANGEMENTby Penny JordanEveryone in her office thinks Harriet is bossMatthew Cole's fiancée! Harriet has to keepreminding herself it's all just for convenience—but how far is Matthew prepared to go withtheir arrangement…marriage?HIS DARLING VALENTINE by Carole MortimerIt's Valentine's Day and a secret admirer is bombardingTazzy Darling with gifts! Any woman would bedelighted—but not Tazzy. There's only one man fromwhom she wants to receive love tokens,and that's her boss, Ross Valentine….The way to a man's heart…is through the bedroom!
Boardrooms & a Billionaire Heir: A Marriage of Convenience Romance (Diamonds Down Under #1867)
by Paula Roe"I'm a man you sleep with, not fall in love with. "Jake Vance was danger in a designer suit, a charming corporate raider. When he set his sights on Blackstone's, Australia's richest diamond dealers, Holly McLeod's primary assignment was as his assistant; her secondary was as a spy. To her amazement, she learned her dangerously sexy boss was the long-lost Blackstone heir. And then Jake did the unthinkable: To save his new company, he proposed marriage. . . an intimate one. . . to her!
Boardwalk (Ocean City #4)
by Katherine ApplegateWhile Kate worries about Justin's upcoming trip around the world in a sailboat, Grace wonders if Justin will come back to her once Kate goes to college, and Chelsea wonders if she can live without Connor. What you can not imagine is, someone knocking on your door late at night wearing a pink bathrobe.
Boardwalk Bust
by Franklin W. DixonATAC Briefing for Agents Frank and Joe Hardy MISSION: Investigate and put a halt to the recent rash of jewelry store robberies. Potential danger on the ground and in the air. LOCATION: Ocean Grove, NJ. POTENTIAL VICTIMS: All jewelry store owners in and around Ocean Grove. SUSPECTS: Undetermined. Ocean Grove is full of tourists who are just passing through. This mission requires your immediate attention. This message will be erased in five seconds.
Boardwalk Empire. El nacimiento, el esplendor y la corrupción de Atlantic City: The Birth, High Times, And Corruption Of Atlantic City
by Nelson JohnsonLa verdadera historia que inspiró la serie de TV. A lo largo de gran parte del siglo XX, Atlantic City estuvo controlada por una poderosa asociación de políticos y mafiosos locales. Fundada gracias a los beneficios de los salones de juego, bares y burdeles, esta alianza corrupta alcanzó su momento álgido durante el reinado de Enoch «Nucky» Johnson, el segundo de los tres jefes que dirigieron la maquinaria republicana que dominó la política y la sociedad de la ciudad. En Boardwalk Empire, «Nucky» Johnson, Louis «el Comodoro» Kuehnle, Frank «Hap» Farley y la propia Atlantic City cobran vida en todo su chabacano esplendor. Nelson Johnson recorre la historia de Atlantic City a través de las políticas corruptas y las luchas de poder: desde el nacimiento de la ciudad como tranquilo balneario de la costa hasta su resurgir como meca internacional del ocio y del juego donde todo está permitido. Boardwalk Empire es la verdadera historia que inspiró la serie de televisión emitida por HBO y Canal +, protagonizada por Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt y Kelly Macdonald, y dirigida por Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island). Reseñas:«Un recorrido por el nacimiento de Atlantic City y algunos de los oscuros negocios que ayudaron a forjar la ciudad en plena Ley Seca».La Guía del Ocio «Se adentra en los bajos fondos de Atlantic City en los años 20».Woman «Con un estilo ameno, Johnson nos ofrece un recorrido fascinante por las luces y las sombras de la ciudad del famoso paseo marítimo».Crónicas Literarias
Boardwalk Summer
by Kimberly FiskIn the town of Tranquility Bay, summer is the season of second chances...Single mother Hope Thompson has built a happy life for herself and her twins in beautiful Tranquility Bay, Washington. She doesn’t dwell on her painful past—especially not on the man who broke her heart all those years ago. But when Hope’s beloved son needs help, she takes a desperate chance and reaches out to her children’s father.Nick Fortune lives life in the spotlight as a champion race car driver. He’s shocked to hear from Hope and even more surprised to learn that he’s a father. He immediately heads to the Pacific Northwest to confront the past—and the woman he once loved.There, on the quiet lakeshore, Nick and Hope must work together to save their son—even if it means facing their complicated past—for a second chance as a family.From the Paperback edition.