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Bulldozer's Big Rescue (Bulldozer and Friends #1)
by Elise BroachFrom the award-winning team who created Masterpiece comes a charming chapter book about a young bulldozer who is nervous about making friends and starting school.★ "Broach and Murphy rev up for a promising new series…. An enthralling tale about doing the heavy lifting of making friends." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "This sweetly simple story addresses sometimes-challenging issues surrounding meeting new people with a light and understanding touch, and expressive drawings with muted orange accents bring Bulldozer and his world to life.&” —Publishers Weekly, starred review&“Broach offers young readers a compassionate tale about the jitters that often accompany starting school and cultivating new friendships… A touching story of overcoming social fears, perfect for early chapter book readers or those younger to read with a loved one.&” – School Library Journal Bulldozer is shy when it comes to making new friends and nervous about starting school. But when he meets his new neighbor Millie and her little brother Jay, Bulldozer embarks on a daring adventure to rescue a stranded cat. With the help of his own machinery—and a plate of freshly baked cookies—Bulldozer overcomes his fears just by being himself. The beloved team of Elise Broach and Kelly Murphy are back with a compelling new series about an endearing bulldozer living in a human world. Each book contains five chapters, perfect for emerging readers learning how to read on their own.
Bulldozer's Shapes: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site (Goodnight, Goodnight, Construc)
by Sherri Duskey RinkerTime for the construction site to SHAPE UP! Little construction fans will love learning their shapes by watching Bulldozer CIRCLE around, clearing away TRIANGLES of dirt until the perfect building spot has been SQUARED away. It's all in a day's work for the trucks of the bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site!
Bulldust
by D. J. BrumbRomance is lost and found in the dusty emptiness of the Australian outback, where love and friendship prove stronger than the harsh environment. During a violent storm at sea on an immigrant ship bound for Australia, young British student, Paul Canfield, meets and falls in love with Mike Armstrong, an adventurous American on his way to Port Hedland in the far north to work at his father's mining concerns. Due to a disastrous event, Mike is injured and lost in the vast and hostile desert. He is found by a roving tribe of aborigines and nurtured back to almost complete health. Paul is determined to trace the tracks of his lost lover and undergoes many varied and perilous adventures on his quest to bring Mike back.
Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Novels)
by Laurell K. HamiltonI am back in St Louis and trying to live a normal life - as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a US Marshal. I have my lovers, my friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all this ordinary happiness a vampire from my past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, and it's hard to kill a god. The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with me and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to emigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken ... And if the Mother of All Darkness can't succeed in taking over my body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again.
Bullet Barricade
by Leslie ErnenweinHe was muy hombie, this Clay Spain, tough as all the trails he had ridden, ruthless as the frontier he roamed--intimate with death more than once. And he was a loner. Then he rode into Apache Basin--the torn and bloody range straddled by violence, trampled by a cattle king hungry for power. It was none of Clay Spain's business, not his brand of trouble. Until a girl's angry challenge got under his hide--and then Clay Spain rode out, armed with his gun and his careless courage--to dispense justice where the law had never reached!
Bullet Catcher
by Joaquin LoweA unique gun-slinging adventure about a feisty teenage girl determined to leave her small-town life and venture into the desert to join a band of legendary outlaws. In the small town of Sand, populated by gunslingers and surrounded by endless desert, Imma washes dishes and grieves for a life she never had. She and her brother, Nikko, dreamed of escaping to become bullet catchers, a legendary band of outlaws who can deflect bullets with their hands. But they were wiped out years ago, Nikko with them. And leaving is impossible when walking into the desert means certain death. When she sees a stranger catch a man's bullet and turn it back on him, Imma knows it can only mean one thing: the bullet catchers live on, and this is her way out. Determined to follow him, Imma starts a journey that will take her to her physical extremes and force her to question just what family means and who she really is: bullet catcher or gunslinger; hero or monster.
Bullet Hole (Alan Saxon Mysteries #1)
by Keith MilesIn the world of championship golf, the stakes are high and passions run to match. And never more so than at the British Open Championship, particularly when it is played at Saint Andrews, venerable home of the game.For Alan Saxon, too long ago a champion and once again in top form, this is a crucial tournament, and he must carefully prepare himself. But his ritual is rudely interrupted by the appearance of a young, pretty golf groupie who starts by demanding a lift and ends up naked and dead in his bed.She is not the only casualty, and it fast becomes clear that someone wants Saxon out of the open. As the championship builds to its climax, at last Saxon thinks he knows who the killer is—but then he must decide: which hole is the bullet hole?
Bullet Holes: Dark Humor Short Story
by Felipe CorvoSpying on the neighbors through the powerful telescope installed on the top of the apartment's balcony, the young writer Roger ate the last slice of the chocolate cake that his mother, Anastacia, had left right next to her typewriter, when suddenly, his eardrums shuddered as he heard the usual "Boom" from Zeca — the corner drug dealer — with his burst echoing through the surrounding buildings at the very beginning of each month.
Bullet Park: A Novel (Vintage International)
by John CheeverWelcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with one objective— to murder Nailles's son. Here is the lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb— and to all the dubious normalcy it represents— delivered with unparalleled artistry and assurance.
Bullet Park: Complete Novels - The Wapshot Chronicle; The Wapshot Scandal; Bullet Park; Falconer; Oh What A Paradise It Seems (Library Of America John Cheever Edition Ser. #Vol. 33739)
by John CheeverUna explosión de fondo y forma que dinamita el sueño americano. Bienvenidos a Bullet Park, epicentro del universo de John Cheever. Una ciudad con casas exorbitantes, jardines, campos de golf, piscinas rodeadas de botellas vacías y ceniceros llenos; un mundo incapaz de esconder en su resplandor el profundo desencanto de una clase media que se desmorona con solo mirarse al espejo. Los destinos de dos hombres se cruzarán en este paraíso de cartón piedra: Eliot Nailles, un buen marido que adora a su familia, y Paul Hammer, un alcohólico que tras media vida a la deriva llega a Bullet Park con un objetivo que hará saltar por los aires los espejismos del vecindario. Una composición lírica y mordaz dedicada a la dudosa normalidad que representan los barrios residenciales norteamericanos, ejecutada con un arte y una singularidad sin par. La crítica ha dicho...«El libro más profundo y desafiante de Cheever. Combina un tono de recapitulación con el desasosiego que se desprende de una revelación.»The New York Times
Bullet Point
by Peter AbrahamsWyatt never really thought much about his dad--a hardened criminal, a lifer in a prison somewhere on the other side of the state. But then the economy had to go and tank, and the community had to go and cut the baseball program from Wyatt's high school. And then the coach had to go and show Wyatt a photograph of his dad at sixteen, looking very much like Wyatt himself. Through a series of unfortunate--or perhaps they were fortunate--events, Wyatt meets a crazy-hot girl named Greer with a criminal dad of her own. A criminal dad who is, in fact, in jail with Wyatt's own criminal dad. Greer arranges a meeting, and Wyatt's dad is nothing like the guy he's imagined--he's suave, and smart, and funny, and cool, and--Wyatt's pretty sure--innocent. So Wyatt decides to help him out. A decision that may possibly be the worst he's ever made in his life. This is another hold-your-breath thriller by the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award nominated Peter Abrahams.
Bullet Proof
by Frank KaneShe was as pretty a mantrap as Liddell had ever set up. Five-feet-six. Black hair. One hundred and twenty-eight lusciously distributed pounds. Very, very nice . . . Liddell looked at his watch. The rackets boss was late in coming. Liddell didn’t mind. Let Frankie Capolla be as late as he wanted. Liddell knew a very good way of passing the time . . .
Bullet Proof
by Frank KaneShe was as pretty a mantrap as Liddell had ever set up. Five-feet-six. Black hair. One hundred and twenty-eight lusciously distributed pounds. Very, very nice . . .Liddell looked at his watch. The rackets boss was late in coming. Liddell didn't mind. Let Frankie Capolla be as late as he wanted. Liddell knew a very good way of passing the time . . .
Bullet Proof
by Frank KaneShe was as pretty a mantrap as Liddell had ever set up. Five-feet-six. Black hair. One hundred and twenty-eight lusciously distributed pounds. Very, very nice . . .Liddell looked at his watch. The rackets boss was late in coming. Liddell didn’t mind. Let Frankie Capolla be as late as he wanted. Liddell knew a very good way of passing the time . . .
Bullet Train: A Novel
by Kotaro IsakaWINNER OF THE STRAND CRITICS AWARD FOR BEST DEBUTA dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins—soon to be a major film from Sony starring Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, and Benito A Martínez Ocasio, and more Satoshi—The Prince—looks like an innocent schoolboy but is really a stylish and devious assassin. Risk fuels him, as does a good philosophical debate, such as questioning: Is killing really wrong? Kimura’s young son is in a coma thanks to The Prince, and Kimura has tracked him onto a bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers on board. Nanao, also nicknamed Ladybug, the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world,” is put on the bullet train by his boss, a mysterious young woman called Maria, to steal a suitcase full of money and get off at the first stop. The lethal duo of Tangerine and Lemon are also traveling to Morioka, and the suitcase leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will make it off alive? A bestseller in Japan, Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with incredible energy as its complex net of double-crosses and twists unwinds up to the last station.Also Available: Bullet Train movie tie-in edition (ISBN: 9781419763847)
Bullet for a Half-Breed
by Frank LeslieMobile communication techniques revolutionize marketing in its gain of consumer time and attention for advertiser support. This groundbreaking type of marketing provides the luxury of reaching consumers in a greater variety of times and settings than ever before, a possibility that those in the advertising field crave. The Handbook of Research on Mobile Marketing Management for Consumer and Advertiser Aperture: Technologies for Successful Campaign Planning provides a compelling and relevant collection of innovative mobile marketing thoughts and practices. Through offering more than 25 insightful articles by international experts on leading edge technologies of marketing applications, this reference is a critical resource for advertisers, researchers, and academicians.
Bullet for a Star (The Toby Peters Mysteries #1)
by Stuart M. KaminskyThe first in a mystery series set in 1940s Hollywood, where a hard-boiled private eye helps a cast of real-life stars: &“Nostalgic fun&” (Publishers Weekly). Hollywood, 1940: It&’s been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy&’s arm. Since then he&’s scratched out a living as a private detective—missing persons and bodyguard work mostly—but now his old friends, the Warners, have a job for him. Someone has mailed the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising position with an underage woman. Although Flynn insists it&’s a fake, the studio is taking no chances. Peters is to deliver the blackmailer five thousand dollars and return with the photo negative. It should be simple, but Flynn, a swashbuckler on and off the screen, has a way of making things complicated. Soon it&’s up to Peters to clear Flynn&’s name, following a twisted trail that surprisingly leads to the set of The Maltese Falcon, involving Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet. As real-life PI Toby Peters meets Bogie&’s Sam Spade, he doesn&’t fall prey to being star-struck. But he may still fall prey to a killer. &“If you like your mysteries Sam Spade tough, with tongue in cheek and a touch of the theatrical, then the Toby Peters series is just your ticket.&” —Houston Chronicle
Bullet for a Stranger (A Red Ryan Western #3)
by William W. Johnstone J.A. JohnstoneJOHNSTONE COUNTRY—WATCH YOUR BACK. Red Ryan is one of the fastest guns in the West. But this time, he&’s in for the longest, hardest ride of his life. Where danger lurks around every turn—and all roads lead to hell . . . 700 MILES OF MAYHEM Gold. Silver. Cold hard cash. Stagecoach guard Red Ryan and his driver Buttons Muldoon have ridden shotgun on some pretty valuable cargo in their day. But they&’re about to learn—the hard way—that the most dangerous cargo of all is human. They&’ve been hired to escort a cowardly traitor facing an army court martial in New Orleans. Every hired killer in Texas wants him dead, including gun-handy Hannah Huckabee, a woman with a mysterious past and an agenda of her own. But she&’s just one of the dangers they&’ll face along the way. There are cutthroat gangs bent on slaughtering anything on two legs. And 700 miles of the deadliest terrain Red Ryan has ever had to shoot his way out of . . . Live Free. Read Hard.
Bullet to the Heart (No Mercy #1)
by Lea GriffithShe was born to love then taught to kill. She has become everything but is no one. Known only as Bullet, she was long ago forced to shed the name her parents gave her. Changed, molded, and trained to kill with sharp-shooting efficiency, she is one of The Collective’s most valuable assets. In a cadre of killers, Bullet is death waiting, but her time for vengeance has come. He was loved, and then he lost. He has become a hunter in search of revenge. Everything was taken from Rand the day a bullet ended the lives of his beloved wife and daughter. He has searched for their killer seven long years and may have her in his hands. Rand has suffered, but now the time has come to make The Collective pay or die trying.
Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #19)
by Laurell K. HamiltonThe sensational new novel from the New York Times bestselling author featuring her vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake. I am back in St Louis and trying to live a normal life - as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a US Marshal. I have my lovers, my friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all this ordinary happiness a vampire from my past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, and it's hard to kill a god. The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with me and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to emigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. . . And if the Mother of All Darkness can't succeed in taking over my body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again.
Bulletproof & Locked, Loaded and SEALed: A Romantic Suspense Novel (Shadow Agents)
by Cynthia Eden Carol EricsonHE WAS ASSIGNED TO PROTECT HER—NOT MAKE HER HIS OWN IN THIS SHADOW AGENTS CLASSIC FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CYNTHIA EDEN, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS GLITTER AND GUNFIRE IN 2013.Former Army Ranger Cale Lane had his orders: keep Cassidy Sherridan alive at all costs. But who sent six armed men storming the Rio ballroom to take her out? The gorgeous party girl wasn’t giving it up. Now he had a more urgent mission: uncover Cassidy’s secrets...one by one.FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!Enjoy LOCKED, LOADED AND SEALED by Carol Ericson from her RED, WHITE AND BUILT series!The SEAL’s secret assignment had been to protect a certain important doctor. But when the man is murdered, Austin Foley’s mission changes. The navy sniper must now protect the doctor’s protégé the irresistible Sophia Grant, at any cost. There’s only one problem: Sophia has no idea what those secrets she holds. Originally published in 2017
Bulletproof (A Matter of Time Series #3)
by Mary CalmesSequel to A Matter of Time Vol. 1 and 2Jory Harcourt doesn't have to go looking for trouble. Wherever he goes, it seems to find him--particularly when his partner, Sam Kage, is working undercover on a federal task force. After the recession forces him to close his business, Jory goes to work as a matchmaker and event planner. From there, it's only a matter of time before his big mouth and up-front attitude make him the rope in a tug-of-war between a trust fund baby and a drug-smuggling criminal. Then, as if that situation weren't delicate enough, Jory's undercover lover shows up working for the smuggler. Between the men who want him and the men who just want him dead, Chicago is getting a little crowded for Jory, so on the advice of his brother, his boyfriend, and the FBI task force, he heads for Hawaii... where a serious accident threatens his quality of life. Can Sam and Jory keep the faith and prove that their relationship really is bulletproof?
Bulletproof (Unbreakable)
by Melissa SealAn emotional reunion changes everything in the final book in the electrifying trilogy of law, order, and love, from the author of Unbreakable and Shattered.One day Lexie Williams was a Detective with the Norfolk Police Department and married to the love of her life, the next she was living under an assumed identity and working as the activities director at Cross Creek Ranch in Wyoming. Living under the constraint of the Witness Protection Program, Lexie felt alone and terrified that she would never see her wife or daughter again. Until one fateful day when Dani showed up at the ranch with her best friend and her daughter. After grieving her wife who had died in a car crash one year earlier, Dani is finally ready to explore the possibility of dating. She meets the carefree, fearless Callie and feels an instant connection. Callie works at the ranch and the two women spend all their time together. Lexie is forced to stand in the shadows and watch Dani fall for another woman until she gets the call informing her that the man who attempted to kill her is now dead. This means Lexie can come out of hiding and reveal herself to Dani, but the long-awaited news may have come too late to reunite with the woman who has forever changed her life . . .
Bulletproof Badge: Scene Of The Crime: Who Killed Shelly Sinclair? Bulletproof Badge Colorado Wildfire (Texas Rangers: Elite Troop #1)
by Angi Morgan“Starts off with a bang . . . an exciting start to a new series . . . proof that Angi Morgan knows how to write a romantic suspense exactly as it should be!” —Fresh FictionHe’d take a bullet for her . . .His key witnesses dead, Texas Ranger Garrison Travis has to protect innocent bystander Kenderly Tyler. Her crucial evidence has two very dangerous Texas crime families willing to do anything to keep her quiet. But Garrison’s undercover status has branded him a killer, and now the bad and the good guys are after them both.Hiding out with a handsome protector, on the run for her life, is so beyond anything Kenderly has imagined. While there is more than just adrenaline pulsing between them, the Ranger has vowed that his job is his life. Which leads her to wonder if there’s a future for them if they actually make it out alive . . .
Bulletproof Barista (A Coffeehouse Mystery #20)
by Cleo CoyleWhen a film crew&’s location shoot delivers an actual shooting, Clare Cosi finds herself at the scene of a true crime in this showstopping entry in the beloved Coffeehouse Mysteries from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.Only Murders in Gotham, the smash-hit streaming program, is famous for filming in authentic New York locations and using real New Yorkers as extras. For its second season, they&’ve chosen to spotlight the century-old Village Blend and its quirky crew of baristas. Shop manager and master roaster Clare Cosi is beyond thrilled, especially when her superb bulletproof coffee lands her a craft services contract for the production. Madame, the eccentric octogenarian owner of the landmark shop, reveals an old kinship with the star of the show, comedian Jerry Sullivan. Now a Hollywood legend, Jerry frequented the Blend during his early years performing in Greenwich Village comedy clubs. But the past may hold more than nostalgia for Jerry. Suspicious accidents begin plaguing his shoot. Then a real bullet is fired from a stage gun, and Clare becomes convinced something sinister is afoot. While Jerry&’s production moves to exciting new locations, Clare keeps the coffee flowing—and her investigation going—even as a murderer lurks in the wings. But can she root out the rotten player in this Big Apple production before the lights go out on her? Includes a stellar menu of surefire recipes!