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A Heartbeat Away

On the night of the Sate of the Union address, President James Allaire expects to give the speech of his career. But no one foresees the horrific turn of events that lead him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building.

A terrorist group calling itself Genesis has unleashed a highly contagious virus into the building, and the only one who fully knows its deadly consequences is the president himself. Desperate, he turns to virologist Griffin Rhodes, who is currently jailed in a maximum security prison for the alleged theft of the microbe from the lab where he worked. Griff knows he is innocent but is forced to barter with the government, his attempt at a cure in exchange for his release.

The situation grows more terrifying by the minute. Every single person in line for presidential succession is trapped in the building, everyone except the Director of Homeland Security, the so-called Designate Survivor for this event, who is tucked away safely in his Minnesota home. With enemies both named and unnamed closing in and the security of the entire nation at stake, Griff must unravel the mysteries of this virus as one by one those imprisoned in the Capitol begin to die.

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The Making of a Royal Romance

Since the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, her sons William and Harry have grown into extraordinary young men and modern princes, determined to carry the legacy of their beloved mother into the twenty-first century. Now another woman is set to assume a prominent role in Prince William's life and aid the two princes in their quest to shape the royal family in their own image. William's bride to be, Kate Middleton, the commoner who is determined to become Queen Catherine.

There is no one more intimately acquainted with the lives and loves of William and Harry than royal correspondent, Katie Nicholl. Her revealing portrait of the two princes created a media frenzy upon its initial publication. In this new expanded edition of William and Harry, Nicholl interviews a wealth of sources close to William and Kate, some of whom have agreed to speak for the first time, and recounts in fascinating detail how their love affair really started at Saint Andrews University, the hurdles the pair overcame over the course of their romance and the challenges they'll face as newly weds as the future King and Queen.

The Making of a Royal Romance

When Tito Loved Clara

Clara Lugo grew up in a home that would have rattled the most grounded of children. Brought to New York from a pastoral childhood in The Dominican Republic, she was raised in grim circumstances in northern Manhattan. Through brains and determination, she long ago slipped the bonds of her confining neighborhood and has since make a quiet life for herself and her American husband and young son in the suburbs of New Jersey. However, librarian Clara's desire for an existence as orderly as the Dewey Decimal System is constantly being twarted by her hugely entertaining constellation of relatives who don't understand her "gringo" ways.

When Tito Loved Clara

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is the story of what happens when Clara's past catches up with her most notably in the character of Tito Morino. Tito is Clara's handsome high school boyfriend who seemed destined to remain in the old neighborhood while Clara went off to Cornell on a full scholarship. But now, fifteen years later, a series of coincidences throws these sweethearts back together. Tito still carries a torch for Clara and she harbors a secret from all those earlier years. Their reacquaintance sets in motion an unraveling in both of their lives and reveals what the cost of assimilation, or the absence of it, has meant for each of them., a novel, Jon Michard sheds an astonishing light on the two princes and sets the stage for what is sure to be the wedding of the century., William, Kate and Harry, A look Behind the Palace Walls, A Revised and Expanded Edition of William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls, Katie Nicholl, a novel, Michael Palmer