Linda L Richards
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Untamed Part of the nonfiction Orca Wild series for middle-grade readers and illustrated with color photographs throughout, this book looks at the controversial past, present and future of wild horses around the world, including the ongoing threats to their existence.
Wild horses are legendary, but today their very existence is under threat from a changing environment, politics and less protected spaces to roam free.
These animals live all over...
2) Endings
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How far can a profound personal loss drive someone toward darkness?
What would it take for you to kill someone for money? And if you did, who-or what-would you have become? These are the question one woman faces when she loses everyone she loves and everything she has. When the opportunity arrives to reinvent herself as a killer for hire, she takes it. She's good at it-and if she doesn't do it, someone else will.
Then everything changes when she...
3) If It Bleeds
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Nicole Charles didn't go to journalism school to become a gossip columnist, but the job fell into her lap right out of school and her immigrant work ethic just won't let her quit to find something she'd like better. It's a good job, but she struggles with the stigma attached to her position by other reporters. More than anything, she wants to be a real reporter, but it looks like she's never going to get a chance.
Then one night while covering a...
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A shattered life. A killer for hire. Can she stop?
Her assignments were always to kill someone. That's what a hitman-or hitwoman-is paid to do-and that is what she does. Then comes a surprise assignment-keep someone alive!
She is hired to protect Virginia Martin, the stunning and brilliant chief technology officer of a hot startup with an innovation that will change the world. This new job catches her at a time in her life when she's disillusioned,...
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Less than 100 years ago, the northern elephant seal was thought to be extinct. Today more than 250,000 elephant seals swim in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Mexico. In Return from Extinction: The Triumph of the Elephant Seal Linda L. Richards tells the story of their dramatic recovery.
Elephant seals were hunted to near extinction for their precious oil before the Mexican government stepped in to protect them. Many people thought it was too...
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Vancouver Post gossip columnist Nicole Charles is only slightly put out when she discovers she's been downsized. She figures she's lucky to still have a job. It just means she needs to get a desk so she can work out of her apartment. But the desk she buys at auction proves to have more history than she'd anticipated, and the cache she finds in a secret compartment in that desk has links to a money-laundering ring, and an old school-mate. Will this...
7) Dead West
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Rule #1 of being a hired killer: never get to know your target . . . and definitely don' t fall in love with them
Taking lives has taken its toll. Her moral justifications have faltered. Do any of the people she has killed- some of them heinous, but all of them human- deserve to die?
Her next target is Cameron Walker, a rancher in Arizona. When she arrives at his remote desert estate to carry out her orders, she...
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Akashic Books (Ignition)
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[2018]
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"This "excellent anthology" of noir fiction set in Canada's City of Glass features all-new stories by Linda L. Richards, Sam Wiebe, Yasuko Thanh and more ( Quill & Quire , starred review). For many people, Vancouver is a city of affluence, athleisure, and craft beer. But if look a little closer at this gentrified paradise, you'll find the old saying holds true: behind every fortune there's a crime. Hidden beneath Vancouver's gleaming glass skyscrapers...