Gail Bowen continues to enthrall with her masterfully compelling storytelling in Book 17 of her nationally bestselling Joanne Kilbourn series, combining a modern urban family with a gripping, satisfying mystery. As Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their soon-to-be seventeen-year-old daughter, Taylor, rush through the rain from their cottage to their car, the Thanksgiving weekend they just spent at the lake with Zack's law partners is already slipping away, burnished into memory as pleasantly as the hundreds of other weekends the Falconer-Shreve families have shared at Lawyers' Bay. Thoughts of the weekend past will now focus on the future and be prefaced by the words "next time." Within weeks, a triple homicide will rip apart the lives of those related to the lawyers who, at the end of their first year in law school, only half-jokingly styled themselves "The Winners' Circle." Dazed by grief, Joanne will seek answers to an impossible question: "Why did they die?" The facts behind the suicide of Christopher Altieri, known by his law partners as "the conscience of The Winners' Circle," appear to provide insights, but for Joanne those insights raise new, unsettling questions. Knitting this powerful narrative together is Joanne's unshakeable belief that the only thing worse than knowing is not knowing.

Instructs the novice winner in step-by-step handicapping processes, how to recognize and exploit overlays, how to interpret past performance, and how and why to choose among the possible bets

Crossword champion Tyler Hinman is the youngest person to ever win the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, and he's not just a pro at solving them: he's expert at constructing them, too. Here are 82 puzzles to give your brain a real workout, and as a bonus, Hinman has provided some useful tips on what to do (and what not to do) to make you a champion solver. Learn from a master with Winner's Circle Crosswords.

As a sport, an art, a fitness activity, nothing quite beats figure skating for excitement, grace, beauty, or fun. Now former U.S. Champion figure skater John Misha Petkevich shows how you can find your full potential as a figure skater no matter what your age or ability. The lavishly illustrated volume includes: Detailed instructional-photo sequences What to look for in skates, clothing, rinks, and instruction Getting started 6 basic turns that every figure skater should know 15 spins that you can master The keys to preforming 19 clasic figure skating jumps and splits

Faith, Family, Frenzy!Three longtime friends explode apart and find their way back to each other in The Winner's Circle, a literary-commercial crossover novel in a genre entitled Boomer Chick Lit that is written to appeal to book clubs.Life in a rural small town can dull the senses. A trio of gal pals-mired in middle age, middle America, and other people's problems-long to escape. When, one of the friends, Bonnie Voss, wins the Boffo Lotto, her circle of friends urge her to lawyer up, invest, and sequester herself. But secrets are inconceivable in small towns, and the clamor for cash withers Bonnie's wallflower soul. It doesn't help that her former boss, the local pastor, is first to beseech funds for his church expansion plans.And so, Bonnie and her beau, Carl Edwards, invite close friends, Jackie and Steve Breeden, to witness their Vegas wedding and honeymoon in Hawaii with endless vagabond beyond. The sky's the limit!Meanwhile, the other gal pal, Fran Blackstone Rankin, the recently retired former high school administrator who married the local pastor, Paul Rankin, have agreed to supervise immature thirty-something son, Brandon Breeden's management of the Breeden Dairy in his dad's stead. The allure of travel is fun for a while-hilarious, in fact. A California trip segment, where Carl introduces Bonnie to his ex-wife and adult kids, proceeds fluidly. However, the Hawaiian honeymoon goes over overboard when a mai-tai-fueled hula performance brings unwanted tabloid and YouTube fame. The ex-wife reads 'The Enquirer' and immediately desires a piece of lottery pie.Bonnie's instant wealth didn't gain immediate status and respect, so her relationship with her travel partners is strained, and-back in Michigan-Fran finds that Brandon doesn't require her reins and her husband, the pastor, can not be dissuaded from his schemes.When the husbands are jailed on the travel foursome's first day in Australia, wanderlust is no longer a romp, and things get complicated when you're halfway round the world, untethered from all you know and love. Life has its consequences¿ and there's no place like home.With your circle of friends.