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A Thriller That Will Leave an INDELIBLE Mark on Your Psyche Ben Ballantine, an artist who scrapes together a living selling scenic paintings to Fisherman's Wharf tourists and sketching criminal composites for the SFPD, is approached by a mysterious man who knows his secret. Six years earlier, he was one of four volunteers who took part in an art school project. Acting as human canvas, they let classmate Ronnie Church tattoo a living mural right across their backs. It was called Original Sin, and it was revolutionary. Now, Church has become the Rembrandt of our times, the college friends have gone their separate ways, and though the mural may be out of sight, it's anything but out of mind. In fact, it's the most talked-about, least-seen artwork in history. An almost mythical Mona Lisa. And this stranger wants to put together an art gallery show featuring the mural. Ballantine tells him the critical flaw in his plan: Rachel, one of the art experiment's participants (and Ballantine's former girlfriend), is dead. The chances of anyone ever seeing the whole of "Original Sin" was buried with her. Within days, Ballantine learns the details of a bizarre New York City grave robbery. The empty coffin belonged to Rachel, and her body is missing. Ballantine wonders if this is more of Ronnie Church's edgy and endless publicity machinery, or is someone-maybe that mysterious gallery owner-out to collect the one work of art in the world that can't be bought or sold? It's only a theory until the Harlem River washes Rachel's skinned body ashore. Now Ballantine comes to believe that the terrible crime is only beginning. One quarter of the mural has already been taken, tanned, hung on a wall. But what good is twenty-five percent of an artwork? Like the mark of Cain, the tattoos on the survivors' backs are inescapable signals to the world as well as targets for a serial killer who will stop at nothing for the ultimate collectible. And so Ben Ballantine, quite literally trying to save his own skin, begins his relentless descent into the underground to uncover who's behind the monstrous art thefts...
A small-town bank robbery leads to a brutal showdown between a sheriff and a mysterious stranger in this high-stakes game of shifting identities and hidden motives, starring Mekhi Phifer (ER), William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption) and Sterling K. Brown (Army Wives). When the obvious suspect is apprehended not far from the crime scene, the police think that the case is solved, but they couldn't be more wrong. The real crime hasn't even happened yet. Before it's over, two desperate men will be pushed over the line where innocent lives hang in the balance.
It's a New York City architect's dream come true. Amy Armstrong has just inherited the ruins of a three-hundred-year-old stone farmhouse. But there's a reason she finds the property in pieces when she arrives in Covenant Parish, Pennsylvania to claim it. If you love Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, Stephen King's The Shining, or Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, don't miss this harrowing tale of family, farmland, and fear - Haven House. Amy Armstrong is a pregnant Manhattan architect who inherits the ultimate restoration project-a 300-year-old farmhouse. She views the project and the rural town as a chance to start anew after a terrible assault. But there is some information about this inheritance, this property, and even the baby she's carrying that the townspeople don't want her to know. Something evil, and on a very grand scale.
"I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators of all time. Behind the Dream is a thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the weeks leading up to the great event, as told by Clarence Jones, co-writer of the speech and close confidant to King. Jones was there, on the road, collaborating with the great minds of the time, and hammering out the ideas and the speech that would shape the civil rights movement and inspire Americans for years to come.
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