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A secretive group of scientists and investors control a revolutionary machine that will change the course of medicine - and fortunes of those who must destroy it.

Twenty years ago, Frank Felson was a baseball-bashing, drum-smashing, rock-n-roll lothario. It was pseudo semi-pro ball, and his band was a much maligned one hit wonder, but for Frank, the world was his oyster, and he was shucking it for pearls. Today, Frank's life is a steaming pile of excrement. He's unemployed, his dog has been murdered, and his wife is shacking up with another man. Worst of all, Frank's current band plays nothing but Jimmy Buffet covers.

It should have been just another routine call for Rye and Claire Anderson, owners of Mad Dash Ambulance Service. But when the DOA they deliver to the hospital goes missing, their routine turns deadly. Greedy doctors involved in black market organ harvesting; innocent girls lured into the lucrative, dangerous world of xxx-rated films. Sex, murder, and deception in a small Oregon town. It's all here in Body Parts, Kit Crumb's latest Rye and Claire Adventure.

What should have been just another call takes ambulance owners Rye and Claire Anderson to the site of an overturned van where a dozen teenage girls are scattered across the interstate. In an effort to understand the chaos, they describe the incident to a detective friend who is just as baffled. But when his young daughter, Amy, disappears, the three follow a trail that leads to a camp deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.

When Rogue Ambulance Search and Rescue owners Rye and Claire Anderson are called to remove a body from a remote cliff face, they are drawn into a family quest fueled by hate and deceit that has festered for over 80 years. Now, faced with serial killings that threaten their small town and have put Rye in the hospital with a bullet, it is up to Claire to discover the family secret, reveal the killer, and not become the next victim.

Brian Francisco goes to sleep for the night in his Midwest apartment and wakes to find himself a prisoner aboard an oil tanker at sea. His predicament turns desperate when he learns of his captors' intent to eventually kill him. The former soldier must summon all his resources in a desperate bid to outwit the ship's crew as well as the band of cutthroat mercenaries responsible for his abduction. Along the way, he struggles to maintain his humanity...and discovers the sinister reason for his capture.

Eager to celebrate its history, and display its athletic potential, the United States hosted the nation’s first Olympic games in 1904 St. Louis. But within a few years, the publication of Coubertin’s memoirs turned the praised Olympics into the failed Olympics. America’s First Olympics corrects common misconceptions that began with Coubertin’s memoirs, and presents a fresh view of the 1904 games, which featured first-time African American Olympians, an eccentric and controversial marathon, and documentation by pioneering photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals.