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Jupitervale: Special Edition | Small towns hold BIG secrets. Four adolescents (Abitha, Kat, Graciela, and Marie) find themselves having to face adult dilemmas over a steamy summer in this captivating coming-of-age novel. This special edition of the 2004 novel celebrates it's 7th year in publication with a personal letter from the author to the readers as well as previews to the sequel, Jupitervale Revisited. | en |
Murder in Cleveland, Ga | When Greg Garrison the only plain clothes detective with the White County Sheriff's Department arrives on the scene of a double murder he is not prepared for what he finds. | en |
Casting Bones: A New Voodoo Mystery Series Set in New Orleans | When a New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. But it's only when he encounters a beautiful young voodoo practitioner that he starts to make headway in the investigation - and enters the world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. | en |
Ada Untukmu | HUBUNGAN yang terjalin sejak kecil menjadikan dia keliru. Antara persahabatan dan percintaan, yang mana hadir dalam hatinya untuk lelaki itu? Dia buntu memikirkan hala tuju hubungan mereka. Dalam hati ada rindu yang berputik. Dalam jiwa, ada kasih yang bertunas. Namun mengapa tidak ada rasa cinta yang menyapa? Atau, sengaja dibutakan hatinya kerana takut akan kecewa?
Cinta itu membuatkan aku penasaran. Walau ia hadir di dalam hati, tidak aku hiraukan. Kerana aku bimbang, rasa cinta ini tidak akan bersambut. - Nadzlia
JANJI yang terpatri tidak akan sesekali dia mungkiri. Gadis yang selama ini sentiasa di hati akan sentiada dilindungi. Namun, gadis itu selalu sahaja bersikap acuh tidak acuh. Kadang-kadang mendekat, kadang-kadang menjauh. Sungguh ada cinta di hati tetapi mengapa sukar benar mahu meyakinkan gadis tersebut?
Janji tetap janji. Dan aku adalah lelaki yang berpegang teguh padanya. Cinta dalam hati, tidak mungkin sesekali diingkari. - Khairul
SETELAH cinta terpatri, takdir sekali lagi datang menguji. Dalam cuba membina semula kekuatan diri, dia kembali terhempas ke pantai dugaan. Cinta mereka tidak akan sesekali dikhianati tetapi mengapa rasa ingin dikasihi menjerut tangkai hati?
Hanya dia yang aku cintai. Tidak mungkin sama sekali aku biarkan ruang dalam hati diisi lagi. Datanglah beribu cinta sekalipun, tetap tidak dapat menandingi cintaku padanya. Dia sentiasa ada untukku. Tidak kira dalam jaga mahupun lena. - Nadzlia ADA UNTUKMU, sebuah novel yang memaparkan kisah cinta yang berselirat dengan emosi, kepercayaan dan menuntut pengorbanan yang membawa kepada satu kesimpulan: Cinta pertama itu, tidak semestinya cinta yang terakhir. | Undefined |
Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics | Within a group of advanced learners, the variety of abilities, talents, interests, and learning styles can be formidable. For the first time, this book connects the unique learning differences among gifted students to the specific teaching methods used to tailor their educational experiences. Differentiated instruction for gifted and talented students must go beyond adjusting content levels, task complexity, or product choice.
Topics discussed include:
Common Core State Standards
real-world problem solving
abstract thinking
interdisciplinary concepts
authentic products
learning autonomy
accountability
grouping practices
affective curriculum
21st-century skills
Advanced Placement and Honors classes
IB programs
underserved populations
twice-exceptional learners | en |
Tarnished Gold (Landry, #5) | Tarnished Goldis the captivating prequel to the bestselling V. C. Andrews(c) Landry series that began with Rubyand continued with Pearl in the Mist, All That Glitters, and Hidden Jewel.This thrilling new novel takes us back to the Louisiana bayou in the time before Ruby.In a world of wondrous natural beauty, a world of tantalizing dreams and inescapable sorrow, we meet Gabriel Landry, daughter of Catherine and Jack. Growing up in her beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Her classmates tease her, calling her "La Femme Au Naturel," the Nature Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret dreams. Then, days before her high school graduation, rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her in a secluded pond and shatters her innocence.
Pregnant and desolate, wishing to spare her dear Mama the scandal, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious's frigid wife Gladys to claim the baby as her own and will net Gabriel's furious Daddy a huge payoff. Hiding in a tiny abandoned playroom in the Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable. Her only visitor is Mama, whose mission as a Traiteur, a Cajun healer, gives her an excuse to treat Gladys Tate's "pregnancy." But nothing is more wrenching than the moment Gladys takes baby Paul away forever.
Returning home to the swamp, Gabriel drifts in a world of twilight gloom, brightened only by chance glimpses of her son. But as Jack Landry's reputation as a swamp guide grows, a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she can bear.... | en |
Men in Space | Space follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent and a stranded astronaut as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and onwards.
The icon's melancholy orbit is reflected in the various characters' ellipses and near misses as they career vertiginously through all kinds of space: physical, political, emotional and metaphysical. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration.
Following the huge critical success of Remainder, McCarthy's bestselling first novel, Men in Space confirms him as one of the most original and promising voices in contemporary fiction. | en |
La fi de la infantesa | LA FI DE LA INFANTESA es una de les obres mes respectades i mes llegides del conjunt d'allo que podriem anomenar "corrent utopic" de la ciencia-ficcio. Descriu la naixenca d'una nova humaniyat basada en l'espiritualitat i l'energia, i el final de la civilitzacio actual. El tall, que es prpdueix en el transcurs d'una sola generacio, es preparat per uns essers extraordinaris, els "Grans Senyors". Aquests, com si de mainaderes es tractes, instal*len la pau i el benestar a tot el mon i possibiliten l'evolucio de l'home vers la utopia definitiva. | es |
Kiss Me | Dustin Merriweather is the ultimate bad boy. He's rich, spoiled, and too handsome for his own good. He thrives on pleasure, but with his father's death, he's been forced to work, helping to manage the family's vast global empire. Nothing irks him more than having to leave his perfect life in sunny Los Angeles, especially when it's business that drags him up into the snowy, cold Colorado Rockies.
Amy Dane focuses on what matters: work and family. Living in the isolated mountain community of Gold Creek, she's raising her two young sisters while struggling to cope with her crazy mother. She's the only reporter at the weekly, rural newspaper, and she barely earns enough to get by. But when Dustin decides to sell a large portion of her beloved town to a real estate developer, she's in the perfect position to fight him. She just doesn't understand how difficult the battle will turn out to be. Vain, arrogant Dustin would never let himself be bested by a female.
They're on a collision course, and Dustin is quickly intrigued by Amy. But why would he be? She's a pert, sassy, irritating pest and nothing like the slender, extraordinary beauties that typically catch his eye. As attraction flares and lust sizzles, he can't help but be drawn into her world--even if it's against his will. Dustin is an adamant bachelor, while Amy is...Amy.
Dustin may have finally found precisely what he's always needed. | en |
The King of Plagues (Joe Ledger, #3) | Joe Ledger, ex-cop and now special forces killer, must lead his elite team against a criminal mastermind who threatens to unleash a super plague that could wipe out humanity. | en |
The Fountains of Paradise | In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
"An amazing list--genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF." --Iain M. Banks
"Delightfully written and at times almost unbearably exciting." --Kingsley Amis
"His enthusiasm is combined with his considerable literary and myth-making skills...the result is something special." --Sunday Telegraph
"A superbly crafted novel that may be his best." --Tribune | en |
To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 | Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the regional monarchies of the High Middle Ages. In To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter she explores in rich detail the question of monastic donations, illuminating the human motives, needs, and practices behind gifts of land and churches to the French monastery of Cluny during the 140 years that followed its founding. Donations, Rosenwein shows, were largely the work of neighbors, and they set up and affirmed relationships with Saint Peter, to whom Cluny was dedicated.Cluny was an eminent religious institution and served as a model for other monasteries. It attracted numerous donations and was party to many land transactions. Its charters and cartularies constitute perhaps the single richest collection of information on property for the period 909 1049. Analyzing the evidence found in these records, Rosenwein considers the precise nature of Cluny's ownership of land, the character of its claims to property, and its tutelage over the land of some of the monasteries in its ecclesia." | en |
La química de la muerte (David Hunter, #1) | David Hunter trata de rehacer su vida como medico en un pequeno y aislado pueblo de Norfolk despues de que una tragedia personal pusiera fin a su carrera como experto forense en Londres. Pero cuando aparece el cadaver descompuesto de una joven de la localidad, se ve obligado a volver a lo que mejor sabe hacer: escudrinar los restos y encontrar pistas alli donde los demas no ven nada. Pronto el miedo y la sospecha convierten el pueblo en un lugar de atmosfera irrespirable. Los muertos se multiplican y David se ve forzado a enfrentarse no solo a un asesino implacable, sino a una comunidad al borde de la paranoia y a sus propios fantasmas, de los que creia haber escapado... | es |
Hell's Belle (Hell's Belle, #1) | Half-vampire, half-human, Nina Martinez spent most of her life underground as part of an elite secret team of government agents who quietly take down rogue monsters, the human world none the wiser. She moves back to her hometown of Providence, RI to keep an eye on the recent uptick in supernatural activity, and to help run the bar she co-owns with her aunt.
Her attempt at a "regular" life, not to mention a budding relationship with smoking hot FBI agent Max, is cut short because of a string of ritual murders targeting the city's community of witches.
But Nina's investigation unearths deadly secrets from her long buried parents. Now the target of supernatural assassins, could Nina be the most dangerous vampire hybrid to ever exist? No wonder she can't get a date. | en |
Amari | This is an old version. The current version is here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Amari Prokop killed her first victim at age eight and had her own star ship at twenty-four. She started smuggling people from Earth to freedom on Europa for a price, but found that blackmail and murder paid even better. All that wealth should have made her happy. But it didn't, nothing could fill that void she felt. She had to get out and start over.
Now on her last job, all she has to do was kidnap Cloee Thompson from a government prison ship and hold her until Amari's employer was ready. The promise of a pardon from the United Nations was too good to pass up.
Colin Ross was an Interplanetary Space Security Force agent handpicked by the United Nations to recapture the mysterious terrorist Cloee and stop Amari, dead or alive.
Amari is an action packed dystopian science fiction novel with political intrigue, love, redemption, and betrayal. | en |
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation | An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, incisive portrait of the early days of the republic--and the birth of modern politics hen the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere which would soon enough erupt into another conflict with Britain in 1812, Dolley Madison arrived, alongside her husband James. Within a few years, she had mastered both the social and political intricacies of the city, and, by her death in 1849, was the most celebrated person in Washington. And yet, to most Americans, she's best known for saving a portrait from the burning White House, or as the namesake for a line of ice cream.
Why did the Americans of her time give so much adulation to a lady so little known today? In A Perfect Union, Catherine Allgor reveals that while Dolley's gender prevented her from openly playing politics, those very constraints of womanhood allowed her to construct an American democratic ruling style, and to achieve her husband's political goals. And the way that she did so--by emphasizing cooperation over coercion, building bridges instead of bunkers--has left us with not only an important story about our past but a model for a modern form of politics.
Introducing a major new American historian, A Perfect Union is both an illuminating portrait of an unsung founder of our democracy, and a vivid account of a little-explored time in our history. | en |
The Death of Stalin | Bortoli has been Moscow correspondent for French radio & TV for only 15 years, so he wasn't there the day of Stalin's death in 1953. His account of the dictator's last year is reconstructed from interviews with citizens, the memoirs of daughter Svetlana & others (Khrushchev, Ehrenburg, Yevtushenko etc.), between-the-lines readings of old issues of Pravda & other official documents.--Kirkus
Illustrated with photographs
Preface
Summer
Autumn
Winter
An Uncertain Spring
Epilogue
App 1 Tass Communique Announcing Joseph Stalin's Illness
App 2 Final Medical Communique on the Illness & Death
App 3 Official Communique Announcing the Death of Stalin
App 4 Pathological & Anatomical Examination of the Body
Notes
Bibliography | en |
Blood Mother (Flesh and Blood Trilogy #2) | Book 2 in a trilogy following one family over forty years on an East London estate, BLOOD MOTHER goes back to the 70s to tell the next story in the Flesh and Blood series, perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers and Mandasue Heller.
Babs had all the world ahead of her, until she got pregnant and the father did a runner. Salvation comes in the form of a man who'll look after her. Or so she thinks. Stan Miller is really the devil in disguise... and over the next twenty years, Babs will have reason to regret she ever met him.
Starting in the 70s, BLOOD MOTHER is the second thrilling installment in the Flesh and Blood series, capturing a London that was very different from today but where some things still hold true: be careful what you wish for, and watch out for who you trust... | en |
Head First Python | Ever wished you could learn Python from a book? Head First Pythonis a complete learning experience for Python that helps you learn the language through a unique method that goes beyond syntax and how-to manuals, helping you understand how to be a great Python programmer. You'll quickly learn the language's fundamentals, then move onto persistence, exception handling, web development, SQLite, data wrangling, and Google App Engine. You'll also learn how to write mobile apps for Android, all thanks to the power that Python gives you.
We think your time is too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Python uses a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. | en |
Once Bitten (Haven, #1) | Kita Nekai, on the run and the smallest of her shifter clan--a calico cat among lions and tigers--is being hunted. She was expected to accept her role as her father's successor whether or not her cat was up to the task of leading the clan. She disagreed. Now she's less than a step ahead of the hunters, bone-tired, cold, and living hand-to-mouth in the city of Haven. And that's the high point of her day. She's also drugged, "accidently" turned into a vampire, and sentenced to death for recklessly creating a rogue shifter who tortures its human prey. She's got seventy-two hours to find the rogue, evade a city full of hunters, prove she's not responsible for the rogue, and keep the vampire council from killing her. All while sorting out an apprentice mage, a married ex-boyfriend shifter-hunter, and the vampire who made her. | en |
Black Corner | A free Weather Warden short story. | en |
Il processo | Josef K. condannato a morte per una colpa inesistente e vittima del suo tempo. Sostiene interrogatori, cerca avvocati e testimoni soltanto per riuscire a giustificare il suo delitto di "esistere". Ma come sempre avviene nella prosa di Kafka, la concretezza incisiva delle situazioni produce, su personaggi assolutamente astratti, il dispiegarsi di una tragedia di portata cosmica. E allora tribunale e il mondo stesso, tutto quello che esiste al di fuori di Josef K. e processo: non resta che attendere l'esecuzione di una condanna da altri pronunciata. | it |
The Rusmolovo Diaries | "Never has such a tragic book had so much sex"
This is a lost diary of an 18-year old girl that was found by a cleaning lady in the bar toilet in the small settlement outside St. Petersburg, Russia. Nobody has yet claimed it and it's understandable, the girl is dark, promiscuous and drunk half the time, she has no morals or any desire to have such, she sleeps around and fights with her family. She isn't a typical teenager obsessed with vampires, clothes and gadgets; she doesn't care about this crap instead she is too busy going down the path of self-destruction. And in this diary, that encompasses almost a year of her life, she reveals all the shocking details and dirty little secrets that would make most people uneasy....
But if you keep an open mind you'll find that behind all the sex and cynical observations, there is a vulnerable girl who, like all of us, strives for love but gets none.
This book is degrading, no kidding, and it will depress the hell out of an unprepared mind. So be prepared.
Due to explicit content - the book is for adults only. | en |
Family Values | Aizat is a married man who lives a hedonistic and comfortable life. But when he sells a plot of land he inherited from his father, this triggers a string of horrifying events. He sees apparitions, hears voices, and gets physically and mentally tortured.
His very rich uncle, Tan Sri Aliyas, suddenly gets in touch with him. Aizat doesn't want to meet Uncle Aliyas because he's bad news. But after being pestered by his wife Sammy (real name Samsiah), he agrees.
After a few meetings, Uncle Aliyas then shares a dark secret about the family legacy... | en |
Bob Edwards 81 . . . 82 (Volume 11) | Bob Edwards Junior High was built in 1971 and is situated on 7.0 acres in the community of Marlborough in north-east Calgary, Alberta. | en |
Daughter of the Loom (Bells of Lowell, #1) | The mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, comes to life with intrigue and drama from the creative writing team of Judith Miller and Tracie Peterson. Young women at the end of the 19th century seek employment from driven men intent on transforming America's textile industry. Daughter of the Loomfeatures Lilly Armbruster, who is forced to work in the mills as her only means for survival. But Lilly's resentment runs deep against the "lords of the loom"--the men she believes have stolen her father's farm and caused his premature death. Her animosity happens to include Matthew Cheever, her childhood friend and one-time betrothed. Though separated by their opposing views about the future of the mill and the community that surrounds it, the emotions of their hearts still bind them. Will their dreams for the future allow their fragile love to survive? | en |
Save Me (Magnolia, #1) | Can a weeping willow grow into a steel magnolia? Ellie Cochran doesn't think so. She is a lost soul if there ever was one. A life filled with unimaginable loss does that to a person. Tired of fighting for one that doesn't seem worth living any more, she knows it's time to make a decision.
A stop for coffee is the last place she expects for that choice to be forced on her. But when the bullets start flying will she choose death-finally crossing over the threshold she's been hovering at for two seemingly endless years, or will she choose the hope she sees in a tall, beautiful stranger's eyes?
Nikolas Jensen didn't know grabbing a coffee before work would turn his world upside down. He didn't plan on making any life-altering decisions when he walked through those doors either. But that's exactly what he has to do. When death is staring you down from the barrel of a gun, do you save yourself, or a woman you just met?
Their paths now stitched together by one traumatic morning, Nik and Ellie must pick up the broken pieces. Can they do it together or will Ellie's demons be too much for them both? | en |
Angel of Light | A story of loyalty, betrayal, revenge and finally, forgiveness.
It begins when Maurice Halleck, Director of the Commission for the Ministry of Justice is accused of wrongdoing, then dies in a suspicious car accident. A suicide note and confession are found. Kirsten and Owen Halleck believe their father, was killed by their own mother and her lover. The Hallecks are direct descendants of John Brown, who was hanged in 1859, a martyr in the struggle against slavery. "He is an Angel of Light, " Thoreau said of him.
In this novel Oates explores our political heritage, American history and the search for the truth. with a mounting drama that plays like a Greek tragedy. | en |
The Ants Go Marching! | The ants are marching through the rain, but there is always something to distract Little Ant! Can you find him on each page, even though the column of ants gets bigger? Can you count the ants on each page? Rows of ants help introduce the concept of repeated addition. Bouncy illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats, suitable for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and the nursery or classroom. | en |
Hammerfall (The Gene Wars, #1) | One of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C.J. Cherryh has been enthralling audiences for nearly thirty years with rich and complex novels. Now at the peak of her career, this three-time Hugo Award winner launches her most ambitious work in decades, Hammerfall,part of a far-ranging series, The Gene Wars,set in an entirely new universe scarred by the most vicious of future weaponry, nanotechnology. In this brilliant novel -- possibly Cherryh's masterwork -- the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet.
"The mad shall be searched out and given to the Ila's messengers. No man shall conceal madness in his wife, or his son, or his daughter, or his father. Every one must be delivered up." -- The Book of the Ila's Au'it
Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world. For years he has successfully hidden the visions that plague him -- voices pulling him eastward, calling Marak, Marak, Marak, amid mind-twisting visions of a silver tower. But when his secret is discovered, Marak is betrayed by his own father and forced to march in an endless caravan with the rest of his world's madmen to the Ila's city of Oburan.
Instead of death, Marak finds in Oburan his destiny, and the promise of life -- if he can survive what is surely a suicidal mission. The Ila wants him to discover the source of the voices and visions that afflict the mad. Despite the danger sof the hostile desert, tensions within the caravan, and his own excruciating doubts, Marak miraculously reaches his goal -- only to be given another, even more impossible mission by the strange people in the towers.
According to these beings who look like him yet act differently than anyone he has ever known, Marak has a slim chance to save his world's people from the wrath of Ila's enemies. But to do so, he must convince them all -- warring tribes, villagers, priests, young and old, as well as the Ila herself -- to follow him on an epic trek across the burning desert before the hammer of the Ila's foes falls from the heavens above.
Written with deceptive simplicity and lyricism, this riveting, fast-paced epic of war, love, and survival in a brave new world marks a major achievement from the masterful C.J. Cherryh. | en |
Sejarah Umat Manusia: Uraian Analitis, Kronologis, Naratif, dan Komparatif | Indonesian version of Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World (Oxford University Press, 1976).
Ini buku klasik karangan Arnold Toynbee yang diterbitkan pertama kali sekitar tahun 70an tapi masih sangat relevan dengan keadaan sekarang. | Undefined |
The Spirit | Will Eisner e il padre del fumetto moderno e The Spirit e l'opera che ha cambiato il corso della storia della Nona Arte. Tuttavia, pur essendo un personaggio molto noto, le storie che lo vedono protagonista sono poco fruibili in Italia, spesso presentate in edizioni pensate per collezionisti. Ma Spirit e una creatura narrativa moderna, le storie di Eisner sempre dinamiche e leggibili. Pertanto Lineachiara ha pensato a qualcosa di nuovo... a un'edizione per LETTORI! Economica, ricca di redazionali che possano contestualizzare i racconti e presentata ad un prezzo bassissimo! Se non avete ancora letto lo Spirit di Will Eisner questa e l'occasione che fa per voi! | it |
Eiger Dreams | This title describes mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships. This book presents an unusual fraternity of daredevils, athletes, and misfits stretching the limits of the possible - from the paranoid confines of a snowbound tent, to the thunderous, suffocating terror of a white-out on Mount McKinley. | en |
Brother Demon | Twelve 18-year-old girls get into witchcraft and form a coven, along with a slightly older Red Witch.
Not too long ago, Red Witch somehow got a for real grimoire which allows her to cast magic spells and play black magic.
The Autumnal Equinox sabbat is near. Red Witch tells the girls that the Autumnal Equinox sabat will be conducted skyclad, in the nude.
The girls are both a little excited and a little scared. However, it's a new experience and they're gonna do it.
One girl and her brother go to Red Witch's place and are placed under a real magic spell. They all strip to nude and then walk to the place of the coven circle.
Red Witch then leads the brother into the center of the coven circle. Red Witch has laid out a pentagram on the ground and she leaves the naked brother inside the pentagram.
Red Witch then forms the girls into a coven circle. Red Witch then uses her grimoire to play black magic.
A demon appears in the pentagram and transforms the brother into an impossibly handsome, improbably muscular Horned God that no woman can resist.
The Red Witch wants the Horned God sexually.
The other girls, not so much.
Particularly the sister. | en |
One Night in the Hill Country | "One Night in the Hill Country"
Approx 30,000 story words.
Approx 120 standard pages.
A novella mystery-thriller featuring Sam (Samantha).
Featuring four of the six cousins in most of my fiction.
A woman is trapped with four children in the hill country of Texas. Jump-cut cinematic technique. Touching humorous suspenseful.
Story Overview
In short swift moving chapters, Sam (Samantha) takes four young cousins out to the Texas Hill Country. The two boys are looking for a lost kitten. The two tween girls are looking. And Sam is, well, isn't sure what she's looking for. But she's going to find it.
Humorous, touching, suspenseful.
Sam is featured in numerous short stories, including the crime mystery, "Dirty Sixth Street, Austin." Four of the young cousins from that story are in this novella. Sam also narrates some of her own early years to the children in several short stories set in Vermont, including the mystery, "Hello, Darling."
In this story, a novella, Sam encounters her first true challenge in Texas. Probably more than she wanted. (smiles)
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Structure
This work also introduces a structure of much shorter chapters that I've been attracted to for quite awhile now, as a reader and now as a writer. A recent post on my site, I'm Experimenting Again : Lunch with Grandma and Grandpa - Short Chapter Shifts, goes into a little background about that process, plus provides links to more posts.
Shorter chapters, I've realized, simply mirrors a preference I've had most of my life. And actually, doesn't mean the finished piece itself has to be short, simply that the components within the story mirror a more cinematic or TV format. Being also an artist most of my life, probably has enhanced that tendency.
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Themes
Though important, even controversial social subjects are in this work, including issues of illegal immigration, child abuse, police force, and mental illness, my goal has been to embed the "discussion" within the story itself. Multiple viewpoint expressions can do exist in society, and I've tried to do some of that here in this story.
Final conclusions are, as best as I've been able, left for each reader to make.
What I've hoped to achieve was to present counter-flowing nuances.
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With all that said, this book has been great fun to write, and exciting for me to see how it developed.
With all the best wishes, in all your reading and creative efforts -
Sincerely -
Adan | en |
Piece by Piece | Matty and Scotty have been best friends since they were born. They have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now there a life changing situation that may alter them forever. | en |
A Woman Clothed In Sun | From the pleasures of her sheltered world in the bayous to the treacherous vastness of the great Southwest and beyond forever quenching her thirst for all the passion and adventure life had to offer wildly beautiful Rachel Delys fled the memories of her battle-slain lover and the fury of the Civil War. Across a tempestuous landscape, three men tried to tame her one who seduced her, one who ravaged her, and one who would bring her at last to the peak of sublime rapture and depths of soul-searing love! | en |
Lear | Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it is so easy to subordinate justice to power, but when this happens power takes on the dynamics and dialectics of aggression, and then nothing is really changed'. | en |
The Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills You Need for the Great Outdoors | Untamed, endlessly harsh, and sometimes dangerous: the wilderness might not sound like an ideal holiday destination, but the numbers of survivor men and women is growing every year. And with this guide to every outdoor experience, they'll be ready to face the elements. From finding food to building shelters, assembling a survival kit to avoiding toxic plants, starting fires in any weather to finding water, it is filled with critical skills. | en |
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Paranormal | On hit TV shows, in best-selling books, blockbuster films, video games, and comics, pop culture has been overrun by hordes of vampires, zombies, werewolves, ghosts, wizards, and other paranormal creatures. Luckily, the authors of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series are back with all-new, expert advice designed to help readers fend off the furry, fanged, freaky, and frightful. This classic handbook format is packed with new illustrated instructions for crucial scenarios ranging from the domestic (How to Host a Cocktail Party When Your House is Haunted) to the scary (How to Survive a Zombie Attack in the First Day, First Week, and Long Term) to the practical (How to Break Up with a Vampire). | en |
Sin Undone (Demonica #5) | HER TOUCH IS DEADLY
As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she'll die before she'll relinquish her freedom again. Then Sin's innate ability to kill her enemies goes awry: She creates a lethal new werewolf virus that sparks a firestorm of panic and violence.
HIS HUNGER CAN'T BE DENIED
Half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall Dearghul is charged with bringing in Sin to face punishment for the plague. And she's no stranger: He's bound to her by blood, and the one sexual encounter they shared has left him hungering for her raw sensuality. Worse, Sin is the underworld's most wanted and Con soon learns he's the only one who can help her . . . and that saving her life might mean sacrificing his own. | en |
Império à Deriva - A Corte Portuguesa no Rio de Janeiro 1808-1821 | In 1807 the Portuguese Prince Regent Dom Joao was faced with a dilemma. Napoleon's forces were on the move towards Lisbon, and although he didn't like sea travel - nor the idea of abandoning his people to the invading French - he made the extraordinary decision of transplanting his entire Portuguese Court to its colony in Brazil. In a hasty exit the Portuguese elite suffered a terrible crossing, under British guard, arriving amongst Dom Joao's amazed subjects bedraggled, lice-ridden and in the same clothes they set out in months before. Thus began the unique 13-year rule of colonial power by remote control from its colony - and a period of reversal of the status between the two. Through rapid, showy and frequently violent phases, the embryo of modern Brazil also emerged at this time, an eclectic mix of African, European and indigenous people most visible in the thriving South Atlantic port of Rio de Janeiro, which became Lisbon's colonial clearing house. | en |
The Arrogant Lord Alistair | *Also published under the title, A Woman Of Little Importance.*
Miss Charity Wynyate had little more than nerve on her side when she appeared at the doorstep of Ashbourne House. Yet she demanded that the haughty Duke of Ashbourne recognize her little nephew and niece as his responsibility and stood up to his rude rebuff.
The duke, however, had a way to deal with her. He told his son, Lord Alistair Ashbourne, to handle this worrisome wench.
Lord Alistair was the most handsome rake in the realm. He had never met a woman he could not bend to his will - one way or another. But then again, he had never met a woman quite like Charity | en |
Uno, nessuno e centomila | Uno, nessuno e centomila e uno dei romanzi piu famosi di Luigi Pirandello.
Iniziato gia nel 1909, usci solo nel 1926, prima sotto forma di romanzo a puntate edito in una rivista, la Fiera letteraria, e poi di volume. Questo romanzo, l'ultimo di Pirandello, riesce a sintetizzare il pensiero dell'autore nel modo piu completo. L'autore stesso, in una lettera autobiografica, lo definisce come il romanzo "piu amaro di tutti, profondamente umoristico, di scomposizione della vita".
Il protagonista Vitangelo Moscarda, infatti, puo essere considerato come uno dei personaggi piu complessi del mondo pirandelliano, e sicuramente quello con maggior autoconsapevolezza. Dal punto di vista formale, stilistico, si puo notare la forte inclinazione al monologo del soggetto, che molto spesso si rivolge al lettore ponendogli interrogativi e problemi in modo da coinvolgerlo direttamente nella vicenda, il cui significato e senza dubbio di portata universale. | it |
Pangalax (Veya Trilogy, #1) | Aveyana's world will never be the same.
After an unexpected attack claims her mom, seventeen-year-old Veya is forced to abandon the only home she's ever known and the only boy she's ever loved to make a new life on Pangalax, a US space station.
Heartbroken, angry, and homesick, she resents her dad's decision to move and his demand to hide her unique abilities. As she suspected, appearing normal proves to be nearly impossible, especially around Kye, a way-too-handsome officer who is determined to break through her walls.
But can he be trusted?
Can anyone be trusted?
As Veya uncovers the deep, dark secrets of Pangalax, her very existence becomes threatened. Only one person can save her.
Is she willing to forget the past and trust him with her life? | en |
The Art of Survival: A Crime Mystery set in Scarborough | The Art of Survival asks: What will fear push ordinary people to do? What happens when little girls get lost? DS Theo Akande is investigating the disappearance of eight year old Victoria Everidge. Her mother, Yvonne, is a desperate woman. What is she capable of? Eminent journalist and newspaperman, Stan Poole, dies leaving a filing cabinet full of secrets. As these leak out, his daughter, Hannah, begins to question her own girlhood. She is losing her way. Her best friend, Lawrence, newly an item with Theo, finds it hard to remain supportive. Instead Hannah clings to her work as a trainee counsellor and to her client Julia. Julia is apparently no little girl lost, but appearances can be deceptive. Then a body is found. This is Kate Evans' second novel, her first, The Art of the Imperfect, was long-listed for the Crime Writers Association debut dagger. | en |
A Secret Encounter (Amish Secrets #2) | Shunned in his late teens, Joseph Bender has lived a difficult life the past few years. He's convinced he's finished with the Amish and God, until he meets kindhearted Anna Smucker. Life on the streets is a stark contrast to the comforts of an Amish community. Will Joe be able to overcome the trials set before him to find a new life of love? Can a secret encounter change his life forever? Inspirational Christian Fiction, Approx. 225 pages | en |
تفسیرهای زندگی | Subtitled: a survey of contemporary literature : the lives and opinions of some major authors of our time: Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Sinclair, O'Neill, Jeffers, Pound, Joyce, Eliot, Maugham, Proust, Gide, Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Mann, Kafka, Kazantzakis, Sholokhov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Yevtushenko | Undefined |
A História de Um Sonho | Amidst a short spat between a married couple, the husband, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man. So begins a series of involvements throughout the night in increasingly dangerous and deviant sexual adventures for Fridolin, who taken by a friend to a "secret" party, is forced to make choices that seem beyond his control. The dream-like events are made more frighteningly real by Schnitzler's powerfully detailed descriptions, as little by little Fridolin gives in to the demands of the secret celebrants.Order may be restored, but the desperation, the depravity of the human mind remains just below the surface of the conscious willing of good.
A doctor himself and close friend of Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler was one of the most important playwrights and novelists of early 20th-century Austrian literature. | en |
Mosaic (Reliquary, #3) | Mattie Carver never thought she'd give up her small-town life to become one half of the best magic-smuggling duo in the business. Until recently, she didn't even know such a business existed. But as an unusually strong reliquary--able to carry vast quantities of magic in her body, undetected--she's been pulled into an underworld of organized crime and addictive enchantments. And although she's determined to keep things professional, her partner, Asa Ward, is a temptation she finds increasingly hard to resist.
Even as their relationship reaches a tipping point, Mattie is wary; Asa already told her he hates cages--literal or otherwise. But when an international black-market magic exchange goes awry, Asa falls into the hands of his enemies. Now, with the man who refuses to be controlled under the command of a ruthless captor, Mattie must decide how far she's willing to go to rescue him--assuming there's anything left to save. | en |
Dark Persuasion | Charlotte Gray couldn't believe that anyone in high society would care to introduce her to potential suitors. After all, a cruel accident left her blind at the age of eight. However, Lady and Lord Rochester, her aristocratic neighbors, have taken a peculiar interest in her welfare and offer to hold a debutante ball in her honor.
Inexperienced in the ways of men and vulnerable to a fault, Charlotte begins to traverse the unfamiliar world of courtship. To her surprise, two brothers become rivals for her affections. One she favors because of his gregarious and flattering ways. The other she spurns due to his unappealing demeanor and desperate attempt to win her heart.
Pressured by her family and brokenhearted over the risque conduct of her first choice, Charlotte is persuaded to accept Patrick Rochester's proposal of marriage instead. Her surrender introduces her into the world of passion at the artful hands of a mysterious man. When the dark and alluring husband finally conquers her heart, a shocking secret about his true identity unfolds. As a result, Charlotte learns that love can be blind for everyone-even her. | en |
Darkest (The Dark Side #3) | When his past destroys Eva's trust in her Master, can he win her back?
As their turbulent, complex relationship deepens, Nathan Darke is increasingly aware that Eva Byrne has become much more to him than his submissive. She's in his home, in his family. And in his heart.
Eva hasn't found it easy to trust, to believe in herself and in a relationship that can last. But happiness, once so elusive, is within her grasp. Nathan is her Master, her lover and her soulmate.
However, no sooner do they manage to find a fragile balance between them--a way of entwining both their worlds--and start to build a future, than their past comes crashing back to destroy their emerging love. Jealousy and hate brutally shatter Eva's and Nathan's delicate trust in each other, and their life together crumbles.
Can they overcome the crushing pain of betrayal and deceit to regain some sort of future together, or are some wounds just too deep to heal? Are some risks too great? Some rewards just not enough?
Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of dominance and submission, including sex toys, pain play, anal play, paddling, restraints and steamy phone sex. Warning: involves post-natal depression and mentions of suicide.
Publisher's Note: This book is best read in sequence as part of a serial.
Pre-Order: 8th March 2016
General Release Date: 19th April 2016 | en |
The Dust Will Answer | 1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and vast swathes of the warehouse district lie nearly abandoned next to the sterile trench of the city's concrete-clad river.
Lenny Strasser, a straight-arrow type with a taste for shady places, plunges into that world to discover that sometimes the only distance between two points is a very crooked line. When Lenny's friend Dave Larrabee nags him into helping him track down a missing girlfriend, Lenny suspects that the girl doesn't want to be found. He knows her all too well: she was his before she was Dave's, and she'd gone gleefully missing from his life one time too many. Worse, he's not entirely sure he's over his feelings for the theatrical and self-centered Kate.
But this time it wasn't one of her ordinary infidelities--she may have fallen, again, into the hands of the charismatic Nighthawk, who could lead her into territories where the danger is real and role-playing no protection from harm.
The quest takes them into hobo jungles and punk squats by the LA River--and into an after-midnight darkness of moral ambiguity that changes Lenny's life in ways he'd never dreamed of. | en |
Mayhem and Magic | Freelance thief-for-hire Asa Ward's latest job is heisting a powerful magic relic from a gangster's lair. But what should be an easy payday quickly becomes larceny the hard way--when he's dragged into a three-way crime war where mind-bending, body-racking magic is the most lethal weapon of all. And just when Asa thinks he's scored, the ruthless kingpin he's ripping off strikes back...threatening the only life Asa values more than his own. | en |
Hacia otro verano | Novela escrita en 1963 por la escritora Janet Frame, quien la considero demasiado personal para que fuera publicada en vida, motivo por el cual no vio la luz hasta pasados 5 anos de la muerte de su autora.
En pleno bloqueo creativo y crisis personal, la escritora Grace Cleave acepta la invitacion de un amigo casado y con hijos para pasar un fin de semana con su familia, en un intento por probar su capacidad de convivir con otras personas.
Escrita con una prosa sencilla, lucida, poetica y extraordinariamente rica en matices, Janet Frame describe el alma de un personaje al que la anoranza y la soledad conducen al borde mismo de la locura. Grace Cleave vive concentrada en sus propios pensamientos, incapaz de unirse a la sociedad que se mueve a su alrededor. Anora, como los pajaros migratorios, su tierra natal y recuerda para nosotros una sociedad probablemente sonada, en un relato en el que pasado y presente se confunden.
Una novela unica y exquisita. | es |
The Stolen White Elephant | 'PALE TERROR GOES BEFORE HIM, DEATH AND DEVASTATION FOLLOW!'
From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants. | en |
Kekkaishi, Vol. 19 (Kekkaishi, #19) | Student by day, demon hunter by night! R to L (Japanese Style). Yoshimori and Tokine have successfully vanquished the thousands of butterflies that swarmed on Karasumori High School. But the mystery deepens when the perpetrator of the attack turns out to be a medium that delivers a warning of unspeakable horrors to come! Perhaps some answers lay in the past of Yoshimori's family... By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the true practitioner of the art. | en |
Wat er niet meer is | In een nacht, in de beslotenheid van een Amsterdamse peeskamer, vertelt Thomas, een librettist, zijn verhaal aan een prostituee. Hij rouwt om de dood van de fijngevoelige pianiste Judith, de enige vrouw in zijn leven die hem raakte maar die getrouwd bleek te zijn. Hij kijkt terug op hun platonische liefde. Nu, na haar dood, lijkt ze als dolende ziel dichterbij dan ooit en heeft hij lijfelijke, erotische ontmoetingen met haar waarmee hij zich geen raad weet.
De enige persoon die Thomas kan helpen een weg te vinden uit zijn obsessieve liefde voor Judith is uitgerekend haar echtgenoot Egbert, die hij nooit kon uitstaan. Hij is de enige die inzicht kan verschaffen in de ongenaakbare vrouw die hij adoreerde en die zijn muze tot een echt mens kan maken. | nl |
Chain Reaction | He wanted his life back...and his wife
After security expert Gage Darnell was rocked by a lab explosion, he regained consciousness a marked man. Wanted for murder, Gage went on the run for his life, with little time to uncover the conspiracy at Cranesbrook Lab and clear his name.
But determination was no match for desire. More than life, Gage needed Lily, the one woman whom he'd never stopped loving. But could Lily see past the overwhelming evidence against him - the man her parents warned her not to marry? Returning home meant sure capture, but Gage had to prove himself to Lily...or die trying. | en |
Eliooo: How to Go to Ikea and Build a Device to Grow Food in Your Apartment | By following the instructions in this book, you will become the manufacturer of an idea. This book is an instruction manual for a product that only exists if you build it. Here are the instructions. I have designed this device so that you can produce your own food, using some inexpensive ikea boxes and the directions in this book. This system uses hydroponics, a farming technique that can be used to grow plants in water instead of soil. The reason for using hydroponics is very simple: hydroponics allows you to save up to the 90% of the water used in traditional agriculture systems, requires much less space, and provides you with full control of the nutrients required by the plants at each stage of their growth. Another great thing about hydroponics is that you don't have to worry about watering the plants. The system i have designed combines different hydroponics techniques. These are adapted to make them easy to use at home. This means that you become a farmer, perhaps an urban farmer. However, this book is not a book on urban farming, nor is it a general book about hydroponics. This book is a manual that will show you how to build and run a simple hydroponic system with some inexpensive IKEA boxes. I call this system ELIOOO. | en |
Isä Camillo vauhdissa | Isa Camillo paimentaa laumaansa jossakin Po-joen laaksossa. Ja lujalla kadella paimentaakin. Niin lujalla, etta siita hommasta syntyy tuon tuostakin mustelmia. Jostakin kasittamattomasta syysta Isa ja kommunistipormestari Peppone ovat aina vastakkain, vaikka ajoittain yhteisen paamaaran sentaan pitaisi yhdistaa. Isa Camillolta menee kaksi tuntia siihen, etta han saa Pepponen ymmartamaan, etta koyhille lapsille tarvitaan kesasiirtola, ja sama mokoma siihen etta muuan rikas rouva suostuu luovuttamaan rahat tahan tarkoitukseen. Vuoropuhelussa paaalttarin puhuvan Kristuksen kanssa kay ilmi, ettei Jeesus ole aivan varma , oliko menetelma oikea...
Isa Camillo vauhdissa on kokoelma kaikkein hauskimpia Isa Camillo-tarinoita. Siina naurun maailmanmestari rakastettava taistelupari kahinoi oikein kunolla. Nyt ovat viisi- ja kuusikymmenluvuilla suomennettujen Isa Camillo-kirjojen riemullisimmat taistot yksissa kansissa ja yhtenaisena, ratkihauskana kokonaisuutena. Parasta mahdollista luettavaa sydammellisen naurun ystaville! | Undefined |
The Black Monday Murders #3 | "A FULL CONFESSION"
Solve one murder, uncover thousands. | en |
Sidelined | Genna Pierce's life is finally falling into place. Perfect grades? Check. Her choice of scholarship now that basketball recruiters are sniffing around? Check. The hot guy she's crushed on since freshman year finally noticing her? Looks like it'll be a check any day now.
But when a freak accident sidelines Genna, her perfect life starts breaking apart into a million less-than-perfect pieces. No more scholarships. Spiraling grades. And she's sure Jake Butler, her forever crush, will have zero interest in someone as broken as she is.
Except Jake does want to stick around. He may have started falling for the girl Genna used to be, but he'll wait for the girl she could become--if she can find enough left in her to pick up the pieces and start again. | en |
Fools Rush In | Listening time 11 hours 1 minute
Millie Barnes is this close to finally achieving her perfect life...
Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape Cod? Check. Cute cottage of her very own? Check. Adorable puppy suitable for walks past attractive locals? Check! All she needs is for golden boy and former crush Joe Carpenter to notice her, and Millie will be set.
But perfection isn't as easy as it looks--especially when Sam Nickerson, a local policeman, is so distracting. Sure, he needs a friend after being dumped by Millie's fortune-hunting sister, but does she really need to enjoy his company that much? He is definitely not part of her master plan. But maybe it's time for Millie to start a new list... | en |
The Hero (Sons of Texas, #1) | THE HERO'S HOMECOMING
Owen Loughman is a highly-decorated Navy SEAL who has a thirst for action. But there's one thing he hasn't been able to forget - his high school sweetheart, Natalie. After over a decade away, Owen is returned home to the ranch in Texas for a dangerous new mission that puts him face-to-face with Natalie and an outside menace that threatens everything he holds dear. He'll risk it all to keep Natalie safe - and win her heart. . . .
Natalie Dixon has had a lifetime of heartache since Owen was deployed. Fourteen years and one bad marriage later, she finds herself mixed up with the Loughman's again. With her life on the line against an enemy she can't fight alone, it's Owen's strong shoulders, smoldering eyes, and sensuous smile that she turns to. When danger closes in, she holds close to the only man she's ever loved... | en |
This Is The Route Of Twisted Pain (Neither This, Nor That, #1) | Legends are born from moments like these. Folktales spun around a single point in time so perfect, you can almost hear the click resonating through the universe as things align.
George Bell, aka Twisted, knows the odds are against him. Have been all his life. Born in a Louisiana bordello, raised around the rough and rowdy men of a motorcycle club, he's never been the lucky type. But he believes luck can change, so when fate gives him a glimpse of breathtaking beauty, he's more than willing to roll the dice. Chancing upon what could be the woman of his dreams, he's prepared to push this streak as far as he can.
Penny Dane's background gives her an edge in the life she's chosen to lead. Raised in a can-do family, she's resilient, rolling with life's punches and landing on her feet. But, when the past holds painful secrets--when a single misstep can turn deadly--can she trust the passion this man stirs in her?
On the surface, Bell and Penny don't work. Their mismatched worlds are too different. But like a backwater bayou, what you see is not the whole story, there are mysteries buried underneath. Penny is the red-haired beauty caught up in a web of lies. Bell is like no one she's ever met before. The problem is, he knows it. | en |
Yuletide Mishaps | Abby Devereaux is a successful restaurant owner in NYC. She has the love and support of her family and friends, but her love life is non-existent. When she meets Ben, her luck starts to turn in the boyfriend department...until Christmas hits and she has to go away for the holiday to the countryside to stay with her family. Little did she know that Ben is already involved...with her younger sister. As Abby tries to get through the holiday, she and Ben go through mishaps that could tear them apart for good and family secrets come out of hiding. | en |
Going It Alone (Sapphire Falls; The Natural Love #2) | He'd stopped believing in happy endings a long time ago, but a chance encounter with a stranded traveler on Valentine's Day will prove it's never too late for love.
Even the most loving of families face conflict at one time or another, but any kind of discord makes Sierra Jones-Roseman physically ill. Since childhood, she's been her family's mediator and peacekeeper, so she shouldn't have been surprised when she gets a phone call from her long-lost sister. Reconciling a five-year absence won't be easy, especially when her sister refuses to come home, forcing Sierra to leave the safety of her northern California commune for the first time. What's begins as a journey of trepidation turns into an exhilarating adventure as Sierra experiences some of what the wide, wonderful world has to offer, including Logan Hamilton.
Being a long-haul truck driver is tough on married life, a fact Logan learned the hard way. Twice divorced, he's reconciled himself to a solitary life on the road until he rescues Sierra Jones-Roseman who's stranded on a dangerous stretch of highway. Something about the wide-eyed innocent reignites Logan's dreams of home and hearth in Sapphire Falls, the small Nebraska town where he grew up, but can a man who's been alone for so long learn to love again? | en |
Zara Phillips The Biography An Intimate Portrait of a Royal World Champion | The only daughter of Princess Anne and famously dubbed a 'rebel Royal', Zara Phillips has long been the subject of media interest. However, her considerable sporting success received little attention until she won gold at the 2006 equestrian World Championships.
Brian Hoey looks beyond the public image to reveal the real Zara, from her parents' divorce and her mother's subsequent remarriage, to her relationships with other royals including Princes William and Harry, her sense of style and sometimes controversial love life, and her rise to the top of her chosen sport.
This is Zara's story, from her earliest years and her relationships with other Royals, to her love life, the independent streak that saw her branded a 'Royal rebel' and her emergence as a world-beating sportswoman. It is a fascinating tale of determination, the search for independence and the will to succeed on her own merit.
This book includes Zara's contribution to the British Team that won the 2007 European Championship. | en |
When Kingmakers Speak | "WKS is a well written thriller that builds up gripping suspense, yet reveals enough to keep us deeply engaged and anxious to know what is going to happen next. Set in the early sixties, the novel reflects some of the fundamental but hidden issues besetting Singapore. Not yet fully independent, not yet a nation, it was a period when the island was caught between a British colonial world not quite withdrawn, and a national one not quite born, when the Communists remained a serious urban threat and gangsters had considerable influence. The main plot turns around a planned assasination and is linked to a sub-plot involving Sato, a Japanese soldier-samurai who had remained in hiding after Japan surrendered, and whose values and actions are guided by a combination of Bushido and Christianty." Edwin Thumboo, Professor Emeritus, National University of Singapore | en |
Flies on the Butter | Can you ever really go home again?
Rose Fletcher's come a long way from her South Carolina upbringing of Sunday church and Mamaw's fried chicken. As a high-powered child advocate in Washington, DC, Rose has put her Southern upbringing behind her. But the peace and happiness she sought has eluded her. With her marriage on the brink of disaster, her mind races with the chaos her life has become.
But now Rose must head South for home--a place where the mother she headed north to escape still resides.
She'll face her demons, relive her coming-of-age, and confront the issues that kept her away all these years. It'll take the intervention of strangers and a painful miracle of grace to help her find that place called "home" once again. | en |
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future | In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A. S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long lasta girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more.Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilitiesbut not for Glory, who has no plan for whats next. Her mother committed suicide when Glory was only four years old, and she has never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way until a transformative night when she begins to experience an astonishing new power to see a persons infinite past and future. From ancient ancestors to many generations forward, Glory is bombarded with visionsand what she sees ahead of her is terrifying: A tyrannical new leader raises an army. Womens rights disappear. A violent second civil war breaks out. And young girls vanish daily, sold off or interned in camps. Glory makes it her mission to record everything she sees, hoping her notes will somehow make a difference. She may not see a future for herself, but shell do anything to make sure this one does not come to pass. | en |
The Hopi Way | From first-hand experience, the author tells of daily life among the Hopi Indians in Northern Arizona--their beliefs, rituals and Catcina (Kachina) ceremonies. The interaction and conflict between the Anglo and Indian cultures are presented from the viewpoint of the Hopi family. Robert Boissiere, born in Paris, France, came to the United States after World War II. A member of the French army, he was imprisoned in a Nazi prison camp from which he managed to escape and join a group of Basques in the Pyrenees. After moving to California, Boissiere found himself on an artistic and spiritual pilgrimage to the Hopi villages. There he was adopted by a Hopi family and became a participant in their cultural life. "The Hopi Way" is based on his experiences living as a Hopi. He is also the author of "Po Pai Mo," also from Sunstone Press. | en |
The Harcombe Diet for Men | The Harcombe Diet(R) For Men: Real food, unlimited quantities and rapid results; Just 3 simple rules - to get you to your ideal weight and keep you there for life. | en |
The Rehearsal | All the worlds a stageand nowhere is that more true than at an all-girls high school, particularly one where a scandal has just erupted. A teacher has had an affair with his underage student, and though her friends pretend to be dismayed, they are secretly curious and jealous. They obsessively examine the details of the affair under the watchful eye of their stern and enigmatic saxophone teacher, whose focus may not be as strictly on their upcoming recital as she implies.When the local drama school turns the story of the scandal into their year-end show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet. With both performancesthe musicians and the acting studentsapproaching, the boundaries between dramas real and staged, private and public, begin to dissolve. The Rehearsal is a tender portrait of teenage yearning and adult regret, an exhilarating, darkly funny, provocative novel about the complications of human desire. | en |
Spoiled Brats, and Other Stories | In his collection Spoiled Brats, Simon Rich takes his absurd, culture-skewering style to new heights, marrying the literary polish of writers like Karen Russell and George Saunders with the humor of Steve Martin to deliver truly dazzling tales.Spoiled Brats is about the battles we fight with the ones who love us most: our parents. In Family Business, a young chimpanzee offends his working class father by choosing to become a research animal instead of joining the family grub-hunting business. In Proud Mom, a young mother is so besotted she doesnt realize her child is actually, truly a monster. And in Animals, the fate of a terrified classroom hamster hangs in the balance when a notorious kid is picked for hamster care duty. | en |
Meet the Dallas Cowboys | "An introduction to the Dallas Cowboys professional football team. Includes information about the team's history, stadium, star players, and uniforms. Features include: a true/false quiz, photos, vintage trading cards reproductions, maps, and records. Table of Contents, glossary, additional resources and index"-- | en |
He's So Fine | The second book in New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis final trilogy in the Lucky Harbor series.For Olivia Bentley, Lucky Harbor is more than the town where she runs her new vintage shop. Its the place where folks are friendly to strangersand nobody knows her real name. Olivia does a good job of keeping her past buried, not getting too cozy with anyoneuntil she sees a man drowning. Suddenly shes rushing into the surf, getting up close and personal with the hottest guy shes ever laid hands on.Charter boat captain Cole Donovan has no problem with a gorgeous woman throwing her arms around his neck in an effort to save him. In fact, hed like to spend a lot more time skin-to-skin with Olivia. Hes just not expecting that real trouble is about to come her way. Will it bring her deeper into Coles heart, or will it be the end of Olivias days in little Lucky Harbor? | en |
Deadly Honeymoon | The Third in a Series of ibooks Reissues of Mysteries by Multi-Award-Winning Author, LAWRENCE BLOCK! It was a perfect setting for a honeymoon -- a charming little cabin in the isolated Pennsylvania woods. It should have been the perfect beginning to a long and happy marriage. Then five shots rang out in the quiet woods and shattered Dave and Jill Wade's perfect honeymoon. Terror had come crashing through their cabin door, snuffing out all thoughts of love. Now all that Dave and Jill Wade felt was haste -- hate and the overwhelming desire for revenge. | en |
Sumpah 152 | Antologi puisi, Sumpah 152 memuatkan 93 puisi oleh 90 pengarang dan penyair tanah air yang diterbitkan sempena Hari Pejuang Bahasa 152 pada 15 Februari 2010 dengan mengambil semangat Perkara 152 Perlembagaan.
Buku ini mengikat tekad mempertahankan bahasa Melayu dan Perlembagaan yang dipelopori Persatuan Penulis Kuala Lumpur (Kalam), Persatuan Penulis Nasional Malaysia (Pena) dan Gabungan Persatuan Penulis Nasional Malaysia (Gapena). | Undefined |
Let's Talk About Cheating | Help Me Be Good About Cheating encourages children to keep their desire to win in proper perspective and encourages them to play fairly. Companion CD includes songs and read-along with Joy. | en |
Alien: River of Pain (Canonical Alien trilogy, #3) | The Alien film franchise has been embraced by sci-fi fans around the world. The film series stars Lieutenant Ellen Ripley and her battles with the deadly Xenomorph, commonly referred to as the Alien. For the first time, this novel will reveal the secrets behind the colonization of LV-426, the planet where the Alien was first found in Alien, and the setting for Aliens where a sole survivor was discovered - a young girl named Newt.
Produced by Twentieth Century Fox, the franchise launched with the release of the 1979 film, Alien. The film release led to three very successful movie sequels, numerous books, comics and video game spinoffs. This third novel and its two tightly plotted predecessors will directly relate to the first two films of the franchise, expanding the canon like never before.
Alien TM & (c) 1979, 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. | en |
Raw: An Erotic Street Tale | Chastity Jones is the real thing. She's beautiful, she's classy, and she's got money to spend. Other people s money. As long as there are men around, 19-year-old Chastity will be rolling in their dough. It wasn't always like that her father was sent to prison when she was 16, and after being placed in a foster home, she was brutally raped. She runs away, and starts stripping at a men's club, and there she catches the eye of Legend, a mysterious and handsome 6-4 hunk with straight black hair that hangs over his shoulders. His brownstone parties are famous attended by celebrities, ballers, and hustlers alike. But the real parties are in his basement; sex parties that include girl-on-girl action, and even kinkier fare. His parties are so successful he easily clears $25,000 to $40,000 a weekend. For Chastity it's love at first sight but, try as she might, Legend only treats her like a little sister and under his tutelage Chastity is soon hanging with the big dawgs. They buy her cars, pay the rent on her condo, buy her expensive jewelry and take her on shopping sprees. But the man she wants most shows her no romantic interest; and that s Legend. And then she meets Hunter he's a drug kingpin with millions of dollars, and also Legend's cousin and he falls for Chastity in a big way. Suddenly Chastity is caught up in a whirlwind of money, sex, drugs and danger and the only way out lies in death. | en |
Maurice | Depuis son plus jeune age, Maurice est hante par des reves dont il s'explique mal la nature etrange et melancolique. Puis, comme tous les jeunes gens de la bonne societe anglaise, il part faire ses etudes a Cambridge. C'est la qu'il rencontre Clive, etudiant comme lui, aupres de qui il sent naitre de nouveaux sentiments. Tentant d'abord d'ignorer cette passion, le jeune homme va peu a peu entamer un long cheminement, parfois douloureux, vers la liberte et l'affirmation de son identite. Dans ce recit intimiste a l'ecriture ciselee, Forster, qui jamais ne consentit a ce que cette oeuvre soit publiee de son vivant, livre une magnifique histoire d'amour sur fond de chronique sociale de l'Angleterre puritaine des annees 1920. | fr |
Boscobel | Historical novel based on the adventures of Charles II in 1651. | en |
El Hombre De Hierro | Ambientada en la ya desaparecida y amable Caracas de los techos rojos, "chata como una ciudad griega; pintoresca como una ciudad arabe", esta primera novela de Rufino Blanco-Fombona, publicada en 1907, narra la historia de Crispin Luz, un hombre debil, timido y sumiso, cuyo alias, "el hombre de hierro" -ocurrencia de su ruin patron y que da titulo al libro-, constituye una burla cruel. "Porque esta novela -al decir de su prologuista, Rafael Ramon Castellanos- es un reto a la sociedad timorata de entonces y, a la vez, una sacudida en un medio social donde los valores eticos se acoquinan ante la avalancha de los aventureros , los despiadados, los corruptos, los poderosos titanes de la avaricia. Blanco-Fombona (1874-1944), uno de nuestros mas eminentes intelectuales, cultivo todos los generos literarios, distinguiendose de manera notable entre nuestros escritores "naturalistas". | es |
Doctor Who: The Seeds of War | Humanity is emerging from a long, exhausting war. Against an enemy so powerful, so implacable, it seemed unstoppable - right up until the moment it stopped.
Now, despite its 'victory', the human race is on its knees. The Doctor and Mel join its struggle for survival to try to ensure it has a future.
A race against time takes them from the Great Tower of Kalsos to the Reliquaries of Earth. In an epic journey across the ten systems, their fates are intertwined with one family. The Tevelers are to feel the effects of war more than most...
The Doctor has a plan. Mel is sure he can save the day. But something is lurking. Watching. Waiting. A presence the Doctor knows of old. But just how far does its influence pervade?
The Eminence awaits... | en |
A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English Slang and Its Analogues | Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. | en |
No Rest for the Wicked: A John and Sarah Jarad Nantucket Mystery | When state archaeologists lift the lid on a suspicious steamer trunk buried in Nantucket's landfill, Detective John Jarad's world explodes. The trunk's contents reactivate intense interest in the island's most notorious cold case crime, the Baby Alice Spenser kidnapping in 1921.
Sarah Jarad has a slightly different life focus. Halfway through a twin pregnancy, Sarah is convinced that she is losing her mind. She can't shake the feeling that she's being watched. She'd like to blame her paranoia on raging hormones, but that doesn't ring true. Sarah fears that her control freak ex-fiancee Mason has finally tracked her down, and that Mason is on Nantucket, plotting revenge.
As John pursues the Baby Alice investigation, myriad family scandals emerge from the Spenser's privileged and gilded past. Events flare white-hot when a copycat criminal snatches a second child. John and Sarah must race against the clock to unmask the kidnapper and expose these modern day threats.
Offering an array of colorful island characters and an intricate plot filled with surprising twists and reveals, NO REST FOR THE WICKED promises to be the perfect summer beach read. | en |
Without a Map: A Memoir | Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father--in her own father's hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall's parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. What sets Without a Mapapart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom. | en |
The Parent Agency | Travel to an alternate world where kids get to choose their own parents in this zany, internationally bestselling adventure, which combines the be-careful-what-you-wish-for humor of The Chocolate Touchwith the classic appeal of Roald Dahl.
Barry Bennett is sick of his parents. They're boring, they're too strict, and it's their fault his name is Barry. So he makes a wish for better ones--and is whisked away to the Parent Agency, where kids get to pick out their perfect parents.
For Barry, this seems like a dream come true. But as he's about to discover, choosing a new mom and dad isn't as simple as it sounds...
The first children's book by British author and comedian David Baddiel, The Parent Agency includes illustrations by Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning artist Jim Field. | en |
The Seventh Son | A true-life story of a Northern Ontario family's thirteenth child. | en |
Bloodlust (The Dust #1) | As the volcanic ash cloud spews into the atmosphere the dust claws its way across northern Europe grinding the air industry to a halt. As the particles clog the machinery the wind turbines stop turning and the haulage companies, fearing the worst, cease to use their trucks. Petrol stations run dry and shops become empty; within two weeks a shattered Britain is on her knees.
Jake Meadows, working for the oil industry, is sent to Scotland to investigate but soon becomes marooned. He wakes one morning from a deep sleep to find a world where civilisation has been destroyed. The dead lie festering and unburied, basic amenities are a thing of the past. Jake now has one aim in life - to get back to his daughter Amber, who is staying with his parents in South Wales.
On a journey where he will come across pockets of survivors in a land devoid of law and order the path is a perilous one. A new danger has also risen from the poisonous dust, an infected body of mutated humans marauding their way across the country, intent on destruction and bloodlust.
A chilling post-apocalyptic horror novel, Bloodlust is book one of David H Sharp's exciting new series, The Dust.
Do you dare to read? | en |
The Well Meaning Killer | A maniac is terrorizing Baltimore. The Wishing Well Killer is depositing his victims like they were the kitchen trash stuffing their bodies in plastic garbage bags and throwing them down abandoned wells in the Maryland countryside. For veteran homicide detective Phil Jenkins and FBI agent Megan McKenna of BAAT, the Baltimore Aggravated Assault Task Force, the net they first cast to try and catch the killer with seems to have only hauled in a dead end. An insidious, under-the-table scam in the Maryland State foster care system involving unscrupulous lawyers. But when the madman they are chasing surprisingly surfaces in the middle of it all, Megan McKenna realizes that they know each other and still have some deadly, unfinished business between them. Megan calls FBI profiler, and former lover, agent Reese Ditrapano in on the case to try to get inside the warped mind of the killer before another victim goes down a well. But Reese s old feelings for Megan, and Phil Jenkins new ones, create friction in the investigation the perfect diversion needed for the lunatic killer who s finally found the perfect well. For Megan McKenna." | en |
I dolori del giovane Werther | La trama e semplice eppure di un agghiacciante realismo: Werther e innamorato di Lotte, di cui sa fin dall'inizio che non e libera, perche legata ad Albert. "Stia attento a non innamorarsene", sara il consiglio di una cugina a Werther. Ma la tragedia e gia innescata. Considerato il primo grande testo del Romanticismo, il Werther supera le barriere storiografiche per divenire il libro di una generazione, di tutte le generazioni, intramontabile. | it |
Varenka | As the war comes closer to her house in the woods, Varenka and the refugees living with her pray for a protective wall to surround the house. | en |
Revelations: Valleyview Tales | After a dark secret shakes Kirk Hudson's faith, he escapes from the religious cult he's been a member of for over two years. He can hardly wait to see his mother and his identical twin again, but the night he arrives home, his brother is brutally murdered. Wracked with guilt because he suspects a cult member meant to kill him instead of his brother, Kirk is forced at knifepoint to return to the cult where he finds even more secrets. No one is sure what "Transfiguration Day" really means except the ethereal sister and devilish brother co-leaders. The deeper Kirk delves into each secret and the murder of his twin, the more dread he feels. But Transfiguration Day scares him most of all. | en |
I Am Plastic, Too: The Next Generation of Designer Toys | The designer toy explosion continues in Kidrobot's second book, I Am Plastic, Too, which features a worldwide survey of the newest, rarest, and most sought-after toys. By offering designers, comic book artists, illustrators, and graffiti artists a new outlet for their creative energies, these toys become miniature works of art, collected and coveted by fans everywhere. Showcasing examples from more than 140 artists and companies from six continents, this book includes images of scarce, limited-edition toys and extensive interviews with 13 of the hottest designers working today. Many of the most popular creators from the first book are back, along with new faces such as Amanda Visell, Brandt Peters, eBoy, Jon Burgerman, Kathie Olivas, and Tara McPherson.
Praise for I Am Plastic, Too:
"The scope of these plastic critters, which range from the abstract to the downright lewd . . . is wonderfully surveyed." --The New York Times | en |
Death By Haunting (Josiah Reynolds Mystery #7) | Terrence Bailey awakes one night to find his mother-in-law standing in a corner of his bedroom.
The only problem is that his mother-in-law has been dead for seven years.
Several weeks later Terrence dies of a heart attack . . . or does he?
Josiah's nose starts twitching in a bad way when Terrence goes to the "Great Beyond" and she thinks his death has something to do with Jean Louis, an internationally-known portrait artist who has come to the Bluegrass to paint Lady Elsmere's portrait.
She just doesn't like Jean Louis and does some digging on him. What she finds will involve Detective Goetz and almost get her daughter, Asa, shot.
Again, Josiah blames the black earth of Kentucky for spitting back secrets that should have remained buried in the dark and bloody ground. | en |
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