When Veil Kendry was born, a brain infection almost ended his life. Surviving that illness has left him with a power that is both a blessing and a curse.Veil dreams with a clarity unknown to normal people; his dreams bring him to the edges of time and infinity---and to the minds of other men.Veil left his career in the CIA to become a painter, an artist whose landscapes are of another place...usually unseen, totally unknown. He has volunteered to undergo tests at the Institute for Human Studies, and now someone there is trying to kill him.Veil's background has left him with enemies, both inside the Agency and out. He doesn't know where the threat is coming from. He does know that the U.S. Army shares land with the Institute, and that some of the investigations going on there have nothing to do with psychic research but with something perhaps more important---those persons known as the Lazarus People.The Lazarus People are those who were clinically dead, but who have returned to life with stories of another place---the place of Veil's painted landscapes. The place where Veil's final battle will be fought.---From the dustjacket of the Mysterious Press edition Views: 60
Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes's breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different reasons.For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War--era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox.Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on public relief. Essie wants to somehow earn enough money to reunite with her daughter and provide her with a nice home; Laura loves young men, mink coats, and fine Scotch. On a day of inspiration, the friends decide to use a thrift-store tambourine and a layaway Bible to start a church.Their sidewalk services are a hit: Laura's a natural street performer who loves the limelight, while Essie is a charismatic singer with a quiet... Views: 60
Read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, now available for the first time in e-book! Originally published as Too Short A Blessing in 1986. The only man to tempt her Why wouldn't Jonas Chesney just leave her alone with her memories? Why was this arrogant new neighbor so determined to intrude on Sara's emotions—and arouse her passion? After her fiancé's sudden death more than a year before, Sara had resolved never to fall in love again. But she'd reckoned without the strong-willed Jonas Chesney... To her own surprise, Sara found her body awakened by his caress—and she responded with a fervor so intense it promised to overshadow her past! Views: 60
"Arresting . . . The man really can write." The New York Times Book Review.Winner of the Edgar Award.With the soul of a street kid, reluctant ties to the mob, and the mind of an ivy-league sharpie, Tony Cassella is more than a private investigator. He's a man with a mission -- to stay true to himself, the people he loves, and a personal code he can't always live up to. When an old-line lawyer threatens to spill his guts to the SEC about his firm's dirty deals, Tony is hired by the top-drawer Wall Street firm to bug the secret testimony. But when the high-priced canary is found dead in a parking lot, Tony goes hunting for bigger game. But can he find the fat cat who killed the canary before he becomes the next birdie on the menu himself?From Publishers WeeklyWhen the general counsel for an avaricious conglomerate decides to spill all to an SEC investigator, private eye Tony Cassella is paid by a partner in a Wall Street law firm to get the transcript. The man is murdered in a mugging and Tony, no longer needed by the law firm, is hired by the victim's daughter to find who killed him. With a background that includes a stint as a corrections officer, a previous cocaine dependency and a year at Yale Law School, Casella is well equipped to follow the case from upper-crust Long Island to the Mafia fringe. What he can't do so well is stay faithful to his woman, or away from his old dealer. In this ambitious and convincing mystery, Cassella is a raw, believable hero-as-detective, an Everyman in whom love and sex, honor and revenge, desire and will play a piper's tune in counterpoint. Readers will root for Cassella to stay clean long enough to be hero of another tale. Foreign rights: Lantz Office. February 24Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Inside Flap"Arresting . . . The man really can write." The New York Times Book Review.Winner of the Edgar Award.With the soul of a street kid, reluctant ties to the mob, and the mind of an ivy-league sharpie, Tony Cassella is more than a private investigator. He's a man with a mission -- to stay true to himself, the people he loves, and a personal code he can't always live up to. When an old-line lawyer threatens to spill his guts to the SEC about his firm's dirty deals, Tony is hired by the top-drawer Wall Street firm to bug the secret testimony. But when the high-priced canary is found dead in a parking lot, Tony goes hunting for bigger game. But can he find the fat cat who killed the canary before he becomes the next birdie on the menu himself? Views: 59
LOOK INTO MY EYES ...Kara Brady's story of picking racetrack winners by ESP so she could help a Mexican orphanage was too ridiculous to believe, but it had already sent her fleeing from danger and into the cab of Dane Logan's pickup. That made her his responsibility, and he was going to see to it that she stopped all her foolishness and began to lead the kind of sedate life that was proper for the future Mrs. Dane Logan.The future Mrs. Dane Logan! What was going on? He was supposed to be influencing Kara, not the other way around! Views: 59
The national-bestselling memoir of a woman's resistance and struggles in Communist China—"an absorbing story of resourcefulness and courage" (The New York Times). A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In August 1966, a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an official of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, and an employee of Shell Oil. When she refused to confess that any of this made he an enemy of the state, she was placed in solitary confinement, where she would remain for more than six years. Life and Death in Shanghai recounts the story of Nien Cheng's imprisonment—a time of extreme deprivation which she met with heroic resistance—as well as her quest for justice when she was released. It is also the story of a country torn apart by Mao Tse-tung's vicious campaign... Views: 59
Amazon.com ReviewSoaked by a miserable rain, Father Declan de Lowry swats midges and unsuccessfully casts for salmon while mulling the deathbed confession of a parishioner from the tiny Irish village of Roonatellin. The good priest is frantic to know why Kevin Dennehy refused to the end to marry Enda, who lived as his wife for decades with none suspecting their sin. When pressed, Kevin would only say, "there's some explanations that get you nowhere." That leaves it to Enda, an Irish Scheherazade, to breathlessly tell Father "the all of it," a wild, eyebrow-raising tale that meanders like sheep on the narrow roads. Her enthusiasm and Jeannette Haien's musical, evocative phrasing sweep this winning, humorous novel along. From Library JournalWithin this brief, artfully woven novel are two stories. Kevin and Enda have escaped from their mad father and found refuge in a tiny Irish village, where they live as man and wife. Fifty years later, Kevin's death impels Enda to confess to Father Declan, a world-weary priest who finds his escape in salmon fishing. The moral commitment of the couple, and their devotion to freedom and the natural life, remain in the priest's mind as he struggles through the intricacies of netting a salmon. Haien, an American pianist, entirely captures both the essence of life in the rural west of Ireland and the many shadings of the conflict between official morality and the private compromises we must make to live out our lives. A compact, lyrical gem; one wishes it were longer. Highly recommended. Shelley Cox, Special Collections, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., CarbondaleCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 59
After adapting his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy scripts from the BBC radio series into two successful novels, author Douglas Adams reshaped a rejected "Doctor Who" script he'd written into this third novel in the original trilogy. Reluctant space traveler Arthur Dent finds himself drawn into a race to save the universe from the people of Krikkit, who, upon discovering that they're not alone in the universe, set out to destroy it. In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophies, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair. Views: 59
Elizabeth and Matt Lovell risk everything to buy a newspaper, are swept into a world of power, glamour, and wealth, and face temptations previously alien to their small private world Views: 59
Would his lips tell a lie?
He had obsidian eyes and raven hair, unbounded skill and a masterful
air...and for a time Eden Sommers loved him. But five years ago. Lt.
Col. Mark Bradley disappeared.
Though she tried, she couldn't forget him...especially when a
clandestine agency secreted her off to a windswept island to face him
once again. But was the man who claimed to have stolen away from his
captors the real Mark Bradley?
She'd spent nights in his arms, but now her days could be numbered. For
it Mark hadn't been brainwashed by the enemy, as was suspected, then he
was a cleverly coached impostor -- one whose look, whose touch, whose
kiss only Eden could tell... Views: 58
“I beg your pardon?” TOKUGAWA’s voice said from the comm console.“I don’t blame you—but what did Aoki think he was doing?”“Aoki-san served his master obediently. Just as I did.”Yoshimitsu Michiko glared at the console. “That’s a crock. He was a man, a damned good one, not a lapdog.” She shook her head. “I have to clear your head of this samurai crap you picked up from O’Neill. It’s romantic, ridiculous, and largely untrue.”—————Deep in the fortress-like headquarters of Yoshimitsu TeleCommunications‚ American scientist Elizabeth O’Neill had molded the circuitry of a mammoth computer into a living‚ thinking‚ feeling being—a human soul trapped in the confines of a cybernetic body. She named her creation Tokugawa‚ hero of Japanese samurai lore‚ and educated him with all of the values of a feudal Japanese shogun.Yet Tokugawa’s powers were far greater than Elizabeth had imagined. With access to every computer in post-World War III’s fully-automated society‚ he had the potential to become the ultimate spy‚ the perfect assassin‚ an invincible dictator.Only loyalty to samurai virtues kept his ambition in check—until the day when Elizabeth was taken away from him‚ and Tokugawa began his quest for revenge... Views: 58
Cozumel had been home to Liz Palmer for ten years. She was settled, respected. Her Black Coral Dive Shop was the best on the island. She no longer missed Houston, or thought about the man who didn't want her or their child.And for two short weeks, Cozumel was home to Jerry Sharpe, the diving instructor she'd hired. Until they found him—murdered. Suddenly Jonas Sharpe, Jerry's twin brother, stormed into her well ordered life with grief in his eyes and revenge in his heart. He plunged them both into the desperate world of drug smugglers—and into the dangerous depths of passion. Views: 57
