Coordinating the publicity tour for Italy's most famous—and most adorable—chef was just the kind of assignment Juliet relished. Carlo Franconi could gather a crowd just by smiling, and watching him prepare a meal was like witnessing a lesson in passionate lovemaking. By the time the tour was over, Juliet planned to have Carlo packaged as the world's sexiest chef. Women everywhere would fantasize about him preparing an intimate meal for two.But Juliet hadn't counted on being part of the dinner plans. Candlelight, pasta and romance...Carlo distracted her with his charms, setting his romantic recipes simmering in her heart. Views: 33
Hortense Calisher's revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman's coming of ageFamous playwright Craig Towle has decided to return to his New Jersey hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives with his world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his age. It is the 1950s, and the new couple raises plenty of eyebrows—in particular, those of the narrator, an adolescent girl who is full of observations, but not judgments. At the center of this layered novel is the narrator's unconventional family and their odd fixation on Towle, which goes beyond his mere celebrity. The secrets of their past and the potential involvement of Towle in the family's lineage intertwine in a potentially devastating turn. Views: 33
Shares the humorous adventures of the Great Skeeve, a powerful magician, Aahz, his demon partner, and Gleep the dragon in Deva. Views: 33
Vejay investigates the poisoning death of one of the town’s most powerful citizens during its oddest annual eventThough it sounds violent, Henderson’s annual slugfest is less vicious than it is slimy. The regional festival honors the normally detested California banana slug with competitions to prove which slug is the biggest, fastest, or—in the event that gives the festival its notoriety—the tastiest. Rather than eat crow, the area’s local politicians atone for their sins by eating slug hot dogs, slug chili, and slug pie. This year, one dish will prove murderously foul. Edwina Henderson is the last of her family to live in the town that bears their name. A committed environmentalist, she is also the woman responsible for this year’s slugfest, and will take her place at the judge’s table. When a slug-pizza knocks her flat, the crowd assumes it was just an especially gross slice. But when she doesn’t get up, meter-reader Vejay Haskell must confront the devious murder of the town’s leading treehugger.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection. Views: 33
Product Description The Confederation of Wizards is forced to put aside its long-standing historical dispute with the inhabitants of Rovac. Instead, both must join together in a common cause, to prevent the utter destruction of their world. They face two perils: the Swarms, and a power that turns living things to stone and brings rocks to life. Cook writes with grace, vividness, and a fair amount of wit."" - Booklist. ""A nonstop fantasy adventure...recommended for fantasy collections."" - Library Journal. ""This first volume...proclaims a talent worth watching."" - Publishers Weekly. Views: 33
Book DescriptionA word from Louis L'Amour:"Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote several novel-length stories, which my editors called 'magazine novels'. In creating them, I became so involved with my characters that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared became collector's items. Pleased as I was about how I brought the characters and their adventures to life in the pages of the magazines, I still wanted the reader to know more about my people and why they did what they did. So, over the years, I revised and expanded these magazine works into fuller-length novels that I published in paperback under other titles."These particular early magazine versions of my books have long been a source of great speculation and curiosity among many of my readers, so much so of late, that I'm now pleased to collect three of them into book form for the first time."I hope you enjoy them." Views: 33
Trouble in Triplicate (Loveswept, #142)Caine Saxon had to wonder: if good things came in threes, could the delightful Post triplets be too much of a good thing? His brother had been engaged to one until a furious argument broke it off now his own head was spinning over Juliet Post, who'd denounced him with loyal anger as one of those Saxon men. Denying an attraction that couldn't have burned more brightly, Caine and Juliet decided to call a truce, conspiring to bring their loved ones back together But swiftly the plot thickened, and the pair of schemers found themselves trapped in their own romantic plan. On a stormy night at a cozy country inn, they faced the breathless truth-they'd found the kind of loving trouble no one could escape... Views: 32
SUMMARY:Fourteen-year-old Sarah must reach the center of a dangerous labyrinth within thirteen hours in order to save her little brother, Toby from Jareth, King of the Goblins Views: 32
Tony Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine, that burn in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. The men and women in these stories tend to arrange their days, order their pasts, plan their futures in the light of such moments, finding epiphanies in the glowing memory of a father's laugh or a mother's repeated story, in a broken date or a rained-out ball game. Set mostly in Chicago's blue-collar neighborhoods, these stories focus on subjects that concern us all: disease and death, vandalism and sacrilege, rape and infidelity, lost love. In "My Mother's Stories" a son resolves his mounting grief over his mother's imminent death by recalling the stories she has told all her life. "My Father's Laugh" tells of a young man teetering on the brink of adulthood, and finally finding hope and reassurance from the remembered sound of his bus-driver father's laugh, from remembered phrases such as "Move away from the window, lady, can't you see I'm driving" and "If you ain't got a quarter or a token there, grandma, you and your purse can get off at the next stop." The husband and wife in the title story look at their pasts -- his as an activist in the sixties and hers as a believer in reincarnation and the tarot -- in light of the news stories they watch on television each evening, and question whether they should bring a child into the world. And in "The Walk-On," a bartender and former varsity pitcher for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini finds the actual events of the most cataclysmic day in his past unequal to their impact on his life and so rewrites them in his mind, adding an ill-placed banana peel, a falling meteor, and a careening truck in order to create a more fitting climax and finally to leave those memories behind him. Searching their pasts for clues to the present, searching the horizons of their days for love, the characters in The Evening News seek, and sometimes find, redemption in a world of uncertainty and brightly burning emotions.From Publishers WeeklyWinner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, this collection is a combination of daring and prosaic writing. Ardizzone is at his best when he takes a few risks, experimenting with the intertwining of past and present. "My Father's Laugh" is a powerful evocation of a young man's relationship with his father; the narrator comes to terms with both his father's death and a dying love affair. The title story, too, in which a couple watches the news and wonders how they can bring a child into such a terrible world, much less find a way to affirm their own love for one another, shows Ardizzone to be a self-assured writer with something to say. Many of these pieces, however, read like early, perhaps autobiographical efforts: descriptions of a boy growing up in Chicago, playing baseball, being a youthful revolutionary. In trying to depict the momentous within the mundane, Ardizzone must narrow his vision, and risk losing the reader. Otherwise, Ardizzone (Heart of the Order) demonstrates a fine understanding of human vulnerability.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review"Most of the eleven short stories are set in Ardizzone's native Chicago and at that in the gritty, ethnic sections of the city in whose wards the likes of Mayor Daley, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren would be spiritually at home....These are tough, menacing stories in which fate and memory exercise their Hardylike sway, all narrated in a variety of inventive and accomplished voices." --The San Francisco Examiner"The stories in The Evening News include rich, detailed reminiscences of his family's history, memories of growing up Catholic in Chicago, moving adolescent dramas, plus '60s-style Nabokovian black humor and irony....Ardizzone mines fresh fictional veins and displays a stunning stylistic range. These stories are encouraging in the best sense of the word. Things that matter are at stake. In his willingness to take on powerful subjects, Mr. Ardizzone is almost too hot for the cooled-out '80s." --The Washington Times"The short story is enjoying a remarkable renaissance, attracting young writers who are crafting tales as fine as those of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Updike and Cheever. Among the best of these young writers is Tony Ardizzone, author of two novels and now a fine collection of short fiction, The Evening News....Ardizzone writes a strong, spare prose that quickly sketches characters and situations, yet his work is invested with a deep humanism that compels the reader to see his characters as people -- people you care about." --The Seattle Times"Ardizzone's style and method of narration vary with each story, so we never feel that we're being treated with more of the same. Though deceptively simple on the surface, his stories require close attention because they ripple with understated meanings and effects that striate the surface texture....In short, he touches on life as he has experienced and observed it and then dives beneath the surface, but always with a kind of grace and style that marks him as a thoughtful and skilled practitioner of the art of fiction." -- Remark"So much of what gets written about big cities concerns only the extremes -- the filthy rich and the dirt poor. With few exceptions, writers routinely ignore the vast expanse of situations and characters in between. Count Tony Ardizzone, who was born and raised on Chicago's North Side, among the exceptions. His collection of eleven short stories, The Evening News, strikes at the heart of working-class and middle-class urban living." -- The Chicago Tribune“This first-rate first collection of short fiction is blessed by several shining moments of epiphany in the most routine settings...All the stories are intensely told and skillfully written. Ardizzone has a special capacity for appreciating the values of home and family, of ethnic pride and humor, and of street smarts. These stories are worth having and knowing well.”— Chicago Magazine Views: 32
Accounts of lesser-known monsters, including the Jersey Devil, Hairy Hands, Dover Demon, Spring-Heeled Jack, and other phantom animals. Views: 31
He offered her marriage--but only in name
Inheriting a small cottage near London had allowed Claire Richards to
achieve independence for herself and her young daughter, Lucy. So when
Jay Fraser accused her of encouraging Lucy's friendship with his own
motherless daughter just to trap him into marriage, she was outraged.
But then her cottage was damaged during a storm and Claire had to accept
Jay's offer of shelter. She was surprised to find him a considerate,
perceptive man, gentle and affectionate with the children. And when he
proposed a loveless marriage of convenience, she agreed for her
daughter's sake.
Too late Claire discovered that she wanted' Jay to be more than just a father for Lucy.... Views: 31
Star Trek - TOS - Phaser Fight - Archway Paperbacks - Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel (1986) Views: 31
