From author Fayrene Preston comes a pulse-quickening Delaney novel. A dark and mysterious casino owner finds himself falling for a beautiful gambler who keeps her secrets close to her heart.Sydney Delaney sets out to win one third of the money needed to make her family sheep station, Killaroo, whole again. She had chosen gambling as the way to do it.She was on the Isle of Charron, owned by the infamous Nicolas Charron and she had chosen his casino from which to win the money she needed.Very few people ever saw him. He was as dark and as mysterious as the night he preferred to inhabit. He commanded the wild swans to fly. He commanded her heart to beat faster. He stole the breath from her lungs.She watched women do outrageous things in order to catch his attention, but somehow she'd known, it was she he watched. Views: 41
The USS Wahoo's performance in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the empire is legendary.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 41
The Hardy Boys tangle with an international terrorist killer and a secret government agency called the Network. Views: 40
The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives?The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Blended with the author's wonderfully intelligent imagination is his compassionate perception of elemental aspects of the human experience, be it grief as in "Waiting for Winter," about the widow of a nation's literary lion, or madcap adventure as in "The Riddle," about a mysterious lady and a trip in Proust's Bugatti Royale. Views: 40
Puzzled by what makes boys tick, 17-year-old identical twins Chris and Susan Pratt hatch a clever plan: Chris will go undercover as a boy, pretending to be "Charlie" for a week. Chris isn't only surprised by what she learns about the boys she knows—and thought she knew—she also learns unexpected lessons about the roles both boys and girls are programmed to play. Young Adult Fiction by Cynthia Blair; originally published by Fawcett Juniper Views: 40
Read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, now available for the first time in e-book! Originally published as Fight For Love in 1987. Marrying the innocent heiress Natasha Ames wasn't surprised that gorgeous Jay Travers was less than pleased to see her at his family's Texas ranch. Not after she learned that his grandfather had left her half of his property in his will. Innocent Natasha didn't know why the shrewd old man had made such a scandalous bequest to a virtual stranger, but she was determined not to leave until she found out. Though it wasn't easy living with commanding, ruthless Jay. Especially when he insisted on tying Natasha to him...as his wife! Views: 40
Seven men. War was their profession, death an occupational hazard. But this time, they weren’t fighting a war. They were fighting something far more deadly . . .PREDATOR
One by one, it stalked them. And one by one, they died, each death more horrifying than the last.Only one man is left. Major Alan Schaefer. Now, in the heart of the jungle, he must face the most terrifying creature ever to land on Earth. One on one . . . Views: 39
Review“Terrifying and original. . . Almost too crudely terrifying to be read . . . but it is too compelling to put down. . . . Marks the debut of a writer able to bring the dynamite in both hands. . . . A cause for rejoicing.” –Stephen King “It’s got muscle it hasn’t even used yet. It’s the place where old John D. used to work before Travis McGee got winded. Cain and Dutch Leonard and Jim Thompson and Jim Tully sing in these pages. Caniff’s rhythm and smart talk, Hemingway’s mean, Alfie Bester’s cinematography. It pulls the plow, this writing.” –Harlan Ellison “Terrific! Rex Miller writes like a truck-driver tailgating you at 80 mph. . . . [Chaingang] induces genuine panic—making you read faster than you wanted to—too scared to go on, too terrified to stop.” –Graham Masterton “Rex Miller is terrific. [Chaingang] scratches itches I didn’t know I had.” --Marion Zimmer Bradley ” SLOB really smokes. It’s got muscle it hasn’t even used yet. It’s the place where old John D. used to work before Travis McGee got winded. Cain and Dutch Leonard and Jim Thompson and Jim Tully sing in these pages. Caniff’s rhythm and smart talk, Hemingway’s mean, Alfie Bester’s cinemathography. It pulls the plow, this writing.” –Harlan Ellison “Graphic . . . unsettling . . . brutal . . . hypnotic . . . gritty . . . riveting!” –Rave Reviews “We need these periodic trips into the human heart of darkness. Rex Miller undertakes this journey with uncompromising language and story. This is no fairytale vision of evil. This is the real thing.” –Steve Rasnic Tem “Literally mind-stunning, a Hitchcockian chase through one man’s modern underworld!” –John Coyne “Words like powerful, visceral and monstrous don’t even begin to describe the kind of book SLOB is. There is a primal energy at work here that won’t quit. When you open this book you are grabbed by the throat, yanked down into darkness, and dragged along on a gut-churning ride. From there, it’s a nonstop journey to the final page.” –Thomas F Product DescriptionStephen King hails Rex Miller as "terrifying and original". Slob is his debut novel, the story of a man who thinks of himself as Death. A man wholikes to feast on human hearts, spilling blood wherever he goes. Jack Eichord is the detective who must hunt this human monster and genius killer. Years of working as a homicide detective for the Chicago Police department has hardened Eichord to things that would make most men turn and flee. But even he is not prepared for the labyrinthine search underground, as he trails the killer and his hostages through the sewer system of the city. Eichord thinks that he is beginning to understand thediabolical man and his patterns of violence...but can he guess the next victim in time, before it is too late for the woman he loves? Views: 39
Two male lovers, a legendary movie goddess, an estate caretaker, a repressed prep-school teacher, and a polyestered Beverly Hills agent mount an incredible scam in Paul Monette's witty and wicked novel. Beth Carroll, a wealthy old lady cared for by her gay houseboy David and by Phidias, the overseer of the estate and her lover for fifty years, has died before signing her will which will protect her magnificent property from being sold to developers, Phidias enlists David's aid, and David calls in his old lover Rick and the latter's famous friend, the Dietrich-esque chanteuse Madeleine Cosquer, who in turn brings in her agent, Aldo, a hip L.A. queen. Together they develop an impossible plan to fulfill Mrs. Carroll's last wish. Views: 38
On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only himself to blame if the fairies got a bit muddled. Barber found himself in an Old English Fairyland. At the Court of King Oberon, to be precise. The natural - or supernatural - laws there were, to say the least of it, distinctly odd. Things kept changing. This made the mssion with which he was entrusted, as the price of his return to the normal world, even harder than he expected. He had to penetrate the Kobold Hills, where it was said that swords were being made, and discover if an ancient enemy had returned. He was given a magic wand - but not told how to use it. Through the fields and forests he went, meeting dryads and sprites, ogres and two-headed eagles, on the way. Danger, seduction and magic lay all around him. And, as the adventure continued, somehow it darkened and became more seriousness. At the end of Fred Barber's quest lay a shattering revelation.** Views: 38
"A Fawcett Crest book"--T.p. verso Views: 38
