Read this classic romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book!Seduced under the mistletoe!Just because spontaneous David Kendrick fell in love with Jade at first sight, doesn't mean she has to go along with the idea! As the snowflakes starts to fall over her quiet Devon village, the last thing Jade thinks she needs is this impulsive, handsome man stirring up her emotions and turning her life upside down!But Jade can't resist David's passionate pursuit of her—even though she knows she is not yet free from the terrible shadows of her London past. Can David offer her a new future with a sizzling Christmas seduction, and a sparkling diamond ring?Title originally published in 1998 Views: 57
Steve, Cadillac and Clearwater meet with triumph and disaster as they try to evade the clutches of both the Iron Masters and the disguised killer squads sent out by the Lone Star Confederation to purge the overground of renegade Trackers and deserters.Clearwater's earth-magic gets them out of several tight corners but the Iron Masters prove to be tenacious adversaries and the First Family - the sinister oligarchy who rule the Confederation - have no intention of loosening their grip on Steve Brickman.Despite his apparent treachery, he is a valuable pawn in a game which, if lost, could spell the end of the First Family's dream of reconquering the blue-sky world. Views: 57
A gripping novel about the deterioration of the criminal justice system and the mysterious, powerful body at its core—the Supreme Court of the United States. Earle Holgren—murderer, terrorist, lost soul—is the center of a vortex that sweeps up a fascinating cast of characters in their ambitions, politics, honor, and scandal. From the eight Justices of the Supreme Court, to the Attorney General of South Carolina who sees a compelling, controversial trial as an opportunity for demagoguery that might pave his path to the White House, to the idealistic defense lawyer who seeks to save a man she knows to be a psycopathic killer, to a driven Washington journalist in love with one of the Justices whose marriage is crumbling, and other Justices with their own agendas, vendettas, and secrets, Decision is a sweeping tale that begins at a nuclear power plant in South Carolina, works its way through the courts of that state, and finally to the halls of the Supreme Court. From Allen Drury, the master of spellbinding political fiction, author of Advise and ConsentBook DescriptionA gripping novel about the deterioration of the criminal justice system and the mysterious, powerful body at its core—the Supreme Court of the United States.Earle Holgren—murderer, terrorist, lost soul—is the center of a vortex that sweeps up a fascinating cast of characters in their ambitions, politics, honor, and scandal. From the eight Justices of the Supreme Court, to the Attorney General of South Carolina who sees a compelling, controversial trial as an opportunity for demagoguery that might pave his path to the White House, to the idealistic defense lawyer who seeks to save a man she knows to be a psycopathic killer, to a driven Washington journalist in love with one of the Justices whose marriage is crumbling, and other Justices with their own agendas, vendettas, and secrets, Decision is a sweeping tale that begins at a nuclear power plant in South Carolina, works its way through the courts of that state, and finally to the halls of the Supreme Court.From Allen Drury, the master of spellbinding political fiction, author of Advise and Consent. Views: 57
The Broken Bubble was written somewhere around 1956 under the longer title The Broken Bubble of Thisbe Holt , and was rejected for publication in the 1950−s, as were all of Dick’s ‘straight’ (non-SF) novels at the time. It was published posthumously with a shortened title in 1988. Currently out of print in the United States Views: 57
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages."Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and took him to the city of Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary... Views: 57
Thirty years ago The Blob was captured and dispatched to outer space by the United States Armed Forces. Now it’s back as an exploding overwhelming force of evil unleashing unimaginable fear upon the victims. Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, and Donovan Leitch star in this contemporary horror story that propels the cult classic monster into the modern age with state of the art technology and terror. Novelization of the 1988 horror movie. A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows. Views: 56
From Publishers WeeklyIn his 40th book, the author continues the fictional chronicles of the New York elitist establishment and their insidiously controlling power plays. "Auchincloss is not as successful in portraying credible liaisons as he is in making real the ways in which art is big business," remarked PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalAuchincloss examines the moral ambiguities involved in mixing art and commerce in this mildly entertaining satire. A wealthy art collector, trying to match up her young protegee with the ambitious museum director, has been persuaded to grant the Museum of North America some freedom over her collection's disposition. Upon her death, love, revenge, and respect for great art all enter into the battle among rival factions. While the dialogue is brightly written, there could have been more descriptive detail. Oddly colorless for a novel dealing with the visual arts. Laurie Spector Sullivan, Transportation Authority Archives, BostonCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 56
Jeffrey is looking forward to the greatest Christmas ever, spending it with his best friend, Max, a mischief-loving 1950s ghost. But Jeffery and Max argue, and Max disappears. Will Max ever return? Views: 55
Luna is bestselling author Sharon Butala's second brilliant novel in her loosely linked trilogy that begins with The Gates of the Sun, and ends with The Fourth Archangel. Selling out its first printing within months when it was first re-issued in 1994, this is a classic Sharon Butala novel. Luna is the story of three prairie women at the crossroads of their lives. Rhea, still strong and proud at 80, contemplates her death, and her pioneer life, the years of loneliness she endured, tears seeping from her body while she kneaded her loaves of bread. Selena, Rhea's niece, struggling to come to terms with her teenaged daughter's pregnancy, wonders if her way of life is changing forever. And Diane, Selena's sister, until now a woman cloaked in the busy fabric of farming life suppers, chores and gardening, leaves for the city on a search for freedom, for identity and for self. Each of them is inexorably a part of the vast prairie landscape, its seemingly... Views: 55
Flynn McCallister had a talent for make-believeIn fact, Dr. Ann Perry was seeing a whole new side to her Los Angeles neighbor. The irresponsible bon vivant had become a model parent ever since he'd found a homeless little girl. Flynn was great at games, a whiz at bedtime stories and terrific at reassuring a lost and lonely child that her parents would soon come to claim her. Flynn easily won little Becky's trust. And in so doing, he won Ann's love.But was their love real? Or would Ann find, when their make-believe family came to an end, that Flynn's love had been make-believe, too? Views: 55
The stock market crashed. Rioters filled the streets. When the President and Vice President resign, the President's last act is to propose his successor--on the approval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But the President they choose turns out to be more of a leader than they bargained for. Views: 55
The train robbery was bad. It cost Stringer thirty dollars. But when the Wild Bunch gives MacKail a .45 caliber invite to hear their side of what a nice bunch of boys they really are, it's an offer he can't refuse. After all, they're all mothers' sons, even if they would cut a man's throat for his boots. Even so, when Stringer decides to ride along, it has less to do with an exclusive than the gun pointed at his back. And when the shooting starts, MacKail's caught between the crossfire of a rabid posse and the meanest bunch of murdering, lying, cheating hombres to ever draw breath... Views: 55
Sharpe's Rifles was the first prequel novel in the series written by Bernard Cornwell. It tells the story of Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809. Views: 55
From the back cover A young woman goes to colonial India to meet her fiancé—and finds a gruesome surprise... And American journalist interviews and English murderer on death row—with alarming results... A Greenwich Village painter-cum-drunk discovers the bizarre true subject of his latest work... The hand of a sinner can’t be trusted—even after it’s been severed from the arm... And, in the chilling title story, and English landowner is driven to violence to protect his wife’s bizarre sexual condition. “This collection is crowded with ghosts, hermaphrodites, civilized insect, angels, modern-day vampires and the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust, a boot... IN prose that is rich and original, perverse, passionate, and grittily mellifluous, McGrath spins neatly finished old-fashioned tales for our times.” —Leslie Carper, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Mos of the [stories] long palpably for a gentler age, an age when the world’s wildernesses still harbored unimaginable sights and sounds, and age when science had no yet explained away so much of the inexplicable and, especially, and age in which word-spinners could fashion filigrees of ornately layered prose without sounding arch or uppity or out-of-date... His gallows humor works wonderfully.” —Stephen Schiff, The New York Times Book Review From Publishers WeeklyMixing the macabre, the fantastical, the gruesome and the illusionary with a lush and word-loving style, McGrath conjures up an extravagant selection of worlds in which to set his modern, psychological stories. In "The Lost Explorer," a little girl finds an anthropologist from Africa dying of malaria in the garden behind her London home and manages to keep his existence, his death and burial a secret from her parents. "Blood Disease" describes the subterranean methods by which a group of English villagers afflicted with pernicious anemia alleviate the symptoms of their affliction. In "Marmilion" a photographer specializing in monkeys spends a few harrowing nights in the ruins of an old Louisiana mansion, while "The Hand of the Wanker," set in an East Village nightclub, is a cautionary tale: not even cutting off this hand will hinder its compulsive activity. With elegance, humor and respect for the dark side of human nature, McGrath also offers an angel, an hermaphrodite and the ghosts of the world's great psychoanalysts in the polished and entertaining, eminently readable stories in his first collection. Views: 54
