Krista’s perfect happiness bubble bursts when Ethan tells her goodbye, but setting her emotions on paper helps her redefine herself – with Todd’s help. When Ethan comes back, wanting his share of book profits, Krista’s finally ready to take a chance with Todd – but is it too late? Views: 39
Dealer John Mannering (aka 'The Baron) is on his way to buy some famous emeralds at a country mansion. His journey is interrupted, however, and then two strangers warn him his life is in danger. How does he proceed? Views: 39
The Middle Eastern state of Lobynia had been supplying oil to the U.S.A. for years, but when Colonel Baraka takes over from the king after a coup, there is a change of policy - and the cut-off of oil threatens the whole American economy. Baraka has big plans - but they bring him big trouble. First there is Remo, whose brief is to get the oil flowing again before American industry grinds to a halt. And then there is Chiun, Remo's Korean friend and teacher. Chiun's family holds a centuries-old contract to protect the kings of Lobynia - and Chiun takes his responsibilities very seriously... Views: 39
A new portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself: not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her "weak and feeble woman's body" to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, Hilton's fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince and used Machiavellian statecraft to secure that position. A decade since the last major biography, this Elizabeth breaks new ground and depicts a queen who was much less constrained by her femininity than most treatments claim. For readers of David Starkey and Alison Weir, it will provide a new, complex perspective on Elizabeth's emotional and sexual life. It's a fascinating journey that shows how a marginalized... Views: 39
When a young man is found knifed to death in a refuse-strewn Glasgow alley it appears to be an open and shut case for the P Division investigating team. The emaciated victim is identified as a known heroin addict, and the murder weapon -- apparently discarded in a panic -- carries the fingerprints of a fellow junkie. Two smackheads fighting out over their daily fix seems an obvious conclusion.P Division does't accept things at face value, however, and their investigation soon reveals that the corpse has been moved and the knife planted. This was no heat-of-the-moment murder... Views: 39
As a marine of Wardhaven, Kris Longknife has a lot to live up to and a lot to prove in the long-running struggle between her powerful family, a highly defensive-and offensive-Earth, and the hundreds of warring colonies. But an ill-conceived attack is bringing the war close to home and putting Kris's life on the line. Now she has only one choice: certain death on the front lines of rim space-or mutiny. Views: 39
A police procedural featuring Tokyo homicide detective Inspector Imanishi, who is still pursuing a criminal even when the official investigation is closed, taking him across Japan in his search for justice. Views: 39
We are not all created equal.Seventeen-year-old Cody and her boyfriend, James, were two of the lucky ones randomly selected before birth to receive genetic engineering. This one percent of the population, known as the Ones, are healthy, beautiful, and talented...and to some that's not fair. Mounting fear and jealousy of the Ones' success leads to the creation of the Equality Movement, which quickly gains enough political traction to demote Cody, James, and others like them to second-class citizens.Cody knows even before the brick smashes through her window that it's going to be bad. As their school, the government, and even family and friends turn against them, Cody begins to believe they have no other choice but to protect their own. She draws closer to a group of radical Ones led by the passionate and fevered Kai, and James begins to question just how far she is willing to go for the cause...Themes of justice, discrimination and terrorism mix with... Views: 39
"My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy."Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island and the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She’s been hired for the summer to tutor a rich local boy named Pip. But when Jude arrives, the family is unsettling. Pip is awkward, overly literal, and adamant he doesn't need a tutor, and upstairs, his enigmatic mother Esmé casts a shadow over the house.Enter Sofi: the family's holiday cook, a magnetic, mercurial Polish girl with appalling kitchen hygiene, who sings to herself and sleeps naked. When the father of the family goes away on business, Pip's science lessons are replaced by midday rosé and scallop-smuggling, and summer begins. Soon something powerful starts to touch the three together.But those strange, golden weeks on Sark can't last forever. Later, in Paris, Normandy and London, they find themselves looking... Views: 39
A sacrificial devil-worshipping cult have developed a powerful network of followers. Through the psychiatric ward, the police department and the wider community they leave a trail of murder, deception and betrayal. Views: 39
