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Cal McGill watches the young woman through the dirty windscreen of his Toyota. There's something compelling about her stillness, about the length of time she has been standing square-shouldered, erect, staring out to sea, like an Antony Gormley statue waiting for another of its cast-iron tribe to emerge from the deep. What has brought her to this remote beach, he asks himself. Is she a kindred spirit who finds refuge by the shore? Idle curiosity soon turns into another investigation for oceanographer and loner McGill as he embarks on a quest to discover why, 26 years earlier, another young woman stood on the same beach before walking into the waves. According to the police, she killed herself and her unborn baby. McGill, the Sea Detective, questions this version of events and confronts the jealousies, tensions and threats of a coastal community determined to hold on to its secrets. Views: 27
Rafferty's Rule 19: When you can't tell the bad guys from the good guys, it's time to get the hell out. It hurts to admit it, but Toby Wells played Rafferty like a bar-room fiddle, and Luis Ortega is dead. And while the cops know Rafferty didn't pull the trigger, that cold comfort won't stop him from looking for the sonofabitch who did. Only problem is, he's a little occupied right now trying to get the neighborhood vandals to lay off Thorney, Honeybutt's recalcitrant great-uncle. Plus, Ortega's past offers no clues as to why someone wanted him dead, and besides, Wells is nowhere to be found. Just when Rafferty thinks he's getting somewhere, the paint bombs on Thorney's porch escalate to rifle shots. It'd all make more sense if Rafferty could just work out who's behind the gun: Wells or someone else? Now he's got to keep Thorney alive, and find the shooter, too. Because whoever they are, they're still out there, still... Views: 27
After thousands of years of enslaving the human race, the Sybarians were forced into hiding, only to emerge again from the shadows and reclaim the world.Now man wants it back–and they need a special warrior to lead them into battle.Vala is a Mare. Very few Mares exist in history. Their abilities extend far beyond that of mortal man. They are chosen. Throughout the battles of man versus Sybaris, the Mares have been instrumental in victory.Now knowing the power she possesses, Vala embarks on her quest to destroy the Civilized Sybaris from within their very own walls. She embeds herself in the Ancient City to find a way to send the Sybaris back to the dark ages once and for all–and protect the ones she loves. Views: 27
In his quest to unravel the threads left by his brother's death in Cambodia, Thomas Reed travels to the streets of Manila and the jungles of Cambodia, where he gradually pieces together the information that will lead him to his brother's lost child. Views: 27
The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the words and voices of the aviators themselves.A World War II pilot himself, the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes revives the adventurous young men who inspired his own generation to take to the sky. The volunteer fliers were often privileged-the sorts of college athletes and Ivy League students who might appear in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, and sometimes did. Others were country boys from the farms and ranches of the West. Hynes follows them from the flying clubs of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale and the grass airfields of Texas and Canada to training grounds in Europe and on to the front, where they learned how to fight a war in the air. And to the bars and clubs of Paris and London,... Views: 27
Cedar View looks like any other sleepy cul-de-sac in the heart of suburbia. Trees line the sides of the road. The gardens are neat and well maintained. But behind the tightly drawn curtains of each house the neighbours indulge their lewdest and bawdiest appetites. It's not just the dominatrix at #5, the swingers at #6 or the sadistically sinister couple at #4 who have secrets. There's the curious relationship between the Smiths at #3, the open marriage of the Graftons at #7 and the insatiable lust of Denise at #8. Everyone on Cedar View has a secret - and they're all about to be exposed. Views: 27
I Promised You is the story of Gertie's sister Ophelia who was left behind in the 1600s when the family had to flee their home. Ophelia stayed with her husband William who as a mortal would not have lived through the transition. Ophelia handed her baby twin daughters Luna and Thelma to her sister Gertie to care for. Will the sisters be reunited before its too late? Views: 27
Arianne Richards, at her cousin Melanie’s urging, asked handsome Lord Locke to sell a painting for her. But the painting was stolen, after Rhys Llewellyn had identified its subject. Rhys, though he loved Lady Melanie, asked Arianne to consider marrying him. Lord Locke convinced her to pretend an engagement to himself so they could get her ailing mother into the country air… Regency Romance by Patricia Rice; originally published by Signet Views: 27
Louise was the relation as far as her cousins, the Chaileys, were concerned, and when her glamorous cousin Melissa was planning her wedding to wealthy playboy Piers Merrick, Louise was given the comparatively humble part of the youngest (and least important!) bridesmaid. Nevertheless, when at the last moment Melissa walked out on him, it was to Louise that Piers turned, and asked her to marry him instead - a proposal which she was happy to accept. Views: 27
To fulfill her dream Pearl is on her to the Yukon River area with her cousin, Emma, to write articles and do illustrations about the woman and men who are looking for gold in the far north. Views: 27
