Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. And her search for answers is about to lead Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator, into a world they never dreamed actually existed. For new evidence exposed by the tragedy suggests that Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, is more than mere legend … and that something astonishing is waiting there. Two extraordinary women and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, are not the only ones being drawn to the desert. Former U.S. Navy SEAL Painter Crowe, a covert government operative and head of an elite counterespionage team, is hunting down a dangerous turncoat, Crowe's onetime partner, to retrieve the vital information she has stolen. And the trail is pointing him toward Ubar. Views: 32
Mexican Slayride The bad news was that the U.S. President was shot down over Mexico. The good news was that he survived. The bad news was he was captured by drug thugs. The good news was he was rescued by his courageous Vice-President. But the worst news was that the Vice-President was definitely not as heroic as Robert Redford or Jack Kennedy, as his photo ops would have the world believe. And now only Remo and Chiun could save the President from a free-form fiend who made bloodthirsty Aztec gods seem sweet and even the power of Sinanju helpless... Views: 32
Five 40 Something women come together to navigate life in the 21 Century. When vulnerable to harm how do they react to the dangers of the world? Which woman will you identify with? Which do you want to be? This contemporary Chicklit novella series explores what it means to be a woman in today's world. Views: 32
Meet Andrea Marr, straight-A high school student, thrift-store addict, and princess of the downtown music scene. Andrea is about to experience her first love, first time, and first step outside the comfort zone of high school, with the help of indie rock band The Color Green."After I saw Todd Sparrow something deep inside me began to change. It was not a big change and I didn't shave my head and I didn't really think any differently about my life or Hillside or anything like that. But one glimpse of Todd and you immediately realized how limited you were and all the things you could do if you could just break out of your normal existence and stop worrying about what everyone thought." Views: 32
Gregory Bannister is a successful businessman who has it all; fast cars, beautiful women, a luxury flat in Mayfair and an all-round champagne lifestyle.But then Gregory's world starts to unravel. Just after his forty-fifth birthday, his latest girlfriend ends their relationship and the fortune amassed by Gregory through merciless asset stripping and property dealing begins to slip through his fingers. Everyone is pursuing him for money; the bank, the Revenue—and there's nowhere to hide.Gregory is unwell; he's been playing too hard for too long. Gregory needs to turn over a new leaf...Just when he seems to have hit rock bottom, Gregory's fortunes start to improve with the arrival of steadfast Jane—but is Gregory ready to give up his independence for a secure life?Hugh Canham qualified as a solicitor but after a bout of ill-health due to overwork, took on a farm, gallery and antiques shop in East Sussex. Now living in central London, he has turned his attention to... Views: 32
The Ottoman Cycle, book 2 Crete, 1492. With vengeful Turkish pirates, slave markets, sea battles, enigmatic desert nomads, secretive knights, swordfighting Italians and a distressing time clad once more in priestly garb, Skiouros' life has never been more complex, and his end goal never seemed so far away. Views: 32
Twelve-year-old Jones is an orphan, training as an apprentice hunter alongside his mentor, Maitland, tackling ogres, trolls and all manner of creatures that live in the Badlands – a hidden part of our own world, and which most people think exist only in fairytales and nightmares. But all Jones secretly wants to be is an ordinary boy and to leave the magical world forever... When an ogre hunt goes wrong and Maitland is killed, Jones finally has a chance to find out where he came from. But the truth he uncovers isn't what he's expecting and it seems that if Jones is going to make his dream come true he'll have to defeat a creature not even Maitland had dared take on and he won't be able to do it alone... He's going to need help from Ruby, the first girl he's ever met. She's outspoken, fearless and determined to prove she's as good as any boy, and unlike Jones, being ordinary is the last thing on her mind. Ruby's desperate to find her place in the world and thinks... Views: 32
The age of colonization ended a thousand years ago. Only a few Goldenwings, the huge spaceships which carried humanity from Earth to many colony planets, still remain, still voyaging between the distant colonies carrying the cargoes those societies need to survive. The Goldenwing Gloria Coelis (known as Glory), with the glittering beauty of a sunrise, its huge space sails spread for hundreds of miles, approaches the planet Voerster with an essential shipment of biological materials, ordered 400 years before in local time. And on Voerster, settled by South Africans determined to preserve apartheid, revolution and war threaten, while the conservative ruler Ian Voerster and his wife are locked in a struggle over their sick daughter, whose heart condition will kill her without the advanced medicine of Glory. Filled with action and memorable characters, Glory is a triumph, a far future epic of humanity in space to set beside the works of Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson. Views: 32
Sparrow doesn't have many friends. Some kids believe her house near the swamp is haunted. Others think there's something "unusual" about her. But Sparrow's not lonely — she has a best friend who's always with her. He sits with Sparrow on her porch swing. He makes her smile by playing pranks in church. Yet Sparrow is the only one who can see him . . . because the Boy is a ghost. So when her mama passes away, Sparrow doesn't give up hope. After all, if the Boy can linger after death, then surely Mama can return as well. But the Boy has a secret of his own, one that Sparrow will need to uncover before the ghost will lead her to Mama. To solve the mystery, Sparrow joins forces with some unlikely allies — Maeve and Johnny, siblings from a family of town outcasts —and Elena, a visiting child fortune-teller.With its loving depiction of small town life, and characters who feel like old friends, this magical debut will enchant you, dazzle you. . . and make you feel... Views: 32
From a hill above town, the Mount Kildare Orphanage for Boys looks down on thesmall city of St. John's, Newfoundland. The year is 1960. Theorphanage is always cold, there is never enough to eat, and theCatholic Brothers who run the home are heavy-handed in their religiousdiscourses and harsh in their discipline. Here, a group of boysmanages to look out for each other and live by their own set of rules.Byday the boys are obedient students, but when the sun goes down the DareKlub rules the night: raiding the bakery; stealing sacramental wine;and talking endlessly about girls, sex, and the merits of FloydPatterson versus Willie Mays. Above all, they help each other throughthe waves of loneliness and sadness that they all experience. Theirsecret society is their law and their family. But when the Brothersdiscover the wine is missing, they go on a manhunt, offering payoffsand bribes to any boy who will rat out the culprits.To buck upthe frightened boys'... Views: 32
