An independent, sharp-tongued courtesan, pregnant with twins, is bartered into marriage with an upright sea captain. Add the babies' natural father, three teenage bastard children, plus the captain's outraged relatives, and the possibilities for disaster are overwhelming. Is this a marriage made in Heaven or in Hell? Views: 31
585 BC The ancient world is in meltdown. In desperation the priests of the Temple look to the greatest navigators ever known to save their treasures. On a far distant shore, after a voyage more astonishing than any ever undertaken before, a Phoenician named Hanno flees for his life from a terrifying enemy, the place the prophets called the Chariot of the Gods...1943 In the darkest days of the Second World War, Allied codebreakers play a game of life and death. For some, the stakes are even higher, a top-secret exchange of deadly materials between the Nazis and the Japanese that must be stopped at all costs. Yet even they know nothing of the ancient artifact hidden on board a ship whose fate they have just sealed...Present-day Marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his friend Costas undertake one of the most perilous dives of their lives, hunting for Nazi gold. What they glimpse there, before a cataclysm that nearly destroys them,... Views: 31
Shayla Daniels has struggled to accept herself over the years, escaping into her work and sex with men she meets on the train. Will Zach Jensen be the man to change all of that for her? Cassandra Wood knows she’s in a relationship that she doesn’t want, and stuck being someone she doesn’t want to be. Views: 31
Rebecca Wells's wonderful third book in her Ya-Ya trilogy, which includes Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, is sure to provide reading that makes you laugh and cry, a book that will break your heart and mend it again. Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s, following Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets. When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Using as narration the alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, Wells show us the Ya-Yas in love and at war with convention. Through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with... Views: 31
Five short stories from some of the most notable names in the Western genre. Also, a bonus from author and literary scholar, L. D. Clark. A portion of the profits from the sale of this book go to support the ReadWest Foundation, Inc. Views: 31
A Hindi film star… an American missionary… twins separated at birth… a dwarf chauffeur… a serial killer… all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany , Irving’s characters transcend nationality. They are misfits—coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India, this is John Irving’s most ambitious novel and a major publishing event. Views: 31
When innocent, wealthy Nora Marlowe came to visit the Wild West, she was as wide-open to adventure as the vast Texas horizon. Its rugged individualism--and dashing cowboys--suited her romantic spirit. That is, until the wrong cowboy decided to take the elegant heiress down a notch!Cal Barton didn't like haughty Eastern misses. And he certainly didn't appreciate one invading the ranch where he worked. But something about Nora was irresistible. The pull between them only grew stronger the longer she stayed--until a simple kiss became a full-fledged seduction that threatened to destroy everything she held dear.... Views: 31
Lucy is a fourteen-year-old girl brought up in a fanatical religious sect that aims to take over the whole world under a deity called 'the Magnifico'. Children born into the sect are raised in communes headed by 'Fathers'. For some unknown reason, Lucy and another child, Paul, do not live in a commune, but are strictly raised by so-called 'Aunt' Sarah in the ground-floor flat of the Father's private house. He lives upstairs, and a mystery tenant lives on the second floor. Lucy's experience of life is limited to the ground-floor flat, prayer meetings and the Magnifico's school, where children are educated with the aim of infiltrating influential positions in the outside world, working as skivvies or breeding future followers of the Holy Cause. When she suffers humiliation at school assembly, her trust in the religion begins to collapse, and through two school friends she learns some of the secrets of the sect. Her aim is to escape before she is sixteen, when she will either be... Views: 31
