Scarlett's blog has found success beyond her wildest dreams. What's more, her mum is getting married, and Scarlett is baking the wedding cake. Everything is perfect...or is it? As the wedding approaches, she has much more on her mind than the perfect bake... Views: 52
Ivy’s revenge on the people behind her family’s downward spiral is simple and it’s working. There’s no need to long for help from the wealthy business owners who turned their backs on her father. Ivy may be worn out, but she’s finding herself again after joining the local BDSM club. Seth has it all. He has homes around the world and the little red speedster he dreamed of as a little boy. Views: 52
Winner of the M-Net Book PrizeShortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city's crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today.Ways of Dying was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central... Views: 52
Sex and Crime follows the incredible life of Oliver, a teenage hacker in Aachen, Germany, who is the victim of traumatic childhood abuse and suffers from PTSD. He falls in love with an American girl online and moves to New York. After a painful divorce he meets a heroin addict and moves to Florida, where he gets sucked deeper and deeper into the dark world of drug addiction and prostitution. Views: 52
Acclaimed author Elizabeth Haydon returns with a heartbreaking tale of love and valor in The Weaver's Lament, the ninth and final installment of her USA Today bestselling Symphony of Ages series that began with Rhapsody. For a thousand years, the lands ruled by the Cymrian Alliance have been at peace. When the brutal death of a dear friend catapults the kingdom to the brink of civil war, Rhapsody finds herself in an impossible situation: forced to choose between her beloved husband, Ashe, and her two oldest friends, Grunthor and Achmed. Choosing her husband will mean the death of thousands of innocents. Siding against him will cost Rhapsody the other half of her soul, both in this life and the next.In The Weaver's Lament, the lines between the past and future are irrevocably blurred, and the strength of true love is tested in unthinkable ways. Bestselling author Elizabeth Haydon has delivered a spectacular conclusion to the Symphony of... Views: 52
When a corrupt U.S. Attorney General unleashes a global network of assassins to hunt down a woman who could destroy both his career and his life, two Mafia-connected men find themselves unwitting protectors of the innocent woman. By the author of Impulse.From Publishers WeeklyThough less experimental than his debut thriller, Impulse (1993), which featured three narrative voices, Weaver's second novel is every bit as gripping, a fast-paced, brutal and kinky tale that mixes crime and political intrigue with aplomb. Rising Manhattan artist Gianni Garetsky, 38, is drawn back into the American and Sicilian underworld of his youth when he's strong-armed by two men who claim to be FBI agents but who begin to torture him to reveal the whereabouts of his boyhood pal, Vittorio Battaglia, a minor mobster whom Gianni hasn't seen in 20 years and has presumed dead. Killing his two accosters, Gianni, who's soon joined by Vittorio's ex-lover, the beautiful and equally dangerous Mary Yung, moves between Europe and the States as his hunt for Vittorio and his race to save his own skin quickly involves a small child and other innocent victims, a world-class contract assassin and possibly the balances of political power in the U.S. and the world. Enhanced by strong, sinewy writing, numerous plot twists and a potent melding of sex and violence, this expertly wrought novel proves that Weaver knows what most thriller fans want?and can deliver it in spades. Audio rights to Time Warner AudioBooks; major ad/ promo. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalWeaver's first book, Impulse (LJ 6/15/93), was well received, and this second should be equally if not more popular. Weaver braids together the familiar strands of mobsters, lusty passions, and corruption in high places with unique plot thickeners. The story concerns two boys who grew up in the Mob's shadow. One is now an artist, the other a hit man. When the hit man fails to kill one victim (because of true love, we learn), powerful forces of vengeance are unleashed. The artist, challenged to rat on his childhood buddy, draws upon murderous resources. The tale reverberates with many deceptions, and its bloodthirsty tone is a lasting hallmark. Weaver deftly characterizes all the important figures while employing vibrant settings, which range from sunny Italy to the gloomy Atlantic coast. The result is a high-voltage thriller that blows out the fuses. For most popular collections of spy and suspense novels.-?Barbara Conaty, Library of CongressCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 52
Erotica/Science Fiction. 21707 words long. First published in extasybooks.com, 2008 Views: 52
Nimrod Vale is convinced he is the unluckiest twelve-year-old alive. After settling into his new home, he is ready to get lost in a good book, but instead he discovers a magical pen that transports him into his story. When his new friend forces his hand, he is pushed to help the fictional war-torn land instead of turning his back on the people who need him most. Views: 52
A young man has been murdered. His girlfriend, twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen, is found at the scene of the crime. She claims she is innocent—even though she's dripping in blood, the murder weapon covered with her fingerprints. Enter attorney Caroline Masters, Brett's estranged aunt. She's been summoned back to her affluent New England hometown to help Brett out of this mess...and revisit the troubled family she left behind.Caroline learned a long time ago that the ties that bind can also be broken. Now that she's back home, she can't help but doubt her family's motives—and Brett's innocence. As the trial heats up, Caroline finds herself up against those who would kill to keep dark secrets hidden...and the state prosecutor, who happens to be her former lover and will do anything to expose the truth. Now, with her family's fate—and her own reputation—hanging in the balance, Caroline must assume the role of a... Views: 52
The bestselling author of Your Erroneous Zones, Pulling Your Own Strings, and Wisdom of the Ages combines psychological insights and guidelines for achieving spiritual fulfillment to present a three-step program designed to help readers look inside themselves to find a new sense of self-awareness and spiritual joy. Developing the sacred self, Wayne Dyer explains, brings an understanding of our place in the world and a sense of satisfaction in ourselves and others. In Your Sacred Self, Dyer offers a program that helps listeners establish a spiritually-oriented, rather than an ego-oriented, approach to life. Step by step, Dyer shows us how to progress from emotional awareness to psychological insight to spiritual alternatives in order to change our experience of life from the need to acquire to a sense of abundance; from a sense of one's self as sinful and inferior to a sense of one's self as divine; from a need to achieve and acquire to an awareness that... Views: 52
María Elena Vargas, Ph.D., is an archaeologist with a penchant for attracting trouble. Fortunately, she also has a sixth sense that helps get her out of sticky situations and has premonitions that help her avoid them. While directing the archaeological field school at the Taylor Ranch in the mountains of east-central Arizona, Elena discovers a mysterious circular feature filled with burned, smashed, and splintered human bones. Inexplicable difficulties ensue when the bones are uncovered. The colorful scenery and unspoiled beauty of the Arizona mountains appear to hide something evil and vindictive underground. The archaeologists are confronted with broken bones, looting, wildfire, and more. One of the worse difficulties they encounter is a spate of pot hunting at local sites. The Phoenix Field Office of the FBI is tracking a pot-hunting scheme that may be linked to the Sinaloa cartel and responsible for the local vandalism. Special Agent Sander Jorgensen recruits Elena... Views: 52
The Angel and The SwordIn the second book in The Guardian Angel series, angel Pelagius visits AD 1351 and introduces readers to Raphael, a court jester in Avignon, France. But when Raphael is falsely accused of attempting to murder the pope, his talents become tools for survival as he pursues the identity of the real would–be murderer. Views: 52
