Dangerous LiaisonsToo Close for Comfort!Anne: it was a daring deception, but she always put her family first. Her sister desperately needed some time alone and Anne would at last have the chance to study at college. But there was something—someone—she hadn't bargained for....Hunter Lewis: visiting professor and Anne's very attractive neighbor. He was soon immensely suspicious of her....However, Hunter's arrogant assumptions about Anne made it easier for her not to let him into her apartment—or into her heart. For it would be disastrous if Hunter discovered that Anne had been left—quite literally—holding the baby!Byt the author of Savage Courtship."Susan Napier is a whiz at stirring up both breathtaking sensuality and emotional tension that keeps readers booked till the boiling point."—Romantic Times Views: 84
An in-depth biography of the towering 20th-century Chinese military and political figure who led the government, first on the mainland and then in exile in Taiwan, from the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China when he was head of state In 1911, 24-year-old Chiang Kai-shek was an obscure Chinese student completing his military training in Japan, the only country in the Far East with a modern army. By 1928, the soldier who no one believed would ever amount to anything had achieved world fame as the leader who broke with Russia and released the newly formed Republic of China from Communist control. Emily Hahn's eye-opening book examines Chiang's friendship with revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and chronicles his marriage to the glamorous, American-educated Soong May-ling, who converted him to Christianity and helped him enact social reforms. As the leader of the Nationalist Party, Chiang led China for over two decades: from 1927 through... Views: 82
Science Fiction/Mystery/Crime. 23028 words long. First published in Down These Dark Spaceways, ed. Mike Resnick, Science Fiction Book Club, May 2005 Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee Views: 81
Welcome to the Weird Zone, the UFO capital of the world, where crazy is ordinary and Martians will eat your brain!Life in Grover's Mill is never boring. When best friends Liz, Holly, and Jeff arrive at the local lake one morning, they know it is only a matter of time before something weird happens. And unfortunately, they're right. When disgusting alien zombies start rising from the center of the lake, the trio must escape—or their brains will become an afternoon snack!Now the three kids must put their heads together to stop the hungry monsters and save their town from destruction. But when Holly is marked as the next victim, can Liz and Jeff save her from a grisly fate? Views: 80
New York Times bestselling author Monica McCarty continues her Highland Guard series in this tenth steamy historical romance set against the sweeping backdrop of the Scottish Highlands.When Eoin MacLean decides to fight with Robert the Bruce, he knows he will earn the enmity of his new bride’s father, but he doesn’t expect Margaret MacDowell, the spirited girl he’s fallen in love with, to betray him. Blaming her—and himself for trusting her—for the disaster that led to the death of Bruce’s two brothers, Eoin cuts her out of his heart and leaves her behind with no intention of ever coming back. But when Bruce puts him in charge of conquering the troublesome southwest province of Galloway—ruled by his wife’s father—Eoin reconsiders. Especially after he learns that his treacherous wife who thinks him dead plans to remarry. That’s one wedding he has no intention of missing. Views: 79
Edited and introduced by Tom Crawford.'It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon's importance . . . A Scots Quair is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind.' David Kerr CameronChris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the greater historical and political events of the time.Sunset Song, the first and most celebrated book of the trilogy, covers the early years of the twentieth century, including the First World War. Chris survives, with her son Ewan, but the tragedy has struck and her wild spirit subdued. In Cloud Howe, as the minister's wife, Chris learns to love again, and we witness the cruel gossip and high comedy of small village life until, once again, Chris suffers a terrible loss.... Views: 78
SafeAfter the pain of betrayal and divorce--after years spent decorating other people's houses--Shelley Wilde's cherished dream has finally come true: a home all her own, where she can live happily, secure. . .and alone.WildBut Cam Remington has come to shatter her solitude. A traveler who has journeyed to the world's wildest places, a renegade with no roots and no shame, he is everything Shelley has ever feared-and desired-in a man.FreeAn intruder has broken through Shelley's barricades to lure her wounded spirit out of hiding with his electric sensuality. And it will take a traveling man to show her that real love is risk and danger. . .and that home is the haven found in a lover's embrace. Views: 77
A student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character.
She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well
to do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until
Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that
there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on
unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy
coffin, found in the student's home village, and an Internet role
playing game. The ancient and the modern, brought together by
uncomfortable circumstance . . . 'Rankin continues to be unsurpassed
among living British crime writers... He makes the reader feel part of
the scene, and enhances the experience with his virtuosity with dialogue
. . . But all these virtues would count for little if Rankin didn't
also possess the most important asset of them all - the ability to tell a
damned good story' Marcel Berlins, The Times Views: 77
Aliens are literally popping out of the ground, but luckily, Jeff and Holly have a few tricks up their sleeves Jeff Ryan and his friends want to play street hockey, but someone has stolen their puck. When the kids try to get it back, they discover the culprit is a giant mole from space. A colony of aliens has tunneled under Grover's Mill, and they want to take over the town by killing the humans—starting with Jeff's friends!With the help of a secret government invention, Jeff and Holly race to rescue the captives and defend their turf before the moles attack. But will they be too late to save the day? Views: 77
Having fled her dorm room, college freshman Hope is hiding out in an abandoned sorority house on campus. But there is no escape from the evil that follows her—because it has become a part of her. Views: 76
From the same deadly crucible that forged Al Qaeda and ISIS, a new terrorist plot threatens to strike at the heart of America, and it’ll take an uneasy alliance between New York’s sharpest investigative journalist and one of its toughest private eyes to take them down. Sleeper is the first novel in a bold new thriller series from the writing team of private investigator Bill Stanton and award-winning journalist Craig Horowitz.When New York City’s police commissioner takes it upon himself to lead a raid that leaves three suspects dead and one barely clinging to life, the world takes notice—including A.J. Ross, one of the city’s top journalists. While A.J.’s angling to get the commissioner’s story, the surviving suspect’s family hires private investigator Frank Bishop to prove the young man was no terrorist, pissing off Frank’s former colleagues in the police department in the process. A.J. and Frank can’t... Views: 76
St. Valentine's Dayis a special day for lovers all over the world. And this year it has a special significance for Caitlin Ross. This year she is sure that David Hartley will admit she loves her. But Caitlin has forgotten that Valentine's Day casts its own special magic. The surprises she receives, and the shocks that lie in store for David, make this a February the fourteenth they will never, ever forget...! Views: 75
