If you want to make the Holy Angels laugh, just tell them your plans. Dr. Margarita Zornova has long known that to be true. Now, widowed, her grown sons and practice partner have conspired to make her take her first vacation in thirteen years. But none of them expected to hear so much laughter coming from the heavens about those plans. Views: 62
In an ancient Venetian palazzo, Urbino Macintyre encounters a decades-old murder The Contessa da Capo-Zendrini is one of the leading lights of Venice society, but there is one house where she has long been unwelcome. Her late husband's family, the Zenos, has loathed her since the 1930s, when a gathering at her palazzo ended in tragedy. Decades later, she hits on a devilish plan to make amends: inviting the Zeno clan over for a house party to make up for the one that ended in bloodshed long ago. But soon after her guests arrive, murder strikes again. The contessa begs her closest friend, American sleuth Urbino Macintyre, to unravel the mystery of the killing before it tears both families apart. No one has been in or out of the house since the fête began, so the murderer must be among the guests. It seems simple, but this is Venice, where death is never easy. Views: 62
My name is Livia Ash. It's an alias. The secrets and lies don't end there.As a teenager, I was forced into a dark life, my freedom and innocence ripped out from under me. To get out, I had to become like the very people I hated, people who had no problem spilling blood just to make a point.It almost cost me my own life, but I did it. Battered and broken, but determined to start over, I ran. Right into the path of Cameron Torch Larter, nomad member of the Iron Serpents Motorcycle club. Overbearing, rude, and intimidating, he was everything I didn't want to deal with. But this rugged biker Adonis, with his piercing eyes and sharp tongue, also got under my skin.Forgetting him proved to be just as hard as breaking free from a life of crime. Neither happened. And by the time our worlds collided a second time, old enemies and new threats meant that I couldn't act on my desires. But Torch wasn't a man who took no for an answer.Could two very different breeds of outlaws on a warpath ever unite without ending up on a cold slab or prison cot?This is our story. Views: 62
In a riveting, hilarious account, reporter Alexandra Wolfe exposes a world that is not flat but bubbling—the men and women of Silicon Valley, whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.Each year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous. In The Valley of the Gods, Wolfe follows three of these upstarts who have "stopped out" of college and real life to live and work in Silicon Valley in the hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. No one has yet documented the battle for the brightest kids, kids whose goals are no less than making billions of dollars—and the fight they wage in turn to make it there. They embody an American cultural transformation: A move away from the East Coast hierarchy of Ivy Leagues and country clubs toward the startup life and a new social order. Meet the billionaires who go to training clubs for thirty-minute... Views: 62
A Woman With a Secret...Catherine Landano was running scared, so she hid on a secluded reservation where the vast land could shelter her secrets. Yet enigmatic Navajo Jericho Bedonie didn't want her on his territory. His intimidating stares had her shaking with trepidation--and desire. Because Catherine knew that Jericho would be her savior...or her destruction.Jericho knew a woman like Catherine could never survive his rugged, unpredictable land. She needed tangible explanations, but some things defied logic...like the potent sensual feelings she aroused. But Catherine was not who she pretended to be. And Jericho needed to uncover her deception--before it was too late.... Views: 62
The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress — and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism. Views: 62
It's going to get hot and steamy this Christmas...Sandy Jackson still dreams of the sexy stranger who came to her rescue years before.And when she meets Jay Bentley again she doesn't recognise him. Horrifically wounded in a car crash, Jay has both physical and psychological scars and is more Beast than Prince Charming.But he has not forgotten their earlier encounter either... And all he wants this Christmas is Sandy in his bed...From the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep and the 'Accidental' series(previously published as Kiss it Better) Views: 62
