Luke moves to Paris and, with his new love and the other expatriate couple from whom they become inseparable, wanders the Eleventh Arrondissement where clubs, cafés, banter, and ecstasy now occupy Gertrude Stein's city "which is not real but is really there."In Paris Trance, Geoff Dyer fixes a dream of happiness--and its aftermath--with photographic precision. Boldly erotic and hauntingly elegiac, comic and romantic, this brilliant reconception of the classic expatriate novels of the Lost Generation confirms Dyer as one of our most original and talented writers. Views: 20
A SECOND ACTS NOVEL:Sleeping with Dogs and Other LoversCynthia Amas has her hands full. In the middle of launching a boutique matchmaking service amid the sun, surf, and celebrities of Southern California, her own romantic life gets a whole lot more complicated...and steamy. While expertly juggling the needs of her exclusive clients, her own maddeningly irresistible bad-boy, sometime lover unexpectedly returns for a hot and heavy reunion. Meanwhile, her high-maintenance mother busily concocts harebrained schemes for meddling in Cynthia’s affairs. And her new best girlfriendthe sexy proprietress of a chic Beverly Hills dog-grooming salonjust happens to roll with a purebred entourage of curiously gifted canines.Before long, Cynthia’s personal, professional, and amorous lives begin crashing hilariously into one another.Join Cynthia as she begins "Second Acts " and find out who accidentally slips into bed with whom, who has a penchant... Views: 20
Readers of medieval Japanese literature have long been captivated by its romance and philosophy. In this volume, two acclaimed thirteenth century classics, The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, are presented in translation.The Ten Foot Square Hut offers the memorable reflections of a recluse who retired from a world filled with violent contrasts and cataclysms. Tales of the Heike describes the rise and fall of the Heike clan. Though written 700 years ago, both classics offer a timeless message. Views: 20
London is under siege by the Black Plague, closing its theaters and losing its frightened citizens to the countryside. Lord Westfield's Men decide upon the relative safety of the road and a tour of the North. Before they can pack up and depart, one player in the troupe is murdered. As they travel, the company of players managed by its bookholder, Nicholas Bracewell, learns that their arch-rivals, Banbury's Men, have been pirating their best works. Hoping to shake off Banbury's Men, actor Lawrence Firethorn eventually leads his troupe to York where all is revealed in a thrilling performance. Originally published in the U.S. in 1990 by St. Martin's Press, The Trip to Jerusalem is the third Nicholas Bracewell Elizabethan mystery following The Queen's Head and The Merry Devils.
From Publishers Weekly Marston ( The Merry Devils ) here skillfully develops an engaging tale of murder, politics and general mayhem focused on the travels and tribulations of Westfield's Men, a 16th-century, London-based troupe. As the Great Plague decimates the city, the right to stage plays, always precarious, has been revoked. In an effort to find work, Lawrence Firethorn, the group's leader, takes his contentious crew on the road. Misfortune dogs their every step. Banbury's Men, a rival yet inferior company, purloins Westfield's plays, costumes and even players. Westfield also finds itself enmeshed in the vicious battle raging between the Church of England and the recently disenfranchised Catholics. The climax occurs at an inn in the city of York called "The Trip to Jerusalem." Marston uses period dialogue; it is cleverly handled and easily understood. A historically authentic depiction of life in England is lightly woven into the main story, and a delightfully ribald flavor freshens many scenes. Views: 20
It's been three years since she's made love to a woman; three years that she's buried herself in work as a successful columnist for one of New York's top newspapers. Helen Townsend admits, at last, she's tired of being lonely....and of being closeted. Enter Princess Charming in the shapely form of Cory Chamberlain, a gifted concert pianist. And Helen embraces joy once again. But can two lovers find happiness when one yearns to break out of the closet and breathe free, while the other fears that will destroy her career? Views: 20
"Persistently riveting...Neal's writing is tenacious, highlighted by masterly crosscutting of two exhilarating storylines."~ KIRKUS REVIEWS In Hawaii, a red rain means the death, change, or birth of a chief.The last thing detective Lei Texeira wants to do while her husband is gone is deal with a child homicide cold case—but she gets one anyway, and it takes her beyond her personal limits. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Michael Stevens finds himself in a dark place filled with every kind of threat from crocodiles to kidnappers, and just getting home alive would be a miracle. “Toby Neal is known for well-crafted and emotionally charged mysteries, and Red Rain may be her best yet. Neal gives us two suspenseful and unpredictable storylines, equally taut with intrigue and masterfully told, woven together in an intricately carved puzzle filled with the kind of inner character exploration we expect from... Views: 20
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire—still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire’s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon. But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called the Mule—a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets . . . a power that could turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave. Views: 20
THE #1 BESTSELLING HORROR QUARTET BECOMES MORE TERRIFYING!
The Darkness Stirs in Evil Heights! The nerve-stretching tension
increases in the second installment of Michael Swanson's Evil Heights
Quartette. Thirteen year-old Lee Coombs, whose family has just moved to
the town of Cherry Heights, finds himself drawn deeper into the
supernatural horrors that haunt the abandoned train station and the
mansion where old Mrs. Ballard sits day in and day out in stifling heat
staring at a door no one is allowed to open. After only a week, Lee is
beginning to have day dreams about the mansion. In the first, he
experiences the terrible fate of a family that stopped to spend a night
in a near-by vacant house years ago. But Lee's mind is on other things.
It's pay day, and he has plans for getting together with Phoebe, the
cute, new girl who moved in across the street for the summer. Poor,
innocent Lee might have more than Phoebe on his mind if he knew about
the thing that creeps out of the Ballard mansion at night and lurks in
the darkness beneath his bedroom window. When his afternoon wanderings
with Phoebe take them to the abandoned train yard, the pair have an
innocent encounter with youthful passion and a terrifying brush with a
malevolent presence connected to the wreck of the old Midnight Flyer.
Soon Lee will learn the disturbing truth about the glass eye he found,
and its connection with Captain Limpkins, a Union soldier who occupied
Cherry Heights and committed a series of atrocities that have direct
parallels with the story of Osia, a cannibalistic Indian who terrorized
his own people and whites alike a few hundred years earlier. And then
Lee will watch his each member of own family succumb to a malevolent
presence connected to the eye. The Evil Heights series is sure to please
readers who love the work of writers like Steven King, Clive Barker,
and Dean Koontz. Cover Jeff Fisher WWW.25thCenturyWarlords.com Views: 20
Book 1 in the Oath series Sharon took an oath at the idealistic age of eighteen to mate with an unknown alien from another planet, never expecting the alien to actually show up and invoke it eleven years later. A librarian with a love for the orderly and ordinary, she prefers a calm, quiet existence. Surprises are life's way of indicating you did not plan well enough. Adventures are for people with more guts than sense. And sex, well, it's okay, but nothing to get too worked up over. Liken is a warrior cop from Shimeria. He is six feet seven inches of walking, talking sex personified. Having been inside Sharon's head he knows her deepest fantasies, and knows that she is the perfect mate for him. But first he has to seduce her… Views: 20
