Quinn is an empath–but if anyone finds out she will be killed.Her father Baron Sammah has secretly used her abilities to fortify his position in the court at the royal city of Everfell. As Quinn grows up she starts to question Sammah's motives. Then, the young Lord Eden arrives at the court, and Quinn's life is turned upside down. Seeing a chance at being not just happy, but normal, Quinn risks incurring Sammah's wrath as she dances along the lines of obedience and rebellion.As Sammah begins to make his move on the crown he has coveted for so long he stages a series of murders that threaten to expose Quinn as the outsider she is–while Lord Eden, desperate to prove himself, leads the hunt for the murderer.Can Quinn stop Sammah before he closes his fist around the Everfell crown, without losing her love – or her life? Views: 39
1849: when Charles Dickens discovers the corpse of an actor on the empty stage of a Manchester theater, Dickens himself becomes the number one suspect. But with the help of Superintendent Jones of Bow Street, he sets out to find the murderer's true identity. The search takes them into the slums and to the fog-bound streets of London, where Dickens's life is threatened before this unusual case reaches its thrilling climax. Views: 39
In a universe far from ours, the rule of the mighty reptilian Viis is coming to an end. Planetary resources have been wasted. Slave races are challenging their masters. And a prophecy will come to pass as the story of Ampris the Exile continues. Views: 39
A wanderer arrives by chance on Inishbream, a tiny island off the coast of Ireland. A lover of boats and a strong worker, she soon marries the young owner of her stone cottage. Through the winter, she repays Inishbream storytellers with tales of coastal British Columbia. Then the islanders learn they’re to move to the mainland. But she must leave. In the islanders' soft dialect and the wanderer's own tongue, Inishbream conjures relationships between the newcomer and her husband, between the island people, the sea, and the land, and between the coastal landscapes of reality and imagination. Theresa Kishkan is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and essays who lives in British Columbia. Literary Fiction, Canadian Author. Views: 39
When there's a mystery surrounding a popular online game, the Club CSI: kids use digital forensics to solve a case of foul play.Ben, Corey, and Hannah have their work cut out for them when Whitney, the most popular girl in school, comes to Club CSI: for help. At first her case seems easy to crack--someone has been tampering with Whitney's locker, and since her best friend Alyssa has the combination, she is a likely suspect.But nothing is as simple as it seems, especially once the team learns that other strange things are happening around Whitney. Mysterious charges from a popular Internet drawing game have shown up on Whitney's parents' credit card. Whitney swears she didn't authorize the charges, so who did? The digital drama increases when Club CSI: launches an online investigation--and to uncover the culprit, they'll have to go undercover as players of the game! © 2013 CBS & Ent. AB Funding LLC. All Rights Reserved. CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION in USA... Views: 39
One kiss can change everything…I wished I’d known that before I’d kissed my best friend.Things are different now. We can’t go back. I’m not even sure I want to go back. I guess the question is….What happens now? Views: 39
It is 1981. Jean Landing secretly plans to flee her beloved Jamaica–the only home her family has ever known, a place now rife with political turmoil. But before she can make her final preparations, she receives devastating news: Lana, her sister, is dead. The country's state of emergency leaves no time to arrange a proper funeral. Even Jean's mother, Monica, who hadn't spoken to Lana in more than a decade, cannot fully embrace her grief. The tragedy only underscores Jean's need to leave an island that holds no promise of a future. Her harrowing journey to freedom across a battered landscape takes Jean through a terrain of memories: of her childhood, with a detached mother at odds with an adoring father, of her complex bond with Lana, and of the friends and lovers who have shaped and shared her days. Epic in scope, The True History of Paradise poignantly portrays the complexities of family and racial identity in a troubled Eden. Views: 39
Have you ever wondered what your ex is up to?When Nell was a student, she and Patrick were a serious item. They were inseparable, and she really thought he was The One. But then Alex came along...the safer, more restful option, and thanks to her over-controlling mother she opted for him instead.Now nothing is going right. Alex has left her to live in New York with a younger, blonder woman. Escaping to the Caribbean for a recuperative holiday, she is mugged at Gatwick and her bag is stolen. It's crisis time -- and she makes two decisions: First -- she will take lessons in self-defence.Second -- she will try and find Patrick again. Is she trying to put the past behind her- or setting out to ruin her future? Views: 39
Join everyone's favorite boss for a hilarious adventure with this take-charge retelling of The Boss Baby! DreamWorks Animation's newest hit movie The Boss Baby bursts into theaters on March 10, 2017!From the day the Boss Baby arrived in a taxi, life would never be the same for his older brother, Tim. Sure, the Boss Baby had Tim's parents wrapped around his chubby, little finger, but Tim knew the truth...this was no ordinary baby. He held meetings! He could talk! And he was on a top-secret mission to stop Puppy Co. from coming out with the cutest puppy of all time and causing Baby Corp to go out of business! But the Boss Baby needs Tim's help. And if the Boss Baby doesn't succeed, he'll be fired from Baby Corp and these two rival siblings will be forced to be brothers forever. Can Tim make a deal with the Boss Baby, stop Puppy Co., and get the Boss Baby out of his life for good? (And will the Boss Baby finally get the corner office... Views: 39
When TV presenter Maddie Gray's body is found dumped in gangland LA, the police arrest a young black man found at the scene with Maddie's ring in his pocket. For Nikki Hill, an ambitious Afro-American attorney, it is a make-or-break case.Amazon.com ReviewChristopher Darden was brought in to give the O.J. Simpson prosecution team extra strength and a racial balance. His disdain for the defendant seemed real, his anger genuine, his motives strictly judicial. These same qualities give his first mystery a definite edge--honed by a collaboration with the excellent mystery writer and critic Dick Lochte. Like Darden, Nikki Hill has been sent to a prosecutorial purgatory--suburban Compton. She's then called back to downtown L.A. because the new black district attorney, Joe Walden, wants her race, plus her sex and brains, on his team following the death of a talk-show personality. The chief suspects are all African Americans.Nikki, the thirtysomething daughter of a cold and distant cop, is a very interesting character--burned out at work and still recovering from the loss of a lover, but soft and human enough to take chances on both fronts. And she gets some strong support, especially from a wise old detective named Ed Goodman who has many of the qualities of the memorable Leo G. Bloodworth, the private eye in Lochte's Sleeping Dog. Her boss is a believably conflicted bureaucrat; the bad guys--a powerful black music mogul, his movie-star icon of a wife, their backup team of slick lawyers, street gangsters, crooked cops, and a world-class dirty trickster from Washington who describes himself as "a Stealth scumbag"--are eminently worthy opponents.The weird ending leaves much to be desired, but maybe next time these two smart writers will fashion a stronger finale. Until then, you can enjoy Lochte's wonderful New Orleans mysteries: Blue Bayou and The Neon Smile. --Dick AdlerFrom Publishers WeeklyNot surprisingly, this solid collaboration between ex-prosecutor Darden (In Contempt) and mystery novelist Lochte (Neon Smile, etc.) is about a high-profile murder case as seen by the Los Angeles D.A.'s office?but it's not about that high-profile murder case. Young, brilliant black prosecutor Nikki Hill, exiled to Compton after her 15 minutes of legal fame, is recalled to L.A. to become special assistant to District Attorney Joe Walden when the naked body of TV gossipmonger Maddie Gray is found in an alley dumpster and street punk Jamal Deschamps is caught stealing a diamond ring from the corpse. Case closed, or so it seems. But it turns out that Jamal, the obvious suspect, was chased into that alley by a gang called the Crazy Eights, and that the dead woman was blackmailing celebrities?including one who was last seen with her the day she died. As if taking cues from the TV series Law and Order, the plot unfolds both in the DA's office and through the murder investigation, the latter hampered by disappearing evidence and a leak inside the police department. Nikki also has a suspicious new boyfriend, whose advent into her life coincides with anonymous telephone reminders of a guilty secret. This is a sturdily built crime novel, written in a sharp, cinema-friendly style in which the good news (every scene reveals another kink in the complex plot) is balanced by the bad (the puzzle-pieces are often far-flung and less than revelatory). The ending strains credulity, but for the most part Darden and Lochte lead a stimulating investigation into the intersections, and racial tensions, among the dispossessed, the wealthy and a legal system that purports to dispense justice to both in equal measure. Agent, Mel Berger at William Morris. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 39
Fortune's Children:The Brides:Meet the Fortune brides--six special women who perpetuate a family legacy that is more than mere riches!THE BEST REVENGE IS...FALLING IN LOVESweet Mollie Shaw's life began when Gray McGuire swept her off to his mansion as his bride. This powerful tycoon seemed to fulfill her every wish--but all was not as it seemed....Gray had one objective: to destroy Stuart Fortune. A man Mollie had equal reason to hate--if her Minnesota-sized heart was capable of hate. But when she learned of her groom's motive and means of revenge, would she remain his bride? Views: 39
