In a breakthrough book for the series, Mallory says good-bye to Stoneybrook and hello to the Riverbend School. The boarding school in the Berkshires introduces Mallory to a new group of friends--and a not-so-friendly roommate. Views: 190
I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother's plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed exit on the motorway in the newspaper the next morning; while a perfect date is spoilt by a single act of thoughtlessness. In those crucial moments Gavalda demonstrates her almost magical skill in conveying love, lust, longing, and loneliness.Someone I Loved is a hauntingly intimate look at the intolerably painful, yet sometimes valuable consequences that adultery can have on a marriage and the individuals involved. A simple tale, yet long in substance, Someone I Loved ends like most great love affairs, forever leaving you wanting just one more moment. Views: 189
El Dorado is a sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, a greatly original and adventurous story. The story starts when Sir Percy, the Scarlet Pimpernel, warily consents to take Armand St. Just, the brother of Marguerite, his wife, to France as one of his plans to save the young Dauphin. Percy told Armand not to rekindle any friendships there but instead, he remained friends with Baron de Batz, who also wants to save the Dauphin and disdains the Scarlet Pimpernel and all his allies. Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála"Emmuska" Orczy de Orci who was born on September 23, 1865. She was simply known for her pseudonym Baroness Orczy. She was born in Hungary but lived most of her life in London. She was an author, dramatist, and an artist of royal lineage. The Baronessis best known for her novel series especially the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Doppelganger of Sir Percy Blakeney, a rich British beau who changes into a dreadful gladiator and has a fast thinking of evasion, who shows the real hero with a hidden identity. A few of her paint works were displayed at the Royal Academy in London. She was the daughter of composer Baron Félix Orczy de Orci and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege, Her grandfather, Baron László Orczy was a royal councillor, and also knight of the Sicilian order of Saint George, her grandmother was the Baroness Magdolna Müller. Her maternal grandparents were the Count Sámuel Wass de Szentegyed et Cege, member of the Hungarian parliament, and Rozália Eperjessy de Károlyfejérvár. Emma\'s parents left their acreage for Budapest in 1868, for they fear of the danger of the revolt of the farmers. They settled in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, and Emma studied music there but failed in doing so. Finally, in 1880, Emma, at the age of 14, andherfamilywenttoLondonwheretheyrentedwiththeircountryman,FrancisPichler,at162GreatPortlandStreet.TheBaronessattendedWestLondonSchoolofArtandthenHeatherley\'sSchoolofFineArt. Views: 187
The warrior Mithra must repel a Roman legion alone and armed only with a very peculiar weapon. To protect her lands and her tribe, Mithra comes up with a sticky solution to an impossible problem. Written in 1998, this short story was New York Times Bestselling author Gail Carriger’s first professional sale. Views: 187
On Wednesday, Quinn McKenzie changes her life. On Thursday, she tries to get somebody to notice. On Thursday night, somebody does.
Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a "beige" life. She has a good job as a high school art teacher, and she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her. She's dating Bill, coach of the championship high school football and baseball teams and all-around perfect guy. It's a perfectly happy and secure life, and she's bored to the point of insanity.
But when Quinn decides to change her life by adopting a stray dog over everyone's objections, everything begins to spiral out of control. Soon a man from her past comes back into her life and the old attraction is ignited again. Now she's coping with dog-napping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, stalking, more secrets than she really wants to know, and two men who are suddenly crazy...for her. Views: 185
"Your Husband Loves Another Woman."The note was signed "A Friend," but no friend would ever do that to another woman. Could it be true? Was Kate Lassiter's marriage falling apart? She still loved her husband, Ryan, still thrilled at his touch, but how long was it since they'd last made love?On the surface they had it all: successful careers, a lovely home and the perfect marriage. But if Ryan had committed the ultimate betrayal, then revenge was no answer. Kate wanted her husband back and she was prepared to fight to keep him. Because while her marriage was under suspicion there was no way she could tell Ryan she was expecting his baby! Views: 184
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf.
That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nation and killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd things seemed to happen everywhere: A plague of crickets engulfed Waco. The Bering Glacier began to shrink. Rain fell on Galveston with greater intensity than anyone could remember. Far away, in Africa, immense thunderstorms blossomed over the city of Dakar, and great currents of wind converged. A wave of atmospheric turbulence slipped from the coast of western Africa. Most such waves faded quickly. This one did not.
In Cuba, America's overconfidence was made all too obvious by the Weather Bureau's obsession with controlling hurricane forecasts, even though Cuba's indigenous weathermen had pioneered hurricane science. As the bureau's forecasters assured the nation that all was calm in the Caribbean, Cuba's own weathermen fretted about ominous signs in the sky. A curious stillness gripped Antigua. Only a few unlucky sea captains discovered that the storm had achieved an intensity no man alive had ever experienced.
In Galveston, reassured by Cline's belief that no hurricane could seriously damage the city, there was celebration. Children played in the rising water. Hundreds of people gathered at the beach to marvel at the fantastically tall waves and gorgeous pink sky, until the surf began ripping the city's beloved beachfront apart. Within the next few hours Galveston would endure a hurricane that to this day remains the nation's deadliest natural disaster. In Galveston alone at least 6,000 people, possibly as many as 10,000, would lose their lives, a number far greater than the combined death toll of the Johnstown Flood and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
And Isaac Cline would experience his own unbearable loss.
Meticulously researched and vividly written, Isaac's Storm is based on Cline's own letters, telegrams, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the hows and whys of great storms. Ultimately, however, it is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets nature's last great uncontrollable force. As such, Isaac's Storm carries a warning for our time.
From the Hardcover edition. Views: 183
It was very shallow, scarcely three-quarters of an inch in depth, but it was quite long enough, and quite wide enough for its purpose! Inside, there lay a little pile of banknotes, banknotes of very large denomination—the one on top was a thousand-dollar bill. She reached in and took out the money—and then from Rhoda Gray\'s lips there came a little cry, the flashlight dropped from her hand and smashed to the floor, and she was clinging desperately to the edge of the escritoire for support. The shop was flooded with light. Over by the side wall, one hand still on the electric-light switch, the other holding a leveled revolver, stood a man." The White Moll is Packard\'s only novel with a female protagonist. It was adapted into a silent film in 1920. Views: 182
Read this classic romance by bestselling author Sandra Marton, now available for the first time in e-book!Billionaire for bid...Surely Travis Baron is a man for whom any woman would want to bid! Blisteringly handsome and immensely successful, the corporate lawyer is the possible heir to Espada, his father's sprawling ranch—and he's up for grabs at a charity auction!But when Alexandra Thorpe wins Travis for the weekend, she doesn't claim her prize. Why has the cool blonde beauty staked thousands of dollars on Travis...and then just walked away? Travis is determined to pursue the lady who bought him, and exact his own price!Book 2 in The Barons miniseriesOriginally published in 1999 Views: 179
A small-town single mom with commitment written all over her. Chelsa Lawrence's two girls are her love, her life. They live a solitary existence with no neighbors, no intruders, no men. Until playboy Prince Antonio Castillo literally washes up on her beach. Brimming with masculinity and male sex appeal, he takes Chelsa's breath away with one kiss, charms her daughters with his genuine smile—and fills their quiet lives with laughter and love. Antonio is not the marrying kind...and Chelsa is not a one-night woman. Yet this single mom who writes children's books, and her sweet little girls who hunger for fairytales and fun, soon have the confirmed bachelor rethinking his views on marriage and family. Chelsa is hearth, home—everything he believes he doesn't need. So, why do her kisses drive him mad with desire and taste like happily ever after? "Neff's characters will draw you into their story and work their way into your... Views: 177
A British Lady
Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistressof England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission—she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: complete and utter disgrace!
A Texas Rascal
World-famous playboy-athlete Kenny Traveler has kickedup his boot heels one too many times, and now he's suspended from the sport he loves. Only one thing will restore his career:complete and utter respectability! Unfortunately, he's been blackmailed into chauffeuring bossy, single-minded Lady Emma, and she's hell-bent on visiting honkytonks,chasing down tattoo parlors, and worse.. lots worse.
Love, All-American Style
When a gorgeous man who can't afford another scandal meets a hardheaded woman who's determined to cause one, anything can happen. But love? Oh, dear. That's impossible.That's outrageous. That's... inevitable! Views: 176
