Love and friendship bloom at the Sunflower Café... When Connie discovers that Jimmy Diamond, her husband of more than twenty years, is planning to leave her for his office junior, her world is turned upside down. Determined to salvage her pride, she resolves to get her own back. Along with Della, Jimmy's right-hand woman at his cleaning firm, Diamond Shine, and the cleaners who meet at the Sunflower Café, she'll make him wish he had never underestimated her. Then Connie meets the charming Brandon Locke, a master chocolatier, whose kindness starts to melt her soul. Could he be her second chance at happiness? Can the ladies of the Sunflower Cafe help Connie scrub away the hurt? And can Brandon make her trust again? Recommended by readers of Good Housekeeping Praise for Milly Johnson: 'Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre' Jill Mansell 'Warm, optimistic and romantic' Katie Fforde 'An irresistibly... Views: 56
Was it fate that led beautiful Jessie Pierce into
Samuel Connors' embrace? Surely only fate could have drawn her to the
man with whom she shared a secret for which neither had the key . . .
For buried somewhere in the missing memory of Jessie's first five years
was the answer to who had killed her mother and framed Samuel's father
for the crime. Now a specter from the past was trying to ravage the
promise of their future, as Jessie found herself the target of a killer.
And though Samuel had sworn to protect her, their lives and their
newfound love were both at mortal risk . Views: 56
When Danny's soccer practice is canceled, he's forced to go with his brother, Josh, to a meeting for a wildlife and nature group. But a fluke encounter with a muffin turns both brothers into beetles just in time to learn all about pond-dipping...from the bug's perspective! Can Danny and Josh avoid becoming part of an insect collection? And where in the world is that horrible smell coming from? Views: 56
On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned.Jacky has survived battles on the high seas, the stifling propriety of a Boston finishing school, and even confinement in a dank French prison. But no adventure has quite matched her opportunistic street-urchin desires—until now. Views: 56
Book by Tessier, Thomas
**From Publishers Weekly
Bizarre events, heinous violence, vigorous sex and gruesome gore crowd this slim, grotesque opus set in and around an old farmhouse amid the luxuriant landscape of eastern Italy. Neil O'Netty, an author of historical fiction, is stranded when his car breaks down while he's sightseeing, leaving him at the mercy of an intense attraction for Marisa Panic, a beautiful woman who comes to his aid. She offers him overnight shelter (and much more) within her family's dilapidated, creepy mansion, where eerie colors glow in the moonlight, and dead bodies seem to appear and disappear from sight. Neil's mounting obsession with Marisa dulls his fear of the eerie, cavernous condition of the manor and of its inhabitants comprising Marisa's eccentric, elderly relatives, all part of a retired troupe of traveling puppeteers. Neil's initial concern about his car is hushed by his overwhelming desire for Marisa, culminating in several over-the-top sex scenes such as are rarely found in a horror story. Tessier intermingles this erotic overindulgence with several stereotypical haunted house effects, including echoed whispers in the darkness, cauldrons of peculiar soups and a tour of a dank, labyrinthine cellar, though this part of the narrative seems like an afterthought to the passion play. Anton Panic, Marisa's priestly uncle (the "Father Panic" of the title), like the rest of the family, becomes a frightening catalyst in the book's thrilling, time-and-space-shifting crescendo. Waking up in a concentration camp, Neil fights for his life at the hands of military guards who commit shocking acts of brutality for sport. Tessier reveals in the book's notes that he derived these final scenes from real-life events perpetrated by barbaric Croatian "Ustashas" in the 1940s. This distinctive fusion of fact and fiction is sure to garner attention as horror-with-a-conscience.
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Praise for The Body Snatcher:"An excellent and atypical book, a fantastic adventure."—The Huffington Post"An explosive mixture of dread, greed and corruption. You won't put it down until you've read the very last page."—Cosmopolitan This tightly plotted novel by Brazil's best-selling crime author is a tale of drug dealing gone wrong, police corruption, and macabre blackmail, set in a heat-soaked town in the vast untamed Brazilian lowlands bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small plane. He finds a kilo of cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack and pockets it along with the pilot's expensive watch. Thus begins the protagonist's long slide into corruption.When police locate the crash site, the pilot's body is missing and a large-scale search ensues. Our hero, now involved in a busted cocaine deal, ends up owing a Bolivian drug gang so... Views: 56
Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most serious threat of all came from other humans. When our ancestors set out from Africa there were already two other species of human on the planet: Neanderthal in Europe and Homo erectus in Asia. Both (contrary to popular perception) were intelligent, adept at making tools and weapons and were long adapted to their environments. So, Alice asks, why did only Homo sapiens survive? Part detective story, part travelogue, and drawing on the latest genetic and archaeological discoveries, Alice examines how our ancestors evolved... Views: 56
Meeting sexy and dynamic entrepreneur Alex Solomos has transformed Lisa's life. In the seven weeks since their whirlwind wedding, her confidence and happiness—both in and out of the bedroom—have grown enormously.But Lisa finds she can't shake some nagging doubts about her husband. Passionate as Alex is, there are parts of his professional and personal life he insists on keeping from his new wife. She tells herself she's being foolish, until she makes two shocking discoveries in one night. Views: 56
Harmon Holt always gets what he wants—and since he's a billionaire, what he's got includes music, movie, and TV studios, news networks, and a football team. Yeah, he's got everything, but he hasn't forgotten where he came from. Every year he picks one student from his old high school—no interview, no application—to be a paid intern at one of his companies. The money's good and the perks are great, but the opportunity is once in a lifetime.Latrell Baker's scientific approach to football—watching football—has finally paid off. Harmon Holt heard about the algorithm he developed for determining best defensive play, and now Latrell's landed himself an internship with the NFL's LA Stars. But he'll soon discover that working in pro football involves more politics and secrets than science. Views: 56
For how long can secrets stay buried?Country-loving Dallas Armstrong is a hard-as-nails bull rider, who dreams of becoming Australian champion, just like his father, Mick, was. But when he discovers a shocking secret about his father on the same day Mick dies in a car accident, Dallas's world is turned upside down. Now it's up to him to protect his mother from the truth, and to keep the family farm Rollingstone Ridge afloat. And he will do everything in his power to do so. Charlize Dawson is a successful city journalist whose marriage is in tatters. Begrudgingly sent to the country to write about Dallas, she is surprised to find that he isn't the arrogant cowboy she'd assumed he'd be. Instead she and Dallas and share an intense chemistry and deep connection that lead to a stolen kiss at the Rodeo Ball. But when Charlize's research for her article puts her on the path of uncovering Dallas's secret, he demands she stop or lose him forever.... Views: 56
Some secrets are just too good to keep to yourselfDIRTY WEEKEND?Not if the weather's good for the music festival!BAD TIMING!But something's troubling Sonja -- Kerry's sure of it.CONFESSIONS!Kerry's in for a shock when both Cat and Sonja spill the beans... Views: 56
