SPECIAL REPORT: Peril and passion over Texas Skies SAM HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas (AP): U.S. Marshals' Flight 407 "Con Air" was hijacked before takeoff today, 108 aboard... Midnight Seduction by Maggie Price After two days on the job, Airport Director Christine Logan faces a hostage crisis...and the lawman lover who'd broken her heart years before.... Cover Me! by Debra Cowan Duty demands Marshal Spence Cantrall produce the hijacker's ex-wife. But he'll risk his life to save innocent Kelly's -- especially after flight 407 goes airborne. Midnight Seduction by Maggie Price. After two days on the job, airport director Christine Logan faces a hostage crisis -- and the lawman lover who'd broken her heart years before. Final Approach...to Forever by Merline Lovelace A daring midair transfer puts pilot Suzanne Delachek at the controls before flight 407 crash-lands, leaving her stranded with a tall, dark -- and wrongly accused? -- convict. Views: 25
In a dying world the human population is struggling to survive, a once happy teenage girl's life is shaken to its core by the appearance of her long lost father but he is nothing she had expected or even seen before. Views: 25
Sent to negotiate the exchange of Ambassadors with the Jarada race, Captain Picard's away team is cut off from the Enterprise. Picard must unravel the aliens' mystery before it's too late for the Enterprise and his crew. Views: 25
A daring, brilliant new novel from Man Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz, for fans of Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, and David Foster Wallace: a fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends.Liam is a struggling writer and a failing cop. Aldo, his best friend and muse, is a haplessly criminal entrepreneur with an uncanny knack for disaster. As Aldo’s luck worsens, Liam is inspired to base his next book on his best friend’s exponential misfortunes and hopeless quest to win back his one great love: his ex-wife, Stella. What begins as an attempt to make sense of Aldo’s mishaps spirals into a profound story of faith and friendship. With the same originality and buoyancy that catapulted his first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, onto prize lists around the world—including shortlists for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award—Steve Toltz has created a rousing, hysterically funny but... Views: 24
The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee. His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. Now Chang-rae Lee has written a powerful and beautifully crafted second novel that leaves no doubt about the extraordinary depth and range of his talent. A Gesture Life is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet as his story unfolds, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his... Views: 24
Join Evie and Silver on a wintry adventure to see the Northern Lights at the Mid-Winter Ball. There's so much to do before the Ball - sledging, making magical snow dresses and catching up with old friends. Can Evie and her friends make it to the Ball and rescue one of the Queen's fairies on their way?Turn to the back for pony facts and activities. Sarah Kilbride is a primary school teacher. Previously an actress, she has written several plays for children. She lives in Barry, South Wales, with her husband.Sophie Tilley is a talented new illustrator. She began her career as a writer for IPC magazines. Now she designs and develops a range of children's products - soft toys, character dolls and decorative stationery items. Sophie lives in North Wales with her husband and three children.Praise for Princess Evie's Ponies picture books"Horses, princesses, magic - this ticks every girly box and there's even a press-out pony." The Bookseller"This series of books... Views: 24
It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone sat at the peak of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was a source of immense power, reputedly capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global power. But then it was divided into seven pieces and hidden, each piece separately, within the seven greatest structures of the age. Now it's 2006 and the coming of a rare solar event means it's time to locate the seven pieces and rebuild the capstone. Everyone wants it -- from the most powerful countries on Earth to gangs of terrorists ...and one daring coalition of eight small nations. Led by the mysterious Captain Jack West Jr, this determined group enters a global battlefield filled with booby-trapped mines, crocodile-infested swamps, evil forces and an adventure beyond imagining. 'More action, hair-raising stunts and lethal hardware than you'd find in four Bond movies. Reilly is the hottest action writer around' Evening Telegraph Views: 24
Just because you’re married doesn’t mean you have to be boring. Jennifer loved Daniel from the moment she cut him off in traffic, but after three years of marriage, their sex life has gotten predictable, bordering on nonexistent due to their hectic work schedules and not to mention Jennifer is tired of being overlooked by other woman when it pertains to her husband. Views: 24
Years ago, Clara survived a vicious bear attack. She's used to getting sympathetic looks around town, but meeting strangers is a different story. Yet her dreams go far beyond Knik, Alaska, and now she's got a secret that's both thrilling and terrifying—an acceptance letter from Columbia University. But it turns out her scars aren't as fixable as she hoped, and when her boyfriend begins to press for a forever commitment, she has second thoughts about New York. Then Rhodes, a student teacher in her English class, forces her to acknowledge her writing talent, and everything becomes even more confusing—especially with the feelings she's starting to have about him. Now all Clara wants to do is hide from the tough choices she has to make. When her world comes crashing down around her, Clara has to confront her problems and find her way to a decision. Will she choose the life of her dreams or the life that someone she loves has chosen? Which choice is scarier? Views: 24
Plunged into the midst of the Kingdom of Los, Iltar's companions find themselves in dire circumstances, pitted against the relentless forces of His Majesty and the Mages of Alath. The mages' leader, a Grand Mage named Dorith, will stop at nothing to apprehend Iltar's band in order to uphold the Edicts of the Mage-King, the surpeme law of the Kingdom.In order to survive, Cornar leads his comrades through forgotten labyrinths buired deep beneath the Kingdom's cities, forsaken jungles home to a long lost civilation, and reluctantly into the hands of a secret order whose origins and motives are shrouded in obscurity.A thrilling absconding adventure rife with secrecy, betrayal and peril. Treachery in the Kingdom brings an added depthto the world of Kalda previously unseen.Tales of the Amulet:Several millennia ago a war raged between the factions of dragonkind. With their world ravaged, the Kaldean Alliance forged the Amulet of Draconic Control and the Tethering Stone, and banished... Views: 24
