Cinderella had a prince; Karyn Wallace has a King.While Karyn served four years in prison for an unthinkable crime, she embraced salvation through Crowns for Christ outreach ministry. After her release, Karyn stays strong and confident, despite the stigma society places on ex-offenders. Since Christ strengthens the underdog, Karyn refuses to sway away from the scripture, "He who the Son has set free is free indeed."Levi Tolliver, for the most part, is a practicing Christian. One contradiction is he doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. He's steadfast there is a price to pay for every sin committed, especially after the untimely death of his wife during a robbery. Then Karyn enters Levi's life. He is enthralled not only with her beauty, but her sweet spirit until he learns about her incarceration. If Levi can accept that Christ paid Karyn's debt in full, then a treasure awaits him.Book 2: JET Back Story to LOVE LED BY THE SPIRIT (short story)Book 3: LOVE LED BY THE SPIRIT Views: 21
Entrapped Ann Jacobs Sleeping with the enemy… Horribly burned in an American bombing of Iraq, Leila Qassimi lives behind the veil that hides her scars. She wants revenge and a taste of the pleasure the loss of her beauty and her husband have long denied. Imprisoned in an Iraqi jail, Jamil al Hassan has been whipped, beaten, used for eleven years. He'll do anything to escape his sadistic jailer, Leila's brother-by-marriage, Dubaq. Anything. Can they find freedom together? Entangled Carroll Mavis-Raine While doing research for a new novel, American author Laura Winters visits a prison to interview Sean, an IRA prisoner whom she has corresponded with for the past ten months. When she meets him face-to-face, she is stunned by his sexual heat-and by her wanton response to it. Laura believes that as long as he is locked behind bars, she can use that sexual attraction to write blistering love scenes for her novel. But then comes the day that Sean escapes from prison and arrives on Laura's doorstep. She soon learns that real life sex is so much steamier than in her books, especially when she becomes entangled in Sean's love… Views: 21
Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities. Views: 21
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far HorizonsDistant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field.These are the stories of discovering those possibilities-the stories of the explorers and pioneers who push the envelope further out--exciting tales of alien landscapes and adventures on far distant shores that are the heart and soul of science fiction. Amazon.com ReviewGardner Dozois, editor of Asimov's and the annual anthology series, The Year's Best Science Fiction, has assembled 23 stories by some of the best-known names in SF, past and present. The stories, which "explore the farthest reaches of the universe," were written between 1951 and 1998 and are presented in chronological order. As the stories progress, so does the terrain being explored."The Sentinel," a classic Arthur C. Clarke tale of a man discovering an alien artifact on the moon (the inspiration for 2001: A Space Odyssey), shows the quintessential explorer of the time: alone, in charge of his environment, and happy that way. "Grandpa," by James H. Schmitz, concerns the indomitable spirit of Man, or at least Boy, and his natural lordship over all things alien. In Niven's "Becalmed in Hell," we meet a cyborg, and Zelazny introduces us to a population genetically engineered to the edge of humanity in "The Keys to December." Le Guin's story, "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow," suggests that in order to explore alien territory, you must be insane. Tiptree's piece, "The Man Who Walked Home," is a brilliant portrayal of the tension between the need to explore the unknown, and the human cost of that need. Stories by Varley and Swanwick, Baxter and Egan, show humans from an alien perspective: we are no longer the sum and center of the universe, merely a part.While it is possible to read this book as nothing more than a collection of adventure stories leavened with a pinch of a sense of wonder, a deeper reading reveals how the genre's gaze has turned from an examination of what lies Out There, the unknown place and the alien being, to a more inward contemplation: the question of what it is to be human. --Luc Duplessis. Review"The most imaginative editor in the field."--The Village Voice "Dozois is to the 1980s and 1990s what John W. Campbell, Jr., was to the 1940s and 1950s-the finest editor in the world of short SF."-*Publishers Weekly * Views: 21
HE WOULD PROTECT HER WITH HIS LIFE... Architect Alexandra Golden insisted she didn't need the bodyguard her brother, Jake, had hired. Surely the papers Jake had sent weren't worth killing her for. Anyway, could she trust the handsome stranger? Sure, he was gentle with her and funny, and his I've-got-to-have-you kisses made her knees weak, but he was also arrogant, secretive and very dangerous. Roarke Stone, ex-CIA field officer, had failed to save his fiancee from a terrorist's bomb and had no intention of losing Alexandra to the powerful, deadly men who were pursuing her. He was determined to protect her, but could he protect his own vulnerable heart? Views: 21
Unforgettable Courage and Romance From Lauraine SnellingWarming countless hearts and bringing history to life, Lauraine Snelling's Sisters of the Confederacy is an exciting tale of courage, adventure, and romance. After finding her expected safe haven destroyed, Jesselyn Highwood must decide where to turn next. With no place left to go, Jesselyn decides to head west on the Oregon Trail. Here she encounters hardship, danger on the journey--and love. Meanwhile, her sister, Louisa, smuggles desperately needed supplies for the hospital in Richmond where she helps care for wounded soldiers. As both sisters face the ravages of war, one remains strong in her faith while the other struggles to understand a God who allows such atrocities to continue. Views: 21
Product DescriptionSome things change. And then again, some things don't. You can never take the hood out of the homegirl. In this sequel to T.N. Baker's Sheisty, we find Epiphany, Keisha and Shana still trickin' for dough, still running off at the mouth and still being Sheisty. However, as they will soon see, what goes around will come around, and you can't stay in drama forever. It will all come to a head, one way or another. Will death really come knocking on Epiphany's door? Does Keisha give up her good girl image for good? Will Shana find herself in a situation that will claim her man and her freedom? Still Sheisty will live up to its predecessor, all that and then some. So get ready for the drama. About the AuthorThe prolific author was born, raised and still resides in Queens, New York. T.N. Baker is the mother of a daughter and the best-selling author of ''Sheisty'' and ''Still Sheisty.'' Getting down for her crown, T.N. Baker picked up her pen and shared the tale of three friends, Epiphany Wright, Keisha Moore and Shana Scott, the best of friends growing up in the hood of Southside Jamaica Queens. Views: 21
George feels as if he's going through life with his eyes half closed—but sometimes that's how you bump into the best surprises George has been in love with Julie since they were twelve years old. For six years, they've barely taken a step without each other, and and every time George imagines his future, he sees Julie in it. She'll be a doctor and they'll stay in their small town and always be able to see the bright lights of New York City across the Hudson River. The two of them are so close, they're like two parts of the same person—only whole when they're together. But when Julie suddenly calls off their relationship, everything George thought was certain starts to crumble away. In desperation, he starts exchanging online messages with a stranger, someone right across the river in the big city. On the Internet, George discovers, you can be anyone you want—or you can be exactly who you are, even if you're still finding out just who... Views: 21
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Goel is sending Josh and Sarah and their friends on a mission in the Dark Lord's territory. That's nothing new. But why would he give them Roland Winters, of all people, as a helper?And that is only the first question. They will be asking more.What's so dangerous about going deer hunting in the king's forest? Who is this wizard Zarak they keep hearing about? What in the world is The Hunt of Death? Will Josh and Sarah themselves become the hunted ones? Does Goel really know what he is doing this time?Read The Savage Game of Lord Zarak and find out. Views: 21
Exciting, intimate, experimental–a selection of the best of recent erotic writing. Featuring more than 40 new stories of sexual encounters from every part of the world, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica offers the most outstanding work of both well-known names and fresh new talents, such as Lisette Ashton, Polly Frost, Maxim Jakubowski, Marilyn Jaye-Lewis, Laurence Klavan (a first ever erotic story by this winner of an Edgar award for crime fiction), Rachel Kramer Bussel, Kristina Lloyd, Thomas S. Roche, Alison Tyler and Ian Watson. Views: 21
