"Will appeal to young readers who will also find themselves learning a bit about the meaning of Hanukkah...Warm and funny."—School Library JournalMarla Feinstein, the only Jewish kid in her fourth-grade class, hates December. While everyone else is decorating trees, she'll be forgetting to light the candles and staring at a big plastic dreidel. The holidays couldn't get much worse. So Marla decides to find out what Hanukkah's really about—and soon she and her family have made the Festival of Lights the biggest party in town! Views: 20
It’s 1806 and mountain man John Colter is ready to leave the Lewis and Clark Expedition. When two fur trappers come up the Missouri River, he has his chance. Heading up into the upper reaches of the Yellowstone River, the men seek their fortune trapping beaver. What Colter doesn’t know, however, is that his two companions harbor a dark secret. Views: 20
An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers. Views: 20
Paris, 1958.Ralf is alone, filling his days with glasses of red wine at Jacques' bar, waiting for life to happen to him. Then, one night, Elsa - bold, enigmatic, unpredictable - whirls into Jacques' bar and into Ralf's world, knocking him out of his cautious routine and into a life full of spontaneity and excitement.But Elsa is hiding something. As Ralf falls deeper in love, he reveals more of his past - his childhood in Nazi Germany, his time in a British tank division at the end of the Second World War. But what is Elsa hiding? And can their love survive it?Let Us Be True charts the lives of these two extraordinary characters through an era of great uncertainty, from the war and its aftermath through to the deadly unrest of 1960s Paris. Evocative, charismatic and sweeping in scope, Alex Christofi's second novel is a moving story of love and loss, of the things we hide from ourselves and from others, and of the personal cost of Europe's... Views: 20
Millions of Robert Jordan fans will rejoice at the release of the ninth book in the phenomenally bestselling series The Wheel of Time. The sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Path of Daggers that swept the nation like a firestorm, Winter's Heart continues the remarkable tale that is mesmerizing an entire generation of readers. Rand, with Min, is on the run, and Cadsuane, in Cairhien, is trying to figure out where he is headed. His destination is, in fact, one she never considered. Mazrim Taim, leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar. But what is he up to? Faile, with her companions Bain and Chiad (the Aiel Maidens), and Queen Alliandre and Morgase, is prisoner of Sevanna's sept. Perrin is hunting desperately for Faile. With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet, and a very mixed "army" of disparate forces, he is moving through country rife with bandits and roving Seanchan… and in the wolfdream the man called Slayer seems to be hunting Perrin. In addition, the Forsaken are ever more present. In Ebou Dar, the Seanchan princess known as Daughter of the Nine Moons arrives – and Mat, who has been recuperating in the Tarasin Palace, is introduced to her. Will the marriage that has been foretold come about? There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the wheel of time. But it is a beginning… Views: 20
A shy Russian bride has to taste the whip on her wedding night. The model in a spanking video betrays her producer so badly that she has to submit to the cane for real. A young woman breaks the law in a futuristic setting and endures having her bottom bared before the state caning machine... These twenty-one scorching spanking stories by Sarah Veitch demonstrate a wide range of punishment implements and judicious settings. Here many young women - and two unfortunate young men - pay at length for their intransigence. The collection also includes the mini novella Re-educating Ruth in which a young female infidel reluctantly agrees to spend several months at a merciless House Of Correction for adulterous women in Amsterdam. Views: 20
The Seafort Saga continues with the shocking return of the predatory aliens and a powerful and unexpected new ally for Nick SeafortThe planet of Hope Nation has always loomed large in Nicholas Seafort's life. It was there that he built a name for himself, saving the planet from civil war and from the insatiable, fishlike aliens. But not everyone in that colony appreciated Seafort's efforts. Randy Carr, son of Seafort's old friend Derek Carr, blames him for his father's death and wants Seafort to pay for this bitter loss. Trouble brews for Seafort on Earth and on Hope Nation. A religious group called the Patriarchs fight to gain political control of Earth. The aliens suddenly reappear with an astonishing claim: They have peaceful intentions. As the aliens and their new human allies advance on Earth, hoping to calm its civil unrest, Nick Seafort must fight for the planet's future one final time. Views: 20
