SHE WAS IN LABOR And Lucinda Alvarez had to rely on detective Dylan McMorrow to deliver her baby Although she had vowed to forget the man who'd broken her heart, one glimpse of his irresistible blue eyes had her wondering if she could safeguard her emotions. After delivering both heartbreaking news and Lucinda's baby Dylan realized he was still drawn to the delicate beauty. And with an elusive killer watching Lucinda's every move, he was duty-bound to protect her. Though he hungered to rekindle the sparks between them, he swore Lucinda would never reclaim his heart. Then he learned the truth about her newborn daughter .... Views: 14
Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief! Roll up, roll up, the circus is in town! When Ailsa the circus girl comes to Cuddington Primary, the gang are up for some serious fun when they sort out circus lessons. But whose crazy idea was it to juggle cream doughnuts in Fliss’s house…? Views: 14
Includes preview of "Beware, Princess Elizabeth." Views: 14
From Publishers WeeklyGleefully subverting most of the rules of mystery fiction, Chesbro ( Dark Chant in a Crimson Key ) once again produces an extraordinary adventure for his singularly implausible (albeit surpassingly entertaining) dwarf detective, former circus star turned criminologist/sleuth and media darling, Mongo Frederickson. Mongo is visiting his brother Garth and his famous folksinger wife, Mary, when Sacra, Mary's former lover, arrives to claim Mary as his own. Mary is plainly terrified and believes Sacra is a witch. Because Mongo's former loves also include a practitioner of the black arts, he takes Mary's fears seriously. Meanwhile, out on the Hudson River, not far from Garth's house, a shipping company is dumping oil into the water and loading mysterious cargo for export overseas. When an environmentalist friend tries to obtain evidence, his body is ripped apart by propeller blades. With only one real suspect, the author is forced to weld Garth's domestic woes to the wider environmental concerns of the Hudson River. This kind of minimalist plot gambit could easily misfire, but Mongo and his cohorts form such a ruthlessly cunning, delightfully oddball crew that the reader remains engrossed. The action heats up, bodies are battered and the plucky Mongo gets to pilot a tanker through murky waters. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsThe 11th adventure in which Mongo Frederickson (Dark Chant in a Crimson Key, etc.) uses superior intellect, circus tricks, karate, magic, and pretentious metaphysical folderol to foil various scourges of Western Civilization--here, the loathsome Sacra Silver, who's intent on breaking up the marriage of Mongo's brother and sister-in-law, illegally polluting the Hudson by dumping chemicals from his daddy's fleet of tankers, and making a few zillion on the side by selling parched Kuwaitis shiploads of the (contaminated) Hudson. When both the Coast Guard and the police skirt responsibility for the filth--as well as the propeller- chopped body recently found in the river--Mongo sallies forth to waylay a tanker headed for the Tappan Zee. Despite a concussion, he succeeds--only to find his brother wired up to a homemade electric chair and his sister-in-law forced to commit mayhem to save him. Mongo, a comic-book hero sans pictures, again blathers on about witches, the supernatural, and his personal philosophy (Love, my friend, is the greatest mystery of all'')--all done in a manner destined to please the converted. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Views: 14
Pro wrestler, Graham Edwards, takes his mom out for a belated Mother’s Day lunch to introduce her to his red haired witchy mistress, Odessa. As if that is not shocking enough, the recently widowed Mrs. Edwards also learns her favorite son’s tumultuous affair with an empathic medium has resulted in something she never saw coming… a seven-month-old granddaughter. Views: 14
"[T]he quest for gold" has been "gluttonous," says Bernstein, tracing
the metal's impact on human myth and history: gold has inspired art,
battles, conquests and discoveries, including Columbus's trip to the New
World, where he hoped to secure enough gold to buy back the Holy
Sepulcher from the Muslims. Bernstein makes clear the metal's virtues:
it's so malleable that one ounce can be stretched into a 50-foot wire or
pounded into 100 square feet, and it lasts forever (4,500-year-old
Egyptian dental work, he notes, is good enough for today's mouths).
Bernstein's gift for storytellingAwith just the right touch of acerbic
wit (on the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece, he summarizes, "The
story does not have a happy ending, because Jason was a compulsive
social climber")Aand his presentation of the paradox of how and why such
a soft and simple metal has been afforded such value help make this
work a winning account of human obsession, comprehensive, entertaining
and enlightening. A knowledge of economics might help during the last
third of the book, when Bernstein moves from ancient times to modern day
and describes the economic chaos that followed WWI. By then gold was no
longer the domain of legend; it had become a commodity, the standard
against which powerful nations measure their wealth. But Bernstein,
author of the bestselling Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of
Risk, livens up his intricate economic discussion with tales such as the
one about the Harvard Business School professor who got into trouble
with his dean for withdrawing his gold from the Harvard Trust Company
during a gold standard-related panic in 1933. As the title promises,
Bernstein does deliver a page-turning history of the not-so-heavy metal
and its influence on people through the ages. $250,000 ad/promo; first
serial to Worth. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 14
Fleur Delacort was a chef who loved her job and enjoyed her new adventure: working with her cousin in the newly flourishing WindSwept Narrows Resort and Casino. Hiding in the bushes to avoid a younger man who wouldn't take no for an answer was something she'd never imagined she'd be doing. Liliana believed in happy ever after when she fell, literally, over Oliver Kensington. Views: 14
When the Fuente brothers learned that Waxahachie Smith was investigating their criminal activities, they decided that drastic action was called for. As far as they were concerned, the best way to stop a Texas Ranger—short of killing him—was to have his trigger-fingers cut off! That was a mistake. For Waxahachie Smith was not the kind of man to accept defeat. First in the exciting series. Views: 14
The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its
own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back
to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary
women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a
dream that will soon lead to Mrs. Dalloway.
In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village,
52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a
poet dying of AIDS. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant
and unsettled, does her best to prepare for her husband's birthday, but
can't seem to stop reading Woolf. These women's lives are linked both
by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each
keeps returning to. Clarissa is to eventually realize:
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives
seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us
everything we've ever imagined.... Still, we cherish the city, the
morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. As
Cunningham moves between the three women, his transitions are seamless.
One early chapter ends with Woolf picking up her pen and composing her
first sentence, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."
The next begins with Laura rejoicing over that line and the fictional
universe she is about to enter. Clarissa's day, on the other hand, is a
mirror of Mrs. Dalloway's--with, however, an appropriate degree of
modern beveling as Cunningham updates and elaborates his source of
inspiration. Clarissa knows that her desire to give her friend the
perfect party may seem trivial to many. Yet it seems better to her than
shutting down in the face of disaster and despair. Like its literary
inspiration, The Hours is a hymn to consciousness and the
beauties and losses it perceives. It is also a reminder that, as
Cunningham again and again makes us realize, art belongs to far more
than just "the world of objects." Views: 14
Rescuer...Protector...Husband?Miss Hester Waring's father was a wastrel and a drunkard, who had alienated most of Sydney society.When he died, Hester found herself destitute and alone, with no one to rely on. Her rescue came from a most unlikely source--Mr.Tom Dilhorne, an ex-convict, now the richest man in Sydney. He engineered a teaching job for her, but knew that if he was to be accepted by society he needed a lady for a wife. And Hester was every inch a lady. Luckily the skinny schoolteacher wasn't at all his type, so he wouldn't be in danger of losing his heart...would he? Views: 14
