Seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln's boyhood dies when his father drags their family from the relative comfort of Kentucky into an unforgiving Indiana wilderness. While suffering rebuke for teaching himself to read and write, Abraham endures rumors of illegitimate birth, escapes death a half-dozen times, labors to repay his father's debts, and grieves the deaths of his infant brother, angel mother, precious sister, and beloved sweetheart.By his early thirties, he casts off his parents' religion, becomes estranged from his closest friend, and loses faith in his own character when he breaks an engagement to marry a woman he doesn't love. He spirals into life-threatening depression. In the prime of life, unable to keep a pledge made to his dying mother to become someone special, he wrestles with self-doubt, abandons politics, and resigns himself to a life of mediocrity. But when his long-time rival opens the door for slavery's expansion across half the globe, Lincoln faces the greatest... Views: 57
A New York Times Bestseller "Wickedly funny female bonding" People magazine hailed of Young Wives, Olivia Goldsmith's most recent novel. Now, the queen of the modern comedy of manners serves up her sharpest novel yet, Bad Boy. Best friends Tracie and Jon meet for coffee each Sunday night to discuss their forlorn love lives. Tracie loves boys with an affinity for leather jackets and poetry--classic bad boys who seem too good to be true (and usually are). Jon foolishly falls for girls who never like him in that way . . . until he convinces Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. Reluctant at first--after all, Jon is so good he dutifully celebrated Mother's Day by having brunch with his dad's fourth wife, lunch with his real mother, tea with his first stepmother, and dinner with his second stepmother--Tracie eventually accepts the challenge and throws herself into the "lessons," cutting corners at her job at the Seattle Times and ignoring her bad boy du jour, Phil. After a much needed wardrobe makeover, lessons on the meaning of unavailability, menu etiquette, and finally learning to make women smolder, the new "Jonny", becomes a far too successful heartbreaker. And Tracie discovers that she just might be head-over-heels in love with him. But there are a few loose ends: Phil has decided he wants to settle down with Tracie, Tracie's girlfriend is obsessed with Jonny, and Jon can't understand why Tracie never liked him for who he was before the leather. With her inimitable wit, Olivia Goldsmith delivers a smart, laugh-out-loud tale of modern romance sure to keep readers everywhere in stitches. Views: 57
For nearly five decades Diana Athill edited (nursed, coerced, coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language, among them V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Mordecai Richler, and Norman Mailer. A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house André Deutsch Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate insider's portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books.Stet is spiced with candid insights about the type of people who make brilliant writers and ingenious publishers, and the idiosyncrasies of both. It brims with Athill's memories of serving as confidante, midwife, and sometime therapist to great literary figures: Nobody who has read Jean Rhys' first four novels can suppose that she was good at life; but no one who never met her could know how very bad she was at it"; It was my job to listen to [Naipaul's] unhappiness and... Views: 57
Captain Mack Hawkins, Lieutenant Ludlow Dooley and their Kiowa-Comanche Detachment of U.S. Scouts are dispatched to the Arizona Territory, their mission to put a halt to a series of raids on horse ranches. Neither they nor the U.S. Army realize these crimes are connected to a Native-American religion called the Ghost Dance. An Indian prophet is preaching war to the fierce Guerras Apaches living on a reservation in the Tierra Brava Desert. His sermons announce the coming of a messiah who can summon slain Indian warriors back to life. The Prophet promises there will be thousands of these ghost warriors resurrected to massacre all whites that exist.Hawkins and Ludlow lead the detachment into the hinterlands to kill or capture the horse thieves. But this time out their enemies are fanatical warriors who believe they have been made immortal by the Prophet's big medicine. Then, as if things aren't bad enough, there's a group of white religious zealots who believe the messiah's... Views: 57
Рассказ вошёл в сборники: The Golden Apples of the Sun (Золотые яблоки солнца) R Is For Rocket (Р — значит ракета) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100 рассказов) Views: 57
Meet Michael Baines: happily married career man by day... submissive slut to other men by night. For years, he's kept his double life hidden from his friends, his family... his wife...But everything changes when a mysterious stranger uncovers Michael's dirty little secret - a stranger who has just one, simple demand for the man:"YOU WILL OBEY."Now, with his back against the wall, Michael has no choice but to submit to this unknown tormentor, coerced into following his sadistic instructions and enduring his brutal punishments, thrown into a kinky world of mindgames, manipulation, and sexual slavery. Used, abused, and degraded, Michael will be broken down and pushed far beyond his limits - but nothing will prepare him for his elusive Master's twisted endgame... Views: 57
Romance/Historical Fiction. 84254 words long. First published in 2012 Views: 57
When an ordinary, intelligent woman is confronted by the disturbing realities of the darker side of sex, she is drawn into a relationship where conflicting callings of body, heart and mind threaten to tear her apart. Warning: for adults only. Some strong language, frank sex, and sadomasochism in consenting adults, with domination, female bondage, punishment, masturbation, oral sex, and fetish. Views: 57
In the future, computers rule the world. Net Force was formed to protect us from any and all criminal activity on-line. But there is a group of teenage whiz kids who sometimes know more about computers than their adult superiors. They are the Net Force Explorers. They go where no one else can go. And they fight crime like no one else in the world. After her equestrian teammate, Burt, disappears, Net Force Explorer Megan O'Malley finds him at a combined online-offline refuge for runaways. But Burt's next disappearance may be his last. Short of cash, he takes a job at a mysterious courier business — a service, Megan discovers all too late, from which many runaways are sent out, but few ever return. Views: 57
Britain faces down the threat of Napoleon's invasion......while Roberta closes her mind to the scandal that assails her own life in order to concentrate on the construction of the ships the Navy needs. Her father-in-law, the Marquess of Tiverton, does not accept her marriage to his son aboard the frigate Medusa. Is she legally Lady Bond or is she an imposter?Her friends work for her good name, even to the point of gaining her an audience with the Prince Regent, but her strongest champion, her husband, is away on the Continent carrying out a succession of duties for Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister.However, Roberta's ships are her greatest assets as they gradually take back the command of the Channel from their enemies. Under the command of the new officers and crews trained aboard the Spiteful and her consorts, even the French Ironclad has to pay them mind. And Britain finds new heroes in the Black Gangs aboard the despised vessels that prove the mettle of steam to a service and... Views: 57
Actress Jessica Randal has been incapacitated by a broken leg, and both she and her husband of eight weeks, author Matthew Selby, think they will have a month of tranquility and convalescence when they rent Hinckley cottage near the rustic English village of Westridge. But a demented rapist is stalking the town, striking quickly, savagely and often, and always adding his own macabre touch to the act by forcing his terrified victims to recite nursery rhymes. When the body of Freda Cowley, missing owner of Hinckley cottage, is discovered with a nursery rhyme tucked into her pocket, it becomes apparent that the rapist is also a murderer, and the community, populated with well-meaning, sharp-eyed and astute citizens, draws together for support and protection and tries to make sure that Jessica, housebound and helpless, has someone with her when Matthew is out of town. Jessica is indeed at risk, for several bizarre incidents have drawn suspicion to her husband, and clues suggest she is next on the murderer's list. Fraser (A Shroud for Delilah has added a distracting and meaningless romantic subplot, but the book remains, till the end, a taut and truly shocking story Views: 57
When Eugene goes to sleepaway camp, it’s superheroes—and supervillains—galore in the fourteenth adventure of Captain Awesome and the Sunnyview Superhero Squad!Eugene’s bags are packed and his Super Dude sleeping bag is rolled up and ready. It’s time to go to sleepaway camp! But this isn’t just any summer camp: it’s Superhero Summer Camp! Captain Awesome and the Sunnyview Superhero Squad can’t wait to venture into the woods and get some real superhero training at Camp Ka-Pow. That is, until they meet the Cloudy Heights Super Crew. Could these campers be supervillains in disguise?With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Captain Awesome chapter books are perfect for beginning readers! Views: 57
