"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is one of the most popular television series and based on this series, this exciting novel has been written. The Hellmouth, also known as Sunnydale, CA, has drawn vampires, witches and other demons to its powerful vortex. Now, it has also drawn the attention of an ancient sect of Druidsallies in Buffy Summer's battle against the Undead. Cloaked in darkness, wrapped in mystery, the Druids descend on Sunnydale, ready to perform new rituals to summon forth a new world order, free from the evil that shapes Buffy's nights. However, the Slayer's concerns are more immediate for someone is stalking her friends Cordelia, Xander and Oz. Now, it's up to Willow and Giles to find the cause, whilst Buffy stands between the Mouth of Hell and the New Dawn! Views: 30
SynopsisGrowing up in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie Morris knows what lies ahead of her - a life of drudgery as a menial servant, like that of her sisters. But everything changes when Abbie is twelve and their emotional, spirited mother casts them into a crisis for which no one is prepared. Six years later the Morris family have rebuilt their lives, and when Abbie and Beatie, Abbie's adored elder sister, set off for the county fair, the world seems a good place. But their new-found happiness is not to last. A chance encounter with Louis, a personable, handsome stranger, leads to tragedy and has repercussions that threaten to destroy Abbie's peace of mind for ever. Abbie struggles to forget what happened that night, to get on with her life, but when she meets charming, honourable Arthur - and re-encounters Louis - it becomes clear that she might never recover from the night they stayed so long at the fair... Views: 30
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist's groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City—and the world In the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The attack lasted for more than a half hour—enough time for Genovese's assailant to move his car and change hats before returning to rape and kill her just a few steps from her front door. Yet it was not the brutality of the murder that made it international news. It was a chilling detail Police Commissioner Michael Joseph Murphy shared with A. M. Rosenthal of the New York Times: Thirty-eight of Genovese's neighbors witnessed the assault—and none called for help. To Rosenthal, who had recently returned to New York after spending a decade overseas and would become the Times's longest-serving executive editor, that startling... Views: 30
In this thriller, terrorists stumble across this new, fully lethal strain and while the world fearfully watches the growing epidemic in West Africa as Sierra Leone goes into country-wide lockdown, only a few Americans are aware of Ebola K and the danger it poses—to be the deadliest pandemic in the history of mankind. Views: 30
The morning of Agatha Raisin's long-awaited marriage to her attractive and elusive neighbor, James Lacey, dawns bright and clear. But the storm clouds of the day before would have been more appropriate. A new anti-wrinkle cream turns Agatha's face into one large red rash, James refuses to discuss his feelings for her, and then Agatha's first husband, Jimmy Raisin, reappears just in time to keep her from committing bigamy. The ensuing brouhaha--Agatha tries to strangle Jimmy, whom she had thought long dead--humiliates and embarrasses James Lacey, who abruptly breaks his engagement to Agatha. When Jimmy is found murdered the next morning, Agatha and James are the prime suspects. Since the easiest way to clear their names is to find the real murderer, Agatha convinces James to help her investigate. But will their subsequent close proximity--which has them, ironically, pretending to be man and wife--be enough to soothe James's bruised pride? Views: 30
Pleasures and Follies is an engaging romp from adolescent sexual awakening into full grown adult lust on the part of one Cupidonnet and his half sister, Genovefette, along with a few of their playmates, friends, acquaintances, parents and Genovefette's eventual spouse. There is very little in the realm of physical intimacy that one or the other of these siblings did not experience, or at least witness. Other than attempt to remove obvious errors in the cyberscript, Renaissance E Books has done very little editing. To attempt to correct the spelling and/or punctuation would destroy much of the pleasure of reading the book, for the author uses to good affect coined words and unusual sentence structure. To remove the distinctly British words and expressions would be to destroy the flavor of the work. We do apologize for several passages that by today's standards are "politically incorrect," and hope the reader will understand the mindset of the time in which the book was composed. Views: 30
Ten-year-old Celie’s grandmother has moved in with her family, and Granny’s forgetfulness is starting to worry Celie. In the meantime, she can tell her parents are keeping secrets, but she can’t talk to her best friend Lula or her sister Jo, because they’re both keeping secrets, too! Why is Lula not sharing with Celie? Who is Jo texting all the time? And what is Celie supposed to do when special time with her grandmother becomes much more complicated—and possibly dangerous—than Celie can manage on her own? Once again Celie turns to her diary as she tries to sort this all out, filling the pages with heartfelt and often humorous entries, notes, drawings, and pages from her top-secret spy notebook., Views: 30
From the New York Times–bestselling "standard-bearer for alternate history": A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire (USA Today). In another, very different timeline—one in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came to be—the Byzantine Empire still flourishes in the fourteenth century, and wondrous technologies are emerging earlier than they did in our own. Having lost his family to the ravages of smallpox, Basil Argyros has decided to dedicate his life to Byzantium. A stalwart soldier and able secret agent, Basil serves his emperor courageously, going undercover to unearth Persia's dastardly plots and disrupting the dark machinations of his beautiful archenemy, the Persian spy Mirrane, while defusing dire threats emerging from the Western realm of the Franco-Saxons. But the world Basil so staunchly defends is changing rapidly, and he must remain ever vigilant, for in this great game of empires,... Views: 30
