Eli Burke and Alec Sumner are finding out that falling in love isn't the happily-ever-after they expected. Their efforts to move forward as a couple and put their broken pasts behind them are made all the more difficult by new fears and old secrets. There are other stressors too: disagreeing over where to live, dealing with other men intruding into their relationship, and deciding if they must abandon the families of their pasts to build one for the future. It may hurt, but being honest about what they fear, what they've done, and what they want may be the only way to forge a happy home. Views: 29
Charley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot; the Hoots are alien invaders. Charley hasn't seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains somewhere, with the other Free Humans. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back. Charley knows how to be a good mount, but now he's going to have to learn how to be a human being. Carol Emshwiller's The Mount won the Philip K. Dick award and was chosen as a book of the year by The Village Voice, Locus, and Book Magazine. Views: 29
Priscilla Denver should be comfortably situated in the house her aunt sold her, but it turns out that her aunt was a trifle dishonest about what she was selling. Then there's the rattling hearth to distress Miss Denver and her companion, Miss Slack. And the darkly handsome Duke of Clavering is suspiciously persistent in wanting Prissie to sell him the house. Hmm. Something is definitely afoot, and Priscilla is just the person to tackle the problem. Regency Romance by Joan Smith Views: 29
Stay follows Abbey, a young woman from Canada now living in a village outside Galway. She falls in love with Dermot, an older Irish man, in an unconventional, affectionate but troubled relationship. The extraordinary skill of Stay lies in its unsentimental depiction of modern Ireland. The inhabitants of Dermot's village form a riotous and poignant chorus, commenting on their rapidly changing world with wit and insight. Here is a beautiful, funny and richly rewarding novel about history and obligation, and above all, the meaning of human connection in a land poised uneasily between past and present.Review• "For all the complexity in Hunter's book . . . there is also a minute attention to detail and an elegance in the natural dialogue. Hunter heaps ideas on you, ideas you want to stop and think about, in such a subtle, tender way that you never feel assaulted, but rather protected." --The Globe and Mail • "Hunter has created a redolent, peat-reeking sense of Ireland, mournful but sometimes blackly hilarious. . . . The smell of life is what makes Stay so compelling." --Vancouver SunAbout the AuthorAISLINN HUNTER's acclaimed collection of stories, What's Left Us, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and the ReLit Prize. Her masterful poetry collection, Into the Early Hours, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize and won the Gerald Lampert Award. Views: 29
A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era.With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinary people at home, from the poets Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid to campaigners such as John Maclean and Helen Crawfurd.This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 29
This virtuoso first novel weaves stories and decades into a tightly knit, haunting narrative, as it sets into relief two generations marked by the 1960s – those who lived through them, and those who came after. Seventeen-year-old Sylvia (Harper) Kostak is caught between her mother’s regrets and the strictures of small-town life in the interior of British Columbia. When Harper meets Gabe, an intense and enigmatic young man living on the ’60s-style arts commune outside of town, she is transfixed. Gradually we learn Gabe’s story and what led him to join his estranged mother on the commune, where, in a bid for freedom, Harper eventually finds herself, setting in motion a series of events leading to tragedy. Resonant with longing and a sense of isolation, the novel brings alive the agonies and ecstasies of growing up, sexual discovery, and how the need to belong can shape both decisions and destinies. Views: 29
Nobody knows that Laurel Bay can see and talk to ghosts. When she inherits a funeral home, she is forced to return from the city to the small town of Witch Woods to breathe life into the business. It is a grave responsibility, but Laurel is determined that this will be no dead-end job.There she has to contend with her manipulative and overly religious mother, more than one ghost, and a secretive but handsome accountant.When the murder of a local woman in the funeral home strangles the finances, can Laurel solve the murder?Or will this be the death of her business?Note: This book is humorously irreverent in places, so please read only if you won't be offended. Views: 29
Wes Stone was a lawman—until the Sandlin gang gunned down his legendary father. Now, he's giving up his badge for vengeance... Views: 29
Luke McRae's dark good looks made him a magnet for women, but no one had managed to break in to his heart...until he met the beautiful and alluring Katrin Sigurdson.However, making Katrin his mistress soon forced him to consider that he might need more in his life than work. But allowing Katrin in meant letting secrets of his past out.... Views: 29
There Is a River is the final installment in Charlotte Miller's regional best-selling trilogy that began with Behold, This Dreamer and continued with Through a Glass, Darkly. The sweeping story follows Janson Sanders, a half-Cherokee, half-white yeoman farmer from the Alabama hill country, and his family through six decades of Southern life. Views: 29
Gibson can hear the beat of the horses' hooves against the track. Trotter are the world to him. But all he ever does is practice. He's still too young and inexperienced to drive in a real race. Only he knows he's ready for the big league. If people would give him a chance, then they would know it, too.Gib's chance comes in a filly named Rosalind. Now Gib can prove that he's man enough to train a champion. But does he really have what it takes? Can he and Rosalind go all the way to win the Hambletonian, the greatest race of all? Views: 29
