Clans of Kalquor 7. Searching for a safe haven for her child sends a woman into the arms of the enemy and in the path of a revolt. Views: 69
Torn between two powerful men who adore her, ER nurse Leila Matthews has found the love of her life...but the road to happily-ever-after is paved with betrayal, secrets, and dead bodies. Views: 69
With her parents too unwell to run their boarding kennels, twenty-five-year-old Rachel Collington decides to resign her teaching job and come home to help out. After all, how hard can moving back be? It's a rude awakening when she finds the kennels' reputation in tatters, her teenage brother going off the rails, and arrogant TV personality Philip Milligan just moved to the area and seemingly out to cause trouble for everyone. With life determined to throw obstacles in her path, the last thing she expects is romance, but help often comes from the unlikeliest of places ... Views: 69
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALMavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times. Views: 69
Just found this old photo...Mom looks beautiful, seated at her piano.Dad's got his arms around her.Oliver does too.They look so happy.So normal.IF EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, THEN HOW DID SHE END UP SO DEAD? Views: 69
A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Selfa writer hailed by Time as brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers”at the top of his form. It looks like it’s going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so much enfolded as trapped in the bosom of the most venal media clique in London, Richard is losing it on all fronts: he’s losing his heart to Ursula Bentley, a nubile and vacuous magazine columnist; he’s in danger of losing his job at the pretentious listings magazine Rendezvous; he’s losing his mind courtesy of Colombia’s chief illegal export; and, worst of all, he’s losing his soul . . . to the king-of-all-media and sinister purveyor of opportunitiessexual, chemical, and professionalknown only as Bell. Murky, paranoid, and... Views: 69
Outnumbered. Outgunned. And running out of time. Meet Paul Tallis – a spy for the 21st Century Fearing an undercover agent working in Chechnya has gone rogue, MI6 look to off-thspook Paul Tallis for help. Tallis is ready for the challenge – then he learns the missing operative is his old school friend, Graham Darke. With intelligence confirming a threat to assassinate the Russian prime minister, Tallis must infiltrate a rebel movement and reach Darke before Anglo-Russian relations are permanently destroyed. But confronted with the reality of the Chechen struggle, Tallis faces an impossible moral choice: bring in Darke and prevent an international crisis, or protect a man fighting for the forgotten innocents. For fans of ROBERT LUDLUM, GERALD SEYMOUR and JOHN LE CARRÉ, this is a must read. Views: 69
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