The novel focuses on two incidents during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945: the rape of Sayoko, 17, by four US soldiers and Seiji's stabbing revenge. Narrations through nine points of view, Japanese and American, from 1945 to present reveal the full complexity of events and how war trauma ripples through the generations. Medoruma's first full-length English translated work. Views: 59
The enemy from within… Iranian-born British Commando Major Ray Kerman was a rising star is the SAS… until he abruptly switched loyalties while on a mission in the Middle East. Fanatically determined to employ his brilliant talents and training in the destruction of those he once swore to protect, he is now General Ravi Rashood, leader of the world’s most vicious terrorist organization… and he has found his ultimate weapon: Barracuda 945. A sleek and silent Russian hunter-killer nuclear submarine that can fire land-attack guided missiles from below the ocean’s surface, it is invisible to all pursuers and virtually impossible to track. Yet Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President’s National Security Adviser, must somehow marshal America’s forces and hunt down this 8,000-ton nightmare of modern warfare before it unleashes its fire and death… or the first target to fall will be California. Views: 58
SKINNY LEGS AND ALL:An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations....It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils.Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat.In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are... Views: 58
Meet Miles Franco, freelance Tunneler. Interdimensional transport is his business, but Miles is about to find out that in this city, Tunneling's a good way to get a bullet in your head. One way or another, it's gonna be a hell of a job. THE MAN WHO COULDN'T BE BOUGHT is a noir-drenched urban fantasy short story. This short story is approximately 8000 words long. Views: 58
"Abu-Jaber's voluptuous prose features insights into the Arab American community that are wisely, warmly depicted."—San Francisco ChronicleSirine, the heroine of this "deliciously romantic romp" (?Vanity Fair?) is thirty-nine, never married, and living in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. She has a passion for cooking and works contentedly in a Lebanese restaurant, while her storytelling uncle and her saucy boss, Umm Nadia, believe she should be trying harder to find a husband. One day Hanif, a handsome professor of Arabic literature, an Iraqi exile, comes to the restaurant. Sirine falls in love and finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about Hanif, as well as her own torn identity as an Arab-American. Views: 58
Gwyneth Carswell, an English lady banished by her father to the harsh Scottish Highlands, wants nothing more than to take her young son away from the violence of two fighting clans—her own distant kin, the MacIrwins, and their enemies, the MacGraths. She risks everything to rescue the fierce MacGrath warrior from the battlefield where he's left for dead by her clan. She only knows she is inexplicably drawn to him and he wants peace as she does. When her clan learns of her betrayal, they seek vengeance. Dare she trust the enemy more than her own family?Laird Alasdair MacGrath is driven to end two-hundred years of feuding with the MacIrwins. But by taking in and protecting Lady Gwyneth and her son, he provokes more attacks from his mortal enemy. As the danger and conflict surrounding them escalate, Alasdair and Gwyneth discover an explosive passion neither of them expected. With the arrival of a powerful man from her past, a horrible decision confronts her—give up... Views: 58
Read Heather Wardell's first novel, the free "Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo", and the next four books in the series, and want more? Here's a collection of books 6 through 9 at a terrific price!You get:"Live Out Loud": Songwriter Amy wants to honor her late best friend by starting the support center for teenage girls they'd planned when they were just girls themselves. When her song becomes an internet sensation she sees how to get the money she needs, but soon realizes she adores her new pop star career. She must choose: create the center she needed herself as a teen or truly become Misty Will, pop princess."Blank Slate Kate": Waking up with a strange man is scary. Realizing you lost fifteen years of your life overnight? That's terrifying. With her memories from seventeen to thirty-two gone, Kate has no idea who she is and where she belongs. As she begins to fall for the man who found her, she wonders if she forgot those years for a reason. Should she keep trying to retrieve... Views: 58
From WikipediaVox is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2003. It is the sixth volume of The Edge Chronicles and the second of the Rook Saga trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the eighth novel, following the Quint Saga and Twig Saga trilogies. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on AmazonIn the article: Plot summaryReviewPraise for The Edge Chonicles:“For children who’ve read the Harry Potter books and want another world to explore.” -- Mail on Sunday“Stunningly original.” -- Sunday Times“More than a read: it kidnaps and transports the reader.” -- The School LibrarianFrom the Hardcover edition. Views: 58
A RISKY REUNION
When her doorbell rang, a pregnant Liz Chase's heart raced at the sight
of her handsome -- and until now incarcerated -- husband, Alex, standing
on the porch. For six months Liz had tried to understand why Alex had
murdered her uncle, and why he refused to discuss that fateful night.
Then she learned that he'd confessed because he thought she was the
guilty party -- and Liz didn't know whether to be flattered or furious.
But with a killer still on the loose and Alex's freedom on the line, Liz
had to help clear her husband's name...all for the sake of their baby. Views: 58
Would they finally find happiness in Liverpool? In 1930, Bridget O'Brien, a young widow with two children, fled her brutal and bigoted father and headed for Liverpool and an arranged marriage with a man she had never met. Her destination, the famous Scotland Road, was noisome and terrifying and a far cry from the clean air and flowing rivers of the only country she had known, Ireland. When she met her middle-aged bridegroom, Sam Bell, whose twin sons were older than she was, her sense of isolation only increased. Anthony, one of her so-called stepsons, also held out the strong hand of friendship, but Liam, the favourite of his father, had the power to terrify her. Liam was cold, compelling, mysterious and antagonistic. He was also a priest. Views: 58
