When their South Carolina home burns to the ground, Anna Stewart's only choice is to move with her younger brother to the wilds of a Texas ranch.Their prospects are beginning to look better, until the rancher's son, Jacob O'Brien, shows up with his alarmingly blue eyes to put a kink in Anna's well-controlled plans.When danger escalates in the form of a band of cattle thieves with deadly intent, can Anna learn to release control to God's capable hands...and those of the blue-eyed cowboy who's stolen her heart? Views: 37
"Powers of the air, be here now. So mote it be."Conceived on May Morning, Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife...and, some say, a witch.Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet-natured...to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret -- a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light.A merrybegot and a minister's daughter -- two girls who could not have less in common. Yet their fates collide when Grace and her younger sister, Patience, are suddenly spitting pins, struck with fits, and speaking in fevered tongues. The minister is convinced his daughters are the victims of witchcraft. And all signs point to Nell as the source of the trouble....Set during the tumultuous era of the English Civil... Views: 37
Hallowmas 1144. With the harvest festival approaching, Gareth has returned from fighting in the south, hoping for a few months of peace with Gwen before the birth of their first child. But when an innocent foray to the beach turns up the murdered body of Prince Hywel's long lost cousin, a woman thought to have run away with a Dane five years earlier, it is Gareth and Gwen who are charged with discovering her killer. The trail has long since gone cold, or so Gareth and Gwen think, until their investigation threatens to expose dangerous truths that everyone from king to killer would prefer to keep buried.No secret is safe, and no man, whether lord or peasant, can escape the spirit of Hallowmas in The Fallen Princess, the fourth Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mystery. Views: 37
When Martha's family brings her home from the pound as a puppy, she barks and woofs like any other dog. But after Helen feeds her a bowl of alphabet soup, Martha begins to speak! As readers meet Martha and her family, they'll soon learn how fun and challenging living with a talking dog can be.This book uses picture symbols within the text to help introduce lovable Martha and her fun-loving family and friends to beginning readers. Includes a cut-out flashcard game. Views: 37
Herne didn't reckon it was any of his business when Cal Ryder's men stole the U.S. Government's printing plates. He wasn't looking for trouble—only wanted to carry out the sad task of laying Becky to rest for the last time. But trouble hovered around Herne like a vulture, and when he discovered that the gang had rifled Becky's coffin and stolen the pendent given her by his dead wife Louise, Herne knew that he'd have to take action. Knew that the earth would soon be soaked with blood—blood the color of the pendant's rubies. 7th in the violent series of Herne the Hunter. Views: 37
A Super Hero died last night.. it looks like someone is out for blood. The super heroes thought they were safe. They thought wrong. Darkness lurks in the shadows, a darkness the heroes could never see coming. Is there a new threat on the horizon or has one of their own stepped over to a darker path? League of Super Heroes: Rise of the Villain is based on the hit party game by Celeste Ayers. Views: 37
A clandestine government organization called Invictus "recruits" outstanding athletes for secret projects. But their top agent Jackson Holt has special, almost preternatural, qualities not even the Organization can explain. Olivia Gant, professor of Ancient Studies at a private college in California, was once Jack's childhood sweetheart. But when he deserted her, he left her alone to combat her stepfather's drunken attentions and her mother's careless neglect. Nearly twenty years later, their paths cross in a mission to fight a bizarre religious serial killer whose methods include crucifixion and burial alive. Olivia and Jack battle for happiness against years of secrecy and distance as they use Olivia's expertise in Latin and Jack's special gifts to track a brutal killer. Can Olivia forgive Jack for his long-ago betrayal? Can Jack allow Olivia to witness the terrible Change that makes him such an effective killing machine? Short Version Jackson Holt is the top agent for a clandestine government organization called Invictus. He has special, almost preternatural, abilities not even they can explain. Olivia Gant, professor of Ancient Studies, was once Jack's childhood sweetheart, but he deserted her. Twenty years later, their paths cross as they track a bizarre religious killer whose murders include crucifixion and burial alive. Views: 37
Janis Ian and 30 top science fiction writers team up to
create an astonishing book of original short fiction. STARS is a huge anthology in both volume and talent.
Each story, available only here, is based on a Janis Ian song that
meant something special to the author, who then wrote the story expressly
for STARS, creating a meld of jazz, prose and science fiction found nowhere
else —a treasure trove for fans of both SF and Janis Ian! Also, this
edition of STARS features an original new story by Michael Swanwick, “For I
Have Lain Me Down on The Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again,” based
on “Mary’s Eyes,” a Janis Ian song that has always moved him to tears.
STARS was compiled and edited by Mike Resnick
and Janis Ian and includes stories by Nebula winners and science
fiction greats such as Joe Haldeman, Jane Yolen, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott
Card, and more. It also includes Ian's first original story,
"Prayerville."
As Janis herself says, "The stories have heart.
They have life. They have truth. They move me. As an artist, I can ask for
nothing more."
Janis Ian began her career as a singer-songwriter in
the 1960s with "Society's Child." In 1975, she won her
first Grammy Award for the self-penned song, "At Seventeen." Since
then she has had #1 hits all over the world, sold more than 10 million albums,
and had her songs recorded by such diverse artists as Bette Midler,
Roberta Flack, and John Mellencamp. She shows no signs of slowing down,
recently beginning yet another career as an audio book narrator (which earned
her a ninth nomination and second Grammy in 2013 for Society's Child: My
Autobiography). Among her current projects are The Tiny Mouse, her
first children's book; a series of master classes with the Stella Adler School;
tours of Europe, the United Kingdom, and Japan, a young adult novel, and a
series of new recordings.
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Clara is 31 years old and feels that life has passed her by. She’s a manager in a busy call center, but her colleagues make fun of her behind her back. She has a boring boyfriend and no sex life. With the help of the sultry and sexy Parker, she embarks on an odyssey that includes banging a Croatian hunk, and showing her ex-boyfriend how a woman expects to be shagged. Views: 37
Mona Boots wanted Brhin-Kristoffer Teddi as her child. She watched over him daily, as any mother would. In her delusion to finally do something right in her life, she enters The Perfect Solution Childcare Center and leaves with Brhin-Kristoffer Teddi in her arms. It’s a choice she is prepared to defend.THE PERFECT SOLUTION-- Views: 37
Extracts from a unique collection of 700 First World War lettersLt Colonel E.W. Hermon died in a hail of bullets on the 9th April 1917, the first day of the Battle of Arras, leading his men of the 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers into the attack. Like hundreds of thousands of others in the Great War, he gave his life for his King and country. He was shot through the heart, one bullet slicing through the papers in his top pocket, including the four-leaf clover his wife had given him for good luck. His final words to his Adjutant were 'Go on!' before he sank to his knees and died almost instantaneously. He was carried from the battlefield by his faithful soldier servant, Buxton, and now lies buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Roclincourt, three miles from Arras. This could have been the end of the story but he left a testament of his life and ideals in a unique and hitherto unknown and unpublished collection of long and detailed letters he wrote to his... Views: 37
