The Hardy Boys investigate the disappearance of an eighteen-year-old girl suspected of joining a sinister religious cult. A few days later the boys get an offbeat assignment from a comic book publisher: The real life double of his character, Apeman, is turning up everywhere and causing considerable damage! Frank and Joe tackle both cases and uncover an intricate scheme by a clever gang of crooks! Views: 67
Even the queen isn't safe from monsters. If she wants to live, she has to run. Rosamund escapes into the wilds alone. Confident that it is something she can do, nature has other ideas. Rescued by Gabriel, ruggedly handsome and taken with her, she must decide if she should go into hiding with a man she hardly knows or face nature and the king's wrath alone. Views: 67
From the award-winning author of Dead Souls and Poe comes an all-new bone-chilling novel where a mysterious island holds the terrifying answers to a woman's past and future.In 1939, on a remote Pacific island, botanical researcher Irene Greer plunges off a waterfall to her death, convinced the spirits of her dead husband and daughter had joined the nightmarchers—ghosts of ancient warriors that rise from their burial sites on moonless nights. But was it suicide, or did a strange young missionary girl, Agnes, play a role in Irene's deteriorating state of mind? It all seems like ancient family history to Julia Greer, who has enough problems of her own. A struggling journalist, she's recovering from a divorce and is barely able to make rent, let alone appeal the court's decision to give sole custody of their daughter to her ex-husband. When her elderly great-aunt offers her an outrageously large sum to travel to this remote island and collect... Views: 67
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation of short stories has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre. Views: 67
Clair W. Hayes is a published author of children\'s books and young adult books. Views: 67
A young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. Then comes a look of recognition, a gesture of friendship from an older woman named Greta who shares the same difficult-to-place color of skin. On common ground, a tenuous alliance grows between two women in racial limbo. So too, does the older woman's unnerving obsession, leading to a collision of two lives spiraling out of control. A beautifully written novel, at once suspenseful, erotic, and tantalizingly clever, Symptomatic is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature of racial identity. Views: 67
The (nearly) true confessions of Jamie Kelly.They were just an ordinary soft pair of second-hand jeans until Jamie Kelly tried them on. Then they became tight, smelly & scratchy - with a bit of a haunting problem! Do the pants have the power to soothe a vengeful beagle, vanquish The Prettiest Girl in the World, or make the wearer irresistible to the eighth cutest guy in school? Or are the haunted pants just, well, haunted? Kind of gross when you think about it... Views: 67
A suicidal terrorist cell threatens to detonate explosives in a Singapore skyscraper taking thousands of innocent American lives. No demands. Just sheer massive destruction-televised as it happens across the globe. As quickly as the terror unfolds, it's stopped dead-by the Superhawks, a crack team of patriotic warriors who live and breathe American vengeance. Their next step is getting the man behind the aborted attack-one of the most elusive terrorists in the world. Abdul Kazeel, supermook to Al Qaeda, has escaped their wrath before. Sequestered in a Filipino compound his new mission is to create a fanatical terrorist army. His planned attack on American soil is unthinkable, hyper-violent, and underway: blowing up more than a dozen airliners with stolen missile launchers. As the potential for disaster grows stronger by the second, the Superhawks are moving in to bring their own brand of chaos to the monster who invented the word. Views: 67
The most explosively sexy One-Eyed Jacks adventure yet from the RITA Award-winning, New York Times bestselling romance author whose name is "synonymous with high stakes and high action" (RT Book Reviews)!Betrayal. Retribution. Redemption? Six years ago, tough-as-nails military contractor Bobby Taggart met the woman of his dreams in war-torn Kabul—a sexy, whip-smart war correspondent who approached him at a local bar, took him to bed, made him fall in love...and then mysteriously disappeared. In her wake, the terrorist leader he'd been mining for valuable intel was assassinated—then Bobby discovered his phone had been bugged. And he's pretty damn sure he's been played for a fool. Now, a covert security mission for the U.S. Embassy in Oman unexpectedly reunites him with Talia Levine, the woman who betrayed him and broke his heart. And there's one more secret she hasn't told him—one that will change his world. But as the heat of... Views: 67
DCI Kate Reynard is the senior officer in charge of Fenland Constabulary's Serious Crime Unit, and her team is legendary when it comes to arrest and conviction rates. The thing is, Kate has a secret weapon, and it's one that she dare not share with anyone. The mere mention of a clairvoyant being used on a case would have her back on traffic in the blink of an eye, but it's even worse than that, because the man with the strange gift, is one of her team.And now Kate is going to need all the help she can get, because the remote and eerie marsh lands that compose a large part of her patch, are becoming the stage for a series of insidious killings. Young women are disappearing, and the only one to be found alive is so traumatised that she has no memory of what happened. Kate knows that she and her close-knit team of detectives are hunting a ruthless and brutal killer, but as the truth unfolds, she discovers that the lonely fen is harbouring something more horrible than they could have... Views: 67
