Hubble bubble, toil and trouble, Casserole burn and intrigues double 'Mitzi Blessing is on the scrapheap: forced into a very early retirement, a lifetime of organising the church flower rota and making cricket teas seems to loom gloomily ahead of her. With her two daughters seemingly happily settled, Mitzi is determined not to dwindle quietly into serene old age and sets about organising and revitalising Hazy Hassocks, the small rural community she has lived in all her life. However, with the discovery of her grandmother's cookery book in the attic,life for Mitzi and her friends and family starts to get very interesting. Full of old-fashioned recipes with enchanting names like Wishes Come True Pie, Mischief Night Cake, and Powers of Persuasion Pudding - Granny's dishes provide a nourishing meal, but they also seem to have some very surprising side effects indeed.ReviewH.E. Bates for the 21st Century (Katie Fforde) sexy...unputdownable...a heart-thumping read (Company) feisty tale of friendship and laughter, loyalty and love...engaging (The Times) must read...fun-packed tale (The Sun) About the AuthorThe only child of a schoolteacher and a circus clown, Christina Jones has been writing all her life. As well as writing novels, Christina contributes short stories and articles to national magazines and newspapers. Christina lives with her husband Rob and a houseful of rescued cats. Views: 35
When a secret mission to destroy an experimental weapon goes wrong, it leads to a covert battle along the coast of Africa that could bring the world to war.Review"David Meadows delivers one heck of a fast-paced, roller-coaster ride with this exhilarating military thriller." -- Midwest Book Review"It's visionary, and scary. Great battle scenes, believable heroes, plus villains you'll love to hate!" -- Joe Buff"Meadows will have you turning pages and thinking new thoughts." -- Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House"Rip-snorting, realistic action-adventure from a man who has been there. David Meadows is the real thing," -- Stephen Coonts"When Meadows' men set sail, it's sure to be a mission like no other." -- W.E.B. GriffinFrom the AuthorThe Seabees are the unsong heroes of the United States Navy. They hit the ground running-tools in one hand and a weapon in the other, building the things needed to support those whose primary job is fighting. And, with all that, the Seabees find time to help the local population not only repair hospitals & schools, but doing charity work in the community. The legend and charity of the fighting Seabees lives in today's Navy. Views: 35
Chris Jenkins, gets hired by Jacob “Jake” Goldman, a hard-bitten and aggressive Dallas insurance executive. Chris steps in to help Jake run the agency when he is stricken with cancer. He also is asked to served as a sperm donor when Jake's treatments make him sterile. This is complicated by Jake's beautiful young trophy wife Gabi, who prefers more natural methods of being fertilized. 18+ only Views: 34
From one of Canada’s beloved fiction writers comes a tale of love and loss, guilt and forgiveness -- and finding redemption in the eye of a hurricane. Few people seek out the tiny Caribbean island of Dampier Cay. Visitors usually wash up there by accident, rather than by design. But this weekend, three people will fly to the island deliberately. They are not coming for a tan or fun in the sun. They are coming because Dampier Cay is where it is, and they have reason to believe that they might encounter something there that most people take great measures to avoid -- a hurricane. A lottery windfall and a few hours of selfishness have robbed Caldwell of all that was precious to him, while Beverly, haunted by tragedy and screwed by fate since birth, has given up on life. Also on the flight is Jimmy Newton, a professional storm chaser and videographer who will do anything for the perfect shot. Waiting for them at Dampier is the manager of the Water’s Edge Hotel, “Bonefish” Maywell Hope, who arrived at Dampier by the purest accident of all -- the accident of birth. A descendent of the pirates who sailed the Caribbean hundreds of years ago, Hope believes if he works hard enough, he can prevent the inevitable. Until, that is, the seas begin to rise . . . Cinematic and harrowing, spiced with Quarrington’s trademark humour, Galveston shows just how far people will go to feel alive. From the Hardcover edition.Review“It's brilliant; I loved every page of it. It has a lovely lightness, the words and characters, and it manages always to be funny and real.”—Roddy Doyle “Lovely and amazing …. A stylistic tour de force; readers will be — yes — blown away. Galveston is a novel of great compassion; Quarrington does a knockout job of conveying to us the importance of every human breath.”—*Quill & Quire “Paul Quarrington takes readers into the eye of a storm.”—The Ottawa Citizen “Buy Galveston right now, but save it for a rainy day–a really rainy day. Paul Quarrington’s ninth novel (and one of his best) is a terrific, brilliant, near-perfect piece of vacation reading for that inevitable low in every holiday when black clouds gather, the sky turns to thunder, plans fall apart and a paper world is preferable to the real one. Galveston will keep you engrossed page by page until daylight fades, the power goes out or a bottle of wine gets the better of you….”—T.F. Rigelhof, The Globe and Mail “His characters are drawn just to the edge of believability and treated with wry humour and dry wit…. Quarrington expertly creates extraordinarily visual imagery of storms and approaching hurricane, and effortlessly weaves the weather around the turbulent lives of his characters.”—The Calgary Herald*, Sarah Deveau, 15 May 2004 “Quarrington has a dark side…in Galveston, the darkness is more apparent than ever. So while there are times when the catastrophe does get laid on a bit thick, Quarrington, who invariably writes about misfits, writes about them wonderfully here. He lets his characters voice all their screwy and occasionally bang-on pronouncements on fate, luck, regret, loss and God’s silence…. Everyone talks about the wea... From the Inside FlapFrom one of Canada's beloved fiction writers comes a tale of love and loss, guilt and forgiveness -- and finding redemption in the eye of a hurricane.Few people seek out the tiny Caribbean island of Dampier Cay. Visitors usually wash up there by accident, rather than by design. But this weekend, three people will fly to the island deliberately. They are not coming for a tan or fun in the sun. They are coming because Dampier Cay is where it is, and they have reason to believe that they might encounter something there that most people take great measures to avoid -- a hurricane.A lottery windfall and a few hours of selfishness have robbed Caldwell of all that was precious to him, while Beverly, haunted by tragedy and screwed by fate since birth, has given up on life. Also on the flight is Jimmy Newton, a professional storm chaser and videographer who will do anything for the perfect shot. Waiting for them at Dampier is the manager of the Water's Edge Hotel, "Bonefish" Maywell Hope, who arrived at Dampier by the purest accident of all -- the accident of birth. A descendent of the pirates who sailed the Caribbean hundreds of years ago, Hope believes if he works hard enough, he can prevent the inevitable. Until, that is, the seas begin to rise . . . Cinematic and harrowing, spiced with Quarrington's trademark humour, Galveston shows just how far people will go to feel alive. Views: 34
An alternative-history classic nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards! Young Mary Godwin has run away with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but a chance encounter places them in the path of Lord Byron, the Hero of Waterloo. Byron wants Mary, and is willing to use Mary’s young, reckless sister Claire as a pawn in his heartless schemes. Exactly how heartless, and how audacious is only revealed on a storm-tossed lake in Switzerland, a tragic encounter that produces not only an alternate history, but an alternate literary monster, a new Frankenstein for a new world... Views: 34
Рассказ вошёл в сборники: The Golden Apples of the Sun (Золотые яблоки солнца) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов) Views: 34
Magiere the dhampir thinks that her nights of hunting vampires are over. After settling down in her newly adopted village of Miiska-now vampire-free thanks to her and her half-elf partner, Leesil-she looks forward to quiet days tending to her tavern. But far away in the capital city of Bela, a prominent councilman's daughter has been found dead on her own doorstep… and all signs point to a vampire. Knowing that the battered and burned village of Miiska could use an infusion of cash, Bela's town council offers a generous bounty to the dhampir if she will slay their vampire. Magiere resists, wanting nothing more than to forget her past and ignore her half-vampire nature. Only Leesil can persuade Magiere to follow her destiny-before more innocents are claimed by darkness. Views: 34
