A bold, no-holds-barred memoir from one of the most dominant and dynamic pitchers to ever play the gameBefore Pedro Martinez was the eight-time All Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and World Series champion, before stadiums full of fans chanted his name, he was just a little kid from the Dominican Republic who sat under a mango tree and dreamed of playing pro ball. Now in Pedro, the charismatic and always colorful pitcher opens up for the first time to tell his remarkable story.Martinez entered the big leagues a scrawny power pitcher with a lightning arm who they said wasn't "durable" enough, who they said was a punk. But what they underestimated about Pedro Martinez was the intensity of the fire inside. Like no one before or since, Martinez willed himself to become one of the most intimidating pitchers to have ever played the game.In Pedro we relive it all in Technicolor brightness, from his hardscrabble days in the minor... Views: 22
After being forced to relive ancient abuse, Sophie's carefully built life crumbles to cinders.Cole is there to pick up the broken pieces, but her psyche might be fractured into too many pieces. Scarlett, Snow, Serena, Sibyl and more, are all swirling around inside one damaged mind, and Cole becomes uncertain whether the woman he loves will ever be whole again.The couple decides to leave the USA for the wedding of Helen and Liam Larson (Sophie's biological brother) in Switzerland, and the romantic setting of a chalet in the Alps proves to be a perfect place for rest and recovery.When an old friend tries to seduce Cole back into the world of architecture with the challenge to design a tower unlike any other, he refuses to focus on helping Scarlett heal. But when she encourages him to take on the project, and wants to participate, Cole decides it could be wise to start a new life far away from their chaotic past, on the other side of the planet.Cole and... Views: 22
When Churn Wycliff's gang killed Sailor Sam Carol, Mark Counter of Ole Devil Hardin's legendary Floating Outfit swore to bring them to justice. Taking their trail, the blond giant matched his enormous strength and lightning-fast draw against the brutal, evil pack. In the end Mark found Wycliffe a prisoner of the Kaddo Indians, doomed to die by torture. But Mark aimed to take his old friend's killer in for trial ... even if he had to lick the whole Kaddo tribe to do it. Views: 22
It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery--"People who love cats...have a friend in Rita Mae Brown," declares The New York Times Book Review. And nowhere is it more obvious than in this, her sixth deliciously witty foray into detective fiction written with the paws-on help of collaborator Sneaky Pie Brown, and starring that irrepressible crime-solving tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy.As the principal of St. Elizabeth's, an exclusive private school that caters to Crozet, Virginia's, best families, Roscoe Fletcher has proven himself to be a highly effective and vastly popular administrator. So when his obituary appears in the local paper, everyone in town is upset. Yet nothing compares to the shock they feel when they discover that Roscoe Fletcher isn't dead at all. Someone has stooped to putting a phony obituary in the newspaper. But is it a sick joke or a sinister warning?Only Mrs. Murphy, the canny tiger cat, senses the pure malice behind the act. And... Views: 22
The continuing epic of Earth's first space colonists--and their fight against a repressive government to reclaim their world in the name of freedom.From Publishers WeeklyHugo-winner Steele's stirring second entry in the interstellar frontier saga that began with Coyote (2002) dramatizes the growing tensions between groups of pioneers on Coyote, a recently discovered world in the 47 Ursae Majoris system. Coyote's first settlers fled tyranny on Earth, so they're disconcerted by the arrival of starships full of colonists sent by a different dictatorship. Unavoidable conflict between the people who want to be left alone and those who need to dominate leads to intrigue, raids and eventually full-scale revolt. Perhaps inevitably (since it was first published as a series of stories in Asimov's), the novel deals with scattered episodes from that struggle, so that characters appear, perform some necessary action, and vanish just as readers have gotten interested in them. However, Steele presents his characters convincingly enough to account for their selfless or calculating behavior, and it makes sense for the story to focus on larger social evolution rather than individuals. In any event, the book's real center is its setting. Coyote offers forests, mountains, prairies, rivers in a panorama strange enough to rouse awe, vast enough to give all manner of humans room to find themselves. Happily, by the end the little war is finished, but this big, wonderful world is still waiting to be explored. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistThe settlers on Coyote from the starship Alabama have a problem. Their fellow humans have followed them and now threaten their refuge with overpopulation and authoritarian governments. Under the name Rigil Kent, Carlos Montero is trying to assemble the human and other resources for a revolution, for which Captain R. E. Lee survives as an inspiring symbol. Meanwhile, the Reverend Zoltan Shirow contributes intelligently depicted messianic fervor to public life, with consequences yet to be determined. Those three characters, a good many lesser ones, and the situation as a whole smack distinctly of Heinlein, especially in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966), and the book is not entirely free of libertarian preaching. On the other hand, it is full of good and even vivid writing, so readers who don't reject on philosophical grounds the strand of the sf heritage that its proclivities represent may thoroughly enjoy it. Such nonrejecting readers are numerous; after all, Steele has two reader-bestowed Hugos to his credit. Roland GreenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Views: 22
Single father and
firefighter, Steve Rankin has every reason to distrust flighty people, given
the way his former girlfriend dropped their infant daughter on his doorstep six
years ago then left to ‘find herself.’ When the fortune-teller at the
Renaissance fair tells him there’s a woman who needs him, he rejects the
prediction as so much idiocy from a fraud who couldn’t even predict a fire in
time to save her booth from burning to the ground.
Shannon Perry isn’t
looking for love, despite her friend Nadya’s prediction that a man with broad
shoulders is in her future. It’s been years since Shannon has felt anything
except numb, so when desire stirs in her body for the sexy firefighter with the
adorable sprite of a daughter, stepping closer to the flames is too tempting to
resist. From the sparks of desire, the fire burns hot and fast for both of
them, but lessons learned the hard way could stand between them and a future
together.Hearts on Fire first appeared in the multi-author anthology, Seduction - One Fortune at a Time (Cupid Publishing Sept., 2014)
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TROOPER
A horse soldier, Rabbit is nothing but a grunt in the Royal Army of Iversterre. A lost grunt, seeing as how his unit can’t seem to find its way out of the mountains. But help comes from an unexpected source: a Faena—or “magical”—from the Border kingdom.
NOBLE
The Faena, a mountain cat named Laurel, blows Rabbit’s cover. Turns out he’s not just some poor Border farm boy turned trooper, but the son of Iversterre nobility. And their chance meeting is nothing of the kind. Laurel needs Rabbit’s help to stop a war.
MAGE
Smugglers from Iversterre have been making runs into the Border, killing its sacred beings. It’s enough to make even the calmest Border-born angry. Especially Rabbit. For he’s been keeping another secret about himself. And it’s about to explode—in a big way… The Border trounced Iversterre once. It will happen again. Unless Rabbit can keep his cool and learn the rules of a game he’s never wanted to play… Views: 21
Business is booming at Clare Cosi's Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare's life.
Now Clare will risk her heart — and her life — to follow the killer's trail to the bitter end. Views: 21
WOULD YOU MURDER A CHILD TO SAVE YOUR LIFE? NEW RELEASES 2017 – ACTION PACKED THRILLER FOR READERS WHO LOVE ADVENTURE STORIES LACED WITH INTRIGUE.A ten-year-old boy is pursued by Nazis while a shadowy New York syndicate wants him dead. A plane mysteriously disappears and is found fifty years later. In the post-war chaos, soldier-of-fortune Natalie, who killed for both sides in World War II, has to make an agonising choice. Execute the boy to save her own neck. Or hand him over to the Nazis. Why do the Nazis want the boy and who is he? As the suspense builds, the action races across three continents, from London to New York to California to Buenos Aires, and American agent Ben Peters stands alone against evil and his former lover.The latest book in the Ben Peters WWII Thriller series continues the fast-paced action-packed intrigue of his previous historical spy stories, In Pursuit Of Platinum and... Views: 21
During her lonely childhood in Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah wrote adventure stories to escape from her terrible step-mother and cruel siblings. The characters she created often became more real to her than her own family. In Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society, Adeline tells the story of Chinese Cinderella, a young girl who, after being thrown out of her home, has no choice but to go out and seek her own destiny. Soon she meets up with a group of children, all orphaned but each from a different background, who live with an old lady called Grandma Wu. Chinese Cinderella, or CC for short, decides her future after consulting an ancient book which helps to show her the way forward. And her choice takes her on a mission to save the lives of others. Based on a true-life incident during World War II. CC and the others bravely rescue a group of American pilots whose plane crashed after a bombing raid on Japan. Although her father is looking for her, CC knows that she can... Views: 21
