Life can seem so unchanging in a small village. Some people can remain content with this their whole lives, while others thirst for change and want to broaden their horizons. Can true love overcome this need for change and keep you rooted? In Now My Life Begins, this is the dilemma faced by Jenny Barstow, who has grown up in Watsworth, England watching her mother live out her adult years as a servant at Watsworth Mansion. She vows to break family tradition and climb up the ladder to a better position in life. The problem is, her childhood friend and true love, Tim McKitterek, is chained to Watsworth, supporting his mother and family after the disappearance of his father. Now their dream of leaving Watsworth and building a new life together is destroyed, and it is up to Jenny to live the dream alone and give herself the future that she has always strived for. Jenny is a brave, intelligent young woman, and when opportunity knocks on her door after the death of her mother, she... Views: 56
Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. In China Miéville's award-winning novella 'The Tain', we learn the reason for the invaders' terrible revenge. One survivor must trek through the ruins of the city with a desperate plan to stand against their assault. In addition to 'The Tain', this superb collection contains thirteen short stories, of visionary cityscapes and urban paranoia, ghosts, monsters and impossible diseases. Several of the stories are published here for the first time: these include one set in New Crobuzon, the location of the award-winning series of novels that began with Perdido Street Station; and one in comic-strip form, illustrated by top graphic artist Liam Sharp. This collection displays the sheer imaginative scope of China Miéville's work. Views: 56
'UPROARIOUS ... REMINISCENT OF CLOCHEMERLE BUT WITH A COMIC TOUCH ALL ITS OWN' DAILY MIRROR It must have been the long distance call of all time when Father Benoit picked up his phone - still trembling from the steamy confession of the nubile 17-year-old Mile. Laplace - and found himself talking to God! God's message was simple, straightforward and utterly devastating. He was planning a new Flood to purge sinful creation. Benoit's village of St. Pierre-des-Monts had been chosen to survive the deluge. The good padre's instructions - from the very highest authority - were to start work at once on a new Ark ... 'A FROLIC ... FUN AND FARCE AND ROBUST PEASANT HUMOUR' DAILY TELEGRAPH Views: 56
When the Duke of Danby comes to London for the Season, anything can happen!Jerrica Knight-Catania's Flirting With Scandal ~Esther Whitton has gladly spent the last few months enjoying the quiet calmness of a Yorkshire winter, devouring books and attempting to keep herself from falling for a man she knows she can never have. But when her Great-uncle Danby announces they're all going to London for the Season, she decides it's time to step out of her comfort zone and follow her heart before it's given away to another.Timothy Hargood knows his place is in servitude, and therefore pining after a woman destined to be the wife of a peer is completely pointless. But when she makes the first advances, how can he resist?Star-crossed from the start, this unlikely pair must try to find a way to be together, even if it means thwarting the all-powerful Duke of Danby to do so.Claudia Dain's The Husband Hunt ~Miss Julia Whitton is in London to find a husband, but only the proper sort of husband,... Views: 56
Everyone said the original Titanic was unsinkable. Shows how much they knew.
Everyone says the new Titanic is unsinkable. But there are worse things than drowning as stowaway Jimmy Armstrong and rich girl Claire quickly find out.
With a mysterious, incurable disease rapidly infecting the population, being at sea seems the safest place to be. . . Views: 56
Ramona Quimby is sure fourth grade will be "the best year of her life, so far." She can show off her calluses from swinging on the rings in the park, sit across the aisle from the boy she calls Yard Ape, and enjoy her cheerful new teacher, Mrs. Meacham. Most exciting of all, Ramona has a new best friend, Daisy.Fourth grade doesn't turn out quite the way Ramona has hoped. Mrs. Meacham wants her to improve her spelling. Ramona also must be a good role model for her baby sister, Roberta. And Mrs. Quimby wants her to spend more time with, the super-perfect Susan. Fourth-grade life isn't always easy, but it's full of adventure, and at the end of it all- a "zeroteenth" birthday to celebrate! Views: 56
To claim the woman he loves, he will have to be the Dom she desires. Views: 56
From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon's first collection of poems. That Mark Haddon's first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here -- the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism -- but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 56
