Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching autobiographical novel destined to become a classic American coming-of-age story.The place is Albany, New York. The year is 1936. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and their spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned--again--by his father, a charmer and a con artist. With no money and no family willing to take them in, the LaPointes manage to create a fragile nest at 238 North Pearl Street. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish slum, with its ward heelers, unemployment, and grinding poverty. As Jean-Luc discovers, it's a neighborhood of "crazyladies": Miss Cox, the feared and ridiculed teacher who ignites his imagination; Mrs. Kane, who runs a beauty parlor/fortune-telling salon in the back of her husband's grocery store; Mrs. Meehan, the desperate, harried... Views: 52
Mrs. Zajac is feisty, funny, and tough. She likes to call herself an "old-lady schoolteacher." (She is thirty-four.) Around Kelly School, she is famous for her discipline: "She is mean, bro," says one of her students. But children love her. And so will the reader of this extraordinarily moving book by the author of House and The Soul of a New Machine. Mrs. Zajac spends her working life "among schoolchildren." To some it might seem a small world, a world of spelling and recess and endless papers to correct. But we soon realize that Mrs. Zajac's classroom is big enough to house much of human nature. Her little room contains a distillate of some of the worst social problems of our time. Some of the children's young lives seem already stunted by physical and emotional deprivation. And some are full of precarious promise. As we come to know these children, we long for their salvation — and we come to understand, as if for the first... Views: 52
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **"That Bride On The Run Is Just Begging To Be Slowed Down."--Bandera Jefferson** When Holly Henshaw, wedding planner extraordinaire, left her no-good fiancé at the altar, she decided then and there: no more true love. Adventure, excitement, freedom--that's what she wanted. She'd change her business, change her life...and if she was lucky, she'd kiss a cowboy along the way. That's when she flagged down Bandera Jefferson, a long, tall Texan offering her a ride into the sunset...and much, much more. Ornery, possessive and sexy as the dickens, he was making wild-at-heart Holly think she just might *like* belonging to Bandera. Views: 52
It's a quiet house, sheltered, standing in a mass of tangled old trees called the Holtwood. Raymond watches it. He's been watching it, through a gap in the fence at the bottom of the garden, for weeks. Thinking about the elderly owners, Mr and Mrs Latch, who took him in one night when he was a frightened boy caught up in an emergency. Mr Latch showed him something that was kept in a wardrobe in the spare room. He can't remember what it was. He only knows how sick it made him feel. Raymond watches Holt House. He has to remember what he saw. He has to get inside. Views: 52
Fooling Around by Linda Turner Before inheriting half a detective agency, Josie London's only adventures came courtesy of her favorite books. Now, suddenly she was donning disguises and teaming up with her new partner, Wiley Valentine, to trail a mobster -- a man who'd use any means necessary to stop their investigation. The Man in the Shadows by Ingrid Weaver Private investigator Erika Balogh is obsessed with a dead man. NYPD detective Sloan Morrissey has been missing for a year, but Erika is sure she's spotted his powerful form stalking the dark streets...sure she's inhaled his scent in her bedroom. Is she going crazy -- or is her lover still alive? A Midsummer Night's Murder by Julie Miller When English professor Hannah Greene is recruited to accompany a university group on an extreme-adventure wilderness hike, she just prays she'll survive the trek through the mountains. Especially when one by one, people start dying. In order to stay alive, she'll have to join forces with mountain guide Rafe Kincaid and find the killer among them. Views: 52
The Four Horseman are trapped in the world they desolated. Their only purpose now is to exist amongst the ruins. All of that changes with a small group of survivors...The seal was broken, and Hell was unleashed. Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death rode over the earth, creating a super-virus that turned humans into bloodthirsty monsters, opening a path for demons, decimating nearly all natural life, causing chaos and death throughout the world.Now that their duties have been preformed, the Four Horsemen have disbanded, reduced to human bodies and trapped in the world they destroyed. No longer the Horseman Pestilence, Avery wanders through the waste he created, slaying any undead monsters and demons that cross his path. But when Avery comes across a group of survivors looking for a safe haven, his priorities begin to change. Not that the demons are going to let him stand in the way of their plans.Avery ended the world once, and he refuses to see the demons end it again. But to... Views: 52
SUMMARY: As children, Molly, Lena and Tessa McBride witnessed their parents' murder-suicide. That life-changing moment shaped their future in unimaginable ways, but was unable to destroy the ties between them. Molly chose a life of helping others, through her work as a nun. But her determination to do good cannot prevent darkness from touching her life . . . or make her forget the man she secretly loves: her sister's husband. Lena longs for intimacy, but fears again losing someone she loves -- until she meets Dr. Reece Longworth. His belief in her makes her willing to try to open her heart again. But by the time she learns to love him, will it be too late? Adopted as a baby, Tessa McBride remembers little of her sisters, but feels the effects of their parents' deaths as keenly. She seeks fame, but finds herself caught by a man whose promise of love comes with terrible consequences. Tragedy tore them apart. Now tragedy will bring the sisters together again, offering them the chance to find happiness in sorrow . . . if they choose. Views: 52
Go Fish!Senna McCallum was never close to her grandfather, so when he leaves her his new business--a rustic Labrador fishing retreat--she's shocked, to say the least. Especially when she discovers there's a catch: he owns only half the business. The other half belongs to a man named Jack Hanson.All Senna wants to do is get in, sell her share and get out. But it isn't quite that easy. For one thing, Jack's not the old man she assumed he was. He's thirtysomething, handsome and stubborn. For another, Senna finds herself increasingly drawn to Jack's way of life. As they work to make the fishing lodge a success, she begins to wonder if she wants to be more than just his business partner.... Views: 52
