Azazel vowed never to tell Jason that she and Jude accidentally ingested the aphrodisiac and had sex, but now she's pregnant with Jude's child, and she can't keep the secret from him anymore.Jason never intended to harm any other redheaded girls, but he finds himself compelled to stalk them and capture them. He can't let anyone find out.But Imri knows Jason's secret, and he also knows that Azazel's unborn child is powerful—too powerful to be allowed to live. He will do everything he can to get at that child, no matter what he exposes, no matter who he destroys.And despite their pain and confusion, Jason and Azazel must rally together to protect this child. Because no matter what, two things are true about them.Their love cannot be broken.And they will always survive. Views: 21
Cy Williams, thirteen, has always known that he and the other black folks on Strong's plantation have to obey white men, no question. Sure, he's free, as black people have been since his grandfather's day, but in rural Georgia, that means they're free to be whipped, abused, even killed. Almost four years later, Cy yearns for that freedom, such as it was. Now he's a chain gang laborer, forced to do backbreaking work, penned in and shackled like an animal, brutalized, beaten, and humiliated by the boss of the camp and his hired overseers. For Cy and the boys he's chained to, there's no way out, no way back. And then hope begins to grow in him, along with strength and courage he didn't know he had. Cy is sure that a chance at freedom is worth any risk, any sacrifice. This powerful, moving story opens a window on a painful chapter in the history of race relations. Views: 21
Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancée, Elizabeth. He's barely kept his job at his father's company---Detroit Electric, 1910's leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth's new fiancé and Will's one-time friend, John Cooper, asks Will to meet him at the car factory. He finds Cooper dead, crushed in a huge hydraulic roof press. Surprised by the police, Will panics and runs, leaving behind his cap and automobile, and buries his blood-spattered clothing in a garbage can.What follows is a fast-paced, detail-filled ride through early-1900s Detroit, involving murder, blackmail, organized crime, the development of a wonderful friendship, and the inside story on early electric automobiles. Through it all, Will learns that clearing himself of the crime he was framed for is only the beginning. To survive, and for his loved ones to survive, he must also become a man.The Detroit Electric Scheme is... Views: 21
She was the hero. Now she is the enemy.Jesse Sullivan has defeated her father and saved the world from his malevolence. But as the beloved face of The Unified Church, his death has made him a martyr and she is once again public enemy number one.Yet it isn't the countless government agencies and freelance assassins hunting her that she should fear. It is the entity powerful enough to reclaim what she has stolen and make our world its own.Scroll up and purchase your copy of this riveting conclusion to the Dying for a Living series. Views: 21
So, Elites, it's your move, or the next will be checkmate. He is now number one, but how much longer can Daniel cheat death? Views: 21
"Illywhacker is such an astonishing novel, of such major proportions, that before saying anything else one must record gratitude for its existence." – Geoffrey Dutton, Bulletin "The finest and funniest picaresque novel yet written in Australia" – Peter Pierce National Times "A great tottering tower of a novel which stands up astonishingly against all the odds." – Victoria Glendinning, London Sunday Times "It is impossible to convey in a review the cumulative brilliance and accelerating hilarity of the prose." – Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books "Awesome breadth, ambition and downright narrative joy…Illywhacker is a triumph." – Curt Suplee, Washington Post "A sprawling, inventive and deeply absorbing saga…It is also one of the funniest, most vividly depicted, most entertainingly devious and bitterly insightful pieces of fiction to be published in recent years." – Alida Becker Newsday Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them… Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel… If you haven't been to Australia, read Illywhacker. It will give you the feel of it like nothing else I know." – The New York Times Book ReviewIn Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character – especially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies.As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere."A book of awesome breadth, ambition, and downright narrative joy… Illywhacker is a triumph." – Washington Post Book World Views: 21
Would you sacrifice love for a greater cause?After months on the run, Olivia has changed forever, but even more than she, the clone she's fallen in love with has transformed, and not for the better. Buried deep inside Axel is a different personality, one that only shows when he is handed power. He's got that now and much more. Axel is convinced Olivia is his reason for living, and he will do anything to hold onto her and the freedom he's won—no matter the cost. Marcus Axis is searching for his wife. When he finally finds her, letting go is the last thing he plans to do. But is he after total control of Aeropia, territory which Olivia and Axel hold, to add to the land he's already claimed, or does he speak the truth when he told her he wants a family and he wants it with her? Is she the only way to heal a fractured country as he claims? Torn between the man of her past and the one who could change the future by fusing Aeropia back together, Olivia is... Views: 21
