Whose Bride Is She Anyway? is the most popular reality show on TV, featuring a bride, twenty potential hunk 'o licious grooms, a jury, and a whole lot of cash at the end of the matrimonial aisle. The rules? Spend a month on a tropical island (as if you didn't know that) and let a jury of your peers and one high school friend choose your man for life. If you can manage to stay married for a year¬ you get the booty. A million bucks. Tara Douglas doesn't care about the booty. Once taunted and humiliated for being an overweight geek, Tara is now a svelte thirty-something looking for revenge and it ain't as the bride. The bride is Kelsey Little, ex Evanston High cheerleader and all 'round bitch. Kelsey was responsible for Tara's ultimate humiliation in high school. Tara wants to be picked to become jury foreman and head up the groom-picking task force, choosing a groom that will leave Kelsey cryin' in her Miss Clairol. Her quest for revenge takes an unexpected course when she meets August Guthrie, a contestant on the show. August is the forbidden fruit¬--jury members aren't supposed to dip their hand in the hunk jar and Tara could be caught elbow deep, not only in August Guthrie heaven, but in the guilt she begins to feel for ever wanting petty revenge. August, a former dork himself, came to Whose Bride Is She Anyway? to win the woman he thought was his high school wet dream. He wants to prove to Kelsey that he's no longer just the A he helped her get in English and guess what? August ain't a geek anymore either. Then he meets Tara Douglas and all of a sudden, the ex pom-pom queen of August's lusty, adolescent dreams becomes a big, fat, blonde nightmare. Tara and Augustshare chemistry, hell they have biology and trigonometry too, and it's a force that can't be denied, unless little things like sabotage, treachery, deceit, clandestine meetings and an airtight contract that could leave you bankrupt with the paparazzi breathing down your neck for an eternity are a problem? Views: 32
Separated by a decade and 200 points on their SAT scores, Jack and Connor Reed have a life in the Cleveland suburbs held together by spit and Chinese takeout. With his self-absorbed, over-the-hill parents dead by his twenty-fifth birthday, Jack has abandoned his own plans and returned to his parents' house where he works marathon hours at his late father's law firm, beds young paralegals, and throws money and advice at his teenage brother. Connor meanwhile wants nothing more than to leave the Midwest, start a family early, and do everything the way his parents didn't. But over the years, through the car crashes and bad breakups, the illnesses and illicit affairs, both realize that while circumstances are sometimes beyond control, there are always choices to be made. Family and Other Accidents tells the story of these brothers from their viewpoints as well as from those of their girlfriends, wives, and children. It is a story of what it means to be a family, to love... Views: 32
Tevi and Jemeryl, soldier and sorceress, must risk all in the race to uncover a traitor and retrieve the chalice that, in the wrong hands, could bestow dangerous powers.A dark presence is threatening to uncover long hidden secrets, and the future of the whole Protectorate is at stake. Without allies to help them, Tevi and Jemeryl will need to rely totally on each other; something made all the more difficult when the rest of the world seems intent on pulling them apart. Events will force them to re-evaluate their assumptions about society and their places in it. Success will require making difficult choices, even while they battle for their lives. Views: 32
Rachel Summers is tired of living in the closet with her partner Kerri Tabor. She yearns for the excitement of a big city where they can be open about their relationship, but Kerri is reluctant to leave Wilson Point. Kerri informs her that if she leaves, then their relationship is over. Rachel sets out on her own to New York City, refusing to believe that Kerri has broken up with her, and assuming Kerri will be only too happy to join her after she settles in. Rachel lands a job, nice affordable apartment and a new friend Angela, but longs for Kerri. Views: 32
At 2:45 am on the humid summer morning of July 18, 2010 Jeffrey Dryden, a 28 year-old male returned home after hanging out with his twin brother. In the moments that followed, evidence indicates that his live-in 21 year-old girlfriend stabbed Jeff in the neck as he attempted to flee from her after an altercation erupted over her cell phone. This book tells the story of his abuse and murder Views: 32
Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough is bound for Scotland to explore her genealogical roots along with her friend Laura, not to mention a tour group full of unusual travel mates. But when two empty coffins mysteriously appear in the church in the small town where the group is staying-though none of the locals have died-things take a turn for the macabre. And when the bodies of two Americans are discovered occupying the coffins, MacLaren finds herself back on the job. Can she tie it all together, before she winds up in a coffin of her own? Views: 32
One charming B&B. Six grandchildren. One litter of puppies...The late, great Mary Janet Cantrell hoped that her family would return to their hometown and find comfort, happiness— and maybe even love. But what will it take for her wishes to come true??NEVER SAY NEVERParker Cantrell is a Baltimore-based homicide detective who has seen too many bad things to believe in happy endings. But when he returns to Sweetland to retrieve the puppy he inherited, only to share in a night of unexpected passion with gorgeous hometown girl Drew Sidney, his mind is blown. How could something like this have happened—to him, of all people? And then, as they say, there were three...WHEN IT COMES TO LOVEDrew could never have imagined that legendary heartthrob Parker would come back to Sweetland, let alone into her flower shop...and into her bed. Now that she's carrying his child, Drew's life is about to... Views: 32
VOLUME THREE OF THE BORDER TRILOGY In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable. 'In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession. McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle' Scotsman 'This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s' Daily Telegraph 'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian Views: 32
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Clare Cosi-s new friend, millionaire David Mintzer, has an offer no New York barista could turn down: an all-expenses-paid summer away from the sticky city. At his Hamptons mansion, she-ll relax, soak up the sun, and, oh yes, train the staff of his new restaurant. So Clare packs up her daughter, her former mother-in-law, and her special recipe for iced coffee-for what she hopes will be one de-latte-ful summer- Soon, Clare tends the coffee bar at her first Hamptons gala. But the festivities come to a bitter end when an employee turns up dead in David-s bathroom-a botched attempt on the millionaire-s life. Thanks to the Fourth of July fireworks no one heard any gunshots, and the police are stuck in holiday traffic. Concerned for everyone-s safety, Clare begins to investigate. What she finds will keep her up at night-and it-s not the java jitters- Views: 32
