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Seventeen-year-old Avery Ross is unwittingly tossed out of the frying pan and into the fire when she's sent from New York to the vast nowhere land of western North Dakota, with a train ticket, a bad attitude, and an unfortunate scribbling of obscenities across her forehead. When a hazel-eyed boy with a sultry Texan accent comes to her defense against a train passenger, she has no clue that their chance encounter will lead her into a stormy summer, full of temptation and loss where she ends up imparting sweet revenge on her parents and trying to win the boy of her dreams.While under the impression she's being sentenced to punishment working at her aunt's boardinghouse outside of Williston, Avery recognizes a connection between her aunt and the striking boy's family. He and his nearly identical brothers are seeking revenge for the wrongful death of their oldest sibling and Avery becomes entangled in their vengeful battle over oil rights, loyalty and love. She falls for the brooding Gabriel Halden, the youngest of the brothers, against her aunt's forewarnings, and unfolds more tribulation than any of them can anticipate. Views: 29
No one conducts a more
chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding
corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of
psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling “master of the
psychological thriller” (People). Now the incomparable team of
psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their
most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high
and blood runs cold.It’s a story tailor-made for the nightly
news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting
students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the
two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and
terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor. The
details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple
was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a
horrific regimen of confinement, starvation and assault. But
before long, doubts arise about the couple’s story, and as forensic
details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. Charged as criminals
themselves, the aspiring actors claim emotional problems, and the court
orders psychological evaluation for both. Michaela is examined
by Alex Delaware, who finds that her claims of depression and stress
ring true enough. But they don’t explain her lies, and Alex is certain
that there are hidden layers in this sordid psychodrama that even he
hasn’t been able to penetrate.Nevertheless, the case is
closed–only to be violently reopened when Michaela is savagely murdered.
When the police look for Dylan, they find that he’s gone. Is he the
killer or a victim himself? Casting their dragnet into the murkiest
corners of L.A., Delaware and Sturgis unearth more questions than
answers–including a host of eerily identical killings. What really
happened to the couple who cried wolf? And what bizarre and brutal
epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness, and sudden, twisted
death? Views: 29
From AE Publications comes 8 dirty stories, featuring hardcore graphic sex, anal, alpha males, femdom, lesbians, threesomes, romance, bdsm, rough sex and more. Adults only. 18+ Views: 29
Tired of his life as a globe-trotting journalist, and desperate to finish his latest novel, writer Derek Lambert decides to settle with his new wife and young son in a mouldering casita nestled among citrus groves inland of the Costa Blanca. As he sets about restoring his house and learning to live the ordinary life of a Spanish villager, Lambert introduces us to a Spain far removed from the tourist traps and thumping discos of the Costas, and soon discovers that adapting to this new life is not as easy as he imagined. He employs a roofer who's afraid of heights, a plumber confounded by a blocked pipe and bumbles through Spanish lessons with a mocking classmate who challenges him to a public arm-wresting contest. Then just when it seems that nothing more could go wrong, the Lamberts face Spain's first snowstorm in many years. Written in the jaunty, anecdotal style of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, this is a warm, affectionate and often hilarious... Views: 29
Take a leisurely tour across the Buckeye State with author Randy McNutt to a massive swamp that swallowed pioneers' wagons, a haunted prison, a faded German utopia, a town where they still chase horse thieves, a marriage mecca, a village where Buster the dog voted Republican, and a myriad of abandoned "ghost towns" and small cities. In Lost Ohio McNutt, who has devoted his career to uncovering forgotten Ohio and its spirited inhabitants, continues his travels around the state in an attempt to discover vanishing traces of our lives--celebrations, motels, road art, drive-in theaters, traditions, inventions, folk tales, battlefields, and forts. His journeys rediscover missing pieces of our past that reflect a state of mind as well as a collection of landscapes. McNutt's vanishing Ohio is a place where rural America converges with small cities and fading history and disappearing culture, lost to burgeoning technology, global economy, technological immediacy, and time. He visits Fizzleville, Sodaville, and Footville; the hollow, metal globe that is the final resting place of Captain John C. Symmes, who theorized that the earth was hollow and access to the core was through the polar caps; the Mansfield Reformatory, Ohio's largest and toughest haunted house; Waynesville, home of the Ohio Sauerkraut Festival; and Harry Dearwester, the "carny" who guesses peoples' weight with 90 percent accuracy. This serious but offbeat journey around Ohio will appeal to those interested in heritage tourism, Americana, Ohio history and lore, and back roads and small-town life. Views: 29
The Conjurer's Bird is a beautiful story in the spirit of Possession that is as exciting as The Club Dumas, inspired by one of the great puzzles of natural history: that of the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta. Seen only once, in 1774, by Captain Cook's second expedition to the South Seas, a single specimen was captured, preserved, and brought back to England. The bird was given to famed naturalist Joseph Banks, who displayed it proudly in his collection until its sudden, unexplained disappearance.Two hundred years later, naturalists continue to wonder if the world will ever get another glimpse of the elusive bird. Were it not for a colored drawing done by the ship's artist, there would be nothing to say that the bird had ever existed.The Conjurer's Bird is a gripping literary mystery and passionate love story that tackles the intrigue surrounding the celebrated Banks, his secret affair with an enigmatic woman known only as "Miss B," and the... Views: 29
P.I. PROTECTOR As a child, Elsie Timmons had barely escaped Wildcat Manor with her life. As an adult, she'd mysteriously inherited the crumbling structure, ghosts and all. Now, after a lifetime spent running from her past, Elsie was ready to confront her demons and expose the orphanage's long-buried secrets...until Deke Falcon threw a wrench in her plans. The enigmatic P.I. was hired to reunite her with the mother she'd never known, but before she could return with Deke to Falcon Ridge, evil forces threatened the future Elsie only recently considered. Luckily, she had Deke on her side -- for protection, for comfort...forever? Views: 29
The latest adventure for glamorous Roman sleuth Claudia. Blackmailed into investigating the murder of a child in south-west Gaul, Claudia is plunged into a bizarre world of nature priestesses, known as the Hundred-Handed. She soon finds there is a darker force at work; the Scorpion, master of disguise, is as cunning as he is ruthless. No one betrays this man and lives. Too late, Claudia discovers it was the Scorpion who lured her to Gaul in the first place . . .Blackmailed into investigating the murder of a child in southwest Gaul, Claudia is plunged into a bizarre world of nature priestesses, but as sinister as this is, an even darker force is at work. A master of disguise, the Scorpion is as cunning as he is ruthless. No one betrays this man and lives. Too late, Claudia discovers it was the Scorpion who lured her to Gaul in the first place. Views: 29
