Nicknamed after his hometown of Kakabeka, Canada, Kak dreams of flying with the Allied bombers in World War II. So at 16, underage and desperate to escape his abusive parents, he enlists in the Canadian Air Force. Soon he is trained as a wireless operator and sent to a squadron in England, where he's unabashedly gung ho about flying his first op. He thinks the night ops over Germany will be like the heroic missions of his favorite comic-book heroes. Good will vanquish evil. But his first time out, in a plane called B for Buster, reveals the ops for what they really are--a harrowing ordeal.The bombing raids bring searchlights . . . artillery from below . . . and night fighters above hunting to take the bombers down. One hit, Kak knows, and B for Buster, along with him and his six crewmates, could be destroyed.Kak is terrified.He can't confide his feelings to his crew, since he's already worried that they'll find out his age. Besides, none of... Views: 68
Former probation and child welfare officer Mavis Davis wants to prove she can succeed as a PI. When her young associate takes on the case of a missing teenager, she reluctantly agrees to spend a couple of days searching for the girl. Views: 68
Everyone in the world has a Spark, a light inside that guides them, keeps them alive."Myxini School for Children specializes in training young men and women who have powerful Sparks. Strikers are taught to manipulate fire. Trackers learn to find animals in the most formidable terrains. Handlers are instructed in communication with large predators. But forty years have passed since the last time they had a Reader - a student with the ability to read minds. When Lark Davies enrolls at Myxini, he knows there aren't many like him, but he doesn't realize just how rare his abilities really are. He thinks nothing of being asked to keep his Spark a secret; after all, he can barely control it. Thoughts and emotions flood unbidden into his mind until he can scarcely walk or hold a conversation. But just when he needs it most, his ability fails him. Larks meets Khea, a small frightened girl who mysteriously insights his protective nature. He has no explanation for the curious strength of their relationship, and it doesn't help that she is one of the few people in the world whose thoughts can't be read. As he struggles to get to the root of their unique bond, Lark begins to unravel more power than even his mentor expected, but in the process makes himself a target to political leaders eager to take control. Views: 68
For twenty years, a half-crazed albino has been scheming to recover $30,000 in gold coin buried in Doubtful Canon. But a number of setbacks have kept Whitey Grey from claiming the prize—Apache, Mexican bandits, rustlers, thieves, bushwhackers and the like. Even if he did manage to get through the treacherous territory, the gold is stashed in a hole so narrow only a child could get through. Then Whitey meets three enterprising twelve-year-olds craving adventure, and a plan begins to take shape…Notorious gunfighters Curly Bill Brocious and Johnny Ringo have other ideas for that gold. So does Eleora Giddings, a young woman seeking her father’s grave. Add to that a band of Apaches fleeing the San Carlos reservation, and there will be plenty adventure for all in a mad race for the money. Views: 68
Stephen McEvoy never expected to fill his father’s U.S. Senate seat at such a young age—or to fight to keep it. When clever Anne Norwood interns in his office, Stephen dismisses her as another pretty face—until her independent streak catches his attention. They’re both too smart to fall for one another, yet they do. During a tough election, their relationship is an impossible political gamble. Campaigns—like love—are either won or lost. Views: 68
Victor LaValle has already established himself as “one of the most eloquent voices of the approaching century” (Kirkus Reviews), a writer of darkly humorous tales full of haunting beauty, astonishing leaps of imagination, and language that “crackles and hums” (Chicago Tribune). The Ecstatic is LaValle’s debut novel, a startling tale of love, horror, sex, insanity, faith, morbid obesity, and the modern American family. Something is wrong with Anthony—our 318-pound hero—and it’s getting worse. A monster has caught his uncle and his mother; now it wants Anthony. Mental illness has been transmitted through his family’s blood. The three women in his life—his mother, younger sister, and grandmother—find him naked and disoriented in his off-campus college apartment and take him home to Queens, each determined to fix him in her own peculiar way. But his presence soon turns their house into a semisuburban asylum. Sweet but wickedly sarcastic, smart and heartbreakingly vulnerable, Anthony narrates his family’s surreal adventures through a world of grinning exploitation and fake cures, from storefront evangelists and neighborhood loan sharks to bogus beauty pageants and bootleg medical clinics. He corresponds with a dreadlocked Japanese militant, is haunted by a vicious pack of dogs, and tries to make his own horror movie, all in search of an answer to a question he doesn’t dare ask. Written in the tradition of misfit picaresques from Journey to the End of the Night and Invisible Man to A Confederacy of Dunces and The World According to Garp, The Ecstatic is the revelatory story of a family trying to save themselves from a ravenous world and their own unraveling minds. Views: 68
Finding your other half is the most difficult journey anyone can undertake. It gets doubly so if you aren't exactly normal. Connor and Sarah both have this same problem, but for different reasons. Their fated encounter will turn their world, and that of many others, upside down. Her abilities and his strength set them apart, but also bring them together like no other. Views: 68
An infrasound echo a snowy fall morning grows into a cacophony, which launches Lieutenant Colonel Alexandra “The Fey” Hargreaves and the Fey Team into action. As pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, the Fey Team divides to resolve multiple crises. Finally home, forces beyond their control push loving friends to violence and murder, leaving Alex in a pool of blood. Views: 68
