It's been ten years since Linwood Scott had to move back home to Mimosa Branch, Georgia the first time. Now, with her work in real estate at a stand-still because of the economy, and her ex-husband and his alimony payments (and his former stripper-current wife) nowhere to be seen, Linwood finds herself back in the place she'd never thought she'd be: the garage apartment next to her mother Mamie's mansion. But this time around things are different. It's not just Linwood that's ten years older. Her uncle and father are living in a home, and Mamie is working hard to take care of everything on her own (while still bossing around her nearest and dearest). Linwood's brother has cleaned up his act and turned over a new leaf. And there's a new Baptist preacher in town...who also happens to be handsome and divorced. While Linwood reconnects with Mimosa Branch and works to figure out what her next step will be, its family, love, and a sense of humor that will help guide her through... Views: 47
In Outback Engagement vet Tom Fleming has a problem with women — they want to marry him! After being featured in a magazine, he is surrounded by would-be wives, his ex and a hotshot reporter! Merriwee's new doctor, Anna Talbot, is beautiful...and engaged. So when Tom claims he gave her the ring, the fake fiancee ends all his woman troubles...except one, as Tom realizes that the woman he can't have is the only one he wants.In Outback Marriage Blythe Jones has to sit next to — and dance with! — the rude, challenging, dangerously attractive Cal Whitworth at a wedding. Then his plane crashes on the way back and the two doctors have to spend a night in the wild. Cal begs Blythe to work in his Outback practice while his broken arm heals, and for some reason Blythe agrees. In Outback Encounter Dr. Caitlin O'Shea's biggest problem is usually getting taken seriously as a research scientist. So she's not... Views: 47
CLASSIFIED INFORMATIONAgent's profile:Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)Real name: Napoleon Augustus SmytheAge: 11 years oldAssignment: Operation Battle BookController: Professor Juanita PerduDuty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgetsMission directive: To spy on the pastMission 7: Vampire Virus• BB005 is going back to the Battle of Cannae, 216 BC.• Mission objective: Stop the Vampire Virus that has contaminated this book and is spreading through the Battle Books. He needs a virus expert for this mission: meet BG01 - Battle Girl Views: 47
`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and sexual allure make him literally a 'lady-killer'. Polidori's tale introduced the vampire into English fiction, and launched a vampire craze that has never subsided. `The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838, including Edward Bulwer's chilling account of the doppelganger, Letitia Landon's elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William Carleton's terrifying description of an actual lynching, and James Hogg's ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2. Views: 47
Susan and Ed Middleton are perfectly content with their lives. Two kids, two cars, a solid brick bungalow in a respectable beaches suburb. They're good people, model citizens. There's barely a ripple in the surface of their happy existence. But when Susan's older sister, who vanished as a teenager, reappears to claim an inheritance, everything is set to change... Karen – now known as Carly – has had a tough time during the past twenty years: drugs, prostitution, prison. At least that's what she tells them. As Carly insinuates herself further and further into the Middleton's lives, suspicions are aroused – is she really Susan's sister, returned from the dead? If she isn't Karen, who is she? And, imposter or not, why is the Middleton's relaxed and comfortable world suddenly spinning way out of control? Views: 47
In a moment of desperation, ANGELA HOPKINS agrees to a scandalous bargain with a man she's never met. She's to become his mistress for the next three months. Angela quickly discovers she's made a deal with the infamous Devil Rogue. The wickedly handsome IAN MORELAND, the VISCOUNT BLACKRIDGE, has a reputation as a dangerous man, and also happens to be one of the most notorious rakes in London. He becomes suspicious following the mysterious death of a close friend, and vows to take revenge on the ones he believes responsible: The BARON EBERLY, and his beautiful, pampered daughter, Miss Angela Hopkins. Views: 47
It is spring, 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife — but this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac who has been placed by the King's council in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. Should he be released as his parents want, when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic? Then, when an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake promises his widow — for whom he has long had complicated feelings — to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to connections not only with the boy in Bedlam, but with Archbishop Cranmer and Catherine Parr, and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants, Shardlake, together with his assistant Jack Barak and his friend Guy Malton, follow the trail of a series of horrific murders that shake them to the core. Murders which are already bringing about frenzied talk of witchcraft and a demonic possession, for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer? Views: 47
Sometimes the sweet sounds of remembered melodies can reignite the heart...Jack and Claire Crabtree were once happily married, but separate interests have left each one dancing to their own tune. She refuses to move into the brand-new house he built for the family. He spends too much time at work with a colleague whom she considers a threat to any man's fidelity. When Jack is summoned back to Oklahoma to see his ailing grandpa Bud, Claire only makes the trip at the last minute.Bud and Geri Crabtree danced through life together for seventy years as friends, lovers and devoted spouses. They always knew what mattered most in life--and the laughter and tears come naturally when their family gathers together. And if Jack and Claire can remember the bond they once shared, they might be able to rediscover what's wonderful about love.... Views: 46
From the editors of the successful anthologies "The Hell With Love" and "Kiss Off" comes a third collection of poetry celebrating commitment, passion, and everlasting love. Two-color text. Views: 46
