Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. Book of Longing demonstrates the range and depth of Cohen's work, revealing an extraordinary gift of language and visual art that speak with rare clarity, passion and timelessness. Views: 70
Karl Connors works the graveyard shift at GlobalCom as a carpet cleaner. One night he witnesses the murder of a friend at the hands of one of the company's CEOs, but he keeps his mouth shut, fearing for his and his wife's lives. Now a shadowy organization known as NanoTech wants to retrieve Karl's memory in order to bring down GlobalCom, and the lowly carpet cleaner is caught between powerful forces with no fear of erasing Karl and his wife completely.Also includes novella “The Con Artists” and short story “The Cuda.”Total Word Count: 34,000 Views: 70
A collection of wacky jokes, riddles, puns, and anecdotes about America's favorite pastime is gathered by a favorite young sports fiction writer and is guaranteed to liven up locker rooms and baseball diamonds alike. Views: 70
It s late November along the shores of northern Lake Michigan. Deer season has been open for a few days and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. A local TV anchorwomen is returning home from an early morning yoga class with her young twin daughters. She stops at the end of her drive and climbs out of her car to collect the mail from the box. As she turns back toward her vehicle, the bullet from a high caliber weapon tears through her chest. In this third book in this series, Sheriff Ray Elkins confronts both the dark history of his own department and powerful and wealthy adversaries who try to control the direction and reach of his investigation. Views: 70
Most people think The Zone is an amusement park, but Candy Thompson
knows it's really a slave labor camp. What else would you call a summer
job that requires a sixteen-year-old girl to set aside her whole social
life for the privilege of standing out in the hot sun selling cotton
candy? Still, there are perks---particularly the mysterious hunk in the
Lone Ranger costume. Behind that mask are the most amazing eyes Candy
has ever seen. Who is that masked man? But someone else is just as
interested. And romantic competition isn't the only problem. Besides
being hard work, The Zone is eating up major time. How is Candy supposed
to stay involved in church? Worse yet, will she lose her best friend,
Tamara, who resents how Candy's job limits their time together? This is
NOT the summer Candy hoped for! But as she is about to discover, the
summer of cotton candy will be the greatest summer of her life. Views: 70
A Room with a View... of the Morgue! Views: 70
Remo and Chiun join forces with Harold Smith and his crime-fighting organization in their battle against an artificial intelligence computer chip called Friend that hijacks CURE's computer system and holds the world hostage to technoterrorism. Views: 70
Easy part of his day? Resurrecting the dead. Hard part? Keeping them alive. Kaede is a witch whose family has been bound to a powerful House for over a thousand years. And he hates it. Despite the fact that his lord, Tarou, murdered his mother, Kaede is sworn never to harm the man who could kill him with just seven words. Now he’s been commanded to use his unique powers to resurrect Tarou’s wife from the dead, and he has no choice but to comply. Things go horribly wrong when he accidentally pulls the wrong soul back. Now it’s not just his own life he must try to save. Vara’s day couldn’t get much more bizarre. One moment she’s a captain in the Temple Guard. The next, she finds herself transported into a world of magic and witches—and stuffed into the body of a lord’s wife. Unwillingly plunged into middle of a deadly power struggle, the only one Vara can turn to is Kaede, the witch responsible for dragging her into this alien world. A witch she finds far too attractive… Warning: This book contains the following; magic, witches and more body-swapping than is safely sane. Views: 70
