A dazzlingly rich and funny novel by "a real China doll" (Entertainment Weekly) Rachel DeWoskin is a writer who has been lauded for her "razor-sharp descriptions" (The Wall Street Journal), her "considerable cultural and linguistic resources" (The New Yorker), and her rare ability to offer a "real insider's look at life in modern China" (The Economist). Now DeWoskin, author of the laughout-loud funny and poignant Foreign Babes in Beijing, returns with a new novel about modern China and one American girl's struggle to find herself there. Aysha is a twenty-two-year-old New Yorker putting the pieces of her life back in place after her parents' divorce and her own nervous breakdown when a young Chinese student named Da Ge flips her world upside-down. In a love story that spans decades and continents, from the Tiananmen Square incident to 9/11, New York City's Upper West Side to the terraced mountains of South China, Repeat After Me gives readers an alternately funny and painful glimpse of life and loss in between languages. Views: 22
Ellen, Eartha, Marybeth, and Windy plan a vacation at a B&B to celebrate their college graduations. Instead, the week became a nightmare that was frightening and real. Fear and a destructive hurricane that produced snakes and crocodiles were the least of their problems.Murder, blackmail, treachery, and a reckless love ran through the lives and dreams of the B&B Black Bayou and the citizens of the tiny town of Cotton nearby. One by one, the young women begin to disappear. Was one of the Black Bayou family behind it? Was the petite grandmother as dangerous as the history she related to them? Or the brothers...one kind, one a black sheep, behind it all? The mysterious aunt with a hidden past...what else did she hide? Countless places and people have secrets. The cruel father of an unloved little boy blamed for his mother's death. The itinerate family returned. A colored man with mental deficiencies. A strange hotel manager. A cafe owner suspected of murdering her husband. Any one of them...who knew the answers. ** Warning: This book contains extreme violence, rape, F/F, and BDSM. ** BookStrand Erotic Romance Views: 22
Last summer, three very different girls--wild Murphy, perfect Leeda, and shy Birdie--etched their initials on a Magnolia tree at Darlington Peach Orchard to symbolize that they're friendship will last forever. But can it survive the less-than-peachy year ahead?Murphy, more in love with Rex than ever, is torn between her big-city dreams and following her heart . . . all the way across the railroad tracks and into Rex's arms.Leeda, nominated to be Bridgewater's Pecan Queen, basks in the rose-scented glow of her Ice Queen mother's sudden affection--until her sister, the princess, returns. Birdie, happy for the first time, wants nothing more than to make time stand still. Too bad everything is changing, whether she likes it or not.The sweet trio of Georgia girls that made Peaches a national bestseller returns in this delicious and satisfying sequel. This year, Murphy, Leeda, and Birdie discover that bitter endings can lead to... Views: 22
The first book by the author of the New York Times bestseller The Paris Wife is a powerful and haunting memoir of the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early 70s, after being abandoned by both parents, the girls were made wards of the Fresno County, California court and spent the next 14 years-in a series of adoptive homes. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years--a book the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club.McLain's beautiful writing and limber voice capture the intense loneliness, sadness, and determination of a young girl both on her own and responsible, with her siblings, for staying together as a family. Views: 22
Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams. But Phryne's contentment at the Jewish Young People's Society Dance is cut short when Simon's father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout young student in Miss Sylvia Lee's bookshop located in the Eastern Market. Views: 22
A serial killer is stalking patrons of a popular sex club in Chicago; one of the victims is Melanie, Ella's best friend and occasional lover. When Melanie arrives at the emergency room in a coma, trauma nurse Ella wants to investigate the crime on her own. However, two hot detectives, Mac and Sam, get tough with the plucky nurse and her plans to find the killer. A bare bottomed spanking in the parking lot is intended to keep her way from the club and the investigation. But there are unexpected results when it becomes clear that Ella is turned on by their take charge style—and the hot spanking. Outside of work, Mac and Sam are both lifestyle Doms, who appreciate Ella's submissive tendencies. Knowing that she might be useful in their undercover investigation, they put the eager sub through a crash course in submission, to see if she has what it takes to enter The Loft , the private no-holds-barred sex club from where the killer's victims have been abducted. On separate... Views: 22
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its creatures. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world. Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing about them. Threaded through his adventures - from moving to the Scottish Highlands to work with Gavin Maxwell, to founding the famous Aigas Field Centre - is an elegy to his remarkable mother, and a wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape. Views: 22
