After struggling to accept the end of her ten-year marriage, Jule Grey’s best friend convinces her to start dating again. Finding the dating prospects for forty-year-old women thin, Jule reluctantly agrees to a blind date. One look at her at the sexy, delivery boy, Daniel, and she’s certain the coming night will be very sweet. Daniel surprises Jule by his insistence on extending their one-night stand beyond the weekend. Despite their mutual attraction, Jule battles her fear of Daniel’s reaction to the secret that ended her marriage. She doesn’t know that Daniel is also guarding a secret he’s reluctant to share with her. Are you up to One Sweet Night? Views: 18
ReviewWritten in a style that's an odd triangulation of Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, Jasper Fforde, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Lethem (Girl in Landscape and Amnesia Moon in particular), Archelon Ranch offers a surprisingly clever and engaging meditation on writer's block and authorial angst, especially for a book with no real author. --Philadelphia Stories, February 9th, 2010 But this is not just weird for weirdness' sake; Cook's story is an ever-shifting barrage of ideas, emotions, and metafiction of the funniest order. Cook himself is part of the quest of these fascinating characters, who attempt to understand (through violent, thought-provoking, and always funny situations) who they are and where they stand in their creator's eyes. Cook's use of a shopping mall as a barrier between classes and gateway to potential paradise brings out stronger social commentary than was even hinted at in Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD (1979) --The Horror Fiction Review, March 1st, 2010 This was a very good and very enjoyable book. The idea of minor characters breaking the fourth wall and attempting to grab a bigger part of the story has been toyed with before, mainly in the small press, but I have never read a story with such a satisfactory result. Cook really opens up near the end and shows more of his personal side, which always adds to the quality of any writing. --Withersin, November 25th, 2009 Cook as an author has grown considerably as a storyteller in this book, which is quite an achievement since all three of his novels have been written in a relatively short period of time. I suspect Garrett felt more at home with the free-wheeling nature of this story, as opposed to the rather tightly plotted Murderland volumes. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys challenging material and surreal storytelling, but who also like to be thoroughly entertained when reading. --Never Ending Wonder, March 16th, 2010 Product DescriptionJe ne suis pas un chapeau. Je suis un homme... In an overgrown, primeval, jungle-city state, Bernard is a test subject for science experiments. His father and Professor Sagramour have been injecting him with hallucinogenic mud and reality affirming drugs so that one day man will be immune to the insanity inducing, zombifying sentient green mud that is choking the suburbs. But Bernard is beginning to display side effects. Experiencing greater and greater levels of Objectivity cause his consciousness to become one with entities as diverse as pterosaurs and martinis. In the mind of the tyrannosaurus he hears the call of Archelon Ranch, a primal paradise like no other. Will Bernard's unique talents be enough to get him out of the senseless prehistoric cyberpunk city or will dinosaurs, Sagramour's Standardizers and the desire to lose himself in other entities be too much? Views: 18
Savannah Georgio stopped wondering about who her father was before she turned eight. Her mother made it clear she would never tell. So, why worry about someone who would never be there? Only someone did know about her and soon, she was on her way to Tender Root, New Mexico to inherit land from a man she never knew.Clayton Long was raised with the belief he would one day not only work, but own the Long Ranch. As he got older, he saw he wasn't the heir, but the spare to the ranch as his older brothers and cousins blocked him from major decisions. When the Winston Bastard showed up in town, his brother taps him for a special project to save the ranch. Only Clayton gets distracted because when he looks at Savannah, he sees a future with the girl trying to discover who she is.As secrets get revealed and family members question the validity of Savannah's claim, she can only count on one man from the neighboring ranch, but is he too, keeping a secret that will have her running from her... Views: 18
A Sucks to Be Me short story featuring Mina, snarky teen vampire, when she encounters a new friend...and big trouble while on her way to Paris. This story is a continuation of the Sucks to Be Me series and a prelude to the third book, Sucks to Be Moi. Views: 18
You can't go home again...but apparently Kimmer Reed had to. The government had hidden a young computer mastermind who held the key to the country's defense right in Kimmer's hometown. Now, if the Hunter Agency's top operative hoped to keep the government's secrets safe, she had to cozy up to the people she'd once left behind to discover just what the bad guys knew. And the good guys, too. Because mastermind Caroline Carlsen had a self-appointed bodyguard in her cousin Rio Carlsen. Ex-CIA Rio might have made a good ally -- if Kimmer had been allowed to tell him they were on the same team. Instead, she had to shadow his every move, watching while he walked comfortably in a world that had been lost to her. A world of family and connection. A world Kimmer would do anything to regain. Views: 18
A Silvestre Coddmyer III, le encantaba el bTisbol, y lo jugaba, pero no era un buen bateador. El muchacho ya habfa decidido no incorporarse en el equipo de los Cardenales, cuando un verano conoce a un forastero misterioso llamado, George Baruth. El hombre promete al muchacho ensenarle y convertirlo en unos de los mejores jugadores. En poco tiempo, Sylvester estaba bateando un jonron cada vez que iba al bate. Pero junto con su buena suerte, comenzaron las interrogantes respecto de quiTn serfa Baruth. El autor de esta obra escribe novelas de ficcion de deportes y es el nombre que buscan los lectores jovenes cuando desean leer libros con buen ritmo y llenos de accion. En la altima pagina de este libro encontraras mas informacion sobre los libros del autor en espanol. Views: 18
In the 1930s, two opportunities existed for boys of Balmain, a working-class Sydney suburb: to be selected into Fort Street Boys School or to excel as a sportsman. At just sixteen years Danny Dunn has everything going for him: brains, looks, sporting aptitude – and luck with the ladies. His parents run the favourite local watering hole, and the whole of Balmain is proud of Danny’s sporting prowess. His mother, though, steers Danny towards a university education; but with just six months of his degree to go he signs up for the AIF, driven by a desire to serve his country and plain wanderlust. Danny serves in south-east Asia, spends three and a half years as a POW, and returns a broken man, embittered and facially disfigured. He has told no one of his return, and as he sails towards the Balmain ferry terminal he knows his life in beloved Balmain will have nothing to do with the life he led before the war, and he is scared and overwhelmed by the need to sort himself out, find out who the hell he is…Review"From gritty pre-war Balmain to the death camps of Singapore and back to 70s Sydney, this is an epic from a superlative storyteller." -- Harper's Bazaar Views: 18
Open this book and fly on fairy wings to a world of mischief and wonder. Magical classic stories sit alongside lesser-known tales of fairy fun, and all are brought to life with enchanting illustrations by renowned artists. Ideal for reading aloud, this is charming collection for all ages. Views: 18
Perfect for reading aloud, these thirteen stories will bring back happy memories for parents and grandparents, and introduce younger readers to an enduringly popular heroine and her friends little-friend-Susan and Billy Blunt. Gloriously illustrated with the Joyce Lankester Brisley's original line drawings, Further Doings of Milly-Molly-Mandy is a great edition to add to your collection.The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her friends have charmed generations of children since their first publication in 1928. Milly-Molly-Mandy lives in a tiny village in the heart of the countryside, where life is full of everyday adventures. Whether she is camping or having a tea party, you're sure to have fun when Milly-Molly-Mandy is around! Views: 18
Review"......(a)unique and terrifying world that Grabowsky launches us into...at very twisted turns it delves into the psychedelic..." -- Tahoe Daily Tribune "A solid storyline, fresh ideas on everything from religion (to) blood-chilling violence makes Grabowsky's latest offering a compelling read!" -- Sacramento News & Review "Nicholas.....I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your accomplishments....your fertile and blissfully complex imagination..." -- Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Candyman, Imajica) "The reader will be unable to get the terrifying and original visions out of their head!" -- Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television, Pretty/scary.net "YOU WILL BE SCARED! PERIOD!" -- Sean Price, Slash ProductionsProduct DescriptionA tale of beings who have fallen from heaven at the dawn of mankind's history who integrated themselves into the human gene pool, fathering themselves from life to life in a bizarre reincarnation cycle throughout the ages.The story involves Max Polito, a renown ufologist bent on proving to the world that these beings exist and are responsible for a majority of all UFO phenomena. His exploits lead him to an "Everborn" reborn into society as a pair of twins, one possessing an eternal soul and one who does not, one a timid ghostwriter for a world-famous horror novelist and one a vicious serial killer on a quest to truly be "born again." A surreal guardian angel for Andrew, the ghostwriter, teams up the protagonists to thwart not only the evil twin's diabolical plans but the apocalyptic schemes of the Magdalene Salvatia, an ancient she-demon on a quest to revenge her kind and plunge the world into everlasting darkness under her rule. Views: 18
When Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz form the Compassionate Dismantlers in college, the first rule of their manifesto is, "To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart." But their penchant for acts of meaningful vandalism and elaborate, often dangerous pranks results in Suz's death in the woods of Vermont—a tragedy the surviving Dismantlers decide to cover up. Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are desperate to forget, but their guilt isn't ready to let them go. When a mysterious Dismantler-style postcard drives a past prank victim to suicide, it sets off a chain of terrifying events that threatens to tear apart their world and engulf their inquisitive nine-year-old daughter, Emma. Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Or is it possible Suz has found a way to enact revenge? Full of white-knuckle tension with deeply human characters caught in circumstances beyond their control, Jennifer McMahon's enthralling story proves that she is a master at weaving the fear of the supernatural with the stark realities of life. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. A prank gone wrong drives this outstanding novel from bestseller McMahon (Island of Lost Girls). The summer after graduation, four friends, who formed an art group called the Compassionate Dismantlers at Vermont's Sexton College, live together in a remote cabin and commit increasingly brash acts of sabotage. When they go too far and their leader, Suz Pierce, dies, the group disbands, vowing never to speak about what happened. Ten years later, two of the group, Henry DeForge and Tess Kahle, are unhappily married with a nine-year-old daughter, Emma. When the suicide of a Sexton friend sends a PI digging into the past, Henry and Tess fear that the dead may not be truly buried. By alternating the present-day lives of Henry, Tess and Emma with the origins of the Dismantlers, McMahon allows the inexorable sense of dread to build incrementally. Perhaps most memorable are not the young artists but Emma, a child whose intense imagination only adds fuel to the slow-burning fire. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist“Dismantlement equals freedom.” “To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart.” These are the credos of the Compassionate Dismantlers, a subversive clique of art majors in a Vermont college spearheaded by a sexy and diabolical prankster. Suz purports to be an eco-saboteur, but jealousy and revenge are her primary motives. How strangely bewitched her followers are, how dangerous their actions become, and how wretchedly things go wrong. Nine years after the outlaw group’s catastrophic demise, survivors Henry and Tess live isolated in the countryside, harboring a ruinous secret. Now it seems that the time of reckoning is at hand. As their sweet, preternatural nine-year-old daughter, Emma, grows increasingly, even maniacally devoted to her imaginary friend, inexplicable messages appear, crucial objects disappear, and someone is watching, if not stalking the increasingly freaked-out family. Are the Dismantlers reassembling? In her third, elegantly spooky mystery revolving around the vulnerability of a young girl and a haunting past, McMahon fashions a fresh and entrancing ghost-in-the-woods tale replete with startling psychoses, delectable Hitchcockian motifs, and dangerous attractions. --Donna Seaman Views: 18
