Trying to save his best friend from the horrors of plastic surgery, Jack ends up on the front line of a protest about unscrupulous surgeons. Views: 19
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove. Trick Daddy was born a thugjust a stones throw from downtown Miami, yet a world away from its dazzling beauty and sparkling wealth. Where grinding poverty, deadly crime, and devastating racial tension taught kids to live by the hood rules. Remarkably, Trick came from nothing and made it big just when his chances had run out. Magic City is the extraordinary tale of a boy whose father was a pimp, who learned to hustle to survive, and whose only role model was his brother, the drug dealer he watched plying his trade on the block. Its the untold truth behind the cult movie Scarface, of the drug money that transformed the city into a shining mecca for the rich and famous while turf wars between smalltime pushers claimed countless lives. Its also the incredible story of how that potent... Views: 19
Beautiful is a dangerous thing to be when one is unprotected.For seven
years, Abigail has been a slave in the Visibullis house. With a Hebrew
mistress and a Roman master, she has always been more family than
servant . . . until their son returns to Jerusalem after his years in
Rome. Within a few months Jason has taken her to his bed and turned her
world upsidedown. Maybe, given time, she can come to love him as he says
he loves her. But how does she open her heart to the man who ruined
her?Israel's unrest finds a home in her bosom, but their rebellion tears
apart her world. Death descends with Barabbas's sword, and Abigail is
determined to be there when the criminal is punished. But when she
ventures to the trial, Barabbas is not the one the crowd calls to
crucify. Instead, it is the teacher her master and Jason had begun to
follow, the man from Nazareth that some call the Son of God . . .Born
free, made a slave, married out of her bonds, Abigail never knows
freedom until she feels the fire of a stray drop of blood from a Jewish
carpenter. Disowned by Israel, despised by Rome, desired by all, she
never knows love until she receives the smile of a stoic Roman noble. Views: 19
Phyllis Newsom stands a good chance in the Christmas cookie contest with her snowflake-shaped lime sugar cookies. But Mrs. Simmons? gingerdoodles might give her a run for her money?until she's found strangled in a pile of cookies. With many on Santa's naughty suspect list, this case is a cookie Phyllis means to crumble? Views: 19
In a world where everything’s for sale, some things simply can’t be bought. A Tahoe Nights story. Janice hadn’t planned to take her long-awaited getaway alone, but when a girl catches her boyfriend with his pants around his ankles…well, let’s just say that at age thirty, there aren’t many princes waiting in line to take the frog’s place. She arrives in Reno ready to break out of all the molds life has crammed her into. In short order she’s not only getting lucky at the blackjack table, she’s hit the jackpot with Mr. Sex-On-A-Stick. A man who seduces her with his eyes and shows her how a woman should be treated. Aaron is living the dream. His gift for pleasuring women brings him everything a man could want: a home in the beautiful Lake Tahoe basin, money, gorgeous, rich ladies vying for his very expensive time. Yet there’s a void that haunts him as he lies alone in bed at night. At first, Janice is just another empty job. Then she opens a door and fills his empty life with something he never dared to imagine, let alone want. Warning: Contains scenes of decadent and erotic sexual interaction between a heroine, just like you, and a man specially trained to give women eye-rolling, toe-curling pleasure, several times a night. Unfortunately, his number is not available at this time and even if it were, you probably wouldn’t be able to afford him. Buy this book instead. Views: 19
Winner of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards, non-fiction category and shortlisted for the CBCA Children's Book Awards, 2011.The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their place in a line of trenches that spread from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps. Beyond the trenches was no-man's-land, an eerie wasteland where rats lived in the ribs of the dead and the wounded cried for help. Beyond that was the German Army.The Anzacs had sailed for France to fight a war the whole world was talking about. Few who came home ever spoke about it again.Zero Hour is the third book by Leon Davidson, author of the best-selling and multi-award-winning Scarecrow Army: the Anzacs at Gallipoli and Red Haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam.'Written with a simplicity and directness... Views: 19
Sixteen-Year-Old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel's hired boy. It's a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it's a love that could get Celestia disowned. These affairs of the heart become all the more wrenching on a single, tragic day in May, 1889. After days of heavy rain, the dam fails, unleashing 20 million tons of water onto Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the valley below. The town where Peter lives with his father. The town where Celestia has just arrived to join him. This searing novel in poems explores a cross-class romance--and a tragic event in U. S. history.From the Hardcover edition. Views: 19
