The first novel in the Spa Girls Collection, She's All That focuses on Lilly Jacobs, a San Francisco fashion designer determined that her "bad hair" is the root source of her problems––but a nagging grandmother, a vixen boss, and well–meaning friends certainly aren't helping matters. Views: 61
A car salesman from the U.S.A. goes missing from a cruise ship in the wee hours, leaving only a bloody deck behind. It looks like murder and the main suspect is the husband of Dotsy Lamb's best friend Lettie. The ship's photographer knows something and would have told, but he's also murdered the following day on the island of Mykonos. Ship's security, Mykonos police, the F.B.I. from the U.S., and the Italian Carabinieri all get involved in the cases but it takes Dotsy's common sense and keen observations to sort it out. Views: 61
Amazon.com ReviewDecoded is many things at once. At its core, Decoded is an eloquent and candid memoir detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generation’s most successful artists and businessmen. But Decoded is much more than a memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and photographs visually emphasize the author’s message that rap is a form that transcends and defies easy categorization. There’s not much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead, is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to its shape. --Juliet Disparte Jay-Z on DecodedWhen you're famous and say you're writing a book, people assume that it's an autobiography--I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that's not what this is. I've never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.Decoded is first and foremost, a book of rhymes, which is ironic because I don't actually write my rhymes--they come to me in my head and I record them. The book is packed with the stories from my life that are the foundation of my lyrics--stories about coming up in the streets of Brooklyn in the 80's and 90's, stories about becoming an artist and entrepreneur and discovering worlds that I never dreamed existed when I was a kid. But it always comes back to the rhymes. There's poetry in hip-hop lyrics--not just mine, but in the work of all the great hip-hop artists, from KRS-One and Rakim to Biggie and Pac to a hundred emcees on a hundred corners all over the world that you've never heard of. The magic of rap is in the way it can take the most specific experience, from individual lives in unlikely places, and turn them into art that can be embraced by the whole world. Decoded is a book about one of those specific lives--mine--and will show you how the things I've experienced and observed have made their way into the art I've created. It's also about how my work is sometimes not about my life at all, but about pushing the boundaries of what I can express through the poetry of rap--trying to use words to find fresh angles into emotions that we all share, which is the hidden mission in even the hardest hip-hop. Decoded is a book about some of my favorite songs--songs that I unpack and explain and surround with narratives about what inspired them--but behind the rhymes is the truest story of my life.Book DescriptionDecoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time. Views: 61
A QUEST NOVEL and a historical tour de force, The Steady Running of the Hour unravels a tale of passion, legacy, and courage reaching across the twentieth century. In 1924, the English mountaineer Ashley Walsingham dies attempting to summit Mount Everest, leaving his fortune to his former lover, Imogen Soames-Andersson—whom he has not seen in seven years. Ashley's solicitors search in vain for Imogen, but the estate remains unclaimed. Nearly eighty years later, new information leads the same law firm to Tristan Campbell, a young American who could be the estate's rightful heir. If Tristan can prove he is Imogen's descendant, the inheritance will be his. But with only weeks before Ashley's trust expires, Tristan must hurry to find the evidence he needs. From London archives to Somme battlefields to the Eastfjords of Iceland, Tristan races to piece together the story behind the unclaimed riches: a reckless love affair pursued... Views: 61
Romance. 80402 words long. First published in 2007, 2007 Views: 61
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Product Description This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by fifty different authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Robert Silverberg, Algis Budrys, Fritz Leiber, Edmond Hamilton, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents THE VALOR OF CAPPEN VARRA, by Poul Anderson THE ISSAHAR ARTIFACTS, by Jesse Franklin Bone EARTHMEN BEARING GIFTS, by Fredric Brown CITADEL, by Algis Budrys SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDE, by Mark Clifton ALARM CLOCK, by Everett B. Cole THE SCALPEL OF DOOM, by Ray Cummings THE CRYSTAL CRYPT, by Philip K. Dick DISQUALIFIED, by Charles L. Fontenay A TRANSMUTATION OF MUDDLES, by H. B. Fyfe A SPACESHIP NAMED McGUIRE, by Randall Garrett AND DEVIOUS THE LINE OF DUTY, by Tom Godwin THE GOLDEN JUDGE, by Nathaniel Gordon THE WORLD OF THE CRYSTAL CITIES, by George Griffith RAIDERS INVISIBLE, by D. W. Hall THE MAN WHO EVOLVED, by Edmond Hamilton THE UNDERSEA TUBE, by L. Taylor Hansen NAVY DAY, by Harry Harrison THE BEGINNING, by Henry Hasse OPERATION HAYSTACK, by Frank Herbert I'LL KILL YOU TOMORROW, by Helen Huber THE LONG VOYAGE, by Carl Jacobi THE MAN WHO PLAYED TO LOSE, by Laurence Mark Janifer THE GREAT GRAY PLAGUE, by Raymond F. Jones THE PLAGUE, by Teddy Keller THE ADVENTURER, by C. M. Kornbluth GREYLORN, by Keith Laumer THE CREATURE FROM CLEVELAND DEPTHS, by Fritz Leiber ATTENTION SAINT PATRICK, by Murray Leinster THE CALM MAN, by Frank Belknap Long A PLACE IN THE SUN, by Stephen Marlowe PIPE OF PEACE, by James McKimmey, Jr. B. C. 30,000, by S. P. Meek ALL CATS ARE GRAY, by Andre Norton BEAR TRAP, by Alan E. Nourse CROSSROADS OF DESTINY, by H. Beam Piper THE THIRST QUENCHERS, by Rick Raphael COMBAT, by Mack Reynolds DEAD MAN'S PLANET, by Joseph Samachson TREES ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, by Arthur Dekker Savage AN INCIDENT ON ROUTE 12, by James H. Schmitz SURVIVAL TACTICS, by Al Sevcik MINOR DETAIL, by Jack Sharkey RESURRECTION, by Robert J. Shea THE LEECH, by Robert Sheckley THE CLEAN AND WHOLESOME LAND, by Ralph Sholto POSTMARK GANYMEDE, By Robert Silverberg THE MOST SENTIMENTAL MAN, by Evelyn E. Smith SUBJECTIVITY, by Norman Spinrad IN THE ORBIT OF SATURN, by R. F. Starzl Views: 61
STATE OF BECOMINGThe boundaries of order created by the nine baronies during America's apocalyptic aftermath have fallen away to a new wave of transcending chaos. The deep-rooted conspiracy that shadows humanity has been exposed, the relentless battle for earth continues, and only an intrepid faction of exiles possesses the might and means to repulse the tide of subjugation and subversion from alien oppressors.REALITY'S ILLUSIONThe scion of the Cerberus rebels' fiercest foe has risen from his own ashes -- and hijacked the very storehouse of earth's reality. The Ontic Library, buried deep beneaththe Pacific Ocean, is the glue holding the fabric of what is real -- and what is not -- in place. Archivist Brigid Baptiste takes the plunge into the sentient data stream of infinite knowledge to stop the dangerous curiosity of a god prince from discovering the omnipotent knowledge that could destroy the world. Views: 61
SUMMARY: This fourth book in Shayla Black's sizzling paranormal "Doomsday Brethren" series features Duke and Elisabeth. Views: 61
"This is a moving story, well told and beautifully written." --Jeffrey ArcherIn celebration of Jeffrey Archer's latest short story collection, And Thereby Hangs a Tale, St. Martin's Press sponsored the "Jeffrey Archer Presents" Short Story Competition. #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of the short story Jeffrey Archer is known for the precise wit and timely revelations in his tales, and now with this short story competition he has had the opportunity to recognize those same outstanding gifts in winner Mark Trainer's New Wife.What if you woke up with a lifetime of memories but were unable to recognize the wife you shared so many of them with? That's exactly what happens to Danny when his wife Eve comes down the steps one morning. Her hair, her mouth, her hands--everything--it's all wrong. He's certain it's just not her. But then why is Danny the only one who doesn't recognize this "new wife?"Confused and more afraid... Views: 61
