New Year’s Eve sits just around the corner and Legend Elementary teacher, Patti Jo Baker, has tried every trick in the book to land a date for the annual New Year’s Eve Bash at The Lodge. In final desperation, she takes her best friend Kate’s advice and gives Suzie Matthews, Legend’s own matchmaking chef, a call. Suzie tells her right away she can solve her dilemma—but only if she’s serious about finding a husband, because Suzie has a reputation to uphold, don’t you know. Jim Hamilton, Legend Elementary School’s principal, doesn’t know what’s gotten into him of late—he can’t get Patti Jo Baker off his mind. Smart and quirky were two words he’d always used to describe Patti, but lately the word irresistible was edging out the other two. Too bad he’s married to his job, and too bad he doesn’t date his teachers. Too bad he’s not jealous, either, or at least that’s what he thinks. Because when Patti sets up a kissing booth at the Legend Elementary Winter Carnival, he promptly and decisively shuts it down. If Patty Jo Baker is passing out kisses, he wants to be both first, and last, in line—and he definitely doesn’t want to sample them in front of the student body. Views: 50
A provocative new novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter. On an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour-and disappear. Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error, they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime. Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a fagade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions-both good and bad-and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others. A pious man explained to his followers: "It is... Views: 50
Francis 'Frankie' Wright thought she was an old hat at dealing with the
supernatural, until she was reassigned to Edinburgh, the most haunted city in
the world.Her latest case soon takes a deadly turn. Young women are
being slain in satanic rituals and it's up to Frankie to find the murderer
before he kills again. Frankie must juggle vampires, shapeshifters,
witches and zombies, all the while trying to keep the truth from her sceptical
ex-boyfriend, Will Campbell, who just happens to be heading up the police
investigation.The clock is ticking and she soon finds herself forced to
team up with the vampires and shapeshifters in order to stop the killer before
he can literally unleash hell on earth. Views: 50
This is the first book in the epic 1929 Series. Jonathan Garrett has just lost everything. He and his two best friends were operating one of the top brokerages in New York City until the stock market crash of '29. With nothing but the clothes on their backs, these men must start over. Views: 50
Crease is going back to his quaint, quiet hometown of Hangtree. It’s where his father the sheriff met ruin in the face of a scandal involving the death of a kidnapped little girl and her missing ransom. It’s where crease was beaten, jailed, and kicked clear of the town line ten years earlier. Now Crease is back. He’s been undercover for so long that most days he feels more like a mobster than a cop. He doesn’t mind much: the corrupt life is easier to stomach than a wife who can’t understand him, a son who hates him, and a half-dozen adopted kids he can’t even name anymore. He’s also just gotten his drug-dealing, knife-wielding psycho boss Tucco’s mistress pregnant. A fine time to decide to settle old scorers and resolve a decade-old mystery. With Tucco hot on his tail, Crease has to find his answers fast. Who kidnapped little Mary? Who really killed her? Was his own father guilty? And what happened to the paltry fifteen grand ransom that seems to spell salvation to half the population of Hangtree? The town still has a taste for his blood and secrets it wants to keep. Crease has a single hope; a raw and raging fever driving him toward the truth that might just burn him up along the way. Views: 50
