New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum delivers his grittiest, most ethically challenging thriller yet, as New York chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp fights for his family in the wilds of West Virginia's coal mining country. While New York City sizzles beneath a blanket of early summer humidity, the Karp family is happily taking refuge in their renovated farmhouse on Long Island's north shore. Karp's battles against the City's corrupt politicians are never-ending. His wife, Marlene, is training guard dogs on their picturesque acreage; Lucy is enjoying her summer break from Boston College and playing the part of the dutiful daughter, assisting with the running of the business and tending to her rambunctious twin brothers. The tide quickly changes, however, when Marlene befriends her beachside neighbor, Rose Wickham-Heeney, a northeastern aristocrat turned wife of West Virginia coal mine union leader Ralph ³Red² Heeney. Soon after the... Views: 45
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It's the biggest night of Mallory Dale's life. She's unveiling her sexy new burlesque club, The Painted Lady, and her boyfriend has a thrilling surprise for her. Alec is ready to propose, and he does it at her favourite place - onstage. But can she give up her boas in the name of happily ever after? Mallory isn't the only one torn between bliss onstage and off. Ballerina Nadia Grant has hung up her toe shoes and now she's perfecting the art of the striptease. But one man is outraged, and it's the man Nadia loves. Just when they're so close to having it all, will the stars of The Painted Lady lose everything? Views: 45
Poppy isn't very pleased. Her father is a pain. And the worst of it is that she is stuck with him for a whole weekend while her mother and brother are away. Suddenly, the monster on the cereal box miraculously comes to life. He is wonderfully understandin Views: 45
Fourteen-year-old high school freshman Nyl Person is the boy every freshman girl at Fairley High would like to call boyfriend. He's popular, he's cute and he's the leading player on the high school varsity basketball team.Sierra James with her thick locks of natural hair and the captain of the Fairley Bulldog's cheerleading squad, is pretty, smart and the most popular girl in ninth grade, and she has a mission to make Nyl her boyfriend. Nyl likes her too and would jump at the chance to have her as girlfriend.What Sierra and no one else at Fairley High knows is that Nyl, his little sister and his father have practically been living in the family's car since the death of Nyl's mom.What will happen when or if Nyl's secret comes out? What will he do? And what about the girl he wants to make his girlfriend – Sierra James. Can she fall for a homeless boy when she practically lives in the lap of luxury? Views: 45
Winner of the 2005 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, this is a pitch perfect, intriguing, artful novel about exile and apathy, attraction and isolation.'Tuvalu ... Everyone has a place like that. A dream land or life they're working towards, however vaguely. ... Some people probably have more than one Tuvalu in a life. It changes as they grow. Or maybe they get to the first one and find it's nothing like they imagined and need a new one. You must have had at least one?''No.'A love story of sorts, Tuvalu tells the story of Noah Tuttle, who is glumly and aimlessly living a half kind of life in a cheap rundown hostel in the seamier margins of Tokyo, a place overrun with feral cats and cockroaches. He teaches mediocre English to disinterested students, sleeps with his girlfriend, Tilly, when she's around, drinks beer when he can afford it, and generally avoids other people and their expectations. Nothing much happens to him - until, that is, he... Views: 45
A novel of love and lust, memory and desire. Cal and Lara are happily married, though (problematically) not to one another. And though they came of age in the sexual wilderness of the 1960's, neither is seeking to expand any sexual horizons now, 10 years later.Nevertheless, they find themselves in what each presumes to be an altogether trite situation—committed to monogamy and fidelity, yet so powerfully drawn together that their "Fall" seems inevitable.The way out proposed by Lara, a "Twoweeks" carved out of their normal, predictable lives, is intended of course to take two weeks and be done with. What happens to these attractive, lively, storm-tossed souls before, during, and after The Twoweeks is the subject of Larry Duberstein's engaging new novel.Duberstein's first novel, The Marriage Hearse, while rife with surface irony and wit, was described by The New York Times Book Review as "above all a love story and a rather touching one at that." The same can be... Views: 45
Worlds ApartAnnie Wainright hoped teaching on an isolated Native American reservation would bring peace to her troubled soul. But that was before she came face-to-face with the most compelling man she'd ever known—a man who made it clear he didn't want her there....John Lonebear, an ex-marine who had returned to make his home a better place, was as harsh and unyielding as the land he loved. And yet even he could not deny the wildfire heat that blazed between him and this unwelcome stranger....She wanted to believe love could build a bridge between their worlds. But what would happen when he learned about the new life their love had created...? Views: 45
