In Ted Dunagan's third young adult novel, boyhood friends Ted and Poudlum, a white boy and a black boy who live in the rural segregated South of the 1940s, find their fishing trip interrupted by a Ku Klux Klan meeting. The boys accidentally learn the identity of key Klansmen. Discovered, they escape down the river but only to swim into the arms of more trouble.Dunagan's storytelling gifts make this an engaging read. Ted and Poudlum's escapades test their resourcefulness and challenge their awakening moral selves, as they come to understand the injustice of the time in which they live.Being a kid was never better than when Ted Dunagan imagines it. And the imagining was never better than in Trouble on the Tombigbee, the author's latest work. Views: 47
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything … until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed … Views: 47
Arena of Torment is the first of the highly successful 'Africanus' novels. They follow the fortunes of a beautiful African slavegirl in the Roman world. In this first volume she is recruited for the Arenas. Views: 47
Of the women in King Richard's life, she is the least known-and the most powerful.During the Third Crusade, deaths from fever and starvation are common, but King Richard the Lion-Hearted has a secret ally against these impassable enemies-a mysterious healer by the name of Edythe.She was sent to him by his mother Eleanor, and Richard first assumes that Edythe is a spy. But when her medical knowledge saves his life, she becomes an indispensable member of his camp-even as his loyal soldiers, suspicious of her talent for warding off death, call her a witch. Views: 47
Travel to Southeast Asia on wings of the fantastic for Jason Erik Lundberg's debut short-story collection Red Dot Irreal. There you'll meet pirates and shamans, wise fish and mystical storytellers, living monuments and paper animals, time travelers and civet cats, stone taxi drivers, floating dental patients, and a sentient bird park. Once you enter the surreal worlds of Lundberg's equatorial fantastika, a part of you will never leave. Bonus: extra stories "Big Chief", "Occupy: An Exhibition" and "Bachy Soletanche" have been added for this revised edition. Views: 47
If you like your hotels haunted and your ghost hunters hot, you've come to the right place! A. J. Matthews spins an intriguing tale of romance and suspense in Mr. Grey and the Hotel Ghosts. Digging up the past has someone in the present very nervous. A mystery shrouded by secrets and danger looming around every corner ... if hotel owner Claudia MacKenzie and the sexy Mr. Grey don't find the answer soon, they may become the next permanent hotel guests. When she has to sell a haunted hotel in New York City, Claudia Mackenzie hires the best advisor around – British ghost hunter Martin Grey. Expecting a super-nerd, what she gets is a tall, handsome guy with a sexy accent who plucks all the right heartstrings! Together they tackle the mystery of the Chestnut Mansion Hotel, a mystery that leads them back in time to witness a bitter family feud, murder, and the theft of an heirloom. As events unfold it soon seems it's not only ghosts they have to worry about! A real-life... Views: 47
Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities, Volume 2 Into the Millennium From the Posthumous Papers 1961 Views: 47
From USA Today bestselling author, Megg Jensen...
*Forget prophecy. Make your own destiny. *
Sheltered from the outside world with no hope for escape, slave girl Reychel dreads her fifteenth birthday - when her master’s symbol is burned on the back of her bald scalp. Her best friend disappears the night before, leaving her to face the branding ceremony alone. She soon discovers nothing is as it seems when people desperate for freedom beg for Reychel's help.
Can Reychel learn to believe in herself?
Other Books by Megg:
The Initiate - a novelette bridging the Cloud Prophet Trilogy and The Swarm Trilogy
Cloud Prophet Trilogy:
Anathema
Oubliette
Severed
Pick up the story 20 years later with:
The Swarm Trilogy:
Sleepers
Afterlife
The Sundering
**Review
"Megg Jensen has created an engaging, richly detailed read." - Brutally Honest Book Reviews
"I recommend you run, not walk, to get yourself a copy of this wonderful book!" - The Caffeinated Diva
"I was sucked in from start to finish." - Can't Find a Bookmark
About the Author
Megg Jensen is all sorts of strange things: medieval history buff, Ren Faire goer, fairy garden builder, swing dancer, and lover of movies everyone else hates. She spends too much time waiting for The Doctor. Views: 47
Lt. Cready and Engineer Andreas Chavez have been chosen to man a
claustrophobic outpost on the outer edge of the solar system. After a
year and a half with no word from Earth, nerves become frayed and
tensions mount as Cready begins to suspect that his friend isn't
entirely human. Views: 47
Private Investigator Tony Caruso lives out of his rolling office, an old Ford pickup truck, with his German-trained bomb-sniffing dog, Panzer, a Giant Schnauzer. Tony retired after twenty years in the Navy as an aviation ordnanceman, but this training might not be enough when he is hired by an old friend to look into a murder suicide in Bend, Oregon, a resort Boom Town in the high desert east of the Cascades. Was it a murder suicide as the local sheriff thinks? Or has this idyllic community been ripped apart by not only murder but scandalous sexual deviance, lust, jealousy and the quest for the almighty dollar? Follow Tony as he wades through a cast of characters as diverse as the Oregon landscape to solve this mystery. Views: 47
