In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again. For seventeen-year-old Marjorie Richards, the fear raised by these abductions is the backdrop to what she lives with her own home, every day. Marjorie has been raised by parents so intentionally isolated from normal society that they have developed their own dialect, a kind of mountain hybrid of English that displays both their ignorance of and disdain for the wider world. Marjorie is tormented by her classmates, who call her "The Talk-funny girl," but as the nearby factory town sinks deeper into economic ruin and as her parents fall more completely under the influence of a sadistic cult leader, her options for escape dwindle. But then, thanks to a loving aunt, Marjorie is hired by a man, himself a victim of abuse, who is building what he calls "a cathedral," right in the center of town. Day by day, Marjorie's... Views: 45
Donovans of the Delta Series, Book Three Hallie Donovan had gone camping with her dogs to ponder a life going nowhere and to forget an ex-husband whose control had made her a virtual prisoner. Then along comes an all-too-charming man who shares her interest in the freedom of the open road. She’ll enjoy his company for a few days, but she has other plans for her future. Finishing her degree in special education, for one. She’s making no promises. Camping to escape the harsh realities of a broken family dependent on him, Josh Butler never expected to encounter The Woman in Red, the most successful model his Fortune 500 company had ever hired – and the most desirable. But he’d seen the havoc a lethal beauty could wreak. He’s making no promises. When their paths cross again, they discover that some promises are made to be broken. But is love worth any risk? This five-book romantic comedy series, originally published by Loveswept, was considered to be their definitive family series. Any Thursday is the sequel to Hallie’s Destiny. Views: 45
Ordinary kids with extraordinary powers, the Street Heroes return to help children around the world. Fatima, Georgie, Hyun-mi and their friends fight evil in all its human forms. But whose is the mysterious telepathic voice threatening the heroes? And how can they exploit the world's reality TV addiction to make their message heard by people without their telepathic powers?Street Heroes: Runaways is a fast-paced thriller that deals with important issues while keeping readers gripped from start to finish.By the aclaimed author of Ghostscape and Street Heroes. Views: 45
Hollywood film actress, Danish supermodel, ex-wife of Stallone, ex-lover of Schwarzenegger, abuse survivorBrigitte Nielsen offers a deeply personal account of her remarkable life For almost 30 years Brigitte Nielsen has been part of the jet-setromantically involved with international film stars, beautiful, and richbut life has not always been full of Hollywood glitz. In this compelling and honest biography, Brigitte describes how she survived incredible lows, including a suicide attempt and alcoholism. From a normal upbringing in an ordinary middle class family in the Copenhagen suburbs, she grew into a tall and skinny teenager, her looks soon transforming her life at the age of 16 into that of a glamorous international supermodel. She had four marriages and four amazing children. But her life eventually became unbearable because of a violent husband, and years of misuse of alcohol. In recent years Brigitte has... Views: 45
The moving story of a daughter's quest to discover the truth about her beloved father's hidden past.Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David's mysterious history comes into question. When his mind begins to falter, leaving Ada virtually an orphan, she is taken in by one of David's colleagues. Soon she embarks on a mission to uncover her father's secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. What Ada discovers on her journey into a virtual universe will keep the reader riveted until The Unseen World's heart-stopping, fascinating conclusion. Views: 45
Hunting the Hudson River valley for cast-off treasures is usually low-stress for Janet Petrocelli, a former shrink who now owns a used-stuff shop. But her insatiable curiosity kicks in when she gets a call from Natasha Wolfson, a high-strung singer and songwriter. The girl is desperate to unload her funky jewelry for a little fast cash so she can move to Los Angeles—and escape some serious trouble. Hours after meeting with Janet, the tormented rising star allegedly leaps to her death. Suspecting foul play, Janet noses into Natasha's life and gets drawn into an eccentric enclave ruled by the rich and infamous. From a hotbed of corruption at the New York State capital to an exotic pleasure house hidden deep in the Catskills, Janet's obsession with the case leads her closer to the shocking truth. Views: 45
Pilot Bancilhon Pax doesn't expect anything but relaxation during some planetary downtime, but news of missing children possibly trafficked for sex can't be ignored. Pax investigates, a decision which turns the pilot's ordered, predictable life upside down, and has strange and unexpected consequences for other connected to Pax in ways no one could ever suspect. Views: 45
Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock -- his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet -- but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for Lita Ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about Guns N' Roses. C'mon and feel his noize. Views: 45
This is the incredible true story of one man's heroic battle against impossible odds, a tale of pain and anguish, bravery and utter solitude, a tale that ends in a victory not only over the implacable ocean but over himself as well.At the age of forty-five, Gerard d'Aboville set out to row across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the United States. Taking his rowboat the Sector, which had a living compartment thirty-one inches high, containing a bunk, one-burner stove, and a ham radio, d'Aboville made his way across an ocean 6,200 miles wide. Though he rowed twelve hours a day, battled cyclones and headwinds that kept him in one place for days at a time, was capsized dozens of times forty-foot waves that hit him like cannonballs, he never quit; even when he was trapped upside down inside his cabin for almost two hours while nearly depleting his oxygen trying to right the boat. One hundred and thirty-four days after his departure, d'Aboville arrived in the little fishing village... Views: 45
The only family Ruby
Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandmère Catherine, a
Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandpèrb Jack.
Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes
makes her feel as mournful as the wind sighing through the Spanish moss,
Ruby is grateful for all she has. Her life is filled with hope and
promise...especially when her attraction for handsome Paul Tate blossoms
into a mysterious, wonderful love. But Paul's wealthy parents forbid
him to associate with a poor Landry, and Grandmère urges her to follow
her dream of becoming a great painter, foreseeing a time when Ruby will
be surrounded with riches in the dazzling city of New Orleans! Yet she
cannot know how close that uncertain future looms....In a faded
photograph, Ruby glimpses for the first time the image of her father —
and learns of a shameful deception and a shocking scheme of blackmail
that now must come to light. Stunned by these revelations, she is
devastated when Grandmère dies, leaving her to seek out her father in
his vast New Orleans mansion. There, in a house of lies, madness, and
cruel torment, Ruby clings to her memories of Paul to keep her heart
alive. For only their love can save her now.... Views: 45
