Portsmouth, 1984. Thirteen-year-old Jake's world is unravelling as his father and older brother leave home, and his mother plunges into alcoholic freefall. Despite his turbulent home life, Jake is an irrepressible teenager and his troubled mother is not the only thing on his mind: there's the hi-fi he's saving up for, his growing passion for Greek mythology (and his pretty classics teacher), and the anticipation of brief visits to see his dad. When his parents reconcile, life finally seems to be looking up. Their first family holiday, announced over scampi and chips in the Royal Oak, promises to be the icing on the cake – until long-unspoken family secrets begin to surface.Isabel Ashdown's début novel tells a captivating story of family life, at once troubling, funny and joyous. Vividly bringing to life the gentility of a 1950s childhood, the free-spirited hedonism of the Sixties, and the urban domesticity of 1980s Portsmouth, this is an intimate, lyrical and deeply... Views: 45
JT is a top model for book covers. Burned once already in love, however, he wants nothing to do with another cover model. None can be trusted, until he meets a brown skinned beauty who's shy about posing in the nude--a novelty in his world, and as genuine as she seems. How could he not fall in love with her?Tina is a top fashion model, accustomed to strutting her stuff on the runways of the world, but usually all the interesting parts of her body are appropriately covered. When her twin sister, a famous model, has a severe allergic reaction, she fills in on a book cover shoot. Little did she realize she'd been shot in the nude with the sexiest man alive, and he'd want her in ways she never dared to imagine. Views: 45
THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED HER LIFE... He made her lose control--and she hated it! Even worse, Detective Patrick Monaghan made prosecutor Helen Stewart feel. So she fled his arms and put her energy into avoiding the sexy, seductive officer. But now Patrick was accused of murder, and Helen had the case. She couldn't believe this man was a killer, but Patrick had motive, means--and claimed .not to remember what had happened. Helen might risk her life to discover the truth--but dare she risk her heart? Views: 45
Hamish MacNaught, the well-loved owner of The Ivy, a popular Scottish pub, is dying, and wants to get to know the child he'd never known before, his daughter, Ivy. Ivy doesn't exactly have love for the father that abandoned her and her mother, and who she'd never head of until she was informed that he wanted to give her half of his pub, the other half of it going to Stuart, a man who he'd known as a son for about twenty years. It didn't take Ivy or Stuart very long to start butting heads on every issue… Until Ivy began to come around to Stuart's way of thinking as he father appeared less and less like the man she WANTED to hate. And, in turn, Stuart, a man who spanked her on her second day in Scotland, also became less hateable… even likable. Her life had been spent fluttering from job to job, and finally Ivy thinks she found a place that she might actually try to be happy in… But unfortunately there's a shadow from her father's past that doesn't want her to have this new life, and certainly not a life with Stuart. Can she not only accept this new life, but will she be willing to fight for it? Views: 45
In the year 2003, twenty years after her mother's untidy death, Loli Greene is hired by an almost bankrupt theatre company to travel across the United States to teach tired, toxic teenagers to tap into their creative unconscious, so that they might better understand their world at large and the world of their ancestors. While teaching in a town in the mid-west, she meets a mother and a daughter whose lives she transforms, and whose love transforms her. Views: 45
Alice Carlisle has problems.Her sociology Ph.D. dissertation is going nowhere, she's about to lose the TV extra job that's been paying her bills, and her roommate is kicking her out. She needs to find a new place to live ASAP, so she can focus on finally finishing her doctorate.Enter Griffin, one of Hollywood's rising stars, who offers to let her move into his guest room if she'll dog sit for him. Four months rent free in a nice house with an adorable dog is an offer Alice can't turn down—even if she has major qualms about her movie star roommate.Griffin Beach has it all.He's gorgeous, newly jacked, and poised to make the leap from TV show regular to box office superstar. Until his dog sitter bails, leaving him desperate to find a replacement.Enter Alice, the extra who's never seemed to like him but loves his dog. Griffin has his doubts about the arrangement, but living with Alice opens his eyes to how empty his workaholic lifestyle has... Views: 45
Who murdered a popular high school drama teacher?Angie Deacon always thought the gene that produced maternal instinct was missing from her DNA. Till she meets Kiana Smith: beautiful, personable, talented and...grieving, because her mentor, Gwen Forest, the drama teacher has been murdered.The principal of Carlson South High School begs Angie to come supervise a production scheduled for that weekend. The play, written by Kiana and her friend Evan, is a fundraising effort to save the school's floundering drama program. Although her own community theater is in the midst of its next production, Angie agrees to help out.The trouble is, the principal has told everyone she's there to work on the case, and Angie is quickly buried in secrets and problems thrown at her from every angle. Since she and Detective Colby Jarvis' near-death experience in a recent case, she's sworn to leave investigating to the professionals. Unfortunately she can't convince the kids or the principal to... Views: 45
The last winged horses are on the brink of extinction. The foals are ill, and Ben–a young dragon rider–volunteers to seek the only cure: a Griffin's feather. His silver dragon, Firedrake, agrees to help. But Griffins are a dragon's fiercest enemy, and live far away in the sweltering jungle. A dangerous and exciting adventure begins. Views: 45
Natalie's passion is dance, and she's looking forward to a summer of perfecting her technique at dance camp. Plus, she's just turned fifteen – a momentous age that means she's now officially a grown-up. But while her mom doesn't seem to have got the memo, Kevin, her best friend Sasha's older brother, has. Caught up with the excitement of Kevin's attention, their relationship quickly becomes intimate and all-consuming. Over the summer, Natalie goes from being in love and lust with Kevin to realizing that he is not the guy she thought he was. The worst is that she may have lost her friendship with Sasha. When Natalie turns to her single mom for advice, she gets a shock. Her mom has fallen in love with a woman.Losing her virginity, dealing with her new understanding of her mother, and trying to re-negotiate her friendships, Natalie turns to dancing as the only certain thing in a life full of questions. When a new teacher introduces her to modern dance, she gains confidence... Views: 45
He owned a chain of the most luxurious hotels in the world. For Justin Yates, women were a weekend affair until he met gorgeous Shana Jackson, his fiery Operations Director. Billionaire's Love Suite is a sexy story about the search for true love. Views: 45
"There's no easy way to put this, so I'll say it straight out. It's time I faced up to the truth. I'm fourteen years old and I have Ishmael Leseur's Syndrome. There is no cure." And there is no instant cure to not fitting in. But that won't stop Ishmael and his intrepid band of misfits from taking on bullies, bugs, babes, the Beatles, debating, and the great white whale in the toughest, the weirdest, the most embarrassingly awful ... and the best year of their lives. By the award-winning author of 'The Running Man'. Views: 45
No one would actually send real diamonds to a dog, would they? Now that one of the gems is missing, first kids Cammie and Tessa Parks are no longer so sure that the big, fat diamonds on Hooligan's new collar are imitations. But how can they know for sure? Why would someone representing the president of a nearby country send a dog such a valuable gift? In this second book in the First Kids Mystery series, the president's daughters tackle a puzzling new case that casts suspicions on members of the White House staff. Views: 45
Product DescriptionWhat if the "aliens" are not from other planets? In THE CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS, Mac Tonnies proposes that at least some accounts of alien visitation can be attributed to a humanoid species indigenous to the Earth, a sister race that has adapted to our numerical superiority by developing a surprisingly robust technology. At the same time, this groundbreaking work attempts to reconcile the mythological and contemporary accounts of "little people" into a coherent picture. "For too long, we've called them 'aliens,' assuming that we represent our planet's best and brightest," writes Tonnies. "Maybe that's exactly what they want us to think." From the Publisher"If evidence for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis has failed to surface--despite decades of hard work and diligent investigations--then maybe we should consider the notion that we are looking for the answers in all the wrong places. Instead of looking up, maybe we should be looking around us. And, perhaps, even below us, too." - From the Foreword by Nick Redfern, author of On the Trail of the Saucer Spies"_The Cryptoterrestrials_ is the most refreshing speculation on the paranormal I've seen in ages. The ideas in this book will be harvested by science-fiction writers and TV shows like Fringe for decades. Even skeptics will have a great time reading this well written book of wild conjecture. Mac Tonnies' final Fortean landmark is the Book of the Damned for the 21st century. Fans of the paranormal: be there or be square." - John Shirley, author of Bleak History"This book is an honest pursuit of ideas that might lead to some greater understanding of the paranormal and the existence of an apparent non-human intelligence...Mac Tonnies cuts through much of the self-satisfied, bloated fundamentalist fat of the last fifty years with the deft touch of a surgeon and the encyclopedic knowledge of a veteran." - From the Afterword by Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta Views: 45
D. B. Johnson channels M. C. Escher in this delightful, topsy-turvy picture book. Views: 45
Ranikhet: a remote town spanning three hills in the Indian Himalaya, surrounded by oak, cypress and cedar, and to the north, the ice-white teeth of the highest peaks. Here, Maya begins to find peace after a time of great sorrow. But soon the world she has come to love is threatened by the town's new administration: elections are hijacked by powerful outsiders who sow division and mistrust. When her landlord's nephew returns to set up a trekking company, Maya is drawn to him despite herself, but his long hikes in the mountains evoke painful echoes of the past. By turn poetic, elegiac and comic, The Folded Earth reveals the strange shapes that India's religious and social conflicts can assume, even on distant mountaintops.Review'I was captivated by The Folded Earth and swept into its narrative ... it tells a story about love and hate, continuity and change, loss and grief in a convincing and memorable setting' The Independent. 'Roy has an admirably restrained style and her novel offers a vivid evocation of north India. She conjures up striking images with the lightest of touches' Tatler. 'There is a gentle perfection to the way Roy writes - unhurriedly but with soft precision, using words and phrases that are so apt they almost do not register separately, fusing form and content flawlessly' The Hindu. 'Culminates in a gripping climax that leaves the reader with a poignant yearning for lost loves and sweet revenge' Times of India. 'Even minor characters are evoked with inventive idiosyncrasy ... her prose is tight with life' Daily Mail. 'Seamlessly places the private lives of her characters within a larger socio-political setting ... at the end of the Folded Earth you feel a firm belief in the redemptive qualities of life and love' Elle. 'Poignant and subtle in its storytelling ... the story of love and sorrow told in poetic prose' Verve. 'Negotiates passion and pain, hate and hauteur, with a deftness of narrative skill that is distinctly acrobatic' India Today. 'A joyous novel about grief' Tehelka. 'Delights as much for the allure of the writing as for its very hill-like twists and turns' Indian Express. 'From its inspired title to its tactilely enticing cover, Anuradha Roy's second novel demands the reader pause, slow down, savor this work' Biblio. 'A remarkably assured work ... filled with beautifully crafted prose' Country and Town House Magazine, UK. About the AuthorAnuradha Roy has worked as a publisher and journalist and is now editor at Permanent Black, an independent press in New Delhi. She was the winner of the Picador-Outlook Non-fiction Prize in 2004, and her first novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008) has been translated into thirteen languages. Views: 45
