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SUDDENLY DADDYOn Valentine's Day, fallen hero Tom Lowery grimly wrote off romance. Retired his shining armor. And grumpily retreated to his lonely lair. Only to find an orphaned infant cooing on his coffee table--and willowy Leslie Harden, his former beloved, desperately proposing marriage to win custody of her precious ward!Instinctively, Tom rushed to the rescue--and the altar. But was it strictly chivalry suddenly making him a family man? Or was it the love this baby brought to his heart...and this woman he'd never stopped wanting?THAT'S MY BABY!Sometimes bringing up baby can bring surprises...and showers of love! Views: 17
On a windswept corner of Manhattan, just a stone's throw from the weathered facade of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, there's a small two-flight walkdown bar called The Land At The End Of The Working Day. Stop in and rest awhile... you'll meet the most fascinating people. And meet one-off visitors. Folks like Gandalph Cohen, the magical caretaker of the City's welfare; Front-Page McGuffin, who, it has to be said, has been in better health. Views: 17
The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: "Kincaid's most poetic and affecting novel to date" (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World)Jamaica Kincaid's first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass through the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air.Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide, Mr. Potter struggles to live at ease amid his surroundings: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters—one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter, Kincaid breathes... Views: 17
The dead have returned to life... The world's focus is on the city of Ravenswood and the once idyllic town of Farmore as platoons and scattered survivors fight the hordes of the dead, unbeknownst one of them holds the key to end the undead's reign of mayhem. Across the city at a body disposal plant a small group take shifts on the 'death watch'. Their hopes hinge on the soldiers of Farmore to rescue them. But with no contact for months, no food and surrounded by the dead, have they got what it takes to survive? With death at their door, only time can tell... The author of 'Blood Hunger', A. M. Esmonde refines the zombie mythos in his latest George A. Romero and Lucio Fulci inspired horror adventure, Dead Pulse.About the AuthorNovelist/Producer A. M. Esmonde was born in Wales, United Kingdom. Producer of the film Terminus (2010) and director of the music video 'Say My Name' (2013). Author of Blood Hunger (2010) and Dead Pulse (2011). Views: 17
A deadly virus, a vicious killer and a long-buried mystery push Brock & Kolla to the limit.When Nancy Haynes, an elderly American tourist, is brutally murdered in a seemingly senseless attack after visiting the Chelsea Flower Show, DI Kathy Kolla suspects there is more to the case than first appears. When another occupant of the palatial Chelsea Mansions is murdered hot on the heels of the first - but this time a Russian oligarch - everybody wants to get involved.Is it a Litvinenko-style KGB assassination? The spooks muscling in certainly think so. Are the murders linked? Or is Nancy's death just the result of mistaken identity? Kathy is determined to dig deeper, but comes up against walls of silence. If she persists, does she risk her career - and possibly more? DCI Brock, meanwhile, faces the fight of his life as his past comes back to haunt him.A crime long buried, a deadly African virus, and some of the most resourceful criminals Brock and Kolla have ever faced,... Views: 17
The Maddas Touch Everything that Maddas Hinsein touched turned to blood as the mad-dog dictator of outlaw Irait pursued his plans of conquest by taking over tiny oil-rich Kuran. Only Remo and Chiun could stop this man who was up to his mustache in gore. But Remo was possessed, slave to his immortal nemesis, the death goddess Kali. And the feeble Chiun was merely a shadow of his former awesome self. Unless CURE's terrific twosome could be restored to their full powers, Maddas Hinsein would turn the whole into one... Views: 17
A collection of five erotic stories with a central theme of sex in foreign places. The Warmth Of His Touch by Viva Jones When Belinda accepts her friend's dare to date the intellectual and straight-laced Alistair, who is about as far from her usual rugged and sporty type as he possibly could be, she doubts their relationship will go much further than a weekly meet-up at the book club. With little in common and not much chemistry, she's on the verge of breaking up with him when he invites her to his family's ski chalet in Austria. Expecting a bit of skiing and some commiseration sex before dumping him, Belinda hasn't counted on a broken boiler and sub-zero temperatures, and Alastair's surprising ability to keep her warm... The Invitation by Maria Lloyd Juliana is stunned and excited by a surprise invitation left in her pigeonhole at work. It is from her secret lover and master. Tickets and itinerary to some pleasure gardens on a Greek Island for that... Views: 17
