This richly imagined tale takes readers to a tiny German town in the time of 'the burnings,' when pious and heretic alike became victims of witch-hunting zealots. When a double murder stirs up festering fears, the village priest sends for help. But the charismatic Inquisitor who answers the call brings a deadly mix of spiritual fervor and self-deceptive evil. Under his influence, village fear, guilt, and suspicion of women take a deadly turn. In the midst of this nightmare, a doubting priest and an unloved wife - a secret friend of the recently martyred William Tyndale - somehow manage to hear another Voice - and discover the power of love over fear. Dinfoil, Germany, 1538. In a little town on the edge of the Black Forest, a double murder stirs up festering fears. A lonely woman despairs of pleasing her husband and wonders why other women shun her. An overworked sheriff struggles to hold the town - and himself - together. A priest begins to doubt the power of the words he shares daily with his flock. And the charismatic Inquisitor who arrives to help - with a filthy witch in a cage as an object lesson - brings his own mix of lofty ideals and treacherous evil. Under his influence, ordinary village fears and resentments take a deadly turn. Terror mounts. Dark deeds come to light. And men and women alike discover not only what they are capable of, but who they are.and what it means to grapple for grace. Views: 4
A Chinese satellite on a crash course with Earth...
A shadowy organization that seeks to dominate the globe...
And an American backpacker at the center of it all...
Michael Chase is running for his life. The Chinese Secret Police want him dead. The Conspiracy wants him dead. And the only person he can trust may also want him dead. If Michael is going to live, he'll need to find a hidden piece of Nazi technology lost since World War II. And he'll have to do it before anybody else. Because if he doesn't, we'll end up dead too.
LETHAL CIRCUIT is a full-length thriller, approximately 350 pages. Views: 4
Continuing the phenomenal story in The Betsy, The Stallion reintroduces the Hardeman family and the cutthroat world of their vast automobile empire, where the stakes are high and every man, and woman, is a gambler. Loren Hardeman, known as “Number One,” is gradually transferring control of Bethlehem Motors to his grandson, Loren Hardeman III—a man possessed with his father’s cunning, but sadly lacking in his ability to go for the kill. So when Angelo Perino, an outsider previously nurtured by Number One, threatens the position held by Hardeman III, what ensues is a battle of wills in which integrity takes a backseat to animal instinct, and in which there can only be one winner. Bursting with huge ingredients of lust, greed, sex, and intrigue—and a plot full of twists and double-crosses—this is Harold Robbins at his sizzling best.About the AuthorHarold Robbins was born in 1915 in New York's Hell's Kitchen. He wrote twenty-three novels, as well as numerous film and television scripts. A bestselling novelist for over half a century, his novels have sold over 500 million copies. Views: 4
When Tapser goes to visit his cousins, Cowlick, Róisín and Rachel, their imaginations are fired by the story of Hugh Rua, the local highwayman whose ghost, the locals claim, can still be seen galloping along the High Road. Setting out to investigate the story, they find themselves caught up in a tangled web of ghost riders, real spies and smugglers. To catch the smugglers they have to unravel this web, while avoiding the sinister figures of Whaler and Scamp who are even more frightening than the ghost of Hugh Rua! "Action and excitement in full measure." Irish Press Views: 4
In Walker's follow-up to The Color Purple, webs of characters are drawn toward critical confrontations with history In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celie's own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, all must come to understand the brutal stories of their ancestors to come to terms with their own troubled lives. As Walker follows these astonishing characters, she weaves a new mythology from old fables and history, a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African-American experience. Views: 4
In SEASON OF SISTERS, New York Times bestselling author Emily March weaves a compelling and thoroughly charming tale of three Southern women whose chance meeting at a charity bridal gown sale will change their lives forever.Holly Weeks loves her boyfriend, but he miscalculated when he dragged her to a wedding gown sale. Marriage isn’t one of her life goals, and a pretty dress won't change her mind. Nothing can change it - to her secret despair.After her husband forgets their 25th wedding anniversary, Maggie Prescott finds herself lonely and abandoned in her empty nest. So she decides to donate her wedding gown to a good cause. Why would she hold on to either the man or the dress?Grace Hardeman, a volunteer at the sale, has only one wish - to be enveloped in the warmth of her family as she celebrates her Golden Anniversary. But soon she unwittingly adopts a new goal: survival.These three women find themselves at turning points in their lives, and their unlikely friendship forges a bond of sisterhood – the last defense against a broken heart.SEASON OF SISTERS is a full-length, contemporary women's fiction novel, originally published by Pocket Books with the title THE PINK MAGNOLIA CLUB written by Geralyn Dawson, a pseudonym for Emily March.From the AuthorEvery author has a "book of her heart," that one novel they know they were meant to write. SEASON OF SISTERS is mine. When I attended my first charity wedding gown sale, I was struck by the symbolism of the event. In that room filled with wedding gowns, brides with their mothers, sisters, and friends searched for the perfect thing to wear on the most special day of their lives. They shopped racks of gowns donated by women willing to give up one of their most prized possessions to benefit another woman, one fighting the battle against the disease that every woman fears--breast cancer. It was a circle of life, a season of life, moment that touched me deeply. Because I am a writer and this is what writers do, I knew I wanted to explore those themes in a book, and SEASON OF SISTERS is that story. I've volunteered at many gown sales since, and more than once I met a bride who had lost her mother to breast cancer. This story is my salute to all those moms who can't be with their daughters on her wedding day. As mothers, daughters, and friends, we remember and we support. It's a sisterhood thing. Views: 4
