Maggie is a seventeen year old girl who's had a bad year. She was smart and on track, but her mom left, her dad is depressed, she's graduating, barely, and her boyfriend of almost three years dumped her for a college football scholarship. Lately she thinks life is all about hanging on by a thread and is gripping tight with everything she has.
Then she meets Caleb.
She saves his life and instantly knows there's something about him that's intriguing, but she's supposed to be on her way to a date with his cousin. Things change when they touch, sparks ignite. Literally.
They imprint with each other and she sees their future life together flash before her eyes. She learns that not only is she his soul mate, and can feel his heartbeat in her chest, but there is a whole other world of people with gifts and abilities that she never knew existed. She herself is experiencing supernatural changes unlike anything she's ever felt before and she needs the touch of his skin to survive. Now, not only has her dad come out of his depression to be a father again, and a pain as well, but Caleb's enemies know he's imprinted and are after Maggie to stop them both from gaining their abilities and take her from him.
Can Caleb save her or will they be forced to live without each other after just finding one another? Views: 176
"The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair" from James Otis Kaler. American journalist and author of children’s literature; he wrote under the name James Otis (1848-1912).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: FOLLOW ME IF YOU CAN"The Law of Escape" ANDREU MARTIN
(Villa Olimpica)"Brawner's Shadows" ANTONIA CORTIJOS (El Born)"The
Predator" SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO (Barri Gotic)"The Enigma of Her Voice" ISABEL
FRANC (Poble Nou)"In This World, and at the Time Mercedes Died" LOLITA BOSCH
(Sant Gervasi)
PART II: SHELTERED LIVES, SECRET CRIMES"Sweet Croquette" DAVID
BARBA (La Mina)"The Offering" TERESA SOLANA (Sant Antoni)"A High-End
Neighborhood" JORDI SIERRA I FABRA (Turo Parc)"The Customer is Always Right"
IMMA MONSO (Eixample)
PART III: DAYS OF WINE (WHITE LINES) AND ROSES"Minor Details" ERIC
TAYLOR-ARAGON (Barceloneta)"The Story of a Scar" CRISTINA FALLARAS (Nou
Barris)"Bringing Down the Moon" VALERIE MILES (Gracia)"The Slender Charm
of Chinese Women" RAUL ARGEMI (Montjuic)"The Police Officer Who Loved Books"
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ LEDESMA (El Raval)About the AuthorAdriana V. López: Adriana V. López is the founding editor of Críticas Magazine and edited the story collection Fifteen Candles. López's journalism has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post and her essays and fiction have been published in anthologies such as Border-Line Personalities, Colonize This! and Juicy Mangoes. Currently, she is translating Susana Forte's novel Waiting for Robert Capa and divides her time between New York and Madrid.Carmen Ospina: Carmen Ospina directs the digital program at Random House Mondadori in Barcelona, Spain. Born and raised in Colombia, she lived in New York for eight years where she coedited Críticas magazine and worked as an editor at Umbrage Editions and a freelance journalist for World Press Review and NY1 Noticias. She has lived in Barcelona since 2006 and rides her bike every day. Views: 176
The “rich period detail [and] riveting action”* C.S. Harris delivers in her Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series reaches new heights as the aristocratic sleuth navigates dangerous political waters to bring a murderer to justice… Regency London: July 1812. How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? That’s the challenge confronting C.S. Harris’s aristocratic soldier-turned-sleuth Sebastian St. Cyr when his friend, surgeon and “anatomist” Paul Gibson, illegally buys the cadaver of a young man from London’s infamous body snatchers. A rising star at the Foreign Office, Mr. Alexander Ross was reported to have died of a weak heart. But when Gibson discovers a stiletto wound at the base of Ross’s skull, he can turn only to Sebastian for help in catching the killer. Described by all who knew him as an amiable young man, Ross at first seems an unlikely candidate for murder. But as Sebastian’s search takes him from the Queen’s drawing rooms in St. James’s Palace to the embassies of Russia, the United States, and the Turkish Empire, he plunges into a dangerous shadow land of diplomatic maneuvering and international intrigue, where truth is an elusive commodity and nothing is as it seems. Meanwhile, Sebastian must confront the turmoil of his personal life. Hero Jarvis, daughter of his powerful nemesis Lord Jarvis, finally agrees to become his wife. But as their wedding approaches, Sebastian can’t escape the growing realization that not only Lord Jarvis but Hero herself knows far more about the events surrounding Ross’s death than they would have him believe. Then a second body is found, badly decomposed but bearing the same fatal stiletto wound. And Sebastian must race to unmask a ruthless killer who is now threatening the life of his reluctant bride and their unborn child. The New Orleans Times-Picayune* Views: 175
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Crammed full of exquisite art from around the world, with fascinating background stories about the artists, editors and publishers, Erotic Comics: A Graphic History examines how this much maligned artform developed into a publishing phenomenon that spans the globe. Volume 1 delves deep into comic history, from the bawdy English cartoons of the 17th century, through the magazines impacted by the two World Wars, up to contemporary magazine titles such as Penthouse and Hustler. The book bulges with sassy postcards, provocative Tijuana Bibles, salacious pin-ups, shocking '50s bondage comics, cheeky cartoons and liberated '60s underground comix. Erotic Comics: A Graphic History is perfect for fans of adult comics, art history and erotic illustrations. Views: 175
High intrigue in South America, with the future of democracy on the continent at stake! Views: 175
A collection of stunning short fiction from the O. Henry Prize–winning author of Siege 13. "Dobozy's prose is an artistic and intellectual boon" (Publishers Weekly). Upon the publication of Siege 13, Jeff VanderMeer, in the Washington Post, stated, "the sheer variety of Dobozy's approaches to telling stories, and his commitment not only to provoke thought but to entertain, constitute a virtuoso performance. Siege 13 is without question one of my favorite story collections ever." But the seeds of the Canadian writer's genius were already germinating in his first book, Last Notes. In the tradition of Aleksandar Hemon's The Question of Bruno and David Bezmozgis's Natasha, Last Notes is a stunning debut collection of short fiction that nails with deadpan irony the dislocations of exile and the disconnects of daily life. "At a time when front-rank short fiction is... Views: 175
There are no mistakes only destiny waiting to be fulfilled. Awakened by the blood of the one woman destined to be his. Ethan escapes, determined to claim Aria as his own and seek revenge on those who have imprisoned him for over two hundred years.Giving him blood is one thing, but losing her heart to an ancient vampire is another. Aria will fight his possession every step the way. Views: 174
"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" *—Midwest Children's Book Review*
After being chased by a man wielding a shovel, scared silly by a mummy, and attacked by Heather Acosta, Sammy and her pals decide they've had their fill of monsters and head home to eat some candy. But along with bubble gum and chocolate bars, they discover something frightening in their trick-or-treating bags. Something that's definitely not sweet!
Before they know it, Sammy and her friends are following suspicious gravediggers, ghoulish embalmers, and shady undertakers. And somebody is following them . . .
The Sammy Keyes mysteries are fast-paced, funny, thoroughly modern, and true whodunits. Each mystery is exciting and dramatic, but it's the drama in Sammy's personal life that keeps readers coming back to see what happens next with her love interest Casey, her soap-star mother, and her mysterious father.
From the Hardcover edition. Views: 174
After a betrayal and a stolen love, an average Roman soldier takes a path of revenge by igniting hope in the people to revolt against a corrupt governor, fulfilling his destiny to become the saint we now know as Santa Claus. Nicholas: The Fantastic Origin of Santa Claus is the epic adventure story of many Christmas tradition origins and the tale of a selfless hero who fought for children in the name of love. Views: 174
