As Halruaa descends further into chaos, the vengeful Magehound launches a crusade against those who struck her down After a fight, some warriors seek to return home. Others seek revenge. When the battle of Akhlaur's Swamp ends, its heroes go their separate ways. One becomes a wizard's apprentice and tries to unravel her mysterious lineage. Another returns to his queen—only to find that all is not as it was.Hidden from them both, Kiva the Magehound broods. She cannot forgive those who drove her from power, and she will stop at nothing to be avenged. Her bitterness ensures that Akhlaur's Swamp was only the beginning for them all. Views: 169
Fanny Burney was one of England\'s most acclaimed authors during the early 19th century. A playwright, novelist, and diarist, Burney wrote across a variety of genres, and many of her works were extremely popular in her time. Views: 169
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established
Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There
are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear
in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short
lifetime—Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor
published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was
working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged
chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement
Day"—sent to her publisher shortly before her death—is a brilliantly
rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together,
these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some
of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century.
Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and
friend, Robert Giroux. Views: 169
Cyrus Townsend Brady was a late 19th century American journalist and historian, but some of his best known works were adventure fiction. Today, his most famous work is the history Indian Fights and Fighters. Views: 169
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell cuts a new edge in suspense with a thrilling tale of passion and international intrigue. Emma Cross abandoned the blood, guilt, and tribal wars of CIA life for the elite security consulting firm St. Kilda's. Now she's tracking the yacht Blackbird, believed to be carrying a lethal cargo that will destroy a major American city . . . in just seven days. Emma's partner, MacKenzie Durand—a former special ops killer well-honed in the world's nastiest regions—is more dangerous and unpredictable than the worst enemy she's ever faced. And other eyes are watching Blackbird as well—cold and calculating, looking to alter the geopolitical balance through violence and terror. In a deadly game where the rules change without warning, Emma and Mac must find answers or watch the innocent die in unthinkable numbers. The race is on—and there's no telling who will cross the finish line alive . . . From Publishers WeeklyIn Lowell's well-crafted fifth St. Kilda Consulting thriller (after Blue Smoke and Murder), Manhattan operative Emma Cross travels to Seattle, Wash., where Blackbird, a yacht purported to contain enough explosives to destroy a major U.S. city, is being offloaded from a container ship. Posing as the representative of a buyer interested in the yacht, Emma connects with MacKenzie Mac Durand, Blackbird's transit captain, who's supposed to deliver the boat to a commissioning yard in the San Juan Islands. Emma and Mac, who has a background in special ops, wind up becoming unlikely allies on a dangerous sea journey in which they find themselves succumbing to their mutual attraction. Forced into a high stakes encounter with a pair of Russian spies, they come to realize that the scope of their mission is much greater than they at first assumed. Lowell's primary focus on espionage rather than on romance is a major change from earlier novels, albeit a pleasing one. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistA couple of missing yachts is not a case that would ordinarily involve the private security firm of St. Kilda Consulting. But when an identical double of one of the yachts turns up—and a high-placed U.S. government official believes there is a connection to an upcoming terrorist plot—it does become St. Kilda's latest assignment. Which is how Emma Cross, former CIA agent and current St. Kilda operative, finds herself in Seattle trying to finesse her way past transit captain MacKenzie Durand and get onboard the Blackbird. With the clock ticking, Emma doesn't have time to deal with a cranky, yet incredibly sexy, captain, but fortunately it doesn't take much to convince Mac to become St. Kilda's newest employee. Working together isn't going to be easy for Emma and Mac, and once desire is injected into the equation, their mission becomes even more volatile and urgent. The latest thrilling addition to Lowell's St. Kilda series is another white-knuckle, adrenaline-drenched tale of danger and desire from one of the true masters of romantic suspense. --John Charles Views: 169
Frederick Merrick White (1859-1935) wrote a number of novels and short stories under the name "Fred M. White" including the six \'Doom of London\' science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes beset London. Views: 169
An unofficial collection of the short stories of celebrated author Jack Finney as published in such magazines as Collier's, McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies' Home Journal and Playboy between 1943 and 1965. Views: 168
Midwesterner Gary D. Schmidt won Newbery Honor awards for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boys and The Wednesday Wars, two coming-of-age novels about unlikely friends finding a bond. Okay For Now, his latest novel, explores another seemingly improbable alliance, this one between new outsider in town Doug Swieteck and Lil Spicer, the savvy spitfire daughter of his deli owner boss. With her challenging assistance, Doug discovers new sides of himself. Along the way, he also readjusts his relationship with his abusive father, his school peers, and his older brother, a newly returned war victim of Vietnam. Views: 168
Nicholas Miller had been in Russia for several months and already he felt the tension and paranoia of being watched. What could the KGB possibly want with him? But suddenly a lovely Russian girl begs him for help, and then a green cab nearly runs him down. As his world turns inside out, Nicholas realizes none of it makes any sense -- until he discovers an old woman hidden in the catacombs far below Kiev. Views: 168
Product DescriptionINTRODUCING MERRILY Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, exorcist, works for the Diocese of Hereford in a remote village on the border of England and Wales. Like many men and women doing an essentially medieval job in an increasingly secular society, she's never certain how much she can permit herself to believe. It doesn't help that she sometimes has to work with psychiatrists and the police. Or that her employer, the Church of England, is far from free of prejudice, sexism, greed and corruption. Or that Merrily's teenage daughter is more interested in paganism than the priesthood. No wonder she smokes. No wonder she occasionally lapses into language hard to find in the Bible. THE SECRETS OF PAIN The elite warriors of the Hereford-based SAS know all about pain and the enduring of it. Syd Spicer, ex-SAS trooper, has found himself back the Regiment - this time as its chaplain, responsible for the spiritual welfare of the hardest men in or out of uniform. Faced with a case which would normally be passed discreetly to Hereford diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins, Spicer is forced, for security reasons, to try and handle it himself...and is coming close to a breakdown. Meanwhile, the scattered communities along the Welsh border have their own crisis. With recession biting deep, urban crime has spilled into the countryside and old barbaric evils are revived. When a wealthy landowner is hacked to death in his own farmyard, the senior investigating officer, DI Frannie Bliss is caught in the backlash, his private life in danger of exposure. With the framework of her own world beginning to crack, Merrily Watkins is persuaded to venture into areas where neither a priest nor a woman is welcome...to unearth secrets linked with the border's pagan past. Secrets which she knows can never be disclosed. About the AuthorPhil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of The Bones of Avalon and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries. Views: 168
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A bitter divorce from a two-timing husband leaves Sarah with no money to fend for her daughter, but she won't be beaten, so she opens The Divorce Club, a meeting place for women who want to divorce their cheating husbands, but don't know how.
Soon things start to go seriously wrong. A fake client and her rising interest in him isn't Sarah's only worry; there's also the moody teenager, a stalker, and the club's personalized battle plans that start to involve more than flashing a confident smile and running a 24/7 hotline. When Sarah's ex-husband moves in without her permission in the hope to patch things up, chaos seems complete.
Full-length novel. Approx. 360pp Views: 168
