SHERIFF COTTON BURKE DIDN'T START THIS WAR, BUT HE WILL FINISH IT. As sheriff of Catron County in New Mexico Territory, Cotton Burke has put his life on the line against some of the West's most unrepentant outlaws. Like Virgil Cruz—who's kidnapped the woman Cotton loves and threatens to kill her should the lawman attempt to interfere with his gang's schemes. Memphis Jack Stump used to wear a badge and uphold justice until one drink too many cost him his job—and his friendship with Cotton. But he's the only man Cotton trusts enough to infiltrate Cruz's gang as a hired gun and help take them down from the inside before the bandit enacts a terrible revenge... Views: 59
Why would successful urbanites, used to clean, controlled and orderly lives, take on the task of restoring a near collapsing empty barn littered with haphazard and decayed fencing, pastures deep in standing water, and try to turn it into a thriving horse farm?Initially motivated only by a city dweller's fantasy and obscure memories of childhood visits to the country, Roxanne Bok oversees the reconstruction of a thirty-seven stall barn and painstakingly discovers something about both large animals and running a small business.Follow an equine novice as she leads her equally naïve family in an eighteen-month long adventure of breathing life back into a once great horse farm in rural New England. A thoughtfully detailed memoir, Roxanne Bok learns it all the hard way, from the agony of repeatedly being tossed off a beloved horse, to the thrill of winning a blue ribbon.For those who love horses, the dream of country life or simply the sight of an otherwise urban family... Views: 59
Nobantu has everything a girl could dream of: a brilliant businessman for a husband, two adorable children, and two of the best friends a girl could ask for. And yet, on her 35th birthday, surrounded by glitz, glamour and fame, she realises something important. What has happened to her ambitions? Her career? Views: 59
A year after watching his brother go through the ice, twelve-year old Ferd refuses to believe Leo is gone. Convinced his brother is still alive, Ferd enters into a campaign of letters to persuade his brother to come home, mailing notes in any pool of water he can find. Soon, sopping notes begin to appear around the house folded squares of paper in the rain reservoir, kitchen sink, and washing machine. Ferd's mother, Algoma, finds the letters and keeps them to herself in an attempt to hide them from her increasingly distant husband. Gaetan, a bartender who obsessively records the weather, rejects his family's increasingly erratic behaviour and disappears one night leaving behind his weather journal, a newly pregnant wife, and a son consumed with talking to the dead. Views: 59
Protecting the citizens of Safe Harbor is what gets cop-turned-P.I. Patty Hartman up in the morning. So how can she say no to a four-year-old who needs her help? Even if domestic detail isn't Patty's strong suit. Even if the little girl's father happens to be Dr. Alec Denny, the man Patty's loved since she was seventeen.Alec came home to California for his career, but safeguarding his daughter's future trumps everything else. Hiring his high school sweetheart as her bodyguard is risky, especially with all that unfinished business between them.With her maternal instincts—and a few other hot emotions—kicking in, Patty's got some serious soul-searching to do. It's not a choice between love and duty. It's about not letting the guy who broke her heart become the one who got away...again! Views: 59
Hilarious look at sun-baked, over-indulging lesbians. Gigi, the party girl, and Mallory, the solitary responsible business woman, have been friends since childhood. But times are changing for the old pals. Mallory is seeing a psychiatrist and struggling to grow up and to understand her life (including her love for Gigi). Meanwhile, Gigi continues to flit from one risky, albeit usually humorous, caper to another, seemingly unconcerned about her future. When Mallory finally starts to date again, after years spent recovering from an old heartache, she is smitten with a new doctor in town. As the romance turns serious, Mallory begins to feel confident about her future. Gigi watches Mallory blossom right before her eyes. And while their circle of friends can always keep things light and interesting, they can’t shield Mallory from the betrayal that could destroy her newfound happiness or from Gigi’s reckless ways. Of course, with enough beer, barbecue and B. S., anything is possible with these gals in this comic tale of contemporary lesbian life. This is the first novel in a planned trilogy featuring Mallory, Gigi, and their band of fun-loving friends. Views: 59
Inspired by the classic fairy tale Rapunzel and sprinkled with the question: What if the school’s misfits discovered a way to use mind control in order to become the popular group?Skater and reformed geek, Tanner Dobbs, soon learns that his new school, Tangleforest High, is ruled by the Princes. This group of brains used the techniques of Neuro Linguistic Programming to “persuade” the student body that intellectuals are cool, with an added bonus suggestion: “The Princes are the smartest and therefore the most popular.”Julia Webster used to be part of the Princes’ crowd until they became obsessed and increasingly dangerous to themselves. Now she finds herself an outcast from her former “nerd” friends as well as the students who had ostracized her since elementary school. She’s worried when new kid, Tanner, is invited to join the Princes. She figures Tanner hides his smarts in order to fit in and worries that the popular status the Princes offer, even though geeky, might entice him. Views: 59
After Captain Mickey Devlin had the Commissioner's favorite Internal Affairs Commander arrested, his chances of convincing the PC to approve an "On Official Business" trip to Ireland to capture a cop killer seemed improbable. But persuading "Higher Ups" to make the right call is a skill Mickey has perfected over his career. Views: 59
One the irrepressibly inventive Jonathan Lethem could weld science fiction and the Western into a mesmerizing novel of exploration and otherness, sexual awakening and loss. At the age of 13 Pella Marsh loses her mother and her home on the scorched husk that is planet Earth. Her sorrowing family emigrates to the Planet of the Archbuilders, whose mysterious inhabitants have names like Lonely Dumptruck and Hiding Kneel--and a civilization that and frightens their human visitors.
On this new world, spikily independent Pella becomes as uneasy envoy between two species. And at the same time is unwilling drawn to a violent loner who embodies all the paranoid machismo of the frontier ethic. Combining the tragic grandeur of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual tension of Lolita and transporting them to a planet light years, Girl in Landscape is a tour de force. From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 59
Nuclear meltdown, capitalist greed and human folly combine the duplicity of politicians, bankers and the menace of an undercover agent. Particle physicist, Hector MacKenzie, alerts the Prime Minister and his Chief Scientific Advisor to major dangers in the storage of uranium waste. Vivid eye contact, a golden haired woman and a tube train bomb draw him to subsistence living on an abandoned Hebridean island. Ancestral roots, love, and the birth of their son links Viking saga to the supernatural mystery of particle 'entanglement'. A powerful environmental theme warns of the perils to a nuclear world where the Sun is Master. Views: 59
