Desperate DeceptionsLord James Rushford is the only man in London who can lead Rowena Woolcott to the villain who has been tormenting her family for years, and she will stop at nothing to enlist his help. Even if she must pretend to play a dangerously enticing role: his mistress.Shadowed SecretsRushford has demons of his own-a dark past that haunts his memories. Yet the temptation that Rowena presents is more than he can resist.Relentless DesireClaiming to be lovers should not be so easy-or feel so achingly appealing. But as Rushford ushers Rowena through London's most elite clubs and sinister underworlds, truth and fantasy blur. And as the threat to Rowena grows near, the masquerade of passion begins to feel startlingly real..."A finely wrought tale, rife with twisting secrets and dangerous hungers. Exquisite!" -Sylvia Day on The Deadliest Sin Views: 58
There is no United States. There is no world. An asteroid has destroyed what the human race knew as earth and The Great Famine has wiped out most of the surviving human population. For the few remaining survivors, food is scarce—precious—a luxury. A luxury that most humans can't find. Seventeen year old Georgina Carver is fortunate. She's survived the destruction. She eats three times a day while the rest of humanity is plagued by The Great Famine. And she's safe, hidden away in an underground colony with her family and several other families of survivors. All of that changes the day she's randomly selected to be a gatherer. Georgina must leave her safe yet simple world and venture out into a world unknown. A vast, dangerous, destroyed world that could literally eat her alive. After Georgina is severely injured, her life begins to fall apart. She can't remember how she got home or what happened to her while she was on the new earth. The boy she is crushing on avoids her and she keeps having visions that involve an unknown person with violet eyes. As Georgina begins to unravel the truth, it doesn't take her long to figure out that maybe her safe yet simple life isn't that safe at all. Views: 58
SUMMARY:Two women have a passionate interest in the same piece of land Elaine Thomas has a sworn duty to protect National Forest Service land, especially from vicious and destructive poachers. About to soundly scold a thoughtless squatter for camping out in rapidly approaching winter conditions, she’s flummoxed when she’s the one who gets a lecture about tromping on precious seedlings from a woman as beautifuland possibly forbiddingas the high country itself.Botanist Devon McKinney has permission to be camping in the protected area as part of her report on the area’s recovery from a toxic spill, but Ranger Elaine is not at all the ham-fisted voice of authority she’d expected in the Pacific Northwest high country. Nevertheless, she bristles at the suggestion that she doesn’t know how to survive the conditions. Neither woman has any professional intention of tolerating the least deviation from her assignment. Fortunately, working together gets easier and easier, though both women may yet learn that a fire running wild will burn. Views: 58
A wife lies to her husband, seeking refuge from her dowdy life in the plush hotel that overlooks their home. A man ascends the glass-topped dome of a mall in search of a lost childhood memory. History comes to life for a young boy trapped in the city library. An elderly woman nurses a football star back to health ...In these evocative and exquisitely crafted short stories, Henrietta Rose-Innes gives us an extraordinary glimpse into a selection of ordinary lives. Diverse characters – a teenager learning to be a boyfriend, an ageing copywriter, a girl on the brink of womanhood – are all animated in sparse, sparkling prose. The Cape Town they mostly inhabit is both a playground and an obstacle course, filled with menace and delight. Through this landscape, like the pigeons in the title story, they find new paths home – and are themselves transformed by the journey. Views: 58
A boy discovers his neighborhood has turned into a Land of the Lawn Weenies. Sound peculiar? How about zombies behind the counter of your local hamburger stand? A roadside motel where the guests are on the menu? A party where everyone who turns up is...dead? One thing is certain: you're not in Kansas, anymore!Welcome to the PsychoZone. It's that midnight-of-the-mind place where the road to reality makes a sharp turn down a winding detour to the twisted world of the imagination.Just remember: There are no U-turns in the PsychoZone.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. Views: 58
Will Tyler can fly on a football field. He may not be the biggest running back around, but no one can touch him when it comes to hitting the hole and finding the end zone. And no one can match his love of the game. When Will has a football in hand, he may as well be flying for real because life can't touch him - his dad isn't so defeated, his town isn't so poor, and everyone has something to cheer for. All of which does him no good if the football season is canceled. With no funding for things like uniforms and a cared-for playing field, with seemingly every other family moving to find jobs, there simply isn't enough money or players for a season. Unless one kid can rally an entire town and give everyone a reason to believe . . .For fans of his bestselling novels Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw, Mike Lupica delivers a feel-good sports story that will have readers cheering where they sit. Views: 58
A collection of poetry by the literary great William Faulkner. Views: 58
As a young boy Derrick listened to his grandfather’s spooky tales of
“The Ragman,” an old junk dealer and boogieman of sorts to the children
in the neighborhood who he claimed had followed him throughout his
entire life and stalked him from the depths of his own worst nightmares.
But as an alcoholic ravaged with senility, his grandfather’s stories
were dismissed as delusions.
When years later, murder comes to Derrick’s small hometown, he and
his best friend Caleb—both teenage outcasts—discover that the killer is a
hobo dressed in rags who rides the rails in and out of town when
committing his crimes. They dub him “The Ragman” unaware of just how
accurate that nickname may be, but the murders are never solved.
As time passes, Derrick weds and settles into a troubled marriage
while Caleb moves to New York City and spirals into drug addiction and
madness. Thirty years later, in a dying seaside resort town, the
killings have begun again. Has The Ragman returned, or is something even
more sinister taking place?
As Derrick and Caleb meet at the scene of the latest grisly murders,
they soon find themselves confronted with an unsolved mystery that has
haunted them for decades and an eternal evil they may never be able to
escape. The rain falls, darkness descends, a train’s whistle blows, and
the Ragman begins to dream... Views: 58
The paperback edition of the new novel from New York Times bestsellingauthor Margaret Weis.The paperback edition of the opening title in a new trilogy from Dragonlancesetting co-creator Margaret Weis takes up where the War of Souls series left offwith the central character Mina. While following her story, this new trilogy also explores the chaos that is post-war Krynn. This is Weis's first solo trilogy inthe Dragonlance world.AUTHOR BIO: MARGARET WEIS is the author of numerous Dragonlance novels, many of them co-written with Tracy Hickman or Don Perrin, including the New York Times best-selling War of Souls trilogy. She is also the author of The Soulforge and the Star of the Guardian novels and the designer of many Dragonlance roleplaying products, including the Dragonlance Campaign Setting.Margaret's latest title is Mistress of Dragons from Tor Books. Views: 58
Sixteen stories from the most infamous cantina in the universe...by some of today's leading writers of science fiction.In a far corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled cantina where you can down your favorite intoxicant while listening to the best jazz riffs in the universe. But beware your fellow denizens of this pangalactic watering hole, for they are cutthroats and cutpurses, assassins and troopers, humans and aliens, gangsters and thieves....Featuring original stories by:Kevin J. Anderson Doug Beason M. Shayne Bell David Bischoff A.C.Crispin Kenneth C. Flint Barbara Hambly Rebecca Moesta Daniel KeysMoran Jerry Oltion Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens Jennifer Roberson Kathy Tyers Tom Veitch & Martha Veitch Dave Wolverton TimothyZahnFeatures a bonus section following the novel that includes a... Views: 58
