Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil is ready to take a break from private investigation and focus on her career in criminal law. But as a favor, she agrees to work with Madeline Saga, a beautiful art gallery owner who fears that artwork she has sold is fake. Who in Madeline's tight circle of artists and gallery owners is guilty of the forgeries?When Madeline's life is threatened, Izzy is suddenly asking a more troublesome question: Who wants the gallery owner dead?As the case spins out of control, there's only one person who makes Izzy feel safe—Detective Damon Vaughn. But getting close to her former nemesis is full of surprises. Astonishing truths about the glittering Chicago art scene will introduce Izzy to the deadliest art of deception... Views: 683
Mirrors tell a murderous tale. An old man finds the key to immortality, as long as he pays in installments of blood. Another man wakes up to find everyone else is dead.Mushrooms are a precursor to something demonic.And there's a cooking class about cannibalism. From the author of:LunacyDemons and Other InconveniencesWhat Tangled Websand Giving Up The GhostAnother collection of Scaries from the author of Demons and Other Inconveniences!Dillard mixes black comedy with horror, disturbing imagery and characters you'll love to hate. Somewhere between a cooking class about cannibalism and demonic mushrooms, there lies a story about the power of mirrors and the world that lies on the other side of the glass...Oh, and you know that pesky "Organ Donor" check box on your driver's license? Well, there's a reason you shouldn't check that box.All this and more inside, from the author of Demons and Other Inconveniences and Giving Up the Ghost. Views: 683
Modern mankind has spread throughout the stars and must join together to fight ancient enemies in STAR WATCHMAN. Set in the same universe as STAR CONQUERORS and THE DUELING MACHINE this follows the evolution of the Star Watch: Humans rule a giant galactic empire, but not all the worlds are pleased. Can the Star Watch prevent a revolt? Views: 683
Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham's signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out. Views: 683
It’s been almost a year since Abby Shepard’s once-perfect life crumbled into little more than a nightmare. Dumped, bullied and abused, the seventeen-year-old has all but given up hope. Little does she know that her father died protecting a family secret; a secret that has the forces of good and evil battling to claim the power lurking just beneath her skin.A traveler arrives in Farbank with information leading to ancient runestones that are said to have great mystic powers. Mesmerized with intrigue, Thorik and his parents venture out to find the treasure which will end up costing several lives to acquire.This short story is the prequel to the start of an Epic Fantasy Adventure series that will lead you on a journey like none before. All new creatures and species inhabit this unique landscape as events unfold before your eyes that will change the civilization of the Kingdom and the Altered Creatures forever. This fast-paced character-driven series is filled with magic and mystery.Series Synopsis: The Brothers of War were the twin heirs to the Mighty Dovenar Kingdom. Now weakened by the great civil war, which the twins unleashed upon the land, both brothers are nowhere to be found. Outside the kingdom’s safe harbor and strong fortress walls, the Altered Creatures are prepared to conquer the kingdom in its leaderless and weakened state. The magical Alchemists have chosen sides with the Altered Creatures and against the few E’rudites who still honor the prior regime. Word of the vulnerable people has made it to the three demons that rule the Underworld, Land, and the Air, who have all decided to join the battle for their own supremacy. The future looks bleak for the civilized lands. Yet, there is one young hunter who believes he can still save the Kingdom. These are the tales of this individual and his friends whose very faith in their values challenges the vast domination of the naturally powerful. The land’s destiny is in Thorik’s hands, while his confidence in himself and conviction to his beliefs will define his own fate. Join Thorik on the ultimate journey to save the world from those who strive to control it. Views: 683
"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time" (Philip Gourevitch) comes a raw, evocative, and unforgettable look at the Tiananmen Square massacre through the eyes of those who were there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing stories are now finally revealed in this gripping and masterful work of investigative journalism. Views: 683
M. P. Shiel = Matthew Phipps ShielOne of the strangest books I have ever read—part melodrama, part political treatise, part mystical fantasy. The story is of Richard Hogarth, a man of lofty spirit who on discovering a cache of giant diamonds inside a fallen meteor undertakes a bold project to re-shape the human condition on a global scale. The prose is old-fashioned and ornate, and is at times tiresome, but at other times it is quite wonderful and poetic. You can tell that the author was swinging for the fences, and if he was perhaps a little more hip he might have actually made it out of the park.It's worth mentioning that the book may seem to have anti-Semitic moments, but I don't think that that was the author's intent; Shiel uses the Jewish people as a kind of symbol in the way that another writer might use a myth or a legend as a way of adding meaning and weight to a text. There are Jews in the novel who are stingy, mean and cunning according to the old stereotype, but there are also Jewish protagonists, and in time the Jews people are depicted as a sort of God-chosen, noble race. Of course, one might ask whether it was a good idea for Shiel to bowdlerize a real community of people as a literary device, and I can hardly blame them. Interestingly, the novel prefigures the state of Israel by almost half a century. Views: 683
Two short stories containing magic and angels, or are they demons after all? Perhaps it is all in the mind? But writers have the power to change it all.Heavens Gate a story about a woman on a deserted road where she encounters a man who sends her to hell. Is it real or all in her mind? Is he the devil and she an angel, or are they just people?Writer's Magic is a story about two writing witches. Sisters seeking the man they want, but the men might not be who they took them for. Will they get what they are after, or will they fall prey to forces bigger than the writing magic they possess? Views: 682
chiang mai - a town in the mountains of thailand. some western visitors to town lead to a fatal road race.Sombat - a young man living in chiang mai in northern thailand with a passion for the honda phanthom, his motorbike. Some vistors to town lead to a deadly road race around the ring road of chiang mai Views: 682
This book includes interesting facts regarding different leadership positions that children are exposed to, and may wish to pursue, as they grow and become more educated.Poetry, fun-filled facts, and illustrations help children to comprehend and retain the material in an efficient, effective, and self-engaging manner. Brown has used similar techniques for over thirty years to engage children and to provide material that is stimulating and filled with content. Various positions held by individuals within state and federal government are mentioned, along with other positions children become exposed to on a day-to-day basis. This book provides top-to-bottom exposure to leadership positions.Educators and parents alike can provide children with this teaching supplement, which is created to educate and to provide children with inspiration to attain leadership positions. Views: 682
Ever wonder why aliens don't visit Earth? Or what coffee a demon likes to drink? Or how bureaucracy could really screw up a grand space adventure? A Flash in the Pan? is a collection of speculative flash fiction and short stories that answers these questions and more.Ever wonder why aliens don't visit Earth? Or what coffee a demon likes to drink? Or how bureaucracy could really screw up a grand space adventure? A Flash in the Pan? is a collection of speculative flash fiction and short stories that answers these questions and more.The collection includes the following speculative fiction stories:- Beware Antipodean Shores (50 words)- Shipwrecked (500 words)- The Gloriously Cunning Plan (500 words)- Make Mine a Macchiato (500 words)- Striking Twice (500 words)- In the Service of the Public (500 words)- The Devil Wears Ugly Shapeless Garments Covered in Dog Hair (500 words)- The Regersek Zone (500 words)- Hindsight is a Bitch (50 words)- Authentic Empathy (500 words)- Wefting the Warp (4,300 words)- Showdown (5,100 words) Views: 682
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)R. K. Narayan (1906--2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan's beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan's excitement about his country's initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. The Bachelor of Arts is a poignant coming-of-age novel about a young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In The Dark Room, Narayan's portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husband's... Views: 682
This is a very short romance story. Approximately 1700 words. File includes excerpts from two full-length romance novels - Maggie Undercover and The Baby Race.Erica Brier gave up on love a long time ago, but a chance meeting at a bridal show changes her world.This is a very short romance story. Approximately 1700 words. File includes excerpts from two full-length romance novels - Maggie Undercover and The Baby Race.To promote her floral business, love-phobic Erica Brier reluctantly participates in Council Falls first bridal show. When she's conned into modeling the show piece wedding gown for the charity auction, Erica's life takes an interesting turn when she meets another woman's groom. Views: 682
