A TRAIL OF SHADOWS… It's the chance of two lifetimes for antiquities expert Arnold Landon. He's tracked down an ancient, long-vanished statuette of Artemis straight to one of Europe's most infamous art thieves. Finding the piece for an artifact-recovery organization will help him make history for once instead of watching it pass by from his uneventful job. But when the thief is brutally murdered and the Artemis again disappears, Arnold discovers that the statuette's dark backstory as Nazi plunder and Soviet atrocity barter is anything but past.… Arnold races to uncover clues through a maze of historical lies and bureaucratic obstruction. He'll face down witnesses skilled at turning the truth into official fiction—and trust into a weapon. And when two more killings put his career and his organization's very existence on the line, he'll have no choice but to bait a merciless adversary with an irresistible prize…his life. Views: 29
Max and Olivia are loving life in Camelot not only is Max having magic lessons with the great wizard Merlin, Olivia is finally in training for the Squire’s Challenge. But disaster strikes when Camelot is frozen inside a magical mountain of ice and it’s all Max’s fault. Can he and Olivia rescue Arthur and Merlin from their icy prison before evil Lady Morgana gets to Camelot and seals their doom? Views: 29
Rebecca's life of luxury in Meadow Ridge is vanishing faster than the designer clothes from her closet--unless she finds someone to share her life and her rent.
When she meets Finn, the rugged, sexy motorcycle hunk, she thinks her luck has finally changed. There's just one problem--he's not from Meadow Ridge. Reid, her high school flame, comes back to town as the Meadow's most eligible bachelor, with a tendency to spoil his girlfriends, and a gorgeous mansion--everything she's always wanted.
Now Rebecca's torn between Finn, the man who lives a simple life outside the Meadow and Reid, the man who can give her the life she's always wanted. Views: 29
This was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie's life. Now it's the one she'd do anything to forget.Maggie remembers hanging out at the gorge with her closest friends after a blowout party. She remembers climbing the trail with her perfect boyfriend, Joey. She remembers that last kiss, soft, lingering, and meant to reassure her. So why can't she remember what happened in the moment before they were supposed to dive? Why was she left cowering at the top of the cliff, while Joey floated in the water below--dead?As Maggie's memories return in snatches, nothing seems to make sense. Why was Joey acting so strangely at the party? Where did he go after taking her home? And if Joey was keeping these secrets, what else was he hiding?The latest novel from the author of The Tension of Opposites, One Moment is a mysterious, searing look at how an instant can change everything you believe about the world around you. Views: 29
Explosive novel of Italy's revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelistIt was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers stormed out on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions. The slogan "We Want Everything" rang through the streets. Italy's "Hot Autumn" had begun.In Nanni Balestrini's fictionalized account of the uprising, a young worker from Italy's impoverished south ar-rives at Fiat's Mirafiori factory in Torino, where he barely scrapes by with fourteen hour days of backbreaking work. His frustration is palpable, and soon he is agitating again his bosses for fun and giving himself minor injuries to win sick leave. Soon enough, he is swept up by a snowballing worker movement that leads to months of continuous strikes at Mirafiori. Eventually, the conflict bubbles out of the factory. The growing pressure having produced an inevitable crack, the streets are lined with bar-ricades, and tear gas... Views: 29
By the author of the internationally bestselling biography The Orientalist, The Black Count brings to life one of history's great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar. His swashbuckling exploits appear in The Three Musketeers, and his triumphs and ultimate tragic fate inspired The Count of Monte Cristo. His name is Alex Dumas. Father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, Alex has become, through his son's books, the model for a captivating modern protagonist: the wronged man in search of justice.Born to a black slave mother and a fugitive white French nobleman in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly sold into bondage but then made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French aristocracy. He was only 32 when he was given command of 53,000 men, the reward for series of triumphs that many regarded as impossible, and... Views: 29
Are you cool enough to read The Adventures of Robohooker? Can you handle a tale that combines science fiction with erotica as well as comedy and includes crime and a violent climax as Robohooker saves a woman from being raped?If so, prepare to meet Andi Allure, the world’s first Robohooker or android whore. Follow her through her journey through life as she fucks her creator professor Frankenstone. Meet her mentor in sluttery, Fifi Fontainbleu, who gives her a job in her brothel, Madame Pandora’s Pleasure Palace. Meet her fellow whores, Fluffy Furball, Mandy Mouthful, Priscilla Pleasure, Katie Kinks, Linda Lovesit, Jennifer Juicy and Betty Lumbove, and discover how Andi, though rejected by flesh and blood prostitutes, gains their trust and respect, after which she solves housewives’ resentment against her kind who are, of course, more beautiful and more sexually sophisticated than any human.You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and if you drink a lot you’ll get drunk, but you’ll end up loving Andi, for she is … Robohooker. Views: 29
In a city of daimons, rigid class lines separate the powerful from the power-hungry. And at the heart of The City is the Carnival of Souls, where both murder and pleasure are offered up for sale. Once in a generation, the carnival hosts a deadly competition that allows every daimon a chance to join the ruling elite. Without the competition, Aya and Kaleb would both face bleak futures—if for different reasons. For each of them, fighting to the death is the only way to try to live.All Mallory knows of The City is that her father—and every other witch there—fled it for a life in exile in the human world. Instead of a typical teenage life full of friends and maybe even a little romance, Mallory scans quiet streets for threats, hides herself away, and trains to be lethal. She knows it's only a matter of time until a daimon finds her and her father, so she readies herself for the inevitable.While Mallory possesses little knowledge of The City, every inhabitant of... Views: 29
Kianna came home with one thing in mind…to finally claim the men of
her dreams. What she got were three alpha wolves ready, willing, and
waiting for her. But her childhood had been the stuff of nightmares. In
order for her to stand proudly beside her men, she has to face the
demons of her past. One of them wanted to help her and the other wanted
her dead. Should she trust the one man who tormented her early life, or
is he just helping to destroy her?[]
With the three men she loves in danger, maybe just giving in is the best for all of them.
Can she get past her nightmares and claim what is rightfully hers, or
will her half brother win and kill her before she has the chance? Views: 29
