This collection features three of our most popular biographies: Washington, the stoic general with a soft spot for animals; Jefferson, the brilliant statesman who was a foodie at heart, and Lincoln, the absentminded lawyer whose compassionate caseload foretold his presidency. Beginning readers will learn about little-known, illuminating events in the earlier years of these extraordinary men and how, long before entering the White House, they lived lives filled with intelligence, courage, and kindness--the hallmarks of a great president. Views: 26
Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something’s out of place....The future is looking bright for Adrian Monk. Natalie is working as a cop in Summit, his brother is a week away from getting married, and Monk has a new assistant—and even a girlfriend.All this change doesn’t keep him from work, though. He’s investigating a string of accidental deaths and suicides that he believes are actually murders. But when Monk’s suspect is killed, he must face the fact that he might be wrong. Have stability and happiness robbed Monk of his mojo?Meanwhile, Monk’s imprisoned arch nemesis, the morbidly obese criminal mastermind Dale the Whale, is being transferred from prison to San Francisco General Hospital for an operation. When Dale escapes and all signs point to Captain Stottlemeyer as his accomplice, Monk will have to reboot his detective skills to clear the captain’s name—and prove that he’s still the one and only Monk. Review“Hilariously funny and devilishly clever…an impossible-crime lover’s delight.” —Ellery Queen Mystery MagazineAbout the AuthorLee Goldberg has written episodes of the USA Network television series Monk, as well as many other programs. He is a two-time Edgar® Award nominee and the author of several other books, including The Walk, Watch Me Die, The Dead Man, and the acclaimed Diagnosis Murder novels, based on the TV series for which he was a writer and executive producer. His previous Monk novels are available in paperback, including Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants,which won the Scribe Award for Best Novel from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Views: 26
An erotic novella with m/m, paranormal, fantasy and romance themes. When Caden first meets his office's new secretary, he can't stop himself from feeling immensely attracted to him. Caden doesn't have the whole story when it comes to the young man, though – Persius is a fairy guardian, and he has been sent to Earth to save Caden's life. But Persius has strong feelings for Caden, which have developed over the many months he's spent watching over this man he certainly shouldn't be sleeping with. Soon, Persius isn't the only one who has become emotionally involved. But can he manage to save Caden when the moment comes? And can he handle what will happen if he succeeds? Because if he saves Caden, as he is supposed to, it's back to his own world, never to see the man he loves – ever again. Views: 26
The Outcast Chronicles follows the fate of a tribe of dispossessed mystics. Vastly outnumbered by people without magical abilities, they are persecuted because ordinary people fear their gifts. This persecution culminates in a bloody pogrom sanctioned by the king who lays siege to the Celestial City, last bastion of the mystics. When the city falls, the mystic leader negotiates their surrender and her people are exiled from their homeland. Imoshen: Her birth was hidden by her father, the ambitious leader of a great brotherhood. She was raised by covenant breaking T'En warriors and only just escaped with her life at eighteen. Seeking sanctuary in the Celestial City, she is voted its leader when the city is beseiged. Tobazim: Inspired by tales of honour and glory, Tobazim went to the Celestial City, hoping to win statura and rise through the ranks of his brotherhood. But he finds the city besieged and vastly different from the stories. Ronnyn: a pure-blood mystic to half-blood parents and only 12 years old. His gift will surface but there is no one to teach him how to contain his power and harness it. Ronnyn would do anything to protect his family, even if it means leaving them. Aravelle: Ronnyn's sister. Clever, but fated to serve because she was born a half-blood. Her parents lives are never ending drudgery, scraping a living from the sea and their island home's poor soil. She fears what will happen when Ronnyn's gift starts mannifesting. Do her parents have a plan? Will her family have to go back to the Celestial City? If they do, will her parents be punished for running away from their brotherhood? This is a family-saga set in a fantasy world. Four people linked by blood, love and vows struggle with misplaced loyalties, over-riding ambition and hidden secrets which could destroy them. Some make desperate alliances only to suffer betrayal, and some discover great personal strength. BOOK ONE: BESEIGED For nearly 300 years the mystics have lived alongside the true-men, who barely tolerate them, until... King Charald is cursed with a half-blood mystic son. Sorne is raised to be a weapon against the mystics. Desperate to win his father's respect, Sorne steals power to trigger visions. Unaware King Charald plans their downfall, the mystics are consumed by rivalry. Although physically stronger, the males' gifts are weaker than the females. Imoshen, the only female mystic to be raised by males, wants to end the feud. But the males resent her power and, even within her own sisterhood Imoshen's enemies believe she is addicted to the male gifts. Sorne tries, but cannot win the respect of True-men. When he has a vision of half-bloods in danger he has to ask himself where his loyalty lies. Convinced he can destroy the mystics, King Charald plans to lay siege to their island city. Will Imoshen win the trust of the mystic leaders and, if she does, will she believe the visions of a half-blood? Views: 26
Three perspectives — one truthThe victim: After his windshield was shattered with a baseball bat, HIV-positive Alex Crusan ducked under the steering wheel. But he knows what he saw. Now he must decide what he wants to tell.The witness: Daria Bickell never lies. So if she told the police she saw Clinton Cole do it, she must have. But did she really?The suspect: Clinton was seen in the vicinity of the crime that morning. And sure, he has problems with Alex. But he'd never do something like this. Would he? Views: 26
Ria is an 18-year-old girl who has just started going to the University of Magic. She meets Michael, a boy whose element is different from hers, which makes their romantic involvement seem impossible. She also feels threatened by a very dangerous magic disease carrier, Adrian. But what will happen when she starts having the symptoms of the disease which turns people into cold-hearted killers? Views: 26
A matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud's great gifts as a writer - humour and profound concern for the matter of human life - he transmutes the particular struggles of everyday sufferers into a strange poetry. Views: 26
In his national bestseller HYBRID, Brian O'Grady created a bracing and vividly realized tale of a virus gone out of control. At the center of that story was Amanda Flynn, a woman not killed by the EDH1 virus, but changed in frightening ways. HYBRID only hinted at the story of Amanda's work in Honduras that led to her exposure and the ramifications when the American government sought to contain the damage. Now, that story can be told.AMANDA'S STORY is the heart-stopping tale of a woman caught up in a storm she wanted no part of, and what happens when she refuses to be collateral damage. It is the story that readers of HYBRID have been waiting for and that new readers will find impossible to put down. Views: 26
TALL, DARK, HANDSOME...AND THE PERFECT FATHER?Unexpected sparks flew when midwife Cecilia Mendoza met young Geoff Bingham, Merlyn County's most eligible bachelor. But she was even more surprised when their dinner date exploded into a night of passion that neither of them would soon forget.Practical-minded Cecilia wanted more than just one evening of romance; however, she needed Geoff's help to realize her lifelong dream -- to have a baby. With only a few weeks left in town, Geoff plunged into their affair -- and embraced the idea of having a child with no strings attached. But was it only baby-making that was in the cards, or was this love?MERLYN COUNTY MIDWIVES: Delivering the miracle of life...and love! Views: 26
Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him. Views: 26
