Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, whose jagged cliffs and ice-gouged rocks are home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have few concerns--few, save for Lockley's two best friends, Egbert and Ruby, a know-it-all walrus and a sharp-tongued hummingbird.But all of this is about to change. Rozbell, the newly crowned king of the Owl Parliament, is dealing with a famine on the mainland of Tytonia--and he has long had his scheming eyes on the small colony to the north. Now Neversink's independence hangs in the balance. An insurgence of owls will inevitably destroy life as the auks know it--unless Lockley can do something about it.Barry Wolverton's debut is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish. Views: 20
Four favorite authors present their
favorite characters in all-new tales of bloodlust, appetites that must be sated
again and again, and the passion that feeds them."Beyond the Ardeur" (An
Anita Blake tale) By Laurell HamiltonAnita is attending a friend's wedding
when Nathaniel, her pomme de sang, makes known in no uncertain terms that he
wants to take the relationship to the next level. Anita's subsequent actions
take her to a place she has hitherto carefully avoided. "Dead Girls
Don't Dance," by MaryJanice DavidsonVvampire Andrea Mercer is literally dug
up by an old crush, Daniel Harris, and during a trip to Minnesota to see the
vampire queen, her desire for him reignites."Originally Human" by Eileen
WilksSuccubus Molly Brown discovers a gorgeous, naked man in the woods and
decides to help him recover his memory."Burning Moon" by Rebecca York
All werewolf Grant Marshall wants to do is rip out the throat of the man who
killed his wife–then swim out into the Atlantic Ocean and never come back. He
tracks his wife’s killer to a small New Jersey seaside town, where he meets
Antonia, a blind tarot card reader--the woman with the power to change his fate. Views: 20
“His presence was electric. The tiny pulses of excitement made her shiver inside. But so did the fear. The feelings were almost indistinguishable…yet completely irresistible.”Emily Hilbright's life is toxic. The negative threads curling around and strangling her. The nights of fear, the days of depression, the frantic struggle to stay sane. Her conscious world was consumed with the most basic need to survive. If her mother's abusive hand didn't break her, the nightmares would.But what about him? The boy in her dreams that had turned her world upside down. Was he her savior or her tormentor? Did it even matter? Because she knew she loved him. Needed him. His presence a taunting tease that was as maddening as it was helpless...for the simple reason that he existed only in Emily's mind.Or did he?Good and evil play out in a distorted landscape where dreams and reality clash and sanity and madness are impossible to tell apart. What is Emily left with when her world crashes down around her and the new love she has discovered is ultimately her killer?Irresistible Fear is the first book in The Redeeming Trilogy...the dark story of a girl, a boy, and a love that could destroy them both. Views: 20
When 18 year old Krystal Waverly catches her best friend Madison having sex with her boyfriend, she wants nothing more than revenge. So she hatches a plan. A plan to have sex with Maddie’s father.But her scheme doesn’t go accordingly, for Mr. Hendricks is nothing like any high school boy she’s ever tried to be with. He’s an older man: confident, authoritative, and with a single glance, she’s caught completely in his power.Her revenge forgotten, Krystal delves into a new world of sex, bondage, and a slave and master dynamic she’s never experienced before with this older man. But with high school coming to an end, and college looming on the horizon, how can they keep up the exploration that Krystal so desperately wants to continue?This is a steamy erotic romance, and recommended only for mature readers, due to multiple and graphically described sex scenes, and themes of BDSM, bondage, spanking and other abuse, and multiple instances of oral and vaginal intercourse. Views: 20
Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself.In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, take us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who make England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French.With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars.... Views: 20
Judas Iscariot's here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot. Nine-year-old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood in the industrial Midlands - until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge. A heartbreaking and timely story of a moment of national crisis as felt by one family, How I Killed Margaret Thatcher delivers a devastating English twist on the dictator novel. Views: 20
THE TRUTH WAS BOUND TO COME OUT, BUT HE HATED BEING THE ONE TO TELL HER[unknown-8230] He'd faced down danger multiple times, but now Pentagon liaison Evan Pike had to deal with the ultimate confrontation. Telling Megan Randall that her late husband had been murdered by his own government was difficult. Keeping their association strictly about business, however, was proving impossible. Especially once Megan's life was put in jeopardy. On the run with a stranger, Megan wondered how her quiet life had changed so drastically. Having Evan as her protector was comforting and she knew he'd do anything to keep her alive. But he was also a man who had her questioning her belief that she'd never love again. And that was even more dangerous[unknown-8230]. Views: 20
The moving story of two girls and the extraordinary adventure that makes them sisters. Views: 20
