Some people would give their all to live another year. To live another hundred, some would destroy everything. Jim Evans, retired super-rich trader, only wants to do good. He wants to fund research that will save lives. Professor Christopher Cardini has developed medical technology he says will change the world. Through cell therapy, he can even rejuvenate the dying. Yet there's something Jim will find even all his money can't buy: protection from a brilliant, but twisted, mind. The First Horseman is the fourth in the acclaimed "Jim Evans" thriller series, by Clem Chambers. It focuses on what might happen if we had the ability to turn the human body clock back. Views: 19
To keep her job, a demure graphic artist must make sure her foundation's billionaire donor, a hard-driving tech mogul, stays under wraps for four days—in gossip-hungry Washington, DC. Too bad he has other plans—and is far too gorgeous to miss. Views: 19
In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.Written seven years before The Town and The City officially launched his writing career, The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.Review"Kirkus Reviews," 2/1/12"A Jack London-esque yarn.""Publishers Weekly," 1/30/12"While it may not be the Rosetta Stone of the beat movement, the publication of this flawed manuscript will be an event for [Kerouac's] admirers.""Booklist," 3/1/12"Read this first effort to watch Kerouac learning the ropes.""Entertainment Weekly," 3/2/12"You'll see hints of the bebop prose that would later pour out of Kerouac's typewriter so effortlessly." "Cleveland Plain Dealer," 3/11/12"Rarely does talking seem as much like action as it does in "The Sea Is My Brother." The characters' words fire the imagination. If they don't move you, to quote Louis Jordan, 'Jack, you dead'...There is a song inside "The Sea Is My Brother," a song for anyone who has ever looked over the horizon and thought, 'I'm gonna get out of here someday.'" "Tampa"" Bay"" Times," 3/11/12"For a glimpse of Kerouac crossing the boundary from boy to man, fans can now turn to his first novel." "Wall Street Journal," 3/20/12"["The Sea Is My Brother"] offers plenty of disarming insights into who Kerouac was as a person and writer before he slipped behind the mask of Beat Generation Zen-master...The book is enjoyable" Litreactor.com, 3/20/12""The Sea is My Brother" is a fascinating read, both in its own right and as part of Kerouac's canon." "New York"" Post," 3/18/12"There are plenty of hints of the Kerouac to come." Blurt-Online, 3/12/12 "["The Sea is My Brother"] is perhaps the best of the posthumous releases....Could be considered the skeleton that would become gems.""Huffington Post," 3/23/12"Fans of the "On the Road" author will be fascinated by the glimpse into Kerouac's early writing mind.""January Magazine," 3/22/12"For his admirers and students of his style, the book is a worthwhile read." "National Post "(Canada), 3/25/12"A foreshadowing of Kerouac at his best, a kind of sweet, unassuming persona that made his writing very engaging." "Chicago"" Reader," 4/13 "I loved Kerou ReviewKirkus Reviews, 2/1/12“A Jack London–esque yarn.”Publishers Weekly, 1/30/12“While it may not be the Rosetta Stone of the beat movement, the publication of this flawed manuscript will be an event for [Kerouac’s] admirers.”Booklist, 3/1/12“Read this first effort to watch Kerouac learning the ropes.”Entertainment Weekly, 3/2/12“You'll see hints of the bebop prose that would later pour out of Kerouac's typewriter so effortlessly.”Cleveland Plain Dealer, 3/11/12“Rarely does talking seem as much like action as it does in The Sea Is My Brother. The characters' words fire the imagination. If they don't move you, to quote Louis Jordan, ‘Jack, you dead’...There is a song inside The Sea Is My Brother, a song for anyone who has ever looked over the horizon and thought, ‘I'm gonna get out of here someday.’”Tampa Bay Times, 3/11/12“For a glimpse of Kerouac crossing the boundary from boy to man, fans can now turn to his first novel.”Wall Street Journal, 3/20/12“[The Sea Is My Brother] offers plenty of disarming insights into who Kerouac was as a person and writer before he slipped behind the mask of Beat Generation Zen-master...The book is enjoyable”Litreactor.com, 3/20/12“The Sea is My Brother is a fascinating read, both in its own right and as part of Kerouac’s canon.”New York Post, 3/18/12“There are plenty of hints of the Kerouac to come.”Blurt-Online, 3/12/12“[The Sea is My Brother] is perhaps the best of the posthumous releases....Could be considered the skeleton that would become gems."Huffington Post, 3/23/12“Fans of the On the Road author will be fascinated by the glimpse into Kerouac’s early writing mind.”January Magazine, 3/22/12“For his admirers and students of his style, the book is a worthwhile read.”National Post (Canada), 3/25/12“A foreshadowing of Kerouac at his best, a kind of sweet, unassuming persona that made his writing very engaging.”Chicago Reader, 4/13“I loved Kerouac’s first novel, The Sea Is My Brother...[It] left me with that feeling that life is full of poems, pain, colorful characters, and small moments that matter.”Milwaukee Shepherd Express, 4/12/12“The Sea is My Brother is chock-full of pathos, anticipation and hurt. Kerouac’s characters, including the small role players, are a perfect blend of real people living real lives. It was a brilliant, youthful performance by the author, years before he changed the pace of literature with On the Road.”Chicago New City, 4/16/12“A captivating preview into the author—and his works—to be...A complete story, romantic, energetic, exuberant and even brash, qualities Kerouac never outgrew.”Charleston Post & Courier, 5/27/12“The fascination, and perhaps the value of this book, is that it presents itself as a clear precursor to the books that followed. Given Kerouac’s subsequent impact, it is an important artifact in the popular literature of the time.”Key West News, 6/10/12“There is none of the jazzy, hepcat language of his mature novels here, more the mannered, measured words of the immature. Yet this first novel already has the uncanny effect that the reader dwells inside what the writer is singing.” Views: 19
When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack Mountain town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she has always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become increasingly forgetful and can no longer live on her own. But just as her mother's memory is beginning to slip away, Clara's questions are building. Why was Tamar so insistent that Clara leave home all those years ago? Just what secrets was she hiding? If Clara, too, carries inside her the gene for early-onset Alzheimer's, what does that mean for her own future? With great tenderness and humanity, Alison McGhee tells the story of a young woman finding her way in life, determined to know her... Views: 19
With freshly shaven head, black-garbed, tongue-studded, seventeen-year-old Taylor is standing by her high school locker in the Y2K years. Next minute, she finds herself in a slit trench in Italy next to her much younger grandfather. A glance around her makes it clear; she is in the middle of World War II!Confusion over how she got here is the least of her problems. Handed an Enfield rifle, she must join the Canadian army and fight the enemy. Feeling like an outcast, Taylor must forge relationships with her grandfather and the soldiers in her platoon to survive. Her grouchy grandfather/sergeant will be a challenge.Armed with some historical facts and her grandfather's vaguely remembered war stories, Taylor must convince her grandfather she is not a psychic or a mentally unbalanced soldier, but truly his granddaughter, who has arrived somehow from the future. And how will she get back to her own time? Views: 18
From New York Times bestselling author Thomas Greanias comes a magnificent new epic conspiracy of biblical proportions. Welcome to a world where there is only one government and one religion, before which all must bow or die in the Games. Welcome to the New World Order. Welcome to Rome at the end of the first century. No one from slave to senator can escape the Reign of Terror under Emperor Domitian, who has declared himself Lord and God of the Universe. No one, that is, until an innocent playwright and hedonist, Athanasius, is wrongly accused of being the master assassin Chiron, the general of a secret organization known as Dominium Dei — the “Rule of God.” Facing certain death in the arena, Athanasius discovers an imperial conspiracy to destroy the fledgling Christian threat and extend the rule of Rome forever. The plot to reestablish the Roman Empire in the 21st century starts here. Views: 18
The Immortals created a passage from one universe to another and founded peaceful colonies there, but now the homeworld is ruled by a corrupt council that will send an army to put the colonies under harsh rule. On the colony world of Gan, Trae is raised in secret by a religious sect hiding from a crazed emperor. The reincarnated son of an immortal prophet, Trae is guided by a mentor mysteriously connected to his father, is raised to lead a revolution against the Emperor and, reunited with his true family, moves to meet the threat of the conquering horde streaming in from another universe. Views: 18
Deep within the forests of the Pacific Northwest, the battle for supremacy rages on between two vampire coalitions: Guardian enforcers sworn to protect humanity, and Darkbloods, rogues who kill like their ancient ancestors... Hot-blooded and hard-edged, Tristan Santiago has an uncanny ability to see beneath the surface - a skill that serves him well as the Guardians' region commander. But when a deadly plot against his fellow vampires is uncovered, he must turn to the one woman he can't read: the beautiful yet mysterious Roxanne Reynolds, whose sensual presence soothes his tormented memories. Roxy had put love before duty once before, with devastating results. But to root out a dangerous traitor in their midst, she must put her faith in Santiago, the one man skilled enough to break through her defenses. Posing as lovers, Santiago and Roxy work side by side - and discover a powerful craving that threatens to consume them both.... Views: 18
Ronald the Magnificent is the youngest wizard in the Wizards' Club. The trouble is, he is not a very good wizard and all the others tease him terribly. They don't even let him have his own chair. What Ronald needs is a pet so at least somebody is on his side. But pets are not allowed, so Ronald has to magic his pet up in secret. And when he does get his pet, it is not as easily controlled as Ronald would have liked. A very funny new book featuring wizards, fire-breathing, some misplaced magic and a lot of sausages! Views: 18
