A collection of short stories that takes our reader, through a roller coaster of emotions. From the up lifting to the lows of human feelings.A collection of short stories and poems, that delve into the lowest abyss and the highest high of emotions. Come take the journey and feel where the heart takes you. Views: 520
A Wall Street Journal and Booklist Best Mystery of 2012
From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.
Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to be—she’s a retired international secret agent. And the device? It’s a 1950s doomsday machine. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edie’s old arch-nemesis. On the upside, Joe’s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. With Joe’s once-quiet world suddenly overrun by mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago and pick up his father’s old gun . . . Views: 520
Helen never had strong bonding love for her daughter Emma, until they worked together. This love is short lived, soon Emma is knocked down and killed by Lesley, a young American nurse in London. A short jail term and extradition to the States for Lesley, leaves Helen broken, and ready for reprisal. Helen’s journey for justice takes her to American, she finds Emma’s killer, new love and herself...Helen had ‘sort of’ loved her daughter Emma, as she had ‘sort of’ loved her husband. However, through an unexpected request for help from student Emma, Helen begins to find the mother love for her daughter. This new love is short lived, as Emma is knocked down by a drink-driver in a London Street, by Lesley, a pretty young American nurse.A two-month jail term and extradition to the States for pretty Lesley, leaves Helen broken. Before the accident Emma had found her talent for photography, and had sold work in the States to media company owner De-Hem. It was during her preparations for an art show that Helen and Emma had found love and friendship. In hospital Emma has to have her hands amputated, this, and the stress of the accident causes Helen to break down, along with her marriage.During rehabilitation, Emma starts to recover, as does Helen, enough so, to allow her to form a relationship with Rick, a tall handsome biker, working at the hospital. The future looks bright until Emma unexpectedly dies. Incensed, Helen intends to trace and track down Lesley to her Arizona home. Help comes from Maureen who can ‘sort’ everything, but at a price. Helen tricks her way in to the desert house, only to find that the pretty Lesley of the trial has vanished. Helen discovers that Lesley is now 22 stone of unwashed addiction, with filthy matted hair, and confused, frightened and drunk. Recognising Helen, Lesley grabs the kitchen knife and slashes her own wrists.Helen has a decision to make; let her live or die, she lets her live. Pretending to be her sister-in-law Helen waits in Lesley’s hospital room for her to come round. When she does, they start to talk, both realising they have much in common due to the accident, as both women are broken, have lost their husbands, family, and are running away. Apart from the wine bottle, Helen discovers Lesley is utterly alone in the world, and reluctantly at first, helps her to pull through. The relationship develops, together with Helen liking Arizona and the people she begins to meet. She fly’s to Texas to meet De-Hem, Emma’s art agent, who informs Helen that Emma has acquired a cult following since her death. Despite his tough-talk she likes him, they work together planning projects for books and exhibitions of Emma’s work. But all is not well, as Helen ends her relationship with Rick as she is spending more and more time in the states. Lesley begins to heal and regain her life through Helen’s support, and one day while working in her desert garden, she begins to remember the night of the accident for the first time. Unable to cope she sees a counsellor and her story unfolds as she starts to recall what happened on the night of the accident. Views: 519
Leading up to the highly anticipated arrival of "Odd Apocalypse "this summer, catch up with Odd Thomas in "Odd Interlude, " a special three-part eBook series by #1 bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz Here is the spine-tingling 58-page third installment of this super-charged stand-alone Odd adventure.
THERE'S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT.
Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs--a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of motel rooms . . . and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thomas and company stop to spend the night, they discover that there's more to this secluded haven than meets the eye--and that between life and death, there is something more frightening than either.
Includes a preview of the next thrilling novel in Dean Koontz's acclaimed Odd Thomas series: "Odd Apocalypse"
"Koontz gives his character wit, good humor, a familiarity with the dark side of humanity--and moral outrage.""--USA Today"
"The nice young fry cook with the occult powers is Koontz's most likable creation . . . candid, upright, amusing and sometimes withering."--"The New York Times"
"Suspense, tension, and surprising plot twists . . . Characters and the search for meaning, exquisitely crafted, are the soul of his work. . . . One of the master storytellers of this or any age."--"The Tampa Tribune" Views: 519
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for NonfictionAnimal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception.For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the... Views: 519
The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to William Morrow Paperbacks. In her classic mystery Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, a dying man’s bewildering last words pull an inquisitive young man and his beautiful companion into a dangerous web of lethal secrets.Review“Agatha Christie had one of the most creative minds in mystery fiction. She managed to use up almost all the plots before most of us were born.” (Nevada Barr, New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon mysteries )“A story that tickles and tantalizes but never exhausts the reader’s patience or ingenuity.” (Times Literary Supplement (London) ) From the Back CoverWhile playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. The man opens his eyes and with his last breath says, "Why didn't they ask Evans?"Haunted by those words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger. . . Views: 519
Seven years ago, Jase awoke with the mystical power to heal people—and no memory of his past. The only clue to his identity is the number forty tattooed on his arm. Driven by a mission he doesn't understand, Jase follows his visions to those he's meant to save. He is convinced that the fortieth person he's drawn to—a little girl named Macy Pearl—is the key to finally learning the truth...Social worker Lucas Jacobson has made a promise to protect Macy, orphaned when her parents were brutally murdered. So when Jase shows up in Naples claiming he's there to heal the child, Lucas is wary, despite his attraction to the enigmatic stranger.Then Macy is abducted, and Lucas has no choice but to trust in Jase. Scouring the city from its glitzy resorts to its seedy underbelly only deepens the mystery—and draws the two men closer. But Jase is certain of one thing: if Macy dies, a dark fate awaits them all.92,000 words Views: 519
Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for 9781301741724.
Warning (This book contains several aspects of the uglier side of life; it is not for everyone.)
The story of Deuce and Eva...
An undeniable connection that stands the test of time.
Unforgettable moments.
Love and pain and everything in between.
I was five years old when I met Deuce, he was twenty-three, and it was visiting day at Riker's Island. My father, Damon Fox or "Preacher", the President of the infamous "Silver Demon's" motorcycle club -mother chapter- in East Village, New York City, was doing a five-year stint for aggravated assault and battery with a deadly weapon. It was not the first time my father had been in prison and it wouldn't be the last. The Silver Demon's MC was a notorious group of criminals who lived by the code of the road and gave modern society and all it entailed a great big f**k you.
"Never forget the day Eva came bouncin' into my fked up life, shakin' pigtails, singin' Janis, wearin’ chucks and sharin' peanuts and straight up stole any decency I had left which wasn't a whole lot but she fkin' took it and I've been hers ever since." Views: 519
Arinze wades through a series of religious setbacks through childhood in Christian South and adulthood in Muslim North that cost him childhood friends in disturbing circumstances. In his internalised grapple with his experiences, he loses his grasp on reality as he wages war against his entrenched views.This book uniquely describes the life of many an everyday Nigerian child and the forces at work in their development. It also paints a clear economic picture of the political and ethnic diversity that moulds Nigeria especially in recent democratic times. Like Joshua Said is the story of a Nigerian child growing up in the grip of poverty, ignorance, superstition and religious chaos. Arinze wades through a series of religious setbacks through childhood in Christian South and adulthood in Muslim North that cost him childhood friends in disturbing circumstances. In his internalised grapple with his experiences, he loses his grasp on reality as he wages war against his entrenched views. Views: 519
To escape a scheme to marry her off to a dishonorable man, Margaret Macy flees London disguised as a housemaid. If she can remain unwed until her next birthday, she will receive an inheritance, and with it, sweet independence. But she never planned on actually working as a servant. And certainly not in the home of Nathaniel and Lewis Upchurch--both former suitors.
As she fumbles through the first real work of her life, Margaret struggles to keep her identity secret when suspicions arise and prying eyes visit Fairbourne Hall. Can she avoid a trap meant to force her from hiding?
Brimming with romance and danger, The Maid of Fairbourne Hall takes readers inside the fascinating belowstairs world of a 19th-century English manor, where appearances can be deceiving. Views: 519
Hannah Bell, the oldest of the three Bell sisters, spends most of her time in the remotest parts of the world photographing endangered animals. She is also gifted with an extraordinary sixth sense which has saved her life on more than one occasion. When she senses something has happen to her littlest sister, Tink, she will do whatever it takes to protect her. What she doesn’t know is her sister’s best friend Cosmos' new science experiment has opened a portal to another world. A world she is about to be taken to whether she wants to go or not.
Borj ‘Tag Krell Manok is the calmest of his four brothers, or so he always thought. The second oldest, he has been assigned the task by his father and the counsel to bring the sister of his brother's bond mate to their world. Borj knows deep down that Hannah is destined to be his bond mate, something he has hoped for since his first mating rite ceremony. What he doesn't expect when he meets her is her resistance or her independence.
When she is kidnapped by a rival clan, Borj will do anything to get her back. Hannah and Borj's escape into the vast forests of Prime draw them together in a fight not only for their lives but for a deeper understanding and trust between two vastly different worlds. Borj discovers Hannah is a fierce and cunning mate while Hannah discovers Borj is the perfect warrior to protect and love her.
By reading any further, you are stating that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are under the age of 18, please get a refund for this book. It is designed for the entertainment of mature readers only. Views: 519
The legendary White Buffalo Calf Woman said that when the last buffalo dies, the world will end. The zookeeper caring for the only remaining American Bison is about to see that prophecy fulfilled.Dr. John Hollow Horn is a zoo veterinarian entrusted with the world’s last American Bison. Hollow Horn is dying of lung cancer, and the world around him is dying, too, suffocated and starved by pollution and decay.He shares with his colleagues the Lakota legends he learned as a boy, saying “Guess now that I’m getting near the end, I’m getting closer to my beginnings.”~ ~ ~ ~This dystopian science fiction short story is based on the legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, who prophesied that when the last buffalo dies, the world will end. Views: 519
A quill is about to scribe some tales yarned near Cornish walls of sea. Follow three different professionals in their work before realizing the fourth story behind.Naval warfare of 18th century is repeated once again in one of the tales yarned by a bosun in his shore leave; a forester tells his history from the time Britain was losing her oaks to a noble purpose; a trader tells about his meeting with a lost business opportunity. Meet the tales yarned in a tavern that never existed. Views: 519
