The life of crime is good.Mac has taken down legendary high school crime boss Staples, business has been booming, and Mac and Vince are getting ready for middle school baseball tryouts. But this can’t last. Mac has always tried to keep his friends close and his enemies closer. But what happens when you can’t tell the difference? This dilemma walks into the fourth stall in the form of Trixie Von Parkway—an eighth grader with a mean look and an even meaner predicament. The new science teacher is terrorizing her, and she needs Mac to get him off her back. Seems simple enough, but as Mac starts to dig deeper, he finds even more trouble brewing at his school, including a new administrator bent on destroying his business, and indications that Trixie isn’t who she claims to be. In the past, the worst thing that could have happened to Mac was that he might lose a little money, maybe catch a beating. In The Fourth Stall Part II, though, there’s going to be much more on the line than that. ReviewHere is an original-a story that really gets how guys are pals. It’s also funny, mysterious, and true to the heart of what really matters when you are in middle school. Do yourself a favor. Read it. Now. (Jon Scieszka, about THE FOURTH STALL )Debut novelist Rylander mines a substantial amount of humor and heart from this combination hard-boiled crime novel and middle-grade character piece. A light and enjoyable caper. (Publishers Weekly, about THE FOURTH STALL )Draws in even the most apprehensive young reader... A robust story rich in action, adventure, humor, and friendship. (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), about THE FOURTH STALL )Mac narrates the tale with the arch flatness of a 1940s satire of the noir detective genre...Excellent. (ALA Booklist, about THE FOURTH STALL ) About the AuthorThis is Chris Rylander’s first book for children. He is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan and lives in Fargo, North Dakota. Views: 9
Meet Philip Bradley: a young, dynamic, self-made millionaire with a passion for family and a family of friends. One sudden morning however, his life was torn apart, as his 12-year-old daughter tragically lost hers; being run down and killed by a drunken-driver. Ever the upstanding citizen, Bradley placed his faith in the British judicial system, and for two trying years, juggled his crippling grief with a relentless pursuit of the assailant through the courts. However, owing to the many technical errors made by the Police during their investigations, the case was eventually dropped – a bombshell that destroyed any semblance of faith within Bradley. In desperation and exasperation, he came up with a plan. He would not quite take the law into his own hands, rather he would use his considerable wealth and contact-base to put it into the hands of others – more capable others. Quickly and quietly, he organised the formation of an elite “task force” of ex Special Forces members, who were to track down and abduct the most nefarious of justice-dodgers and bring them to private trial. These were to be overseen by three equally disillusioned High Court judges, who were also convinced that justice is a dish best served red hot! Views: 9
Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off his gambling debts. After that she's hoping to take her mud-wrestling skills out of small-town-Ontario bars and down to the more lucrative US circuit. And then Marcia Beekland enters her life. Marcia has video evidence that appears to implicate Gina in Chico's death. Faced with the likelihood of a jail sentence and the certain loss of the insurance settlement, Gina succumbs to Marcia's blackmail demands. And what Marcia wants is that Gina kill her husband Stanley. What follows is a comic mystery caper that will keep readers both laughing and eagerly reading to discover what is really behind Marcia's increasingly crazed demands. Views: 9
The day the smallest duchy in the world conquered the U.S.A. Views: 9
The third, crazy, Spike Milliganesque story in the hilarious Aunt Effie series for junior readers.Aunt Effie is restless. She and her 26 nieces and nephews are off again in the scow Margery Daw on a treasure hunt across the pirate-infested waterways of the Hauraki Gulf and The Waikato. However boat and crew become marvellously sidetracked: the scow is converted into a travelling cowshed for cross-country travel; a hot-pool swim makes the little ones go bendy; the race between Banana Bob's Model T Ford and Uncle Chris's Stanley Steamer is fraught with high-jinks and skulduggery. Meanwhile back in Auckland, One Tree Hill has sprung a leak and Rangitoto Island is sinking while the Prime Minister gambles away the nation's taxes in the Casino Tower.In this third Aunt Effie travelogue, Jack Lasenby creates another glorious, crazy kaleidoscope of time, place and circumstance. Views: 9
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov's wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband's last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five--the Russian novelist's only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books--has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father's wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative--dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality--affords us one last experience of Nabokov's magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.Photos of the handwritten index cards accompany the text. They are perforated and can be... Views: 9
Four Chances #1 contains Luke Chance Quickies #1 to #4. Views: 9
Special Agent Lexi Steele is an operative with RED—the Recovery Enforcement Division, a highly secretive offshoot of the NSA. Her sexy, too-hot-to-handle partner, Nick Donovan, not only ends up in her bed but also gets inside her in a way no man has ever done before.Lexi and Nick are on the trail of Karl Bachmann, a criminal mastermind who deals in sex slavery. To Lexi’s shock, her team is ordered to pull back. Despite the horrendous crimes Bachmann has committed, they are forced to stop their investigation. Lexi is furious—why would the government let a criminal like Bachmann get away?Bachmann is out for revenge and is bent on destroying Lexi. When her family is targeted, it’s a run against time as Lexi and Nick search for a missing family member and the man behind it. They find themselves in a web of deceit and betrayal that goes to the very core of the U.S. Government itself.In the midst of all the turmoil, Lexi fights her emotions for Nick, a distraction she can’t allow. Nick wants her trust and her love...something she doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to give.The clock is ticking. Time is running out. Views: 9
It is two years since psychotic undertaker, Larry 'Twister' Wadman, disappeared after blasting two police detectives to death with an incendiary device and embarking on a murderous rampage across the Somerset Levels. For most, memories have dulled, but sole survivor of the carnage, police sergeant Kate Hamblin, cannot forget. So when a prostitute's body is found dumped in a coffin in Twister's now derelict funeral parlour, dressed in a police uniform, she realizes that her old enemy is back - and out to get her. But even as a massive murder hunt is launched, it becomes evident that the deranged killer is in no hurry to make his move - he intends on having some fun first - and Twister's idea of fun is the last thing Kate or any sane person would wish for... Views: 9
The riveting first entry in the acclaimed PJ Gray series, in which a police psychologist uses virtual reality forensics to solve a vicious series of homicides Penelope Jennifer "PJ" Gray is a recently divorced single mother living in St. Louis—and a psychologist turned cyber-profiler who heads the police force's Computerized Homicide Investigations Project. By using virtual reality technology, Gray is able to get inside the heads of killers and reconstruct their crimes.The action begins when a talented pianist is savagely murdered, his back carved with a drawing of a dog, his head missing. As similar deaths follow, Gray and her partner—an old-school, technophobe detective called Schultz—must use their skills to trace the serial murderer. Gray Matter marks a brilliant crime-writing debut, as this electrictrifying story recalls Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels. Views: 9
In the rarefied world of Manhattan publishing, most of the intrigue takes place in the books. But all that is about to change for respected editor Jacqueline Blue. . .It's not easy being one of the few African Americans in an overwhelmingly white industry. Yet, until now, Jackie's biggest problem has been her unrequited love for Victor Bell, a handsome member of the Black Pack, her weekly professional group. Does Victor prefer tall women? Light-skinned sisters?But then comes the morning her boss is suddenly murdered. It seems that Jackie was the last person to see Annabelle Murray alive—and the circumstances were not pretty. Jackie's fingerprints are all over the crime scene and, to make matters worse, she had sworn not to tell anyone why she was invited to her boss's home in the first place. And just as everything is hitting the fan, Victor asks her out to dinner. Jackie knows that when it rains it pours—but now she's knee-deep in hot water—and... Views: 9
