Fiasco is a game about ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. There will be big dreams and flawed execution. It won’t go well for them, to put it mildly, and in the end it will probably all go south in a glorious heap of jealousy, murder, and recrimination. It’s designed to be played in a single session, usually around two and a half hours, with no prep. Views: 87
When pampered Jacqueline Abington secretly elopes with the family gardener, she asks another woman to take her place on the much-anticipated maiden voyage of the Titanic.Tessa Bowen hails from a poor corner of London but has been granted the opportunity of a lifetime—a ticket to sail to America aboard a famed vessel. But there's a catch; she must assume Jacqueline's identity. For the first time in her life, Tessa stays in luxurious quarters, dresses in elegant gowns, and dines with prestigious people. Then a wealthy American man takes an interest in her, and Tessa struggles to keep up the ruse as she begins falling for him. When tragedy strikes, the game is up, and two women's lives are forever changed. Views: 86
Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J. K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the first book in the saga. Rowling's true-life, rags-to-riches story is as compelling as the world of Hogwarts that she created. This biography details not only Rowling's life and her love of literature but the story behind the creation of a modern classic. Views: 86
At the end of Siren's Storm, the Sirens were defeated, and now the town of Walfang is once again a peaceful beach community.Or is it? Gretchen and Will are still haunted by the memories of the night the Sirens were destroyed--Gretchen because she can't remember what happened and Will because he doesn't know how to tell Gretchen what he saw. He doesn't even understand what he saw, but he does know now that Gretchen is more than what she seems, more than a human girl. And at the same time, he is more in love with her than ever.Gretchen knows there's something wrong, too. She feels like an alien in her own body, but she doesn't know why. And she feels a presence stalking her at every turn. Have the Sirens returned to Walfang? Or has some other force come to claim her?From the Hardcover edition. Views: 86
Extraordinary stories about ordinary people's livesOver the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village woman provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget. From the bestselling author of Wise and Otherwise and The Old Man and His God, this is another heart-warming collection of real-life stories that will delight readers of all ages. Views: 86
Animal series about Eva and Karl, who help lost, abandoned and sick animals at their parents' rescue centre. When Eva spots a family of ducks swimming on the lake, she falls in love with a tiny, timid duckling she names Dilly. The baby of the group struggles to keep up with her stronger siblings, and one day gets hopelessly lost. There are many dangers facing a duckling all alone, and Eva must find a way to keep Dilly safe and sound... Views: 86
A photographer struggles to understand a stranger's suicide There's nothing special about the woman's death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman's attention. A freelance photographer with a defunct marriage and a career on the skids, he fixates on this mysterious death. Though near starvation, the woman had been buying formula to feed to a baby doll. Before she leapt, she tossed the plastic child out the window. David photographs the dead woman and her pretend child; although he's jaded, the strange scene stirs his compassion, and he begins researching her past. He's convinced that his job has shown him the worst the city has to offer. But learning the truth behind this futile suicide will teach David that New York is even uglier than he imagined. Views: 86
~Book Ten~ Cops Tucker Storm and Wesley Foster know who they want to spend the rest of their lives with. Almost a year has gone by since they discovered that two firefighters - Kurt Maguire and Austin Jacobson - were their mates, chosen for them by the fates who match all werewolves with life partners. Unfortunately, both firefighters are straight. They leave Alaska for Seattle, just to be close to the men. After all, the fates know what they’re doing, right? Right? Austin Jacobson and Kurt Maguire are colleagues and good friends, but each is hiding a secret from the other. Both raised in tiny towns by rigid, bigoted parents with a 'gay is wrong' mentality, their minds are opened when they meet gay coworkers and realize that their parents were wrong. Love is love and lucky is the person who finds it. A chance meeting with two cops from Alaska sends both men reeling emotionally. Austin can’t stop thinking about Tucker and Kurt always has Wesley on his mind. When the foursome meets again, feelings are revealed and a fragile journey begins. Can Austin and Kurt open up and actually be with the men who occupy their thoughts? Or will a lifetime of exposure to bigotry overrule their own hearts? Views: 85
Plagued by a trio of murderous ghosts, Arthur, an at-risk, group home kid, has bigger problems than your average teenager. Distractions like young love, wild hormones, and The System, still hammer away as cruel as ever, but those haunting phantoms have him less concerned with maturation and more worried about watching darkened corners and deep shadows for the spectral evil seemingly hell-bent on destroying anybody he loves.As the bodies pile up, Arthur distances himself from his roommate, Conor, a pyromaniac crack-baby with destructive tendencies, and his girlfriend, Melanie, an all-American Satanist with a hidden agenda, and embarks upon a grisly odyssey of self discovery in hopes of burying the past, cleansing his soul, and obliterating the blood thirsty ghouls once and for all. Views: 85
For Mason Konrad the future's looking good. Parties, an apartment in the city, a well-paid job in TV, then one night he's attacked. Worse is to come: his attacker looks exactly like him. Soon he will understand that something unique has invaded his flesh - a certain monstrous 'something' that transforms ordinary people into replicas of him that are driven by evil bloodlust. As the body count rises Mason fights to keep one step ahead of the Echomen. Meanwhile, the Echomen not only hunt him, his family and friends, they conduct gruesome experiments on their own kind. They have their own mysterious agenda - and this is identity theft at its most extreme. Plunge in! This is horror loaded with raw power. It's a pinch of Lovecraft. A splash of Rod Serling. A raging storm of nightmare, ferocity and blood. Views: 85
