Fourteen classic short stories by the prolific English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic D. H. Lawrence.Contains the stories:• Mother and Daughter• Her Turn• Rawdon's Roof• Strike-Pay• Things• A Modern Lover• The Old Adam• The Mortal Coil• The Blue Moccasins• The Witch a la Mode• Love Among the Haystacks• The Overtone• The Princess• New Eve and Old Adam Views: 67
In a small town, residents are aware of the basic operations taking place in a nearby military facility. What they don’t know, is the facility has developed two different, top secret compounds that they have been testing on lab animals and humans, taken from nearby hospitals. A few test subjects manage to escape the facility and wander into the surrounding area, infecting local residents. The military attempts to quarantine and contain the virus, spreading throughout the town, by declaring martial law and setting up a perimeter around the town. Little do they know, the virus has already spread outside the town’s perimeter. Baxter is a local resident, fighting to save his life and the love of his life, Laylianna, during the zombie apocalypse, but he becomes Dead in Love. Views: 67
Because of what you are, the Believers will hunt you down. Voices told Lucas
Darby to run. Voices no one else can hear. He’s warned his sister not to look for him,
but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish. On her desperate search, she meets
Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious powers and far too many secrets. Rayne can’t
explain her crazy need to trust the strange yet compelling boy - even though he scares
her. They discover Lucas is running from the Believers, a fanatical church secretly
hunting psychic kids - gifted…Indigo…teens feared to be the next evolution of mankind.
Now Rayne’s only hope is Gabe, who is haunted by an awakening power - a force darker
than either of them imagine - that could doom them all. Views: 67
An irresistible volume for crime fiction enthusiasts When, in 1932, Saradindu Bandyopadhyay decided to try his hand at detective fiction—looked down upon in Bengali literary circles of that time as frivolous ventures—he scarcely expected Byomkesh Bakshi to become one of the most popular and enduring creations in Bengali literature. Although largely modelled on such greats as Conan Doyle's Holmes and Chesterton's Father Brown, Byomkesh's appeal as the self-styled inquisitor, a detective not by profession but by passion, found him a dedicated following among generations of readers. The present collection of stories, all set in Calcutta of the fifties and sixties, brings together four mysteries that put the sleuth's remarkable mental agility to the ultimate test. In The Menagerie (adapted by master film-maker Satyajit Ray for his 1967 film Chiriakhana) Byomkesh cracks a strange case involving broken motor parts, a seemingly natural death and the peculiar inhabitants of... Views: 67
When Mrs. Reg, the manager of Pine Hollow Stables, goes away for a few days, The Saddle Club is determined to pitch in and keep things running smoothly. Lisa, Carole, and Stevie decide they know everything there is to know about horses, so they'll have no problem managing a stable for a few days...right? Wrong! instead it seems that every time the girls try to help, disaster quickly follows. More paint winds up on one of the horses than on the stable; several riders don't get quite the ride they expect; and Mrs. Reg's paperwork is in utter chaos. Soon the members of The Saddle Club are wondering if being horse crazy is all they need to manage the stable, after all! Views: 67
In 1147, Queen Eleanor and King Louis VII traverse to Jerusalem for the Second Crusade. Along with her fancy bedding and wine, the wily, young queen brings five lovely and talented women -- spies identified by a signature garden scent. Among them is the beautiful widow Isabella de Lacey, aka Violet, whose duty is to infiltrate Emperor Manuel’s inner circle and skillfully extract information. Will he aid the queen’s cousin or betray the alliance for one with the Turks? To find out Isabella must woo the emperor’s man, Raoul, whose soul is as black as his eyes and passion both terrifies and captivates her. Set in Constantinople, this historical romance is the first in a series about the clandestine network of female spies beholden only to the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine. Views: 67
Olivia Limoges and the Bayside Book Writers are excited about Oyster Bay's newest resident: bestselling novelist Nick Plumley, who's come to work on his next book. But when Olivia stops by Plumley's rental she finds that he's been strangled to death. Her instincts tell her that something from the past came back to haunt him, but she never expects that the investigation could spell doom for one of her dearest friends... Views: 67
The Intruder is a sci-fi / suspense novel set in the year 2065. Jeremy Mitchell is a refugee from a separatist, anti-technology community who is a fish out of water in the high-tech society of the 21st century. He recklessly plunges into his new environment and finds himself caught in a confusing web of technology and intrigue. After receiving his implant -- the late 21st century equivalent to a smart phone -- Jeremy begins to see, through his implant, images of people who are invisible to everyone else. Jeremy's doctor believes that these images are a psychosis brought on by rejection of the implant and she threatens to have him detained, drugged and evaluated. As he fights for both his sanity and his liberty, Jeremy becomes the pawn in a contest between powerful groups he doesn't understand. His loyalties are tested by a budding love affair with a young college student, who, along with her computer geek girlfriend, are dragged into the conflict. As Jeremy descends deeper into an eerie cyber world he can't escape, he starts to uncover the real meaning of the apparent coincidences that have placed him in the middle of the most important conflict of the decade. The fast-paced action and suspense don't slow down until the climactic conclusion. Views: 67
Join four Quaker women on a journey through the trials of faith and love. Ruth Payne's bridegroom has cold feet. . .for the second time. Will their third try be the charm? Things get complicated for Underground Railroad worker Deborah Wall when she meets a bounty hunter head-on. Will love have them seeing eye-to-eye? Leah hopes to turn a marriage of convenience into a marriage of love. But will letters be a firm enough foundation? Christian Jaidon Taylor wants to win the heart of Quaker Catherine Wall. But will religion make them as incompatible as night and day? Views: 67
"Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA." Views: 67
