For four years, Grace Sullivan wrote to a Marine she never met, and fell in love. But when his deployment ended, so did the letters. Ever since that day, Grace has been coasting, academically and emotionally. The one thing she’s decided? No way is Noah Jackson — or any man — ever going to break her heart again. Noah has always known exactly what he wants out of life. Success. Stability. Control. That’s why he joined the Marines and that’s why he’s fighting his way — literally — through college. Now that he’s got the rest of his life on track, he has one last conquest: Grace Sullivan. But since he was the one who stopped writing, he knows that winning her back will be his biggest battle yet. Views: 17
What happens when a bride says no?He is the bastard son of a duke, arrogant, handsome, a little bit dangerous, and, of course, one of the most sought-after bachelors in London. He is also about to be publically jilted by some chit of a girl! Blake Stephens' pride isn't about to let him be humiliated, so he charges after his bride to the wilds of Scotland, determined to bring her to the altar. What happens when the heart says yes? He is promised to one woman, but discovers his soul stirred by... the chit's sister! Lady Aileen Davidson's reputation was ruined ages ago, which is why she's buried herself in the country, but her fiery spirit and bold beauty threaten to bring Blake to his knees, making him wonder if he has proposed to the wrong lass. And now he must make a choice: marry for honor... or marry for love? Views: 17
A smart, chilling tale of truth, deception and the reach of the law, The Girl Who Wasn't There is the latest crime thriller from the acclaimed author of The Collini Case, a Waterstones Book Club pick. Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of a wealthy, self-destructive family, survived his disastrous childhood to become a celebrated if controversial artist. He casts a provocative shadow over the Berlin scene; his disturbing photographs and installations show that truth and reality are two distinct things. When Sebastian is accused of murdering a young woman and the police investigation takes a sinister turn, seasoned lawyer Konrad Biegler agrees to represent him - and hopes to help himself in the process. But Biegler soon learns that nothing about the case, or the suspect, is what it appears. The new thriller from the acclaimed author of The Collini Case, The Girl Who Wasn't There is dark, ingenious and irresistibly gripping. Views: 17
Ami lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home—but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late? Views: 17
Two men. One woman. Three hearts.Keegan and Erik gave Julianne half-a-million dollars to sleep with them. Both of them. It was only supposed to be one night. But none of them were ready to end it.After another night spent between the men, Julianne wonders if they can make a relationship work. Erik's scars, physical and emotional, are deep. Keegan battles a well of guilt that eats away at him.But Julianne is nothing if not determined. But can she keep fighting Erik's and Keegan's pasts to bring them into the future? Views: 17
An injured doctor...and his determined nurse! Dr. Ross Turnball and nurse Wendy Watson fell in love on an Urban Search and Rescue course. It ended explosively, with a dramatic mission to rescue people from a bombed shopping mall—and an accident that nearly claimed Ross's life. Now Ross struggles to regain his health—and he's terrified he'll lose Wendy's love. Wendy knows that as long as she's with Ross nothing else matters. But can she persuade him of that? Views: 17
CHRISTMAS DELIGHTS...Claudia first met Thomas when he was asked to discuss the health of her great-uncle, Colonel Ramsay. After the colonel's death, Thomas always seemed to be around--and then, astonishingly, he proposed. It took a wonderfully delightful Christmas with his family for Claudia to realize that she truly loved her new husband. Now all she had to do was find a way to persuade Thomas to love her.... Views: 17
The Château Letoric is the ancestral home of the highly respected Larche family obsessed with the past, with bitterness, rancour and revenge. Solange is one of France's most poignant Resistance heroines but, badly tortured, now senile, the repository of many dark secrets, she has been confined to a wheel chair since the end of the war. Her husband Henri was accused of collaborating with the Nazis. Their son, Marius, at forty-eight a senior officer in Interpol, has been fighting to clear his father's name. But Marius himself is also vulnerable in St Esprit where his past - a homosexual affair with a farm-worker - rises to plague him. Suddenly the years of tongue-wagging culminate in the first of three fatal tragedies: Henri Larche is murdered. The paralysis of a town trapped in the past is powerfully evoked in this superbly skilful story of a family whose dread secrets hound them to a death which has been forty-five years coming. Views: 17
Their
future depends on ours…
Here,
some of the most advanced carbon-based minds in science fiction offer their own
unique perspectives on the complex and conflicted future relationships between
mankind and his most brilliant creations--some funny, some sad, some bizarre,
some terrifying, and all beyond anything ever imagined.
“Itsy Bitsy
Spider” by James Patrick Kelly
“Robots Don't
Cry” by Mike Resnick
“London, Paris,
Banana . . . “ by Howard Waldrop
“La Macchina” by
Chris Beckett
“Warmth” by
Geoff Ryman
“Ancient
Engines” by Michael Swanwick
“Jimmy Guang's
House of Gladmech” by Alexander C. Irvine
“Droplet” by
Benjamin Rosenbaum
“Counting Cats
in Zanzibar” by Gene Wolfe
“The Birds of
Isla Mujeres” by Steven Popkes
“Heirs of the
Perisphere” by Howard Waldrop
“The Robot's
Twilight Companion” by Tony Daniel
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An unlikely romance struggles in the face of dueling dreams, from New York Times bestselling author Sally Mandel."Mandel has a gift for true and incisive dialogue; she searches her characters probingly and captures them in a phrase precisely. These are people to enjoy and even to love." —Publisher's WeeklyHeadstrong and beautiful Quinn Mallory makes the impulsive decision to offer herself as the first prize in a college contest. Will Ingraham applies in verse, and wins the prize. Their personalities couldn't be more different, but a true love blossoms between them that, they believe, will last forever. Until Quinn's dreams of a career in the big city collide with Will's longing for a quiet life together in his Idaho home—leaving Quinn to choose between the life she wants and the man she loves, and neither choice feeling like the right one."QUINN celebrates life...A novel full of fresh characters in a timeless setting...A delightful book to read and... Views: 17
