This book is set to FREE: if you enjoy the stories please make a donation to Saluki Welfare Fund. Every donation, large or small, helps the dedicated volunteers who rescue, care for and find new loving homes for Salukis who have fallen on hard times.Come take a peek into the lives of some of the characters who live in my imagination.The stories:Polly Polo - an elderly car breaks down in bad weather and a phone call to the breakdown service is needed.Emily’s Hat - Emily’s husband is promoted and she must prepare for the company executives’ day out at Ascot.Simile and Metaphor - a teacher is lacking inspiration for a class assignment until she overhears a conversation in a shoe shop.Jackie’s Bike - an adventure goes terribly wrong when Jane ‘borrows’ Jackie’s brand new bike.Out the Other Side - Sophie persuades her husband that they should move to Devon, but their son throws a spanner in the works.Something About Suzy - an abused Saluki escapes her fate as a brood bitch and discovers what it means to have a home and family.Time Out - a teenager volunteers to help the disabled and learns some important life lessons.Spirit Passing - it’s time for Mandy to say goodbye to her terminally ill grandmother. Views: 538
Noble is a knight with a heart that's true and, well, noble. With his not-so-trusty sword, Smite, he fights his way through a vicious, unfriendly landscape, sure (or at least, he thinks he's sure) that one day he'll defeat the bad guys (whoever they are) and win the heart (at least he guesses that's the idea) of a beautiful princess. Then one day Rufus comes along and turns his world upside down. Rufus has his own ideas about how to get ahead: don't fight, negotiate! Don't play by the rules! Suddenly, life is more interesting--and less painful--than ever before. But the new rules are harder to live by than the old ones, and suddenly, it appears possible that Rufus might have an ulterior motive--at the very least! With a slippery, ever twisting plot that is set inside a very confused computer, Catherine Jinks's latest novel will pull in fans of adventure, computer games, and just plain fun.
Releases simultaneously in electronic book format (ISBN 978-1-60684-284-3) Views: 538
Sandi Webster, private investigator, is in for the adventure of a lifetime when she and her partner, Pete, become stranded in a ghost town inhabited by a mysterious horse-riding cowboy and haunted by some unsolved Old West murders. What better way to spend a well-earned vacation than running down old clues and searching vintage houses that haven't been entered in over a hundred and twenty years? Bubba, Sandi's half wolf/half Golden retriever, and the mysterious cowboy keep the action moving. Views: 538
The War is over, but for Sabine the fight for freedom has only just begun.
1961. The Cold War. Berlin is an occupied city - the Western Allies in the West; the Soviets in the East. Berliners go about their daily lives as best they can, until one day they wake up to discover their city has been torn in half by barbed wire - great tangled coils of it snaking through the city. Within days East German soldiers are turning the barbed wire into a solid wall. The Berlin Wall.
17 year old Sabine lives in East Berlin with her mother and younger sister. Sabine’s brother, Dieter, lives in West Berlin. The family is divided and they have no hope of being reunited. The only answer is for Sabine, her sister and mother to escape Communist East Berlin. But the Berlin Wall is guarded by armed soldiers who are operating a shoot to kill policy and almost everyone is under surveillance by the secret police, the Stasi. The smallest error can have you arrested and interrogated. Even imprisoned.
Can Dieter find a way to get his family out of East Berlin? Can Sabine escape the clutches of the secret police? Can she lead her mother and sister to safety? And who, amongst her friends and neighbours, can she trust?
Oranges for Christmas is an historical thriller that will keep you gripped to the end. Views: 538
Punished for sins not her own, can a mortal claim her vampire mate?The world of immortals must unite to save both themselves and the mortals they co-exist with from an ancient evil.For Bede MacTaggert this means trusting in the warrior sent for her sister—a man of mystery, of power, and one who could easily sweep her into a world she's destined to be part of.An imperial guard to the king of vampires, Gawain has always tuned out the needs of the flesh. Dedicating himself to the service of the royals, he's lived on the fringes of his people for centuries. Now he's forced from the shadows and into the arms of a woman who will awaken his heart and body to a passion unequaled.Content Warning: sexy alpha vampire, explicit sex, violence Views: 537
The spellbinding true story of a little girl's miraculous escape from the Nazis during the Second World War.September, 1939. Przemysl, Poland. No one has explained to three-year-old Renatka what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is away with the Polish Army, that her beautiful Mamusia is no longer allowed to work at the university, and that their frequent visitors—among them Great Aunt Zuzia and Uncle Julek with their gifts of melon and clothes—have stopped appearing. One morning Mamusia comes home with little yellow six-pointed stars for them to wear. Renatka thinks they will keep her family safe.In June of 1942, soldiers in gray-green uniforms take Renata, Mamusia, and grandmother Babcia to the Ghetto where they are crammed into one room with other frightened families. The adults are forced to work long hours at the factory and to survive on next to no food. One day Mamusia and Babcia do not return from their shifts... Views: 537
The Arrivals is the second novel for adults by internationally bestselling author Melissa Marr.
Chloe walks into a bar and blows five years of sobriety. When she wakes, she finds herself in an unfamiliar world, The Wasteland. She discovers people from all times and places have also arrived there: Kitty and Jack, a brother and sister from the Wild West; Edgar, a prohibition bootlegger; Francis, a one-time hippie; Melody, a mentally unbalanced 1950s housewife; and Hector, a former carnival artist.
None know why they arrived there--or if there is way out of a world populated by monsters and filled with corruption.
Just as she did in Graveminder, Marr has created a vivid fantasy world that will enthrall. Melissa Marr's The Arrivals is a thoroughly original and wildly imagined tale about making choices in a life where death is unpredictable and often temporary. Views: 537
Enrique Kates interviews Margaret Kamalova on the connection between the Learning Language process, and Yoga, Chakras, Meditation, Right Brain/Left Brain, Self Hypnosis. Enrique Kates is a highly experienced conversational English and Spanish teacher. Margaret Kamalova is a professional Yoga teacher with vast experience in this field.Hello, my name is Enrique Kates! I’m a highly experienced conversational English and Spanish teacher. I’ve been teaching since 1976, and online since 2008.Through the years I’ve heard my students ask questions such as: Why can’t I learn this? Why do I forget it? I’d like to be like ___. It seems so easy for him? Why is it difficult for me, and so easy for him? And on and on…For the last few months, I’ve been giving English lessons to Margaret. A Yoga practitioner, and a professional Yoga teacher.Through our conversations I’ve learned a few things that I’d like to share with my students, and readers in general.Now, I realize that there is a connection between cI also know that most people are not aware of these connections. For this reason, I’ve invited Margaret to have this conversation with me, and answer some questions for us. Views: 537
Three Crying Babies+ 26 Hours+ 800 Miles= One Desperate Man!Fireman Jed Hale is used to being in control. But twenty-six hours of babysitting his sister's infant triplets is making him feel utterly helpless. His sister Patti was supposed to be back yesterday.Now he's worried. But he's pretty sure where she is--at the family cabin eight hundred miles away.Jed needs a miracle--fast. And that's exactly what he gets when his new, very beautiful neighbor Annie Harnesberry drops by to offer a helping hand. She seems to have a magic touch with babies and calms the triplets down within minutes. In an act of desperation, Jed asks Annie to join him and the triplets on his mission to find Patti--and Annie accepts! Jed has never needed anyone, but he's starting to think that needing Annie wouldn't be so bad.... Views: 537
What would you do to win a game of hide and seek? After all, as the oldest child in the family, Sean O'Reilly had a reputation to uphold. Besides, the things his grandmother said about the woods beyond her fence line were just fairy tales. Stories to frighten children into doing what's right. Or were they? Views: 537
Afghanistan, 2014. Two weeks before the final withdrawal of all Coalition forces, a small unit of Army Rangers is attacked and destroyed by a Private Army known only as Olympus. The survivors are captured and held in a fortress in the Pamir Mountains of Kazinistan. There, they must effect a daring escape from their captors and at the same time find the secret of the mysterious Code of War.The year is 2014. On the eve of the final withdrawal of all Coalition forces from Afghanistan, a small unit of Army Rangers is attacked and destroyed by a high tech Private Army known only as Olympus. The survivors, Joe Braddock and his friend, Canadian special forces soldier Danny Callbeck, are captured and held in a fortress in the Pamir Mountains of Kazinistan. There, with the help of a few friends, they must effect a daring escape and find the secret to the enigmatic Code of War. Olympus Rises is a fast-paced, action-packed, cutting edge adventure/fantasy with everything a fan of the genre could want! Views: 537
The name Che Guevara is synonymous with Latin America. This classic anthology on Latin America shows the Argentine-born revolutionary s cultural depth, rigorous intellect and intense emotional engagement with a continent and its people.
Selected from his family s personal archives, this book offers the best of Che s writing: examples of his journalism, essays, speeches, letters and even his poetry, revealing the evolution of an extraordinary mind from that of an impressionable young medical student to the heroic guerrilla, brutally assassinated in Bolivia.
This anthology of Che Guevara's writing on Latin America is destined to become an instant classic comparable to Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America.
I consider my country to be not only Argentina but the entire Americas.
Ernesto Che Guevara
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I sat in my room at our family’s tattoo parlor, Forever Steel staring at the phone. I hadn’t stopped looking at the picture of this crazy, quirky, insanely beautiful blonde haired blue eyed siren that invaded the Jersey Shore a month ago.Carly Smythe was not my type at all. She was a twenty year old student at Stanford University in California, smart as hell, and funny. The shit kicker was she was so awkwardly unaware of what any man with pulse could see, and that was that she was a damn heartbreaker with a body that made me hard the very first time I saw her.She made me crazy, she snuck out to see me, and then avoided any sexual advances I made on her, until I finally kissed her, and I didn’t wait for an invitation either: I took those pouty little lips and made them mine.Carly was also an avid reader of those books, you know “Mommy Porn.” So my game had to be stepped up. Who the hell am I kidding? She could see through my game immediately, and it didn’t have the same effect it did on every other girl I hooked up with. And she didn’t go running for the hills, either. I fell hard… and fast.Abe (her cousin) knew all the shit that had gone down in my life for the past five and a half years and in order to make this work, which I wanted it to... I needed to set the record straight, put it all on the line, give her the 411, and let her decide if after everything, she still wanted to give it up to a guy like me. A tattooed, pierced, f-up, with a past that was sure to send any girl into a tail spin. She was not any girl, she was…different. Views: 537
