Clarke's childhood was defined by a mystery absentee father and a harsh mother. Now in her 30s, she is virtually emotionally unavailable and high strung, still trying to please her mother by finding success in the flower business. Her only comfort is in the many men she has few fleeting moments with. Views: 14
Darkness lies closer than you think.... Liana Clymer is running away—from her divorce, from her past, from herself. Leaving behind everything she knows, she finds herself ensconced in a fuchsia-colored cottage in the swampy hinterlands of the Florida panhandle. Far from the grown sons who don't return her calls, her only companion her dog, Liana decides to put her best foot forward and get to know whoever lives in the blue house across the street, the only neighbors within sight of her new home. But minutes after a teenage boy, Justin, answers the door and wins her over with his shy kindness, his face appears on the TV screen and is immediately recognizable as that of the child who was taken from his parents two years ago. Worse, Justin's abductor has no intention of letting Liana go. A powerful will to live—and to save Justin too—seizes hold of Liana. She will fight tooth and nail to survive. But does she have what it takes... Views: 14
A new translation of this chilling novel, set on the Belgian border. Book fourteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly, looking straight ahead, as if to claim what was rightfully hers. 'If you don't agree to look at our case, my parents and I will be lost, and it will be the most hateful legal error...' Maigret is asked to the windswept, rainy border town of Givet by a young woman desperate to clear her family of murder. But their well-kept shop, the sleepy community and its raging river all hide their own mysteries. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as The Flemish Shop. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his... Views: 14
"The Werewolf Megapack" collects 22 classic and modern tales of shape-shifters (and not just wolves!) -- including works by Jay Lake, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Gregory Betancourt, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, and many more. Included are:LEOPARD, by Jay LakeGABRIEL-ERNEST, by SakiSYMPATHY FOR WOLVES, by John Gregory BetancourtTHE DRONE, by Abraham MerrittTHE WERE-WOLF, by Clemence HousmanAND BOB’S YOUR UNCLE, by Chelsea Quinn YarbroTHE MARK OF THE BEAST, by Rudyard KiplingDUMPSTER DIVING, by Nina Kiriki HoffmanTHE WEREWOLF, by Eugene FieldTHE WOLF, by Guy de MaupassantWOLVES OF DARKNESS, by Jack WilliamsonTHE MAN WHO WAS CHANGED INTO A CROW, by P’u Sung-lingHUGUES, THE WER-WOLF, by Sutherland MenziesTHE WHITE WOLF OF THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS, by Frederick MarryatTHE SHE-WOLF, by SakiMORRAHA, by Joseph JacobsTHE OTHER SIDE: A BRETON LEGEND, by Eric StenbockTHE WHITE WOLF OF KOSTOPCHIN, by Sir Gilbert CampbellTHE WOLF LEADER, by Alexandre DumasTHE HUNTER’S MOON, by Michael McCarty & Terrie Leigh RelfWEREWOLF OF THE SAHARA, by G. G. PendarvesEVIL FORCES, by Gary Lovisi Views: 14
A mesmerizing debut novel that spans a thousand years of European and Jewish history seen through the beguiling members of the Spinoza family Since the eleventh century, the Spinoza family has passed down, from father to son, a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality. Now, after thirty-six generations, the last descendant of this long and illustrious chain, Ari Spinoza, doesn't have a son to whom to entrust the manuscript. From his deathbed, he begins his narrative, hoping to save his lineage from oblivion. Ari's two main sources of his family's history are a trunk of yellowing documents inherited from his grandfather, and his great-uncle Fernando's tales that captivated him when he was a child. He chronicles the Spinozas' involvement in some of Europe's most formative cultural events with intertwining narratives that move through ages of tyranny, creativity, and social upheaval: into medieval Portugal, Grand inquisitor Torquemada's... Views: 14
Meet The Four Radonovic Sisters. Their Gypsy Mother Has A Prophecy For Each Of Her Daughters...Kate's prophecy: You can't escape your destiny or avoid the past...when the two intersectKate's ex-husband is being paroled and he wants joint custody of their daughter, but Kate can't forgive his betrayal. She hires lawyer Rob Brighten to fight the case, and finds herself falling in love. Her mother and her sisters approve, but little Maya wants only her "real" daddy. So--just as her mother predicted--Kate has to make peace with the past before she and Rob can have a future. Views: 14
City girl goes bush! Dr. Hillary Green never wanted to work in the Outback. But now she's been appointed to the Flying Obs and Gynae service, taking tiny planes to little rural hospitals, along with an airsick anesthetist and a boss who hates women registrars! Well, Hillary doesn't like him, either. Even if he is a terrific doctor…and even if his touch sends needles of excitement shooting up her arm…. Views: 14
The phone rings. She picks up, but no one is there. She hears music and the sound of thunder. She hangs up in a trance. Minutes later, she is dead.Ginny Shapiro stares at the photograph of seven smiling schoolgirls from the exclusive Montgomery Academy. Six of them are dead. She is the only one still alive.The phone rings. Ginny gets in her car and speeds away. Anywhere. Fast.FBI agent Sullivan Dean has the photo, too—as well as information that came too late to save the others. Tracking Ginny down to an isolated cabin in Mississippi, he's hell-bent on stopping her from becoming the final victim. What happened to those girls twenty years ago? The answer is locked deep in Ginny's memory; the key is somewhere in the dangerous world of mind control, where a sound, a word, a voice, can trigger death. For Ginny and Sully, the world is closing in—and passion between them is exploding. But time is running out, and death is within arm's reach…every time the phone rings.From Publishers WeeklyIn 1979, seven girls attended a class for gifted students at a Manhattan private school. That same year a lightning bolt burned the school down, destroying all of its records; the girls themselves remember nothing of the class's contents or its instructor. Twenty years later, each of the young women receives a single phone call that causes them to slip into a hypnotic trance and commit suicide, oblivious to warnings or pleas. Only St. Louis reporter Virginia Shapiro discovers the threat in time and flees her home to avoid the mysteriously compelling call. Eventually, she is joined by off-duty FBI agent Sullivan Dean, a close friend of one of the victims. The two battle perils on the road and then their equally intense attraction at a remote safe house where they wait while the FBI clumsily attempts to solve the case. Meanwhile, Nobel-winning doctor Emile Karnoff, who unbeknownst to the world was the class's teacher, continues to heal illness with hypnosis as his disturbed son disintegrates and his wife keeps life tidy in increasingly peculiar ways. Neither the book's medical nor its investigative details ring true, and a surprising denouement leaves many questions unanswered. Despite its novel premise, McCall's (The Return) lackluster thriller fails to develop full characters or a credible plot line. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalIn the space of a few weeks, six of Ginny Shapiro's grade-school friends have committed suicide even Sister Mary Theresa, who wrote to tell her of the deaths and knew that killing herself was a mortal sin. Having learned that a phone call somehow triggers these so-called suicides, Ginny is running for her life, with FBI agent Sullivan Dean a friend of Sister Mary's brother in hot pursuit, determined to save her. Intense, fast-paced, and cleverly crafted, this engrossing tale deals with some of the darker aspects of hypnosis and human nature and will appeal to those who like their contemporary romances on the chilling side. McCall (The Return) also writes under her own name, Sharon Sala, and lives in Oklahoma. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 14
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