Když charlottská policie objeví na opuštěném úseku silnice tělo dospívající dívky, Temperance Brennanová se obává nejhoršího. Oběť někdo přejel autem, na jejím těle jsou stopy spermatu a v její kabelce se najde klubová kartička letecké společnosti na jméno místního prominentního obchodníka. Jenže John-Henry Story zemřel před několika měsíci při požáru skladiště. Znal se s mrtvou dívkou? Policie se domnívá, že neznámá byla v zemi nelegálně a živila se prostitucí. Kdo ji zabil? Měl v tom Story prsty? Kromě toho leží Tempe na pitevním stole několik peruánských psích mumií, které zabavila americká celní správa. Veterán z irácké Pouštní bouře Dominick Rockett čelí obvinění, že je do země dovezl nelegálně. Existuje spojení mezi pašováním starožitností a obchodováním s lidmi? Ale Tempe se musí vypořádat i se zmatkem ve vlastním životě. Dcera Katy se po smrti svého přítele rozhodla vstoupit do armády a slouží na jednom z nejnebezpečnějších míst planety – v Afghánistánu. Tempin téměř bývalý manžel Pete navíc na Tempe naléhá, aby jako respektovaná antropoložka odjela právě do této země zmítané válečným konfliktem a provedla exhumaci těl dvou afghánských mužů. Získá tak důkazy pro soudní slyšení a navíc – uvidí se s dcerou! Tempe absolvuje cestu, která v ní zanechá srdcervoucí zkušenost – navždycky. A po svém návratu zjistí, že se její mrtvá neznámá skutečně zapletla do neuvěřitelně rafinovaného obchodu s bílým masem. Pomstí Tempe její smrt? Views: 396
From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of "the marriage movie": what it is (or isn't) and what it has to tell us about the movies--and ourselves.As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet Hollywood has always been cautious about how to label them--perhaps because unlike any other genre of film, the marriage movie resonates directly with the experience of almost every adult coming to see it. Here is "happily ever after"--except when things aren't happy, and when "ever after" is abruptly terminated by divorce, tragedy . . . or even murder. With her large-hearted understanding of how movies--and audiences--work, Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with this tricky subject, explicating the relationships of countless marriages from Blondie and Dagwood to the heartrending couple in the Iranian A Separation, from... Views: 396
This collection of poems was written for 2013's National Poetry Writing Month, which concluded on April 30th. It includes verses about pancakes and Silicon Valley, ninja hats, roses, love, music, British and California rain, and more than a few nods to writing novels.The world was once a place of plenty and wonders: famine and disease were largely unheard of, cities floated through the sky, everything appeared to be perfect. But it could not last. When the magic called Ve collapsed, society collapsed along with it: millions starved and the floating cities crashed to the ground. In the wreckage the byproducts of Ve use, magical beings called Amekt, went feral. This along with the ensuing wars rendered the mainland uninhabitable.In the last days of the old empire, as things began to fall apart, a small group split off an island-sized piece of rock and seeded it with a plant that would allow it to float. For nearly 500 years, the island of Ansau has drifted in isolation on the ocean currents. Life is more difficult than it was, but the Island’s inhabitants have learned to use the trickle of Ve and stability has been the rule. But things are about to change again.Induction is the second story in the Broken Shores series. On the climb back up the cliffs after harvesting mussels on the beach, Emera slips and falls. As she plummets, she prays for help and wakes up do discover that she has been spared. But the help comes at a price . . . Views: 396
New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author.Gritty urban fantasy set in an alternate noir 1930s. A tough P.I. battles aninterdimensional monster that wants to suck magic power out of the world.Sequel to Hard Magic and Spellbound. Book Threein the Grimnoir Chronicles.Grittyurban fantasy adventure set in an alternate noir 1930s, Book Three in theGrimnoir chronicles.Onlya handful of people in the world know that mankinds magic comes from a livingcreature, and it is a refugee from another universe. The Power showed up herein the 1850s because it was running from something. Now it is 1933, and thePowers hiding place has been discovered by a killer. Itis a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. Earth isnext. Formerprivate eye, Jake Sullivan, knows the score. The problem is hardly anyonebelieves him. The worlds most capable Active, Faye Vierra, could back him up,but she is hiding from the forces that think she is too dangerous to let live.So Jake has put together a ragtag crew of airship pirates and Grimnoir knights,and set out on a suicide mission to stop the predator before it is too late. Aboutthe Urban Fantasy of Larry Correia:[A] no-holds-barred all-out page turner that is part science fiction, parthorror, and an absolute blast to read.Bookreporter.com If you love monsters and action, youll love this book. If you love guns,youll love this book. If you love fantasy, and especially horror fantasy,youll love this book.Knotclan.comA gun person who likes science fictionor, heck, anyone who likes sciencefictionwill enjoy [these books]The plotting is excellent, and Correia makesyou care about the charactersI read both books without putting them downexcept for workso whaddaya waitin for? Go and buy somefor yourself and forstocking stuffers.Massad AyoobThis lighthearted, testosterone-soaked sequel to 2009's Monster HunterInternational will delight fans of action horror with elaborate weaponry,hand-to-hand combat, disgusting monsters, and an endless stream of blood andbody parts.Publishers Weekly onMonster Hunter VendettaAbout the AuthorLarryCorreia is an award-winning competitive shooter, a movie-prop-gun master and,yes, an accountant by daybut an urban noir adventure master by night. He isthe creator of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestsellingMonster Hunter series as well as urban fantasy hardboiled adventure saga, theGrimnoir Chronicles. Correia is very tall, very bald, and lives in Utah withhis wife and family. Views: 396
The French Revolution had begun by the Taking of the Bastile by the people of Paris on the Fourteenth of July, 1789, but it seemed to have reached the high tide by King Louis XVI, with his Queen Marie Antoinette and others of the Royal Family, leaving Versailles, after some sanguinary rioting, for the Capital, Paris. But those who think, in such lulls of popular tempests, that all the mischief has blown over, make a mistake. Behind the men who make the first onset, are those who planned it and who wait for the rush to be made and, then, while others are tried or satisfied, glide into the crowds to stir them up. Mysterious agents of secret, fatal passions, they push on the movement from where it paused, and having urged it to its farthest limit, those who opened the way are horrified, at awakening to see that others attained the end. At the doorway of a wine saloon at Sevres by the bridge, over the Seine, a man was standing who had played the main part, though unseen, in the riots which compelled the Royal Family to renounce an attempt to escape out of the kingdom like many of their sycophants, and go from Versailles Palace to the Tuileries. This man was in the prime of life: he was dressed like a workingman, wearing velveteen breeches shielded by a leather apron with pockets such as shinglers wear to carry nailes in, or blacksmith-farriers or locksmiths. His stockings were grey, and his shoes had brass buckles; on his head was a fur cap like a grenadier’s cut in half or what is called nowadays an artillerist’s busby. Grey locks came straggling from under its hair and mingled with shaggy eyebrows; they shaded large bulging eyes, keen and sharp, quick, with such rapid changes that it was hard to tell their true color. His nose was rather thick than medium, the lips full, the teeth white, and his complexion sunburnt. Views: 395
I’ve been told to go to Hell more times than I can count. But this time I’m actually going.
My name’s Bobby Dollar, sometimes known as Doloriel, and of course, Hell isn’t a great place for someone like me - I’m an angel. They don’t like my kind down there, not even the slightly fallen variety. But they have my girlfriend, who happens to be a beautiful demon named Casimira, Countess of Cold Hands. Why does an angel have a demon girlfriend? Well, certainly not because it helps my career.
She’s being held hostage by one of the nastiest, most powerful demons in all of the netherworld - Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell. He already hates me, and he’d like nothing better than to get his hands on me and rip my immortal soul right out of my borrowed but oh-so-mortal body.
But wait, it gets better! Not only do I have to sneak into Hell, make my way across thousands of miles of terror and suffering to reach Pandemonium, capital of the fiery depths, but then I have to steal Caz right out from under Eligor’s burning eyes and smuggle her out again, past demon soldiers, hellhounds, and all the murderous creatures imprisoned there for eternity. And even if I somehow manage to escape Hell, I’m also being stalked by an undead psychopath named Smyler who’s been following me for weeks. Oh, and did I mention that he can’t be killed?
So if I somehow survive Hell, elude the Grand Duke and all his hideous minions and make it back to the real world, I’ll still be the most hunted soul in Creation. But at least I’ll have Caz. Gotta have something to look forward to, right?
So just pour me that damn drink, will you? I’ve got somewhere to go. Views: 395
Frank is a twenty-something with a dream of delivering pizzas all of his life. Unfortunately for him, his parents have other plans. Frank's father wants him to take over their family's pizzeria and his mother wants to see his Ch05En gene, which destines him for greatness, come to fruition, so she may use him in one of her super villainous plots."The name says it all. People don't believe you deserve your powers because you're just a mishap, a freak of nature... an accident. It's up to you to prove them wrong and show them you can be a hero."Nobody believes Gamma Accidents can be heroes: they can only be villains.However, their view about this rare group of supers is about to change.There's a super-villain secretly training young super-powered criminals in the middle of Hero High. The only way to find him is to create a team out of supers not yet enrolled in the school.Join Jack, Bella, Ethan, Ty and Caleb as they start training at Hero High; face bullies and cliques; instantly become outcasts and learn what it means to be a hero... even when no one believes you could ever be one. Views: 395
Every year, magic counselor Mr. Kent dreads the inventory of his enchanted objects. While he loves playing with the hula hoop that can turn back time and the jump rope that makes you invisible, the item in Cabinet 11 always escapes, and this time, it will be during school hours!Every year, magic counselor Mr. Kent dreads the inventory of his enchanted objects. While he loves playing with the hula hoop that can turn back time and the jump rope that makes you invisible, the item in Cabinet 11 always escapes, and this time, it will be during school hours! It will take the teamwork of the Troubled Tweens to help Mr. Kent get the magical mayhem returned to its cabinet in his colorful Wall of Wonders.This 4000-word story from the world of the Troubled Tweens is the perfect introduction to D.D. Roy's book series that begins with Jinnie Wishmaker and continues with Marcus Mender.**Includes the first chapter to Jinnie Wishmaker and Marcus Mender.** Views: 395
King Dramon desires an heir above all else, but not just any heir. His mind is set on expanding the borders of his dominion and increase his power. Martina has been having the terrible dreams once more and is certain that it is a warning for things to come. Her fears may yet be confirmed bringing about the inevitable.An unexpected reunion between the two, unravels events.Akia de Wolfe was quickly becoming known as one of Boston's finest. After closing the Silent Ripper case, a promotion soon followed. For the first time since running away from home a decade ago, her life was perfect, until a ghost from her past, a mistake that she had fought to forget, calls. Coming home to Haven wasn't something she ever wanted to do again, but her father needed her. A serial killer was loose on the small island her family called home, and trying to pin the gruesome murders on him. Facing her demons won't be easy, but in order to clear her father's name and catch a killer she must. Views: 395
Lasia's fate is a short story of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon retold through the eyes of both George and the Princess.Lasia's Fate tells the story of one of the most famous tales in Christian legend, that of Saint George and the Dragon. The story is neither trying to make the reader believe or disbelieve in the existence of God but rather to enjoy the narrative as a knight does battle with a mighty dragon. Views: 395
Gay Romantic Short: When a lecherous werewolf falls for an aloof nymph, he pursues the dryad's affections, only to realize his persistence may be killing it.Dragoste Academy is an ancient all-male university attended by the most powerful supernatural beings in the known realms. Bayne was a werewolf on a mission. His objective? Every man he could get. Until he laid eyes on Lucas.Lucas, a dryad with a tragic past, learned the hard way that trust and love were for fools. Can Bayne break down Lucas's walls, and can Lucas tame Bayne's wild beast before it's too late for both of them? Views: 395
A young marketing specialist wakes up one morning for a surprise that ultimately sets in motion his abduction to another galaxy. Mysteries are discovered in this new world. A story of friendship and personal growth as he tries to get back to Earth alive.Newlyweds Joel and Sonnet have just wrapped up a housewarming party in Suburban Phoenix. Custom-built on the site of a meteor crash a half century ago, the young couple received everything they wanted in their dream house. Unfortunately, Joel and Sonnet also got what they didn't want: thousands of unwelcome, venomous guests. Despite a clean inspection report, the house is crawling with more scorpions than your average infestation, leaving husband and wife to avoid the pests' numbing and potentially fatal sting.On a night that will forever alter their fates, Joel and Sonnet are forced to uncover the mystery of the scorpions' origins. What they find challenges their greatest fears as well as their love for one another. Views: 395
The Pitcher, is a classic story of baseball, the price of dreams, and the lessons of life. A mythic baseball story about a broken down World Series Pitcher is mourning over the death of his wife and an underprivileged Mexican-American boy who lives across the street and wants to learn to pitch. Views: 394
With an agoraphobic mother and a barely-there father, Sang abhors the isolation keeping her in the shadows. The only thing Sang craves is a fresh start and to be accepted as ordinary by her peers, because for her being different meant being cast out alone.With an agoraphobic mother and a barely-there father, Sang abhors the isolation keeping her in the shadows. The only thing Sang craves is a fresh start and to be accepted as ordinary by her peers, because for her being different meant being cast out alone.When her family moves to a new school district, Sang infiltrates a group of boys nearly perfect in every way. Grateful for an influence outside of her parents’ negativity, she quickly bonds with the boys, hoping to blend in and learn from them what it means to have a natural relationship with friends.Only the boys have secrets of their own and they’ll do anything to keep her safe from the knowledge of the mysterious Academy that they've sworn allegiance to. Bit by bit, Sang discovers that her friends are far from the normalcy she expected. Will her loyalty change when she's forced to remain in the dark, or will she accept that she's traded one house of secrets for another?Meet Kota, Victor, Silas, Nathan, Gabriel, Luke and North in a story about differences and loyalty, truth and mystery, friendships and heart-throbbing intimacy.The Academy, ever vigilant. Views: 394
