Meet DI Hanlon. A woman with a habit of breaking the rules and a fierce loyalty to the few people she respects. Her boss, Corrigan. Looks like a street copper promoted above his ability. Underestimate him at your peril.Enver Demirel. Known in the boxing ring as Iron Hand. Now soft and gone to seed. But he would do anything for Hanlon.When the kidnap of a 12-year-old boy blos the case of some missing children wide apart, the finger is pointing at the heart of the Met.Corrigan sends in the only cop in his team who is incorruptible enough to handle it - Hanlon.And then he sends Demirel to spy on her...Once you start the DI Hanlon series, you won't be able to put it down. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Lisa Regan and Mark Dawson.This book was previously published as Time To Die by Alex Howard. What readers are saying about The Stolen Child: 'Brilliantly done, authentic and doesn't pull any... Views: 681
Luna Stone's life is far from normal. She's working two jobs as a barista and dances at a night club. A old friend from her past show's back up and she's about to start a internship at a law firm. The work wasn't hard. But what was hard was trying not to fall in love with her new over-achieving, young, polar opposite boss Mr.Ian Hanson.At first glance, Luna Stone seems to have a normal nineteen year old girl’s life. She goes to college, studying for psychology. Works at a coffeehouse. But Luna’s life is far from normal. In addition to her coffeehouse job, she also works nights at a strip club. Dancing and waitressing to keep up with her mother’s hospital bills. More recently, a old friend of Luna’s decides to pop up and beg for forgiveness. And to top it all off, her teacher recently offered her a internship at a law firm. Which is a opportunity she could not pass up.Twelve weeks, personal assistant, no pay, but a good recommendation. Seemed easy enough. But what Luna didn’t know was the job wasn’t going to be the hard part. The hard part wasn’t even her new over-achieving, young, polar opposite boss Mr. Ian Hanson. The hard part, was not falling in love with him.In the first book of the Live by the Sun, Love by the Moon Trilogy, we meet Luna at a time in her life when her world gets turned upside down and seems to be falling apart. But it isn't her world she's worried about breaking, it’s her heart. Views: 681
It is Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. Tania participates in the various rituals of decorating, sweet making, lighting crackers are more. Read on to find out about all the exciting things Tania does for the perfect Diwali. Views: 681
Shea is a waitress at the Wild Animal Diner. She's one of the few humans living in Wild that know about the existence of shifters. She has a lot of responsibilities and isn't looking for a man. Then Logan walks into the diner, takes one sniff of her and calls her his. Then after an explosive meeting he leaves town. Is he coming back? Does she want him to? She isn't so sure. Logan is a polar bear shifter that happened to be told about Wild a few months ago by a breeding female he pointed back toward her destiny. He decides to see what the town has to offer. What he finds is his mate, but then he has to leave town. He has responsibilities of his own and is kept away longer than he intends. Will Logan and Shea become a happily mated couple with surprises from them both and a danger stalking them as they try to work out the difficulties of their merged lives? Or will there be something that keeps them from each other? Or someone? Views: 681
I am the self-appointed representative of the New Hope wing of the Democratic Party. You may call me a nut, a dreamer, or a socialist, but I can offer the young people in America—to me that means anyone under fifty—new hope.Dorian Evergreen de Bernard Viallet est un nouveau recueil de nouvelles de l’auteur et le titre éponyme du premier texte de l’ouvrage.Neuf autres nouvelles le suivent. On y retrouve à chaque fois l’humour de Bernard Viallet et son esprit malicieux qui ne se laisse pas faire par le monde moderne et le critique efficacement dans une dérision jubilatoire.L’anticipation et le fantastique sont souvent représentés dans ces textes, aussi bien dans Dorian Evergreen dont le nom, on le devine, dévoile un clin d’œil au célèbre portrait de Dorian Gray d’Oscar Wilde, que dans les Thanatophores ou SOS MACHOS, qui évoquent respectivement le contrôle des naissances et l’euthanasie.Bernard Viallet se moque allègrement des contradictions de notre époque et nous entraîne à rire avec lui de celles-ci.Ces nouvelles, toujours très bien écrites, se dévorent copieusement. Elles se révèlent également éclectiques, lorsque l’auteur nous conte les aventures d’une vieille péripatéticienne en fin de carrière enlevée par un ancien client amoureux sous les yeux de son antique proxénète, où lorsqu’il dépeint l’univers glauque de deux « pointeurs » violeurs et assassins d’enfants pas du tout pénitents.Certains de ces écrits sont consultables sur le site de l’auteur.On ne peut que recommander la lecture de ces nouvelles très fraîches, à l’humour bien placé, qui affirment encore un peu plus le talent de leur auteur. Views: 681
Paige Marshall is back in the spotlight in Joelle Charbonneau’s newest Glee Club Mystery. This time the high school show choir coach is fighting to keep her singers in a national competition despite charges of sabotage…
They have the talent. They have the heart. Nothing can stop Prospect Glen’s choir from taking home the trophy in the Show Choir National Competition. But below the soaring voices, there are murmurs of suspicion. So-called accidents keep befalling the other choirs. Yet Prospect Glen remains untouched.
With their competitors clamoring for them to be disqualified, the group may soon be singing a different tune. If there’s anyone who can restore harmony to the competition, it’s Paige. But this time she’ll needs to stick her neck out to discover who’s behind the sabotage, or she may end up singing her own swan song… Views: 681
How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith.
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.
How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre- bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.
'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph
'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton Views: 681
Captain QUAZAR and his squad are woken up for what might be their final mission.Jazz: Monster Collector, the serialized adventures of Mirth’s only deferred species bond collector. Stories just the right size for your commute, lunch break, or anytime you want a fast, exciting read. Want more? Follow episode by episode as Jazz seeks to uncover the secret force behind the inter-dimensional takeover of the planet she loved, a little place once called Earth.Episode 13- Promise Kept: Jazz promised Mananama, the wood elf king, that she’d kill him if he held DJ, Jazz’s trusty sidekick, hostage. But Jazz is carrying a death sentence of her own, as the magical healing stone she’d swallowed is about to backlash. Rash as ever, Jazz flies straight into the heart of the elves’ kingdom planning to make good on her threat before her magic rock kills her.Jazz, Monster Collector, Season One: Earth’s Lament: Jazz is a deferred species bond collector, which is a polite way of saying, Monster Hunter. She hunts them and whenever she can she destroys them. Her hatred for the bvorcs, goblins, trolls, and fairies that live side by side with humans on the magically conjoined planets called Mirth runs deep. But only Jazz knows why, how deep, and what she’s willing to do to express it. But Jazz’s greatest enemy is the invisible power behind the hostile takeover that destroyed the Earth that she remembers. And that’s one enemy Jazz probably won’t live to face.A fast paced futuristic serial with a touch of noir and a lot of trouble. Views: 681
On foreign contract in Africa, Vince the Calgary oilfield engineer finds his client wants a geoengineering design as the president of Niger campaigns on bringing back a Green Sahara. Driven by his daughter's future, he ignores the risk of being a drone target and takes on political negotiating. Expected to explain climate science to politicians, he becomes immersed in an intense new career.Mutual global wellbeing clashes up against conservative international business-as-usual climate change policies. In a speculated near future, a consortium of High Impact Climate Change Countries opts to leverage geoengineering, the artificial cooling designed after natural volcanic eruptions, when negotiating climate change agreement with the rich countries of the OECD. As drones threaten anyone on the ground with Hellfire missiles, and as the political agenda heats up, the HICCC consortium selects Vince the story telling engineer and Tami the British Bangladeshi paleoclimatologist to inform Canada of their selection as a go between messenger. Views: 681
If you've ever played "light as a feather, stiff as a board", you'll understand why these five children are so excited. If you haven't played...consider this a warning.Todd, Danny, Matt, Sean and Robin let their imaginations run wild at the thought of levitation...of contact with the other side...of asking questions of the spirits and getting answers. The answers they get may be worse than death.Ouija boards aren't the only way to get in trouble. Sometimes, to speak with a ghost, all one must do is ask...but be sure you know who you are speaking to, and be ready for the answers to your questions. There are worse things out there than death.If you've ever played "light as a feather, stiff as a board", you'll understand why these five children from Walker's Woods are so excited. If you haven't played...consider this a warning.Todd, Danny, Matt, Sean and Robin let their imaginations run wild at the thought of levitation...of contact with the other side...of asking questions of the spirits and getting answers. They like being creeped out. What happens when they play their game will haunt them forever. Views: 680
Twelve-year-old Circa Monroe has a knack for restoring old photographs. It's a skill she learned from her dad, who loves old pictures and putting fun digital twists on them. His altered "Shopt" photos look so real that they could fool nearly anybody, and Circa treasures the fun stories he makes up to explain each creation. One day, her father receives a strange phone call requesting an urgent delivery, and he heads out into a storm. The unimaginable happens: a tornado, then a terrible accident, and Circa never sees her dad again. Just as Circa and her mom begin to pick up the pieces, a mysterious boy shows up on their doorstep, a boy called Miles who remembers nothing about his past. The only thing he has with him is the photograph that Circa's dad intended to deliver on the day he died. As Circa tries to help Miles recover his identity, she begins to notice something strange about the photos she and her father retouched—the digital flourishes added to the old photos seem to exist... Views: 680
Lillianna Zook and Thomas Girod had been secret friends throughout most of their Amish childhood, but they part ways when Lillianna's family moves to a district in another state. She fears their friendship has been lost forever until a chance encounter brings them in contact once again. Lillianna learns that Thomas needs money – a lot of it – and it's a matter of life and death. Lillianna is willing to do anything she can to help Thomas, so when an opportunity arises where she can make a lot of money in a short time, she doesn't hesitate. But will her sacrifice be worth the trials this new opportunity presents? Christian fiction Views: 680
Muffin maker Merry Wynter hopes to find a buyer for the castle she’s recently inherited. But when she throws a party to draw interest, she finds someone who’s bought the farm instead…Merry’s career as a New York City stylist has crumbled, but her passion for muffins has helped her rise upstate in Autumn Vale. Everyone in town loves the tasty treats. Still, she would like to return to her glamorous life. Besides, the upkeep of Wynter Castle is expensive, and Merry’s cup isn’t exactly overflowing.So in order to bring some prospective buyers into the mix, Merry whisks together a spooky soiree and decorates the castle with dashes of fabric and a sprinkling of spider webs. Friends new and old are invited, and everyone has a blast. But as the revelers empty out, Merry notices one partygoer who isn’t leaving—or breathing. Now Merry must hurry to unmask a killer before her perfect plans turn into a recipe for disaster… Views: 680
The Manticore’s Secret is the second part of the GameWorld Trilogy, the pioneering work of fantasy by an Indian author, Samit Basu, the bestselling, genre-bending, critically acclaimed, internationally published author of GameWorld, Turbulence, Chosen Spirits and many more.
The GameWorld trilogy has been optioned by a Hollywood producer to be adapted into a streaming show for a global audience.
The Manticore's Secret
Being a Hero isn’t easy—but it’s a lot easier than being a Dark Lord.Dark forces just aren’t what they used to be in the good old days.
The Manticore’s Secret is the spellbinding sequel to The Simoqin Prophecies: Part One of the GameWorld Trilogy. Once again Samit Basu creates a mesmeric landscape bursting with weird and wonderful characters and a gripping narrative that’s complex, playful, sometimes sombre but always dazzlingly inventive.A mysterious Dark Lord and his grotesque army threaten all that is good on earth… or do they? The heroic immortals who vanquished his rakshas father long ago have returned to do battle with the forces of evil, which is good news… or is it?In the shadows a secret society of shapeshifters battles deadly mind-controlling foes who threaten history, humanity and the future of the planet. A beautiful, amoral rakshasi plots world domination while a strangely civilized barbarian fights to save the world.But the world is spinning out of control. Because the gods are back. And they want to play…
Praise for The Manticore’s Secret
“Wildly imaginative, thoroughly enjoyable” – TimeOut
“I was blown away by how cinematic some of the passages were… an awesome imagination”- Jabberwock
Also in the GameWorld Trilogy:Part One: The Simoqin PropheciesPart Two: The Unwaba Revelations
“Post-modern, post-racist, disrespectful, assured” - Outlook“A romp… unveiling feats of such daring that readers are left gasping for more.” – The Hindu“A delicious read” - Mint
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