In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and tormented daily. Linda Hairston is the daughter of one of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been taught all her life that the races should be kept "separate but equal." Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another. Boldly realistic and emotionally compelling, Lies We Tell Ourselves is a brave and stunning novel about finding truth amid the lies, and finding your voice even when others are determined to silence it. Views: 41
4. The Corpse with the Platinum Hair (2014)With birthday celebrations in the cards, Cait Morgan and her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson, travel to Las Vegas. As they are about to finish dinner in the casino owners' exclusive private dining room, Miss Shirley, a woman acknowledged as Queen of The Strip, is murdered. Security locks down the room. Cait, Bud, a corpse, and ten possible murderers are trapped in the luxurious restaurant for twelve deadly hours. The bodies pile up, the tension mounts, the list of suspects dwindles—and Cait knows she has to work out who the killer is because there's no telling who might be next to die.The fourth book in the beloved Cait Morgan series, The Corpse with the Platinum Hair travels to Sin City, where Welsh Canadian foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan comes up against her toughest mystery yet. Views: 41
Wonderfully well researched . . . engrossing, enlightening' The HinduThe Delhi Sultanate period (1206-1526) is commonly portrayed as an age of chaos and violence-of plundering kings, turbulent dynasties, and the aggressive imposition of Islam on India. But it was also the era that saw the creation of a pan-Indian empire, on the foundations of which the Mughals and the British later built their own Indian empires. The encounter between Islam and Hinduism also transformed, among other things, India's architecture, literature, music and food. Abraham Eraly brings this fascinating period vividly alive, combining erudition with powerful storytelling, and analysis with anecdote.ReviewWonderfully well researched … engrossing, enlightening. --The Hindu Provocative; a must-read. --Mint An insightful perspective … Eraly has a unique ability to create portraits which come to life on the page. --Time Out About the AuthorAbraham Eraly is the acclaimed author of three books on Indian history The Last Spring: The Lives and Times of The Great Mughals (later published in two volumes as Emperors of the Peacock Throne and The Mughal World), Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilisation and The First Spring: The Golden Age of India. Views: 41
Daisy Savage finally has everything she wants. A new husband. A bunch of kids. A charming old house. What she doesn't want is a dead body.When a frozen pipe in the basement of her century-old home leads her and her husband downstairs into a newly discovered crawl space, they find a coal chute they didn't know they had. And a corpse inside of it.Things become complicated when Daisy realizes she knew the victim. And things get even worse when it becomes increasingly clear that the body was placed there to make Daisy look like the killer.Against her husband's advice and her own common sense, Daisy makes it her mission to prove to the denizens of Moose River that she is innocent. But doing so may be more dangerous than she planned. Views: 41
Part-time tomb raider and full-time real estate broker, Wendy Darlin joins her lover, archaeologist Roger Jolley, in a quest for Cleopatra’s tomb. All they have to do is get from Cairo to the Temple of Taporisi Magna alive.Armed only with a couple of hijacked ashtrays and faced with a trek across the blazing Sahara desert can Wendy out-maneuver Russian oligarchs, a dozen Dark Force mercenaries, and Roger’s chubby ex-girlfriend in time to find the tomb and seal it before chaos erupts in Egypt? Views: 41
Eve's last night on the job turns complicated when former flame and part-time warlock Neil makes an explosive return—asking for her help. With apocalypse by asteroid due in a fortnight, the last thing Eve Karvan should be worrying about is her paycheck. Yet one last shift at the Natural History Museum is all that stands between her and being stuck in a high-risk area come A-Day. She's convinced it will be a quiet one, until her equipment picks up activity in the perimeter and she comes face to face with none other than her former lover. Neil Riccard has one thing in common with Eve—he can't afford to quit his job. Not because it would penalise him financially, but because the planet's impending expiration date seems to have set the netherworld abuzz with excitement. All kinds of miscreants are creeping into our world and the newest rift has opened in the Natural History Museum. The last person he expects to run into when he goes to seal it is... Views: 41
The night that changed everything... After being dumped by her fiancé and losing her shot at TV stardom, Bindi Paxton just wants to get out of town. But there's no escaping the past--not even on the beautiful Seychelles Islands. And when her attraction to former Las Vegas Slayers heir Santino Franco culminates in a night of sizzling passion, she has to fight her feelings for a man who could hurt her deeper than any other has before. Santino came to the islands to find the man responsible for the injury that ended his pro-football career. Ending up in bed with Bindi is a mistake they both regret. Except he now needs her help to find his fugitive father. And--heaven help him--he's starting to fall for the stunning Sin City reporter. He can't change their history...but he'd give anything for one more night, and maybe forever, in her arms. Views: 41
