Before Burnt Ashes there was a young group of friends hungry for success. Mackayla Smith wants nothing more than a happy family Christmas, but when your family is a group of antisocial, womanising boys… how much can she really expect? Egos will be bruised this holiday, promises will be made, and hearts will be broken. Welcome to a tale of happy holidays… Burnt Ashes style. Views: 33
On a freezing cold night in an unfamiliar city, a man meets a woman. The encounter lasts just moments, they party barely knowing one another's names, they make no plans to meet again. But both are left breathless. Five years on, the man and the woman are still living separate lives, thousands of miles apart. But both still think about that night. So if they were to meet again, you'd think, this time, they'd do whatever it took to hold on to each other. But can it be that simple? Or will real life get in the way? Views: 33
In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Great, or Genghis, Khan. But it is the women who stand beside him who ensure his triumph....After her mother foretells an ominous future for her, gifted Borte becomes an outsider within her clan. When she seeks comfort in the arms of aristocratic traveler Jamuka, she discovers he is the blood brother of Temujin, the man who agreed to marry her and then abandoned her long before they could wed.Temujin will return and make Borte his queen, yet it will take many women to safeguard his fragile new kingdom. Their daughter, the fierce Alaqai, will ride and shoot an arrow as well as any man. Fatima, an elegant Persian captive, will transform her desire for revenge into an unbreakable loyalty. And Sorkhokhtani, a demure widow, will position her sons to inherit the empire when it begins to fracture from within. In a world lit by fire and ruled by the sword, the tiger queens of Genghis Khan come to depend on one another as they fight and love, scheme and sacrifice, all for the good of their family...and the greatness of the People of the Felt Walls. ** Views: 33
Life will never be the same for Meg Langslow after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole new layer of intrigue in Donna Andrews's beloved series. Meg’s long-lost paternal grandfather, Dr. Blake, has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Dr. Blake was reunited with his family when he saw Meg’s picture—she’s a dead ringer for Cordelia—and now Stanley has found a trail to his long-lost love in a small town less than an hour's drive away. He convinces Meg to come with him to meet her, but unfortunately, the woman they meet is Cordelia’s cousin—Cordelia died several months ago, and the cousin suspects she was murdered by her long-time neighbor.
Stanley and Meg agree to help track down the killer and get justice for Cordelia. Grandfather even has perfect cover--he will come to stage a rescue of the feral emus and ostriches (escaped from an abandoned farm) that infest this town. He dashes off to organize the rescue—which will, of course, involve most of Meg's family and friends in Caerphilly. But then, the evil neighbor is murdered, and not only Cordelia’s cousin but also the entire contingent of emu-rescuers, who have had conflict with the neighbor, are suspects. Only Meg and the cousin—who seems to share a lot of telling traits with Meg—can find the real killer and clear the air in The Good, the Bad, and the Emus, the newest beverage-spittingly funny installment in this uproarious series from the one-and-only Donna Andrews. Views: 33
RetailROB LOWE IS BACK WITH STORIES HE ONLY TELLS HIS BEST FRIENDS. When Rob Lowe’s first book was published in 2011, he received the kind of rapturous reviews that writers dream of and rocketed to the top of the bestseller list. Now, in Love Life, he expands his scope, using stories and observations from his life in a poignant and humorous series of true tales about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and sons, addiction and recovery, and sex and love. In Love Life, you will find stories about: • KISSING UNEXPECTEDLY • THE SECRETS THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN ACTING SCHOOL • HIS GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER’S ROLE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION • PARKS AND RECREATION, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, AND CALIFORNICATION • TRYING TO COACH A KIDS’ BASKETBALL TEAM DOMINATED BY HELICOPTER PARENTS • THE HOT TUB AT THE PLAYBOY MANSION • STARRING IN AND PRODUCING A FLOP TV SERIES • CAMPING AT SEA WORLD • PLAYING SAXOPHONE FOR PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON • THE FIRST JOURNEY TO COLLEGE WITH HIS SON • WARREN BEATTY • THE BENEFITS OF MARRIAGE Throughout this entertaining book, you will find yourself in the presence of a master raconteur, a multi-talented performer whose love for life is as intriguing as his love life.** Views: 33
Every decision carries a price.Alec Winter is a man haunted by his own cowardice. When a bear attacked his family during a camping trip, he ran and hid. When he returned, his children were dead and his wife badly injured. But everyone believes he's a hero because he led rescuers back in time to save her. Ever since then, his children's deaths have haunted him. Now, on the anniversary of the attack, strange things begin happening. The people who helped Alec are dying in very violent ways, leaving him to wonder if guilt has finally driven him crazy...or if something far worse is coming for him. Views: 33
When Zeke Hawthorne gets burned. He only has one resource to turn to, the secretive Sunshine Smith. But Sunshine has problems of her own. Can these two learn to let go of the past and trust in each other? Views: 33
RETURN TO US (Letters to Nowhere Part 4)30,000 word novella and part 4 in the 2014 RITA Nominated Letters to Nowhere series So yeah, that really happened. Karen's fist connecting with TJ's face. Not only is TJ dealing with a decent sized bruise on his face where Karen gave her best attempt at a knock-out match, now he's got some explaining to do after Jordan finds out what happened. Karen's not ready to forgive TJ for his tough-love tactics to help get her bar routine back in full swing, but she is ready to figure out how to get through to Jordan. He's being a complete idiot, not dealing with his health issues, forcing her to keep things a secret from Coach Bentley. With her teammate, Stevie's, help Karen comes up with a plan to steer Jordan in the right direction--all she needs is a night alone with him and the hiking and camping expedition he promised her weeks ago might be the perfect opportunity. Or her plan could backfire and he could slip further away from her. While Karen and Jordan are out playing lumberjack couple in the Pocono Mountains, TJ is dealing with a stranger trying to give him advice on his tumbling, some pretty overt advances from one of Nina Jones' gymnasts (aka: off limits), and a random hook-up that will most likely end up being a big mistake. Views: 33
There is an old myth that says if one dreams of falling and goes all the way to the sudden end, this one will never wake up. For writer Charlee Jacob that form of dream death never came. She'd strike rocks and get up again. However, in other nightmares she's died almost every conceivable (and inconceivable) way, including being murdered. A child of relentless bullying, family violence, and stonings in the street...wife of starvation, psychological degredation, and abandonment, she put her fury and pain into writing. Her horrific fiction is extreme, often as lyrical as it is monstrous. Having written for nearly twenty years, illness completely disabled her. Later, a different diagnosis and maximum doses of her medications, she's written her first book in eight years. 'The Myth Of Falling' is a collection of frequently gruesome fiction, cruelty, sexual deviance, and essays of living with horror. She's fallen, hit bottom, and got up again.
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Lauren Thompson After learning the truth behind her father's tragic murder, Lauren vowed never to go near another Volkov again, but sometimes matters of the heart are too strong to resist... Mishca Volkov As a Captain in the Volkov Bratva, Mishca has pledged his loyalty to the Vory v Zakone, but he soon finds himself at odds with the life he's always known... Until the End When Mishca and Lauren fight to salvage their relationship, new obstacles present themselves, forcing the pair to make drastic choices that either tear them apart or bring them closer together... **Intended for mature audiences only. *This is meant to be a bridge between Book one and Book three Views: 33
In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis by Isaac AsimovCreation.The beginning of time.The origin of life.In our Western civilization, there are two influential accounts of beginnings. One is the Biblical account, compiled more than two thousand years ago by Judean writers who based much of their thinking on the Babylonian astronomical lore of the day. The other is the account of modern science, which, in the last century, has slowly built up a coherent picture of how it all began.Both represent the best thinking of their times, and in this line-by-line annotation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis, Isaac Asimov carefully and even-handedly compares the two accounts, pointing out where they are similar and where they are different."There is no version of primeval history, preceding the discoveries of modern science, that is as rational and as inspiriting as that of the Book of Genesis," Asimov says. However, human knowledge... Views: 33
