They always belonged to each other but even a fated love can be fractured. Shy, artistic, and withdrawn 11-year-old Charlie McBride tries to get her footing as she copes with the loss of her mother, the move to a new town, and starting a new school. Asher Carmichael steps into her life, provides a steadfast friendship that offers her protection to grow into a beautiful, young woman. As years pass, their friendship evolves into a passionate first love neither one of them can deny. Together they explore a new relationship filled with all the butterflies and heartache expected as two young adults navigate sex, love, and trust. One fateful night, a painful mistake leads to cataclysmic results, setting the lovers on separate paths. Charlie is too hurt to forgive and Asher has never been so lost without his Charlie. Years pass. Hearts remain broken. Neither one can forget their first love or overcome the space between them. Contains sexually explicit language and other mature content. Readers should be 18 or older. Views: 28
RetailHere, for the first time, is an all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womaniser, Edward VII, as Prince of Wales and King. It is also a study of the three women with whom the King was most deeply in love — his `official' mistresses, Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick and Alice Keppel. In their different ways, all three were exceptional personalities. Lillie Langtry, the socially ambitious girl from the vicarage, became a famous actress. Daisy Warwick, an immensely wealthy heiress and social butterfly, was converted to socialism. Alice Keppel, probably the King's greatest love, developed into an astute and fascinating figure in her own right. Spanning three decades and packed with incident, scandal and high romance, the story is set in the extravagant and hypocritical world of late Victorian and Edwardian society. It is full of colourful characters: Edward's beautiful and betrayed wife Alexandra; the three cuckolded husbands — Edward Langtry, the Earl of Warwick and the Hon. George Keppel; the flamboyant Oscar Wilde; the sensuous Sarah Bernhardt; the dissipated Prince Albert Victor; the sexually complex W.E. Gladstone. Royal biographer Theo Aronson draws on much new and unfamiliar material in this vivid book and reassesses many aspects of his subjects' lives. He challenges long-established myths and reveals much that was hitherto unknown: not least the extraordinary scene that took place at the deathbed of King Edward VII. The result is a brilliant evocation of a world, and a way of life that has gone forever.** Views: 28
An atmospheric and chilling ghost story debut from a talented young adult author..This room holds secrets, and even if they are of the dark–frightening type, I love secrets more than anything else.
When Lily Frost’s parents move her from the only home and best friend she’s ever known to a country town called Gideon, things are dire. Lily knows no one – but someone seems to know her. And that someone isn’t exactly the welcoming type.
Upon entering her new attic bedroom, Lily faints. Coming to, she’s overcome by the whispers of secrets. Determined to find out why, Lily is thrown into the path of cute local boy Danny. He’s not giving anything away, so it’s up to Lily to make sense of the watery footprints on her floor and the cold air that constantly seeps into her bones.
For Lily, life in this small town is about to get very interesting as she finds herself seeing things she thought belonged to the dead. Views: 28
One of India's finest and most prolific writers, Ruskin Bond has been
putting pen to paper for well over six decades. Since The Room on the
Roof his award winning debut novel which introduced readers to the
unforgettable Rusty, the orphan from Dehradun - Bond has created
characters both charming and eccentric, which have endured in popular
imagination. And, in what is perhaps his most towering achievement, Bond
has brought to pulsing life the mountains, valleys and rivers of
Garhwal, as well as the quiet magic of small, tucked away places, in
book after book The Writer on the Hill is a comprehensive
selection of Bond's fiction and nonfiction, both popular and little
known. In Masterji, a young man meets his old Hindi teacher on a train
platform, in handcuffs. In the excerpt from The Room on the Roof, Rusty
stands up to his bullying guardian. Man and Leopard describes, in
mesmerising prose, a heartbreaking encounter between man and the wild.
And, in Once upon a Mountain Time, Bond creates a charming portrait of
his little patch of earth in Mussoorie. A tribute to one of the
most popular and loved writers of India, The Writer on the Hill is also a
celebration of the quiet, unhurried life, lived at ones own pace. This
volume will delight Bond's fans everywhere. Views: 28
She'd got his number...luckily! For savvy antiques dealer Rowan Dunn life is good - until a passport error gets her deported back to South Africa! Stranded at the airport, Rowan can remember only two phone numbers - her parents' (definitely not an option!) and her best friend's brother's. As much as she hates it, Rowan knows she has no choice. It's time to call Seb Hollis and ask for help.... Seb is even sexier than Rowan remembers - and just as infuriating! He's always pushed her buttons, but at least now she knows how to push them back. Maybe it's time to start sleeping with the enemy - even though Rowan's sure there won't be a whole lot of sleeping going on...! Views: 28
A Crossroads Café Short Story 47 pages longShe's destined to love Gus MacBride—if she survives her first year in the Crossroads Cove.A thread of hope is all she needs.Damaged, confused, alone. Cathy Deen Mitternich recognizes her old self in the fragile survivor huddled in the sheep barn's storage room at Rainbow Goddess Farm.Former art teacher Lucy Parmenter may be beyond even the tough-love magic of the farm, a live-in counseling center for abused women. Afraid to set a foot outside, drugged on medication, and filled with despair, Lucy needs the big biscuit magic of the Crossroad Café's Delta Whittlespoon. Together, Cathy and Delta search for a lifeline that represents Lucy's best hope of holding on.Their search ends in Lucy's new home at the barn. When Lucy discovers the magic there, neither she nor Cathy will ever be the same. Views: 28
An electric novel of the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and colorful inventorsNikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to his tumultuous years in New York City, where his heated rivalry with Thomas Edison yielded triumphs and failures, Tesla was both demonized and lionized. Tesla captures the whirlwind years of the dawn of the electrical age, when his flair for showmanship kept him in the public eye. For every successful invention—the alternating current electrical system and wireless communication among them—there were hundreds of others. But what of the man behind the image? Vladimir Pistalo reveals the inner life of a man haunted by the loss of his older brother, a man who struggled with flashes of madness and brilliance whose mistrust of institutional support led him to financial ruin.... Views: 28
Adirondack girl-in-transition Jade Engel comes home to recharge after ending a career she never truly wanted, but soon realizes she’s in danger of also being swept off her feet by the boy-next-door, her former best friend, Ben Stephens. If only he’d stop kissing her every time she falls into his arms. Everything local celebrity Ben Stephens ever wanted is in Starling. Then Jade comes home after an eternity away and sends his simple world into a tailspin. He’s determined to pursue her—the one girl who got away. But when their friends-with-benefits arrangement blows up in their faces, will they have the courage to put their pasts to rest in order to forge a future together? Christmas in New York series Book 1: This Christmas by Jeannie Moon Book 2: All I Want for Christmas by Jennifer Gracen Book 3: A Light in the Window by Jolyse Barnett Book 4: Goodness and Light by Patty Blount Views: 28
