Nothing could have prepared her for the sight of the rugged cowboy. Green eyes, dark-brown hair, tall, tanned, nicely muscled. And there she was, standing in the creek in only her underwear. West Palm, Florida. Fifteen-year-old Rachael Harte has everything she could want-plenty of money, hang-out time with friends at the beach, and Colten, the hot boyfriend every girl in her prep school drools over. But just as she receives her long-awaited debutante invitation, scandal strikes her family. Now Rachael has to go to public high school and live with her Aunt Margaret in a place called Fruitville. How much more redneck could it get? The first day, as she's cooling off from the heat, she hears a soft "ahem" and looks up into the eyes of Travis Baxter, the most handsome cowboy she's ever seen. His smirk is bad enough. Worse, they're now neighbors and will attend the same school. As Rachael plunges into redneck life in rural Florida, she's charmed by a quirky new group of friends, including Travis's twin, Maysie, but still misses her friends back home. Can Rachael and Colten survive on once-a-month visits? Or will Travis's cowboy charms win her over? What she learns as a Redneck Debutante will teach her more about love and life than she could ever have dreamed. The REDNECK DEBUTANTE Series: Romance that's a little bit city, a little bit country.** Views: 19
2203 AD (281 AE) An overpopulated and desperate Earth has devised the “Colony Program”. Criminals, agitators and other ‘Undesirables’ supplemented by thousands of ‘Nonproductives’, or ‘Drones’ gathered in sweeps through slums and “squatter areas” worldwide, are crammed aboard a starship manned by a one-way crew, and sent to colonize the stars. This is the epic story of Colony Ship 7N-364, with its cargo of 3500 “Drones”, 1500 “Undies”, and 130 crew. With nearly a third of the colonists made up of street toughs, gangsters, terrorists, political agitators, and other troublemakers, can the crew hope to maintain control? Will they find a home before the ship dissolves into chaos? And if they do find a suitable planet, what then? Can a population of mostly illiterate peasants, political and social misfits, and outright criminals even survive? What kind of world could such a wildly varied group possibly produce? A sweeping adventure spanning generations! Views: 19
World War II is finally over and the people of Rosey Corner are busy welcoming the boys home. The Merritt sisters in particular are looking toward the future. Kate is eager to start a family and live out her dream of happily ever after with Jay. Evangeline wants a beautiful house and encourages Mike to pastor a big-town church. Victoria wants what can never be—a life with a man who will never come back. And little Lorena is growing up and wondering more and more about her birth family.Through the heartfelt storytelling of bestselling author Ann Gabhart, readers join these endearing characters as they walk an uncertain road. Each sister must learn to hold her plans with a loose hand, trusting that God will guide and strengthen them as they share the joys and sorrows of life in their little corner of the world. Views: 19
A standalone from one of England's best-loved literary thriller writers, regularly compared to John Le Carré and Philip Kerr, Sweet Sunday takes the reader back to the hot, sweaty summer of 1969, the American summer in the American year in the American century.Turner Raines isn't a typical New York private eye. He's a has-been—among the things he has been are a broken Civil Rights worker, a second-rate lawyer, and a tenth-rate journalist. But in 1969, as the USA is about to land a man on the moon, and the Vietnam War is set to continue to rip the country to pieces, Raines is working as a private detective helping draft-dodgers make it to Canada. As Norman Mailer finalizes his campaign for Mayor of New York, Raines leaves for Toronto, and by the time Raines gets back, his oldest friend is dead, the city has changed forever, and with it, his life. As Raines follows the trail of his friend's death, he finds himself blasted back to the Texas of his childhood,... Views: 19
The terrorists want her alive. The CIA wants her dead, and Michael just wants to love her. Emma, an ingenious female engineer, finds a protector in an unlikely source. Michael is a warrior, a Green Beret, fresh out of the military. He suffers from PTSD and recurrent nightmares of his five tours in Afghanistan. Something in him fundamentally changes when he meets Emma. Emma has top-secret clearance for her work on a governmental prototype to help fight the war on terror. She has spent her entire life pursuing her career and developing her brain child labeled Project Hummingbird. She lives in her intellectually driven mind...that is, until Michael awakens something buried deep inside her: something she didn't even know existed. Michael needs to prove to Emma that he is not who she thinks he is. He must work to win her trust and her heart. Will he be able to persuade her to trust him? Will he be able to save her from the dangers that await her? Will he win her heart? Views: 19
Donkey Boy (1952) was the second entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlightspanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It tells of Richard Maddison's first-born Phillip, nicknamed 'donkey boy' because his life was saved in infancy by being fed with ass's milk. The boy grows up in the Edwardian era, something of a misfit, at odds with his father. 'With extraordinary skill and precision [Williamson] rebuilds the scenery of the past... [he] seems to be engaged in a thriller whose instalments can be relied on to animate a whole section of social history.' Spectator'Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and surprising.' Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 Views: 19
A startling debut about the extraordinary end of a marriage and its very strange aftermath. Meet Lizzie Prain. She is an ordinary housewife and lives with her lovely dog and her husband, who is a bit of a difficult fellow, in a quiet cottage in British country side. She's a wonderful cook. She enjoys her garden. And, occasionally, she makes cakes for the village parties. No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, for a few days. That's because last Monday and Lizzie snapped and cracked him on the head with her garden shovel. No one quite misses Jacob though, and Lizzie surely didn't kill him on purpose. And now that she has the chance to live beyond his shadow, she won't neglect her good fortune. Over the course of the following month, with a body to get rid of and few fail-proof options at hand, Lizzie will channel her most practical instincts and do what she does best: she'll cook Jacob, and she'll eat him. But when Lizzie inadvertently befriends an... Views: 19
