As Algy Temple, the deft pool player, sleuth and Ivy League university lawyer, investigates the suspicious death of a retired professor, it coincides with his involvement in a high stakes pool tournament in Providence, where old world shadows hang heavily in the air. Views: 397
The ninth terrifying installment from master of horror, Darren Shan.
CAN ANYONE HURT YOU AS MUCH AS A LOVED ONE?
WHEN DOES THE FIGHT BECOME TOO MUCH TO BEAR?
HOW MUCH PAIN CAN ONE PERSON ENDURE?
B Smith is discovering the true meaning of family . . . Views: 396
Life's an adventure waiting to reward those determined to discover its pleasures! But Harold Creeny is having none of it. There are germs and dangers waiting to happen around every corner. He couldn’t be expected to daily risk his life like the rest of the careless inhabitants of the world. Well... until the fate decides to kick his ass without his permission, that is.Life's an adventure just waiting to reward those who are determined to discover its pleasures! But Harold Creeny is having none of it. There are germs and dangers and accidents waiting to happen around every corner, you see. A man like him couldn’t be expected to daily risk his life like the rest of the careless inhabitants of the world. Cleanliness and safety were of the utmost important. Well... until the fate decides to kick his ass without his permission, that is. Views: 396
Camillus is eager to win the war at any cost and is willing to deal in forbidden magic to ensure it. Even at the risk of losing the war the council of elders refuses to allow anyone to exercise in the forbidden magic. They note the rage and anger filling Camillus and regretfully suspend the honored wizard from wartime. Outraged by the suspension he decides to aid in the war regardless.Camillus is eager to win the war at any cost and is willing to deal in forbidden magic to ensure it. Even at the risk of losing the war the council of elders refuses to allow anyone to exercise in the forbidden magic. They note the rage and anger filling Camillus and regretfully suspend the honored wizard from wartime. Outraged by the suspension he decides to aid in the war regardless. His first attempt nearly costs him his life as well as changes it completely. This is a short story prequel to a longer fantasy series to come. Views: 396
The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is volume 6 of 6. Views: 396
Holiday in Magnolia Bay: A Southern Born Christmas Novella Views: 396
John is a man who had an encounter that led to many others. How little he knew just where the encounters would lead and what they would mean. What is one to believe in such times when the world changes all around?This is a story seen through the eyes of one man. He is there to witness and firsthand encounter what becomes the greatest change upon his world. It is a tale of the end of his world. What will his story hold? Views: 396
If you accused Leo of being lucky, he’d deny it. He’d tell you his life is a disaster and, truth be told, it is. He’s burned every bridge. Still, he’s never been hurt, never been homeless, and things have always pretty much gone his way. Except for now. He’s fallen prey to the Tattooed Woman and her goon, Gary, and the only thing that’ll save him is blind, inexplicably fabulous, left-handed luck.Leo’s scamming free drinks at The Nugget, one of the old-school casinos off Freemont Street in Las Vegas, when the Tattooed Woman cuts him out of the herd. She plays him—like Hendrix played the guitar—chatting him up and touching his forehead, doing a mind reading act that looks like a trick, but isn’t. It’s a true thing wherein she learns everything she needs to know: he has enough ready cash to make him worthwhile prey and he’s all alone. No one, anywhere in the world, will care if he just ups and disappears. He’s soured every relationship—burned every bridge. Leo surprises her. He wants to do it back—read her mind in return—and it’s something the Tattooed Woman doesn’t see coming: a blind spot in her future-sense. Generally, she sees everything coming—everything that’s going to happen in the next few minutes—and this is not on her radar. This is an alarming anomaly.And, to make matters worse, Leo’s mind reading actually works. It’s the first bona fide paranormal thing that’s ever happened to him. He has a vision of something so unspeakably horrible it blacks him out, leaving him confused and weak—easy to manage. It’s a tooth-and-nail contest that can only end badly, one way or another. Leo doesn’t even suspect, but he can change things—what’s supposed to have happened, the set future, to something else, something it wouldn’t normally be. In his general vicinity, probability does not behave as it should. Chains of events rearrange themselves for his benefit. It’s something he does unknowingly, without any degree of skill, an alternate universe in the making beyond conscious control. That’s the difference between them. She knows what she’s doing. She’s as accomplished a sorceress as there has ever been. Compared to her, Leo is easy meat. Unless something really unreasonable happens, something beyond cause and effect, her and her goon, Gary, will kneel him down in the desert, in a lonely place somewhere, and shoot him in the back of the head, execution-style. Views: 396
Suspenseful, comic, and touching, the ninth and final novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City series follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane—on a road trip that will take her deep in her past.
Now a fragile ninety-two years old and committed to the notion of "leaving like a lady," Anna Madrigal has seemingly found peace in the bosom of her "logical family" in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker, Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins; Brian's daughter Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades.
Some members of Anna's family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada where sixty thousand revelers build a temporary city (Michael calls it "a Fellini carnival on Mars") designed to last only one week. Anna herself has another Nevada destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the sixteen-year-old boy she used to be ran away from the whorehouse he then called home. With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty, troubled heart of her Depression-era childhood, where she begins to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams, and to attend to unfinished business she has long avoided. Views: 395
Sin, or love? Dorian seeks to rid himself of sin, to purify his soul, leaving him free to pursue a socially acceptable life and marriage. But can he? His only hope is to leave the world of the living and walk the Path of Redemption. He knows he can make it on his own. But Osval, his closest friend, insists on accompanying him. How can he expiate the worst sin of all with Osval by his side?Is it sin, or is it love? When is it a sin to truly love? Dorian seeks to rid himself of sin, to purify his soul, so his deeply held secrets will bother him no longer, leaving him free to pursue a socially acceptable life and marriage. But is it even possible? His only hope is to leave the world of the living and walk the Path of Redemption, hoping to survive Perdition and pass through to Veritas. But his closest friend, Osval, refuses to let him undertake the transformative journey on his own. Despite Dorian's protests, Osval holds firm, and the two young men set off together on a journey to begin life anew. Views: 395
Completely disillusioned and weary, Sally Wentworth a passionate Art Historian and writer lost her job, is rejected by her boyfriend and is denied publishing her book. A strange encounter with Pierre de Prince an artist and inventor of the 18th century sets her on a journey to unravel his mysterious disappearance and discover his last invention.Completely disillusioned and weary, Sally Wentworth a passionate Art Historian and writer is rejected by her boyfriend, lost her job and is denied publishing her book. She has a strange encounter with Pierre de Prince an artist and inventor of the 18th century who asks her to disclose the murderers responsible for his disappearance. She is to get in touch with Ambrose de Prince his grandson, who has been given a mysterious box that would reveal who the murderers are. Unknown to Sally, she does not realize that Ambrose is in the year 2009, when she corresponds with him in 2013. The two must work out their time difference before the murderers of Pierre de Prince carry out their dastardly act to silence them. Views: 395
