Best friends Devin and Frankie hate reading, but getting trapped inside Dracula might change their mindsDevin and Frankie may be the best of friends, but they aren't the best of students. When they're busted for not reading Dracula with the rest of the class, their English teacher sends them to the library to mend books as punishment. As the friends fight about who has to mend Dracula, the book flies out of their hands and lands between the library's broken security gates. Suddenly, a gigantic crack appears in the wall, and Frankie, Devin, and the book are all sucked inside. When they land, they realize they're not in the library anymore; they're in Dracula!To escape from the book, Devin and Frankie have to battle the bloodthirsty Count Dracula with the help of some new friends—and a little bit of garlic. But can they make it to the end of the story before becoming Dracula's midnight snack? Views: 33
A rare and fascinating account of one of modern and contemporary painting's most powerful creative mindsIn the course of a career covering more than sixty years, Frank Auerbach has established a still growing international reputation for his paintings of friends, family, and surroundings in north London, with his vigorous, precise brushwork, and for his insistence on working until the picture emerges, free of all "possible explanations."Catherine Lampert, an art historian and the curator of a major Auerbach retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and Tate Britain, has had unique access to the artist since 1978, when she became one of his sitters. Drawing on her conversations with Auerbach and from published and archival interviews, she offers rare insight into his professional life, working methods, and philosophy, as well as the places, people, and experiences that have shaped his life. These include arriving in Britain as a seven-year-old refugee from Nazi Germany in... Views: 33
Darby: Bride of Oregon is 33rd in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.Fearless Darby McClintock knows she can imitate a refined British accent to fulfill the mail order bride advertisement. Granted, the man states that Scotswomen need not apply, but he'll never hear the lilt of her brogue...if she can keep from losing her temper.In order to play a dangerous game as the Phantom, in the Shanghai Tunnels below Portland, Oregon, Rand Beauregard has to keep up a respectable façade above ground. And for that, he needs a well-bred, upper-crust wife. Anything less will jeopardize lives...How long can Darby keep up the act? And will the dangers of the Tunnels move their ultimate happiness beyond their reach? Views: 33
As a child, Anna Olmstead is rescued from her life of poverty and drugs by a vampire named Asher. Over the years, she grows to love Asher, first as a father and later as a lover. But soon trouble interrupts her once-perfect life. While Anna wants to settle down, Asher wants a more voyeuristic, party-driven lifestyle.
When Anna leaves him, Asher does everything he can to bring her back to him—including murder. Even as she finally escapes and starts a new life with a special agent of the F.R.E.A.K.S., Asher makes a new move to kidnap Anna and her children. This time, she may not be able to escape him. Views: 33
It's not just for a week, it wasn't just a fling. Ethan's not just my stepbrother anymore, he's my boyfriend...Rule #14 – You're perfect just the way you are, Princess. Don't let anyone ever try to tell you differently.That's it for an entire week. We're going back to college now. We won't see each other until the weekend.It's only for a week, Ashley, I remind myself. I shouldn't be so upset at that, because a week isn't really that long of a time, but I am. I just...It's not just for a week. It wasn't just a fling. We didn't just spend the entire summer together only to go back to college and go our separate ways. He's not just my stepbrother anymore, he's my boyfriend, and he's special. We have more.He's kind of a bad boy, but he's my bad boy. He makes me feel so beautiful and special, even when I'm sad and upset.If only I didn't have my ex-boyfriend intent on making my life miserable, this would all be so much easier... Views: 33
The world's gone to hell, and her only chance of survival is the sexy, dominant soldier determined to keep her safe...Doctor Ruth Parker has always taken care of herself, and that's what she's doing now, hiding out in her apartment and avoiding her neighbours: once privileged Mosman residents, now flesh-eating braindeads, thanks to the virus that's turned her world—and everyone else's—to hell. Captain Jack Lang has always taken care of others, and with the newly secured Base he and his loyal commandos control the only safe place in the city. But the Base has needs that he can't meet—doctors. And women. So when he discovers Ruth and her two friends in an unsafe apartment, he brings them back to Base where he knows he can keep them safe, and where he will do anything to make them stay. Ruth is used to giving orders, not taking them, and the Captain's methods for making sure she stays put don't gel with her fierce independent... Views: 33
First rule of dealing with hot vampire bodyguards? Don't fall in love.After
losing both her parents before age seventeen, aspiring designer Caitlin
Holte feels like her whole world has been turned upside down, and that
was before the terrifying encounter with a supernatural force.
Then, she learns that her hot bad-boy neighbor, Adrian—who might have
just saved her life—is actually a half-demon vampire.Suddenly
Caitlin is stuck with a vampire bodyguard who feels that the best way to
protect her is to become her pretend boyfriend. Trouble is, Caitlin is
starting to fall in love for real, while Adrian can never love a human.
Caitlin trusts Adrian to keep her safe from his demon father, but will
he be able to protect her heart?
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The second book in a New Adult fiction series from USA Today bestselling author R.J. Prescott. Cormac "The Hurricane" O'Connell's star is on the rise. Billed as the most promising young boxer of his generation, his new career is taking him to places he never dreamed. But O'Connell only needs one thing in life: his wife. In her final year of college, Em cannot follow him around the world but together they make it work. Just when everything they ever wanted is on the horizon, the past resurfaces to haunt them, and O'Connell realizes that justice might not be a part of his happy ever after. He couldn't protect Em once before, but in the aftermath of the hurricane, he will make sure that never happens again. Views: 33
