A novel of violence, of love, and introspection, The Up-Down follows a man who leaves home and all that's familiar, finds true love, loses it, and finds it again. Pace's voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the up-down, in a sweeping, voracious human tale that takes no prisoners, witnesses extreme brutalities and expresses a childlike amazement. Here the route goes from New Orleans, to Chicago to Wyoming to Bay St. Clement, North Carolina, but the geography he is charting is always first and foremost unchartable.From the Hardcover edition. Views: 20
Pursumal Changulani is dead. His children have thrown their stepmother Sushmita out, destroyed all evidence of her marriage to their father, and accused her of teaming up with her ex-lover to murder him. Enter the resourceful ex-lover: famed lockpicker Jeet Singh. Will he be able to clear their names and solve the mystery of Changulani's death? Surender Mohan Pathak is at his thrilling best in this first English translation of a Jeet Singh mystery. Evoking the sights and smells of Mumbai and the peculiar cadence of that city's speech, The Colaba Conspiracy is a nerve-wracking whodunnit from an acknowledged master of the form. Views: 20
Welcome to the Candidacy. Where dreams go to die.Twenty-year-old Ryiah is a black mage of Combat, but she is not the Black Mage. Yet. She’s had her eyes on the legendary robe for as long as she can remember, and in just one year she will have a chance at her country’s prestigious –and only- tourney for mages... Too bad she is going up against a certain non-heir. The one person she has yet to beat.Meanwhile Ry has a year to prove herself in her new role as a war mage and the prince’s betrothed. Neither is quite what she expected and complications arise on both fronts. War is on the horizon, and with so many enemies the kingdom of Jerar’s fate is more than ever at risk.The Candidacy finally arrives, but it’s only the beginning. Nothing can prepare her for what comes next. Views: 20
When Maura set out to change her image by going to the retreat to lose weight, she had no idea how radically Bain and Gavin were going to change her perception of who she was. They didn't just accept her for who she was. They made it clear they thought she was the most beautiful, desirable woman they'd ever seen--and they wanted her--for their mate. And they were shifters! Views: 20
Can she write a world gone wrong?A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation, where her mother—a noted scriptologist—constantly alters and expands their reality. But when her home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative Victorian Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of young scientists with a gift for mechanics, alchemy, or scriptology—and meets Leo, a gorgeous mechanist with a smart mouth and tragic past. She recruits the help of these fellow geniuses just as an assassin arrives on their doorstep.In this thrilling debut, worlds collide as Elsa unveils a deep political conspiracy seeking to unlock the most dangerous weapon ever created—and only she can stop it. Views: 20
A poignant, fast-paced middle-grade novel about a brother and sister's daring adventure, set on Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Views: 20
