NEW SERIES ! More Tales from Brookgreen!Battling Hurricanes along the South Carolina coast near Myrtle Beach. . . two tales of joy, tragedy, and survival.The Stories:~ Three generations of Flagg family members struggle desperately against a historic hurricane's fury at Huntington Beach in the suspenseful tale, "The Flagg Flood."~ A family faces two major Murrells Inlet storms with strength and courage in the charming reminiscence, "Every Sixty Years."This brief collection of stories (11,000 words, 6 illustrations, 82 pages in paperback) comes from Lynn Michelsohn's second series of Lowcountry stories, More Tales from Brookgreen.The Series:Brookgreen Gardens storytellers share more history and folklore from Murrell Inlet's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach in the series, More Tales from Brookgreen—Folklore, Ghost Stories, and Gullah Folktales of the South Carolina Lowcountry.The Storytellers:Two "sixty-ish" Southern ladies serving as Hostesses at Brookgreen Gardens told... Views: 29
Sasha ran, but it wasn't far enough... Fifteen months have passed since Sasha Ashby left the holler. Now she's a member of the Lazzari family, the biggest crime syndicate in America. Sasha has a new girlfriend and a new life, and she thinks she's left her past behind her forever. That is until her old lover Vinny Archer shows up on the streets of the Queens. Now the past has returned to collect its debts... One glimpse of Vinny's broken stare lures Sasha back to the holler, back to the life she fought so hard to forget. But her troubles didn't disappear when Sasha did, and when she leaves the Lazzari Family's protection, every angry mobster, vengeful federal agent, and deranged family member has an open target. When you have nothing left to lose, you can either lie down and die, or you can kill those who took it from you... The trip back home leaves Sasha broken, both mentally and physically, and ignites the strongest burn of vengeance in her chest. Driven by fury, Sasha dives headfirst into a massacre. But the ones responsible for her pain may not be the ones she thinks. Blinded by blood and tears, Sasha can't see the pit of darkness she's plunging into until it's too late. Views: 29
There is no lower rank than cabin boy on the warship Invincible. But Dantar knows he is important, because anyone who threatens his life gets turned into a pile of ashes. His older sister Velza is a shapecasting warrior, in a world where only men fight. Until now. Together they must solve the mystery of broken magic and escape the dragon. Views: 29
The 20th book in Poisoned Pen Press's highly praised British Library Crime Classic series. Views: 29
1890s, River Murray, Northern VictoriaGeorgina Calthorpe is unhappy living with her indifferent foster family the MacHenry's in their crumbling house on the banks of the River Murray. Unlike the rest of the family, she isn't looking forward to the return of prodigal son Dane. With good reason. Dane MacHenry is furious when on his return he finds his homestead in grave decline. Unaware that his father has been drinking his way through his inheritance, he blames Georgina and Georgina decides she has no option but to leave. Unfortunately she chooses Dane's horse to flee on, and when Dane learns she has stolen his prized stallion, he gives chase. From this point their fates become intertwined with that of a businessman with a dark secret, Conor Foley, who offers Georgina apparent security: a marriage with status in the emerging nouveau-riche echelons of Melbourne. But none of them could imagine the toll the changing political and social landscape... Views: 29
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their best friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of major European languages, and now appears in English in a major new translation by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield. The Doomed City is set in an experimental city bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its sole inhabitants are people who were plucked from Earth's history and left to govern themselves... Views: 29
Questionable Love starts off right where Labeled Love ended While my boy’s world stopped, My girl’s kept going. Promises would be made, And some would be broken. There was only one question that he ever needed answered. There was only one answer that she ever needed to say. I’ve clung to his question. I’ve clung to her answer. He’ll have to prove himself. She’ll have to let me. When you have a love as deep as ours, you fight to keep it together. We will have to fight for those three words if we want our love to be unending. Mature Language, Sexual Content** Views: 29
Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a soft spot, for tackling unsolved crimes. Having lost her own sister to murder at a young age, Tracy has dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure to the families and friends of victims of crime.
So when Jenny, a former police academy classmate and protégé, asks Tracy to help solve a cold case that involves the suspicious suicide of a Native American high school girl forty years earlier, Tracy agrees. Following up on evidence Jenny’s detective father collected when he was the investigating deputy, Tracy probes one small town’s memory and finds dark, well-concealed secrets hidden within the community’s fabric. Can Tracy uphold the promise she’s made to the dead girl’s family and deliver the truth of what happened to their daughter? Or will she become the next victim?
**From Publishers Weekly
A cold case preoccupies Tracy Crosswhite in Dugoni’s well-plotted third crime novel featuring the Seattle homicide detective (after 2015’s Her Final Breath). Klickitat County Sheriff Jenny Almond asks Tracy to take a look at a file that Jenny’s late father, retired sheriff Buzz Almond, held on to for forty years. One night in 1976, high school senior Kimi Kanasket never made it home from the diner where she worked. Her body was later found in the White Salmon River, and her death was ruled a suicide. Buzz, then a deputy sheriff, did his duty by retracing Kimi’s route home, but he was later told by the detective in charge, Jerry Ostertag, to leave the investigation alone. In the present, Buzz’s file and the help of experts like senior crime scene analyst Kaylee Wright and forensic anthropologist Kelly Rosa put Tracy on the trail of four former high school football stars known as the Four Ironmen. Tracy displays ingenuity and bravery as she strives to figure out who killed Kimi.
Review
“Tracy is a well-crafted character...Readers of the first two books will enjoy this one, and, because it can be read as a stand-alone, newcomers can jump right in.” —*Booklist*
“Dugoni’s third Tracy Crosswhite novel (after Her Final Breath) continues his series’s standard of excellence with superb plotting and skillful balancing of the two story lines. VERDICT: New readers can enjoy this as a stand-alone; they and series fans will be captivated by the issues and foibles that drive Tracy and strengthen her resolve.” —*Library Journal* Views: 29
The town of Eden Grove has a legend: In the center of a pine forest there is an aspen grove, and in the center of the aspen grove is an ancient, magnificent tree. A tree that grants wishes. Mayberry and Marshall have heard the stories about the Wishing Tree, but they know nothing like that could really exist near their dreary town. Misunderstood and restless, the teenagers wish for a lot of things, including being on another planet altogether. Somewhere with magic and adventure—someplace where they can be heroes.And then the unlikeliest thing happens: On a hike through the forest, they find the Wishing Tree. The pair make their wish, fall asleep . . . and wake up on Nith, a world that is exactly what they asked for. The alien landscape is beautiful, but it's also full of dangerous and fantastic creatures, and almost without exception, the creatures are hungry. Soon Mayberry and Marshall learn two very important facts about their wish: First, that magic comes... Views: 29
