"If you like dogs, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" —Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling authorWhen her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie Travis welcomes the opportunity for a road trip. Too bad a killer has planned a deadly detour . . . For a dog lover like Melanie, the opportunity to attend the Kentuckiana Dog Show Cluster is not to be missed. Fortunately, the timing coincides with her spring break from teaching, so she heads for central Kentucky with her sister-in-law Bertie and Aunt Peg, who's accepted a week-long judging assignment. Once there, Aunt Peg reconnects with an old friend, Ellie Gates Wanamaker, a former Standard Poodle exhibitor and a member of a well-heeled Kentucky family. Miss Ellie has been out of the dog show world for more than a decade, but when Melanie invites her to spectate at the Louisville Kennel Club dog show, she's eager to accompany her. Miss Ellie's presence at the... Views: 29
Some heartbreaks are too severe to recover from, and Russell is fighting every feeling he has as not to get his heart broken again. But sometimes the pull of love is just too strong, especially when the lives of those you love are threatened, and someone is looking for revenge. Views: 29
Claudia Guadalupe Martinez's debut novel for young adults is a bittersweet story about death, family, and the resilient emotional strength of the human heart. Chela Gonzalez, the book's narrator, is a nerd and a soccer player who can barely contain her excitement about starting the sixth grade. But nothing is as she imagined—her best friend turns on her to join the popular girls and they all act like Chela doesn't exist. She buries herself in schoolwork and in the warm comfort of her family. To Chela, her family is like a solar system, with her father the sun and her mother, brothers, and sister like planets rotating all around him. It's a small world, but it's the only one she fits in.But that universe is threatened when her strong father has a stroke. Chela's grandmother moves in to help the family. The smell of her old lady perfume invades the house. That smell is worse than Sundays. Sundays were sad, but they went just as sure as they came. Death was a whole... Views: 29
CITY OF THEDEADThe Third Egyptian MysteryA TRIUMPH FOR THE WORLD’S FIRST DETECTIVEAcclaim for City of the Dead‘Anton Gill supplies enough tension and breadth of description to keep one wanting to know the answer ... and he is very readable.’Times Literary SupplementAcclaim for City of the Horizon‘Brilliantly researched history blending with a tense thriller to rank with the best of them.’Reinhard HesseAcclaim for City of Dreams‘All you’ve ever wanted to know about sex in ancient Egypt... including a tour of the best brothels, plus tips on how to do it... Exotic, erotic and highly recommended, like Gill’s first Egyptian mystery, City of the Horizon.’Literary ReviewISBN 0-7475-1757-6 Views: 29
Harry loves creepy-crawly things. But there's one creepy-crawly thing that even he can't stand: head lice! So it's a terrible day when Harry's friend Doug discovers lice in his hair. To make matters worse, Mary makes fun of Doug for being dirty and convinces the rest of the kids in Room 3B that they can't go near him. She claims that everything he touches is infested with lice—even the mac and cheese at lunchtime! Doug wants to run away to Siberia instead of facing his classmates South School. But Harry and Song Lee stand by him and declare battle on the bugs. Will Harry defeat the hated lice, or will Doug have to live with these horrible bugs forever? Views: 29
Leo Cameron, Silicon Valley genius on the verge of launching a revolutionary Artificial Intelligence, jumps one night from the Golden Gate Bridge for no reason. Months later, he wakes up from a coma with a new heart and no memory of what happened.
Even worse, his personality has changed drastically. Pressured by his partner and shareholders to recover his memory as soon as possible and finish his project, Leopold discovers that he has absorbed the character traits of his heart donor - a donor who hides an incredible secret.
While the clock is ticking to release his Artificial Intelligence or else face criminal prosecution for fraud and deception, Leopold is forced to take drastic measures to thwart the unstoppable flow of events and the heart-pounding dangers of his own creation. Views: 29
