When the only surviving member of SG-22 brings Kali’s injured First Prime back to Stargate Command, Colonel O’Neill and his team are called on to investigate an attack by the Reetou on one of Kali’s homeworlds.But when a sabotaged Stargate leaves O’Neill, Carter and Daniel trapped off-world, Teal’c must team up with Kali’s First Prime, Jacob Carter, and Bra’tac to rescue his missing team. Meanwhile, the rest of SG-1 is presented with an offer they can’t refuse – to help Kali negotiate peace with the Reetou, or see thousands of her people massacred as punishment for their refusal.As time ticks down to the fateful meeting between Kali and the Reetou, SG-1 must escape before they fall victim to the Reetou’s deadly subterfuge … Views: 21
Temptation Under The Mistletoe Specialist Juliet Turner flies halfway across the world to England with her young daughter, Bea, to perform lifesaving in utero surgery. But her first white Christmas is complicated by the feelings awakened by ob-gyn Dr. Charlie Warren! Juliet has protected her heart for years, but she soon finds there's so much more to this closed-off widower than meets the eye. Perhaps it's time for them both to let go of the past, surrender to their burning chemistry and make this a Christmas to remember! Views: 21
Romance seems to come easy to some, but not to the heroines of these three stories. 'The Trouble with Fishing' ~ Will an unexpected trip prove too much for a city girl's romance? 'Christmas Tears' ~ How will a widow and two children survive on the streets in winter? 'Lady Constance Yankee Spy' ~ Does a new mission reveal a deadly traitor or lead to love? Views: 21
Feather is shocked when police write off the death of a girl in her town as suicide. When Feather’s friend Mia vanishes, Mia's mom and abusive stepfather paint Mia as a frequent runaway so the authorities won't investigate her disappearance. Everyone knows Native girls are disappearing and being killed but no one is connecting the dots. What Feather doesn't know is that the serial killer who has taken Mia has become obsessed with Feather and her investigation is leading her into danger. Set against the reality of ongoing unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, this fictional thriller set in Winnipeg explores one teenager's response to a system that has long denied and misrepresented the problem. Views: 21
More than twenty years have passed since Princess Kayla Sipesh was taken from Tordania against her will by Athan Vercilla.
Now, with her adopted homeland of the Northern Wastes in danger, she’s forced to travel back to where it all began. While she’s never met her brother, she must seek out Keiran's help in planning a future war to end Lord Vercilla's tyranny once and for all.
Despite all the time that has passed, Athan’s obsession with Kayla has never faded. He soon learns she's come out of hiding, and getting her back under his control is all he’s dreamt of. One way or another, he will figure out how to reclaim her, even if he has to kill the entire Nahli race to do so. Views: 21
Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances. In "Days," a woman in her late thirties records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her days—one moment she is eating an apple, the next she is on the floor, howling like a dog. As the details accumulate, we experience with her the full range of emotions: anger, loneliness, regret, pain, and also joy, as the lists become a way to understand, connect to, and rebuild her life.In "Minna Needs Rehearsal Space," a novella told in headlines, an avant-garde musician is dumped via text message. Fleeing the indignity of the breakup and friends who flaunt their achievements in life, career, and family, Minna unfriends people on Facebook, listens to Bach, and reads Ingmar Bergman, then decamps to an island near Sweden, "well suited to mental catharsis." A cheeky nod to the... Views: 21
"Poetry at its most satirical and courageous. A tremendous book."—Seamus Heaney"Few voices in American literature are so honest and daring."—Mark Strand"One of our most brilliant poets."—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz"I feel the primal grain and temper of the genuine here."—William Heyen"A lament, a protest, an inextinguishable song."—Sherod Santos"Among the best and most original poets in America."—Stanley Kunitz"Nothing short of splendid."—Robert Nazarene"The kind of energy found in the poems of William Carlos Williams and Gary Snyder."—Joseph BruchacThese poems tell harsh truths of hopelessness and genocide. The confusion of children whose religion is forbidden; the ironic poverty of a lottery winner; an alternate American history in which Columbus turns and sails away—in deceptively simple language, we hear the protest of survivors. "'Indian' is not a derogatory word. It's... Views: 21
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