"Certain things are constants and Ted Allbeury is one. In book after book the prolific British writer of espionage tales has maintained a superior level." — New York Times Book Review"The most consistently inventive of our novelists of espionage, the one that other thriller writers point to as the finest craftsman among them." — Guardian, U.K. "No one picks through the intelligence maze with more authority or humanity than Allbeury." — Sunday (London) TimesAndrei Aarons cherished the noble ideals of Communism from his earliest childhood. Recognizing his devotion to the Party and his remarkable powers of persuasion, the Soviets dispatch Aarons to Paris in 1930 and eight years later to the United States. In New York City, Aarons poses as a middle-class bookseller, all the while establishing a flourishing espionage network. But Aarons grows disenchanted over the years, between the reports from Moscow of corruption, greed,... Views: 645
Meet the family that readers call "the funniest family ever written!" Jake Cardinal woke up with a massive hangover, an empty whiskey bottle, and a genie sitting on his windowsill. He groped for the glass of water that wasn't on his bedside table, shoved the whiskey bottle out of his bed, and closed his eyes against the blinding glare of the gorgeous genie in all her purple-haired, pink-sequined glory. And then he groaned. "Not again." *** When Jake, brilliant scholar and full-fledged member of the crazy Cardinal Witches family, meets the djinn of his dreams, at first he doesn't even realize it. But after she punches him in the face, helps him survive the birth of his niece, and confides the deeply guarded secret of her true name, will Jake be the one to grant Donya's wish? A delightful short story in the world of the Cardinal Witches. Views: 645
Three minor characters in a mystery story come to life.Story is set in a house located in the woods beside Lake Michigan.Three minor characters are in a book.The book is in the authors house beside Lake Michigan in northwest Michagan.One of the three, a female characters, has come to life and is out of the book at the begining of the story.At the story climax she gets the other two to leave the book and come to life. Views: 645
England, 1918. World War One rages, and Victoria Hospital harbours the wounded. Between the falling bombs, a love is blooming. Nurse Elena and Doctor Lyle fall hard for each other. Their passion rivalled only by their desire to save lives. Doomed from the start, the young lovers must hide their relationship. But Lyle has kept a secret from Elena. Guilt-ridden, he breaks off contact and returns home to marry his ex-girlfriend. Elena's parents arrange her marriage to an older Italian who takes his unwilling bride to Australia. Years later, Lyle answers an ad for the Flying Doctor Service "Down Under". Meanwhile Elena has learned to survive on the outback. And she has kept quiet all these years about a scandal that could tear her family apart. Beyond the Red Horizon is an epic historical romance. What if our soulmate slips through our fingers? Can true love stand the test of time-and the pain of betrayal? With an eye for detail, Elizabeth Haran has written numerous historical romance... Views: 645
Fifteen-year old Spencer loves professional wrestling. It's the reason why he, along with his older brother Billy, started their very own wrestling promotion in their Dallas apartment complex. The fact it puts Spencer closer to Tori, Billy's girlfriend and the only girl either boy knows who can take a chair shot to the head, doesn't hurt. It isn't long before RBWL—The Royal Brooks Wrestling League—have a rival in Woodland Terrace, a nearby apartment complex with their own wrestling promotion run by Eddie Tornado, an unhinged teenager with a connection to Tori and a hard-on to see Spencer and Billy fail. When Spencer breaks into Eddie's home and steals a gym bag he believes holds Woodland Terrace's championship belt, the feud between teenagers and promotions escalates. Before long, Spencer will find the world of professional wrestling can be more real and dangerous than anything seen on television. Views: 645
After a gang of sadistic, mutated thugs kidnaps a psychiatrist, Ethan is forced to chase after them. His hunt leads him through Crown City’s ancient crypts in a race against time. But what Ethan will find in the darkness is a danger he has never faced before, one that displays the worst part of the city’s underworld—the devils dwelling in the shadows.Ethan Daniels is The Guardian, the vigilante who haunts the nightmares of every criminal in Crown City. After a gang of sadistic, mutated thugs kidnaps a psychiatrist, Ethan is forced to chase after them. His hunt leads him through Crown City’s ancient crypts in a race against time. But what Ethan will find in the darkness is a danger he has never faced before, one that displays the worst part of the city’s underworld—the devils dwelling in the shadows. ---Set between the first two novels in the Dark Guardian Series, Dark Guardian & Dark Guardian: A New Dawn, this standalone, short piece story elaborates on some of Ethan Daniel’s struggles as The Guardian as he attempts to thwart the dark forces that have ruled over Crown City for so long. At the behest of readers, I hope to start to publish many of Ethan's shorter adventures and battles set between the series' novels. Views: 645
Most people in Willow Hill think Darya is the prickliest of the Blok sisters. What they don’t realize is that on the inside, Darya is soft and gooey from feeling everything, all the time.
When Darya turns thirteen, the goo gets stickier—and as Darya’s Wishing Day approaches, all she wants is to forget the silly tradition ever existed.
Except...she can’t. Ten years ago, a wish made by Darya’s mother splintered their family into pieces. Last year, Darya’s sister Natasha wished for their broken mother to return. This year, Darya has a chance to wish away parts of the past, and who wouldn’t want to do that?
Darya, that’s who!
The past is something you’re supposed to leave behind. Which is why Darya has locked and sealed her most painful memories inside the far corners of her mind, where they can no longer hurt her.
But when some of them begin to leak out, Darya realizes the decision about what to wish for—and what not to wish for—is probably the most important choice of her life.
Laughter and tear-inducing to the last page, The Forgetting Spell is beloved and bestselling author Lauren Myracle’s second book in the unforgettable Wishing Day series. Views: 645
Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire—and of the mayhem that ensues—it was made into an award-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson. Last Flag Flying, set thirty-four years after the events of The Last Detail, brings together the same beloved characters—Billy Bad-Ass Buddusky, Mule Mulhall, and Meadows—to reprise the same journey but under very different circumstances. Now middle-aged, Meadows seeks out his former captors in their civilian lives to help him bury his son, a Marine killed in Iraq, in Arlington National Cemetery. When he learns that the authorities have told him a lie about the circumstances of his son's death, he decides, with the help of the two others, to transport him home to Portsmouth. And so... Views: 644
