Available for the first time in a single collection, eight stories featuring the World's Greatest Detective, Sherlock Holmes, written by award-winning author Bill Crider. Return to 221B Baker Street as Holmes and his trusty sidekick, Dr. Watson, investigate vampires, ghouls, ghosts, and other mysterious creatures.Featured in this collection:"The Adventure of the Young British Soldier""The Case of the Vampire's Mark""The Adventure of the Christmas Bear""The Adventure of the White City""The Adventure of the Venemous Lizard""The Case of the Vanished Vampire""The Adventure of the St. Marylebone Ghoul""The Adventure of the Christmas Ghosts"and a bonus story:Death Did Not Become Him, by Patricia Lee Macomber & David Niall Wilson Views: 378
Stories set between the fall of the Galactic Empire and start of the Humanoid Wars that will lead the birth of the Federation of Humanoid Planets. Galaxy police, battery-operated boyfriends, rainbow-haired princesses and immortal bodies in the interregnum period. The third generation of Star Minds is out and about in the Milky Way.Rookie (5235)Aliens on Earth (5238)Sire Minds (Marc'harid 5240)B.O.B. Theft (5242)Starship Pilot (Sylvania 5245)TR1ST4N (Serenaide 5248)Immortal Body (Ypsilanti 5250) Views: 378
After escaping from her controlling boyfriend Mark, Lisa has started a new life in a remote village in Cornwall. She's painting again, and she's made good friends in the close-knit community. Her only regret is losing Grayson, the man she'd fallen in love with.But when he finds her again, she's torn. The attraction between them is as strong as ever, but can she give in to it and still hold onto her new-found independence?When they embark on a sensual long-distance affair, Grayson awakens desires she'd forgotten, and Lisa discovers a deeper love than she ever thought possible.But if she wants a future with Grayson, first she'll have to deal with the shadows of her past. Is she strong enough to face up to the demons she thought she'd left behind? With everything to play for, she has to try ... Views: 378
Calise Thomas looks through a crowded room. What she isn't expecting to find is Chris. He offers to take her home, but she doesn't leave his side so easily. She insists on joining him and his elite team at their special training grounds in the deep woods of Ohio. Without hesitation, she goes along with Chris to the farthest end of the state. Right away, she meets his mysterious posse.Calise Thomas looks through a crowded room. What she isn't expecting to find is Chris.He offers to take her home, but she doesn't leave his side so easily. She insists on joining him and his elite team at their special training grounds in the deep woods of Ohio. Without hesitation, she goes along with Chris to the farthest end of the state. Right away, she meets his mysterious posse. They start mocking her attendance and tease her for being new. But she trains with them anyway and takes on her role as a Collector.Meanwhile, a mark starts forming on her shoulder, one that matches the rest of her teammates. She's initiated. A magic cloud consumes her for the first time, and she discovers people (like herself) are living in a secluded structure underground, as well as collaborating with 'the outsiders'. The Collectors are one aspect of an entire new world she never knew existed. Views: 378
Read the next book in the Steeple Ridge Romance series! HER RESTLESS COWBOY features the youngest of the Buttars brothers, Ben, and his cowboy romance journey toward happily-ever-after with a woman older than him. You'll get all the cowboy romance you love, as well as opposites attract, age gap, and all the sweet and swoony kissing you want! She's a workaholic. They're total opposites, but Ben knows what he wants... Will he get too restless waiting for her? Cowboy Ben Buttars is the youngest of the four Buttars brothers who come to Steeple Ridge Farm, and he finally feels like he's landed somewhere he can make a life for himself. At only twenty-five, and having been cared for by his older brother when their parents died a decade ago, Ben's never dated, never had a serious relationship, never really worried about anything. Reagan Cantwell is a decade older than Ben and the recreational direction for the town of Island Park, five... Views: 378
A passionate portrait of love’s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories.
Andre Aciman, who has been called “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York Magazine), has written a novel in Enigma Variations that charts the life of Paul whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout adulthood as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinet maker, or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; on a tennis court in Central Park, or a sidewalk in early spring New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient and forever underwritten by raw desire—not for just one person’s body but, inevitably, for someone else’s as well.
In mapping the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want only to offer what we crave from them. Behind every step the hero takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love always casts its luminous halo. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and others. But sooner or later we discover who we’ve always known we were. Views: 378
Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing = Poppy is thrilled that they're spending the summer at Smuggler's Cove. It might even take her mind off the mystery of her past. But Poppy is about to make some amazing discoveries - and solve more than one mystery...
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