When hard-up aristocrat Lord 'Ratty' Ballashiels finds an old film reel in his attic he discovers that it's a home movie of Charlie Chaplin's visit to Rennes-le-Chateau in the south of France. But Ratty spots a strange anomaly: clearly visible behind Chaplin is the famous millionaire priest of that village, Bérenger Saunière. The film tin is labelled 'Chaplin 1932'. Saunière died in 1917. Before Ratty can process the implication of what he has witnessed, the heat of the projector lamp ignites the film and starts a fire which rips through a wing of his manor house. Investigators subsequently discover a body amid the charred ruins and issue a warrant for Ratty's arrest. The aristocrat has no intention of handing himself in. Knowing that Saunière reputedly buried a fabulous hoard of treasure, and convinced that the Chaplin film is a vital clue to its location, he stows away on a boat to France and becomes embroiled in a frightening and dangerous race to uncover the astonishing... Views: 308
Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry."—Los Angeles Review of BooksTruth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling."—Brenda Shaughnessy Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the sincerities that other sorts of poets reject or obscure."—Publishers WeeklyTogether and by Ourselves, Alex Dimitrov's second book of poems, takes on broad existential questions and the reality of our current moment: being seemingly connected to one another, yet emotionally alone. Through a collage aesthetic and a multiplicity of voices, these poems take us from coast to coast, New York to LA, and toward uneasy questions about intimacy, love, death, and the human spirit. Dimitrov critiques America's long-lasting obsessions with money, celebrity, and escapism—whether in our personal, professional, or family lives. What defines a life? Is love ever enough? Who are we when together and who are we by... Views: 308
24 short poems by Tag CavelloA collection of short poems by author Tag Cavello, written over the past five years or so. Read for a journey through snow and ice, solitude and remembrance. Close your eyes. Let the wind blow and the snow fall. These poems were written for escape to cooler places.A collection of short poems by author Tag Cavello, written over the past five years or so. Read for a journey through snow and ice, solitude and remembrance. Close your eyes. Let the wind blow and the snow fall. These poems were written for escape to cooler places. Views: 308
Anamika returned back to her boring life once again. She felt nobody had cared for her liking or disliking other than Rahul, whom she had dumped for the very family who never cared for her. She thought deeply about herself, ‘I have to think for everyone; but none thinks about me!’ This negative thought took over her mind and soul slowly but steadily.Anamika returned back to her boring life once again. She felt nobody had cared for her liking or disliking other than Rahul, whom she had dumped for the very family who never cared for her. She thought deeply about herself, ‘I have to think for everyone; but none thinks about me!’ This negative thought took over her mind and soul slowly but steadily.Her unhappiness towards her life continued to grow day by day.Finally, one day she took that drastic step of committing suicide! Views: 308
A Wyoming blizzard. A crashed car. Haloke's only six years old, but there's no one else. Her father's dead. Her mother's clinging to life. She draws deep within her, to her Arapaho and Navajo roots, to set out to find help.Twenty years later, it's Haloke's younger half-sister, Johona, who desperately needs help. She'd been knocked unconscious and then brutally raped. Johona desperately holds ...A Wyoming blizzard. A crashed car. Haloke's only six years old, but there's no one else. Her father's dead. Her mother's clinging to life. She draws deep within her, to her Arapaho and Navajo roots, to set out to find help.Twenty years later, it's Haloke's younger half-sister, Johona, who desperately needs help. She'd been knocked unconscious and then brutally raped. Johona desperately holds onto the hope that Deputy Logan can find those who are responsible. And maybe - just maybe - her sister would be able to return home from deployment overseas to spend Christmas with the family.The lives of Haloke, Logan, and Johona are entwined by fate, just as are the lives of those on and off the reservation. And the story has just begun ...* * *Wyoming Vision is book one in the Arapaho Vision Quest series. In general, Lisa's novellas are written without explicit intimacy or violence. As such they are suitable for teens and up. That being said, this specific series does center around one young woman's recovery from rape and those who would have concerns reading about that should be alerted.Half of all proceeds from this series benefits battered women's shelters. Views: 308
When 2 people find themselves on a rooftop in Westport, Connecticut ready to kill themselves, they find maybe their lives aren't the only ones at risk.When Sid Parks runs to the rooftop of an apartment building in Westport, CT she meets Quinn Handlen. They are both ready to jump when Sid realizes the Quinn is putting the entire building in danger. In effort to save her family, one heroic action turns back the fabric of time, giving her 24 hours to fix Quinn's mistake. Views: 308
Looks can be deceiving.
I knew that most people took one look at the ink and the impossibly big and strong body it covered and decided I was a brawler…a bruiser…a beast. However, I was hardwired to be a thinker, not a fighter—my mind being my greatest weapon and my biggest weakness.
I should have chosen to use my brain and talents to be one of the good guys, a hero, a man with dignity and worth.
I turned my back on dignity and sold my soul to the highest bidder, deciding to dance with the devil, instead.
I couldn’t figure out how to help myself, so there was zero chance I knew how to save someone else.
That someone else was Noe Lee. She was the unkempt, unruly thief who was just as smart as I was and twice as street savvy. She was annoyingly adorable beneath the dirt and grime and she was in trouble. In way over her head, I told myself it wasn’t my job to keep her from drowning. In the Point, it was sink or swim and I wasn’t the designated lifeguard on duty.
I had shut the door in her face, but now she’s gone…vanished…disappeared without a trace. It took less than a second for me to realize that I wanted her back.
When a woman comes along that melts all the frozen, hard things you’re made of, you’ll do anything you have to, to bring her home.
What you see is not always what you get…and with a man like me there is more than anyone ever bargained for. Views: 308
When Morgan's father is executed for a gangland deal that goes wrong, he soon finds out that being connected to the underworld is not what it should be. With the mafia on his trail to seize his fathers assets and the police wanting him for questioning and to expose his fathers underworld connections it can only be a matter of time before he's caught or worse ends up dead.When Morgan's father is executed for a gangland deal that goes wrong, he soon finds out that being connected to the underworld is not what it should be. With the mafia on his trail to seize his fathers assets and the police wanting him for questioning and to expose his fathers underworld connections it can only be a matter of time before he's caught or worse ends up dead.A fast paced thriller with a Greek Connection full of twists and turns and a heart thumping finish. Views: 307
