Acres of Perhaps collects acclaimed weird fiction writer Will Ludwigsen's recent and most heartfelt stories; these are tales that delve into what crime means, could a person live a different life than the one of the moment, what humanity can do about the big and small evils of the world...as well as inspired serial killers, haunted presidents, cursed lead figurines, and a weird late-night 60s television show that meant much more to the fabric of reality than it let on. These stories are the collision of imaginative fantasy and brutal realism."...a simple conceit that works magnificently. There are no duds in this small collection, and the highlights will easily win Ludwigsen a number of new fans." - Publishers Weekly, starred review"Evocative tales of alternate realities steeped in the ethos of Shirley Jackson and Ray Bradbury. " - Kirkus Reviews"From delaying the advent of Charles Manson until the disco era to imagining a very different career path... Views: 609
Seventeen-year-old Kami Jamieson is so over being daddy's little girl. Now that she has captured the attention of Tango, the bad boy from her school, Kami's love for her family and God have taken a backseat to her teen crush. Although the Jamiesons have instilled godly principles in Kami since she was young, they will stop at nothing, including prayer and fasting, to protect her from falling prey to society's peer pressure. Can Kami survive her teen rebellion, or will she be guilty of dividing the next generation? Views: 609
Lorenzo Alzaro Battaglia has survived the battle, but he has lost the war. Giovanni has pushed him to the brink of madness and stripped him of money, power, alliance that could be used to overthrow the Camorra. However, Lorenzo refuses to give up his vow to be the one who rules over the Battaglia legacy. Backed into a corner, Lorenzo fights the very last fight to reclaim it all. The gamble he takes could be the death blow that destroys it all. Can he overthrow Giovanni and reclaim his family and power? Is he the forgotten son of the once powerful clan boss Don Tomosino? Or will it matter when he is face to face with the past and future under Don Giovanni's gun? In the end the tenants of omertá maybe the only way to keep his wife and child alive? So he must decide. Their lives or his? Views: 609
On this romantic Halloween romp through the scariest places in Scotland, a young woman discovers that true love can weave a spell all its own. Young and pretty Nessa hates her full name—Agnes—which she inherited from her great-great grandmother. It makes her feel even more awkward that she already is. But she's starting to think she's inherited something much more interesting from her namesake. Family rumor has long said that Great-Great Granny Agnes was a real-life witch. And with the peculiar things happening around Agnes lately, she wonders if she's got a knack for witchery, too. First, there's the strange book she picks up in her local coffee shop as if she were meant to find it. Then, out of nowhere, her hunky next-door neighbor Ewan asks her to accompany him on a supernatural research trip through Scotland. It's a spooky, spirited journey—accompanied by a big black cat called Schubert—that... Views: 609
This boxed set contains three Frank Bennett mysteries:The LureBlood KnotDead Drift Views: 609
Jon Bartlett's path is clear before him: finish his last year of schooling, then off on the family's ships to learn the intricacies of interstellar trade. But a message of tragedy at home comes for him, and his expected life is flung far out of reach and he's cast into a role he never wanted.
A portion of Spacer was previously published as the short story Wronged, by J.A. Sutherland
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From the writer of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller, The President is Missing.TARGET: HEAD OF STATEMen and women from across the nation line the streets of Washington
D.C. to mourn the unexpected death of the President. Hit by painful
memories of the loss of his first wife, Alex Cross is left reeling by
this tragedy.TARGET: UNITED STATES CABINETA sniper's bullet strikes another devastating blow to the heart of
Washington with the assassination of a prominent Senator. The shock of
this attack puts huge pressure on the police to deliver a speedy
response, and as Chief of Detectives, Alex's wife Bree Stone is given an
ultimatum: solve the case, or lose her job.TARGET: ALEX CROSSThe new President calls on Alex Cross to lead an unparalleled FBI
investigation to help capture America's most wanted criminal. Alex has a
terrible feeling that the assassination is just the beginning of a much
larger plan. All too soon this fear springs to life as a terrifying
chain of events plunges the government and the entire country into
chaos.
The stakes have never been higher for Alex Cross as his courage, his
training and his capacity for battle are stretched to their limits in
the most important case of his life.
TARGET: HEAD OF STATE
A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good.
TARGET: UNITED STATES CABINET
A sniper’s bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross’s wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she’s worked her entire career. The Secret Service and the FBI deploy as well in the race to find the shooter. Alex is tasked by the new President to take a personal role with the FBI, leading an investigation unprecedented in scale and scope.
TARGET: ALEX CROSS
Alex has a horrible premonition: is the sniper’s strike only the beginning of a larger attack on the nation? It isn’t long before his fears explode into life, and the nation plunges into a full-blown Constitutional crisis. His ingenuity, his training, and his capacity for battle are tested beyond limits in the most far-reaching and urgently consequential case of his life. As the rule of law is shattered by chaos, and Alex fights to isolate a suspect, Alex’s loyalty may be the biggest danger of all. Views: 609
From the glittering heat of India's Pink City to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley and the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar, Anita Felicelli's debut collection delivers a dazzling array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives. Imbued with magic, Felicelli's stories center on first- and second-generation Tamil Americans—immigrants, daughters, and lovers exploring what it means to lose and to love, to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all. Views: 609
My family's whiskey empire needs to keep me as CEO. But thanks to my dad's will, to take my place as rightful head of the company, I need to find a wife. If I could just get my brother Sean's pain-in-the-arse best mate, Grace, out of my head long enough to focus on finding a decent woman.The woman maddens me, but she's a longtime friend of the family, so giving her a job as my assistant is the only way I can keep everyone off my back. But the more time I spend with her, the more I find myself looking differently at this girl from my past.Too bad she's decided not to give me the time of day.Each book in the Murphy Brothers series is STANDALONE:* Straight Up Irish* Murphy Brothers Views: 608
Thanks to Lydia’s carelessness, the Bennet sisters were prevented from attending the Meryton Assembly. A grey pall has descended over Longbourn House as its inhabitants do their best to avoid a very disappointed Mrs. Bennet.
But Elizabeth Bennet does not share in their misery. How can she, when she is thoroughly besotted by the stranger she encountered on one of her walks?
Fitzwilliam Darcy feels stifled by the attentions of Miss Caroline Bingley and his thoughts are increasingly dominated by the young lady he met in the woods. Ever practical, he is struck by a simple solution to his problem—and Miss Elizabeth’s.
Theirs shall be a marriage of convenience; a way of saving them both from disagreeable marriages.
What could possibly go wrong? Views: 608
