This hilarious, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately heartening novel is the companion to the critically acclaimed, national bestseller Perfect Agreement This is your chance to enroll in English 10 at highly rated Hellman College—if you can find a place to sit in the fantastically overcrowded classroom. Mark Sternum, whom readers first met in Downing's beloved novel Perfect Agreement, is a veteran teacher. Twenty years older, separated for six months from his longtime lover, and desperate to duck the overtures of double-dealing deans above him and disgruntled adjunct faculty below him, Mark has one ambition every day he is on campus—to close the classroom door and leave the world behind. Which he does—until he runs into the Professor, the tenured faculty member with whom Mark has co-taught this creative-writing workshop for ten years. The spectacle of Mark's contentious, complicated wrestling-match of a relationship with the... Views: 572
Don't die today; try very hard not to die today!Hud and P-man are a sniper team operating out of firebase Foxtrot. They are good, maybe too good at their skill set, as their ability to perform and survive brings increasingly difficult and dangerous missions. A powerful evil other than Charlie is stalking Hud and P-man. Can Hud's spiritual link to his beloved Daria tip the balance to level the playing field?Race the Devil is the first book in a series on the Vietnam War and the personal experiences of a couple of young lads that had the misfortune to wind up in the middle of it. If you liked Platoon or Apocalypse Now, then you will love Martin E. Silenus's action adventure book!Pick up Race the Devil to discover this exciting new series today! Views: 572
Lady Lavinia Prior has lived her whole life under her mother's thumb. Heaven forbid she should form an opinion of her own or want something more than the rigid role her mother has planned for her as the perfect wife of an important man. But since her mother has never deemed any man to be good enough, Lavinia is at risk of becoming a spinster by default. Until one cringe-worthy night during a late-summer house party at Winterberry Park….Dr. Armand Pearson never expected to inherit the title of Viscount Helm and all that goes with it upon his cousin's death. With his medical career decimated by the duties of his title, the responsibility of an estate he doesn't know how to run on his shoulders, and a position in the House of Lords that his friends urge him to attend to, the last thing he has time for is a wife.But fate, and Lady Ursula Prior, have other plans….What starts out as the most awkward,... Views: 572
Fun might be on the schedule for Halloween, but Kate & Meg find crime doesn't take a holiday...Kate McKenzie never dreamed when she started her business, Stacked in Your Favor, that she'd spend nearly as much time crime solving as organizing. But with Halloween approaching, and too many items on the to-do list, she and Meg Berman find themselves in another puzzling dilemma—where every answer leads to another question. And more danger…Please note: This title originally appeared in a shorter version in the Halloween anthology, Midnight Mysteries. New content has been added to this release.Organized for Masked Motives is a holiday novelette title in the popular Organized Mysteries series from USA TODAY bestselling author Ritter Ames. The series features a small town New England setting and interesting characters, along with humor, strong family and friendship ties, and absorbing cozy mysteries. Views: 572
The American Revolution comes to vivid life in two dramatic tales of espionage, intrigue, and romance from the author of The Last of MohicansWith his second novel, The Spy:A Tale of the Neutral Ground, in 1821, James Cooper (the Fenimore would come later) found his true voice and what became his most enduring subject matter: the history of his young nation, born of the clash between Old World and New. Set largely in Westchester County—site of the real-life intrigues of Benedict Arnold and Major John Andre—The Spy traces the conflicting allegiances of rebels and loyalists, with the supposed loyalist spy Harvey Birch (actually in the service of George Washington) finding himself caught up in conflicts between friendship and duty as he moves between the two sides. Washington himself makes an incognito appearance as the mysterious "Mr. Harper." Cooper continued in the same vein with Lionel Lincoln; Or, The Leaguer of Boston... Views: 572
As the McClane saga continues, the family realizes that someone in their trusted, inner circle may just be the person who has leaked precious information about them, Fort Knox, and their community allies to the men who were running the highwaymen and ultimately to whoever they were reporting. It becomes a quest for vengeance, a vengeance of the innocent people murdered for months on end by the highwaymen. Will time run out before they can stop the damage being done to their family and allies or will they sniff out the traitors in time to finally end it?And while the manhunt continues, Simon, who has finally reconciled his feelings for Sam, must find a way to win her over after the pain he has caused her fragile heart for rejecting her. However, it proves more difficult than he anticipates as she has made a promise to herself to close Simon out of her life forever. Little does she know, Simon has finally come into his own and is up for the challenge.When the story... Views: 571
