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This box set includes all six books in The Elemental Origins Series
by USA Today bestselling author AL Knorr and is 2000 pages of elemental
magic, adventure, friendship and romance that will keep you reading
late into the night. Don't miss these stories readers are calling their 'new favorite'!Born of Water: A mysterious shipwreck could unlock ancient powers... or send her to a watery grave.Targa
MacAuley feels more at home on dry land than in the realm of her
mermaid ancestors. To keep her mom's identity under wraps, Targa signs
on for a salvage in the Baltic Sea. Her plan to blend in with the crew
is spoiled when she catches the eye of a handsome local. A freak
accident attracts even more unwanted attention, putting their lives in
danger. Can Targa find the courage to unleash the currents surging deep
within?Born of Fire: Welcome to the world of fire magi, where what doesn't kill you (literally) makes you stronger.Saxony
Cagney counts herself lucky when she wins a position in Venice for the
summer. She meets two Italian men.... Both are smart, successful, and
sexy. When she discovers one of the boys in her charge is dying, things
get a shoved into complicated...then contagious - she'll never be the
same. Just when she's got more than she can handle, she gets
tangled with the most powerful crime family in Venice. Will she survive
long enough to learn the secrets of her new abilities, or will they kill
her?Born of Earth: When the earth gives up her dead, you shall understand.Georjie
isn’t thrilled about going to Ireland for the summer, and even less
thrilled when her sexy cousin Jasher (not blood-related and don't you
forget it) is as friendly as a nest of vipers. When Georjie
unearths Jasher's terrifying secret, things she never knew about her
family come to light; A woman who disappeared without a trace. A
desiccated body. Strange cocoons hanging in the greenhouse. Georjie
finds herself trapped in a mystery involving the power of nature itself.
Born of Aether: They say if you tell a lie
long enough, you'll eventually believe it, but Akiko will never forget
who she really is.Akiko's life as a teen is a complete sham.
The old man she lives with is not her grandfather, he's her captor. And
Akiko isn't a teen. In fact, she isn't even human. But Akiko isn't
allowed to share her truth with a soul. Not even her friends know the
power she could wield.When she's sent to steal a sword, she jumps
at the chance to secure her freedom, only to get caught in a game with
the most deadly crime syndicate in Japan.Can Akiko escape with her life, or is true freedom as elusive as the Aether she was born from?Born of Air: She is a supernatural unlike any you've ever seen before.All
Petra wants in life is to study Archaeology. She's got the grades and
ambition, all she needs now is work on an Old World dig. When Petra
spies an ad for an excavation to Africa, she knows its for her.A
heart-pounding race through the desert with Jesse-her sexy dig-mate-ends
when she falls into a cave where her life changes forever.As her
powers manifest, there are those who have reason to destroy her. Will
she survive long enough to learn what she's really capable of?The Elementals: Can they use their newfound powers to save their hometown?The summer is over and the girls share the adventures that have gifted them with elemental powers.When
they are recruited to execute a secret project, it seems they'll be
rocketed to glory. But when they unleash a terrible force, things
deteriorate rapidly...The deadly entity seems immune to their magic and it is too late to turn back.Includes the companion stories The Wreck of Sybellen and Pyro. Views: 529
With his job as a line rider under threat, Mack Cambray hopes to settle down with his bride as a homesteader. However, in trying to solve the mystery of his wife's untimely death, Mack ends up in the middle of a violent range war. Views: 529
Ellie is an engineer. With a tool belt strapped over her favorite skirt (who says you can't wear a dress and have two kinds of screwdrivers handy, just in case?), she invents and builds amazing creations in her backyard workshop. Together with her best friend Kit, Ellie can make anything. As Kit's birthday nears, Ellie doesn't know what gift to make until the girls overhear Kit's mom talking about her present--the dog Kit always wanted! Ellie plans to make an amazing doghouse, but her plans grow so elaborate that she has to enlist help from the neighbor boys and crafty girls, even though the two groups don't get along. Will Ellie be able to pull off her biggest project yet, all while keeping a secret from Kit?
Illustrated with Ellie's sketches and plans, and including backmatter with a fun how-to guide to tools, this is a STEM- and friendship-powered story full of fun! Views: 529
June 30th, June 30th is the most intimate book Richard Brautigan
has ever written. It is about his first trip to Japan in the spring of 1976 and
explores with wit and compassion the day-to-day realities of the human heart. This
book of poetry is also a unique look at Japan as seen through the eyes of one
of America’s most popular poets.
“What can I say? It is your work that has touched me the
most deeply, the least mannered and most exact in its insistent nakedness. It
is not a succession of lyrics but finally ONE BOOK. A long poem that offers us
its fragments. It is saturated with the ‘otherness’ we know to be our most
honest state and the true state of poetry. It offers itself in perhaps the
unconscious but ancient fabled form of the voyage. It is about the stately
courage and loneliness of this voyage into a strange land which is both Japan
and the true self of the poet, where there are no barriers to admitting and singing
all. It is about love and exhaustion and permanent transition, so fatal that it
is beyond the poet’s comprehension. I love the book because it is a true song, owning
no auspices other than its own; owning the purity we think we aim at on this
bloody journey.”
—Jim Harrison,
author of Wolf
and Farmer
Richard Brautigan’s latest book is Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942. Richard Brautigan’s
other books of poetry include The Pill
Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, Rommel
Drives On Deep into Egypt, and Loading
Mercury with a Pitchfork.
Richard Brautigan divides his life between San Francisco,
Montana, and Tokyo.
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Laurel McKay Hunter is thrilled to partner with new husband, Tom, in their budding detective agency, Gold Country Investigations. With her past experience solving crimes, even Tom admits she's a natural. And Laurel's first case is perfect for her financial skills, extricating a friend of her zany grandmother from a Lake Tahoe timeshare scam.When the timeshare salesman is found dead, with Gran's fingerprints on the murder weapon, Laurel's case jumps from money to mayhem to murder.A second murder takes Laurel to the snow-capped summit of Heavenly Ski Resort, a boat race across Lake Tahoe, and a close encounter with a black bear. Soon the only thing certain is that someone is dead set on making Laurel's first case her last. Views: 528
Maurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose for which he deployed it. This volume, the seventh of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre’s works, contains the novel Lucifer and the novella The Night of Hashish and Opium (both 1929). The former reads as a kind of confession exploring a demonic possession resulting from a casually-made diabolical pact—which might or might not be entirely subjective and psychological. The Church is at best impotent, at worst in tacit alliance with the forces of evil and the narrator is forced to find his own way out of his predicament—if he can. As an account of metaphorical possession, it is detailed with a persuasive conviction, if one regards its essential purpose as that of sowing a discomfort in the reader’s mind similar to one experienced by the author. In The Night of Hashish and Opium set in India, a young, lovely, divorcée is caught in a magical trap by men who bet that they could force the beautiful woman who once turned them down to dance in the magical temple of Chillambaram. Views: 528
Sea Change is Peter Nichols' first book, a biographical account of his own dramatic adventure. When his marriage ended, Nichols had to sell the only thing he and his wife owned - their boat. With only his sextant, his instincts as a seasoned sailor and his memories of a floundering marriage, he sets out from England to sail to America to sell his beloved boat, Toad. Halfway across the Atlantic, Toad springs a leak. As the sea floods in faster, Nichols tries everything to stay afloat, desperately pumping the water out by hand. He loses the battle after three days and is forced to abandon Toad. This is more than a sea-tale. It is the painful story of his marriage, his boat and himself.
"Plenty of thrills for the armchair traveller...captivating". -- PeopleMany people go to the sea in boats, but few of them write as movingly about the experience as Peter Nichols does in this enthralling meditation on the wonders of sailing, the mystery of the sea, and the ebbs and flows of love. With only a sextant, his own instincts as a seasoned sailor, and a boat full of memories of his foundering marriage, Nichols sets out alone from England for Maine, where he plans to sell his beloved twenty-seven-foot sailboat, Toad.
Combining the adventure of Into Thin Air, the nautical lore of The Perfect Storm, and the spiritual self-discovery of The Snow Leopard, this thrilling adventure is a classic tale of a man struggling to come to terms with his reckless spirit, his highest hopes, and his broken dreams.
"An alarming account, told with remarkable calmness ... that should sweep away even the most resolute landlubber". -- Time
"A tale leavened with humor, keen observation, and old-fashioned sailing drama". -- Outside
"Nichols is marvelous at describing the feelings of awe and loneliness that the sea inspires". -- The New York Times Book Review Views: 528
