Book 2 of The Shattered Cove Series Views: 603
This hilarious, colorful portrait of a prostitute navigating life in modern Morocco introduces a promising new literary voice. Thirty-four-year-old prostitute Jmiaa reflects on the bustling world around her with a brutal honesty, but also a quick wit that cuts through the drudgery. Like many of the women in her working-class Casablanca neighborhood, Jmiaa struggles to earn enough money to support herself and her family—often including the deadbeat husband who walked out on her and their young daughter. While she doesn't despair about her profession like her roommate, Halima, who reads the Quran between clients, she still has to maintain a delicate balance between her reality and the "respectable" one she paints for her own more conservative mother. This daily grind is interrupted by the arrival of an aspiring young director, Chadlia, whom Jmiaa takes to calling "Horse Mouth." Chadlia enlists Jmiaa's help on a film project, initially just to make... Views: 603
Bethany: This coffee shop is going to kill me. Sure, it's my dad's dream. If he hadn't died eight months ago, I wouldn't be here, a college drop out, trying not to drown in debt. Nor would I be staring into the muddy eyes of a viking-sized man that's telling me everything I'm doing wrong—as if he knows so much about business in a small mountain town. Except he does. And when the biggest, most unexpected surprise of all falls in my lap, I'll have no choice but to ask for his help. Time for some power lipstick. Maverick: This girl is drowning. She might have eyes like glacier pools and hair so black it's glossy, but that doesn't mean she knows how to run a coffee shop. She's drowning in more than debt, interest, and credit card payments. She'll never make it. But I kind of want her... Views: 603
Yaliana is a warrior who guards the compound on the planet of Harr from dangerous animals. It is her duty to ensure that the citizens who live in the compound are kept safe. She thinks her life will always stay the same, but one day the boss' daughter goes missing. It also looks like she is somewhere in the jungles of Harr, a dangerous place to be.Yaliana would do anything to save Ulissa, but the more she learns, the more it seems that Ulissa didn't go missing, she ran away on purpose. Yaliana is caught between her duty to her boss and her love for Ulissa.Then, the mission to recover Ulissa doesn't go as planned, and Yaliana and Ulissa must face the dangers of Harr together. Views: 603
To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television. Work on the widening of the Southern Railway's route along the Dorset coast is halted when a man is hit in the path of a train. At the inquest, the tragedy becomes a dark and sinister mystery when a witness swears to seeing a man running away from the scene of the accident – a statement that results in the intervention of Inspector French. But when the apparent solution to the case turns into an even deeper mystery, French faces the most complex problem he has ever encountered. Views: 603
WHAT WILL YOU DO TO END THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE?The zombie apocalypse rages on...The mysterious CEO of Zombii Co has set loose his super zombies in a bid to escalate the zombie apocalypse for his own sinister purposes.Sam and his teammates have tried to find a cure for the zombie virus, but now Sam is infected with a strain of the virus that allows him to telepathically communicate with the other zombies.Can Sam prove to his teammates that he's still trustworthy?Or will he betray them to the CEO of Zombii Co?If Sam and his team can't find a way to trust each other and work together, Sam could lose more than his humanity. He could lose everyone that matters to him and condemn the world to a never end zombie apocalypse. Views: 603
