He wants to clean up the town... they want to chase him out.Sheriff Rowan Keller is the new sheriff of Blackgate.There's just one problem.The old sheriff doesn't want to leave.He's spent years taking bribes from criminals so they could pass through unscathed, and he's not eager to give things up.But Rowan's about to put an end to all that.Blackgate's got a poker tournament coming up, and it's drawing all the wrong kinds of people. But no one beats Wade Sharp. Evil, corrupt, and soulless, Wade has a gang of men who will kill anyone who gets in their way.Even women and children.When Rowan puts up a fight, Wade decides him and the entire town must pay.Especially Tillie.She's pretty and kind, and Wade's taking her with him when he leaves.But if he thinks Rowan is just going to let her go, he's mistaken.Rowan's ready to go into battle, even if he has to do it... Views: 553
Thirteen-year-old Elisha lives in a village near Shechem in the Land of Canaan in ancient Israel. She wants to be like other girls but is unmarried, speaks to an angel, and composes and sings her own songs—a pursuit her parents disapprove of. When she tells the village women to stand up for themselves, the men are outraged he tribe banishes her. After journeying alone through the desert, escaping bandits, wild animals, and men who would sell her as a servant, Elisha makes it to Jerusalem, where the angel guides her to study with Abraham and Sarah. She learns much including reading and writing, and Abraham even gives her Doron, his servant, to accompany her as she sings her songs throughout the country. Doron becomes her lover and her songs are well accepted—until she sings one about equality for women. Mountain Full of Moons explores how we overcome our fears, go out into the world, and gain the courage to speak up and be whom we choose to be. Views: 553
Isaac Ford seeks help from the detective who put him in prison — now security consultant, Andrew Wen — after an unexpected prison break weeks before his release. Despite an almost twenty-year age difference and being on opposite ends of the law, the attraction between them culminates in a one-night stand that teeters Isaac between turning himself in and returning to a life of crime. His decision is made for him when he discovers a young man waiting for him at his safe house — the son he never knew existed.Months later, Isaac has been reconnecting with his son, Dalton, and started a security consultancy of his own, looking for a fresh start. His past catches up to him, however, when he runs into Andrew at the police station, both seeking information on a new thief. Andrew isn't happy Isaac left that night or that he's been encroaching on his business, but the passion between them rekindles as trying to one-up each other turns sexual. Neither plan to let anything more come of... Views: 553
The higher you fly, the farther you fall. And I'd be surprised if the grubs in the Ascariim deep mine didn't hear my splat. Hester Wishbone has it made. A recent graduate of Grimoire College, she has a great job as a village hag and is eagerly awaiting the arrival of her familiar. She is also well on the way to earning her Adept Witch designation. But her perfect life starts to unravel. After an unfortunate incident involving a flammable prosthetic nose, Hester loses her job. Her assigned familiar turns out to be a cockroach. And her magick seems to be well and truly gone. With time running out on her Adept qualification period, Hester embarks on an epic job search. Her quest takes her to sticky gingerbread houses, dank bogs, and even the dreaded Outerplane (which is a Level 7 Magick Null Zone). Through it all, Hester must figure out what kind of witch she is, if she has no magick. Views: 553
Based on the gripping true story of an unlikely Polish resistance fighter who helped save thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, bestselling author James D. Shipman's Irena's War is a heart-pounding novel of courage in action, helmed by an extraordinary and unforgettable protagonist. September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her apartment window. Already, the city's poor go hungry. Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and supplies to those who need it most, including the forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly. Dragged from her home in the night, Irena is brought before a Gestapo agent, Klaus Rein, who offers her a position running the city's soup kitchens, all to maintain the illusion of order. Though loath to be working under the Germans, Irena learns there are ways to defy her new... Views: 553
In The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams combines her talent for historical research with beautiful storytelling.
She has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary and found a tale of missing words and the lives of women lived between the lines.
In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary.
This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Esme is born into a world of words.
Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary.
Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard.
One day a slip of paper containing the word 'bondmaid' flutters to the floor.
Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house.
Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men.
They help her make sense of the world.
Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded.
While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary - The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Set when the women's suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men.
It's a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it. Views: 553
