MaverickThe more answers I unearthed, the less I understood.I stepped into this game not knowing the rules, and now, they're playing me to their beat.Old faces reappear.New friends circle.I got closer to the puppeteer as they got ever closer to me.And when they struck, I wasn't ready. ValentinaA queen sacrifices for her subjects.A president makes the hard decisions.And a girlfriend does whatever has to be done.I'm all three, and for my friends, sisters, and love, I'll bring the Sallys and Sams to their knees. Views: 543
A new upstairs, downstairs Victorian murder mystery in the Kat Holloway series from the New York Times bestselling author of Death in Kew Gardens. When young cook Kat Holloway learns that the children of London's Foundling Hospital are mysteriously disappearing and one of their nurses has been murdered, she can't turn away. She enlists the help of her charming and enigmatic confidant Daniel McAdam, who has ties to Scotland Yard, and Errol Fielding, a disreputable man from Daniel's troubled past, to bring the killer to justice. Their investigation takes them from the grandeur of Mayfair to the slums of the East End, during which Kat learns more about Daniel and his circumstances than she ever could have imagined. Views: 543
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It's time for a homespun holiday—until a crafty culprit weaves murder into the festivities. . . Slay bells ring when the body of Arborville High School's beloved art teacher (and annual Christmas card designer), Karma Karling, is discovered on the first day of the Holiday Craft Fair . . . Now, Pamela Paterson and the Knit and Nibble crew must swap swatching for sleuthing in order to put a Christmas killer on ice. Previously published in Christmas Card Murder Views: 543
First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America? Views: 543
After surviving the harrowing ordeal of vampiric Jubokko trees and Gashadokuro's particularly insistent concerns about a haunted book, Clue is looking forward to enjoying her vacation. Spring Break has come for Hyperion Community College which means a week off for Clue, and she's made plans to enjoy it with Cosmo. The two of them are partnering in Scorpius' Annual Spring Fishing Tournament in the billfish competition. With Clue as his partner, Cosmo is planning to win. Having the handmaiden to Palena, Goddess of the Ocean Waves, on his boat, he believes Clue will bring him the luck he needs to land a winning marlin. However, they aren't the only ones hoping to catch something. The Fuguruma yohi who has been haunting Clue's books has been doing everything it could to draw her attention to a particular story in Tales of Plum Blossom Forest. It's the story of the farmer's second son, who left home to become a fisherman. Sadly, he was lost at sea, and... Views: 543
For nine years, readers have been waiting for George R.R. Martin to finish A Song of Ice and Fire. Well, now he doesn't have to. From The Harvard Lampoon-Harvard's legendary humor publication-comes an outrageous, uproariously funny parody of Game of Thrones, in the tradition of their previous bestselling parody book classics Bored of the Rings, Nightlight, and The Hunger Pains. An affectionate but take-no-prisoners send-up of the massive literary and television franchise, Lame of Thrones offers fans a way of reentering the fictional world they have come to love and merrily explodes all of its conventions-as well as their expectations of the characters-to hilarious ends. It may even leave you more satisfied than the actual TV ending of Game of Thrones. In fact, if it doesn't the Lampoon has really dropped the ball. Lame of Thrones will take you to Westopolis, where several extremely attractive... Views: 543
A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair.Graham Greene lived a life as strange and compelling as those in his brilliant novels. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself.With wit, keen understanding, and compassion informed by recently surfaced letters and new memoirs from Graham Greene's contemporaries, Richard Greene creates a nuanced portrait of a complicated man. An Unquiet Englishman delves into the conflicts that defined Greene—marriage, promiscuity, faith,... Views: 543
