A vivid, affecting portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and PersianThe first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a mesmerizing, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus. Time is a thread come unspooled: pain arrives before the wound, and the dead wait for sunrise. Abdolmalekian resists definitive separations between cause and effect, life and death, or heaven and hell, and challenges our sense of what is fixed and what is unsettled and permeable. Though the speakers in these poems are witnesses to the deforming effects of grief and memory, they remain alive to curiosity, to the pleasure of companionship, and to other ways of being and seeing. Lean Against This Late Hour illuminates the images we... Views: 684
A missing ex. Two missing children. And the man caught in the middle of a cartel's proposed hostage exchange. When his ex-boyfriend vanished with stolen millions, Darke went to prison for his part in the heist. Another man might want revenge. All he wants is the chance to rebuild his life with a new and better man, former FBI Special Agent Flare Greene. But everybody else still wants the millions. When a faceless organization grabs two small hostages to force Darke to lead them to the missing money, he no longer has a choice. He must find his elusive ex or die trying. And death is not an option as long as the two boys are in the hands of kidnappers. Meanwhile, the FBI is dangling a mysterious new assignment in front of Flare― an assignment very far away from the rescue of two small hostages. What are the higher-ups in the bureau up to this time? If they think they're going to slow down Darke Davis, they've got the wrong... Views: 684
Kidnapping. Evil. Redemption.
When two young girls go missing, Dr. Emma Reichs, a child psychologist who worked with the two teens, turns to Brody Taylor, an ex-Green Beret, who founded the Pals Center, a safe haven for kids, to help her find the girls. Brody along with his retired military canine, Charlie, is determined to find the people behind the kidnapping of young people in his community.
In the midst of the search for Piper and Maria, more children are taken. Brody and Emma realize they’re fighting against a ticking bomb to find the teens before they disappear for good. Their partnership brings them closer and awakens feelings for each other, but can they stay alive long enough to end the nightmare for the kids and still have a future together? Views: 684
Allowing himself to love always seemed too dangerous. Now it might be his only salvation...Single dad Tank Wheeler has vowed to keep his heart shuttered in the name of keeping his young daughter's life stable. But lately, the chemistry between him and his adrenaline-loving best friend, Cassie Reynolds, has been getting him a little hot under the collar. And then, with one scorching birthday kiss, these best friends are instantly more.Exactly the wrong time for Tank's ex to show up in Wild River, Alaska.Cassie is pretty sure she's having a waking nightmare. Not only is Tank's gorgeous ex hoping to reclaim her family, but a new megastore is threatening the wilderness-adventure business she's spent five years building. But Cassie never backs down from a fight. And now it's time to make the most terrifying leap of her life—and hope that Tank catches her...before she falls too far. Views: 684
Beautiful shore, Dangerous seasons~Summer tourists flock to the shore of Lake Superior—beautiful clean blue water, historic lighthouses, and thick pine forest. Audra Blair, a young single mom, is no longer going to work for someone else during the brief summer tourist trade. She has bought an old Victorian near the lakeshore and has opened "Audra's Place," a coffee shop-bakery in the mornings. And in the evenings a carry-out pizza shop. Her future and her little girl's hinges on its success. She is the sole support of her child, not wanting to have contact with the man who abandoned her when she told him she was expecting five years ago.But someone in town is dangerously unhappy and begins setting booby traps that explode into fires.Memorial Day, the first weekend of the all important summer tourist season, begins with an unwelcome bang. At a local highway convenience store, new Sheriff Carter Harding is on scene, pumping gas when the... Views: 684
Jen Nilsson has an MBA, a nice condo, and a fast-track job at a tech start-up in Silicon Valley. If her big product launch goes well next month, she may finally land the marketing director job she's been gunning for. But then her younger sister, Katie, just out of college and estranged from their newly devout parents, blows through the front door, dumping cardboard boxes and a lifetime of personal drama onto Jen's just-swept floor.Family is family, and Jen lets her sister, the embodiment of all that annoys her, move in. Maybe she'll turn aimless Katie into a model adult. But when Jen's own well-laid career plans hurtle off the tracks—a corporate buyout, a layoff, and a disastrous business trip to China—she turns more and more to Katie for support and begins to reassess the place of family, and love, in her life.If You Can Get It explores the quirks and the humanity of the twenty-first-century business world but finds its heart in the deepening relationship o Views: 684
The Hero was Handsome is book three in author Kristen Casey's Triple Threat series. Views: 684
