“Sometimes Beth floated. Two or three feet off the ground, and not for very long, ten seconds or so.” Gifted eleven-year-old Beth believes she can cure her hydrocephalic playmate Helen if they just chant hard enough. But are their words enough?Hailed as “remarkable and uplifting” by The Globe and Mail and published to equally glowing acclaim around the world, Barbara Gowdy’s groundbreaking collection of stories, We So Seldom Look on Love, pushes past the limits of convention into lives that are fantastic and heartbreakingly real.HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library. Views: 10
THE BROODING BACHELORThree marriage proposals and not one walk down the aisle had Hannah Farley swearing off men forever. Until the sexiest stranger Clover, South Carolina, had ever seen turned up. With his black eyes, black T-shirt, black worn jeans and a temper to match, Matthew Granger was an irresistible challenge!But all the man did was stomp around town and ask strange questions. He wanted something--and obviously it wasn't a blushing bride.Of course, Hannah knew there were ways to tempt the truth out of the most secretive of men ....Always a Bridesmaid! -- Five unforgettable couples say "I Do"... with a little help from their friends! Views: 10
Prize-winning author Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair.As in his debut novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, the voices in these stories speak from the margins: a dominatrix whose longtime client, a US congressman, drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art. From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippy in Colorado in the summer before 9/11 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis, these stories rove freely across time and place,... Views: 10
Clara I lost Dax Trenton years ago. No one could tell me where he’d gone, or who took him. When my father moved us out to Southern California for a job I figured that would be the end of it. That was until the day before I started college. Dax Trenton was not only standing in my kitchen — but he was living right smack next door. He taunted me with his revolving door of women. He insisted on having me up close and far away. I tried to stay away. But does a moth really stay away from the flame? Even when he does the unthinkable, when Dax pursues — I submit. Dax She doesn’t know I recognize her. I know exactly who that very well-formed woman is that teases and torments me from her next door window. Clara Parker was my breath and everything I’d ever wanted—until she betrayed me. Now I’m out for revenge, and I will have it. All over her very creamy, soft, and supple flesh. What neither of us is expecting is to fall face first in love with one another. Or maybe we were always in love, who the hell knows? I just know that when it’s all laid out, Clara, broken or whole, will be mine. What I didn’t count on was an enemy from both our pasts showing up to break us.
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Turned down for her dream job, large-animal vet Bellamy Haile is determined to drown her sorrows at the bottom of a tequila bottle—and underneath the ripped bod of the gorgeous stranger she just met in the liquor store. She'll have time enough to nurse mild regret later, when she takes over her uncle's small practice in Serenity, Georgia. Settled into an old house bequeathed by her grandmother, Bellamy doesn't expect one of her first vet calls to bring her face-to-face with her one-night stand. Eli Carter happens to live nearby...and he's more than willing to pick up where they left off. As Eli and his family welcome her into their hearts and homes, Bellamy experiences a sort of love and acceptance she's never known. But even hot nights in Eli's bed may not be enough to make her choose small-town Serenity when a second chance at her dream job comes calling. A Romantica® contemporary erotic romance from Ellora's Cave Views: 8
When Lightning Strikes Twice by Barbara Boswell has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. Views: 7
Enter a world of dragons and magic unlike any before...answer the dragon's call and behold the realm of Galdrilene... “A ray of light, a stain of shadow, shall endure to breathe life and death into the future” The war between the Guardians and the Shadow Riders ended in total devastation. The final battle killed all the dragons and left nothing but fields of ash. A small clutch of dragon eggs was all that remained to provide hope for the future. Five hundred years later, the ability to use magic is a death sentence and dragons are remembered as a curse. But the unhatched dragons sing for their riders...and soon six lives will be changed forever. The elements of magic are drawn together as the dragons’ call leads them on an epic and dangerous journey of discovery. They soon learn everything they’ve been taught to believe about magic and dragons is wrong. With the last of the dragons and the world at stake, they will risk everything to heed the call. But an evil from the past soon threatens their discovery and newfound joy. Shadow Dragons ride the dawn once more... Views: 7
Meet The Bear—a cat who carries the weight of the world on his furry shoulders, and whose wise, owl-like eyes seem to ask, Can you tell me why I am a cat please? Like many intellectuals, The Bear would prefer a life of quiet solitude with plenty of time to gaze forlornly into space and contemplate society's ills. Unfortunately, he is destined to spend his days surrounded by felines of a significantly lower IQ. There is Janet, a large man cat who often accidentally sets fire to his tail by walking too close to lighted candles; Ralph, a preening tabby who enjoys meowing his own name at 5AM; and Shipley, Ralph's brother, who steals soup but is generally relaxed once you pick him up and turn him upside down. And then there's Tom Cox, writing with wit and charm about the unexpected adventures that go hand-in-hand with a life at the beck and call of four cats. This heartwarming Sunday Times bestselling memoir about a man at the mercy of his unpredictable,... Views: 6
The gift of clairvoyance has been in Sheila Jeffries' family for three generations, and the saga of THE BOY WITH NO BOOTS follows the thread of how this wonderful gift was misunderstood, judged and forbidden until it eventually flourished after years of denial. It was a gift too bright for one family to contain.Freddie Barcussy knows hardship and pain. His parents Annie and Levi are struggling to make ends meet, both suffering with illness and poverty. They need their luck to change.Unbeknown to the them, Freddie holds the key to their futures. He has a gift, a gift he has told no one about, and it is about to change all their lives for ever ... Views: 6
