Determined to resist the advances of the persistent Pierce Alexander, Amanda Foster, a single mother and the news anchor at a Dallas television station, finds herself falling in love. By the author of Sapphire and Shadow. Views: 44
In Criminal Enterprise, Thomas Chase wakes up from cryosleep to his first day at a new job - as a pilot for a contraband drug company dropping a shipment on Fantasia, a rock-planet terraformed to hide an elaborate drug manufacturing operation. Everything from synthetic heroin to MX7 is cooked here, in protected caves guard-dogged by the savage Aliens. When Chase's craft touches down on Fantasia, a chain of events begins that can not be stopped. As criminals and competitors try to take over the drug-empire from the dangerous kingpin, Chase and his brother Pete are caught in the crossfire... with the Aliens adding blood to the mix.No Exit tells the story of Detective Anders Kramm, awakening to a changed world after thirty years of cryogenic sleep. The alien threat has been subdued. Company interests dominate universal trade. Terraforming is big money now, with powerful men willing to do anything to assure dominance over other worlds. But Kramm has a secret. He knows why The... Views: 44
More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead remains the best available source for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World brings together forty-two fresh, fascinating voices in Asian American writing—from classics by Jose Garcia Villa and Wakako Yamauchi to exciting new fiction from Akhil Sharma, Ruth Ozeki, Chang-Rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Monique Truong. Sweeping in background and literary style, from pioneering writers to newly emerging voices from the Hmong and Korean communities, these exceptional works celebrate the full spectrum of Asian American experience and identities, transcending stereotypes and revealing the strength and vitality of Asian America today. Views: 44
When Havyn Jessup agreed to join her church’s building trip,
she had no idea the man who broke her heart was coming as well. The last thing
she wants is to spend time with the now internationally famous actor, Levi
Carter. Even if it is in Africa, where he might, if God had any sense of
justice, be eaten, one tiny bite at a time, by a pride of hungry lions. Two
whole weeks. She’d never survive that long.
Levi is elated to learn that Havyn will be joining the
building team. He had planned to look her up just as soon as he got home to
tell her what a fool he’d been. But there is no time like the present. And what
better place to ensure she would hear him than when she was strapped in at
thirty thousand feet above sea level? Two short weeks. Could he convince her he
was a changed man in that amount of time?
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WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND?Being stranded without electricity in a houseful of orphaned dogs wasn't high on Alain Dulac's agenda. But when a car accident landed the West Coast attorney in the care of Kayla McKenna, he had a change of heart. Something about the compassionate but oh-so-seductive vet was making Alain suddenly yearn for the simple life.... Kayla had a soft spot for wounded animals--not footloose bachelors. But after coming to the attractive stranger's rescue, she found him awfully hard to resist. Bringing Alain into her home might have been an act of mercy, but when his injuries healed, would she lose him forever...or would love come just in time? Views: 44
They hid among us, until she exposed them.
They'll destroy everything to be hidden again.
Pax is discovering that the smallest mistakes can have the deadliest impact. To protect her city, she's uncovered monstrous truths and involved terrible people. The consequences are coming for her.
The Sunken City is unstable. The Fae are armed for war.
Can Pax stop the coming disaster?
In this closing chapter of the Sunken City trilogy, Williams weaves the complex strands of Pax's misadventure into a truly thrilling conclusion. Views: 43
Broussard and Franklyn pursue justice through the steamy streets of New Orleans in this thriller from "a master of the gothic mystery" (Booklist). Chief medical examiner Andy Broussard is at a family picnic in Bayou Sauvage when his uncle Joe is killed in a murder-suicide. The deceased assailant's motives are unknown, and the mystery sends Broussard digging into his family's past. Meanwhile, criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn finds herself being deputized when an NOPD slowdown forces the brass to bolster the ranks. Assigned to track down a missing woman, Franklyn's case leads her right into Broussard's investigation. Now, the two will have to depend on each other like never before if they are going to uncover the dark family secrets that are about to threaten both of their lives. "Andy and Kit are a match made in mystery heaven." —The Clarion-Ledger Views: 43
