Muriel Spark's autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original 'Miss Jean Brodie', Spark recalls her formative years, up to the publication of her first novel in 1957. 'In order to write about life as I intended to do, I felt I had first to live,' Spark says. In her account of her unhappy marriage in colonial Kenya, her return to wartime London on a troop ship, working at the Foreign Office as one of the 'girls of slender means', editing Poetry Review and her conversion to Catholicism, Muriel Spark outlines the life that provided material for some of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Views: 43
Chaos can drive people together or apart.Jackie Oceans is evolving through major life changes. Her best friend is finally moving his life forward and she's attempting to let him go. Her power has risen to the surface, leaving her no choice but accept the truth. And now a charming vampire Stefano D'Angelo has taken an interest.Eddie Swiftclaw has been saying he's going to propose for months. Problem is, he's not in love with his intended fiancé. His surfacing power further complicates matters.Jackie seems to be everything Stefano has been missing since his wife passed away centuries ago. He can't decide if it's her resemblance to Eloise, or her true nature, that lures him. In the end, does it even matter?Everything comes crashing down with the introduction of a new threat in Seattle. Jackie and Eddie will learn things they never expected. Will his loss and her new admirer push them together, or drive them apart? Views: 43
A heartwarming, page-turning adventure about one child's love for his most treasured thing, and how far he will go to find it. A tale for the whole family to fall in love with, from one of the world's greatest storytellers. One boy and his toy are about to change everything... Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens – DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life... even toys. And Jack's newest toy – the Christmas Pig (DP's annoying replacement) – has a daring plan: Together they'll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best friend Jack has ever known... Views: 43
Four Tiny Tales in one GREAT-GREAT-GREAT gift edition!Featuring My Treasure Hunt Trouble!, My Great Big Birthday Bash!, My Playful Puppy Problem! and My Really Wheely Racing Day!, younger Humphrey fans will love this bind-up edition of the bestselling books.With a fresh, clean new look for the Tiny Tales series, these stories are perfect for young readers age 6+. Views: 43
In his latest mission, Commander Jeffrey Fuller will go head — to — head against his most dangerous adversary yet — his own allies. Jeffrey Fuller has a new mission — use his cutting — edge submarine Challenger to recover a German spy claiming to have key information about the Berlin — Boer Axis, information that could be crucial to winning the war. Fuller will have to navigate his super — silent sub through some of the most densely patrolled waters in Europe if he hopes to accomplish his mission. But Fuller knows he can't trust the spy, code — named Zeno, an expert in electronic and information warfare. The man could be a double agent sent by the enemy to compromise Challenger. And when they finally recover the mysterious spy, he reveals that only by helping him infiltrate Israel can he hope to prevent an imminent Axis attack. Fuller is caught in a terrible dilemma — if the man is a double agent, he could be dooming Israel, but if he does nothing, the country could fall to the German assault. To go ahead with the plan would pitch Fuller against the best defences of his own allies, placing his crew in danger and possibly shattering bonds between nations. It is a battle that, if fought, Fuller will have to fight entirely on his own. Views: 43
When Giselle McTavish left France as the wife of a Scottish laird, she never expected to be widowed two years later and left with a toddler to raise. Filled with animosity toward Highlander, Hugh Ferguson—the man she holds responsible for her husband’s drowning, and a man she must see every day because he, too, lives at Craiglocky Keep—she’s determined her son, the next laird, will be raised in Scotland, nonetheless. Her struggles to overcome loneliness and homesickness are compounded as it becomes more difficult to fight the warm feelings Hugh now stirs in her. Hugh has loved Giselle almost from the moment he laid eyes on the petite Frenchwoman. But as the wife, and then the widow of his dearest friend, he has refused to act on his feelings. He blames himself for his friend’s death. Guilt as well as the belief Giselle hates him, keeps Hugh’s lips firmly closed and his heart sealed. That all changes one providential Valentine’s Day when he risks everything by using Scottish folklore and legend to at last proclaims his love.** Views: 43
In this blockbuster novel from Danielle Steel, two estranged sisters get the chance to connect again and right the wrongs of the past.Melissa Henderson is leading a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Victorian house nestled in the foothills of rural New England. Six years ago, she lost her young son to cancer, and her marriage dissolved. She stopped writing. It was only when she bought the old house that Melissa found a purpose, and came alive as she made it beautiful again.After a wildfire that threatens her home appears on the news, Melissa receives a call from her sister, Hattie. They were close once, but that was before Melissa withdrew from the world. Now Hattie, who became a nun at twenty-five, is determined to help Melissa turn a new page, even if it means reopening one of the most painful chapters of her life.At sixteen, a pregnant Melissa was sent to a gloomy convent in Ireland to have— and... Views: 43
Coming soon! Circle of Friends: Part 6 of 6 by Susan Mallery will be available Sep 1, 2016. Views: 43
Product DescriptionRhiannon Lyons is grieving for her missing best friend and sister of her heart since she disappeared four months previously. Rhiannon and Honey Potts had a long standing arrangement. They would go out on the town every Friday evening after work for some dancing and drinking.Since Honey's disappearance Rhiannon has taken to hitting the bottle at home and drinking herself into oblivion. One such Friday night she is visited by three bright warm lights and thinks she is hallucinating.Rhiannon wakes up with a raging hangover in the presence of three gorgeous blue aliens. She is convinced she has finally lost the plot and is imagining the three blue males. The three alien High Chancellors, Adarm, Thed and Gram, try to convince Rhiannon to join with them as she is their mate but she denies they even exist, until they have to join with her to circumvent the mating fever.Rhiannon is commitment shy and wants nothing to do with the three handsome aliens.Will they be able to convince her they are the best thing to happen to her? Or will she convince herself she has definitely and irrevocably gone insane? Views: 43
In turn-of-the-century Florida, a family comes of age, and a daughter finds her destiny entwined with a land as full of promise as it is danger. The steamy, sweltering banks of Florida's Ocklawaha River don't look much like Glory Land to young Eve Stewart, despite her father's proclamation. But it's here that Eve, her three siblings, and their parents will settle in July, 1875. Within a few years, Eve's father, Hap, has made good on his assurances. They have a large, weathered clapboard house and a comfortable life, thanks to Hap's job on a steamboat. Eve and her twin sister, Ivy, are blossoming into young women. Yet as Ivy grows more involved in medicine making under the tutelage of a neighboring black woman, her path leads away from the family. Eve, an aspiring writer, loves her home though she longs to see the wider world beyond its swamps and shores. But when she discovers a secret Ivy's been keeping, Eve must decide between protecting the... Views: 43
