Keeping her safe at all costsCould their backgrounds be any more different? Rick Vasquez, a K-9 unit sergeant with the San Diego Police Department, fled drug-related violence in Mexico as a boy. Madison Long, who recently became primary veterinarian to the SDPD's canines, is the privileged daughter of a judge. Rick has dedicated his life to curtailing cross-border drug trafficking and preventing other young boys from being drawn into the dark world of the cartels. But everything Rick and Madison value, and the growing love between them, is threatened by the dangers of Rick's job, and the risks he's determined to take... Views: 142
Emily Winters was kidnapped as a teenager by Psi-Tech, a corrupt and power hungry corporation that learned of her precognitive ability. Imprisoned for years and forced to use her talent to help a company thrive, she now reaches a point where she must escape or die. A natural disaster will cause chaos, death, and destruction throughout the entire world while transforming most of the survivors into psychics.
After this happens, Psi-Tech will kill all of their prisoners to hide the evidence of their horrific crimes. Knowing how the disaster will affect her captors gives Emily one slim chance to escape. Emily must seize this opportunity to save not only herself but her brother as well who will die without a medical treatment that doesn’t yet exist.
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Teodora has always longed to visit Venice, and at last she has her chance. But strange and sinister things are afoot in the beautiful floating city. Teo is quickly subsumed into a secret world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets, statues speak, rats read, and librarians fluidly turn into cats. And where a book, The Key to the Secret City, leads Teo straight into the heart of the danger that threatens to destroy the city to which she feels she belongs. An ancient proverb seems to unite Teo with a Venetian boy, Renzo, and with the Traitor who has returned from the dark past to wreak revenge. . . . But who is the Undrowned Child destined to save Venice?From the Hardcover edition. Views: 142
It's rural Ireland in the second half of the nineteenth century, the age of the Pre-Raphaelites, when Europe burns with a passion for long, flowing locks. So when seven sisters, born into fatherless poverty, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognize their potential.Soon, they're a singing and dancing septet: Irish jigs kicked out in dusty church halls. But it is not their singing or their dancing that fills the seats: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. In an Ireland still hungry and melancholy with the Great Famine, the Swiney hair is a rich offering. And their hair will take dark-hearted Darcy, bickering twins Berenice and Enda, plain Pertilly, gentle Oona, wild Ida, and fearful, flame-haired Manticory—the writer of their on- and off-stage adventures—out of poverty, through the dance halls of Ireland, to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice. It will bring... Views: 142
Paris, 1925. Gabrielle “Chrysis” Jungbluth, âgée de 18 ans, entre à L’Atelier de Peinture des Élèves Femmes de L’École des Beaux-Arts, pour travailler sous la direction de Jacques Ferdinand Humbert, qui fut le professeur de George Braque. Exigeant, colérique, cassant, Humbert, âgé de 83 ans, règne depuis un quart de siècle sur la seule école de peinture ouverte aux femmes. Mais malgré toute son expérience, il va vite se rendre compte que Chrysis n’est pas une élève comme les autres. Précoce, volontaire, passionnée et douée d’un véritable talent, cet esprit libre et rebelle bouscule son milieu privilégié et un monde de l’art où les hommes jouissent de tous les privilèges. Elle ne tardera pas à se perdre dans les plaisirs désinvoltes et à devenir l'une des grandes figures de la vie nocturne et émancipée du Montparnasse des années folles. C’est là qu’elle va rencontrer Bogey Lambert, un cow-boy américain sorti de la légion étrangère, avec qui elle va vivre une folle histoire d’amour. Dans un préambule émouvant, Jim Fergus nous raconte une histoire personnelle très forte liée à l'une des œuvres de Chrysis Jungbluth, peintre tombée à tort dans l’oubli. C’est cette histoire qui l’a mené à s’intéresser à la vie de cette artiste. Après de longs mois d’enquête, il a réuni un bon nombre d’éléments biographiques qui lui ont permis de romancer le destin bouleversant de cette héroïne passionnée et passionnante, à une époque unique de l’Histoire du XXe siècle, où tout semblait permis.** Views: 142
The Truth About Death," the title novella of this virtuosic collection, is a masterpiece of sardonic humor that confronts Death head on and emerges bloody but unbowed. Simon, an undertaker, embalms his own father and faces his own death. Louisa, Simon's mother, makes peace with her husband over his dead body in a cooler in the basement of the funeral home. Simon contemplates the mystery of death over a plate of spaghetti cacio e pepe in Rome with an Italian undertaker. The dog, Maya—who works as a greeter at the funeral home where she comforts those who are grieving hardest—eventually makes the truth about death known to Elizabeth, Simon's wife. New Yorker cartoons keep the family laughing during the most difficult months, Elizabeth decides to show her own cartoons (included here), to the New Yorker cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, at his office in New York. The serious issues cleverly addressed in The Truth About Death are touched... Views: 142
Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun (1928) is a moving, delicately observed coming-of-age novel––one that brilliantly exemplifies the cultural, social, and creative ferment of the Harlem Renaissance. Its heroine, the young, talented, light-skinned Angela Murray, hopes for more from life than her black Philadelphia neighborhood and her middle-class upbringing seem to offer. Seeking romantic and creative fulfilment, and refusing to accept racist and sexist obstacles to her ambition, she makes a radical choice: to pass as white, and study art in New York City. Against the vivid, cosmopolitan backdrop of Harlem and Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, her subsequent journey through seduction, betrayal, protest, and solidarity is ultimately a journey toward self-understanding. Along the way, Fauset includes fictionalized portraits of leading Harlem Renaissance figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois (for whom she edited The Crisis) and the sculptor Augusta Savage,... Views: 142
Return to the Manning Family with book 6 in this fan-favorite series of classic romances, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.James Wilkens was almost a Manning groom—because he almost married one of the Manning sisters. With that broken engagement behind him, he spends New Year's Eve in Las Vegas...where he meets Summer Lawton. She's just suffered a painful betrayal, and James promises her that in a year, she'll be over it. To prove his point, he makes a date to meet her in Vegas Same Time, Next Year. Except it turns out to be more than a date—it's a wedding!Originally published in 1995 Views: 142
