A Blandings novelCan the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe Bart. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate?In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle. Views: 70
Between 1977 and 1983, I wrote and published five books about the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernard Grimes Rhodenbarr, with his secondhand bookstore and his dogwashing buddy, Carolyn. It was 1994 before a sixth Burglar book came along, but by then I'd written a pair of short stories about our lad.The first, "Like a Thief in the Night," was exceptional in that it's told from the point of view of the young woman who walks in on Bernie while he's burgling a suite of midtown offices. (She's pretty and personable, and he's Bernie, so everything works out just fine.) A few years later I was holed up at a writers colony in Virginia with time on my hands, and a whole batch of short stories was the happy result. One was this one, in which Bernie's enlisted by a supermarket tabloid to take forbidden photos at Graceland.That same stint in Virginia also yielded "Answers to Soldier," about a hit man on a job in a small city in Oregon. Each story went straight to Alice Turner at... Views: 70
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb headlines a hot new anthology of paranormal romance.FEATURING A NEW EVE DALLAS NOVELLA.J.D. Robb plunges Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the violent aftermath of a ritualistic murder.Mary Blayney, investigates a deception that has kept two lovers apart for years.Ruth Ryan Langan brings a lost man out of a storm to face a breathtaking twist of fate.And Mary Kay McComas follows a mother, her son, and a wizard lost through the threads of time. Views: 70
Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, previously published as The Inward Storm in 1984 It had been partly her own naivety, and partly her dislike of his cut-throat job, that had broken up Kate's marriage to gorgeous yet ruthless tycoon Jake Harvey two years ago. But ever since their whirlwind wedding ended in heartache and separation, Kate had grown up and moved on. Or so she thinks, until Jake sweeps into her life again, and the heat between them instantly reignites! Jake knows exactly what he wants—his wife, back in his bed!—and Kate is certain of the passion they will find in each other's arms again. But once she's back in her husband's bed, will she ever want to leave? Views: 70
"Music plays. Dad appears. I walk with him, eyes fastened to the floor. When I look up, something is very wrong. There are three grooms."This is the story of Quinn--born Prudence Quinn O'Malley--a confused young Manhattan attorney who loses her father on that tragic September morning that changed everything. Now, at an existential crossroads in her life, Quinn must confront impossible questions about commitment and career, love and loss. Her idealistic beau desperately wants a wedding, and whisks her away to Paris just to propose. But then Quinn has a dream featuring judges and handcuffs and Nietzsche and Britney . . . and far too many grooms. Suddenly, her future isn't so clear. Quinn's world has become a minefield of men--some living, some gone, and traversing it safely is going to take a lot more than numerous glasses of pinot grigio.Life After Yes is a blisteringly honest, thoroughly modern tale of life and love in... Views: 70
A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a rip-roaring journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful, and very much of the moment" (Esquire) novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences. It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R), planning his first reelection campaign and in deep denial about his sexuality, receives a mysterious, over-sized FedEx delivery on his front stoop. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. This outrageous, edge-of-your-seat novel hurtles between contemporary Washington, D.C., where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England—where we meet Titus Downing, the taxidermist who stuffed the aardvark, and Richard Ostlet, the naturalist who hunted her. Our present world, we begin to see, has been shaped in... Views: 70
If you don’t level with me, I can't be your submissive. I can't give control to someone who doesn’t trust me with the truth. Nell West has spent a whirlwind couple of months as Marc Cassidy’s submissive. But even as the handsome, charming vice-CEO of the Cassidy Corporation guides her into the BDSM scene at large, Nell senses he’s hiding a huge part of his past from her... Views: 70
After I'd agreed to do a job for the fae queen I hate, the entire world when to Hell—literally.Now it's my job to clean up my mess before she creates new nasties with the White Grace and kills us all—yeah, my fault too.It gets better. The Legion of angels have put a bounty on my head for the murder of the archangel Vedriel, which was in totally self-defense, but it's not like they care.There's not a chance in hell I'm going down without a fight. It's a full-time job trying to keep my own ass alive. So how am I supposed to save everyone else's?Don't miss the thrilling continuation of the Shadow and Light series!*Recommended for mature YA+ due to languageDark Rise is a sassy, fast-paced urban fantasy filled with demons, angels, vampires, werewolves, witches, fae, leprechauns, jinn, and shifters. If you enjoy urban fantasy books with a kick-ass heroine and plenty of action, suspense and humor, then you'll love reading Dark... Views: 70
