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Growing up in her
beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever-widening
rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Her
classmates tease her, calling her "La Femme Au Naturel," the Nature
Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through
the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret
dreams. Then, days before her high school graduation, rich cannery owner
Octavious Tate surprises her in a secluded pond and shatters her
innocence. Pregnant and desolate, wishing to spare her dear Mama the
scandal, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious's
frigid wife Gladys to claim the baby as her own and will net Gabriel's
furious Daddy a huge payoff. Hiding in a tiny abandoned playroom in the
Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable. Her only visitor is Mama, whose
mission as a Traiteur, a Cajun healer, gives her an excuse to treat
Gladys Tate's "pregnancy." But nothing is more wrenching than the moment
Gladys takes baby Paul away forever. Returning home to the
swamp, Gabriel drifts in a world of twilight gloom, brightened only by
chance glimpses of her son. But as Jack Landry's reputation as a swamp
guide grows, a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionaire
Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not
heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she
can bear.... Views: 6
Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord. Thousands of years ago, Time Lords built a Prison for the Kin. They made it utterly impregnable and unreachable. As long as Time Lords existed, the Kin would be trapped forever and the universe would be safe. They had planned for everything . . . everything, that is, other than the Time War and the fall of Gallifrey. Now the Kin are free again and there's only one Time Lord left in the universe who can stop them! Author Neil Gaiman puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space in the eleventh and final story in the bestselling 50th anniversary series! Views: 6
Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal—a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance, comrades for the coming travails.Assisted—ably and otherwise—by his vampiric brother Horst and by the kindly accompaniment of a criminologist and a devil, they will encounter ruins and diableries, mystery and murder, the depths of the lowest pit and a city of horrors. London, to be exact.Yet even though Cabal has risked such peril believing he understands the dangers he faces, he is still underestimating them. He is walking into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors. As it closes slowly and subtly around them, it... Views: 6
