Nine years ago Ty Hale denied his heart when he drove Shannen Cullen out of his life. He never expected to see the blue-eyed spitfire again—especially as a contestant on a reality game show set on a deserted island. Now Ty, as chief cameraman, had to film her every move, yet all he wanted to do was cast his equipment into the sand and kiss the strong-willed beauty senseless. And while the attraction was mutual, Ty needed to be sure he was loved for himself, not his money; that's why he pretended he was no longer a millionaire. But when the truth was revealed, would Shannen forgive his deception...or would Ty lose the love and trust he'd fought to rebuild? Views: 5
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Jeff Greene is enjoying his vacation on the Western Caribbean island of Roatan when a freak storm transports him back in time to the 17th century. Jeff takes up with a band of pirates led by the infamous Captain John Coxen as he searches for a way back to his own time in this roller-coaster ride of high-seas adventure, bloody swashbuckling, secret romance, and mysterious forces of nature. Views: 5
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics, with each of whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy. More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy post-war manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through... Views: 5
