A witty yet gripping pastiche of murder mysteries set in an Argentine seaside resort, peppered with literary allusionsIn seaside Bosque de Mar, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortune: the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr. Humberto Huberman. When quiet, young translator Mary is found dead on the first night of Huberman's stay, he quickly appoints himself leader of an inquiry that will see blame apportioned in turn to each and every guest--including Mary's own sister--and culminating in a wild, wind-blown reconnaissance mission to the nearby shipwreck, the Joseph K.Never before translated into English, Where There's Love, There's Hate is both genuinely suspenseful mystery fiction and an ingenious pastiche of the genre, the only novel co-written by two towering figures of Latin American literature. Famously friends and collaborators of Jorge... Views: 21
TEXAS MEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS:Bachelor of the Month--Tanner JonesSix feet tall, drop-dead gorgeous and filthy rich to boot, this rugged construction worker is looking for a woman who can love him for himself--not his money.Through Texas Men magazine, Tanner found the perfect Texas woman--beautiful Dori Mae Fitzpatrick. But Dori's letters had failed to mention a few things--things like a five-year-old son, an obnoxious ex-husband and a thorough dislike for people with money. How could Tanner convince her he was the hero she needed, when he represented the thing she hated most?Mail Order Men--Satisfaction Guaranteed! Views: 21
Sixty-eight seconds. Can a life be lived in sixty-eight seconds? Can the love of a lifetime be discovered and lost in just a minute? A tale of love found and lost in a highland castle. Views: 21
Betrayed by her boyfriend, Emily Silver rushes to the refuge of her cousin's apartment. Only, he's away, and she's greeted by his friend Jude Marlowe.Crime writer Jude is as mysterious as the novels he writes...and Emily can't help but be intrigued. For, beneath his remoteness, lies a man whose eyes reveal a world of pain.Jude has a secret. And the more he falls for Emily, the more he knows he shouldn't. For he may not be able to offer Emily the lifetime together they both deserve.... Views: 21
When her father died, Addy
LaBarre became kikua — leader — of her wolf pack. Now five years later, she
still doesn’t feel like she knows what she is doing. Her confidence is tested
when a rival pack moves on her territory.
Wate Jackson is a practitioner
of Wild Magick, training to take over his father’s leadership role of the clan.
When his people learn of the wolf pack’s predicament, they propose to repay an
old debt by offering their help.
It doesn’t take long for Wate to
realize the beautiful Addy is much stronger than she thinks. When the two of
them come together, the Wild Magick ignites, and anything is possible.
His Wild Kiss is a twelve-thousand word novelette that originally
appeared in the January 2015 publication of Wickedly
Exotic Winter Erotic Wonderland.
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The adventure continues with acclaimed fantasy author Isobelle Carmody's The Dreamtrails, an omnibus edition of books five and six in the dystopian fantasy the Obernewtyn Chronicles--Wavesong and The Stone Key!Captured, Elspeth Gordie is drawn deep into the heart of her enemies. Once there, she meets unusual allies and uncovers a devastating plot brewing in their ranks. To stop them, she must risk everything to rescue a former ally whose mind and body have been manipulated to unleash a deadly plague upon the Land.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 21
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing--about the creation of good prose--and it is the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize. It was a heady moment, but for Kidder and Todd it was only the beginning of an education in the art of nonfiction. Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience--their mistakes as well as accomplishments--to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide... Views: 21
The third book in the Squire Quartet, available for the first time as an ebook.Russian born Dominic is one of the success stories of the eighties, when yuppies made fortunes on the stock market .Ray Tebbutt is among the unlucky ones. He was involved in a bankruptcy in the mid-eighties .Peter Petrik, a dissident Czech film director, lives in Prague, dreaming of making more films when times improve .The lifelines of these people and others -- comic and sad by turns in true Aldiss fashion -- converge towards the finality of an IRA bomb epuisode in Great Yarmouth. Views: 21
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of A Christmas Memory —“a tiny gem of a holiday story” ( School Library Journal , starred review). Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one old—and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals. Views: 21
The Biographer's Tale tells the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted young graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in the messiness of "real life" by writing a biography of a great biographer. For what could be more real than biography, the "art of things, of arranged facts"? But Phineas quickly discovers that facts can be unreliable, and a "whole life" hard to find. No matter how hard he tries, he unearths only fragments - disconnected manuscripts, bones and husks, strands of poetry, boxes of marbles, undated photographs. How does one put together the idea of a person?Phineas tracks his subjects' journeys to the deserts of Africa and the maelstroms of the Arctic in a series of adventures that are by turns intellectual and comic, scientific and erotic. He meets others who are building wholes from bits and pieces: a beautiful radiographer, ecologists, anthropologists, even travel agents offering the trip of your dreams. But they seem only to make his task more difficult. And as he tries to sort through the cabinet of curiosities that is the past, he must also decide his own future, and face the most difficult puzzle of all: which woman will guide him out of his dizzying labyrinth and back into his own life? Views: 21
"Thunder and Lightning" is the story of two men, Soapy Almayer and Jimmy Clarges. When they go to work in a lumber camp, their extraordinary strength and the speed that they work leads to their being called Thunder and Lightning. Then one man, afeaid to fight either, is crafty enough to use Rosita Alvarado to cause them to fight each other ... to the death."Legend of the Golden Coyote" is the story of a wild coyote, known far and wide for his unusual golden coat. Crafty and ferocious, he will confront even a timber wolf. But he also has a special relationship with a man and his daughter: the girl loves him and the man has spared his life when he might have killed him. When a terrible forest fire threatens them all, the golden coyote faces the painful choice between saving one of his own offspring and leading the human to safety. Views: 21
Lishia Vance has one goal for her junior year—to make a new best friend. But sometimes getting what you want isn't always what it seems.Lishia Vance is flummoxed. One day she has friends. The next day everyone has turned against her. No explanation. Just complete social isolation. Even her best friend Janelle isn't giving her the time of day. When she makes a connection with Riley Atkins, a popular cheerleader, things start looking up. But is Riley really as good a friend as she seems? Or is Lishia better off without her?With her signature insight into the lives of teen girls, bestselling author Melody Carlson explores the treacherous world of friendship, loyalty, and choices girls face in high school. Views: 21
