Andrea Spring doesn't love baseball, but she sure loves baseball players. When her carefully-crafted casual sex life gets rocked by unexpected forces, she meets the challenge with her unique style. There's nothing conventional about this woman. When Andi plays, everybody wins. Views: 44
This long-awaited re-publication of the first Arab-American novel--inspiration for Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet--deals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience.Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to seek their fortune in turn-of-thecentury New York. Together, they face all the difficulties of poor immigrants--the passage by ship, admittance through Ellis Island and the rough immigrant life. Khalid, always the dreamer, tries to participate in the political and cultural life of the teeming city--to often humiliating and comic result.Tiring of their sojourn, he convinces Shakib they should return to Lebanon. But their heads are now full of New World ideas. And Khalid, trying to improve his brethren, turns his understanding of... Views: 44
When he
steps into his physics class on the first day of senior year, Quinn Walker is
too exhausted from staying up all night with his three-month-old nephew to deal
with moral dilemmas. As a devout Mormon who has vowed to wait until marriage
for sex, the last thing he needs is a very hot and very sexy Katarina Jackson
as his physics partner. Regrettably, he has no choice.Kat feels invisible in her mansion of a home six
months after losing her older brother in a fatal car crash and will do anything
to get her parents' attention. Since her pastor father has no love for Quinn's
"fake" religion and her ex-boyfriend refuses to leave her alone, she
makes an impulsive bet with her friends to seduce her holier-than-thou lab
partner by Christmas.
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Product DescriptionThe fourth installment in the Relic Master quartet!Galen and Raffi's quest has brought them to the Pits of Maar. There, below the surface of the world, in the deepest darkness, a most evil thing is waiting for them to come. About the AuthorCatherine Fisher is a celebrated novelist and poet. Here work includes the acclaimed Oracle Trilogy, which was an international bestseller, and has appeared in more than twenty languages. She is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Incarceron and Sapphique. She lives in Gwent, Wales. Views: 44
An engineer battles a small town to see his sister released from prisonIt takes Reno three days to get from Peru to the Gulf Coast, and when he gets to Waynesport he has only one stop to make: the city jail, where his sister is being held on a murder rap. The way Vickie tells it, she saw her husband having a drink with another woman, they quarreled, and she went to the bathroom. When she came out, he was shot through the back of the skull. The police believe every word of her story—except the part about who pulled the trigger.Her husband was in Waynesport looking for a crook named Rupert Conway, whom the local police do not seem towant found. To save his sister's neck, Reno must wade through corruption as fetid as the swamps that surround this hellish southern town, where the alligators aren't the only ones who are eager to kill. Views: 44
