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De dochters van de beul | Ze noemen hem Beul, een seriemoordenaar die al zeven jonge vrouwen heeft ontvoerd en gedood tijdens zijn zoektocht naar de perfecte dochter. Wie niet aan zijn torenhoge verwachtingen voldoet, wordt op uiterst pijnlijke wijze vermoordt.
Ryan Evans, militair, is zozeer met zijn werk getrouwd dat hij van zijn vrouw en dochter vervreemdt. Precies in de periode dat de Beul niet van zich laat horen, zit Evans in Fallujah, Irak. Toeval, of niet? Bij de FBI denken ze er het hunne van. | nl |
The Darkangel Trilogy | They had been searching the mountain for a rare nectar -- the mistress, Eoduin, carelessly scoffing at old tales of the evil creatures they might encounter... the slave, Aeriel, apprehensive, and rightly so. For a darkangel DID swoop from the sky, and he stole the beautiful Eoduin away...
Loyal Aeriel understood nothing of the darkangel's purpose, yet knowing would not have stopped her. She vowed to rescue her friend and mistress -- and thus placed herself in Irrylath's power. He took her to his cold, lonely castle to serve Eoduin and his twelve other brides -- tormented soulless wraiths who had once been flesh-and-blood women.
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3-in-1 Bookclub Edition includes:
Book 1) "The Darkangel", c. 1982 (0316707414)
Book 2) "A Gathering of Gargoyles", c. 1984 (0316707346)
Book 3) "The Pearl of the Soul of the World", c. 1990 (0316707430) | en |
The Father's Love: Amid a Frantic Search for His Son, a Father Finds His Faith | The drive home seemed to be endless. My mind was a battleground of extremes. Ideas of what to do next to help find David seemed to constantly flood my thinking. Yet the negative side, thinking the worst of what might have happened to my son, was always occupying my mind. Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented. Confronting depression, fatigue, and evil, Dave Moore goes on a cross-country search for his missing son. Becoming increasingly desperate and having done all that is humanly possible without results, what will he do? Who will he turn to? In this amazing true story, you will experience Dave Moore's anguish in going through a father's worst nightmarea missing child. Through his fear, Dave confronts his soul's emptiness and learns the heavenly Father's Love. | en |
Say "YES" To Hollywood | Three Books in One Volume | en |
Mugging the Muse | Want to Get PAID for Writing What You LOVE?
In this collection of thirty-one essays, workshops, quizzes, Q&As, and how-to-do-it articles, novelist Holly Lisle -- who went pro with her award-winning first novel, Fire in the Mist, in 1992 and who's been writing full-time ever since (more than thirty novels published by major publishers, and still writing) offers help, comfort, and wry practical advice to the beginning fiction writer looking for answers.
In the second edition of this book, Holly walks writers through Preparation, Practice, Writing & Selling, and Frequently Asked Questions, offering end-of-chapter exercises, workshops, and free downloadable worksheets designed to get the individual writer or members of writers' groups working productively with publication as the goal.
In this newly updated writing course, you will discover:
Why you want to write...
What you want to write...
Who you want to write for...
How to write only what you love and what matters to YOU...
How to make your work good...
And how to get paid for doing it.
Writing is a learnable skill, not a magical process only those
touched by the Book Fairy, or the Muse, can ever reach.
If you want to write fiction, you can. | en |
Grimoire | This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN #0575067861.
For centuries, magicians have compiled grimoires to call up demons. In Victorian London, one ambitious warlock, Peter Owling, designed a book of shadows to summon the Lord of the Demons - Satan himself. The plan backfired, Owling was killed and the book was ripped into four pieces and sent to the far corners of the earth. One fragment wound up in a shipment of books destined for the Colonies.
Now, at Humberstone College, a converted 19th-century Gothic convent in Melbourne, a power-hungry group of academics is reassembling Owling's grimoire, bent on the pursuit of eternal life. But they have reckoned without the interference of three twenty-something masters students: Holly, Prudence and Justin.
When Holly makes contact and falls in love with the ghost of the young man who was once Owling's assistant, the academics begin to fear that their dark secret - the grimoire which is so near to completion - is not as safe as they had previously thought. | en |
A Ripple in Time - Angel of the Titanic | Wren's dream changed the course of history. To regain his world he must travel back one hundred years. This time, the "Angel of the Titanic" must ensure the ship of dreams fulfils her destiny. And he's willing to sacrifice everything.
A young woman experiences nightmares of a terrifying collision; a collision with a mountain of ice that dwarves even the magnificent ship taking her across the Atlantic; the Titanic. These visions are so realistic, Carina demands that extra vigilance is taken especially on the night of April 14th. Captain Smith and his crew are convinced by the youngster's vivid descriptions and steadfast belief that she has seen the future; consequently the disaster is averted and Titanic steams safely into New York harbour, with devastating consequences.
Eventually realising that the alternative world he has woken up to has been caused by a ripple in time, Wren learns he must somehow travel back one hundred years, to the year 1912 and ensure the ship of dreams fulfils her destiny.
Helping him with this quest is Carrie, a descendent of Carina, and Wren's hedonistic cousin Rhyllann.
Once on board the great ship as the tragedy begins to unfold Wren is faced with unthinkable choices: In order to restore the world to this timeline, and save his own life, hundreds of innocent women and children must perish. | en |
Łups! (Świat Dysku, #34) | Dolina Koom - to wlasnie tam trolle zlapaly w zasadzke krasnoludow, a krasnoludy zlapaly w zasadzke trolle. To bylo daleko stad. To bylo dawno temu.
Sam Vimes ze Strazy Miejskiej Ankh-Morpork znowu zobaczy wojne, tym razem przed wlasnym biurem, jesli nie rozwiaze zagadki morderstwa przynajmniej jednego krasnoluda. Kiedy jego ukochana Straz sie rozsypuje, kiedy grzmia werble bojowe, musi odslonic kazdy slad, przechytrzyc kazdego skrytobojce, pokonac kazda ciemnosc, by znalezc rozwiazanie. Aha - codziennie o szostej, niezawodnie, bez zadnych wykretow, musi wrocic do domu i poczytac synkowi "Gdzie jest moja krowka" ze wszystkimi odpowiednimi odglosami podworka. Sa pewne rzeczy, ktore zwyczajnie trzeba zalatwic. | pl |
Getting Lucky (Getting, #3) | Three friends realize a hard man is good to find. In fact, it takes more than just luck to keep him around. | en |
La Città degli Automi (La Compagnia del Viandante, #1) | Nessuno arretro, nessuno cerco una via di fuga. Piantarono gli stivali nella terra umida, gli scudi levati di fronte a se. Dietro a ogni elmo, un paio d'occhi fissava senza paura l'avanzata delle creature. Labbra si socchiusero, mostrando i denti stretti in sorrisi che sfidavano la morte. La notte era ancora lunga... | it |
Winter Falls: A Tale of the Snow Queen | Katie knows better than to believe in happy endings.
She learned there was no such thing after her mother died. In the postindustrial town of Riverside, Katie struggles to care for her distant father and his failing hotel. Her only comfort lies in the arms of her true love, Shay.
Yet one evening, he disappears without a trace.
Devastated, Katie jumps off a bridge in winter, expecting to meet death in the frozen water below. Instead, her fall transports her to a snowy netherworld, where trapped souls take on the form of animals and the only thing that matters is survival.
Then Katie discovers that Shay has been kidnapped by a deadly sorceress called the Winter Queen. She goes on a journey to find him, traveling through the realms of storybook fairies, princesses, thieves, and monsters to bring him home. But the path is harsh and dangerous. Will Shay and Katie be reunited? Or be forever trapped within an eternal winter?
A retelling of the classic fairytale The Snow Queen, WINTER FALLS is a young adult epic fantasy romance which examines the trials of depression and mental illness in a magical world of action and adventure.
Teen fans of C.S. Lewis and Shannon Hale will love this inspirational novel by author Jacque Stevens.
Clean romance. References to alcohol abuse, suicide, and other serious topics. Recommended for young adults and teen readers ages 14 and up.
Other Books by Jacque Stevens:
Stone Bearers:
0. The Stone Bearers (2016)
0.5. The Frog's Princess (2016)
1. The Queen's Opal (Coming 2017)
2. The Queen's Gift (Coming 2018)
3. The Queen's Heir (Coming 2018)
4. The Queen's Bane (Coming 2018)
5. The Queen's Rite (Coming 2019)
Please Note: The Queen's Opal is Book One. The Stone Bearers is a standalone novel that can be read before or after the full series.
The short story, The Frog's Princess, can also be read in any order. Find it in The Fantastic Worlds Anthology (2016) or have a free digital copy delivered to you after signing up for my email list at sjacquebooks.com. Those on my email list will receive monthly emails with updates on deals, review opportunities for new releases, and other exclusive content.
Fairy Ring:
1. Fairy Ring: Shards of Janderelle (2017)
2. Fairy Ring: Changeling of Janderelle (Coming 2018)
3. Fairy Ring: Prince of Janderelle (Coming 2019)
Others:
Winter Falls: A Tale of the Snow Queen (2017)
Depths: A Tale of the Little Mermaid (Coming 2019) | en |
Shock Wave (Virgil Flowers, #5) | The thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
Talk about risky business.
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: the local merchants fearing for their businesses, and the environmentalists predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project down, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands.
The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site itself. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage--and they do. Who's behind the bombs and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's job to find out . . . before more people get killed. | en |
The Monkey and the Panda | Lean, lively Monkey causes havoc in the village. Fat, friendly Panda spends her days quietly munching bamboo. Who is more lovable? The Chinese villagers cannot decide, and call in a wise old monk to help them choose. Antonia Barber's "The Ghosts" was runner-up for the Carnegie Medal. | en |
An Engagement (Loving Jenna, #2) | This series is contemporary, erotic romance featuring a billionaire, alpha male bachelor who, after attempting a false engagement to ensure his inheritance, falls helplessly in love with the reluctant Jenna.
As he fights for her affection while trying to secure his Father's fortune, Morgan is forced to come to terms with what is more important to him, his inheritance or the unconditional love of the beautiful Jenna.
This ebook contains very hot and explicit descriptions of erotic activity. Only mature readers should download this book.
An Engagement:
Morgan Shaw was a man who seemed to have everything but there's one thing he still desired - a wife.
Jenna's night of broken chastity with the devilishly handsome Morgan gained a new twist the next morning. Faced with a proposition for a marriage of convenience worth $5 million dollars, she wonders if it would really be worth it. To play his lover and then wife, never hoping to ever have him for real.
In this game, Jenna soon realized she would need to find a way to keep from losing far more than she was to gain... | en |
Living with the Active Alert Child: Groundbreaking Strategies for Parents | Bright, controlling, fearful, and highly energetic, active alert children are frequently misdiagnosed as hyperactive or learning disabled. This book shows parents and teachers how to raise, teach, and enjoy active alerts by offering: -a clear description of common characteristics
-day-to-day parenting strategies with real case histories
-information on how active alerts learn and what school situations work best
-descriptions of active alerts as adults, and as parents themselves | en |
Catkin | Catkin is a tiny cat given by the Wise Woman to protect the human child Carrie. One day Carrie is taken under the hill by the Little People. Sent to bring her back, Catkin finds his courage and cleverness tested to the full.
Antonia Barber's original story reads like a classic fairy tale. Rich with English folklore and mythology, Catkin is magical story-telling at its best! | en |
One Night with the Prince | The rules were simple: 15 girls were chosen from royal bloodlines to be with the Prince. They are given one night each with him, and in the end he shall choose a bride and make her Queen. So how did someone from Montana, USA get involved in something that was supposed to be for those chosen? Anna sure doesn't know, but she knew that she had to stay away from the Prince as much as she could. With her mischievous ways and un-royal manners, she was sure that the Prince wouldn't pick her. But what if the Prince was as determined to be with her as she was determined to stay away from him? Experience "One Night with the King" meets "Princess Diaries" told with humor in this romantic comedy for all ages and find out what happens when a person goes from nada to royalty. | en |
A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 4 | Bestselling writer Daniel Abraham and acclaimed illustrator Tommy Patterson bring their stunning graphic-novel adaptation of George R. R. Martin's classic A Game of Thronesto a stunning finish that merits a place alongside the majestic original on the bookshelf of every fantasy fan.
The death of King Robert Baratheon and the imprisonment of his Hand, Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell, has set the great houses of Westeros at one another's throats.
In Winterfell, Eddard's eldest son and heir, Robb Stark, has gathered an army and is pushing south, determined to free his father. Along the way, he pledges to marry the daughter of Lord Walder Frey in exchange for a military advantage that allows him to capture Jaime Lannister--a powerful bargaining chip to ensure Lord Eddard's safe release. But it is one thing to capture the Kingslayer and quite another to hold him.
Meanwhile, in King's Landing, young King Joffrey has other ideas than an exchange of prisoners. Ignoring the advice of his mother, Queen Cersei, he throws oil on the flames of conflict and ignites a conflagration that seems likely to consume not only the Starks but all of Westeros--unless Tyrion Lannister, the Imp, can bring the mad boy-king to heel.
Beyond the Wall, greater dangers are brewing, as a winter as brutal as any in history approaches, bringing with it unnatural creatures out of legend. There, Eddard's bastard, Jon Snow, must decide once and for all where his loyalties lie.
And across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen will learn the true measure of grief--and emerge from its fiery depths transformed, hardened, and ready to claim what is hers by right: the Iron Throne. | en |
The R Word | The R-Word follows the story of Zachary Chandler, a young man adrift in life, struggling with the complexities of sexual identity and hindered by subconscious guilt. After a night out at a bar, he wakes to find himself locked in a cage in an ominous basement. Along with two other captives, he is forced to endure torture and other abuses while striving not only to stay alive, but to maintain a sense of humanity. The key to both lies in the help of an autistic boy languishing upstairs. " | en |
ABC Under the Sea: An Ocean Life Alphabet Book | Provides an introduction to ocean creatures by using each letter of the alphabet. | en |
An Unconventional Desire | With the season about to begin, Lord Joshua Rutherford arrives in the capital knowing that he must enter the marriage mart and finally find himself a wife. But Joss has a problem. He has never found himself attracted to females...his tastes run in another direction entirely.
When he arrives at the first ball of the season and meets the eager ladies all vying to become Lady Rutherford his heart sinks. None stir his blood and none fire his imagination. Joss isn't sure how he will ever bring himself to accept one of them as his wife. But then he meets the enigmatic Lord Hastings and everything changes.
Before long Joss discovers that, even in a world where duty is more important than desire, some men have realized that not every lord must have a wife...sometimes he can follow his heart instead. | en |
Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire | The first book in a spellbinding fantasy adventure series so believable you may wonder if it's happening in your own backyard.
As Arlo looked around, the walls of his room began to vanish, revealing a moonlit forest. Only his bed remained, and the frame of his window, through which he saw the girl. The world on her side of the glass was sparkling with silver and gold, like a palace made of autumn leaves.
She looked off to her right. Someone was coming. Her words came in an urgent whisper: "If I can see you, they can see you. You're in danger. Be careful, Arlo Finch."
Arlo Finch is a newcomer to Pine Mountain, Colorado, a tiny town of mystery and magic, but he's already attracted the attention of dark and ancient forces. At first he thinks these increasingly strange and frightening occurrences are just part of being in Rangers, the mountain scouting troop where he learns how to harness the wild magic seeping in from the mysterious Long Woods. But soon Arlo finds himself at the center of a dangerous adventure, where he faces obstacles that test the foundations of the Ranger's Vow: Loyalty, Bravery, Kindness, and Truth. | en |
The Red Book | The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan's wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion.
Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Clover, homeschooled on a commune by mixed-race parents, felt woefully out of place. Addison yearned to shed the burden of her Mayflower heritage. Mia mined the depths of her suburban ennui to enact brilliant performances on the Harvard stage. Jane, an adopted Vietnamese war orphan, made sense of her fractured world through words.
Twenty years later, their lives are in free fall. Clover, once a securities broker with Lehman, is out of a job and struggling to reproduce before her fertility window slams shut. Addison's marriage to a writer's-blocked novelist is as stale as her so-called career as a painter. Hollywood shut its gold-plated gates to Mia, who now stays home with her four children, renovating and acquiring faster than her director husband can pay the bills. Jane, the Paris bureau chief for a newspaper whose foreign bureaus are now shuttered, is caught in a vortex of loss.
Like all Harvard grads, they've kept abreast of one another via the red book, a class report published every five years, containing brief autobiographical essays by fellow alumni. But there's the story we tell the world, and then there's the real story, as these former classmates will learn during their twentieth reunion weekend, when they arrive with their families, their histories, their dashed dreams, and their secret yearnings to a relationship-changing, score-settling, unforgettable weekend. | en |
The Ambassadors | The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis | en |
Run | Marc Bowman, a highly successful computer consultant and software designer, walks into his job at a major tech company one morning only to find himself fired on the spot, stonewalled by his boss, and ushered out of the building. Then things get worse: An explosive argument drives his wife away and a robbery threatens to yank a million-dollar idea--and his whole future--out from under him. In a matter of hours, Marc has gone from having it all to being sucker-punched by fate. But it's only Monday, and before the week is over, he'll be stalked, ambushed, wiretapped, arrested, duped, double- and triple-crossed--until he can't tell enemies from allies.
Suddenly, the only thing standing between him and the wrath of everyone from the FBI to Homeland Security to his desperate ex-bosses is a flash drive full of data that might just be the holy grail of high-tech secrets--and a holy terror in the wrong hands. Now, as the gloves come off and the guns come out, turning back is hopeless and giving up is madness. The only person left for Marc to trust is himself. And the only thing left to do is keep running--or end up a dead man walking. | en |
The Pre-Raphaelites | The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed by a group of rebellious young English artists in 1848 as a reaction against what they saw as the abuses and excesses of the art of their day. They created an entirely new style of painting that looked back to the romance of medieval chivalry and also documented contemporary Victorian social themes with a painstaking technique that demanded the closest possible attention to naturalistic detail. The revolutionary nature of these pictures resulted in repeated and often vitriolic attacks from such critics as Charles Dickens, and within five years the original Brotherhood was disbanded. However, the aspirations, techniques and the striking and often beautiful paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites survived to influence and inspire artists during the remaining years of the nineteenth century and even into the early part of the twentieth.
The Pre-Raphaelitesis an authoritatively written and superbly illustrated survey of what has become perhaps the most universally recognizable and admired movement in English art. In it Christopher Wood presents the entire story of Pre-Raphaelitism, featuring not only the leading figures and their associates--Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown--but also many followers. The work of over 40 artists is illustrated in more than 100 color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations which represent the key paintings of the principal exponents as well as many lesser-known examples by them and their followers, some of which are in private collections and never before reproduced in color. The author outlines the development of the movement in general and the lives and works of the main figures in detail. He examines the less familiar features of Pre-Raphaelite landscape painting and the influence of John Ruskin and unravels the complexities of the later, "aesthetic" phase of the movement exemplified in the remarkable paintings of Edward Burne-Jones and John William Waterhouse, and concludes with his personal appraisal of the recent resurgence of interest in the fascinating history, personalities, and pictures of the Pre-Raphaelites. | en |
Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours? | In little more than ten years St. Paul established the Church in four provinces of the Empire, Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia and Asia. Before AD 47 there were no churches in these provinces; in AD 57 St. Paul could speak as if his work there was done, and could plan extensive tours into the far west without anxiety lest the churches which he had founded might perish in his absence for want of his guidance and support.
The work of the Apostle during these ten years can therefore be treated as a unity. Whatever assistance he may have received from the preaching of others, it is unquestioned that the establishment of the churches in these provinces was really his work. In the pages of the New Testament he, and he alone, stands forth as their founder. And the work which he did was really a completed work. So far as the foundation of the churches is concerned, it is perfectly clear that the writer of the Acts intends to represent St. Paul's work as complete. The churches were really established. Whatever disasters fell upon them in later years, whatever failure there was, whatever ruin, that failure was not due to any insufficiency or lack of care and completeness in the Apostle's teaching or organization. When he left them he left them because his work was fully accomplished.
This is truly an astonishing fact. That churches should be founded so rapidly, so securely, seems to us today, accustomed to the difficulties, the uncertainties, the failures, the disastrous relapses of our own missionary work, almost incredible. Many missionaries in later days have received a larger number of converts than St. Paul; many have preached over a wider area than he; but none have so established churches. We have long forgotten that such things could be. We have long accustomed ourselves to accept it as an axiom of missionary work that converts in a new country must be submitted to a very long probation and training, extending over generations before they can be expected to be able to stand alone. Today if a man ventures to suggest that there may be something in the methods by which St. Paul attained such wonderful results worthy of our careful attention, and perhaps of our imitation, he is in danger of being accused of revolutionary tendencies. | en |
Wat er op het spel staat. Literatuur en kunst na 1945 | Waarom is Lucebert misschien wel de grootste dichter van de twintigste eeuw? Waar komt de Nederlandse desinteresse voor experimenteel proza vandaan? Is het tijd voor een herwaardering van de 'Grote Drie'?
Via prikkelende en spraakmakende essays over onder anderen Remco Campert, Erwin Mortier, Bernlef en Gerrit Kouwenaar loodst Offermans de lezer langs zijn literatuurgeschiedenis vol bijzondere interpretaties en leeservaringen over het werk van auteurs als A.F.Th. van der Heijden, Stefan Hertmans, Tom Lanoye en Joke van Leeuwen.
Met speelse souplesse stelt Offermans vast wat er in recente jaren op het programma van de interessantste schrijvers is komen te staan: het onderzoek naar de eigen geschiedenis, in autobiografische vorm of anderszins.
Als gepassioneerde lezer toont hij aan hoe de literatuur na 1945 onze visie op de eeuw heeft veranderd. Hij laat zien hoe culturele inspanningen noodzakelijk zijn geweest voor het ontstaan van een welvarende, sociale en liberale samenleving. En wat er op het spel staat na de bezuinigingen op cultuur die stormachtige protesten opleverden. Flaubert wist het al: literatuur heeft de wereld nooit veranderd, maar wel onze blik erop. | nl |
Das Schlimmste kommt noch oder Fast eine Jugend | Charles Bukowskis Jugend im Amerika der 20er und 30er Jahre.
Henry Chinasky (alias Bukowski) gehort nicht zu den Privilegierten Amerikas. Sein Vater verlasst jeden Morgen punktlich das Haus, damit die Nachbarn nicht merken, dass er arbeitslos ist. In der Schule ist Henry Chinaski der >>Sauerkrautfresser<>es<< schon mit Weibern gemacht, und er weiss, dass er sich sein Leben lang als Aussenseiter durchschlagen muss ... | de |
The New Big Book of U.S. Presidents: Fascinating Facts about Each and Every President, Including an American History Timeline | This is the perfect introduction for young readers to the lives and times of America's most influential leaders. Just as the new president is inaugurated, readers can easily relive the course of American history through a detailed timeline, more than 50 vivid photographs and illustrations, information about each president's term in office, and the major political issues of each era. Quick-reference sidebars provide brief summaries of the major events and important people who emerged during each presidential term. Famous quotes and fun facts about each president ensure that this perennial favorite continues to be an entertaining and enlightening addition to any child's library. | en |
Second Glance | Ross, a suicidal drifter and ghost hunter, is called upon to investigate whether an Indian burial ground is real by property developers who are desperate not to offend the local native Americans. Ross's work is complicated by the arrival of a skittish, mysterious woman called Lia. | en |
Second Glance | From the moment Ross's fiancee Aimee was killed in a car accident, he's been trying to die too. But life won't let him go. His only hope now is that Aimee will come to him.
So when he hears of strange happenings at an ancient Indian burial ground near his sister's home, he heads to Comtossok- desperate for the rumours of a haunting to be true.
What he finds there is not Aimee's ghost, but Lia, a very real woman whose life is filled with as many troubled secrets as his own.. | en |
The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells | Preface by H.G. Wells / In the Days of the Comet / The Invisible Man / The Island of Dr. Moreau / The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds / The First Men in the Moon /The Food of the Gods. | en |
Buyout (Roy Groves #1) | For five ordinary guys and one rather extraordinary woman, the only escape from the corporate rat-race is to buy the company they're working for: take it all to a new level, save hundreds of jobs and make some serious money. But it quickly becomes clear that nothing is as easy as it seems. The bid is quickly undercut as twisted corporate politics and personal vendettas take over. When the buyout becomes all or nothing for the management buyout team, it all spins out of control: marriages fall apart, dark secrets are discovered, life savings are spent on the stock market, illegal insider dealing becomes a matter of fact and blackmail, theft, betrayal and manipulation are the new rules of the game. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity turns into a lurid nightmare. Buyout is a gripping and compulsive page-turner about the power of money to unveil the deepest in human nature. It's also a story about chasing one extraordinary dream. At an extraordinary price. | en |
The Day My Teacher Came to Tea | Matty's teacher, Mrs Green, known by all as the 'meanest of the mean' gets much more than she bargains for when visiting Matty and his mum for tea and cake. Hoping to tell tales on Matty, Mrs Green is thwarted by one disaster after another and..... well, let's just say her visit does not go to plan! A laugh out loud farce for children; this story is written in fast-paced rhyming verse and accompanied by fun and colourful illustrations. | en |
Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion | At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided that she was an atheist. Watching the sea of adults standing up and sitting down at Rosh Hashanah services, and apparently giving credence to the patently absurd truth-claims of the prayer book, she came to a conclusion: Marx was right.
As a young adult, Danya immersed herself in the rhinestone-bedazzled wonderland of late-1990s San Francisco-attending Halloweens on the Castro, drinking smuggled absinthe with wealthy geeks, and plotting the revolution with feminist zinemakers. But she found herself yearning for something she would eventually call God. As she began inhaling countless stories of spiritual awakenings of Catholic saints, Buddhist nuns, medieval mystics, and Hasidic masters, she learned that taking that yearning seriously would require much of her.
Surprised by Godis a religious coming-of-age story, from the mosh pit to the Mission District and beyond. It's the memoir of a young woman who found, lost, and found again communities of like-minded seekers, all the while taking a winding, semi-reluctant path through traditional Jewish practice that eventually took her to the rabbinate. It's a post-dotcom, third-wave, punk-rock Seven Storey Mountain-the story of integrating life on the edge of the twenty-first century into the discipline of traditional Judaism without sacrificing either. It's also a map through the hostile territory of the inner life, an unflinchingly honest guide to the kind of work that goes into developing a spiritual practice in today's world-and why, perhaps, doing this in today's world requires more work than it ever has. | en |
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Pleasure Extraordinaire 4 (Pursuit, #7) | I love a man who doesn't want me, and the man who I detest most is ready to give up on his promiscuous life to be with me.
The final pieces of the puzzle are coming together to reveal one of the most shocking secrets from the past. The bricks of the unbreakable walls of Hawkins Media Group are falling off one by one.
Who will die out? Who'll survive? It all depends on who is willing to risk everything. | en |
Stickeen | This heartwarming and hair-raising "icy-storm story," published in 1909, recounts Muir's Alaskan adventures in 1880 with his little black dog named Stickeen--an animal that Muir initially views with scorn but comes to regard with the greatest affection following a near-death experience on a frozen glacier.
Excerpt:
To My Dog Blanco
By J. G. Holland
My dear dumb friend, low lying there,
A willing vassal at my feet;
Glad partner of my home and fare,
My shadow in the street;
I look into your great brown eyes,
Where love and loyal homage shine,
And wonder where the difference lies
Between your soul and mine!
I scan the whole broad earth around
For that one heart which, leal and true,
Bears friendship without end or bound,
And find the prize in you.
Ah, Blanco! did I worship God
As truly as you worship me,
Or follow where my Master trod
With your humility | en |
Second Glance | From the moment Ross's fiancee Aimee was killed in a car accident, he's been trying to die too. But life won't let him go. His only hope now is that Aimee will come to him.
So when he hears of strange happenings at an ancient Indian burial ground near his sister's home, he heads to Comtossok- desperate for the rumours of a haunting to be true.
What he finds there is not Aimee's ghost, but Lia, a very real woman whose life is filled with as many troubled secrets as his own.. | en |
Second Glance | From the moment Ross's fiancee Aimee was killed in a car accident, he's been trying to die too. But life won't let him go. His only hope now is that Aimee will come to him.
So when he hears of strange happenings at an ancient Indian burial ground near his sister's home, he heads to Comtossok- desperate for the rumours of a haunting to be true.
What he finds there is not Aimee's ghost, but Lia, a very real woman whose life is filled with as many troubled secrets as his own.. | en |
Complete book of horses and riding: A practical training course on how to ride, with step-by-step photographs and a complete encyclopedia of horse breeds | The horse is one of the most beautiful and complex animals, and has fascinated mankind for many thousands of years. The purpose of this book is to capture some of the magic associated with horses - why so many have devoted their lives to them. It also aims, on a more practical level, to provide invaluable information for anyone with an equestrian interest, whether you ride for pleasure or competition, are planning on buying your first horse or pony, or just love horses.
A practical training course on how to ride, with step-by-step photographs, and a complete encyclopedia of horse breeds
An illustrated guide to horse and pony breeds of the world
Expert advice on choose and looking after your horse, including stable management, grooming and exercise, health and first aid
A complete guide to learning how to ride, form first steps to tackling fences
An illustrated catalog of saddlery and riding equipment for riders of all levels | en |
Black Liquor: Poems | Dennis E. Bolen's forthcoming volume of poetry, "Black Liquor," continues his exploration of modern disconnection and the disparate paths taken by those railing against the austere landscape of their lives. Imbued with lyrical evocations of lost childhood, mature love and deep friendship contrasted against brutal depictions of grueling labour, industrial mishap, historical misfortune and often hilarious disappointment, "Black Liquor" progresses to an appreciation of being alive, against the odds. Bolen writes in the pacey cadences of contemporary speech, tough and tender. His quirky use of metaphorical story charged with biting imagery makes these deeply autobiographical poems an exhilaration. As in his previous writings, five novels and two collections of short fiction-among them "Stupid Crimes" (originally published by Anvil Press), "Stand in Hell" (Random House), "Kaspoit!" (Anvil Press), and "Anticipated Results" (Arsenal Pulp Press)-this new book explores the varieties of disaffection, this time in poetry and this time as remembrance of things past. | en |
Gena/Finn | The story follows the unlikely friendship of two young women forged via fan fiction and message boards, and is told entirely in texts, chats, and blog posts.
Gena (short for Genevieve) and Finn (short for Stephanie) have little in common. Book-smart Gena is preparing to leave her posh boarding school for college; down-to-earth Finn is a twenty-something struggling to make ends meet in the big city. Gena's romantic life is a series of reluctant one-night-stands; Finn is making a go of it with long-term boyfriend Charlie. But they share a passion for Up Below, a buddy cop TV show with a cult fan following. Gena is a darling of the fangirl scene, keeping a popular blog and writing fan fiction. Finn's online life is a secret, even from Charlie. The pair spark an unlikely online friendship that deepens quickly (so quickly it scares them both), and as their individual "real" lives begin to fall apart, they increasingly seek shelter online, and with each other. | en |
Sullivan's Secret | Dr. Marie Bartek's life has been uneventful as the local veterinarian on Sullivan's Island, SC, until her ability to see spirits returns after eighteen years. After confiding in her best friend and realizing their interests in the paranormal, they organize a paranormal investigation team called Sullivan's Island Paranormal Society, SIPS. Marie learns to channel her ability through the help of one of the team members, but not before learning the spirits are trying to warn her about the murders taking place on Sullivan's Island. Sullivan's Secret captivates the reader with murder, suspense, and the world of the paranormal. | en |
Corsair, Volume 03 | The powerful pirate clan Preveza holds control over the Morea Sea. Amongst the pirates is the clan's strategist, the blind but beautiful Canale, and the fleet commander, Ayace. However, the secret that Canale holds is about to change the relationship between the two of them... | en |
Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bernard Samson, #4-6) | SPY HOOK
When word gets to London Central that a cache of millions of pounds has disappeared inside the Service, Samson is determined to learn the truth. But not even that discovery will help if the Department itself wants his blood....
SPY LINE
British agent Bernard Samson finds himself inexplicably hunted as a traitor, forced to abandon his life, his job, his position, and plunge into hiding in the most dangerous and darkest corner of Berlin. What is happening? What has he done? Nothing makes sense until Samson discovers that the Secret Service has known all along where he is. In fact, they have never taken him off the payroll. And now they are prepared to return his freedom and good name but there are strings attached, strings that begin to tighten around his neck even before his plane lands in Vienna . . .
SPY SINKER
British agent Bernard Samson's family and career are about to be betrayed and crushed by his wife - lovely, brilliant Fiona Samson. | en |
Shiver - Um Amor Impossível (Os Lobos de Mercy Falls, #1) | Sam e Grace sao dois adolescentes que vivem um amor sublime e aparentemente impossivel. Todos os anos, quando chega a Primavera, Sam, abandona a sua vida de lobisomem e recupera a forma humana, aproximando-se de Grace, mas sempre que regressa o Inverno, ve-se obrigado a voltar a floresta e a viver com a sua alcateia. Quando olha pela janela de sua casa, na orla da floresta, Grace repara sempre num lobo que a fita com os seus misteriosos olhos amarelos e sabe que e ele, Sam, o seu salvador. E Sam observa a sua amada de longe, ansiando pelo retorno da Primavera. Conseguira o seu amor, cada vez mais intenso, vencer os muitos obstaculos que ameacam separa-los para sempre? Uma historia cheia de aventuras e descobertas, magica, original, que desafia a mente e enternece o coracao. | pt |
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers | Since Lightroom 1.0 first launched, Scott s Kelby s "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers "has been the world s #1 best-selling Lightroom book (it has been translated into a dozen different languages), and in this latest version for Lightroom 5, Scott uses his same award-winning, step-by-step, plain-English style and layout to make learning Lightroom easy and fun.
Scott doesn t just show you which sliders do what (every Lightroom book will do that). Instead, by using the following three simple, yet brilliant, techniques that make it just an incredible learning tool, this book shows you how to create your own photography workflow using Lightroom:
Throughout the book, Scott shares his own personal settings and studiotested techniques. Each year he trains thousands of Lightroom users at his live seminars and through that he s learned what really works, what doesn t, and he tells you flat out which techniques work best, which to avoid, and why. The entire book is laid out in a real workflow order with everything step by step, so you can begin using Lightroom like a pro from the start. What really sets this book apart is the last chapter. This is where Scott dramatically answers his #1 most-asked Lightroom question, which is: Exactly what order am I supposed to do things in, and where does Photoshop fit in? You ll see Scott s entire start-to-finish Lightroom 5 workflow and learn how to incorporate it into your own workflow. Plus, this book includes a downloadable collection of some of the hottest Lightroom Develop module presets to give you a bunch of amazing effects with just one click! Scott knows first-hand the challenges today s digital photographers are facing, and what they want to learn next to make their workflow faster, easier, and more fun. He has incorporated all of that into this major update for Lightroom 5.
It s the first and only book to bring the whole process together in such a clear, concise, and visual way. Plus, the book includes a special chapter on integrating Adobe Photoshop seamlessly right into your workflow, and you ll also learn some of Scott s latest Photoshop portrait retouching techniques and special effects, which take this book to a whole new level. There is no faster, more straight-to-the-point, or more fun way to learn Lightroom than with this groundbreaking book." | en |
The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left | It was once said that "all politics is local." But today, all politics is televisual. Candidates spend millions on TV ads. Most people get their news from TV's sound bites. Television doesn't just affect politics--it is politics. But how does that mega-medium shape our political ideas and values? In THE SOUND BITE SOCIETY, Jeffrey Scheuer argues that the rise of television is directly linked to the decline of the American left and the ascent of the "Electronic Right." Political argument has been simplified to quick, telegraphic TV sound bites which, he argues, inherently favor the right wing. Television's visual and rhetorical conventions are biased toward simplicity, Scheuer argues, making it the perfect vehicle for conservative messages advocating a simpler society and smaller government. Web site: www.thesoundbitesociety.com | en |
A Quick Bite (Argeneau #1) | That hot guy tied to Lissianna Argeneau's bed? He's not dessert - he's the main course!Lissianna has been spending her centuries pining for Mr. Right, not just a quick snack, and this sexy guy she finds in her bed looks like he might be a candidate. But there's another, more pressing issue: her tendency to faint at the sight of blood...an especially annoying quirk for a vampire. Of course it doesn't hurt that this man has a delicious-looking neck. What kind of cold-blooded vampire woman could resist a bite of that?
Dr. Gregory Hewitt recovers from the shock of waking up in a stranger's bedroom pretty quickly - once he sees a gorgeous woman about to treat him to a wild night of passion. But is it possible for the good doctor to find true love with a vampire vixen, or will he be just a good meal? That's a question Dr. Greg might be willing to sink his teeth into...if he can just get Lissianna to bite. | en |
O iubire a lui Swann | Tot ce s-a scris despre gelozie in literatura lumii dupa In cautarea timpului pierdut pare incomplet, stangaci sau doar un rezumat fara nuante in comparatie cu O iubire a lui Swann. Nu exista nuanta a geloziei care sa-i scape lui Proust in acest roman a carui perfecta rotunjime a sfarsit prin a-l transforma intr-o carte de sine statatoare.
Swann, favoritul saloanelor pariziene, inteligent, cultivat si de o bogatie care ii permite sa fie nepasator cu banii, se indragosteste de tanara Odette. Pasiunea sa il face sa cada victima unei cabale a mediocritatilor care stiu despre amanta lui Swann ceea ce el la inceput refuza sa afle si, mult timp dupa aceea, desi chinuit de gelozie, refuza sa accepte. | Undefined |
Midnight's Emissary | Aileen has a few rules for her life. Do her job and go home safe. Keep the supernatural world away from her human family. Stay off the vampire radar. And, above all, don't get involved in spook politics. But when Liam comes back into town bringing a mystery that threatens the life she's built, she finds every closely guarded rule flying out the window as she sinks ever deeper into the supernatural world. Ultimately, it may be the people she loves the most who pay the price in the high stakes game that vampires call life. | en |
When Kat's Away | WHEN KAT'S AWAY by Missy Martine
Sequel to ANNA DOUBLES DOWN
Kat Evans is on vacation with her best friend when they visit the ghost town of Hamilton, Nevada. When Anna disappears, Kat begins a frantic search.
Something draws her to the old saloon, and when she investigates, she's pulled through a time portal back to 1899.
David Bennington-Martinson and Win Warrior own the Silver Rush Saloon, and have been secret lovers for years. They both yearn to find a woman they can share, someone that would round out their family.
When they discover Kat in their cellar, they know she's the woman they've been waiting for. Unfortunately, someone else has figured out her secret, and they'll do anything to travel back to the future.
Kat's going to have to make a choice. Will she go back to her own time, or stay in the past with David and Win?
LEARN MORE AT www.MissyMartine.com | en |
Parthian Vengeance (The Parthian Chronicles, #3) | 'Parthian Vengeance' is the third instalment in the Parthian Chronicles, the adventures of King Pacorus of Dura, and follows on from 'Parthian Dawn'.
The brooding peace that hangs over Parthia is shattered by a murder that triggers the final confrontation that will decide who rules the empire. Pacorus leads his veteran army east to destroy once and for all the forces of his implacable enemies, Mithridates and Narses. But his foes have been waiting for this moment and what Pacorus believes will be a short campaign will turn into a long war that will culminate in the bloodiest battle in the history of the Parthian Empire.
Once again Pacorus gathers his faithful companions around him for the life-or-death struggle with the treacherous Mithridates and the ambitious Narses - Domitus, the ex-Roman centurion and now general of Dura's army; Gallia, his fierce warrior queen; Orodes, the landless prince; Prince Malik of the Agraci; and Surena, destined to become one of the greatest Parthian commanders of all time. | en |
Bite by Bite | For almost 20 years, Geneen Roth was either on a diet or on a binge every single day, and in the end there was one thing she completely understood: diets do not work. Today she is a bestselling author who leads workshops on breaking free from emotional eating around the world for sold-out audiences. Now, she offers Bite by Bite her essential step-by-step program to help you determine what you are truly hungry for, and create a healthier relationship with food. Join her to explore: The Seven Eating Guidelines that eliminate the need for dietsGeneen's own guided eating meditation to discover if you're really hungry, what you're hungry for, and to bring complete awareness to what you are eatingPractices for becoming the director of your inner choir of voicesA 20-minute guided visualization to uncover your automatic response to emotions and how to steer it away from foodThe Strawberry Story how to enjoy each bite of food and each moment in life with equaled passion, no matter what tigers appear at your doorstepThrough guided meditations, practical techniques, and Geneen Roth's personal trial-by-error lessons, Bite by Bite will change the way you relate to food, and allow you to give up diets permanently and accept yourself at any weight." | en |
Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo | <>Con estas palabras se presenta Merricat, la protagonista de Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, que lleva una vida solitaria en una gran casa apartada del pueblo. Alli pasa las horas recluida con su bella hermana mayor y su anciano tio Julian, que va en silla de ruedas y escribe y reescribe sus memorias. La buena cocina, la jardineria y el gato Jonas concentran la atencion de las jovenes. En el hogar de los Blackwood los dias discurririan apacibles si no fuera porque algo ocurrio, alli mismo, en el comedor, seis anos atras. | es |
Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Do: What Your Dog Can Teach You About Living a Happy Life | Dogs know how to relax.
They forgive and forget.
And they scratch where it itches.
They really know how to live...
Every dog lover knows that man's best friend is sincere and loyal and knows how to have fun-and that dogs are wonderful creatures who have no difficulty showing their love openly.
Dogs Don't Bite When a Growl Will Dois an insightful, engaging, and witty guide to the collective wisdom of man's constant companions-and illustrates the human benefits of becoming a little more canine. | en |
A Bite to Remember (Argeneau #5) | Rule #1: Never get involved with someone who won't be there for you when the sun comes up.
Once bitten, twice shy, and sexy PI Jackie Morrisey wasn't going there again. Vincent Argeneau may be the hottest guy she's ever met, living or dead, but she's here to stop a killer from turning this vampire into dust, not to jump into bed with him.
Rule #2: Never kiss a vampire . . . it can be a pain in the neck.
Okay, so Vincent's had four hundred years to perfect his kissing skills, and he does look rather tempting when he runs around the house shirtless. He's also charming, protective . . . did we mention he can kiss? Jackie needs to be on her guard, or else she'll have to come up with a new rule: If you're going to fall in love with a vampire, make sure it's a bite to remember. | en |
Bootsie Barker Bites | Seeing bully Bootsie Barker get her comuppance is guaranteed to make young readers smile.
It's the worst when Bootsie Barker comes to my house. Bootsie's the one who pulls my hair and tears my books. She hates Charlene, my pet salamander. She says that I'm a turtle and she's a turtle-eating dinosaur.
Uh-oh, I think I hear a car pulling up. That's her now! Eeek!
"The colorful cartoon and wash drawings, filled with amusing detail, perfectly express the terroristic tactics and the narrator's frustration. When Bootsie is on a rampage, even the stuffed animals cover their eyes." --School Library Journal | en |
Boys that Bite (Blood Coven Vampire, #1) | Two sisters--as different as the sun and the rain. For one, getting into the Blood Coven is to die for. But for the other, getting out could be lethal...
When Sunny McDonald gets dragged to Club Fang by her twin sister Rayne, she doesn't expect to find anything besides a bunch of Goth kids playing at being vampires. But when some guy mistakes Sunny for her dark-side-loving sister and bites her on the neck, she finds out that his fangs are real--and deadly.
Now, Sunny has less than a week to figure out how to reverse the bite, or else she's going to end up as the perpetually undead. And not only will she be a vampire, she'll also be bonded to Magnus--the bloodsucker who bit her--forever. And forever is a really long time... | en |
Amuse-Bouche: Little Bites of Delight Before the Meal Begins | Amuse-bouche (pronounced ah-myuz boosh) are today what hors d'oeuvres were to America in the 1950s: a relatively unknown feature of French culinary tradition that, once introduced, immediately became standard fare. Chefs at many fine restaurants offer guests an amuse-bouche, a bite-sized treat that excites the tongue and delights the eye, before the meal is served. Nobody does it better than the celebrated executive chef/partner of Chicago's Tru, Rick Tramonto. Amuse-bouche are a fa-vorite of diners at Tru, many of whom come expressly to enjoy the "grand amuse"--an assortment of four different taste sensations.
Amuse-Boucheoffers an array of recipes, from elegant and sophisticated to casual and surprising--but always exquisite--that will inspire home cooks to share these culinary jewels with their guests. From Black Mission Figs with Mascarpone Foam and Prosciutto di Parma to Curried Three-Bean Salad, from Soft Polenta with Forest Mushrooms to Blue Cheese Foam with Port Wine Reduction, Tramonto's creations will embolden the novice and the experienced cook alike to experiment with unfamiliar ingredients and techniques.
Organized by type of amuse and season of the year, the book also includes a directory of sources for specialty products. With more than a hundred recipes and with fifty-two full-page color photographs by James Beard Award--winning photographer Tim Turner, Amuse-Boucheenchants the eyes as much as an amuse pleases the palate. | en |
Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons | Tara Laskowski explains, "There are many etiquette books from Emily Post and others that tell you what to do when attending a wedding, setting the table, asking for a promotion, introducing yourself at a party. What I became interested in is the darker side of etiquette--the way people conduct themselves in situations that Emily Post would never write about. This book started with the story 'The Etiquette of Adultery.' I loved that title and all that it suggested. Was there an etiquette, a set of unwritten rules, for a situation that seemed to break all the rules of a 'decent' society? From there, the collection grew--exploring the etiquette of obesity, dementia, infertility, arson, etc. These stories were really fun to write for two reasons. One, they allowed me to experiment with form, writing in small sections, chapters, definitions and other pieces of a suggested larger text. And two, I loved seeing how the characters emerged from each story. Each person in these ten stories ends up writing their own codes of etiquette, which I think is actually true in life. We all have our rules, our moral codes, our lines that we won't cross. It's when we cross those lines that things get really interesting." | en |
The Evolution of a Sex Scene: The Dos and Don'ts of Writing the Perfect Steamy Scene | Steamy, hot, sweltering, mind-numbing sex. It's all-consuming and by far, one of the best things in life. But, as an author, how can you capture so much emotional, physical and mental exhilaration in a romance novel? Using nothing more than words?
Congratulations! Your worries are over! This quick and dirty (pardon the pun) reference guide was developed to help authors create scorching hot sex scenes while avoiding common pitfalls.
Not an author? Have no fear, there are plenty of salicious scenes to get your blood pumping as well! | en |
Leonora Carrington | Leonora Carrington developed an iconography of myth, occultism and alchemy that has resonated strongly with younger artists over the past decade and a half. Incredibly gifted as a technician, Carrington was also possessed of a wild imagination, which she realized with great precision in her canvases. Her leading role as a Surrealist in Paris immediately prior to the war, and her life in Mexico City alongside fellow Surrealist expats Remedios Varo, Kati Horna and Edward James, have been the subject of increased interest and scholarly research. This is the first overview of her work to be published since her death in 2011 at the age of 94. Beautifully produced, with a faux-leather binding, a die-cut cover with foil stamping and 138 color plates (including two gatefolds), this volume looks at the many influences on Carrington's many lives. It explores the Celtic imagery that enchanted her as a child, and the Mexican myths, imagery and stories that informed the second half of her career. Metamorphosis and transformation is an ongoing theme in Carrington's hybrid world, populated with disconcerting hybrid creatures, elongated women and people metamorphosing into birds. This theme also emerges on a more intimate level in her self-portraits and portraits of friends and family. Writing was of equal importance as painting for Carrington, and this volume is supplemented with excerpts from unpublished manuscripts.
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was born in Lancashire, England. In 1936, she saw Max Ernst's work at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, and met the artist at a party the following year. They became a couple almost immediately; when the outbreak of the Second World War separated them, Carrington was devastated, and fled to Spain, then Lisbon, where she married Renato Leduc, a Mexican diplomat, and escaped to Mexico, where she eventually established herself as one of the country's most beloved artists. | en |
The Disappearance Boy | A man. A woman. A disappearance boy. This is the story of Reggie, an illusionist's assistant, and the performances that come to define him.
Reggie Rainbow got his name at the orphanage. He had polio as a child, and seventeen years of using crutches have given him strong hands and nimble fingers. It is this dexterity, perfect for illusions, which first led Mr. Brookes to hire him for the act. Reggie has been a disappearance boy for years now, making a long string of alluring assistants vanish while Mr. Brookes tricks and misdirects the audience.
But in the spring of 1953, the public no longer seem interested in illusionists. Bookings are slim, even in London. When Mr. Brookes gets a new slot at the down-at-the-heel Brighton Grand, Reggie finds himself in a strange town, one full of dark and unexplored corners. And it is the arrival of Pamela Rose, a beautiful new assistant, that truly turns his life upside down. As the Grand's spectacular Coronation show nears, Reggie begins to wonder how much of his own life has been an act--and sets out to find somebody who disappeared from his life long ago.
Masterful and heartfelt, The Disappearance Boy is the tale of one young man coming into adulthood amidst the smoke-and-mirrors backstage world; a story of love, tears, and illusion--of all that stays behind the curtain. | en |
The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War | The Unsubstantial Airis the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the words and voices of the aviators themselves.
A World War II pilot himself, the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes revives the adventurous young men who inspired his own generation to take to the sky. The volunteer fliers were often privileged-the sorts of college athletes and Ivy League students who might appear in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, and sometimes did. Others were country boys from the farms and ranches of the West. Hynes follows them from the flying clubs of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale and the grass airfields of Texas and Canada to training grounds in Europe and on to the front, where they learned how to fight a war in the air. And to the bars and clubs of Paris and London, where they unwound and discovered another kind of excitement, another challenge. He shows how East Coast aristocrats like Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin and Arizona roughnecks like Frank Luke the Balloon Buster all dreamed of chivalric single combat in the sky, and how they came to know both the beauty of flight and the constant presence of death.
By drawing on letters sent home, diaries kept, and memoirs published in the years that followed, Hynes brings to life the emotions, anxieties, and triumphs of the young pilots. They gasp in wonder at the world seen from a plane, struggle to keep their hands from freezing in open air cockpits, party with actresses and aristocrats, rest at Voltaire's castle, and search for their friends' bodies on the battlefield. Their romantic war becomes more than that-a harsh but often thrilling reality. Weaving together their testimonies, The Unsubstantial Airis a moving portrait of a generation coming of age under new and extreme circumstances. | en |
Einstein the Class Hamster and the Very Real Game Show (Einstein the Class Hamster Series) | In Einstein the Class Hamster and the Very Real Game Show, the companion to Janet and Jake Tashjian's Einstein the Class Hamster, we follow Ms. Moreno's class as they face off against the students of Crackerjack Elementary on the hit game show Kids Know Stuff. But when Principal Decker sneaks Twinkles the python into the studio, there's widespread panic; the show's host is afraid of snakes and walks off the set. Now is Einstein's chance to shine! With the assistance of a sound engineer who can also hear Einstein, Ned and Marlon help Einstein get ready to host the show and save the day. But something goes wrong. Does Einstein have . . . STAGE FRIGHT? Oh no! Ned and Marlon must find a way to help Einstein and win the game show. | en |
Without Warning | A SMALL-TOWN TRAGEDY
Years ago, Katie Sanford's husband was convicted of the murder of Jenny Robbins, then died himself in prison. Katie and Jenny's husband, Chief of Police Jake Robbins, have had to work at putting the tragedy behind them. But it's all brought up again in the wake of a hurricane which has just wreaked havoc on their quiet New England town.
A WHOLE WORLD OF SECRETS
Since its founding, Wilton, Maine, has had a quaint tradition of creating a time capsule every fifty years, and the storm unearthed the most recent capsule. As the editor of the local paper, Katie joins Chief Robbins to supervise its opening. Neither of them is prepared for the macabre set of predictions--dating back to months before Jenny's murder--that they find inside. Someone predicted her death, as well as eleven other tragedies, which are still occurring even long after the death of Katie's husband...who might have been innocent all along. But as Katie and Jake race to stop the next predictions from coming true, they find themselves caught in a terrifying mind game with no rules...and life or death consequences. | en |
Pandora Hearts, Volume 10 | A century before, in Sablier, a forbidden portal was flung wide by a boy, Vincent, in his single-minded desire to protect his brother, Gilbert. And thus did that foolhardy desire lead to the corruption of that innocent boy's soul like a sweet poison... Now, as Gil, Oz, and Alice wander the ruins of the former capital, they are assaulted by illusions from the past. But how much of it is real? And how much of it illusion? | en |
On Immunity: An Inoculation | Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear--fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.
In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate community, America, and the world, both historically and in the present moment. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond.
On Immunityis a moving account of how we are all interconnected-our bodies and our fates. | en |
Marshal of Medicine Lodge: A Merlin Fanshaw Western | Montana Territory, 1886" ""The last thing this territory needs is Indian trouble, or a bunch of nervous settlers demanding protection by the Army. As United States Marshal for the territory, I figure to send Jeff a little help...I figure to send him you," he said."
U.S. Deputy Marshal Merlin Fanshaw arrives at the Crow Indian Reservation with orders to restore law and order. But a powerful rancher and his son block the deputy's efforts in order to retain their rigid control over the nearby settlement of Medicine Lodge. When a shocking murder rocks the town, tension and violence escalates between the Crow Indians and the settlers. Fanshaw must bring in the killer before an innocent man loses his life-or he forfeits his own.
"A particularly rewarding novel written by one of the finest Western novelists of our times. Stan Lynde's novels are laced with wry humor, thoughts on the art of living and growing, toughness and tenderness, and the keenest understanding of human nature I've ever seen in fiction." -Richard S. Wheeler,
Winner of the 2001
Owen Wister Award
"Lynde's pleasant, genuine narration, tinged with both wit and grit, carries the narrative; the authenticity, country humor, and vibrant characters all make for a warmly entertaining read. Satisfying western fare, in the vein of Louis L'Amour." "-Kirkus Discovery Reviews"
"2006 Spur Award Finalist in Western Novel Category
2006 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner, West Mountain-Best Regional Fiction | en |
Wake Up Happy Every Day: A Novel | For decades, Nicky and Russell have kept up the friendship they began in childhood, and for decades, Russell's annual birthday celebration has reminded Nicky of how much more successful Russell is, how astronomically rich he is, and how much further he has come since their suburban childhood. But on his fiftieth birthday, Russell drops dead in his San Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness.
And now Nicky has come up with an uncharacteristically daring plan. If he were to becomeRussell and leave his old life lying dead on the bathroom floor, then he, his wife, Sarah, and their daughter, Scarlett, could start again. Only with better clothes, better hair, better stuff,and a better future: everything that money can buy. Especially happiness.
But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack, the impact of Nicky's hasty decision is felt by all those around him: by his daughter; by his own distant, confused father; by a young English woman who has come to America in search of her father; and by the mysterious Catherine, an ex-soldier who seems to take an unhealthy interest in Nicky's activities.
Sharp, funny, warm, and acutely observed, Wake Up Happy Every Dayis a novel about dreams and delusions, family and friendship, and what happens if you actually find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. | en |
Wallflowers | In the opening story of Wallflowers, a girl is cat-sitting for her neighbor, sleeping in the neighbor's house. It's nearly identical to her mother's nearby-in the Copper Waters subdivision, they all are-but she likes it here, eating boiled eggs and watching TV, feeling out her freedom as heavy rains fall. And then a nearby dike fails. And the girl may be the only one left in Copper Waters.
Eliza Robertson can handle the shocking turn, but she also has a knack for the slow surprise, the realization that settles around you like snow. Her stories are deftly constructed and their perspectives-often those of the loners and onlookers, distanced by their gifts of observation-are unexpected. In "We Walked on Water," winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, a brother and sister train together for a race that will ultimately separate them forever. In "L'Etranger," shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize, a girl abroad in Marseille reconsiders her unendearing roommate after an intimate confrontation.
Robertson was raised on rugged Vancouver Island. She's traveled broadly since, and her stories travel, too, but the climate of her collection is influenced by her home. These carefully cultivated forms still flare with wildness, and each is still spacious enough for a reader to get lost in wonder. | en |
B.P.R.D. Inferno sulla Terra, Vol. 3: Russia (B.P.R.D. Inferno sulla Terra, #3) | Un cimitero di non-morti viene scoperto nelle remote profondita di una miniera in Russia. Con Liz ancora dispersa e Abe Sapien sospeso tra la vita e la morte, la nuova incarnazione internazionale del B.P.R.D. invia Kate e Johann su richiesta del loro omologo russo, gia incontrato in "B.P.R.D.:1946". I due si troveranno di fronte un terrificante e mortale contagio che si sta diffondendo nel territorio post-sovietico. | it |
Πιάνεις χώμα | Prota eida to agori. Ta proina kathotan sto pezouli, kato apo te skia tes klematarias, kai perimene. Mono kai boubo. Ekeine ephtane panta arga to mesemeri. Ebaze duo piata sto trapezi ki etrogan antikrista.
Meta, mia mera eida to podelato. To ladone, to gualize, to kratouse apo to timoni kai to koitouse. Astraphtan ta matia tou. Anebaine ste sela ki ekane pos to odegouse. Argotera arkhise tis boltes sto tetragono. Ole ten ora. Mporei kai na xemakraine ligo. Kapoia stigme den kratetheka. Phonaxa dunata: <><>, mou apantese biastika.
To epomeno kalokairi eikhe xetharrepsei. Ebgaine ki epaize mpala sten alana. Tote ton eida ki ekeinon. Erthe ena proi me mia mikre balitsa. Pernouse tis ores tou sten aule. Eikhe monima ena radiophonaki sto auti. Mera nukhta akouge tis eideseis. Merika bradia tous sunantousa sto lopho tou Monte Smith na koitoun apenanti ta bouna.
O apokhorismos kai e apoleia diatrekhoun ten istoria. Ta prosopa, mesa apo tis aphegeseis tous, mas deikhnoun auto pou theloun pio polu: kapou na stathoun. | sw |
A Winter Wedding (Whiskey Creek, #9) | 10 hours, 30 minutes
Kyle Houseman believes that he'll never find anyone he could love as much as Olivia Arnold, who's now married to his stepbrother. Not only did he lose her, he's been through one divorce and has no desire to go through another. He's determined to be extra careful about the next woman he gets involved with-which is why he fights his attraction to the beautiful stranger who rents his farmhouse for the Christmas holiday. Lourdes Bennett is a country music artist. She's only planning to stay in Whiskey Creek long enough to write the songs for her next album-the album that's going to put her back on top. Her dreams don't include settling in a town even smaller than the one she escaped. But as she comes to know Kyle, she begins to wonder if she'd be making a terrible mistake to leave him behind . . . | en |
Tamar | When Tamar Deane is orphaned at seventeen in a small Cornish village, she seizes the chance for a new life and emigrates to New Zealand. In March 1879, alone and frightened on the Plymouth quay, she is befriended by an extraordinary woman. Myrna McTaggert is travelling to Auckland with plans to establish the finest brothel in the southern hemisphere and her unconventional friendship proves invaluable when when Tamar makes disastrous choices in the new colony. Tragedy and scandal befall her, but unexpected good fortune brings vast changes to Tamar's life. As the century draws to a close, uncertainty looms when a distant war lures her loved ones to South Africa.
This dramatic story - the first in a sweeping three-volume family saga - has a vivacious and compelling heroine who will live with the reader long after the final page has been turned. | en |
Twitchhiker: How One Man Travelled the World by Twitter | One man's attempt to travel the globe in 30 days, depending solely on the generosity of strangers through Twitter
There were five rules of Twitchhiker. I can only accept offers of travel and accommodation from people on Twitter. I can't make any travel plans further than three days in advance. I can only spend money on food, drink and anything that might fit in my suitcase. If there is more than one offer, I choose which I take. If there is only one, I have to take it within 48 hours. If I am unable to find a way to move on from a location within 48 hours, the challenge is over and I go home.
Bored in the bread aisle of the supermarket one day, Paul Smith wondered how far he could get around the world in 30 days through the goodwill of users of social networking site Twitter. At the mercy of these rules, he set his sights on New Zealand--the opposite point on the planet to his home in Newcastle, England. All he had to do next was explain the idea to his new wife. In an adventure wrapped in nonsense, he traveled by road, boat, plane, and train; slept in five-star luxury and on no-star floors; schmoozed with Hollywood A-listers; and was humbled by the generosity of the thousands who followed his journey and determined its course. | en |
Invincible (Chronicles of Nick, #2) | Just when he thought things couldn't get any worse...
Nick Gautier's day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul.
His new principal thinks he's even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to recruit him to things he can't even mention and the girl he's not seeing, but is, has secrets that terrify him.
But more than that, he's being groomed by the darkest of powers and if he doesn't learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one of them... | en |
Ludwig's Fugue: A White Feather Mystery | Can David Ludwig Emerge from His Fugue?
Was He Set Up ... or Did He Murder His Family?
The Wet Mountain Valley Sheriff's Office has its hands full when they must not only deal with solving a homicide, but, with limited resources, must call in the CBI and deal with an arrogant and closed-minded agent.
White Feather, an old Cherokee medicine man, uses his unique skills to compete with the local Sheriff's Office to solve mysteries. He sometimes compliments but more often complicates the more traditional investigating methods of local law enforcement.
Sam Morrison, fired from the Denver Police Homicide Division, accepts a job in the beautiful Wet Mountain Valley Sheriff's Office just in time to work on the Ludwig murders. Can he solve the crime? Will his personal life that caused his ex-wife to flee from him complicate his ability to work? And, will Sam be able to put his life and his family back together again?
Set in the scenic, rural Wet Mountain Valley of southern Colorado, the White Feather Mysteries are a delightful cross between "Cozy Mystery" and "Geezer Lit." Multiple book award-winning author Courtney Miller will keep you guessing until the end! | en |
Geometry and Trigonometry for Calculus | An introduction to trigonometry and plane and analytic geometry with a final chapter on limits, so that the student is well prepared to begin calculus and advanced mathematics. Its major emphasis is on graphic representation of problems and upon their solution by the combined analytic methods of geometry and algebra. | en |
Jung: A Graphic Guide | Brilliantly explains how Jung broke away from Freud, and describes his own near-psychotic breakdown, a night-sea voyage from which he emerged with new insights into the unconscious mind. | en |
A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. | Warner Books, in conjunction with Intellectual Properties Management, Inc., presents an extraordinary collection of sermons by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-many never before published-along with introductions an documentary of the world's leading ministers & theologians. | en |
Ατσαλόκαρδος (Οι τιμωροί, #1) | Prin apo deka khronia o Olethros erthe ston kosmo.
Emphanisteke san mia ektuphlotike lampse ston ourano kai kharise uperanthropes dunameis se mia pleiada kathemerinon anthropon. Plemmurismenos apo phobo kai deos, o upoloipos kosmos arkhise na apokalei tous anthropous autous Epikous. Oi Epikoi, omos, den einai philika diakeimenoi pros ten anthropoteta. Mazi me tis apisteutes ikanotetes tous apektesan kai to pathos tes exousias kai e apolute exousia proupothetei te suntribe tou eleutherou anthropinou pneumatos.
Stis meres mas, sto semeio opou kapote briskotan e pole tou Sikago, o paniskhuros Epikos pou einai gnostos os Atsalokardos kuberna os turannos, proikismenos me apisteute phusike duname kai ten ikanoteta na elegkhei ta stoikheia tes phuses. Oi phemes lene pos oi sphaires den mporoun na ton blapsoun, pos kamia lepida den mporei na ton plegosei, pos e photia den ton aggizei... Einai atrotos, aniketos. Kaneis den tolma na tou antistathei. Kaneis... ektos apo tous Timorous.
Oi Timoroi einai mia musteriodes omada aplon anthropon pou ekhoun aphierosei te zoe tous ste melete ton Epikon. Skopos tous einai na anakalupsoun ta adunata semeia tous kai na katapheroun kapote na tous aphanisoun. O nearos Nteibint thelei oso tipota ston kosmo na ginei melos ton Timoron.
Ligo meta ten aphixe tou sto Sikago, o Atsalokardos dolophonese ton patera tou Nteibint. Opos akribos kai oi Timoroi, o Nteibint meleta edo kai khronia tous Epikous, katastronontas skhedia gia ten exaleipse tous. To megalo tou oplo sten prospatheia aute, omos, den einai kapoio antikeimeno alla mia anamnese, pou oi Timoroi ekhoun anagke gia na ekplerosoun ten apostole tous.
Ekhei dei ton Atsalokardo na matonei.
Ki e kardia tou dipsa gia ekdikese. | sw |
Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary | Could the gospel be lost in evangelical churches? In this book, J.D. Greear shows how moralism and legalism have often eclipsed the gospel, even in conservative churches. Gospel cuts through the superficiality of religion and reacquaints you with the revolutionary truth of God's gracious acceptance of us in Christ. The gospel is the power of God, and the only true source of joy, freedom, radical generosity, and audacious faith. The gospel produces in us what religion never could: a heart that desires God.
The book's core is a "gospel prayer" by which you can saturate yourself in the gospel daily. Dwelling on the gospel will release in you new depths of passion for God and take you to new heights of obedience to Him. Gospel gives you an applicable, exciting vision of how God will use you to bring His healing to the world. | en |
The Vanishers | From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor HEIDI JULAVITS, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.
Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?
Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, refuses to pass the torch to her young disciple. Instead, she subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide when Julia was an infant. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a desperate psychic attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment.
Julia retreats to a faceless job in Manhattan. But others have noted Julia's emerging gifts, and soon she's recruited to track down an elusive missing person--a controversial artist who might have a connection to her mother. As Julia sifts through ghosts and astral clues, everything she thought she knew of her mother is called into question, and she discovers that her ability to know the minds of others--including her own--goes far deeper than she ever imagined.
As powerful and gripping as all of Julavits's acclaimed novels, The Vanishersis a stunning meditation on grief, female rivalry, and the furious power of a daughter's love. | en |
The Hunt Begins (The Great Hunt, #1) (Wheel of Time, #2-1) | The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages, is found ... and stolen. | en |
Das Spiel | Gerald und Jessie Burlingame haben sich in ihr einsames Sommerhaus zuruckgezogen. Gerald mochte dem eintonigen Eheleben etwas Schwung verleihen und fesselt seine Frau ans Bett. Jessie halt gar nichts von den neuen Sexspielchen ihres Mannes und versetzt ihm einen Tritt - mit fur ihn todlichen Folgen. Mit Handschellen ans Bett gefesselt, beginnt fur Jessie ein qualender Albtraum: Nachts bekommt sie unheimlichen Besuch... | de |
Piiat | Mustat ja valkoiset elavat rinnakkain mutta toisiaan tuntematta Jacksonin Mississippissa. Mustille naisille opetetaan, miten valkoisissa kodeissa palvellaan ja valkoisille, kuinka aviomies napataan. Juuri muita vaihtoehtoja ei elama etelavaltioiden naisille tarjoa 1960-luvun alussa.
Vanhan maailman murtuessa parikymppinen Skeeter ei aio paatya kotirouvaksi. Mustien kotiapulaisten elamasta kirjaa kokoavan Skeeterin hanke on vaarallinen: palkolliset pelkaavat tyopaikkojensa puolesta eivatka isannat halua kohdata elamansa toista totuutta. Mutta roturajatkaan eivat voi estaa aitoa lampoa ja kiintymysta. | Undefined |
Wayang dan Panggilan Manusia | Wayang performance, the Javanese puppet, related to human philosophy | Undefined |
SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa | Providing a unique insight into how activists and social change advocates are addressing Africa's many challenges from within, this collection of essays by those engaged in using mobile phone technologies for social change provides an analysis of the socioeconomic, political, and media contexts faced by activists in Africa today. The articles address a broad range of issues--including inequalities in access to technology based on gender and rural and urban usage--and it offers practical examples of how activists are using mobile technology to organize and document their experiences. An overview of the lessons learned in making effective use of mobile phone technologies without any of the romanticism so often associated with the use of new technologies for social change is given. Examples are shared in a way that makes them easy to replicate, hoping to lead to greater reflection about the real potential and limitations of mobile technologies. Contributors include Ken Banks, Nathan Eagle, Anil Naidoo, Berna Ngolobe, and Juliana Rotich. | en |
We Belong Together | Because some things are just better together.
An ode to all the pairs that go together as perfectly as a parent and their child, this adorable board book is the perfect companion and follow-up title to YOU ARE MY CUPCAKE.
With a bright palette, irresistible art by Joyce Wan, and spot gloss and embossing on every spread, this is a surprising and imaginative way to show the special bond between parent and child! | en |
Christmas at High Rising | Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the inimitable Angela Thirkell relate merry scenes of a trip to the pantomime, escapades on ice, a Christmas Day of gifts gone wrong, and an electrifying afternoon for Laura Morland and friends at Low Rising, not to mention the chatter of the arty set at a London private view. Charming, irreverent and full of mischievous humour, they offer the utmost entertainment in any season of the year. | en |
Kate's House | When Katherine learns of her husband's long time infidelity and other lies he's told her over the years, she's not sure which upsets her more: his duplicity or that she's completely ignored the signs. Using his subterfuge against him, she acquires a quickie divorce, sole custody of their three children, and enough money to start a new life.
Finding an unusual and seemingly magical Queen Anne in the middle of a farm is the answer to her prayers--a place to teach her children that it's okay to play and have fun--to be kids. She doesn't count on falling love with the handyman who comes with the place--or dealing with his secrets--secrets that could destroy them all and their new found happiness. | en |
The Cowboy's Christmas Baby (Cowboys & Brides, #2) | 'Tis the season for...
A pistol-totin' woman who's no angel
A tough rancher who doesn't believe in miracles
Love that warms the coldest nights
After a year in Kuwait, Lucas Allen can't wait to get back to his ranch for Christmas and meet his gorgeous Internet pal in person.
When he pulls in, there's Natalie Clark right in his front yard with a pink pistol in her hand and a dead coyote at her feet.
Lucas is unfazed. But wait... is that a BABY in her arms? | en |
Očima elity - Lékařství a přírodní vědy | Ve svych oborech ti nejuznavanejsi, nejlepsi z nejlepsich. Takovi jsou protagoniste nove rozhovorove edice, s niz na knizni trh prichazi vydavatelstvi Empresa Media. Knizni rada je venovana inspirativnim osobnostem, ne umele vytvorenym pseudocelebritam. Aniz by rezignovala na popularni formu podani, dusledne se soustredi na lidi, kteri vedi a umeji. Druhy z dilu edice cili na lekare a obory prirodnich ved. Nasledujici se budou venovat historikum, spisovatelum, hudebnikum a dalsim. Diky mezinarodni autorske spolupraci se edice neomezuje uzemnimi ani jazykovymi barierami. Ctenarum tak umoznuje nahlednout i do mysleni osobnosti v ceskem provozu prakticky nedostupnych. Rozhovory O cima elity jsou urcene lidem, kteri vseobecny spolecensky prehled povazuji za samozrejmost a kteri maji chut prekracovat hranice svych svetu a nahlizet do jinych. | Undefined |
Trouble and Strife | Tooting, 1950: Ruby has always been a worry to her widowed mother Ida - her husband, Brian is violent and she loses her job after allegations of carrying on with the manager. When Brian dies suddenly, Ida is quietly relieved, but tragedy continues to stalk Ruby until she feels she must go away. | en |
Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2) | Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events surrounding the capture of their killer, The Travelling Man, Charlie Parker retreats to the wintry Maine landscape of his childhood. By following in the steps of his beloved grandfather, Parker hopes to heal his spirit and get through the bitter anniversary of Jennifer and Susan's murder. But the echoes of the past that await him are not all benign. In a gruesome re-enactment of Parker's own nightmares, another young woman is killed with her child and his brief involvement in their lives impels Parker to hunt their vicious murderer. As the death toll mounts, Parker comes to realise that the true answer to the puzzle lies thirty years in the past, in a tree with strange fruit, in his own grandfather's history, and in the perverted desires of a monster incarnate - Caleb Kyle. | en |
Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1) | Hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris, this lyrical and terrifying bestseller is the stunning achievement of an "extravagantly gifted" (Kirkus Reviews)new novelist. John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York City to the American South, and finds his buried instincts -- for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing -- awakening as he confronts a monster beyond imagining... | en |