The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, […]
The book Tiny Beautiful Things takes down many difficult times in real. Ian suffered from a fire and was left in extensive burns. He lived without love or happiness though he was paid huge compensation. The weary girl who lived in a small town was striving to make money to repay the student loans. The […]
Disgraced former Beijing Inspector Shan Tao Yun has been living in the remote mountains of Tibet since his unofficial release from a work camp. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, hes lived with the forbidden lamas for the past year. But now theres apparently been a […]
3400 B.C.E- A tribal chief and his small valiant clan defended their land of five rivers, which we now call Punjab, against a huge invading force. The invaders were ten kings of neighboring regions such an Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and the European steppes. The battle lasted a single day. It was brutal. Swift and coded […]
Jon Krakauers Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peaks history. In March 1996, Outside […]
A dazzling new chilller from the bestselling author of KOKO and LOST BOY LOST GIRL. Award-winning childrens book author Willy Patrick seems to be having a breakdown. Figures from her past are coming to visit her, most frighteningly her dead daughter, Holly, who was murdered together with Willy??s first husband. Then Willy discovers her mysterious […]
It happened in the night, when no one was around to see it. A Pittsburgh doctor, who dedicated himself to helping others, was shot through the heart. Now days have passed, and Dan Ross??s wife, Elizabeth, has entered a twilight zone of grief, flooded with memories, voices, and regrets. And while a determined police investigator […]
In Duluth, Minnesota, a young woman, Rachel Stoner, has gone missing. Cop Jonathan Stride, a sharply focused detective despite the stresses of his troubled personal life, is quick to suspect her stepfather of murder. And yet, he has his doubts. Even for a man accustomed to power, the accused seems remarkably convinced hell go free. […]
After the cataclysmic fall of Stalingrad, Germanys campaign in Russia stood on a knifes edge. Hitler had to break Russia quickly or the war would be over. Thus Operation Citadel was conceived. This was a plan to eliminate the huge salient around the Russian city of Kursk and trap the enormous Soviet Army in a […]
This Perry Mason mystery is a tantalizing triple-decker. One threesome comprises three glamorous ladies – all long-legged models with ambitions that range from keeping the home fires burning to putting the home fires out. Another trio is a far-from-pleasant collection of small metal objects called guns. Finally, the favorite triumvirate of mystery readers all around […]
The death of internal affairs investigator Andy Fallon is a potential political bomb for the Minneapolis Police Department. Andy Fallon was gay, and he was investigating a possible cop connection in the brutal murder of another gay officer. But Andy?s death looks like suicide ? or an unfortunate and embarrassing accident: death by auto-erotic misadventure […]
The Image Of Murder The Mississippi Ripper likes to work in pairs–of victims. For every dead body laid to waste, a second one faces it, a grotesque mirror image of terror and torment. Special Agent Ulysses Grove thinks he knows the method to the killers madness. But grasping the twisted logic behind the brutal slayings […]
Meet John James Todd: Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic – and subversive element Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in the New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties […]
Elizabeth Turner, scion of the fabled Deravenel family, carries the redgold hair and beautiful English complexion of her ancestors. And it is not just her colouring that she has inherited from Edward Deravenel. Astute and charismatic, she is also bold, daring and fiercely ambitious, with the same ruthless streak. Now, aged just twenty-five, she stands […]
When artist Dylan OConnor pulls into a motel off the Arizona interstate highway, all he wants to do is relax with his autistic brother Shepherd, and get a good nights sleep. Yet within the hour he finds himself bound, gagged and being injected with some mysterious fluid by a lunatic doctor who claims that Dylan […]