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Disposable Lives : Leslie Kohler
Disposable Lives
COCKTAILS, CON MEN, CONSPIRACY!
Maggie Leman leads a fairy tale life in California’s Newport Beach. When she finds an $899 environmental Miu Mo satchel stuffed into her husband’s golf bag, with a sexalacious note to My Bridget, Maggie’s so mad she wants to kill her husband.
Instead, she scrawls I AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG onto the over-priced tote. Maggie, with her alabaster skin and sable locks, not only looks like Snow White, but now feels like in the fairy tale, she’s bitten into the poison apple seeping venom into her life.
When cheating golfer husbands start getting knocked off in sleazy motels with Miu Mo’s next to their bodies, Maggie’s childish scrawl makes her murder suspect Number One. And the former debutante, now Homicide Detective, Nicole Harrington, is determined to see Maggie cuffed.
Fearing being slapped into a jailhouse cell, Maggie mounts her own investigation. She uses her research skills from her days as a marketing executive, before she became a Country Club Mom, to find out who’s really behind this sordid tale.
Maggie’s investigation takes her into the steamy Newport Beach nightlife, to the posh San Marino Racetrack, and, to the precipice of the Newport Hills cliff-lined golf course.
Along the way she buddies with her best friend, the gorgeous Regina, a shark-like divorce attorney with flaming red hair that makes men feel they’re on fire. And she has thermal run-ins with the goldenrod specimen of manly hunk, Todd Williams, who was Maggie’s first love.
Maggie’s life normally ran like a smooth swing off a golf tee. But now she feels it’s taken a sharp hook and she needs to straighten her course. Newport Beach is no longer the safe haven she always felt it to be. Seems Newport blue blood is tinged with red. And this crimson tide may bleed from the Travellers–modern day gypsies who will stop at nothing to win their deadly con games.
Can Maggie stop this poisonous flow? Or will she become the next victim?
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Awakening : Raymond Bolton
Awakening
How does a world armed with bows, arrows and catapults, where steam power has only begun to replace horses and sailing ships, avert conquest from beyond the stars?
In this epic fantasy set on another world, Regilius, the Prince of Ydron, awakens, his head filled with visions of murder and the uncanny awareness of creatures trying to kill him. He learns these would-be killers belong to a predatory alien species, the Dalthin, who enslave worlds telepathically and that he has been engineered to perceive these invaders in order to direct the world against them. But when his mother murders his father, the land descends into chaos and his task may prove impossible. Struggling to accept what he has learned, Regilius flees Ydron, hoping to devise a strategy.
Reluctant to slay the one who gave him life in order to assume the throne, but convinced his mother must fall, the young prince enlists allies against her. As armies collide, he realizes only a fundamental change can remedy the troubles plaguing the land—ills his family has caused—and he struggles with his hereditary destiny.
Set in a vast and varied land where telepaths and those with unusual mental abilities tip the course of events, Awakening goes to the heart of family, friendship and betrayal.
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Saint Nellie : Odal Madsen
Saint Nellie
Saint Nellie is a suspense novel that takes place in a small Southern town, where an undercurrent of chaotic violence lingers behind paranoid sneers and angry church sermons, bleeding into the lives of its residents as effortlessly as an afternoon iced tea.
Mia Taylor is a fifteen year-old spending a stifling Summer in Blackwell, Tennessee, trying her best to avoid standing out in a place where old ideas still have deep roots. However, what gnaws at the heart of Blackwell isn’t just a community struggling to escape a history of racial violence, but something equally destructive, otherworldly, and older than time immemorial. Something the residents speak of in hushed tones and with furtive glances. Tales of the town’s one-eyed “witch”, Nellie McGruder, bubble at the pit of the town’s consciousness, and rumors of the dark power wielded by the reclusive woman run rampant.
Now, tasked with reaching out to Nellie McGruder, Mia and her mother are forced to look deeply into the soul of Blackwell, and what they find will utterly terrify them.
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The Best Gift : Wendy Markham
The Best Gift (Signet Eclipse)
Sometimes the best present is the future…
USA Today bestselling author Wendy Markham’s heartwarming time-travel romance If Only in My Dreams was hailed as “a delight” (Booklist). Now the heroine of that unforgettable book returns in a holiday story of a love that once again transcends time…
When Clara wakes up on Christmas morning next to her husband Drew, she’s filled with joy because she has the perfect present: she’s seven weeks pregnant with their first child. It’s the fairy-tale beginning that the couple has been wishing for.
But no sooner does Clara tell Drew the wonderful news than an earthquake strikes in nearby San Francisco. The next thing Clara knows she’s waking up in bed—alone—and discovers she’s three years in the future. Where is her husband and what has happened to the child she was expecting? Clara is no stranger to unusual occurrences, but the last thing on her Christmas list was to time travel…again.
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The Inn of Fallen Leaves : Mitch Davies
The Inn of Fallen Leaves
The conflicted worlds of two samurai of different status, Chobei and Akiyama, collide in a battle of wits, egos, and pursuit. In the middle is a beautiful woman, Miyo, attached to one, coveted by the other.
Chobei, is a disillusioned samurai who’s clan forced him to perform atrocities and abandoned his clan. Akiyama, is a samurai loyal to a clan that no longer wants him. Miyo, finally believing she has the life she wants has it all turned awry when the two samurai clash.
As the Shogun’s government watches the power it has held for over 250 years seep through it’s fingers, is there still a place for loyalty to a clan, or do the lives of the individuals become the priority of a nation. Cho, now the yojimbo and handy man of a second tier inn along the Nakasendo Highway, confronts Akiyama, as he tries to assist his clan while wandering the highways.
Akiyama’s Daimyo Lord is forced to stay at the inn but before he does, improvements must be made. The condescending Akiyama, used to getting his way, demands that the inn make changes according to the Mito Leader’s requirements. Cho, willing and curious, can’t pin the man to an exact date on which the visit will take place.
When the country is thrown into chaos after the assassination of the Regent, Ii Naosuke, Akiyama makes a move that throws Cho’s world into one of confusion and loss.
The ways of Akiyama and the clan must be exposed. The love of a woman must be regained.
A conflict of honor between a samurai working to benefit his beloved clan and a man trying to protect the woman he loves. Different goals and different struggles but the same code of honor.
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Out of the Darkness : Sabine Christodoulou
Out of the Darkness
OUT OF THE DARKNESS tells the story of an ordinary German girl growing up in Nazi Germany. Beginning with Else Winter’s birth on January 8, 1921, it follows her through 35 years of her life, ranging from the 1920’s and her idyllic childhood in rural Germany to her teenage years coinciding with the rise of Hitler and the heart-rending tragedy of the war years when she is a young adult. The post-war struggle for survival is followed by better times, new perspectives and a way out of the darkness.
Based on authentic letters my mum wrote down for me as memories from her life, OUT OF THE DARKNESS is one individual’s account of what was it like to be born at that time in history, without excuses, accusations or clichés.
As the eldest daughter of pharmacist Ferdinand Winter in the rural town of Gerolstein, Else is expected to take over the family business and, in order to take her A-levels, has to leave home to attend a boys’ grammar school in the nearby town of Mayen as the only girl there. Her A-levels in 1939 coincide with the beginning of the war; labour service and later war service take precedence over her career. When she is offered a place at Prague University, she gets first-hand experience of being a German student in occupied territory; war assignment between terms leads her back home to work in her dad’s pharmacy. As a railway junction and garrison town and therefore a military target, Gerolstein is devastated by bombing raids that change Else’s life changes for ever.
OUT OF THE DARKNESS is not a political book; it is the voice of one individual telling her story.
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Invisiboy : Elizabeth Hartley
Invisiboy
Thursday 1st March started off much like any other day with no reason to suspect anything out of the ordinary would happen. In fact, Thursday’s were 12 year old Archie’s favourite as there was a double games period in the afternoon which often meant playing cricket, rugby or his beloved soccer.
As he sat on the bus that morning chattering to best friends, Daniel and Jack, and munching on his toast, he could never have imagined that today was going to be the day when his life changed forever. Today was also going to be a life changer for Mr. Leak the science teacher. He had no classes on Thursday afternoons from 2.00pm onwards which left him lots of time, undisturbed to devote to his newest project. And this most recent project was exciting, very exciting indeed.
He had toiled long hours testing and retesting his calculations and theories. He was convinced that finally he was close, very, very close to the breakthrough that would mark the pinnacle of his career. Today was going to be the day that his life changed forever. Of that he was certain. How right he was.
For to Mr. Leak’s dismay, Thursday the 1st of March was the day that his and Archie’s paths would unexpectedly cross, with unimaginable consequences which would send the 12 year old boy on an exciting, scary and at times extremely amusing adventure.
Redemption : Andi O’Connor
Huddled in the shadows, Jae watches while one of the Mé’Draak brands his cellmate as a slave before viciously dragging him from the room.
Feeling the weight of the metal collar around his neck, Jae is left alone to contemplate his own fate. Will the afternoon session finally Break him? Will it kill him?
Or will he end up like the boy, a helpless pawn neither living nor dead?
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Lost Journals of Black Gold : Samantha Perkins
Lost Journals of Black Gold : Shadow Reign Chronicles Vol. 1
I have never been out of the country on assignment. This is my chance to prove myself. How far will one journalist go to discover the truth? Find out in the enthralling new novel Lost Journals of Black Gold: Shadow Reign Chronicles Volume One. Aisha Benson has always followed her heart. Her relationship with her boyfriend, biochemistry professor Majid Khan, is evidence of this.
While both were raised in Muslim households, Aisha’s experience growing up as an African-American differed from Majid’s Bengali-American upbringing. Yet they have managed to find both love and success since first meeting on Yale’s campus.
But when Aisha is assigned a temporary relocation to Kolkata, West Bengal, India, for a story, love will have to take a temporary backseat.
Aisha learns that years before, an American journalist was sent to the small Kolkata district of Sonagachi. Looking eerily similar to Aisha herself, this missing journalist was never heard from again.
New evidence emerges indicating that the missing woman may in fact still be alive, and Aisha embarks on an international journey to track down the truth once and for all.
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Unearthly Tales From Space : John Sparks
Unearthly Tales From Space
“To: Authorized Personnel Only
Location: National Aeronautics Research Consortium (N.A.R.C.) Labs
From: Doctor Robert J. Guttenberg, N.A.R.C. Director
Attention, all personnel: Your help is desperately needed in relaying this message to anyone who will listen. One week ago, N.A.R.C. labs received an unearthly signal, emanating from the far side of the moon. The renowned Harvard graduate Dr. Sing Ann Howell can barely hold our computer together. Effective immediately, by Presidential order, a 24-hour work rotation is in effect. Project Blue Star, America’s nuclear rocket, is being pulled from its ashes. Pilot training will be provided by Captain Tom Dangerfield in an effort to beat the Soviet response. Time is of the essence. …”
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