![]() ![]() ![]() Once again Alix is plunged into turmoil and pain as Nick tries to win her love, something she resists with all her strength. Her divorce is almost final, her business is booming, and she's content if not happy-until the day she looks up and sees Nick standing across the counter. But finally, she's starting to get her life back together. For the next fifteen years she wrestles with the pain of Nick's abandonment, a bad marriage, her family and friends. ![]() Suddenly, Nick is gone, leaving Alix alone, confused and pregnant. The future looks rosy until the fateful night when Frank Anderson, Nick's abusive father, is shot to death in his filthy trailer. Through childhood disasters and teenage woes they cling together as friendship turns to love. Armed with only a tin of bee balm and steely determination, Alix treats the raw evidence of a recent beating that mars his back, an act that changes both their lives forever. But nothing was ordinary about the day she met ten-year-old Nick Anderson, a boy from the wrong side of town. Sweet tea, corn bread and soup beans everyday fare for eight-year-old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, Published by New American Library, a division of THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS "Gripping." THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE "Superb." THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER "Brilliant." "King is a master storyteller, and you will never forget these stories." You are in the hands of Stephen King at his mind-blowing best, with an extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas. You are focusing in on a beast bent on shedding your sanity. ![]() You are forced into a hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid. You are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer's worst nightmare. You are strapped in an airplane seat on a flight beyond hell. The Sun Dog - THIS IS IN MEMORY OF JOHN D. ĬHAPTER TEN - CHRON-O-LODGE-ICK-A-LEE SPEAKINGĬHAPTER THIRTEEN - THE LIBRARY POLICEMAN (II) The The Library Policeman - THIS IS FOR THE STAFF AND PATRONS OF THE PASADENA. Secret Window, Secret Garden - THIS IS FOR CHUCK VERRILL. THE APPROACH OF THE LANGOLIERS.ĬHAPTER NINE - GOODBYE TO BANGOR. ĬHAPTER SEVEN - DINAH IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW. The Langoliers - THIS IS FOR JOE, ANOTHER WHITE-KNUCKLE FLIER.ĬHAPTER ONE - BAD NEWS POR CAPTAIN ENGLE. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their needs match, and they are united by sympathy for each other’s deepest vulnerabilities. In the bedroom, everything else falls away. By the light of day, he cannot fathom the intoxicating lust that drives him to meet with the Radical week after week. But unbeknownst to Silas, his closest friend is also his greatest enemy, with the power to see him hanged-or spare his life.Ī loyal, well-born gentleman official, Dominic Frey is torn apart by his affair with Silas. Every week he meets anonymously with the same man, in whom Silas has discovered the ideal meld of intellectual companionship and absolute obedience to his sexual commands. He’s an overbearing idealist, a Radical bookseller and pamphleteer who lives for revolution. ![]() Silas Mason has no illusions about himself. ![]() A Seditious Affair is the second main title in the series Society of Gentlemen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever the current responsibilities are in your al with them. Life is lived with your eyes wide open so wake up and live it. Once you see it, then choose to take a step revealed towards your goal. You can target your thoughts and pay attention to the inspired actions that reveal themselves. Use your fantasy world as the basis for manifesting what you want. You miss the opportunity to learn from the challenge you are going through because you have numbed yourself into thinking you can fantasize your way out of the pain and into the good life. We miss so much when we spend our lives planning for one fine day when all of our troubles are over in the sweet by and by. Passion and her sister needs to find you right where you are. You've got bills to pay and no money to go traipsing across the globe searching for this elusive passion and purpose. Do something that gives meaning to your life and has purpose. All the experts are telling you to start a business from your passion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner, Canadian SF/Fantasy Award (Aurora) for Best Work in English.This Triskell Press e-book contains a new Afterword by the author. Cleverly mingling folklore, fairy tale and modern life, the novel points to a fine connection between what is seen and what is not, and the importance of belief, compassion, and loyalty. Jacky's daring and quick wit make for an exciting story that is impossible to put down. Luck, magic, and love bring to life a perilous, rollicking adventure involving Jacky, her best friend Kate, nefarious giants, nasty bogans, a trickster, a whimsical wizard, a small hob, and the last of the Swan Princes. The cap shows Jacky an unimaginable side of Ottawa and sets her on an impossible quest to save the good fairies from their evil counterparts. She's startled out of her reverie by a faceless gang of bikers attacking a small man whose body disappears, leaving behind only a red cap. In a fit of angst she chops off her long blond hair then goes out to wander the streets of Ottawa. When Jacky's boyfriend walks out, her life changes more than she could ever imagine. ![]() Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon: The Valley of Thunder (1989)ĭe Lint at his best. Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon: The Hidden City (1990) Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood (1992) Charles de Lint: Jack the Giant-Killer (1987) Description ![]() ![]() ![]() Oblivious to the weapon they now have in their possession, they are content to harbor the mysterious woman until she is well enough to continue her journey.īut when the war spreads its arms and lands on her borrowed doorstep, Shanti has no choice but to reveal her secrets, plunging her saviors into danger. It seems like any other day when Sanders and his band of misfit boys find a foreign woman clinging to life in the wastelands. The problem is, she doesn’t believe in her own divinity, and when she flounders, she nearly fails in the duty hanging so heavy on her shoulders. Carrying rare abilities and an uncanny fighting aptitude, Shanti is the only hope of salvation for her people. ![]() Since she helped her people defeat a raiding party by using a special power, she’s been a hunted woman. Shanti has grown up under the constant threat of war. It is said that when war threatens the world, one individual will be selected by prophecy to lead the Shadow Warriors out of the Land of Mist and reclaim the freedom which has been stolen. Runner up in the SpaSpa Book Awards 2014 for Action and Adventure! ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed the real world examples and the journey through much of the research that led up to choas theory. Maybe one or two times however, it wasn't really needed to keep up with the flow of the story. Overall, there were not too many parts where I could not keep up with the math. but that was only about three times during the nine hour book. I dealt with this by looking them on online later. As with any audio math book, there are some parts where you might have trouble visualizing the shapes being described. It introduces one to the culture of Math and the real world applications of physics. ![]() It helps to show what types of problems they work on and how they think as they attack the problems. I'm a math major and a calculus two student and this book has helped me to get inside the thinking of a Mathematician. I had no idea that this was a book about both math and physics. ![]() ![]() So when Ellis asks Felicity to help her research the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can’t say no. She’s eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can’t shake the pull she feels to her. ![]() A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is a so-called method writer. It’s Ellis Haley’s first year at Dalloway, and she has already amassed a loyal following. And when the new girl won’t let her forget. She’s determined to leave that behind now, but it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult history is everywhere. And before her girlfriend died, Felicity was drawn to the dark. In secret rooms and shadowy corners, girls convene. The school doesn’t talk about it, but the students do. Witchcraft is woven into Dalloway’s past. The Dalloway Five all died mysteriously, one after another, right on Godwin grounds. She even has her old room in Godwin House, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by the spirits of five Dalloway students-girls some say were witches. Now, after a year away, she’s returned to finish high school. ![]() Perched in the Catskill Mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. Felicity Morrow is back at the Dalloway School. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephanie’s sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir “bake-off.” And Grandma Bella, Morelli’s old-world grandmother, is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts “the eye” on Stephanie. Stephanie’s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star who’s just returned to town. Short on time to find evidence proving the killer’s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it’s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list. ![]() ![]() Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.ĭead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. ![]() ![]() In that sense, The Descent becomes a rehearsal. We are them, unless we consciously choose not to be. “I would never do such a thing,” we say.īy writing about monstrosity, I am drawing a map of borders between us and them, and then ripping it to pieces. Every time we pick up a kitchen knife, we hold an executioner’s tool, and nothing but geography and circumstances separates us from the sand and a victim on his knees in front of a video camera. Then along comes a modern nightmare like ISIS, and its terrorism is that much more visceral because of its primitive means. The hadals are the barbarians at the gate, but that phrase itself, “barbarians at the gate,” has become almost comical, a Monty Python punch line that diminishes the horror it once promised. ![]() We read about long ago atrocities as if they belong to an earlier, deniable version of our species, but evil R’us. I was a monitor in Bosnia’s first democratic election, not long after NATO arrived and quick-froze the slaughtering. I was in Cambodia as their first election approached and the Khmer Rouge would still emerge each night to place their mines on the road, and each morning retrieve them and melt back into the land. ![]() I spent decades doing my small bit to preserve what was left of Tibet. Time and again I have seen how slight the veil is between civilization and its destroyers. ![]() |