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ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Adventure
Author: Wake
Author: Elizabeth KnoxPublisher: Corsair
ISBN: 1472117921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A small community on New Zealand's Tasman Bay is suddenly overwhelmed by a bloodthirsty madness. There are fourteen survivors. Trapped in by a strange force-field called the 'no-go', cut off from the world outside, they must pull together, bury the dead and face their fears. Because whatever caused the insanity is still at large. And it hasn't finished with them yet. Wake is a riveting tour-de-force. A book about extreme events, ordinary people, heroic compassion - and invisible monsters.
Several Things at Once
Author: Wm John DiehlPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491799986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Several ings at Once by Wm John Diehl is a gripping fantasy about a couple in the not too distant future who are struggling to live a normal life but there is the gameand the dream. Once you have been in the game even the clear blue sky of the real world does not look real. The adventures of the game and the pleasures of the dream are a constant lure. The struggles that they go through in the real world are paralleled in the game. In both there are rules to follow, corners that may or may not be cut, and needs that must befulfilled. But the rules in the game can be changed making it more appealing at times. Get involved with them in their two worlds. Like them, you may not always know in which world they are but you will always pull for their success. See that only the love they have for one another will carry them through.
Hotel Paradise
Author: Martha GrimesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476733015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A once-fashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before. Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death.
True Quest
Author: GrantPublisher: Grant
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Ontar and Echo's first mistake might be their last. A failed mission for the thieves' guild has earned them the ire of the necromancer Narcos, and he has no patience for the living. Looking to make it up to the guild, and hoping for their protection, the pair seek out a renowned mystical sword as reparation. Unfortunately, Narcos also searches for the blade for it is the key to releasing a demon who knows the location of an even greater artifact; one that will shape the very destiny of the realm itself. But the demon has his own plans. Now, Ontar and Echo are trapped between the dead and a demon, and they're running out of time. Fail again, and the world pays an unspeakable price. Total annihilation!
Lil Bub's Lil Book
Author: Mike BridavskyPublisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592408508
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Fans of the tiny, celebrity perma-kitten will delight in more than 100 captioned photos of the darling feline as she travels through space, rides in hot air balloons, tries her hand at skateboarding and even takes a nap.
Author: Mike WhickerPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595297390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
While working on a top-secret project for the U.S. Navy in 1942 in Evansville, Indiana, a Jewish metallurgist falls in love with a beautiful woman who is the Nazis' top spy and who was sent to the United States to steal the very secret he holds and that could alter the course of the war.
Airstream
Author: Patricia YoungPublisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1926845641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
These fourteen stories explore the small victories and lurching disappointments, losses and betrayals of the everyday.
Falling
Author: Ralph ZieffPublisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Hank Bellakoff is an above-average fighter in the mob-ridden 1990's Boston boxing scene. When a series of unfortunate events brings danger and fear into his life, he escapes, leaving behind people he cares deeply about, and several women who have broken his heart. What begins as a cross-country odyssey turns into a painful road of self-reflection and coming to terms with his painful childhood. But when misfortune derails his journey, can he reach a higher level of self-understanding and awareness, and finally be content with who he is?
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Author: Bruce CovillePublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152046149
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Celebrate Twenty Years of Magic!