Author: Tabor Evans Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101179244 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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Longarm goes toe to toe with a low-down lead-slinging lawman! When Longarm hightails it to the Arizona desert for a dose of rest and relaxation, he isn’t looking to stir up trouble. But from the moment he witnesses a man gunned down by a lead-slinging lawman at the Crystal Palace Saloon, it becomes dead clear something sinister is afoot. Wrangling with a deputy marshal who’s enforcing his own murderous version of the law isn’t Longarm’s idea of a holiday. But as he follows a trail of suspicious deaths that all lead to the corrupt deputy and his ravishing sister, Longarm vows to track down the cold-blooded killer, even if it takes him all the way to Central America to bring him—or her—to justice…
Author: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478021314 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 179
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In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur's biography—a failed love affair between a venerated war hero and a young woman of Filipino and American heritage. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington, D.C. to Hollywood, where she died penniless, Gonzalez frames her not as a tragic heroine, but as someone caught within the violent histories of U.S. imperialism. In this way, Gonzalez uses Cooper's life as a means to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships. Along the way, Gonzalez fills in the archival gaps of Cooper's life with speculative fictional interludes that both unsettle the authority of “official” archives and dislodge the established one-dimensional characterizations of her. By presenting Cooper as a complex historical subject who lived at the crossroads of American colonialism in the Philippines, Gonzalez demonstrates how intimacy and love are woven into the infrastructure of empire.
Author: Amanda Ashley Publisher: Zebra Books ISBN: 1420130412 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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Pregnant vampire Mara finds herself torn between two men who would provide different lives for her child--Kyle Bowden, the mortal man she loves, and Logan Blackwood, the millionaire vampire she created centuries earlier.
Author: Frank Wadleigh Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1491764252 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 227
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It is 1969 and America is divided over the war that rages in Vietnam. The American public is unaware of a covert CIA operation called the Phoenix Program, designed to neutralize the Viet Cong Infrastructure. In this historical novel, a computer scientist in the defense industry accepts a position as senior intelligence analyst for an American computer company under contract with the US Army in Saigon. Tasked with investigating the effectiveness of Phoenix, he is shocked by the targeting and torture of innocent civilians. When his protests go unheeded, he is faced with the moral dilemma of how far to take his objections. But when he unwittingly meets the seductive Phoenix Mistress, he is drawn into a maelstrom of Vietnamese student anti-war protesters who are being arrested and tortured, complicating his life even further. The author was a senior intelligence analyst at Headquarters, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), during the years 1969-1971. He was directly involved in the Pacification program headed by William Colby who became CIA Director after the war.
Author: Zoe Archer Publisher: Leisure Books ISBN: 9780843956665 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
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In this debut novel, the unconventional Lady Xavier is determined to run the brewery left to her in her husband's will--regardless of the fact that a mysterious cowboy in town intoxicates her blood without a sip of alcohol. Original.
Author: Nina Burleigh Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0307574172 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 379
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“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets Camelot.”—Washington Post Book World In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story. Praise for A Very Private Woman “Power is so utterly fascinating. Sometimes it’s used for evil purposes, like the kind of power that has silenced the telling of Mary Pinchot Meyer’s mysterious murder for over three decades. In A Very Private Woman, Nina Burleigh has finally told this tragic tale of a privileged beauty with friends in high places.”—Dominick Dunne “A superbly crafted, evocative glimpse of an adventurous spirit whose grisly murder remains a mystery.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Proves that every Washington sex scandal is juicy in its own way.”—Glamour “Nina Burleigh has dissected Washington’s most intriguing murder mystery and produced a captivating biography, a thriller, and an insightful portrait of Georgetown in its golden presidential age.”—Christopher Ogden, bestselling author of Life of the Party: The Life of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman “Provocative, erudite . . . pure Georgetown noir.”—New York Observer “A rich array of real-life characters.”—New York Times Book Review
Author: Jenna Jacob Publisher: Jenna Jacob ISBN: 195211117X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 310
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What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay there… While in Vegas for her sister’s ill-advised wedding, Ivy Addison meets the sexy cowboy across the hall, shares an impulsive night under his rugged body…and loses her heart. She tries to forget Noble afterward, moving to Haven, Texas to open a bakery. But she soon discovers the buns she sells aren’t the only ones in the oven. Too bad she never asked her baby daddy’s last name. Noble Grayson loves pleasing women. Commitment? Not so much… When his buddy plans to get hitched in Sin City, Noble saddles up for a weekend of hedonistic fun. Then he claps eyes on his stunning neighbor. It’s not his first rodeo with a one-night stand, but her touch brands him as hers. Even after he returns home, he’s blindsided by feelings for Ivy—until he visits the new bakery and gets the shock of his life. Unfortunately, Ivy has already heard about his bed-hopping ways. When he tries to convince her that he’s fallen fast and hard, she’s not buying it. But in order to win her love and become a family, he’s willing to sacrifice everything…even his life.