Author: Gary K. Wolf
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781512315011
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.

Author: Parker Blue
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
ISBN: 1611941148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Praise for the Demon Underground series: "Love, betrayal, vampires, and a mystery. How much better can it get than that?" --That Teen Can Blog "...fast paced, exciting storylines...The ending took me by surprise; I can't wait for the fourth book to come out!" --C.J. Harris, Vampire Librarian "...big, shocking, and intense." --Lara Taylor, Fresh Fiction Val Shapiro has a secret she's desperate to keep--she's lost her slayer powers. As the new guardian of the Encyclopedia Magicka, Val expected the books to give her powers to replace those that disappeared after she lost her "V card" to Shade. But the encyclopedia exacts a price for every spell, making the job of guardian a tricky proposition. When a rogue demon kidnaps Val's roommate Gwen and Micah, leader of the San Antonio Demon Underground, Val is plunged into the middle of a Solomon's Choice. The rogue wants the dangerously potent Encyclopedia Magicka in exchange for her friends' lives; the succubus leader of the Demon Underground in Austin is demanding the books be destroyed rather than let them fall into the wrong hands and wants Shade for herself, swearing to do everything she can to prevent Val's turning over the books. The kidnapping isn't the only crisis Val faces. She's been betrayed by Fang. Demons and vampires are disappearing. The vamps of the New Blood Movement are forcing Val to keep the terms of her agreement to work for them to combat this new threat. The Demon Underground is challenging Micah's leadership, and everyone is depending on a now-powerless Val to set things right. Val needs all the help she can get. Even if it means forgiving Fang and spending time with a dangerously sexy cowboy-vampire.

Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 153872474X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.

Author: Ian Wood
Publisher: Ian Wood
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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When high-school grads Chiaro, Cat, and Nick visit relatives in Naples, Italy, the last thing they expect is to be recruited by the goddess Vesta to save lives and to help minimize the damage from an upcoming earthquake, which will be caused by the god Vulcan. After their extraordinary experiences at Pompeii and other places, perhaps they should not have been surprised, but now they're being endowed with superpowers and drafted into a team of fascinating individuals who would definitely not feel welcome in Naples, Florida. But can trust they Vesta? Or does she also have her own agenda fluid? This LGBTQIA superhero story is set in the same ground-breaking world as Fairy Tale, Bad Fairy, Spelter Skelter, and Powers That Be.

Author: Elle Rush
Publisher: SBD Entertainment
ISBN: 198879224X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Layla Andrews isn’t really a bitch – she just plays one on television. For the last eighteen months, she’s acted like one in real life too while she was forced to serve probation for something she didn’t do. Now the Queen of Olympus has done her time and she’s ready to start living again … but she’s forgotten how. Russ Vukovich, the show’s fight coordinator, had been attracted to Layla since the first time he saw her. Recently he’s caught glimpses of a new side of her – one that makes her irresistible. But as he gets closer to her, he also sees more of what she hides beneath the mask she wears. As Layla and Russ try to navigate their new relationship, families, danger, and secrets work against them at every turn. Can they find a true happily-ever-after when they are surrounded by lies? Books in the Hollywood to Olympus series: 1. Screen Idol 2. Drama Queen 3. Leading Man 4. It Girl 5. Action Hero

Author: Wendy Hornsby
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1564747646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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When her TV series is abruptly canceled, investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen accepts a short-term contract to teach film production at a local community college and finds herself in the middle of an explosive power struggle. In an era of budget cuts, the community college President arouses faculty and student animosity with his expensive building program. When Maggie finds the college president hanging in the building’s stairwell, suspicion falls on her young friend Sly Miller. A world-class artist, his sculpture was supposed to be hanging in place of the body. That’s only the beginning of a twisty plot dealing with the aesthetics and business of art, a billion-dollar art-for-arms deal; political corruption and cronyism; and issues of art forgery and journalistic ethics, all capped off by a stunning denouement. "Hornsby’s well-constructed eighth Maggie MacGowen mystery. . . offers a nuanced glimpse of campus life in the budget-crisis era, a plot with a nicely topical twist, and a cast of smart, appealing characters. Readers will cheer Maggie on as both new romance and fresh career opportunities beckon." -Publishers Weekly (6/20/12)

Author: John Lescroart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501104527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting novel featuring Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky on the hunt for clues about a woman who has gone missing. On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return, Hal’s wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missing for five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy’s wife, a marriage counselor. By this time, the original Missing Persons case has become a suspected homicide, and Hal is the prime suspect. And the lawyer he wants for his defense is none other than Hardy himself. Hardy calls on his friend, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky, to look into the case. At first it seems like the police might have it right; the Chases’ marriage was fraught with problems; Hal’s alibi is suspect; the life insurance policy on Katie was huge. But Glitsky’s mission is to identify other possible suspects, and there proves to be no shortage of them: Patti Orosco—rich, beautiful, dangerous, and Hal’s former lover; the still unknown person who had a recent affair with Katie; even Hal’s own step-mother Ruth, resentful of Katie’s gatekeeping against her grandchildren. And as Glitsky probes further, he learns of an incident at the San Francisco jail, where Hal works—only one of many questionable inmate deaths that have taken place there. Then, when Katie’s body is found not three blocks from the Chase home, Homicide arrests Hal and he finds himself an inmate in the very jail where he used to work, a place full of secrets he knows all too well. Against this backdrop of conspiracy and corruption, ambiguous motives and suspicious alibis, an obsessed Glitsky closes in on the elusive truth. As other deaths begin to pile up he realizes, perhaps too late, that the next victim might be himself.

Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307375900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible doll maker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age. Outside his window, a long humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired. The city boiled with money. Rents and property values had never been higher, and in the garment industry it was widely held that fashion had never been so fashionable. - from Fury From one of the world’s truly great writers comes a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnight’s Children have a time and place been so intensely captured in a novel. Salman Rushdie’s eighth novel opens on a New York living at break-neck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives in this town of IPOs and white-hot trends looking, perversely, for escape. He is a man in flight from himself. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of a hugely popular doll whose multiform ubiquity – as puppet, cartoon and talk-show host – now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgivable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees across the Atlantic. He discovers a city roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentments. His own thoughts, emotions and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. He becomes deeply embroiled in not one but two new liaisons, both, in very different ways, dangerous. Professor Solanka’s navigation of his new world makes for a hugely entertaining and compulsively readable novel. Fury is a pitiless comedy that lays bare, with spectacular insight and much glee, the darkest side of human nature.

Author: Elle Rush
Publisher: SBD Entertainment
ISBN: 1988792495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1276

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Get all five Hollywood to Olympus romances in one great set. Screen Idol If actor Chris Peck plays his cards right, acting as the slave-for-a-day could earn him the leading roll in an upcoming movie, but the winner wants nothing to do with him. Sydney Richardson should have locked the door when a Greek god appeared on her front step at sunrise. After months of work to ensure her fundraiser goes off without a hitch, she can't afford to waste time with a TV hunk, no matter how good he looks in a toga. Chris is captivated by Sydney and he promises to put her charity efforts over the top. However, just when he convinces Sydney they could have a real chance together, the movie's producers offer him an audition that means leaving Sydney in the lurch. The king of the gods has until sunset to prove to his new off-screen love interest that Hollywood magic and true-life romance can co-exist. Drama Queen Layla Andrews isn't really a bitch – she just plays one on television. For the last year, she's acted like one while she was forced to serve probation for something she didn't do. Now she's done her time and she's ready to start living again. Russ Vukovich, the show's fight coordinator, had been attracted to Layla since the first time he saw her, but as they gets closer, he also sees more of what she hides beneath the mask she wears. As Layla and Russ try to navigate their new relationship, families, danger, and secrets work against them at every turn. Can they find a true happily-ever-after when they are surrounded by lies? Leading Man Olympus heartthrob Nick Thurston is a leading man with a problem. His new play opens in a month and when it comes to the pivotal waltz scene, he can't lead. Ashleigh Jessup needs to find a new building to take her booming dance studio to the next level. She doesn't have time for a private student, but she'll make an exception to earn extra money for her down payment. Things heat up on the dance floor and between the sheets, but when past relationships intrude on the present, Nick and Ashleigh must decide if their future is worth a fight. It Girl Sean Glenn fell for Caitlin the first time he saw her, almost a year ago. Now that the rising star is working on his show, he could finally have a shot with her, if it weren't for his well-known history as a player. Entertainer Caitlin Kelly has spent the last decade taking every job she could get. When her new role on a hit show brings fame and a potential real-life love interest, she has to make some serious choices about her priorities. While Caitlin is torn about decisions the spotlight forces on her, especially those regarding Sean, the actor is suffering his own problems with stardom. Sean finds himself in a stalker's sights, and the safest place for Caitlin may be far away from him. Is love strong enough to keep them together? Action Hero Nobody in Hollywood takes cable television star Glinda Crawford seriously, and that's not going to change with her next movie, which has descended into a cheesy flick about rabid, cyborg, panda assassins. Mike Mosley has leveraged his teen-age TV heartthrob days into a successful adult acting career, but the first week on the set of his new movie with his Olympus co-star Glinda has him second-guessing everything: his plans, his single status, and just how dangerous robot pandas can be. When script shenanigans spill into the real world, the attraction Glinda and Mike have been faking turns into a hot, real-life adventure. If they can survive this movie, they can survive anything together. However, the shocking finale surprises them both.

Author: Martin Avery
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312734450
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Love affairs in England, America, and China, or the empires of the past, the present, and the future, revisited by one man in search of love and happiness.