Jeopardy

Jeopardy

Fayrene Preston

Fayrene Preston

The Sensual, Seductive Predator... Amarillo Smith was enigmatic, dangerous, the best private investigator in Boston next to her brother, Nico, his partner. Angelica DiFrenza was surprised and intrigued when he invited her to dinner-the broodingly handsome detective had seemed to be avoiding her deliberately... until now. Amarillo heated her skin with his gaze and made her wonder how his mouth would taste when it captured hers, but the fever in her blood was nothing compared to the savage ecstasy of their tumultuous kisses--and the seething passions that erupted without warning between them! Tantalized by her skin of silk and fire, caught in a maelstrom of uncivilized hunger, Amarillo possessed her with sweet madness, branded Angelica as only his-but he was desperate to protect her from the danger that threatened her life and the demons that menaced her soul. Once, joy had filled the grand ballroom at SwanSea; could the shadows be lifted by the healing power of love?
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The Lost King

The Lost King

Margaret Weis

Margaret Weis

SUMMARY: Four courageous people--Dion, a young man seeking his destiny; Tusk, the mercenary; outlaw commander Dixter; and the beautiful and cunning Lady Maigrey--battle the corrupt and harsh Democratic Commonwealth
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The Promise

The Promise

Fayrene Preston

Fayrene Preston

THE RUTHLESS SON OF A POWERFUL DYNASTY… — Conall Deverell was stunned by Sharon Graham's demand: that he honor a promise made by his grandfather to her great-aunt -- and that the favor she wanted was that he make her pregnant! Ten years before, he'd broken her heart by saying the child she carried couldn't be his, that she must... more » have been unfaithful -- and he'd abandoned the girl who'd been his first love to run the family corporation. Now she vowed that this time he'd know the baby was his…but she wanted nothing else from the formidable man once she'd proved her case. Conall found Sharon almost impossible to resist, but the master gamesman insisted she beguile him into taking her challenge, that she make him want her, make his blood boil; Sharon craved Conall's intimate embraces with a wildness that made her panic. But unless she fled Conall's domain, she feared he'd never free her heart. Would Swansea's legacy be that true love once lost could be redeemed?
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Child’s Play 2

Child’s Play 2

Matthew J. Costello

Matthew J. Costello

Once there was a doll named Chucky who did naughty, wicked things. Like murder.But Andy and his mother killed Chucky. Killed the madman whose deranged spirit possessed the doll. Killed him once and for all.That’s what they think. CHILD’S PLAY 2 Andy’s in a foster home now. His mother is undergoing psychiatric treatment. And Chucky . . . ?The toy makers decided there was nothing wrong with the doll. So they rebuilt him. Now Andy has more reason than ever to fear for his life . . .Chucky’s back—and he wants Andy’s soul.
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Sweet Women Lie

Sweet Women Lie

Loren D. Estleman

Mystery & Thrillers / Western

A faded film star asks Detroit PI Amos Walker to get her out of a relationship with a deadly mobsterWhen Amos Walker was a teen, he had a poster of Gail Hope on his wall. A 60s bombshell in the beach-blanket tradition, she has fallen hard since her glory days as one of the dying studio system’s final starlets. But when she calls on Amos Walker she remains as lovely as ever: an elegant beauty with a $750,000 problem. Since her career evaporated, she has played the part of moll to one of Detroit’s big-name gangsters, a powerful man stalked by death. Tired of a life looking over her shoulder, Hope pawns everything she owns in an attempt to buy her way out. She entrusts Walker with a suitcase heavy with cash, and asks him to play delivery boy—a simple assignment that doesn’t take long to turn deadly. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
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Dogeaters

Dogeaters

Jessica Hagedorn

Fiction / Historical / Historical Fiction

Finalist for the National Book Award: An intense portrait of the Philippines in the late 1950sDogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country's sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital's elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country's president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.
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Jack on the Box

Jack on the Box

Patricia Wynn

Patricia Wynn

Cecily Wolverton has been done out of her inheritance by her cousin Alfred. And Jack Henley, son of Sir Geoffrey, has been temporarily disowned by his father because of his gambling debts. Jack, forced to drive a Royal Mail Coach, has learned the error of his ways, but it’s the determined Miss Wolverton who must show him where his heart belongs. Regency Romance by Patricia Wynn; originally published by Harlequin Regency
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The Colour of Memory

The Colour of Memory

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer

'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. 'We're not lost,' one of his hero's friend's says, 'we're virtually extinct'. It is a small world in Brixton that Dyer commemorates, of council flat and instant wasteland, of living on the dole and the scrounge, of mugging, which is merely begging by force, and of listening to Callas and Coltrane. It is the nostalgia of the DHSS Bohemians, the children of unsocial security, in an urban landscape of debris and wreckage. Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city. A low-keyed style and laconic wit touch up The Colour of Memory.' The TimesReviewOf all the hyped novels about 1980s London, it remains one of the most genuine - New Statesman About the AuthorGeoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. He lives in London.
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The Monkey Rope

The Monkey Rope

Stephen Lewis

Stephen Lewis

Growing up in mid-century Brooklyn, Seymour Lipp's nemesis is Junior Constantino. Seymour becomes an attorney, Junior a petty criminal. Both at different times have been involved with the sensuous Lois. When Junior is accused of a rape murder he enlists Seymour as his defense attorney. Out of this tangled triangle, The Monkey Rope tells a story that grabs you and doesn't let go. Mystery by Stephen Lewis; originally published by Walker
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