![]() ![]() I only want to see one thing in my bedroom at night, and when I’m called home to help Sheriff Stone on an investigation, he actually stops frowning for a minute, and my teenage fantasies get very real. Yes, I take pictures of dead things, but I don’t see them in my bedroom at night. Trust me, I know crazy, but I’m just plain ole Britt Bailey, Shania Twain-loving, non-magical forensic photographer. It doesn’t help that my grandmother (the mayor) is a former magician, and my mom is a psychic (sort-of)… And my dad died in a failed escape-artist attempt (that my mother is convinced was a murder). Especially since he’s sort-of my new boss… The last thing I should do is sleep with him. He’s the oldest of the Stone brothers, and his “by the book” family has battled mine for control of our small town for generations. ![]() ![]() A Little Taste by Tia Louise is now live!Īiden Stone is a six-foot-two former Marine with a permanent scowl, dark hair, and dreamy blue eyes. ![]()
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![]() The actor thought this would be a role that would change his life. ![]() Entrepreneurial Americans, international drug traffickers, and M-19 guerrillas are all fighting for South America’s future-and the groups aren’t as distinct as one might think. ![]() The air is so wet that the celluloid film disintegrates.īut what the actor doesn’t realize is that the greatest threat might be the town itself, and the mysterious shadow economy that powers this remote jungle outpost. The production team seems headed for a breakdown. He quickly realizes he’s made a mistake when it becomes clear that he's replacing another actor who quit after seeing the script-a script the director now claims doesn’t exist. ![]() When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970's New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film set in the Amazon, he flies to South America, no questions asked. ![]() ![]() Neither was the worst thing she could possibly do: fall in love with her future husband. While the rude, elusive Dante isn't her idea of a dream partner, she agrees to their arranged marriage out of duty.Ĭraving his touch was never part of the plan. Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family. Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family’s ticket into the highest echelons of high society. There’s only one problem: now that he has her.he can't bring himself to let her go. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal. It doesn’t matter how beautiful or charming she is. Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. Until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows. The billionaire CEO never planned to marry. ![]() ![]() She’s the wife he never wanted…and the weakness he never saw coming.ĭante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. ![]() ![]() ![]() “At that point in my life, I could never imagine talking to Yehuda in a disrespectful way,” she said. ![]() She said he also threatened her harm and even death if she told anyone what happened. ![]() Scaccetti says she rejected his advances and that the four-hour visit ended with him calling for a cab to take her home, but only after he seized her phone and deleted messages. She also claims he touched her and forcibly embraced her. The 36-year-old plaintiff alleges Berg gave her alcohol and a Vicodin pill to try and relax her so she would agree to have sex with him at his mother’s apartment in the Kabbalah Centre in New York City the night of Oct. The plaintiff was in her second day of testimony in trial of her lawsuit against Berg and the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles, where Madonna, Ashton Kutcher and other celebrities have studied. My connection is between me and God at this point. “I grew up a Catholic and I don’t confide in any priests. “I never confided in a rabbi again,” Scaccetti testified. ![]() Jena Scaccetti told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury that the controlling aspects of Kabbalah and an alleged attempt by one of its former co-directors, Rabbi Yehuda Berg, to convince her to have sex with him took its toll after six years as a follower. A former Kabbalah Centre International student testified Wednesday that her negative experiences with the Jewish school of thought has prompted her to shun religion, distrust the clergy and install extensive security in her home to protect herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of 1940 New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined. This introductory novel in Archer's ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. I really enjoy family sagas and this was no exception with its well formed characters, a flowing and twisting tale and a little social history to keep the reader. I listened to this book and the narrator was really good and very well suited to the story. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again.Īs he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles) by Jeffrey Archer was an enjoyable book. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. ![]() ![]() Shes heard about the sadistic murders of several local women, and she cant shake the. She lives in Point Pleasant and most of her books are set in real West Virginia locations unless the situations or settings of her book do not easily fit into a specific West Virginia place, she invents a new West Virginia town. When he told her he was distracted by work, Deborah is scared. They continued walking until Thompson had the framework for the book in her head.Īfter graduating from Marshall University with a degree in English, she received a PhD from Ohio State University and taught the University of Rio Grande from 1983-1989, before becoming a full time writer. Her first published mystery Black for Remembrance originated while she and two dogs walked in a wooded area. When she was nine years old she saw 101 Dalmatians and was inspired by the combination of animals and mystery to start writing. The cats and dogs that appear on her pages share the same characteristics and quirks as those who live with her. ![]() All of the characters in her books are fictional, except for the four legged ones. Carlene Thompson was born in West Virginia and most of her books are set in West Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() But its meaning grows.Īn aspiring artist, young Ono began as a hack artist, then became the star pupil in a school of bohemian artists who enjoyed and celebrated bars and sake, hostesses and lantern light. The ''floating world'' of the title is the Japanese term for night life in the pleasure districts. His second novel, ''An Artist of the Floating World,'' is the kind that stretches the reader's awareness, teaching him to read more perceptively.Īs the retired gentleman Masuji Ono chats with the reader, the words are simple, but where is the reality? Postwar Japan is a world of shifting values, of behavior complicated by polite formalities, of undeserved pride or unnecessary humility, of memories that swell to smug importance or disappear to suit convenience. Good writers abound - good novelists are very rare. IT is not unusual to find new novels by good writers, novels with precise wording, witty phrases, solid characterizations, scenes that engage. AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD By Kazuo Ishiguro. ![]() ![]() When Georgeanne and John meet again, she is on her way to becoming Seattle's domestic darling and he is past his hellraising ways. Is he really a changed man? And will he risk the wrath of his boss, and one final chance at glory, to prove that this time his love will be everlasting? Georgeanne has loved John since the moment she jumped into his little red Corvette seven years ago, but she doesn't want to risk her heart again. But he is shocked to learn that their single unforgettable night in paradise produced a daughter, and he is determined to be a part of her life. ![]() But a long night stretches ahead of them-a night too sultry to resist temptation. At the height of his hockey career, this bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's savior but his own, no matter how beautiful this angel may be. ![]() John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. Georgeanne Howard, charm school graduate and Southern belle extraordinaire, leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she just can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. New York Times bestselling and RITA® Award-winning author Rachel Gibson's ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unless you are in urgent need of sandwiches, Cokes, sunscreen, or rock and roll tapes, drive through Chincoteague without stopping.” “People now grown who had the good fortune to read Marguerite Henry’s book Misty of Chincoteague when they were young,” he writes, “and who formed a mental picture of a little old-fashioned fishing village where a wild silvery pony found a happy home are in for some measure of disillusionment. Although his dismay is heartfelt, his wry humor never fails him. ![]() Today more than half the population of the United States lives within an hour’s drive of this coast, and everywhere Thorndike goes he finds overdevelopment, erosion, pollution, and loss of wildlife. It was her first look at the system of slavery that supported her, and what she saw horrified her. The author walks Cape Cod in the imagined company of Henry David Thoreau and visits Georgia’s Sea Islands, remembering the English actress Fanny Kemble, who arrived there in 1838 with her husband of four years, the owner of a local rice plantation. One of the founding editors of American Heritage, Thorndike brings to this account of his journeys all he knows of previous travelers, including the artist Winslow Homer, who summered at Prouts Neck, Maine, and guarded his privacy by planting a sign in his garden: SNAKES, SNAKES, AND MICE. Thorndike traveled the entire length of the Atlantic shoreline from West Quoddy Head in Maine to Key West, Florida. In a series of trips taken over a number of years, Joseph J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She movingly conveys how she was able to serve God asan ambassador to spread His word and His love in the fashion business. Funny., Beverly's insights into the fashion world ring true for me. ![]() making Him sovereign in her outcomes and decisions., Varnado's memoir held me captive in sweet surrender from the deep, gentle south to fast-paced New York City's Fashion Capital of the World. Withthis book, you feel at home with the author's experiences because she bringsChrist to the center. I am intrigued howVarnado uses simple life moments to show breakthroughs in her faith. It detailsthe struggle between a fast-paced career in worldly settings and an internalfaith that grows stronger with each opposition encountered. Beverly's encouraging stories of how God moved in that sphere help us realize that no matter where we are- even on Seventh Avenue-God wants to use us for His glory., Varnado's "Faith in the Fashion District" is relative, heartwarming, and refreshing. As a Ford model during the 1980's, the New York fashion world was my world. ![]() |