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Clara Hellman, the forensic accountant at the heart of the story, POMORSKA STREET, reappears in this novel, a «hold your breath» mystery, called FINAL ENTRY. The story begins at Los Angeles International Airport with Clara Hellman off on a routine business trip. Soon, she's enmeshed in murder, intrigue and a web of family complications. With the help of her wits and her friends, which now include Steve Sanchez, a young police detective, she tries to stay alive while she searches to...
| Автор | SARA APPLEBAUM |
Fourteen years ago Michael dazzled the world with Ephesus, a brilliant debut novel that won him the respect of his peers, plenty of easy sex and the coveted Booker Prize. Since then, there's been nothing but false starts and dead ends. He can't even finish a short story. With debt collectors at the door, the cellar empty and the mortgage on the line, it's crunch time. His wife, Tanya, issues an ultimatum: get a job or get a divorce. Forced into assessing his literary agent's...
| Автор | Ian Shadwell |
Kelly, a registered nurse from Ashtabula, Ohio looses her job due to downsizing in July 1987. She impulsively signs a one-year contract to work at a hospital in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. Kelly says she wants an adventure. She gets an adventure but at stake are: her life, her reputation, her sanity, her integrity and potential financial problems. Faced with the trials and tribulations of life in an ancient culture as it transitions to modernity, she grapples with the realities of sexual politics,...
| Автор | Jane McKeon |
Adam Truman returns from a ninety year mission to Gliese 667Cc, a planet thought to possibly host life, and finds a much changed earth. Thirty years after he left, an unusual nova in the Cygnus Constellation bombards earth with gamma rays for two days. Inexplicably, human Y chromosomes are weakened in succeeding generations. Women, by necessity, manage and control everything. Truman has uncontaminated Y chromosomes to restore balance of full males and females. But, some favor the new society...
| Автор | Tim Murray |
A woman survives the dramatic crash-landing of an airplane on the Hudson River, only to disappear into thin air. Her husband begins a journey to find her that leads him hundreds of miles from home, to uncover her secrets in the desolate tundra of northern Canada. In his masterful debut novel, Chuck Radda takes readers deep into the new territory of Nunavut, where Martin Wilkes struggles to come to terms with the truth about his wife, his marriage, and ultimately, the meaning of his life. ...
| Автор | Lefora Publishing |
Eagle Scouting grabs readers from the first chapter and illuminates the dark secrets of a terrorist cell operating in a small town on the Connecticut shore in the days before and after September 11, 2001. Fast-paced chapters alternate between the activities of an undercover operative, Raoul (known to the terrorists as Ismail), and his sister, magazine photographer Clara Quiñones, who comes to town to try and make sense of her brother's gruesome death. Although the ending may seem...
| Автор | Lefora Publishing |
There are creatures that have lived before us that we have no concept of, how they looked or how large they were, or even if they still exist. We always assume that they are extinct then later find out that many are not. This is a story about just such a creature and a rag tag film crew that was desperate enough to bring one to the surface and film it only to let it get lose in our world, a world with dinner at every beach. Now a small research group has to figure out how to put the monster back...
| Автор | eddie paul |
"We all have sins of our past, things we’d rather hide from than face, but the demons keep coming whether you tell the truth or not, so why not just give in and come clean?” All she wanted was to live in the present and to forget about the problems of her past. She was managing to pull it off. Then someone walks back into her life and drags her back home to a past—to the person—she thought she’d escaped. He came back from the dead to protect her from a war that was being waged in...
| Автор | Amanda Quiroz |
This is the story of a man who shot his wife's lover and thus created a memory which wrecked his own life. Arnold Dudley loved his wife and killed the man who stole her from him. Hunted by justice, pursued by bitter remorse, he fled to a stretch of beach on the Australian coast and lived in utter loneliness. When almost driven to madness by the solitude, he meets two women, who strive to re-build his broken life…<br /> <br />First published in 1930, by the creator of Bony, the...
| Автор | Arthur W. Upfield |
The story of America from 1720 through 1859 through the lives of Jim and Missy Cobb’s ancestors and associated families. They come to America for reasons of religious freedom, economic opportunity, and escape from troubles. They find a raw, untamed land where survival depends on hard work and a long rifle. They fight in all of America’s wars – French & Indian, Revolutionary, 1812, Creek, Mexican-American, and Bleeding Kansas – as America expands from its Eastern Seaboard to the Pacific...
| Автор | Tim Murray |
What is the nature of human love? Burt enters his office one day to find a large handwritten folder marked "CONFIDENTIAL". The unexpected package has come from an old university mate: a charming, successful, and well-loved Australian man named Ted Harris. Twenty-five years post-university, Ted seems to have it all: a partnership in a successful law firm, respect, wealth, and the perfect wife. <br /> <br />However, as Burt delves deeper into these documents – which...
| Автор | Manfred Jurgensen |