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Last Chance
One night, one kiss would change their lives forever..It was Independence Day, 1894, when the widow Rachel McKenna decided, "I will not wear black tomorrow." Her husband, the sheriff of Last Chance, Montana, had been dead for a year. And now, sitting near the dance floor, listening to the music, she was ready to start living again...It was then and there that Lane Cassidy walked boldly toward her and asked, "May I have this dance?" Rachel knew town gossips would be shocked. Lane was a legendary gunfighter. To dance with him was unthinkable, scandalous. And it was exactly what Rachel decided to do....
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Levkas Man
LEVKAS MAN - He was moving slowly nearer, a ghost of a figure in the red immensity of that dune landscape, walking with slow uncertain steps... "Who sent you?" There was hostility, no sign of affection. "I was worried about you." A rasping sound came from his throat, a jeering laugh of disbelief. "After eight years?" And then - "You're in trouble again. Is that it?" I couldn't help it. I laughed, looking down at him squatting there, weak with hunger and half out of his mind, and thinking I'd come to him for help. "yes," I said. "I think I killed a man."
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Mrs. Dalloway
Clarissa's day captures in a definite matrix the drift of thought and feeling in a period, the point of view of a class, and seems almost to indicate the strength and weakness of an entire civilization." The New York Times
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Pregnant With His Child
The end of the affair… Flight doctor Christina Farrelly and GP Joe Barrett have been in love for two years – part-time. Joe spends a week every month at the Crocodile Creek Medical Centre, where Christina works. He lives for their time together, and can’t give her more than that. But Christina wants all of Joe – or nothing. The start of something serious…? Christina finds it hard to tell the big, gorgeous doctor it’s over. It’s only after she does that he discovers he can’t live without her – and she discovers she is pregnant. His fight to keep her has only just begun.
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The Fiorenza Forced Marriage
Rafaele Fiorenza is furious. To get his inheritance he has to marry…his estranged father’s mistress!Emma March was only doing her job, caring for the late Valentino Fiorenza. She expected no mention in his will, let alone a stipulation to marry his son! But, financially, she’s desperate…Rafaele will treat Emma like the money-grabbing harlot he thinks she is. He’ll wed her, bed her and destroy her. But then he discovers his new wifeis a virgin!He’s forced an innocent woman up the aisle…
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Chance
Mafia princess Shirley Meeker wants her husband back. So does her father, kingpin Julius Ventura, and a few other shady characters. Spenser and Hawk head to Vegas to find Anthony Meeker--and confirm their suspicion that all these people aren't just missing Anthony's smile. And when bodies start turning up, Spenser has to make sense of some very disorganized crime.
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Pirate Latitudes
Jamaica, in 1665 a lone outpost of British power amid Spanish waters in the sunbaked Caribbean. Its capital, Port Royal, a cuthroat town of taverns, grog shops and bawdy houses -- the last place imaginable from which to launch an unthinkable attack on a nearby Spanish stronghold. Yet that is exactly what renowned privateer Captain Charles Hunter plans to do, with the connivance of Charles II's ruling governor, Sir James Almont. The target is Matanceros, guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, and considered impregnable with its gun emplacements and sheer cliffs. Hunter's crew of buccaneers must battle not only the Spanish fleet but other deadly perils -- raging hurricanes, cannibal tribes, even sea monsters. But if his ragtag crew succeeds, they will make not only history ...but a fortune in gold.
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Fireproof
February 2002. A helpless nation watches as the city of Ahmedabad in India is rocked by religious violence. Before sunrise the next day, more than a hundred Muslim men, women and children will be killed, most of them burnt alive. Above the smoke and flames, the dead get together and decide to intervene.'The newborn at the centre of the novel, named Ithim by his father, is so helpless, so defenceless, that his presence is commanding, and the sense of foreboding surrounding him is fully realised and sustained throughout..."Fireproof" is a novel about the limits of representation, and the figure of the baby, and all he has endured, is emotionally resonant in the extreme' - "Irish Times". 'The novel focuses on conveying the voices of the dead, while exploring a more universal culpability and the workings of conscience and redemption' - "Guardian
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Ladder Of Years
BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life. . . ."TYLER DETAILS DELIA'S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL. . . . As so often in her earlier fiction, [she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . . Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching."—The New York Times"A 'PAGE-TURNER' IN THE BEST SENSE . . . One wants to lightly caress the pages of the story because one cares for Ms. Tyler's touchingly flawed characters. . . . Both madcap and genteel, Anne Tyler knows as well as anyone that 'human beings lead many lives.' Casually, delightfully, Ladder of Years will tell you just how we humans manage this trick."--The Baltimore Sun
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Burning Your Boats
One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, criticism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents — as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales — are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction, gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, we are able to chart the evolution of Carter's marvelous, magical vision.
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The Color Purple
Life wasn’t easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by.Then her husband’s lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more–to laugh, to play, and finally–to love."
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The Machine That Changed The World
Based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's five-million-dollar, five-year study on the future of the automobile, a groundbreaking analysis of the worldwide move from mass production to lean production.Japanese companies are sweeping the world, and the Japanese auto industry soars above the competition. Drawing on their in-depth study of the practices of ninety auto assembly plants in seventeen countries and their interviews with individual employees, scholars, and union and government officials, the authors of this compelling study uncover the specific manufacturing techniques behind Japan's success and show how Western industry can implement these innovative methods. The Machine That Changed the World tells the fascinating story of "lean production," a manufacturing system that results in a better, more cost-efficient product, higher productivity, and greater customer loyalty. The hallmarks of lean production are teamwork, communication, and efficient use of resources. And the results are remarkable: cars with one-third the defects, built in half the factory space, using half the man-hours. The Machine That Changed the World explains in concrete terms what lean production is, how it really works, and--as it inevitably spreads beyond the auto industry--its significant global impact
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The Shipping News
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons-and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or miseryA vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, The Shipping News shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today
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The Inheritance Of Loss
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when hisIn a generous vision, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, Desai presents the human quandaries facing a panoply of characters. This majestic novel of a busy, grasping time -- every moment holding out the possibility of hope or betrayal -- illuminates the consequences of colonialism and global conflicts of religion, race, and nationality. orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are claimed by his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. When an Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's exploration of the many incarnations and facets of a romance with her Nepali tutor, and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they are forced to consider their colliding interests.
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To The Last Bullet
This is the extraordinay story of Ashok Kamte, Additional Commissioner of Police, East Region, Mumbai who died fighting terrorists in the 2611 attack on Mumbai, The inspiring story of one of the most courageous and promising Indian police Service (IPS) Officers comes straight from the hear of his wif, Vinita.In traces the life and career of this fearless officer who showed exemplay valour at his postings - be it the naxal affected bhandara District, Satara, Sangli, Solapur or Mumbai, It also brings out details of his life which would inspire many a youngster.
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A Safe Place
It's time you knew the truth;' she said. 'About your father''What about him?''His first wife,' she said. 'She didn't die of cancer.''How did she die?''He murdered her.'Before there was Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra survived a very different kind of nightmare in his own home in Hell's Kitchen, New York. For behind closed doors he and his mother survived the erratic, violent outbursts of his father.A powerful father who tempered his rage with affection. To a young boy he was a man both to love and to fear. Until Lorenzo learned a shattering fact that forever changed his life. His father was a murderer.'Unforgettable... a remarkable book.'Newsweek'Dramatic, graphic and wrenching.'The Washington Post'Haunting, fast-paced.'People
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Lines And Shadows
Not since Joseph Wambaugh's best-selling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as . . .Lines And Shadows. The media hailed them as heroes. Others denounced them as lawless renegades. A squad of tough cops called the Border Crime Task Force. A commando team sent to patrol the snake-infested no-man's-land south of San Diego. Not to apprehend the thousands of illegal aliens slipping into the U.S., but to stop the ruthless bandits who preyed on them nightly-relentlessly robbing, raping and murdering defenseless men, women and children. The task force plan was simple. They would disguise themselves as illegal aliens. They would confront the murderous shadows of the night. Yet each time they walked into the violent blackness along the border, they came closer to another boundary line-a fragile line within each man. and crossing it meant destroying their sanity and their lives.