Thursday Next, the written one, has been sent to discover what happened at the site of a book crash. At first, it seems like the usual assignment for a character in BookWorld nominally attached to Jurisfiction, and something well within Thursday’s skills, a non-event that an A8 character could handle. What Thursday finds is more than her superiors at Jurisfiction suspected.
Cryptic dying words from a murdered homeless woman in present day San Francisco unlock a decades-buried secret that changed history. Now a pair of ruthless assassins are sent to cut the few living “loose ends.” And a young, resourceful woman on the run encounters a determined man with his own connected past and vengeful agenda. Forced to partner for survival and answers, a fast-paced and deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, taking them across the globe from the winding streets of Paris to the faded palaces of Budapest to the frozen lakes of Mongolia…where destiny, passion, and further betrayal await them.
A gripping tale of international intrigue and betrayal, Eisenhower 1956 is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis climaxed in a tumultuous nine-day period fraught with peril just prior to the 1956 presidential election, with Great Britain, France, and Israel invading Egypt while the Soviet Union ruthlessly crushed rebellion in Hungary.
WRITING SCENES by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro March 2011 In 101 Best Scenes Ever Written (Quill Driver Books, 2007) Barnaby Conrad describes a scene from an old film called A Letter to Three Wives in which a guy drives a girl home and she gives him a kiss on the...
During Christmas break, Charlotte, her sister Annalise and their parents are filming at an insane asylum that is said to be haunted. They have to wait for Leonard Zelden, an apparent demonoligist, before they are able to start filming. Zelden’s assistant, Markus, attacks Charlotte, leaving her with an injured arm.
Meghan Chase, half Summer Court fae and half human, has found herself in exile in the mortal land after spending a year in Faery. After recovering the Scepter of the Seasons, the Summer King, her father, casts her out for falling in love and having a relationship with Ash, a Prince of the Winter, or Unseelie, court.
In the short time of her marriage to King Richard IV, the only surviving son of King Edward, who was believed to be murdered by Richard III, Catherine and her baby and ladies follow Richard Plantagenet to England to begin the struggle to regain his throne from the Tudor usurper, King Henry VII. Richard Plantagenet, known as Perkin Warbeck in England, is considered an imposter with intentions of stealing the English crown, but his bearing and likeness to his father Edward is too marked to be missed.
Parliamentary librarian, Esther Hammerhans, put an ad in the newspaper for a renter. She wanted company, someone to help divert her attention from the looming date of her husband’s suicide two years before. What she got was a massive black dog that calls himself Mr. Chartwell. He has business in the city and needs a room to be close to his client—Winston Churchill. Black Pat also has business with Esther, but she does not know it yet.
A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness Penguin Group USA 2-11-11 Hardcover/579 pages ISBN: 978-0670022410 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .romance along with a dash of danger, murder and intrigue. Diana Bishop is not your run of the...
The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those who Lived it Edited by: Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean Library of America 2-03-11 Hardcover/800 pages ISBN: 978-1-5985-3088-9 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ...
