An Alzheimer’s story. One person, Mallory, dealing with the impact on her world as her father disappears before her very eyes. This is a deeply personal and intimate story lived by thousands as they deal with this insidious disease. Mallory must make difficult choices as she and her family do their very best to take care of her father. In the process, Mallory learns the ins and outs as well.An Alzheimer’s story. One person, Mallory, dealing with the impact on her world as her father disappears before her very eyes. This is a deeply personal and intimate story lived by thousands as they deal with this insidious disease. Mallory must make difficult choices as she and her family do their very best to take care of her father. In the process, Mallory learns the ins and outs as well as the limitations of existing medical care for patients. Fortunately, she discovers “alternative” medicine and treatment. The combination helps her as she must choose how much she can do as she fights to save her father. Mallory does what family does………she rallies to her Father’s side even as his disease invades all aspects of her life. Keep her job or tend to him? Home health care? A full time health care facility as her father’s new home? Stick with what is covered by insurance? Pursue alternative care and solutions? All this while life goes on and her world spins out of control.There are a lot of Mallorys out there. Too many. “Fuggeddaboudit” is about hope and people doing their best at the worst of times. It is to inspire and comfort……as well to spark. We can and must do more. For Mallory and everyone like her. For her Dad and every one like him. The story begins at the end…..because she had to live it to share it.

The Voice of Reason is part of a collection of short stories touching on the mystical, the inspirational and one that is sometimes laced with a little trip to the dark side. In this short story, Mary Percy finds that life sometimes presents the most unexpected hero in a form you least expect.Mary Percy can see nothing that will change her mother from mending her ways. Her father’s death had resulted in unhappy results for all three of them. When her mother drowns her troubles with drinks, Mary hardens herself to maintain sanity at all costs. She decides to celebrate her father’s life and memory by capturing the poetry that he wrote so intensely atop a cliff close to home. But when she meets Brad, Mary unravels the most unbecoming truth about her father, about the strange nature of life itself and the reason why betrayals sometimes leads to truth in the most unequivocal way.

Two Children and their yellow Labrador ‘Scoot’ take up with an old farmer by the name of Gil Bateman who lives just down the road, When they go missing the sheriff suspects the farmer of taking them, but Gil Bateman has his own ideas as they frantically search for the two missing children.**Please review this book**She hates snow… he’s a champion skier.He dumped her by text…Now she’s taken a job on the ski fields…How is Elaine Swift going to deal with a chance encounter with the glamorous champion skier from her past?(A contemporary romance short story of 3000 words from Alison Stuart)

Praise for Pat McIntosh: “McIntosh’s characterizations and period details are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series.”—Publishers Weekly “McIntosh provides an intelligent, authentic, and suspenseful historical whodunit that will please the most demanding of Ellis Peters’ fans.”—Booklist Gil Cunningham, a young notary, has escaped a life in the Church to become the archbishop’s questioner, only to be accused of causing a man’s death by witchcraft. Gil and his young wife must solve the mystery to save him. Pat McIntosh was born and brought up in Lanarkshire, Scotland. She worked in Glasgow before settling on Scotland’s west coast.

He moved through the town, harassing and assessing his prospects. He would be forced to kill this night. Because his urges couldn't be stopped. One of Gil Brewer's creepiest noir tales.

Are you ready for self-transformation? Many spiritual teachers promise transformation, but Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff delivers. Gurdjieff (1872-1949) was born in Alexandropol on the border of Russia and Turkey. Gurdjieff's teachings contain many concepts that, taken together are referred to as the Work. The idea behind the Work is that our first birth is our physical body, which is all we need to get through life. But we are capable of developing into something higher—just as an acorn can stay an acorn and die or develop into an oak tree, we can develop into something higher. Gurdjieff offers a radically original version of man and his potential for self-development. "Gurdjieff, A Beginner's Guide: How Changing the Way We React To Misplacing Our Keys Can Transform Our Lives" is a beginning guide to the teachings of Gurdjieff. Practical and eminently readable, it leads the reader through some of the main concepts necessary for self-transformation.

An assemblage of vivid prose-poetry, both gripping and furious, this collection navigates a macabre tour of nightmares, perverse secrets, and death-focused mythologies. Creating a world awash in violence and history, a landscape of gunslingers, madwomen, ghosts, and wolves is given greater shape with each concise, narrative verse. Enigmatic and thrilling, these compiled pieces lay the groundwork for Adamson’s award-winning and best-selling novel, The Outlander. Combining neo-gothicism, surrealist snapshots, feminism, and postmodern parables, each lyric moment echoes the characteristics of the outlaws described within—seductive and a little bit dangerous.

Danny's older brother, Tad, had a knack for showing up at just the right moment to stop him from doing things that would get him in trouble with the law. But with Tad in prison and a beautiful dame whispering criminal thoughts in his ear, Danny is sorely tempted to pull the robbery job of his life...

ARMED FOR DEATH Gil Hamilton was more than an operative for ARM - the elite global police force. He was an essential. His intuition was peerless; his psychic powers were devastating. And his raw courage took him into the depths of inner and outer space where others feared to tread! But Gil Hamilton had enemies. Many enemies. Some were organleggers - those murderous dealers of illicit transplants. Others were just ordinary killers. Around any corner, Gil could probably find someone waiting to kill him. In order to stay alive - and operating - he always had to be armed for death! THREE THRILLING NOVELETTES IN THE FAMED KNOWN SPACE SERIES BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF RINGWORLD Contents: · Death by Ecstasy [“The Organleggers”] · na Galaxy Jan ’69 · The Defenseless Dead · nv Ten Tomorrows, ed. Roger Elwood, Fawcett, 1973 · ARM · na Epoch, ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Berkley, 1975 · Afterword: The Last Word About SF! Detectives · aw

Prissy Baxter inherited a lot of money when her husband died. She keeps her sister, Liz, on a tight allowance — but Prissy's will says if Liz is married to Prissy's approval when Prissy dies, then Liz will inherits. However, if Liz is single or married to someone Prissy doens't approve of, then all the money goes to charity... Is it recipe for murder — or worse?

Joe Morley is fond of watching Miriam sunbathe nude (behind a screen). Unfortunately, she is the wife of the bank robber Frank Garret. Complicating matters, a contract hitman is looking for Garret, who has double-crossed his employer on a bank job...

My fingers traced the indented letters of the silver WWJD bracelet on my right wrist. I do that when I'm considering pummeling someone.Gil Mason is a simple guy with complex problems. Cross Phillip Marlow with Caesar Milan, The Dog Whisperer, and you create a new breed of private eye; courage of a Pit Bull, heart of a Labrador.Max, Gil's K9 partner, has a few problems of his own. It's a love-hate relationship. Part of Max wants to love his human master, while his alpha personality instinctively drives him to take control of the pack.So how does a former cop turned PI find a missing teenage boy who has been kidnapped by a corporate billionaire, while dealing with his own feelings of guilt and loneliness over the murder of his family, and keep his canine's homicidal tendencies in check? Brains, guns and fists combined with an intimate understanding of dog psychology.As long as Max doesn't eat him first.

*OPTIONED in February 2019 for a motion picture* *2018 Splatterpunk Award nominee for Best Extreme Horror Novel* Gil Valle, the former NYPD patrol cop who rose to infamy in 2012 after he was wrongfully arrested by the feds for allegedly plotting to kidnap, cook, and eat women, fleshes out his fantasies in his debut novel, A Gathering of Evil, serving up a feast of gut-churning horror. Sarah McConnell and Jennifer Miller are two young, attractive New Yorkers leading seemingly normal lives. Unbeknownst to them, they have been targeted by a group of wealthy and violent sadists, who meet through the Dark Web and share some rather unusual and deviant sexual desires, along with a desire to turn those twisted fantasies into reality. Marilyn and Bruce, the wealthy couple from upstate New York who have organized the event, have gathered this group of people from all different backgrounds and brought them together through a common bond: The lust and desire...

Cadmar is haunted by an elfin prophecy when Lord Sinon arrives to become tutor to the king's youngest son. As Sinon's power increases, so does misfortune. Chaos, murder, and mortal illness come about to king and crown prince.Then Sinon sets his sights on Princess Aimée and Cadmar must act swiftly to steal her away to the elfin kingdom for protection. Once there, it becomes clear what he must do to save those he loves.

When Rodregas survives his suicidal rebellion against an evil sorcerer, he finds himself reborn with the power of a Celestial Lion. With this second opportunity at life he chooses to redeem himself by fighting the evil sorcerers that he formerly served. Rodregas’ actions thrust him into the middle of a struggle between the Celestial Gods and the Daemons of the Infernal.When Rodregas survives his suicidal rebellion against an evil sorcerer, he finds himself reborn with the power of a Celestial Lion. With this second opportunity at life he chooses to redeem himself by fighting the evil sorcerers that he formerly served. The Immortalist Sorcerers are incredibly powerful. Over centuries they are able to steal the power of other supernatural beings until they become gods themselves. Rodregas’ actions against the Immortalists thrust him into the middle of a struggle between the Celestial Gods and the Daemons of the Infernal.As Rodregas grapples to understand his role in the battle against the Immortalist Sorcerers, others as unusual and as powerful as him join his quest. With Doi’van, a massive Hellborn warrior, and Imeralda, a young but powerful elemental sorceress, at his side he struggles to find a way to fight the powerful sorcerers. In the end it will require more than skill and luck to survive; he needs to find a way to change the odds in his favor. For Rodregas to take on the most powerful beings in the land he must turn his second chance into a new beginning.

Crattock strained against the ropes binding his wrists behind the chair. He cursed his brother, who breathed harshly as he lashed Crattock's legs to the chair, knotting the biting hemp. "I won't stay tied forever, Mel," Crattock said, "I'll kill you for this."

The right bait is the key to good fishing. But back-seat fishing can get you in trouble!

Harley had had it up to there with his neighbor borrowing things. The lawn mower was the straw that broke the camel's back.A rare short story by Gil Brewer!

Taste for Sin is the story of Jim Phalen, who is on the run from a cheating wife and an act of vengeance that he committed in the heat of the moment against his wife's lover. Working in a new town, and trying to hack out a new life without his wife, Jim meets Felice and for the first time he thinks he can forget his wife and the past. The passion scenes between these two explode on the pages like nothing I've read before. This is hot passion, smoldering with a fire that you don't find in today's over blown and explicit fiction.While the heat between the two is reason enough to read this book, the main plot is terrific: a bank robbery that Felice wants Jim to help her pull off. The road to this heist has enough twists and turns along the way to keep the pressure on Jim, and will keep you flipping the pages as fast as you can.

Grisson, Halliwell, and Dibble are cops in their station when Marvin Hewitt walks in, wondering whom to talk to about witnessing a murder. Hewitt is a landscaper, working on a new development; he claims to have witnessed a murder in one of the houses. However, he has great amount of trouble telling his story...

"Cuadros died of AIDS in 1996, two years after chronicling the disease in City of God, a book of poems and stories about queer Los Angeles. His belated follow-up takes the same form, with the same bracing urgency."—The New York Times "Without doubt one of the sexiest and most important writers I've ever read."—Justin Torres, author of Blackouts"My Body Is Paper is a testament to the unrelenting literary magic of Gil Cuadros. Through poetry and prose, Cuadros holds a mirror up to California, reflecting this land of dualities back at us. He gives us sunshine and sickness, ecstasy and drudgery, eros and death. I am so very grateful for his work."—Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and ConfessionsSince City of God (1994) by Gil Cuadros was published 30 years ago, it has become an unlikely classic (an "essential book of Los Angeles" according to the LA...

Chandler, on a week-long break from school, has an awkward homecoming. To clear his head, he takes an aimless walk. However, he has forgotten the nature of his hometown and ends up in a diner, where he is nearly beat up for being black in a white neighborhood.In typical Gil Brewer fashion, that's just the start of his gritty, relentless downward spiral...

Gil Brewer's psychological deconstruction of a dysfunctional suburban family when they are faced with crime. Contains rape and adult themes. [Originally published in 1957.]

Mel and Rose Hopkins live in a rundown neighborhood. When Rose gets an obscene phone call, Mel begins to obsess about it being a neighbor. Good thing they have a cop on their beat!

Gil's second flash fiction anthology adds more spice to the mix, especially when it comes to time. (You'll see what that means.) From horror and science fiction to comedy and romance, dive into 30 stories you can read quickly anytime, anywhere."Thirty More Stories" is the companion volume to "Thirty Stories," Gil C. Schmidt's collections of stories that fit on one page. Flash fiction is meant to delight the reader with quick bursts of imagery and emotion, and Gil's stories achieve that and much more. Ranging from horror to comedy, romance and science fiction, "Thirty More Stories" delivers fiction that can be read in mere minutes and enjoyed for days on end.

On a secluded island, a jealous husband's paranoia about his young wife and a visiting photographer reaches dangerous heights in this taut psychological thriller from midcentury crime writer Gil Brewer. When damning information comes to light, the husband makes an irrevocable decision that changes everything in this expertly crafted golden age noir.

Harvey Caldwell's wife, Millie, is constantly nagging him to make more money. She never dreamedl his new career choice would be bank robber!

Praise for the Gil Cunningham series: “Another hearty meal stuffed with fascinating period tidbits and a satisfying mystery.”—Kirkus Reviews “McIntosh artfully interweaves intrigue and history in this suspenseful medieval mystery tale.”—Booklist The third mystery in the Gil Cunningham medieval Scottish series. Gil Cunningham’s friend Augie Morison is a merchant. When he opens a barrel sent from the Low Countries that is supposed to contain books, he finds a decapitated head—and a treasure. There is an inquest the next day before the Provost at which Morison is accused of the crime and imprisoned. He implores Gil to help him. The trail of the treasure and of the barrel containing it, which they attempt to follow in order to identify the dead man—and his murderer—leads Gil and his betrothed’s father, a French Master Mason, from the royal court of King James at Stirling, to a cooper’s yard in Linlithgow, and then to another corpse, found intact, lying on the bare slopes of the Pentland hills.

An unfaithful husband finds much more than he bargained for when he tangles with a prowler.

Kenneth was just a kid. He didn't understand why everyone hated him so much...

November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son's future.Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family's cabin, deep in the woods. When Jack finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined to get back — at any cost.Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson's follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that draws from the...

A classic mystery story by Gil Brewer.

Twenty years before, high school coach Gil Gilbert gave up his dream to play professional baseball so he could marry his pregnant girlfriend, Keri. When he miraculously discovers that he can pitch with deadly accuracy and speed, he must choose between his successful career and comfortable family life.

He had the fortune and the girl. Unfortunately, the also had the whiskey…

When Claire Hunt is sent to host her home shopping program on location in the Big Easy she and her husband, Gil, cannot resist having him come along. A book dealer back home in St. Louis, Gil is eager for the chance to poke around in the French Quarter's shops. The food, the history, the mystique--all of it delights the couple . . . until they're meeting with the Voodoo Queen, Auntie Laveau. The strange woman presents the duo with a collection of miniature Mardi Gras masks, hoping Claire will sell them on the air during her show. However, when the real Auntie Laveau is found murdered the police begin an official investigation. As the Hunts unwittingly become entangled with Louisiana's supernatural subculture Gil finds himself embroiled in the search for a missing girl who may or may not become the next victim. As he, himself, becomes endangered Claire and her son, Paul, frantically search the French Quarter for her husband before he can become a victim of the Voodoo Queen as well. But wait. Auntie Laveau is dead-or is she?

Murder Is The Deal Of The Day by Christine Matthews\Robert J. Randisi released on Oct 14, 2003 is available now for purchase.

Despite her husband Dan's ambivalence to property ownership, Faith Harris, 32, starts house hunting. The first and only property she views is a wreck of a place, but the agent, Nick, who shows her round is so captivating, Faith convinces herself that this is the house for her. Soon Faith becomes obsessed with the idea of owning 77 Renfield Road and unfortunately for Dan, obsessed with Nick too..This disparate gathering of books and stories has as little in common as the varied contents of a ‘sampler platter’ of appetizers at a restaurant and serves the same purpose: if you don’t know what exactly you are hungry for, at least in a literary sense, why not try a little of everything? Within you will find a book of fairy tales and verse (Over the Hills and Far Away), two short and humorous tales (The Foibles), two volumes of longer tales (The Greylands), and several works from the ‘Chronicles of the Brethren’ series including the starter volume (The Serpent and the Unicorn: Book I and II), a collection of short stories (Legends), and the first of a trilogy within the series (Shadow of the Unicorn). Enjoy!Over the Hills and Far Away: Fairy tales, like music and poetry, are a language known to every soul no matter the culture, time, or place. Travel 'over the hills and faraway,' with these varied tales of Faerie and for a little while reclaim the wonder and joy peculiar to a childlike heart. The Foibles: If you are looking for a serious tale with a redeeming moral, find another book. This is a foible, not a fable, thus it has no intrinsic value whatsoever, save to make you smile. These stories should be used with caution, not taken internally, and avoided by those who have a congenital lack of humor, who take themselves and the world too seriously, and those looking for something serious to read. So take a detour through the fickle world of Foible, where a sense of humor is your only weapon against incomprehension. These stories are a silly (and hopefully entertaining) romp through the land of Faerie, poking fun at everything you love about fairy tales, geek culture, and very possibly things that have very little to do with either.The Greylands: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet, William Shakespeare A land of shadows, of mystery, of obfuscated Truth. Welcome to the Greylands, that strange world, within the bounds of Time, peopled by mortal men. We cannot see truly, only as through a glass, darkly. There are things that move and have their being completely beyond our ability to perceive them. There are things beyond our mortal ability to comprehend. There are hints and glimmers hidden within the body of revealed Truth, but there is much we do not know, cannot yet understand, and could never dare dream. These stories are mere fancy, with a seed of Truth at their core. They play with the ideas of mortality and Eternity, Time and things beyond it, and of course the epic battle of Good against Evil. Each stands alone, and though there are common themes, threads, names, and concepts, each story is an entity unto itself and should not be seen as occurring in the same world or mistaken for installments of a series. These are random musings, not Gospel Truth, and should not be taken as such. Joy, hope, and encouragement are hopefully a byproduct, but certainly not sound Theology. If you would know more of the true world beyond these Greylands, one must be a careful student of the Scriptures, not of silly stories such as these.Chronicles of the Brethren: What if the Myth were real and everything else mattered not? What if your very soul hung in the balance? Enter a land where the Myth is real, but many have forgotten or scorn the Truth and those who fight to uphold it. The adventure is about to begin, for even those who fight for justice are about to rediscover why.

Classic mystery story by Gil Brewer.

Keeping an eye on a friend's wife has its perils, after dark!

“McIntosh's characterizations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series.”—Publishers Weekly “The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.”—Historical Novels Review Novice lawyer Gil Cunningham finds his true vocation not as a priest but as an investigator. This meticulously researched historical mystery is the debut of a medieval Scottish investigator. Gil Cunningham is a recently qualified lawyer whose family expects him to enter the priesthood. At the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross, Gil notices an attractive woman who is subsequently murdered. When he finds the body of the woman in the new building under construction at Glasgow Cathedral, he is asked to investigate. The corpse was the runaway wife of cruel, unpleasant nobleman John Semphill. She had left him to live with a blind harper whom she bore an infant son. With the help of Maistre Pierre, the French master mason whose lovely daughter has captured his heart, Gil identifies a callous multiple murderer that no one would have suspected. Born and brought up in Lanarkshire, Pat McIntosh lived and worked in Glasgow for many years before settling on the West Coast. The Harper’s Quine is the first in the Gil Cunningham medieval mystery series.From Publishers WeeklyLovers of quality historicals will welcome McIntosh's debut, a convincing whodunit set in 15th-century Glasgow. Lawyer Gilbert Cunningham, a progressive and empathic young man, is letting entropy propel him toward a life in the priesthood. His natural intelligence, curiosity and logic serve him in good stead when he stumbles across the corpse of a young woman on the grounds of a cathedral. The victim proves to be the estranged wife of a nobleman who had left him for a harper. Assisted by the forward and independent daughter of a local mason, Cunningham carefully examines forensic clues as well as the mysteries of the human heart to uncover the twisted soul responsible for a number of deaths. Impressively, the author manages to avoid false or anachronistic notes in depicting Scottish life in 1492. While some historical references will be obscure to an American audience, they don't detract from a clever plot, littered with fair clues to the puzzles. The rough justice that befalls the villain is a little contrived, but there's every reason for the legions of fans of the late Ellis Peters to anticipate the next Cunningham mystery. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review"'McIntosh's characterisations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series.' Publishers Weekly 'The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.' Historical Novels Review"

When Renick is wounded in a drive-by shooting, the people around him stop to try to help. But one may be a little too helpful...

The warden of St Serf's has been found dead in the almshouse garden. He appears to have been killed on the previous night but there are those who are convinced he was present at that morning's service, The elderly residents, the almshouse nurse and Humphrey, her deranged favourite, have all been set against one another by the dead man's scheming - and then there is the discarded mistress and almshouse ghost to consider. Tracing the dead man's last movements between the Cathedral precinct and the shores of the Clyde, Gil Cunningham is both helped and hindered by his two sisters who have come to Glasgow for his wedding to Alys. An uncanny event followed by the arrival of Gil's godfather, precipitates the crisis. Finally, it is Alys who helps Gil identify the warden's killer. PRAISE FOR PAT MCINTOSH 'McInotosh's characterisations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series.' Publishers Weekly 'The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.' Historical Novels ReviewReview"* 'McInotosh's characterisations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series.' Publishers Weekly * 'The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.' Historical Novels Review" About the AuthorLike her protaganist Gil Cunnigham, Pat MacInstosh is a graduate of Glasgow University, She lived and worked in Glasgow before settling on Scotland's West Coast.

What makes a stalker? And what happens when a perfectly respectable man becomes obsessed with the girl across the street? A noir crime story, orginally published in the April 1956 issue of MANHUNT magazine, as only Gil Brewer could tell it!

After an Indian massacre, Second Lieutenant Jonathan Allan Haggard is tasked with a mission he doesn't like: stopping the band of Apaches led by Bleeding Cloud. But Lt. Haggard knows something the others don't: there may be a white man -- a renegade -- behind the butchery...which makes it murder!

Gil Mason is a simple guy with complex problems. Cross Phillip Marlow with Ceasar Milan, The Dog Whisperer, and you create a new bread of private eye: courage of a Pitbull, heart of a Labrador. The second book in the Gil Mason series. Gil and Max are hired by a high-ranking politician to find a kidnapped little girl. But things take a deadly twist when the kidnapper turns out to be an assassin for a sect of the notorious Bloods street gang. The action is fast and the characters real as Gil races from Aurora to Chicago, fighting villains and time, praying that he can save the child and unravel the strange reasons for her abduction, all while keeping his K9 partner Max from eating him.

A late-night tryst with a beautiful vixen sounds like an ideal setup for murder, especially with a serial killer on the loose. But as with any Gil Brewer tale, this one takes some unexpected twists!

Gil Cunningham had hoped that the first time he set foot in the brothel on the Drygate it would also be his last, but by the time all was settled he felt quite at home within its artfully painted chambers. The bawdy house, along with the neighbouring property and two more in Strathblane, are all part of a deal offered to Gil and his wife Alys by the forceful Dame Isabella. Her proposal also involves Gil’s young ward, and matters are further confused by an outbreak of counterfeit coins in Glasgow, which Gil has been ordered to investigate. Then Dame Isabella is found dead in strange circumstances, and the more Gil pursues the cause of her death, the more false coins he finds. And then the bawd-mistress, the enigmatic Madam Xanthe, gets involved and rumours circulate that the Devil is abroad in Strathblane. By the time Gil and Alys have untangled matters, some very surprising – and sinister – thing have come to light…Review"Suspenseful . . . McIntosh deftly balances plot and period detail."--"Publishers Weekly ""Gil's adventures ("A Pig of Cold Poison", 2008, etc.) continue to provide satisfying, albeit convoluted, mysteries larded with historical detail."--"Kirkus Reviews""A good pick for fans of the series and the genre."--"Library Journal""Will do for Glasgow in the fifteenth century what Ellis Peters did and her Brother Cadfael did for Shrewsbury in the twelfth."--"Mystery Readers Journal" About the AuthorBorn and brought up in Lanarkshire, Pat McIntosh lived and worked in Glasgow before settling on Scotland's west coast, where she lives with her husband and three cats.

Classic mystery story by Gil Brewer. Shortly after going AWOL from the Navy, Al York find his wife completely changed: she has started drinking, he knows she's having an affair, she is clear that she doesn't really want to be with him any more. Jack pays a street thug, Bart Snyder to check up on Nina's supposed lover, Errol Trout. And that's where the trouble starts...

One glance at Now and Then and it becomes evident that this is not merely a collection of a songwriter's lyrics. The song-poems of this undisputed "bluesologist" triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm and urgency which have distinguished Gil Scott-Heron's career.This, the first ever collection of his poems to be published in Britain, carries the reader from the global topics of political hypocrisy and the dangers posed by capitalist culture to painfully personal themes and the realities of modern day life. His message is black, political, historically accurate, urgent, uncompromising and mature and as relevant now as it was when he started, back in the early seventies.

"When local antique jeweller Nigel Fontenoy’s body is found at his cousin’s building site, DCI Gil Mayo and DI Abigail Moon think they have a simple case on their hands. Both detectives suspect that this murder is a family matter and they needn’t search far down the family tree. After all, Fontenoy’s cousin, Jake Wilding, was heavily in debt to the dead man and his inability to offer even a vaguely plausible account of his whereabouts on the night of the murder casts Wilding in a dubious shadow. And things look even more bleak for Wilding when traces of Fontenoy’s blood are found on one of his trucks. But the puzzle becomes intricate when Wilding finally names his alibi—an ex-wife—and claims that Fontenoy has been pressuring him to secure something of great value to the jeweller from the woman. Is it a piece of jewellery, a document, or something even more precious? Abigail Moon soon finds that in this case of tangled family ties, as soon a one thing is gained, another is lost."From Publishers WeeklyFerocious weather combines with the past to make life interesting for some affluent residents of an English village in this melodramatic offering. When Jake Wilding won't account for his whereabouts during the dark and stormy night on which his cousin, jeweler Nigel Fontenoy, is killed, it appears that Superintendent Abigail Moon and Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo have a straightforward case on their hands. But this family tree is more gnarled-and active-than most. And then Wilding, a well-off contractor who seems to have been in the dead man's debt, produces his ironclad alibi. He was visiting his ex-wife, the free spirited Naomi, who has returned to town after years of carefree existence in Greece. The indifferent mother of children from several relationships, Naomi herself seems to have roiled the normally placid village-as has the storm, which has knocked down the village's oldest house and cleared a particularly valuable plot of land. Or was it Wilding who cleared it, using the storm as his cover? Naomi has something the dead man wanted when he was seen carrying a parcel to London the morning before his death. Meanwhile, there are enough half brothers, half sisters, paternity issues and confrontations to keep a not especially credible soap opera rolling for months, all leading up to an ending that stretches credibility beyond its breaking point. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsBuilding-developer Jake Wilding; his cousin Nigel Fontenoy, an antique jewelry dealer; and Tom Callaghan, a TV talk-show host, have grown up together in the town of Lavenstock, home to CDI Gil Mayo (The Company She Kept, p. 1099, etc.), and now to newly promoted DI Abigail Moon. Abigail's first big case is the killing of Nigel Fontenoy, who is found after an awesome storm in a tatty alley next to the Rose bar. It doesn't take long to uncover a clutch of motives for Nigel's demise--among them his fondness for young girls, one of them Callaghan's 16-year-old daughter, who'd thrown herself under a bus years before. Jake Wilding's son Matthew, interested only in race cars, worked, reluctantly, in Nigel's elegant shop and has been left a substantial share of his estate. Meanwhile, Wilding's first wife Naomi had left him and Matthew long ago to live a wanton, gypsyish life. She's now back in Lavenstock with her motorcycle-riding, butch daughter Cassie and a twentysomething son Joss, who may or may not have been fathered by Jake. Toss into this cauldron a priceless Faberg‚ piece, separated from its provenance; another killing; and a slew of disturbing interrelationships. It all makes for lively entertainment, enhanced by the author's forthright style, some resonant characters, a subdued village ambiance, and a puzzle neatly deconstructed but with minimum help from Lavenstock's likable police team. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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A comprehensive, A-to-Z guide to Jewish foods, recipes, and culinary traditionsFood is more than just sustenance. It's a reflection of a community's history, culture, and values. From India to Israel to the United States and everywhere in between, Jewish food appears in many different forms and variations, but all related in its fulfillment of kosher laws, Jewish rituals, and holiday traditions. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food explores both unique cultural culinary traditions as well as those that unite the Jewish people.Alphabetical entries—from Afikomen and Almond to Yom Kippur and Za'atar—cover ingredients, dishes, holidays, and food traditions that are significant to Jewish communities around the worldThis easy-to-use reference includes more than 650 entries, 300 recipes, plus illustrations and maps throughoutBoth a comprehensive resource and fascinating reading, this book is perfect for Jewish cooks, food enthusiasts,...

Most people would think Annie Baker had it all: an idyllic life in the country and a fabulous job as a film producer. And so would she, if it weren't for the men in her life. Her six-year-old son Charlie gets traumatised if she buys the wrong kind of sausages. Her tempestuous boss Barney is a Great Director, but keeps getting stuck with dog food commercials, and as for Lawrence, well, he just wants to get her fired. And then she meets Mack... Hilarious and poignant, The Only Boy for Me will make you laugh and cry.

'The tale seems very improbable,' Gil Cunningham said. 'How should the Devil enter a religious house and carry off one of its members?'How indeed? But Arnold Fleming, the widely dislike pensioner, or corrodian, lodged in the Dominican's house in Perth, has vanished from a chamber, and a local knight and his mistress claim to have seen the Devil abroad that very same night. Three of the friars are accused by their fellows of involvement, documents found in Fleming's lodgings suggest he was blackmailing somebody, and when Gil is called in to investigate, he reveals theft, ancient murder - and more recent secrets.Then a body turns up - then a second one. Are these deaths connected to Fleming's disappearance, or to the victim of his blackmailing activities? Gil's questioning uncovers some of the truth, but it is Alys who discovers the answer, with the help of the Dominicans' redoubtable lay-brothers and the priory kitchens.Praise for Pat Macintosh:'Will do for Glasgow in the fifteenth...

The depraved portrayal of the young, red-haired femme fatale in Gil Brewer's 1958 pulp classic The Vengeful Virgin -- a seductress "straight out of hell" -- is a fitting description for the novel's sexually supercharged and sordid story line. When Florida television repairman Jack Ruxton is called to the home of Victor Spondell, a wealthy invalid suffering from a degenerative respiratory illness, and his shapely 18-year-old stepdaughter, Shirley Angela, he soon becomes a willing conspirator in a scheme to kill the ailing man and run off with both Shirley Angela and a suitcase full of cold, hard cash. But Ruxton, who has a history of using women, gets in way over his head when the murder plot goes terribly wrong.

The glacier on the virtually unclimbable peak of Mt Vogel in the southern alps of New Zealand has yielded a secret, a notebook which casts doubt on the achievement of Ernest Ashton a wealthy landowner who has for many years basked in the fame of being the first person to reach the summit. His son Stuart has built a reputation as a fine mountaineer and TV personality very much boosted by his father's achievement. Now the son sees his own reputation jeopardised by his father's disgrace. The smouldering animosity of lifetime is reignited. At this time, Tom Stavely, a close friends of Stuart's, returns from England for the wedding of the rather neglected daughter he had with Stuart's sister from whom he is now divorced. Tom stays with the Ashton's on the sheep station and is inevitably involved with the family as the disaster unfolds at the wedding. He has to search his own heart about how far he should help Stuart, and finds himself the prime suspect in a murder.

Carlota and Isabel are the heirs to the Alcalá Orange Grove, an old and very poor estate located on the outskirts of Valencia. Isabel intends to restore it after her sudden and painful break up with Luke. Carlota is hauled to the estate by her husband who wants to leave New York behind and devote himself to the country life. In addition, he believes the different surrounding will help with Carlota writer's block. The old ranch will be the perfect muse to help her write another Bestseller. It is not far from reality because, one night, Carlota and Isabel find a sarcophagus in the bowels of the property.  Does the mysterious coffin have anything to do with the legends surrounding the estate? Is this secret capable of awakening Carlota's muse? Can it teaching Isabel the true meaning of love? I invite you to enjoy a cup coffee and discover the secrets of this story...

“Look, for people who’re going to be dead soon, we’re not doing too badly.”“The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on bestseller lists and won the Prix des Libraires, the booksellers’ award for outstanding book of the year. Rights were sold to publishers in over twenty countries in Europe and around the world. This humanist story of an unlikely love affair set against a holocaust has become an internationally acclaimed phenomenon, worthy of comparison with the work of Graham Greene and Albert Camus. The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, draws a regular crowd of assorted aid workers, strutting Rwandan officials, Belgian businessmen, French paratroops and Canadian expats. Among them is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec, on a mission to set up a television station in the capital. Valcourt, who for two decades has earned his living from wars and famines, lingers around the pool drinking warm beer and watching football; but most of all, watching Gentille, a beautiful young waitress, who is a Hutu but often mistaken for a Tutsi because of her family’s strange history. The trouble coming stems from a long conflict, instigated in colonial times by Whites who treated Tutsis as superior to Hutus. The Hutu government is now openly encouraging violence against Tutsis. The physical traits of the Tutsis make them easy prey, but they are not the only ones in danger. Too many people are already dying in Rwanda daily: of AIDS, of malaria, and increasingly at roadblocks at the hands of drunken militia, or pulled from their homes. The hotel staff and prostitutes sense trouble and death drawing closer as they continue providing drinks and meals and sex. The story of this developing catastrophe is revealed through the lives of a handful of Rwandans who befriend Valcourt. They confide in him because he listens, and because his interviews offer them a chance to try to change the way things are by telling the world. Their candour and warmth begin to make his heart glow. He meets people like Méthode, who knows a bloodbath is brewing and would rather die of AIDS in the comfort of a hotel room than by a machete. Threatened, frightened, sick, they don’t want to talk and act like they’re dying. Poor as they are, they want to have some moments of pleasure and celebrate life. As Kigali life continues in its resourcefulness and persistence, Valcourt is falling in love with Rwanda, and with Gentille, who loves him because he sees her as no-one has seen her before. Even as the worst horrors begin, as friends are raped and murdered, he starts to feel a strange peace in this land of a thousand hills, though he repudiates the outside world for its failure to intervene. Because Gentille is thought to be Tutsi, her life is in danger. Still, no-one can believe that the extremists will go too far, that brothers and sisters will kill brothers and sisters, and that 800,000 civilians will be massacred. A hard-hitting chronicle of an overlooked chapter of recent history, told with skill and compassion, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is also a celebration of living in the moment, of the integrity of friendship and the courage of everyday heroes. Harrowing, unsettling, challenging, but beautiful and moving, it is a book that cannot leave the reader untouched; as a Quill & Quire reviewer said, it is “full of real people that demand to be remembered.”From Publishers WeeklyBernard Valcourt is a Canadian journalist in Rwanda planning a film on the local AIDS epidemic when he falls in love with Gentille, a Tutsi who works at his hotel at the time of the Hutu-led genocides. Chronicling the days of the government-sponsored atrocities, Courtemanche's novel is powerful in its ability to remind us how much the myth of race has done to divide and destroy the human species in the past hundred years. At the same time, however, it strains to position itself as a sort of neo-existentialist tome, quoting Camus and echoing The Plague. Valcourt describes himself without irony as "sophisticated... an enlightened humanist," and yet his childish self-pity and bitter refusal to accept life's harsh realities are less the trappings of a great intellectual than the alcoholic he obviously is. From the swimming pool terrace of the H"tel des Mille-Collines in Kigali, he observes the rapidly deteriorating situation, "rather like a buzzard on a branch... waiting for a scrap of life to excite him." His supposedly spiritual love for Gentille is intended to redeem him, but it most often takes the form of a rhapsody over her "perfect" body. The Rwanda painted by Courtemanche (a Canadian journalist himself) is a country bloodied by ignorance, hatred, sexual obsession and lust for power, as terrifying and darkly obscene as anything imaginable. Tragic and deeply touching at turns (and illuminating from an historical perspective), the novel is nevertheless cheapened by Valcourt's muddled sentimentalizing and adolescent grandiloquence. As Einstein said, everything is either meaningless or miraculous. Most often it's romantics who, becoming cynics, embrace the former.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From BooklistIn recounting the 1994 massacre of Rwanda's Tutsis by the majority Hutus, Courtemanche fictionalizes the thoughts and actions of real participants, but the horrors he describes were all too real. At the story's center lies the improbable love that blossoms between Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt and Gentille, a shy Hutu waitress at Kigali's Mille-Collines Hotel. Valcourt and Gentille speak out against the brutal attacks that presage the genocide but make no headway with corrupt police, impotent UN forces, oblivious Western media outlets, and postcolonial Belgians and French who helped sow the seeds of racial superiority in Rwanda and then retreated when they bore deadly fruit. It's a powerful political novel about important world issues, which hardly ensures an audience here. As Valcourt notes, "In my country the sickness is complacency. In France it's arrogance, and in the United States it's ignorance." That this book would introduce many U.S. readers to events that killed some 800,000 people underscores how fatal our willful ignorance of foreign affairs can be to the world's powerless. Frank SennettCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Didn't anyone tell you that divas don't knit?Knit-one...Jo Mackenzie needs a new start and jumps at the chance to take over her grandmother's wool shop in a small seaside town. Purl-one...But it's not going to be easy with two young sons to cope with, an A-list actress moving into the local mansion and a knitting group addicted to cake. Stitch and Bitch!Gil McNeil's funny and uplifting novel turns prejudices and assumptions upside down, telling it how it really is in the world of knit-one, purl-one.

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Roger Conway is a daring liar who has invented a new identity for himself and bluffed his way into M16. He carries out an audacious mission for the 'Disciples', a secret cell of Oxbridge and Ivy League academics who are the masterminds behind the security services. Roger's adventures in Cuba, during a new Cuban Missile Crisis, save the US from imminent rocket attacks, but frustrate the Disciple's political plot against the president. Aided by his assistant, Herbert Yarham, Roger emerges from as the top Anglo-US spy, a brilliant deceiver in a world of deceit.

Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream. And Stevie Wonder had a dream. This is a book about dreams.' In the autumn of 1980, Stevie Wonder invited Gil Scott-Heron to join him on a forty-one-city tour across America, ending in Washing­ton in January 1981, to gather popular support for the creation of a holiday in honour of the great civil-rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. Scott-Heron uses this history-making tour as the backbone of his fascinating memoir. Raised by his grandmother in Jackson, Tennessee, Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential musicians and songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one. Politically savvy and savagely satirical, socially conscious and tender-hearted, Gil Scott-Heron has been called the godfather of rap, and his unexpected death in May 2011 marked the loss of one of the world's most vocal and articulate artists. Chuck D of Public Enemy said ...

Eve Collins is an independent woman, a little impulsive, and her eternal struggle for women's rights keeps moving further away from its original concept, which intimidates all men who approach her. She is the public relations assistant of the Fashion View magazine, and, in addition, the person in charge of all those involved in the campaign "Be Yourself", among them Liam Woods, the vocalist and lead guitarrist of X69, one of the most famous bands in the country which has lately been on everyone's lips due to Liam's imprudent behaviour with alcohol and women. Eve will have to set the vocalist's behaviour straight and clean up the name of the band, however, in this process, she will learn some things that may change her own destiny and, why not, bond her and Liam together. Author note: This book is the second of the Sisters Collins Trilogy. Each book of this trilogy is self-conclusive and they can be read in any order, but if you don't like spoilers, I advice you to read them in the right order :) Stefania Gil is also the author of other novels in Romance and the subgenre of Paranormal Romance: The Origin - Special Abilites Division SAD 1, Archangelos Series, My last: Yes, I do, Presagies, Sinchrony, among others.*

Good looking, athletic, and smart, Gill Marsh is the most popular kid at Uruk High School, even though he is only a junior. When Enko, a new kid from Montreal, shows up, Gil is wary. Yet Enko is easy going and matches Gil's athletic prowess without being a threat. Soon, the two become inseparable friends, practicing, studying, and double-dating. Then suddenly, to everyone's shock, Enko succombs to an aggressive cancer. When Enko's parents take his body and return to Canada, Gil is unable to even say good bye. He is inconsolable. Determined to find Enko's grave, Gil sneaks away and heads north.Closely based on the ancient story of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian King from 3000 BC, A. C. E. Bauer has carefully woven the classic elements of myth to follow Gil's quest and explore the grief and growth of a young man.From the Hardcover edition.

Loren Stamford and her husband have prosperous jobs and a secure life in New York with their two adopted children. However, Loren's comfortable world is shattered by the appearance of Bucky Chadwin, the man who escaped conviction for her rape many years before. Chadwin, a successful executive himself, is set to join Loren's community, where social circles intersect at the golf and country clubs. How can Loren reach an understanding with Chadwin that enables them to ignore each other? Should she reveal her secret to her husband? Should they simply leave town? Chadwin blocks the possibility that they can ignore each other, and perversely blames Loren for the pain of his trial. Loren cannot resolve the tortured relationship and as distorted rumours about the past leak out, she sees her reputation and her life in ruins. A final meeting at the Stamfords' remote summer house ends in tragedy, but there is a twist in the tale.

When Eric Garth is fingered for a brutal murder, an incident he doesn't remember happening, he begins doubting his own sanity. Is he a delusional killer, or has he been set up?

He met a gutter angel on the roadway to hell! It began here for Baron—the whole grotesque skein of terror— here in this Marseilles street of despair, the street called the Rue Paradis. There was Gorssmann, fat and corrupt, who waited until Baron scraped bottom—and then blackmailed him into treason. And Lili, the dark, lovely gamin, who fell in love with Baron—and worked for the man determined to destroy him. Altogether for Frank Baron it was a small hell on the street called Paradise!

Set in Hong Kong at the time of the Cultural Revolution riots in 1967, Blue Lantern is a story of sex and police corruption. Mike Brodie a young police inspector from Glasgow is caught between two women. Helen is a talented and virtuous doctor, whom he can't match. Vanessa is a sordid temptress whom he finds it hard to resist. He needs more money than he earns to maintain his lifestyle, and finds himself drawn into a world of corruption and bribery.

Knit one . . . It's been a busy few years since Jo Mackenzie lost her husband. Life has brought adventure, surprises, unexpected pleasures, and, of course, lots of knitting. Jo's seaside yarn shop, with a brand new cafÉ, has taken off, keeping her busier than ever. And being a single mum to two boys and headstrong toddler Pearl is just as exhausting and enchanting as she thought it would be. On top of all that, celebrity diva Grace has a secret; Jo's firecracker best friend Ellen is launching a new television series; and lovable but hapless Martin continues his oft misguided attempts to woo Jo. Just when Jo thinks she has about all she can handle, Daniel, Pearl's globe-trotting dad, turns up out of the blue . . . Purl one . . . But with a little help from her friends, and her beloved Gran, Jo is building a new life for herself by the sea, stitch by stitch. Warm and witty, Knit One Pearl One will delight new readers to the Beach Street series and give the legion...

Jen Campbell is convinced that love is not made for her. Not after being deceived in the same manner in both of her marriages. So, for her, it's more fun and less complicated to have "casual friends" and to concentrate all her energy on her florist shop and the bakery she opened with her best friend and two fabulous women. Of course, all that seemed to work wonders for Jen until, James Bracco, appeared in her life with his charming smile and the patience necessary to make her believe in love again. But ... Will he succeed? Will James's patience be so durable as to withstand Jen's insults? 

Celeste is heartbroken when her grandmother dies. But everything changes when a letter mysteriously comes in the mail—from Grandma! "I know you miss me as much as I miss you. Don't be sad. Where there is love, there is no sadness." As letters continue to arrive from the beyond, each with a recipe of a favorite food her grandmother used to prepare, Celeste consoles herself by learning how to cook the dishes. Meanwhile, without Grandma's social security check, Mami needs to get a second job to make ends meet. Celeste has to quit dance lessons, and a bully at school gloats that she will replace Celeste as the star in the upcoming recital. To top things off, her friends think that she's gone crazy; dead people can't send letters! When a final letter arrives, Celeste realizes that all the recipes combined make an entire meal: café con leche, guava and cheese croissants, congrí, plantain chips, ropa vieja and flan. Can she really make a Cuban feast to celebrate...

When Lieutenant Bob McDade witnesses an officer ordering the execution of villagers while on an operation to gather intelligence about the Viet Cong, he questions his role as a seasoned veteran. Conflicted, he argues with his commanding officer and is court martialled as a result. McDade is found guilty and is facing disgrace, but his lawyer wins a plea that he is a victim of 'battle stress'. He is sent to a veteran's psychiatric hospital in the US while the army happily closes down the issue of a war crime. Meanwhile, Gail is dedicated to her work in another veteran's home in the US. She met McDade in Saigon while she was working as a nurse, although the couple knew each other from high school, and they fell in love. Uncertain of whether he is sane or not, McDade eventually walks out of the hospital. He plans to leave, and he wants to take Gail with him. Will he persuade her to leave her job and nurse elsewhere, or will Gail be destroyed by the very madness she is trying to cure?...

Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly or Nevada Barr, Gil Reavill's gripping new Layla Remington thriller plunges readers beneath the glittering façade of Hollywood and into a terrifying underworld where beautiful women can just . . . disappear. Malibu is crumbling. A monster earthquake has just ripped apart some of the priciest real estate on the planet. In a bizarre twist, it has also unearthed a grim secret buried for years beneath one particularly unstable hilltop: a steel barrel containing the mummified remains of Tarin Mistry, the beautiful starlet who went missing more than a decade ago. When Detective Investigator Layla Remington looks into that wretched metal coffin, she realizes she's just landed the case of a lifetime. But before Layla even strips off her latex gloves, a pair of hotshot LAPD detectives arrive on the scene and remove her from the investigation. Undeterred, she pursues her own line of inquiry. Risking her badge and her...