Vintage is a collection of three stories each with crime, mystery and thrill bundled into it.Vintage is a collection of three stories each with crime, mystery and thrill bundled into it.The first is HE CAME TO MEET HIS DEATH, about newspaperman who got in trouble with his boss. He was sent to a gangster town where he gets killed brutally. The second is THE MAFIOSO'S DAUGHTER, an excerpt from the diary a safe breaker who had offended the mafia and is on the run. Just when he thinks he has found a hiding place, the mafia finds him and he is on the run again. The third, HOW HE DIED, about a rich Italian that wanted to shoot a gun to mark his sixtieth brithday. He and all his invitees were found dead.

The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels about love. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place? Jeanette Winterson OBE, whose writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the E.M. Forster Award, is the author of some of the most purely imaginative and pleasurable novels of recent times, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to her first book for children, Tanglewreck. She is also the author of the essays Art Objects. Visit her website at www.jeanettewinterson.com

Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.

Tarryn’s life is about to get a lot more complicated. When Tarryn gets into trouble, he’s shipped off to a ranch for the summer. He thinks it’ll be a horrible experience, and it starts out that way for sure. But when a handsome cowboy walks into his life, Tarryn is instantly interested. Sparks fly, but Tarryn gets more than he bargained for in the bed of this cowboy.

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Lady Sylph's only concerns should be inheriting her title, marrying well, producing an heir, and lording it all over the peasantry. It's what her father insists upon, and she never knew she needed anything or anyone else until her magic comes, an ability her class is not supposed to possess.Thana never coveted the title of monarch's pyradisté because her knowledge exceeds her ability. She hopes the royals will never depend on her, but then the palace's pyramids go haywire. On top of that, a beautiful, spoiled noblewoman needs her help to conceal a new power.Could Sylph's ability and Thana's magical mystery be related to a new kind of crystal being smuggled into the kingdom or a possible pyradisté coup? They'll have to work together and overcome their biases, admit their feelings, and maybe surrender to their fierce desire before time runs out.

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.

Maury Garcia's one of the greatest bull riders in the world... as well as deep in the closet and suffocating under family expectations. But rodeo rookie Tristão Silva, with his sexy samba hips and gentle heart, makes Maury want more than his selfless, sexless life.

Professor Blackbourne has become an obsession for the two most powerful students at the university. The illicit relationship between the boys (and their university President) entrances Blackbourne. He finds his resolve faltering with each dangerous class. * A very taboo erotic novella by the author of Impregnated Alpha! *

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, soon to return to television as a Netflix original series once again starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis. Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers—for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary... and filled with the everyday miracles of living.

Maestro Richard Bernhardt is heralded as the greatest living pianist. But the maestro hasn't met Wallace... yet.In a constant battle between good and evil, evil is dominating the battlefield and leading mankind to its destruction. With our Creator's intervention, a creature destined to conquer and destroy is created. He gives mankind hellhounds to fight back and reclaim freedom. Join seventeen year old Kasadya Levourne as she fights against evil to protect us. With each step, she faces destruction, and yet she has the talent to give it back tenfold. Stubborn and hard-headed she makes her mark in the Fallen world and starts a battle none can escape. Not even her trainer, the very attractive Chax de Luca, was prepared for her presence. Will evil prevail? Or will Kas and her Fallen friends succeed in protecting us against it? Hold on to your seats, this is going to be one hell of a ride.

DOUBLE MURDER, ON THE HOUSE Far from being the idyllic home Carl Veelund envisioned when he built the grand mansion years ago, Prairie Lodge has become the keeper of many dark and terrible secrets. Now family members are dropping like flies: Two women are dead—and truths long hidden are about to be brought to light. When restaurant reviewer-cum-sleuth Sophie Greenway stumbles upon an old diary, she has no idea it will toss her like a salad into the center of the tragedies unfolding at Prairie Lodge. It appears that being a dear friend to Carl’s daughter, Elaine, has become dangerous. For in a recipe that calls for murder, deceit, sibling rivalry, and old grudges that die hard, Sophie finds herself the main ingredient. . . .From Publishers WeeklyMuch more than silver is tarnished in the finale of Hart's intriguing concoction featuring hotelier-cum-restaurant critic-cum-amateur sleuth Sophie Greenway. Sophie has long been friends with Elaine Veelund, who operates the most successful division of her family's Minnesota-based corporation, so when the Veelund family's foundations begin to crumble, Sophie offers her help. In less than 24 hours, Elaine's brother is shot at, her suicidal daughter disappears and her widowed mother, Mad Dog Millie, dies of an insulin overdose. Earlier, Millie had announced her decision to sell Veelund Industries, which gave her family cause for concern as well as motive for murder. Now the family's reputation is on the line as the investigation brings past secrets to light. Meanwhile, Sophie discovers her mother's diary in a locked box, and Hart (Dial M for Meat Loaf, etc.) cleverly serves bits of it as events unfold, keeping readers guessing about its connection to the current goings-on. A surprise denouement and an elaborate recipe for Chez Sophia's Torta Milano round out this surprisingly rich confection and will leave readers craving Hart's next course. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review*“Hart is a master of juggling all of her complicated plots and subplots with twists that keep her reader in a constant state of suspense.”—Lambda Book Report *Look for these exciting mysteries featuring Sophie Greenway . . . **THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MURDERFOR EVERY EVILTHE OLDEST SINMURDER IN THE AIRSLICE AND DICEDIAL M FOR MEAT LOAF **And don’t miss Ellen Hart’s thrilling Jane Lawless mysteries . . . **HALLOWED MURDERVITAL LIESSTAGE FRIGHTA KILLING CUREA SMALL SACRIFICEFAINT PRAISEROBBER’S WINE **Praise for Ellen Hartand her Sophie Greenway mysteries DIAL M FOR MEAT LOAF*“This is a hearty, satisfying meal of a mystery, with chunks of good characters and more than a dash of wit.”—Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine *SLICE AND DICE“The pace quickly bubbles from simmer to boil. . . . The complexity of Hart’s novel is admirable.”—*Publishers Weekly *THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MURDER“Strong characters and a rich Lake Superior setting make this solidly constructed mystery hard to put down. Another winner for Ellen Hart!”—M. D. LAKE FOR EVERY EVIL “Another splendid specimen of the classical mystery story, nicely updated and full of interesting and believable characters.”—The Purloined Letter

After spending a year in his mother’s pack, Arren has returned home. Only now his best friend hates him, and his father wants to get him mated before he retires. Arren wants nothing more than to spend his days lazily swimming in the lake. But Cole, the new beta, has his own plans. To him, Arren is a brat, and he doesn’t want the task of finding Arren a mate. After a good spanking Arren seems to be falling in line, but his submission is just beginning. Cole quickly realizes that playing with this coyote comes with trouble, and that the best mate for Arren might be himself.