Part 1 of a 3 part series...Haven't You Ever Wondered Why You're Here?Father Phillips did. He felt a deepening despair growing within his tired soul as his constant prayers seemed to be ignored. Now he wishes they had been...Part 1 of a 3 part series...An ancient secret has been hidden from you. Knowing this secret will open your eyes, but once open they will never close again.A priest who, already suffering at the tendrils of his own doubts, gets drawn into a world of mystery and a covert darkness that permeates our society after discovering a hidden letter in the depths of an old church. A successful trader who works for a city bank seems to have it all, but if you were to scratch beneath the surface, a secret burden tearing at him, becoming too much for him to bear would emerge. Finding himself at the point of despair he asks for answers. Unusual doors begin to open revealing truths that make him wonder if his burden has just increased. Every door opened slams tightly shut as he walks to the next. Once making the decision to open the first, he rapidly realises that there is no going back. Maybe the decision had already been made for him.Like many others, one man is struggling to see the purpose of life in the rat race. Trying to find a better way is consuming his daily thoughts, but why does the system seem so geared up to stop it?Could the appearance of a mysterious stranger link the lives of these seemingly unrelated individuals? The world is changing faster now than ever before. While we marvel at almost daily technological breakthroughs and bask in the copious amounts of readily available information, most of us are oblivious to these signs and to an ancient force that gradually increases its control over us. A dark storm is coming. Are you ready?

Jig and Jag, who are eleven-year old twin sisters, are about to turn twelve-years old. Their brother Tag is about to turn eleven-years old. Their parents think they still need a babysitter. But they don't! No matter how hard they try to convince their parents that they are too old for a babysitter, everything backfires, until something unexpected happens.Jig and Jag, who are eleven-year old twin sisters, are about to turn twelve-years old. Their brother Tag is about to turn eleven-years old. Their parents think they still need a babysitter. But they don't! No matter how hard they try to convince their parents, everything backfires, until something unexpected happens. The action takes place during summer vacation. The kids go through five babysitter and a series of funny, foolish, and scary antics before an unexpected event changes everything into a special ending.A humorous story loosely based on real events. Penny Colman has written fiction for young readers for children's magazines. Her short story, "But Not Ms. Anderson," was nominated for the Paula A Witty Short Story Award, International Reading Association. Her fiction books are "I Never Do Anything Bad" and "Dark Closets and Noises in The Night."

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life. Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead he finds himself in the company of dilettantes and psychopaths, relentlessly hunted by police and spurned by the people he means to liberate. But this is only one stop in a quest for authenticity that takes in all the fanaticism and folly of the postmodern era. Moving with dreamlike swiftness from guerrilla encampment to prison cell, from the squalor of rural India to the glut and moral desolation of 1980s London, Magic Seeds is a novel of oracular power, dazzling in its economy and unblinking in its observations. From the Trade Paperback edition.

From passion to betrayaland back again...He knows she's coming for him...And he's ready to turn the tables!When tabloid columnist Elena Rollins shows up uninvited to a private, star-studded party at Mesa Falls, Gage Striker sees red. Though it's been six years since their abrupt breakup, the scars—and attraction—are still fresh. Certain his ex has a score to settle, the playboy banker vows to protect his ranch's scandalous secrets. Protecting his heart is a different story.USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time. **

Reprinted Edition"Charming . . . a laugh-out-loud funny mystery." —Romantic Times (4 stars)Halloween may be a time of treats, but for Brandy Borne, there's nothing trickier than keeping her batty mom out of mischief. Opening a booth at the Serenity antiques mall seems like a frightfully sensible solution—until a corpse turns up between the cornucopia and the candy corn. Local law scares up a suspect in the victim's dog, Brad Pit Bull. But Brandy and Mother see through the killer's clever canine masquerade. Their mission: unmask a murderer—before the witching hour comes, and he mauls again.Don't Miss Brandy Borne's Tips On Antiques–And A New Recipe!Praise for Barbara Allan and the Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery Series. . . "A humorous cozy that teems with quirky characters." —Booklist"A sure-fire winner." —Publishers Weekly"One of the funniest cozy series going." —Ellery...

Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. Love may be understood as part of the survival instinct, a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.There are many different theories that attempt to explain what love is, and what function it serves. It would be very difficult to explain love to a hypothetical person who had not himself or herself experienced love or being loved. In fact, to such a person love would appear to be quite strange if not outright irrational behavior.

The ghettos of Rio de Janeiro are crawling with street kids. They have nothing, and are forced into lives of crime in order to get enough to eat. Their life expectancies are short, not least because the Brazilian authorities allow paramilitaries to shoot them like rats.But it's with the street kids of Rio that the cadets must become embedded. Some of these kids have been recruited by the cartels. The cartels are causing untold misery, both in Brazil and on the streets of the UK. The cadets must befriend the cartel kids in the hope that they will lead them into the heart of the drug lords' empire.But when you head into the lion's den, you must expect to be bitten. The cartel chiefs are the most ruthless people in the world, and they do not take kindly to the infiltration of their secret, violent world . . .

Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission Dual-language editionThis selection of poems chosen from four collections shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and emphasises the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on similar themes as his novels, Unreconciled is a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions.Divided into five parts, Unreconciled forms a narrative of love, hopelessness, catastrophe and, ultimately, redemption. In a world of supermarkets and public transport, Houellebecq manages to find traces of divine grace even as he exposes our inexorable decline into chaos. Told through forms and rhythms that are both ancient and new, with language steeped in the everyday, Houellebecq's vision of our era is one brimming with tensions that cannot – and will not – be reconciled.

A SET OF ROGUES NAMELY CHRISTOPHER SUTTON, JOHN DAWSON, THE SEÑOR DON SANCHEZ DEL CASTILLO DE CASTELAÑA AND MOLL DAWSON Their Wicked Conspiracy, and a True Account of their Travels and Adventures THE MARRIAGE OF MOLL DAWSON BY SINFUL MEANS TO A WORTHY GENTLEMAN OF MERIT; HER FALL, REMORSE AND GREAT SORROW; HER SECOND EXPEDITION WITH HER FORMER ROGUISH COMPANIONS INTO STRANGE PLACES HER ATONEMENT TO MR. RICHARD GODWIN (WHEREBY SHE RENDERS UP ALL SHE EVER HAD OF HIM AND MORE) AND SELLING OF HERSELF TO ALGERINE PIRATES AND GOING INTO BARBARY A SLAVE; TOGETHER WITH THE TRIBULATIONS OF THOSE WHO LED HER TO WRONG DOING, AND MANY OTHER SURPRISING THINGS NOW DISCLOSED FOR THE FIRST TIME AS THE FAITHFUL CONFESSION OF CHRISTOPHER SUTTON

ALEXANDER II. passed part of the summer of 1874 in a German health-resort taking the mineral waters. When not in the castle in which he was staying with his train he affected the life of an ordinary citizen. He did so as much from necessity as from choice. Czar or subject, the same water must be drunk at the same spot and hour by all who seek its cure. Nor can any distinction be made in the matter of the walk which the patient is to take after draining his two or three gobletsful.

Those familiar time voyagers, Dr. Sam Beckett and Admiral Al Calavicci, once more find themselves in a dire situation. They again must correct history on a grand scale, with the entire future in the balance! Along the way, familiar faces will aid them in their quest - and a surprising antagonist is revealed to be at the center of it! Can, and will, Sam and Al act in time before it's too late?The second story about two "Love" holidays: The Valentine's Day (a catholic holiday) and Dragobete (a Romanian holiday), combined in a fictional story created by me, in which I describe that the Nature of things makes impossible love between a human and a god. The short story is located in Dacia Land which is Romania & Bulgaria today.

Detective Isaac Bell returns in the remarkable new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly one week to prove his case, Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known, men of staggering ambition and cold-bloodedness . . . who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way.

A short collection of weird fiction. "The Room Alone" and "A Gentle Breeze" have a thriller edge to them, while "Flicker" is more confessional in style. "And the Ivy," for which the collection is named, follows a woman experiencing the midnight phenomenon where familiar objects no longer appear familiar – or perhaps there's something stranger going on...IF YOUR DESTINY WAS TO KILL, WOULD YOU KILL TO CHANGE IT? This Kindle Book Contains a SAMPLE ONLY of the book "The Undivided". From the Prologue to the End of Part 1.EXTRACT"‘This ignorant ingrate is what you wanted me to protect? I should have stayed home.’ ‘It’s not his fault, Sorcha,’ Ciarán said, ‘that he knows nothing of our ways.’ And whose fault is it that he lacks any manners?’‘I do not lack manners,’ Ren protested. ‘You do,’ Sorcha said, turning on him. ‘And you also appear to lack the ability to follow a simple instruction. Take off your clothes. I’ll not have you dying on me, for such a mundane reason as catching a chill. I am not, however, averse to running you through myself, should your conduct convince me that this world would be better served by the discontinuation of your line.’ Ren stared at her, not sure he believed her threat, and then he looked at Brógán. ‘Is she for real?’ he asked in English. ‘Most definitely, Leath tiarna,’ Brógán said with a smile. ‘She is every bit as capable of killing you as she claims.’ "---The Undivided are divided. The psychic twins, Ronan and Darragh, have been separated by the traitor Druid, Amergin, who has kidnapped Ronan and thrown him through a rift into another reality. Now time is running out for Darragh. If Ronan isn't found soon, they will both die. But his twin brother is lost in a reality where Druids are legend, and there is no magic. Somehow, before the Autumn Equinox, they must find one young man in a world of six billion people...Meanwhile, Ren Kavanaugh has no notion of where he comes from. He is plagued by strange injuries that appear from nowhere and everyone is convinced he is deliberately harming himself for attention. Then he meets the enticing and mysterious Trasa, and before he can figure out how it happened, he is in serious trouble - arrested for arson and possibly murder.Rescue will come from a completely unexpected direction. Ren is about to discover more about his origins than he bargained for, meet the twin brother he never knew he had, and discover nobody is what they seem, especially his new friend, the half-faerie, half-human Trasa... Amergin's daughter.---This is the long awaited urban fantasy from best-selling fantasy author, J J Fallon, finally available on Kindle. Step into a world of alternate realities, Druids and druidry, magic and Celtic mythology, where Faerie lords and leprechaun come to life in an edge-of-the-seat action adventure that you wont be able to put down. Welcome to the world of The Undivided, Book 1 of the Rift Runners.This Kindle Book Contains a SAMPLE ONLY of the book "The Undivided". From the Prologue to the End of Part 1.

The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. Then, when Goody turns sixteen, her father is murdered in the night by men he thought were friends. To find justice in a lawless land, Goody must enter the cut-throat world of her father's killers. With her beloved brother Francis, she joins a rival gang of smugglers. Facing high seas and desperate villains, she also discovers something else: an existence without constraints or expectations, a taste for danger that makes her blood run fast. Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what will she become instead? Winchelsea is an electrifying story of vengeance and transformation; a rare, lyrical and transporting work of historical imagination that makes the past so real we can touch it.