Author: Miss Paula Wynne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993492174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A healing herb kept secret for centuries. A TV show host who stands to lose everything. Castile de Granada, 1492: Risking her life, Spanish author Ana-Maria de Carbonela vowed to keep an unknown yet powerful healing herb's location hidden. It remained a secret ... Until now. TV show host Kelby Wade is forced into the search when her niece is targeted by the relentless assassin who killed her brother. She is pursued on a perilous quest, from a grotto in rural Andalusia to a bizarre hospital in Surrey, to uncover the mystery found between crumbling sheets of parchment in the ruins of a rural Spanish farm. In a race against a conspiracy who want the herb's power, she struggles to piece together the puzzle and follow the trail her brother left to trace the mysterious plant before the deadly conspirators locate it. It's only a matter of time before the ancient secret gets exposed ... Described by readers as a must-have book for fans of Glenn Cooper, Kate Mosse and James Rollins. The first in the Torcal series, The Grotto's Secret is a fast-paced, historically rich page-turner that captures the vivid history of medieval Spain woven between modern-day London. Past and present blended vividly together in this exhilarating historical conspiracy thriller guaranteed to leave readers tingling with suspense. If you love an action-packed conspiracy thriller, download a sample to see for yourself! Or grab free sample chapters at Paula Wynne's website. Readers who have read The Grotto's Secret have had this to say ... "Past and present blended masterfully together in this page turning historical conspiracy thriller guaranteed to leave readers wanting more." Angela Crouch "The Grotto's Secret is a fast-paced, exhilarating thriller that left me panting for more." Ros Brookman "The Grotto's Secret's first chapter had me hooked straight away." Helen Johnson "A good read for fans of Kate Mosse and Glenn Cooper. I was hooked very early in the story and kept paced throughout." Graham Bird "The Grotto's secret is a real page turner. Paula is a great writer, I could envision all the characters on screen. I highly recommend it to others." Clare Keogh "Fascinating and absorbing, an exciting debut novel from an established business writer." Debbie Jenkins "I found "The Grotto's Secret" very entertaining. I am sort of a history buff so that aspect was what caught my interest. Paula did a wonderful job tying past and present together, and her desription of the Spanish countryside was spectacular." Niles Jacobsen "The book was great and hard to put down. I can't wait to find out the mystery behind the Maria father's stone in the next book!" Marsha Campbell "I really enjoyed the book, it draws you in from page one! I like that the characters are so easy to identify with, I keep thinking to myself 'oh, that's just like so-and-so'" Debbie Harding "I finished The Grotto's Secret last night - wow! Have to say I couldn't put it down. I felt engaged with the characters and the sweep of history and geography gave me some real food for thought." Jayne West "
All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
The Grotto's Secret
Author: Miss Paula Wynne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993492174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A healing herb kept secret for centuries. A TV show host who stands to lose everything. Castile de Granada, 1492: Risking her life, Spanish author Ana-Maria de Carbonela vowed to keep an unknown yet powerful healing herb's location hidden. It remained a secret ... Until now. TV show host Kelby Wade is forced into the search when her niece is targeted by the relentless assassin who killed her brother. She is pursued on a perilous quest, from a grotto in rural Andalusia to a bizarre hospital in Surrey, to uncover the mystery found between crumbling sheets of parchment in the ruins of a rural Spanish farm. In a race against a conspiracy who want the herb's power, she struggles to piece together the puzzle and follow the trail her brother left to trace the mysterious plant before the deadly conspirators locate it. It's only a matter of time before the ancient secret gets exposed ... Described by readers as a must-have book for fans of Glenn Cooper, Kate Mosse and James Rollins. The first in the Torcal series, The Grotto's Secret is a fast-paced, historically rich page-turner that captures the vivid history of medieval Spain woven between modern-day London. Past and present blended vividly together in this exhilarating historical conspiracy thriller guaranteed to leave readers tingling with suspense. If you love an action-packed conspiracy thriller, download a sample to see for yourself! Or grab free sample chapters at Paula Wynne's website. Readers who have read The Grotto's Secret have had this to say ... "Past and present blended masterfully together in this page turning historical conspiracy thriller guaranteed to leave readers wanting more." Angela Crouch "The Grotto's Secret is a fast-paced, exhilarating thriller that left me panting for more." Ros Brookman "The Grotto's Secret's first chapter had me hooked straight away." Helen Johnson "A good read for fans of Kate Mosse and Glenn Cooper. I was hooked very early in the story and kept paced throughout." Graham Bird "The Grotto's secret is a real page turner. Paula is a great writer, I could envision all the characters on screen. I highly recommend it to others." Clare Keogh "Fascinating and absorbing, an exciting debut novel from an established business writer." Debbie Jenkins "I found "The Grotto's Secret" very entertaining. I am sort of a history buff so that aspect was what caught my interest. Paula did a wonderful job tying past and present together, and her desription of the Spanish countryside was spectacular." Niles Jacobsen "The book was great and hard to put down. I can't wait to find out the mystery behind the Maria father's stone in the next book!" Marsha Campbell "I really enjoyed the book, it draws you in from page one! I like that the characters are so easy to identify with, I keep thinking to myself 'oh, that's just like so-and-so'" Debbie Harding "I finished The Grotto's Secret last night - wow! Have to say I couldn't put it down. I felt engaged with the characters and the sweep of history and geography gave me some real food for thought." Jayne West "
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993492174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A healing herb kept secret for centuries. A TV show host who stands to lose everything. Castile de Granada, 1492: Risking her life, Spanish author Ana-Maria de Carbonela vowed to keep an unknown yet powerful healing herb's location hidden. It remained a secret ... Until now. TV show host Kelby Wade is forced into the search when her niece is targeted by the relentless assassin who killed her brother. She is pursued on a perilous quest, from a grotto in rural Andalusia to a bizarre hospital in Surrey, to uncover the mystery found between crumbling sheets of parchment in the ruins of a rural Spanish farm. In a race against a conspiracy who want the herb's power, she struggles to piece together the puzzle and follow the trail her brother left to trace the mysterious plant before the deadly conspirators locate it. It's only a matter of time before the ancient secret gets exposed ... Described by readers as a must-have book for fans of Glenn Cooper, Kate Mosse and James Rollins. The first in the Torcal series, The Grotto's Secret is a fast-paced, historically rich page-turner that captures the vivid history of medieval Spain woven between modern-day London. Past and present blended vividly together in this exhilarating historical conspiracy thriller guaranteed to leave readers tingling with suspense. If you love an action-packed conspiracy thriller, download a sample to see for yourself! Or grab free sample chapters at Paula Wynne's website. Readers who have read The Grotto's Secret have had this to say ... "Past and present blended masterfully together in this page turning historical conspiracy thriller guaranteed to leave readers wanting more." Angela Crouch "The Grotto's Secret is a fast-paced, exhilarating thriller that left me panting for more." Ros Brookman "The Grotto's Secret's first chapter had me hooked straight away." Helen Johnson "A good read for fans of Kate Mosse and Glenn Cooper. I was hooked very early in the story and kept paced throughout." Graham Bird "The Grotto's secret is a real page turner. Paula is a great writer, I could envision all the characters on screen. I highly recommend it to others." Clare Keogh "Fascinating and absorbing, an exciting debut novel from an established business writer." Debbie Jenkins "I found "The Grotto's Secret" very entertaining. I am sort of a history buff so that aspect was what caught my interest. Paula did a wonderful job tying past and present together, and her desription of the Spanish countryside was spectacular." Niles Jacobsen "The book was great and hard to put down. I can't wait to find out the mystery behind the Maria father's stone in the next book!" Marsha Campbell "I really enjoyed the book, it draws you in from page one! I like that the characters are so easy to identify with, I keep thinking to myself 'oh, that's just like so-and-so'" Debbie Harding "I finished The Grotto's Secret last night - wow! Have to say I couldn't put it down. I felt engaged with the characters and the sweep of history and geography gave me some real food for thought." Jayne West "
Murder on the Floodways
Author: Harold G. Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692455784
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Donald "Hokey" Busby has a bit of the devil in him, but nobody thought he'd kill his best friend, Harry "Fats" Shell. Yet, one night on the Walker family farm, Hokey brutally shoots Fats down. Hours later, Hokey is found dying in a pool of blood, from a single shotgun blast. The Walkers fear more bloodshed will come as family and friends gather for the shocking double funeral of the murderer and victim.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692455784
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Donald "Hokey" Busby has a bit of the devil in him, but nobody thought he'd kill his best friend, Harry "Fats" Shell. Yet, one night on the Walker family farm, Hokey brutally shoots Fats down. Hours later, Hokey is found dying in a pool of blood, from a single shotgun blast. The Walkers fear more bloodshed will come as family and friends gather for the shocking double funeral of the murderer and victim.
Angelica's Grotto
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408835258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Angelica's Grotto is a pornographic website into which seventy-two-year-old art historian Harold Klein wanders one evening. Klein, a walking catalogue of infirmities, known to medical consultants as 'he who declines to hop the twig', may not be up to much physically but there's a lot of sex going on in his head. 'You're a tiger from the neck up, Professor,' says Melissa, the brains behind the website, when at last Klein faces the object of his desire. Harold first visits Angelica's Grotto after losing his 'inner voice', that censoring mechanism that keeps us from blurting out the first thing that pops into our heads and finding ourselves in Casualty as a result of it. Harold consults a therapist about this new lack of mental privacy and also has one-to-one onscreen dialogue in the Grotto. 'If I had an inner voice I wouldn't be telling you all this,' he explains to the as-yet-unmet Melissa. But when the flesh-and-blood Melissa and her large and well-hung colleague Leslie enter his life he finds it's good to keep the angina medicine at the ready. Harold Klein's odyssey takes him not only through erogenous zones but into various corners of the London art world, down the underground and up the buses.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408835258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Angelica's Grotto is a pornographic website into which seventy-two-year-old art historian Harold Klein wanders one evening. Klein, a walking catalogue of infirmities, known to medical consultants as 'he who declines to hop the twig', may not be up to much physically but there's a lot of sex going on in his head. 'You're a tiger from the neck up, Professor,' says Melissa, the brains behind the website, when at last Klein faces the object of his desire. Harold first visits Angelica's Grotto after losing his 'inner voice', that censoring mechanism that keeps us from blurting out the first thing that pops into our heads and finding ourselves in Casualty as a result of it. Harold consults a therapist about this new lack of mental privacy and also has one-to-one onscreen dialogue in the Grotto. 'If I had an inner voice I wouldn't be telling you all this,' he explains to the as-yet-unmet Melissa. But when the flesh-and-blood Melissa and her large and well-hung colleague Leslie enter his life he finds it's good to keep the angina medicine at the ready. Harold Klein's odyssey takes him not only through erogenous zones but into various corners of the London art world, down the underground and up the buses.
Gateways #2
Author: Diane Carey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743418603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Dangerous remnants of an extinct interstellar civilization, the Gateways connect the Alpha Quadrant with the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Hidden away in various corners of the universe, the ancient portals could be the future of space travel, but they may also provide a open doorway for an invasion from beyond! Twenty years ago, in the space near Belle Terre, a caravan of alien vessels disappeared into a gigantic Gateway. Now the descendants of those aliens have returned, armed with incredible new weapons and abilities. Captain Nick Keller of the U.S.S. Challenger, already struggling to maintain peace in the troubled sector, must now cope with a fleet of hostile aliens driven by their own fanatical agenda!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743418603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Dangerous remnants of an extinct interstellar civilization, the Gateways connect the Alpha Quadrant with the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Hidden away in various corners of the universe, the ancient portals could be the future of space travel, but they may also provide a open doorway for an invasion from beyond! Twenty years ago, in the space near Belle Terre, a caravan of alien vessels disappeared into a gigantic Gateway. Now the descendants of those aliens have returned, armed with incredible new weapons and abilities. Captain Nick Keller of the U.S.S. Challenger, already struggling to maintain peace in the troubled sector, must now cope with a fleet of hostile aliens driven by their own fanatical agenda!
Cayman Gold pb
Author: Richard Trout
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781589809758
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Teenage scuba divers clash with modern-day pirates in search of lost Spanish treasures.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781589809758
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Teenage scuba divers clash with modern-day pirates in search of lost Spanish treasures.
The Dickeyville Grotto
Author: Susan A. Niles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Dragon Republic
Author: R. F. Kuang
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062662619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War—an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters. The war is over. The war has just begun. Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars. Though the third battle has just ended, shaman and warrior Rin cannot forget the atrocity she committed to save her people. Now she is on the run from her guilt, the opium addiction that holds her like a vice, and the murderous commands of the fiery Phoenix—the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power. Though she does not want to live, she refuses to die until she avenges the traitorous Empress who betrayed Rin’s homeland to its enemies. Her only hope is to join forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who plots to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new republic. But neither the Empress nor the Dragon Warlord are what they seem. The more Rin witnesses, the more she fears her love for Nikan will force her to use the Phoenix’s deadly power once more. Because there is nothing Rin won’t sacrifice to save her country . . . and exact her vengeance.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062662619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War—an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters. The war is over. The war has just begun. Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars. Though the third battle has just ended, shaman and warrior Rin cannot forget the atrocity she committed to save her people. Now she is on the run from her guilt, the opium addiction that holds her like a vice, and the murderous commands of the fiery Phoenix—the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power. Though she does not want to live, she refuses to die until she avenges the traitorous Empress who betrayed Rin’s homeland to its enemies. Her only hope is to join forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who plots to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new republic. But neither the Empress nor the Dragon Warlord are what they seem. The more Rin witnesses, the more she fears her love for Nikan will force her to use the Phoenix’s deadly power once more. Because there is nothing Rin won’t sacrifice to save her country . . . and exact her vengeance.
The Grotto
Author: Coral Lansbury
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780370312521
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Love in all its aspects is the theme of this novel - from heterosexual to homosexual, love of self, of children, of animals and of God. Every development of the plot involves a fresh aspect of love and an exploration of its effects on the characters.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780370312521
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Love in all its aspects is the theme of this novel - from heterosexual to homosexual, love of self, of children, of animals and of God. Every development of the plot involves a fresh aspect of love and an exploration of its effects on the characters.
House of Dark Delights
Author: Louisa Burton
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553384120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The home to mysterious immortal creatures intent on fulfilling their visitors' secret fantasies while ensuring their own gratification, the Castle of the Hidden Grotto can only be reached by making one's way along an unmarked path through miles of primordial forests and gorges and forms the backdrop to a trio of interwoven erotic tales. Original. 32,000 first printing.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553384120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The home to mysterious immortal creatures intent on fulfilling their visitors' secret fantasies while ensuring their own gratification, the Castle of the Hidden Grotto can only be reached by making one's way along an unmarked path through miles of primordial forests and gorges and forms the backdrop to a trio of interwoven erotic tales. Original. 32,000 first printing.