Author: Cherime MacFarlane
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
The battle of Culloden is over. They must leave the glen or starve. Those who stay will die. But would Glasgow be a safe haven? He doubts his ability to take care of those now his responsibility. His brother’s widow doesn’t believe he is capable. The woman who chose Edan knows he is able. The lowlands of Scotland in the year 1746, is a dangerous place for refugees from the Highlands. With women and children to care for, Edan Campbell MacGrough needs to keep certain secrets buried deep or he might hang. For a lame young man it is a difficult road to walk.
The Twisted Laird
Author: Cherime MacFarlane
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
The battle of Culloden is over. They must leave the glen or starve. Those who stay will die. But would Glasgow be a safe haven? He doubts his ability to take care of those now his responsibility. His brother’s widow doesn’t believe he is capable. The woman who chose Edan knows he is able. The lowlands of Scotland in the year 1746, is a dangerous place for refugees from the Highlands. With women and children to care for, Edan Campbell MacGrough needs to keep certain secrets buried deep or he might hang. For a lame young man it is a difficult road to walk.
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
The battle of Culloden is over. They must leave the glen or starve. Those who stay will die. But would Glasgow be a safe haven? He doubts his ability to take care of those now his responsibility. His brother’s widow doesn’t believe he is capable. The woman who chose Edan knows he is able. The lowlands of Scotland in the year 1746, is a dangerous place for refugees from the Highlands. With women and children to care for, Edan Campbell MacGrough needs to keep certain secrets buried deep or he might hang. For a lame young man it is a difficult road to walk.
Laird
Author: Grace Burrowes
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402295049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers another passionate Regency romance... He left his bride to go to war... After years of soldiering, Michael Brodie returns to his Highland estate to find that the bride he left behind has become a stranger. Brenna is self-sufficient, competent, confident-and furious about Michael's prolonged absence. Now his most important battle will be for her heart Brenna is also hurt, bewildered, and tired of fighting for the respect of those around her. Michael left her when she needed him most, and then stayed away even after the war ended. Nonetheless, the young man who abandoned her has come home a wiser, more patient and honorable husband. But if she trusts Michael with the truths she's been guarding, he'll have to choose between his wife and everything else he holds dear. "Burrowes delivers powerful and moving romance." -RT Book Reviews Praise for The MacGregor's Lady: "Consistently excellent writing, deep and layered stories." -Publishers Weekly "Engaging, deliciously sensual, superbly written romance." -Library Journal "Absolutely enchanting." -Romance Junkies
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402295049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers another passionate Regency romance... He left his bride to go to war... After years of soldiering, Michael Brodie returns to his Highland estate to find that the bride he left behind has become a stranger. Brenna is self-sufficient, competent, confident-and furious about Michael's prolonged absence. Now his most important battle will be for her heart Brenna is also hurt, bewildered, and tired of fighting for the respect of those around her. Michael left her when she needed him most, and then stayed away even after the war ended. Nonetheless, the young man who abandoned her has come home a wiser, more patient and honorable husband. But if she trusts Michael with the truths she's been guarding, he'll have to choose between his wife and everything else he holds dear. "Burrowes delivers powerful and moving romance." -RT Book Reviews Praise for The MacGregor's Lady: "Consistently excellent writing, deep and layered stories." -Publishers Weekly "Engaging, deliciously sensual, superbly written romance." -Library Journal "Absolutely enchanting." -Romance Junkies
Fallen Lake
Author: Laird Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615550855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The year is 1971, the place is California, and what never seemed possible suddenly becomes irresistible. Camping on the shores of Fallen Lake in the high Sierra, two couples swap partners and glimpse paradise. That night changes the course of their lives and their children's as the two marriages become one. The families move in together in suburban Pleasant Valley, the exhilarated adults pursuing their four-sided relationship and their dream careers. At first resentful of this upheaval, the children find unexpected advantages. But the door flung open by the sexual revolution is starting to close. Too late the lovers realize what they will have to pay for living out their fantasies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615550855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The year is 1971, the place is California, and what never seemed possible suddenly becomes irresistible. Camping on the shores of Fallen Lake in the high Sierra, two couples swap partners and glimpse paradise. That night changes the course of their lives and their children's as the two marriages become one. The families move in together in suburban Pleasant Valley, the exhilarated adults pursuing their four-sided relationship and their dream careers. At first resentful of this upheaval, the children find unexpected advantages. But the door flung open by the sexual revolution is starting to close. Too late the lovers realize what they will have to pay for living out their fantasies.
Swift to Chase
Author: Laird Barron
Publisher: JournalStone
ISBN: 1945373075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Introduction by Paul Tremblay Publishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi Fall 2016 releases. Laird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas. All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman, famous for surviving a massacre, hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor, a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; following an occult initiation ritual, a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex, drugs, and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razor’s slice beyond our own. Combining hardboiled noir, psychological horror, and the occult, Swift to Chase continues three-time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barron’s harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart.
Publisher: JournalStone
ISBN: 1945373075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Introduction by Paul Tremblay Publishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi Fall 2016 releases. Laird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas. All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman, famous for surviving a massacre, hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor, a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; following an occult initiation ritual, a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex, drugs, and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razor’s slice beyond our own. Combining hardboiled noir, psychological horror, and the occult, Swift to Chase continues three-time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barron’s harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart.
Glover's Mistake
Author: Nick Laird
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101108576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
An insightful and drolly satirical novel about contemporary romance--"the kind of book Jane Austen would've written had she been male and hipper." -Chicago Tribune Look out for Nick Laird's new novel, Modern Gods, coming in June 2017 With his debut novel, Utterly Monkey, Nick Laird won acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his deft humor and sharp-eyed powers of observation. In this new novel, disaffected thirty-something college teacher David introduces his former teacher, American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, unwittingly setting in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt, and heartbreak. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel explores the nature of contemporary romance among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101108576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
An insightful and drolly satirical novel about contemporary romance--"the kind of book Jane Austen would've written had she been male and hipper." -Chicago Tribune Look out for Nick Laird's new novel, Modern Gods, coming in June 2017 With his debut novel, Utterly Monkey, Nick Laird won acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his deft humor and sharp-eyed powers of observation. In this new novel, disaffected thirty-something college teacher David introduces his former teacher, American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, unwittingly setting in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt, and heartbreak. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel explores the nature of contemporary romance among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.
The Imago Sequence
Author: Laird Barron
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1597802581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The title story of this collection — a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s model” — was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while “Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1597802581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The title story of this collection — a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s model” — was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while “Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.
Modern Gods
Author: Nick Laird
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735223734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with “a wonderfully original and limber voice” (The New York Times) “[Nick Laird’s] kinetic prose, full of insight about politics, history and religion, dazzles eye and ear." –The New York Times Book Review “Nick Laird takes two experiences poles apart and unites them in gorgeous language…[with] fierce tenderness. ” –Dave Eggers, author of Heroes of the Frontier Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father’s real estate agency, she hopes a second marriage will help her get her life back together. Her sister Liz, a fiercely independent professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison’s wedding, before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world’s newest religion. Both sisters hope to write their own futures, but the past has other ideas. Alison wakes up the day after her wedding to find that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape. While Liz, in a rainforest on the other side of the planet, finds herself increasingly entangled in the eerie, charged world of Belef, the charismatic middle-aged woman she has come to film, the leader of a cargo cult. As Modern Gods ingeniously interweaves the stories of Liz and Alison, it becomes clear that both sisters must learn how to negotiate with the past, with the sins of fanaticism, and decide exactly what the living owe to the dead. Laird’s brave, innovative novel charts the intimacies and disappointments of a family trying to hold itself together, and the repercussions of history and belief.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735223734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with “a wonderfully original and limber voice” (The New York Times) “[Nick Laird’s] kinetic prose, full of insight about politics, history and religion, dazzles eye and ear." –The New York Times Book Review “Nick Laird takes two experiences poles apart and unites them in gorgeous language…[with] fierce tenderness. ” –Dave Eggers, author of Heroes of the Frontier Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father’s real estate agency, she hopes a second marriage will help her get her life back together. Her sister Liz, a fiercely independent professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison’s wedding, before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world’s newest religion. Both sisters hope to write their own futures, but the past has other ideas. Alison wakes up the day after her wedding to find that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape. While Liz, in a rainforest on the other side of the planet, finds herself increasingly entangled in the eerie, charged world of Belef, the charismatic middle-aged woman she has come to film, the leader of a cargo cult. As Modern Gods ingeniously interweaves the stories of Liz and Alison, it becomes clear that both sisters must learn how to negotiate with the past, with the sins of fanaticism, and decide exactly what the living owe to the dead. Laird’s brave, innovative novel charts the intimacies and disappointments of a family trying to hold itself together, and the repercussions of history and belief.
Laird Cregar
Author: Gregory William Mank
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476678993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history. It was the climax of a strange celebrity that saw the young American actor--who stood 6' 3" and weighed more than 300 pounds--earn distinction as a portrayer of psychopaths and villains. Determined to break free of this typecasting, he desperately desired to become "a beautiful man," embarking on an extreme diet that killed him at 31. This first biography of Cregar tells the heartbreaking story of the brilliant but doomed actor. Appendices cover his film, theatre, and radio work. Many never before published photographs are included.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476678993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history. It was the climax of a strange celebrity that saw the young American actor--who stood 6' 3" and weighed more than 300 pounds--earn distinction as a portrayer of psychopaths and villains. Determined to break free of this typecasting, he desperately desired to become "a beautiful man," embarking on an extreme diet that killed him at 31. This first biography of Cregar tells the heartbreaking story of the brilliant but doomed actor. Appendices cover his film, theatre, and radio work. Many never before published photographs are included.
In Pursuit of Cheese
Author: Cherime MacFarlane
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Cat and CoDee are ready to make modifications to their ship. The shipyard on Greenhouse II is their destination. They find the Bond and one other ship are the only ones queuing up. A huge planet-wise disaster had every available trader hauling materials to the stricken world under contract to the Mercenary's Union or the Life Foundation. Greenhouse II was one world where Cat could be herself. But the official of the Life Foundation stranded on Greenhouse II is a telepath. He senses CoDee and Cat are different. They are trying to avoid the man, but another menace lurks on the warm jungle planet, one neither of them sense as they struggle to communicate without using their bond. Cat's obsession with cheese may prove her undoing. The planet Caleta which issued a call for help has two major exports; a fantastic cheese and wine.
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Cat and CoDee are ready to make modifications to their ship. The shipyard on Greenhouse II is their destination. They find the Bond and one other ship are the only ones queuing up. A huge planet-wise disaster had every available trader hauling materials to the stricken world under contract to the Mercenary's Union or the Life Foundation. Greenhouse II was one world where Cat could be herself. But the official of the Life Foundation stranded on Greenhouse II is a telepath. He senses CoDee and Cat are different. They are trying to avoid the man, but another menace lurks on the warm jungle planet, one neither of them sense as they struggle to communicate without using their bond. Cat's obsession with cheese may prove her undoing. The planet Caleta which issued a call for help has two major exports; a fantastic cheese and wine.
Encounter
Author: Cherime MacFarlane
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
She never picks berries in the patch behind the cabin. That place makes her skin crawl. The old cabin has been in her family for generations. There is a mystery the elders never discussed. She thinks a young couple living here vanished without a trace a century ago. He’s not sure what he’s hunting. After waking next to the totaled all-terrain vehicle, he doesn’t even remember who he is. A stand of trees on a knoll is drawing him in that direction. Can he find shelter there or will he die in the Alaska bush? It’s stupid, but he’ll make his way to the knoll. Together, two people who’ve never met will have an encounter with the past. "I’ve been in this place in my nightmares, reliving the day I froze and she died. This woman is the one and… yet, not. The cabin is the same, almost. She’s the Minnie, yet not quite. I fear everything is about to happen again. I won’t make the same mistake twice. " "It should scare me to be alone with him, but it doesn’t. The woman he talks of must know how much he loves her. I wish I could tell her he’s safe. We can’t get out of here until the weather clears. My brother will fly in and I’ll help him get home. Until we get out of here, we need to be careful, the fall in the wilderness is no place to be careless. Bears here are getting ready for winter and they eat anything, us included."
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
She never picks berries in the patch behind the cabin. That place makes her skin crawl. The old cabin has been in her family for generations. There is a mystery the elders never discussed. She thinks a young couple living here vanished without a trace a century ago. He’s not sure what he’s hunting. After waking next to the totaled all-terrain vehicle, he doesn’t even remember who he is. A stand of trees on a knoll is drawing him in that direction. Can he find shelter there or will he die in the Alaska bush? It’s stupid, but he’ll make his way to the knoll. Together, two people who’ve never met will have an encounter with the past. "I’ve been in this place in my nightmares, reliving the day I froze and she died. This woman is the one and… yet, not. The cabin is the same, almost. She’s the Minnie, yet not quite. I fear everything is about to happen again. I won’t make the same mistake twice. " "It should scare me to be alone with him, but it doesn’t. The woman he talks of must know how much he loves her. I wish I could tell her he’s safe. We can’t get out of here until the weather clears. My brother will fly in and I’ll help him get home. Until we get out of here, we need to be careful, the fall in the wilderness is no place to be careless. Bears here are getting ready for winter and they eat anything, us included."