When Andy Green, fresh-combed and shining with soap and towel polish, walked into the dining-room of the Dry Lake Hotel, he felt not the slightest premonition of what was about to befall.
In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard.
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes.
The girl of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "e;Billie"e; Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a lily-livered poet who is engaged to Billie at the opening of the tale, and Sam Marlowe, Eustace's dashing cousin, who falls for Billie at first sight.
It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
"e;Guilty pleasures don't come much tastier"e; than this sharp romantic comedy from the New York Times-bestselling author of The First Wives Club (People).
Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho, a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
Jill Fryman (Friday to her friends) is a Line Supervisor at a truck manufacturing plant in a small southern Indiana townand life on the assembly line is almost as predictable as her love life.
A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happinessAn affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects.
Zu seiner großen Freude erhält der Patentanwalt Richard Welling die Möglichkeit, am einer Konferenz unter hochkarätigen Patentexperten teilzunehmen, die, etwas ungewöhnlich, in der Nähe von St.
Deep in the woods of Maine, the Revolutionary War is still fresh in settlers minds as a young man named Peter Loon sets off at his mothers urging to find a mysterious person.
Under the wise and jovial leadership of their chairman Mister Tobias Walton and the shrewd and gallant Sundry Moss, The Moosepath League has foiled pirates and kidnappers, joined a hobo army to save a burning village, bumped into the supernatural, and even successfully treated a depressed pig.
Opening with the long-awaited wedding of Mister Walton, Fiddlers Green follows Mister Waltons aide-de-camp, Sundry Moss, as he embarks on a Good Samaritan mission.
Van Reids Moosepath League novels will sweep you away to a joyful time and place, sparkling with lighthearted comedy, splendid writing, and a playful, romantic spirit.
As with the first two novels of The Moosepath League, Van Reid again proves himself an incomparable storyteller with a spellbinding tale that is both lighthearted comedy and touching drama.
Once again, Van Reid enthralls with a story filled with wonderment, romance, and old-fashioned adventure, from the catacomb-like underground of the Portland waterfront to a perilous night pursuit on the October coast.
This book begins with the following authors note:One crisp sunny morning I was surprised to find a package left at my front door containing this book in manuscript form.
