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A Cupful of Space: A Heady Brew of Science Fiction Stories
by Mildred ClingermanRecommended ingredients: A few well-chosen characters--human or otherwise, a sprinkle of suspense, a dash of danger, a stitch of peculiarity, one teaspoon of terror. Blend the above with the bygone and beyond, sifting in the supernatural. Mix at the high speed of magic, then season to the taste of science fiction lovers. Now, cook over a low flame of fantasy and allow to cool. Yields: an unmeasurable serving of pleasure in but a Cupful of Space.
A Cupid's Wager (A Valentine Rainbow)
by Deanna WadsworthThe name's Lio, and I'm a cupid working for the Gay Division of the Inter-Dimensional Association of Cupids. An Aztec god, whose modern name, Ethan, doesn't make him any less scary, just busted me shooting a closeted human with a gay lust arrow. I might find him sexy with all those tattoos and piercings, if I didn't have a rule against getting it on with other supernaturals--especially ones working for the Straight Division. Now, to save my butt I'll have to strike a bargain with this tough god. But what I didn't see coming was my little wager not only risks my career, but places my broken heart completely in Ethan's hands.
A Cura (Livro dois): AS CRÔNICAS DE TURGURLAN
by Eileen SheehanApenas quando Dan, Bruce e Shen pensaram que poderiam levar algum tempo para se descontrair e se recuperar de sua terrível provação com os vampiros mutantes no covil de Las Vegas que eles destruíram, Bruce tem uma inesperada corrida com lobisomens fora de sua cabana nas colinas de Owego , NY e está ferido. Agora, em vez de procurar por vampiros, eles estão procurando uma cura para Bruce antes que a aflição do lobisomem se apodere de seu corpo permanentemente. Ouvindo sobre um grupo paranormal em Phoenix AZ que poderia ajudá-los, eles não perderam tempo em embarcar em um avião. O covil vampiro mutante pode ter sido destruído, mas os vampiros de Drácula ainda estão em pleno vigor ... e eles estão procurando pelo avião. matadores de vampiros por ordens de Drácula! Para aumentar seu risco, eles são forçados a se associar com o líder local de vampiros para ajudá-los a caçar Bruce depois que ele se transformou em um lobisomem e correu para as montanhas desérticas antes que uma sacerdotisa mística pudesse admitir a cura. Enquanto vagueia pelas cavernas das montanhas do Arizona, Bruce se encontra com Tatyana, uma jovem mulher que está fugindo dos vampiros. Felizmente para ele, ela não é estranha ao oculto e o acusa tanto na forma humana quanto na de lobisomem. É um bônus que ela é capaz de se manifestar telepaticamente! Mesmo que ela prometa ficar com ele, não importa de que forma ele esteja, ela está de acordo com todos que a cura seria a melhor para todos. Eles conseguiriam isso com ele a tempo?
A Curable Romantic
by Joseph SkibellI fell in love with Emma Eckstein the moment I saw her from the fourth gallery of the Carl Theater, and this was also the night I met Sigmund Freud.” So goes the life, times, and loves of Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn, a fairly incurable romantic venturing optimistically through modern history. In this inventive and satiric tour de force, Joseph Skibell, award-winning author of A Blessing on the Moon, presents a picaresque novel of exile that could spring only from the imagination of a virtuoso.
A Cure For The Condition
by Amy CroallWhen seventeen-year-old Catherine assumes the throne as Queen of Cannary following her mother's murder, she is forced to punish the man she loves, but when she develops a serious heart disease, the only cure for her condition may be the truth. "Romance, adventure, danger and passion-A Cure For The Condition is a terrific debut novel from an exciting new author. Readers will love Amy Croall." -Leigh Bridger, author of Soul Catcher.
A Cure for Boredom
by Edward KendrickSequel to Wrong Side of the LawBored with the repetitiveness of his job as an actor, Dante Hathaway comes up with what he thinks is the perfect solution. He and his lover, Kade Benton, should rob a jewelry store. After all, with his theatrical training and Kade's makeup proficiency, they ought to be able to carry it off with no problems. They do, and elated by their success, they decide to hit up a gallery next.They are stopped in the nick of time by Dirk Steele and Maverick, who point out that they know a good deal less than they think about what it takes to pull off a successful caper. That might have been the end of their criminal careers if Dirk and Maverick hadn't decided their theatrical skills could be useful to their team of topnotch thieves.When they're offered a place on the team, Dante and Kade accept, and soon discover that boredom might have been the least of their worries.
A Cure for Cancer: The Cornelius Quartet 2
by Michael MoorcockA mirror-image of his former self, Jerry Cornelius returns to a parallel London, armed with a vibragun and his infamous charisma and charm to boot. On the trail of the grotesque Bishop Beesley, Jerry hunts for a mysterious device capable of manipulating the cosmos. Corruption, violence and greed are rife in a war-torn Europe, but Jerry is against history; he is outside of history. He lusts for the equilibrium of anarchy, for randomness supreme--lock up your daughters (and sons), Jerry Cornelius is back.Dunked into the ether of Chaos, the second book in the Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer, was one of the first novels of its form, using hypermedia to spin a web of hauntingly surreal scenes, wickedly funny social satire and sci-fi vignettes that resonate deeply for the modern reader.
A Cure for Dreams
by Kaye GibbonsA story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another.
A Cure for Dreams: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries Ser.)
by Kaye GibbonsGenerations of Southern women deal with hard times and heartless men in this “joyous” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Ellen Foster (The Washington Post Book World). In “a witty and explosive story about men and women, bad girls and good girls, love and laundry,” Kaye Gibbons paints a portrait of shrewd, resourceful women prevailing through hardships and finding unexpected pleasures along the way: gossip, gambling, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing more than they’re supposed to (The Houston Post). In A Cure for Dreams, the acclaimed author “once again demonstrates her extraordinary talent . . . Utterly engaging and convincing” (The Boston Globe). “This episodic novel, Gibbons’s third, is set during the Depression in back-country Virginia and Kentucky. In 19 vignettes, Betty Davies Randolph reveals her childhood and her mother’s life along Milk Farm Road. Gibbons, winner of several literary awards for her first novel Ellen Foster, has captured magnificently the dailiness and sense of community of rural life—from midwives and WPA ballads to suicides and men gone wild. Southern, and full of the folk wisdom of generations, Gibbons’s voice reveals life’s truths.” —Library Journal “Years from now, [these] women’s clear, strong words will still be resonating in my mind.” —Anne Tyler, Chicago Tribune “What a good ear Kaye Gibbons has, and what a good heart. A Cure for Dreams takes the reader down the back roads, and then points out what incredible lives are lived in those ordinary places.” —The Washington Post Book World
A Cure for Gravity: A Novel
by Arthur RosenfeldMercury Gant climbs aboard his vintage motorcycle and leaves behind his entire life. So, his journey begins taking him from one coast to the other and from the ghost of a woman without a conscience into the arms of a little girl with his eyes.Umberto Santana walks out of a bank with $314,000 in stolen cash. At seventeen, he is only a boy about to embark on a journey where he will discover he is more of a man than he ever thought he could be.Then there is Graciela. Beautiful, strong-willed and independent, she is carrying Umberto's baby. She loves Umberto with every thread of her being and it is that unconditional love that may ultimately save both Umberto and Gant.Traveling the same route unknowingly, Gant and Umberto cross paths while "flying without wings" in the middle of a tornado. Becoming partners, the two sojourners continue together down their road learning about each other, but more importantly, about themselves and the relationships with those they love, have loved, or will come to love.A novel of love, trust, and transition, A Cure for Gravity is bound tightly together with strands of magic and its workings in everyday life. It is the story of love's power to save and a person's ability to overcome their past. A Cure for Gravity will leave an indelible mark on the reader's heart and mind--an impression they won't soon forgetAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A Cure for Love: A Marriage Reunited Romance
by Penny JordanRead this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, now available for the first time in e-book!Back in her husband’s bed!Since Lacey’s brief marriage went disastrously wrong, she’s raised her daughter, Jessica, alone. But there has been no man since Lewis Marsh, the one who loved and then left her, twenty years ago.Now Lewis is back, determined to get to know his daughter and threatening the secure world Lacey has built up around her. But even more shattering is the realization that Lacey may be making the same mistakes: that she might be falling in love with Lewis all over again!Originally published in 1991
A Cure for Night
by Justin PeacockA Washington Post Best Book of the Year Edgar Nominee- Best First Novel Joel Deveraux is a rising star at a white-shoe law firm in Manhattan. But after a drug-related scandal costs him his job and nearly his law license, he slides down the corporate ladder to the Booklyn Defenders office. He arrives just in time for a high profile murder case, where he is assigned to work with the tough and savvy Myra Goldstein. With pressure from their boss and interest from the tabloids, they take on the defense of a black pot dealer from the projects who is charged with the murder of a white college student. Joel quickly learns that urban criminal law is a form of combat where the best story wins-but who's telling the truth and who's lying are matters of life and death.
A Cure for Nurse Evans
by Darla NeidrickDiane Evans was one of the best nurses at St. Catherine's Hospital in Philadelphia. She healed the children on her ward with her warmth as well as her medical competence. She was even able to solve the serious hidden problem of "Princess Jenny," the young patient who'd been considered an obstinate brat by most of the staff. Yet no matter what she did, Diane could not please handsome, difficult Dr. Eric Trent. Often he criticized, her unfairly. True, there were rare moments when Eric showed his kinder side to Diane and she was drawn to him. But then, the young doctor's cruelty, which always followed, was twice as hard to bear. Like Princess Jenny, Eric had a hidden problem. Would Diane detect it in time to save two lives from misery?
A Cure for Suicide
by Jesse Ball***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory.A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an "examiner," the man, her "claimant." The examiner is both doctor and guide, charged with teaching the claimant a series of simple functions: this is a chair, this is a fork, this is how you meet people. She makes notes in her journal about his progress: he is showing improvement yet his dreams are troubling. One day the examiner brings the claimant to a party, where he meets Hilda, a charismatic but volatile woman whose surprising assertions throw everything the claimant has learned into question. What is this village? Why is he here? And who is Hilda? A fascinating novel of love, illness, despair, and betrayal, A Cure for Suicide is the most captivating novel yet from one of our most audacious and original young writers.
A Cure for the Dark Heart: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Chen ZhouZuiYueThe crown prince waved his hand to order his subordinates to retreat. His eyes were filled with malice.He had thought that by allowing someone to raid the southwest, he would be able to catch Cheng Zheng's weakness and capture him in one fell swoop. Who knew which segment would go wrong? He actually let Cheng Zheng know of the news beforehand and escaped death.
A Cure for the Family
by Amy CroallCatherine Delaney's world collapses when her husband, Malcolm Holmes, vanishes without a trace. After struggling to revive her modeling career amid empty bank accounts, a dead-end HR job, and three children, Catherine is even more shocked when Malcolm inexplicably returns after five lonely years, refusing to tell anyone where he's been. As if that's not enough, she's stunned to find his disappearance may or may not have something to do with the execution of a convicted murderer. Now she must deal with her lingering feelings for her ex-husband and the new ones for tall, dark, and handsome coworker Ted Jackson. If Catherine decides to let Malcolm back in amid the lies and secrets, she faces the possibility of another broken heart. But if she rightfully tells him to "toss off," his jealousy may mean the end of her new, comfortable life. Don't miss the other books in the romantic suspense series by Amy Croall: A CURE FOR THE CONDITION A CURE FOR THE PAST
A Cure for the Past
by Amy CroallCatherine and Malcolm Holmes return in A Cure for the Past. Malcolm Holmes used to have an easy life. But when his wife's heart condition returns, he's forced to go to any lengths to find a cure, even if those lengths mean traveling through time. What will a new timeline have in store for the twosome?
A Cure for the Vet (Must Love Dogs)
by Ann Roth Julie BensonFind your Happily Ever After with two feel-good stories of dogs unleashing romance in small-town settings.HEART MEDICINEMontana Vet by Ann RothEmily Miles already has plenty on her plate caring for the dogs she rescues and raising money to keep The Wagging Tail going. She can’t jeopardize the shelter by getting involved with new part-time vet Seth Pettit. And Seth has his own plateful: a teenage ward who hates him, an estranged family he’s trying to mend fences with and a living to make in small-town Montana. Emily needs a full-time partner, and that just can’t be him!The Rancher and the Vet by Julie BensonLeaving his Colorado hometown was the second hardest thing Reed Montgomery ever did. The first was breaking up with Avery McAlister. Now the citified CEO has come home to be surrogate dad to his niece. Avery’s first priority is her financially strapped animal shelter. Her second is helping Reed with his parenting skills. They may be bonding, but her former flame still has some explaining to do about the secret that drove him away.
A Curious Beginning (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery #1)
by Deanna RaybournIn her thrilling new series, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries, returns once more to Victorian England...and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell.London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry--and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker--a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to reveal the secrets he has concealed for decades, he is found murdered. Suddenly Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth.
A Curious Incident: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery #6)
by Vicki DelanyIt's up to Gemma and Jayne to root out the killer in national bestselling author Vicki Delany's sixth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery when the winner of a garden tour trophy is left pushing up daisies."I am not a Consulting Detective," Gemma Doyle reluctantly tells 10-year-old Lauren Tierney, when the little girl comes to the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium to beg Gemma to find her missing cat, Snowball. Gemma might not be able to follow the clues to find the cat, but her dog Violet follows her nose to locate the missing kitten in a neighbor's garden shed. Gemma and Violet proudly return Snowball to her grateful owner, and Gemma basks in praise for a job well done. But a few days later Lauren is back with ten dollars in hand, wanting to once again hire a consulting detective, and this time for a far bigger job: Her mother has been accused of murdering her garden club rival.Sheila Tierney's garden, which everyone said was the one to beat for the West London Garden Club trophy, had been vandalized the night before the club's early summer tour. Sheila confronted her former friend and gardening partner Anna Wentworth in a towering rage, and the women nearly came to blows. Later that night, after having won the trophy for best garden, Anna is found murdered and Sheila Tierney is the police's prime suspect. Despite herself, and despite the disapproval of her police detective boyfriend Ryan Ashburton, the game is once again afoot, and Gemma finds herself and Jayne Wilson using their powers of deduction to ponder yet another curious incident.
A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction
by Suzette FieldForty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in and out of love, or even get murdered.A Curious Invitation is a humorous and informative guide to literature's most memorable parties. Some of these parties are depictions of real events, like the Duchess of Richmond's ball on the eve of battle with Napoleon in Thackeray's Vanity Fair; others draw on the authors' experience of the society they lived in, such as Lady Metroland's party in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; while others come straight from the writer's bizarre imagination, like Douglas Adams' flying party above an unknown planet from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.Witty, entertaining, and full of fabulous detail, A Curious Invitation offers readers the chance to crash some of the great parties in literary history.
A Curious Land: Stories from Home
by Susan Muaddi Darraj<P>Susan Muaddi Darraj’s short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection, and, ultimately, the deepest and richest meaning of home. A Curious Land gives voice to the experiences of Palestinians in the last century. <P>An excerpt from A Curious Land: <P>When Rabab lowered the magad and clapped-clapped to the well in her mother’s too-big slippers, the stone jar digging into her shoulder, she didn’t, at first, see the body. The morning sun glazed everything around her—the cement homes, the iron rails along one wall, the bars on the windows, the stones around the well—and made her squint her itchy eyes. <P>She was hungry. That was all. <P>They’d arrived here only last night, stopping as soon as Awwad and the men were sure the army had moved south. It must have been the third time in just a few weeks—collapse the tents, load the mules, disappear into the sands. She hoped this war would end soon, and she didn’t really care who won, as long as it ended because they hadn’t eaten well in two years. In the past few months, her mother had sold all her gold, except for her bracelet made of liras. It was the only thing left, and she was holding onto it, and Rabab realized, so were they all; she imagined that, the day it was sold, when her mother’s wrist was bare, would signal that they were at the end.
A Curious Peril: H.D.’s Late Modernist Prose
by Lara VetterChoice Outstanding Academic Title A Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.D. in the aftermath of World War II, a little-known body of work that has been neglected by scholars, and argues that the trauma H.D. experienced in London during the war profoundly changed her writing. Lara Vetter reveals a shift in these writings from classical "escapist" settings to politically aware explorations of gender, spirituality, nation, and imperialism. Impelled by the shocking political crises of the early 1940s, and increasingly sensitive to imperialist logics, H.D. began to write about the history of modern Europe using innovative forms and genres. She directed her well-known interest in mysticism and otherworldly themes toward the material world of empire-building and perpetual war. Vetter contends that H.D.'s postwar work is essential to understanding the writer's entire career, marking her entrance into late modernism and even foretelling crucial aspects of postmodernism.
A Curious Robot on Mars!
by Bethany Straker James Duffett-SmithFar off into space--186 million miles to be precise--a fearless robot rover travels all by his lonesome. He is on a crucial mission from Earth, eagerly seeking to answer the much-anticipated question: Does life exist on Mars? But there is nothing to be seen on this planet except miles of rocks. He loses support from mission control and finds himself alone and cut off from civilization. But the curious little robot is resilient! After noticing a flash of light shining brilliantly through the crack of a rock, he instantly realizes his mission is far from over. He slowly inches towards the edge, but then suddenly falls perilously into the darkness! What will he discover?Bethany Straker's vibrant illustrations accompany James Duffett-Smith's suspenseful tale of discovery and hope. A Curious Robot on Mars! will motivate any and all readers to strive for one's ambitions--and most importantly, to always be curious!
A Currier and Ives Christmas: Four Stories of Love Come to Life from the Canvas of Classic Christmas Art
by Diann Mills Lynn A. Coleman Deborah Raney Joann A. GroteThe artistry of renowned lithographers Currier & Ives captures the beauty and nostalgia of simpler days and Christmases past. Yet, while a picture may be worth a thousand words, there are times when even the best illustrations leave viewers with a yearning to know more. Inspired by the classic American art of Currier & Ives, these seasonal love stories delve deep inside the artists' portrayals to imagine and illustrate the untold tales behind each wintry scene. Look beyond the art to discover the heartwarming stories of holiday love of yesteryear in A Currier & Ives Christmas.