Title: Lisey's Story Author: Stephen King File Type: Mobi Subject:Horror Description: Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now its Liseys turn to face Scotts demons, Liseys turn to go to Booya Moon. What begins as a widows effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps Kings most personal and powerful novel, Liseys Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
Title: School Days
Author: Robert B. Parker
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery
Description:
The celebrated series continues as a troubled teenager accused of a horrific crime draws Spenser into one of the most desperate cases of his career.
Lily Ellsworth - erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish - is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clarks alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jareds being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandsons innocence. Jareds parents are resigned to his fate, and the boy himself doesnt seem to care whether he goes to prison for a crime he might not have committed.
Robert B. Parker, the author of more than forty novels, has long been acknowledged as the dean of American crime fiction and has been named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an honor shared with earlier masters such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen. Parkers fictional Spenser inspired the ABC-TV series Spenser: For Hire. More recently, the Spenser novels *Small Vices* and *Thin Air* have been made into television films for the A&E network. Robert B. Parker lives in Boston.
Title: The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh
Author: Evelyn Waugh
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Short Stories
Description:'One of the century's great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh' Time In this unique collection of short stories composed between 192562, Evelyn Waugh's stand-alone tales are brought together with some of the pieces which later became the inspirations for his novels. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naive young woman as she travels with her family; 'A House of Gentlefolks' observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in 'The Sympathetic Passenger' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.
Title: Down River
Author: Karen Harper
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Suspense
Description:
Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead.
Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that takes him miles downriver, he saves Lisa from the deadly water, but not before they've been swept deep into the wilderness.
Far from civilization, the former lovers must put aside their hurt feelings and find the will to survive against nature. There's a killer on the loose and, for now, they must measure their future together in days rather than years.
Title: Doctor Who_ The Undertaker's Gift
Author: Trevor Baxendale
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
Description:
The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. Theyre suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they wont tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness. Its been a busy week in Cardiff. The Hubs latest guest is a translucent, amber jelly carrying a lethal electrical charge. Record numbers of aliens have been coming through the Rift, and Torchwood could do without any more problems. But there are reports of an extraordinary funeral cortege in the night-time city, with mysterious pallbearers guarding a rotting cadaver that simply doesnt want to be buried. Torchwood should be ready for anything u but with Jack the target of an invisible killer, Gwen trapped in a forgotten crypt and Ianto Jones falling desperately ill, could a world of suffering be the Undertakers gift to planet Earth? Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series.
Title: Galapagos
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:
“Beautiful…provocative, arresting reading.”–USA TodayKURT VONNEGUT is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist”* with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to a.d. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new, and totally different human race. Here, America’s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving. “Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain... Galápagos is a madcap genealogical adventure.”–The New York Times Book Review* The New York Times
Title: Table for Five
Author: Susan Wiggs
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:
Sometimes it takes a leap of faith in order to soar . . .
A gifted teacher, Lily Robinson adores her students, but fiercely guards her independent lifestyle. Deep inside, she is afraid of loving too deeply for fear of getting hurt. Only her best friend, Crystal, has ever been able to get close. Now an unthinkable tragedy has drawn Lily into the shattered lives of Crystals family -- a family that suddenly needs her.
Sean McGuire is a rolling stone used to living in the shadow of his famous brother, Derek. Hes made his own way in life, playing by his own rules. Then one April night everything changes when a fatal car crash orphans Derek and Crystals three children. In an instant, Sean finds himself in the role of guardian.
Sean and Lily are brought together by tragedy, joined in their grief and their mutual love for these children. But raising three kids is a monumental job, and Sean realizes hes in over his head. And though Lily has been the unofficial aunt to these children since they were born, planting emotional roots means taking risks -- and Lilys not sure she can.
The ups and downs of love and family life can be a roller-coaster ride -- thrilling, unpredictable and downright terrifying, yet filled with incredible delight. and Sean and Lily are about to discover the possibilities that make everything seem worthwhile -- a future filled with hope, happiness and the certainty that trusting love is the best choice of all.
Susan Wiggs is the acclaimed, bestselling author of many poignant, unforgettable novels, including *Summer by the Sea*, *The Ocean Between Us* and *Home Before Dark*. she lives with her husband and daughter on an island in the Pacific Northwest, where she is currently at work on her next novel.
Title: Rising Tides
Author: Nora Roberts
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel in the dramatic trilogy of three men who return home to honor their fathers last wish--to care for Seth, a troubled boy in need of a family. Coming home has taught the brothers more than they ever dreamed about the meaning of family and responsibility. Now it is time to learn the meaning of acceptance and love... Of the three brothers, it was Ethan who shared his fathers passion for the Maryland shore. And now with his father gone, Ethan is determined to make the family boatbuilding business a success. But amidst his acheivements lie the most important challenges of his life... There is young Seth, who needs him more than ever. And a woman he has always loved but never believed could have. But beneath Ethanss seemingly still waters is a dark and painful past. He must learn to see around the shadows to accept who he is. Because through Ethans past lies the future--and his one chance at happiness...