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Title: Skin Game Author: Ava Gray File Type: Mobi Subject:Romance:Paranormal Description: Kyra's a con woman and a thief who can steal her target's strongest skill. But when she becomes the target of a hit man, she won't be able to hide from the passion that engulfs them.

Title: The Stars Shine Down Author: Sidney Sheldon File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction:Suspense Description:From Publishers WeeklyImagine Donald Trump as a drop-dead gorgeous woman and youll have an approximate image of Lara Cameron, the heroine of Sheldons latest--barely tepid--potboiler. A super-successful real estate developer, Lara has made millions of dollars--and a few enemies--in her ascent from a childhood of deprivation to the upper echelons of the business world. When she falls in love with a renowned concert pianist, she sets about winning him as she would a prime piece of waterfront property. But her ties to a lawyer with Mafia connections and her shady way of doing business threaten her happiness and eventually her income and reputation. In settings that vary from Canada to Chicago and New York, bestselling novelist Sheldon ( The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels ) brings real zest to the high-stakes poker game that provides the novels backdrop. But his pancake-flat characters are as insubstantial as the paper fortunes that drive the real estate business. Moreover, the characters have an annoying tendency to speak in overwrought cliches; sounding for all the world like Scarlett OHara, young Lara laments, Someday . . . I will have my own land, and no one--no one--will ever take it away from me. Frankly, by the final chapter, readers wont give a damn. First serial to Cosmopolitan; Literary Guild main selection. br 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsIt may conclude in 1992, but Sheldons latest is sheer 80s excess--the compulsively readable, sin-laden saga of a tycooness whos part Donald Trump, part Leona Helmsley. Though Sheldons recent heroines (Memories of Midnight, etc.) have been sexy saints, his earlier leading ladies had a crueler edge--just like young Canadian Lara Cameron here, who in a series of canny real-estate deals uses her body as well as her wits to climb out of backwater poverty. With $3 million in her pocket, Lara moves to Chicago, multiplies her fortune, and, in 1984, takes on N.Y.C. There, even as she puts up a Monopoly boards worth of hotels and office buildings, including the worlds tallest; battles sexism in the industry; and proves wildly generous to her employees, Lara reveals a darker side--slapping one worker; drugging prospective investors with Valium; harassing tenants by turning their building into a de facto homeless shelter; bedding mob lawyer Paul Martin. Is Sheldon depicting the evolution of a monster? Not at all--for outweighing these flaws, he hammers home, are Laras codecodeindependence and courage, her talent and vision and generosity. And her loneliness, dispelled by marriage to star pianist Philip Adler, the perfect icing on Laras cake. So wheres the drama? It comes in spades in the late 80s, as the market crashes: Laras fortune dwindles; her ex-secretary writes a tell- all book; and the law starts poking into the casino that Lara set up with Paul Martins crooked help, and into the attack by a thug- -hired by a jealous Lara?--who cut Philips wrist and career. Can it be that, like another hotel queen, Lara will end up wearing stripes? Dont bet on it. Savvy Sheldon knows that nothing becomes the rich and famous like a little scandal, and that a faux-morality tale like Laras needs an upbeat ending to play big--as this one will, right to the top. (Literary Guild Dual Selection for November) -- 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP.

Title: Lion in the Valley Author: Elizabeth Peters File Type: Mobi Subject:Mystery Description: The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses -- and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death -- have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivates the evil genius this time around. For now the most valuable and elusive prized of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice...Amelia Peabody!