Author : Elaine Bergstrom
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Ravenloft (Imaginary place)
ISBN : 9780786901463
Witnessing the beheading of her father by a conquering overlord, a young baroness pledges revenge despite the new ruler's just ways, and ingratiates herself to a high position while devising evil plans as a vampire of souls. Original. 75,000 first printing.
Author : May Blood
Publisher : Gill & MacMillan
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 9780717142521
The autobiography of May Blood and the struggle to improve working conditions and advance the role of women.
Author : Louise Marley
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0758261047
Award winning author Louise Marley's compelling, intricately layered story of a beautiful soprano who shares an everlasting bond with the world's most notorious musical genius. . . Mozart's Blood Octavia Voss is an ethereal singer whose poise and talent belie her young age. In truth, she is a centuries-old vampire who once "shared the tooth" with Mozart himself. To protect her secret, Octavia's even more ancient friend Ugo stalks the streets to find the elixir that feeds his muse's soul. With Mozart's musical prowess coursing through her veins, the ageless Octavia reinvents herself with each new generation. But just as she prepares to take the stage at La Scala, Ugo inexplicably disappears, leaving Octavia alone--and dangerously unprotected. . . Octavia vows to find Ugo, but his fate is in the hands of forces much darker than she could ever imagine. And when she learns the truth behind his disappearance, Octavia realizes too late that the life hanging most in the balance is her own. . . "Riveting, original. . .filled with the emotional power and intricate twists and turns of a Mozart opera." --Tracy Grant, author of Beneath a Silent Moon
Author : Tiffany D. Jackson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0063029162
* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret . . . one that will cost them all their lives.
Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161614341X
Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering over winter for their great offensive, gathering their soldiers and perfecting their new weapons. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the Wasp armies march again, conquering everything in their path. If they cannot throw back the Wasps this spring then the imperial black-and-gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year's end. In Jerez begins a fierce struggle over the Shadow Box, as lake creatures, secret police and renegade magicians compete to take possession. If it falls into the hands of the Wasp Emperor, however, then no amount of fighting will suffice to save the world from his relentless ambition.
Author : Graham Masterton
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178010118X
When a terrorist bomb devastates an exclusive junior school in Hollywood, killing the sons and daughters of many famous TV and movie actors and producers, all hell breaks loose. Among the many dead is Danny Bell, the son of successful comedy writer Frank Bell. Responsibility for the blast is claimed by a group who say that they want to put the decadent Western media out of business for good.
Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307428184
Sometimes it’s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria’s favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancée. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated—and horrified—he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he’s done “monstrous, quite appalling things”? Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.
Author : Christina Vella
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2004-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807149659
Born into wealth in New Orleans in 1795, Micaela Almonester was married into misery in France sixteen years later. Against a richly woven historical background of two centuries and two vivid societies. Christina Vella unfolds the amazing true account of this resilient woman's life - and the three men who most affected its course: her father, Andres, an illustrious New Orleans builder in whose footsteps she eventually followed with great distinction; her father-in-law, Xavier, who for more than twenty years tried to destroy her marriage and seize control of her fortune, eventually shooting Mica.
Author : Beatriz Williams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698164970
From the New York Times bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers comes another riveting novel of the Schuyler sisters—where the epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s... In the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own. To find a way to take care of herself and the baby she carries—the result of an affair with a married, legendary politician—she fixes up a beautiful and rare vintage Mercedes and sells it at auction. But the car's new owner, the glamorous Annabelle Dommerich, has her own secrets: a Nazi husband, a Jewish lover, a flight from Europe, and a love so profound it transcends decades. As the many threads of Annabelle's life before the Second World War stretch out to entangle Pepper in 1960s America, and the father of her unborn baby tracks her down to a remote town in coastal Georgia, the two women must come together to face down the shadows of their complicated pasts. AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARY READS PICK A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR THE BEST OF SKIMMREADS 2016
Author : Cherry Grace
Publisher :
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2021-03-28
Category :
ISBN :
Twenty-one explicit erotica stories, a $62.79 value, published for the first time as a complete novel! Including a never-before-seen epilogue! Welcome to the Barony of Erovania, where evil and lust reign supreme. In this land, the people know better than to venture out at night, for around every turn lurks a creature of darkness.Ruling over the populace is Baron Voros, an undead lord who preys upon the young women of his village as they sleep, not only thirsting for their blood, but for the pleasures of their flesh as well. Entering their chambers, he brings them to ecstasy before striking with his fangs, then fading into the night. But the baron is far from the only wicked being in Erovania. He is matched in his deviousness... and sexuality... by Lillith, his one-time bride, who prefers to stalk the vigorous men of the village, a prey more willing, but no less satisfying. She has never met a man with the stamina to please her before expiring, and when they fail her, she rewards them with pain. Also within these borders, you will encounter: Eva, the village healer who leads a coven in erotic rituals by night. She regularly seduces men to be her servants, then, when they bore her, casts them aside. Erovania's pack of werewolves, led by the brawny Radolf, and the dark, sultry Mileena. They gather every full moon to hunt and feast. Then, when they have sated their hunger, the entire pack mates until dawn. The lonely scientist Victoria, who creates the perfect picture of masculine beauty for herself... by robbing graves. Sister Amanda and Father Erdrick, a vampire hunting priest and holy sister whose vows of chastity are soon to be broken, for they find fighting their lust for one another far more difficult than fighting the evil denizens of Erovania. And so much more. Enjoy your stay in the Barony. If you should meet the Baron or Baroness, they will certainly enjoy you.
