Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Book Description:
Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your greatest enemy.
Kevin Parson is alone in his car when his cell phone rings. A man calling himself Slater offers a deadly ultimatum: You have exactly three minutes to confess your sin to the world. Refuse, and the car you're driving will blow sky high. Then the phone goes dead.
Kevin panics. Who would make such a demand? What sin? Yet not sure what else to do, Kevin swerves into a parking lot and runs from his car. Just in case.
Precisely three minutes later, a massive explosion sets his world on a collision course with madness. And that's only the first move in this deadly game.
Labels: * Ted Dekker, Author D, Christian Fiction, Fiction, TBR

Book Description:
The future changes in the blink of an eye . . . or does it?
Miriam is a Saudi princess promised to another, a pawn in a political struggle that could shift the balance of power in the Middle East.
Seth is a certified genius with a head full of numbers, a life full of baggage, and an attitude born on the waves of the Pacific.
Cultures collide when they find themselves thrown together as fugitives in a high-stakes chase across Southern California. A growing attraction and a search for answers fuel their fight to survive . . . but with no sleep and a massive manhunt steadily closing in, their chances of surviving any future are razor thin.
Labels: * Ted Dekker, Author D, Fiction, TBR, World Literature
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him
Labels: * Abraham Verghese, • Africa, • India, Author V, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary, TBR
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Want to party hardy? Ebony Harris is the owner of Party Girl, Incorporated. She makes a living planning parties. Ebony takes her job very seriously, no matter how much her assistant and best friend Jenna tries to get her to lighten up. Ebony is all business...until she meets Brock Huntington. Brock thinks he's going to another boring wedding reception, but finds himself drawn to Ebony. He soon discovers that she's unlike any woman he's ever met. Suddenly, Ebony's personal life clashes with her professional life. Can Brock convince her to finally put pleasure before business?
Labels: * Destiny Wallace, Author W, Fiction, TBR
Gerald Breckenridge; The Radio Boys With The Revenue Guards
0 comments Posted by Lisa at Sunday, May 10, 2009Gerald Breckenridge (1889-1964) was an American author and journalist. He was a reporter for the Kansas City Star and the New York Telegram, later becoming City Editor for the latter. He was a publicist for R. K. O. Studios, and later lived in Alabama, New Orleans and Virginia. He was the author of two novels, Brief Kingdom (1936) and The Besieged (1937), and 10 volumes in the Radio Boys series (1922-1931), these are: The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border, The Radio Boys on Secret Service Duty, The Radio Boys With the Revenue Guards, The Radio Boys Search for the Inca's Treasure, The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaskan Expedition, The Radio Boys in Darkest Africa, The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis, The Radio Boys With the Border Patrol, The Radio Boys as Soldiers of Fortune and The Radio Boys With the Air Patrol.
Labels: * Gerald Breckenridge, Author B, Fiction, TBR
Friday, May 8, 2009
Frances Elizabeth Barrow; Aunt Fanny's Story-Book for Little Boys and Girls
0 comments Posted by Lisa at Friday, May 08, 2009Frances Elizabeth Barrow was best known as 'Aunt Fanny'. The American-born writer was the author of numerous children's books, some of which were published internationally.
Labels: * Frances Elizabeth Barrow, Author B, Children, Fiction, TBR
Sunday, April 5, 2009
The Maverick’s Greek Island Mistress by Kelly Hunter
0 comments Posted by Lisa at Sunday, April 05, 2009
Book Description:
Pete Bennett: this maverick playboy revels in the thrill of the chase. He never falls for a girl; she falls for him, and he's the one to walk away….
In Greece for the summer, Serena can't resist the glint of sin in Pete's eyes. Soon the baddest of boys has made her his Greek island mistress.…
Their supposedly temporary affair is hot and heavy. But one month in, Pete should be ready to roam. So what's keeping Serena in his arms?
Labels: * Hunter (Kelly), Author H, Fiction, Romance, TBR
Sunday, October 21, 2007
The most complete guide ever to the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it He defeated the Saxons so decisively at the Battle of Badon that he held the Saxon invasion of Britain at bay for at least a generation. He has inspired more stories, books and films than any other historical or legendary figure.
But who was the real King Arthur? Here is the most comprehensive guide to the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround and often obscure it. Sifting fact from fancy, Mike Ashley reveals the originals not only of King Arthur but also of Merlin. Guinevere, Lancelot and the knights of the Round Table - as well as all the major Arthurian sites.
He traces each of the legends as they developed and brilliantly shows how they were later used to inspire major works of art, poetry, fiction and film. There is clear evidence that. The Arthurian legends arose from the exploits of not just one man, but at least three originating in Wales, Scotland and Brittany The true historical Arthur really existed and is distantly related to the present royal family The real Arthur and the real Merlin never knew each other The real Lancelot was not British but was closer to a sixth-century asylum-seeker The Holy Grail legend probably grew out of a cosmic catastrophe that could have destroyed most of civilization
Labels: * Mike Ashley, Author A, History, Nonfiction, TBR
Monday, March 3, 2003

Book Description:
A serial killer takes his dead victims' portraits and sends them to the media. Lieutenant Eve Dallas counts on her husband's help to crack the case, but he's just learned a devastating truth about his past.
Labels: * Robb (J.D), * Roberts (Nora), Author R, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, TBR, Woman Sleuths