The Unit Commander

The Unit Commander
Author: Sue Cullins Walls
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1532034032

Cat has a hard time recovering from Jims tragic death, but Mark tries to help. She blames Jims death on Mark, and Mark feels guilty and also blames himself. After Mark is injured in a tragic accident, Cat helps him recover. Mark tells Cat that he has loved her for a long time, and as she helps Mark to heal, she finds herself falling in love with Mark. As Mark recovers from his accident, he finds himself anxious to get back to his old job as unit commander, but there is someone who stands in the way of him succeeding. This is the story of how God and the love of a good friend help Cat and Mark come back from a deep, dark hole of guilt and misery and into the bright sunlight of new love.

When the Whirlwind Passes

When the Whirlwind Passes
Author: Alexander Nderitu
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1365558789

Maggie's encounter with Michael Othaya, the young heir to a multi-billion-shilling fashion empire, marked the beginning of a cataclysmic cycle of events that would involve sex, manipulation, conspiracy...and first-degree murder. To be sure, the Sultans of Fashion had had their fair share of scandals and intrigues in the past. Overly ambitious and genetically predisposed towards greed, the rich and famous Othayas were no strangers to controversy. But it wasn't until Michael and Maggie - a ghetto princess - started romancing that the feuding family's civil war reached its climax... Easily digested and written with a handle on humour, When the Whirlwind Passes is doubtless one of the best crime novels to ever come out of Africa. 'Alex Nderitu is one of a handful of young, brilliant writers to come off the Kenyan terrain in the recent past. His books (hoping there will be many more)...are pure commercial escapism, and brilliantly written at that.' - Daily Nation

A Kiss of Shadows

A Kiss of Shadows
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2001-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345446887

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet Merry Gentry, paranormal P.I., and enter a thrilling, sensual world as dangerous as it is beautiful, full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, and ruled by the all-consuming passions of immortal beings once worshipped as gods . . . or demons. Merry Gentry, princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, working as a private investigator specializing in supernatural crime. But now the queen’s assassin has been dispatched to fetch her—whether she likes it or not. Suddenly Merry finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt’s plans. The job that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crown—and the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Laurell K. Hamilton’s A Shiver of Light. Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton and A Kiss of Shadows “One of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris “Sexy . . . Merry’s adventures are engaging and keep the reader turning the pages.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Stunning . . . steamy . . . an exciting and original world.”—San Jose Mercury News “I’ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.”—Diana Gabaldon

Sarek

Sarek
Author: A. C. Crispin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471108953

The novel begins after the events of STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY.Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he and Sarek enjoy a rare moment of rapprochement. But just as his wife's illness grows worse, duty calls Sarek away--once again sowing the seeds of conflict between father and son. Yet soon Sarek and Spock must put aside their differences and work together to foil a far-reaching plot to destroy the Federation--a plot that Sarek has seen in the making for nearly his entire career. The epic story will take the crew of the U.S.S. Enterpriseto the heart of the Klingon Empire where Captain Kirk's last surviving relative has become a pawn in the battle to divide the Federation... and conquer it. With Sarek's help, the crew of the Starship Enterpriselearns that all is not as it seems. Before they can prevent the Federation's destruction, they must see the face of their hidden enemy--an enemy more insidious and more dangerous than any they have faced before...

Writing Grandmothers: Africa Vs Latin America Vol 2

Writing Grandmothers: Africa Vs Latin America Vol 2
Author: Rinos Mwanaka
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-04-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1779065264

Writing Grandmothers, Africa Vs Latin America Vol 2 is a continuation of the cross-continental anthologies series, particularly focussing on African and Latin American writers. It continues on from where Experimental Writing, Africa Vs Latin America, Vol 1. The anthology has 6 nonfiction pieces, 10 fiction pieces, and 67 poems and translations of poems in the two dominant languages of the two continents, English and Spanish. There is work from poets and writers from Honduras, Mexico, USA, UK, Cuba, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile Puerto Rico, Spain, Nigeria, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, and Ghana all collaborating on the theme of using the folktale or oral African story telling traditions and finding solutions to problems bedeviling the two continents, which were felt as a result of colonialism and or post colonialism.

The Lore of the Playground

The Lore of the Playground
Author: Steve Roud
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2010-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1407089323

From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more. Each generation, it emerges, has had its own favourites - hoops and tops in the 1930s, clapping games more recently. Some pastimes, such as skipping, have proved remarkably resilient, their complicated rules carefully handed down from one class to the next. Many are now the stuff of distant memory. And some traditions have proved to be strongly regional, loved by children in one part of the country, unknown to those elsewhere. All are brilliantly and meticulously recorded by Steve Roud, who has drawn on interviews with hundreds of people aged from 8 to 80 to create a fascinating picture of all our childhoods.

The Traitor's Kiss

The Traitor's Kiss
Author: Erin Beaty
Publisher: Imprint
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2017-05-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250117933

"This is an action-packed, expertly plotted story, drenched in double crosses and intrigue, with an irresistible heroine and a sweet and sexy romance. A late-breaking twist gives way to a final act that will leave readers eager for subsequent books in this planned trilogy." —Publishers Weekly , starred review An obstinate girl who will not be married. A soldier desperate to prove himself. A kingdom on the brink of war. With a sharp tongue and an unruly temper, Sage Fowler is not what they’d call a proper lady—which is perfectly fine with her. Deemed unfit for a suitable marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be married off for political alliances. She spies on the girls—and on the soldiers escorting them. As the girls' military escort senses a political uprising, Sage is recruited by a handsome soldier to infiltrate the enemy ranks. The more she discovers as a spy, the less certain she becomes about whom to trust—and Sage becomes caught in a dangerous balancing act that will determine the fate of her kingdom. With secret identities and a tempestuous romance, Erin Beaty's The Traitor’s Kiss is full of intrigue, espionage, and lies. An Imprint Book "Marital and martial matters collide when brides and spies become ensnared in a treasonous plot. . . . Sage is a clever, contrary female protagonist who remains realistic and likable, while her fellow protagonist Ash is enigmatic enough to require a second read. . . . Both epic and intimate, a semi–old-fashioned alternative to the wave of inexplicably lethal superheroines and their smoldering love triangles." —Kirkus Reviews "Complex characterization, deftly layered adventure story, and [a] balanced blend of political maneuvering, romantic interludes, and action scenes." —Kirkus Reviews "Beaty balances a taut web of deceit...readers will be carried away by the mystery." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (BCCB) "A debut novel that blends fantasy, romance, and battlefield action. . . . A slow burn YA fantasy with clever genre mixing." —School Library Journal

Captive Audience

Captive Audience
Author: Thomas Fahy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135888957

This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre.

The Commander’s Lifemate (A Delta Blue Novel)

The Commander’s Lifemate (A Delta Blue Novel)
Author: Lyssa EmBee
Publisher: BIABE Publishing
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When Matebonds Go Awry In a universe where matebonds exist but where one is least expected, Ava sets out from earth to find her future. A chance meeting on the space station Delta Blue disrupts all her best laid plans. Victor, fleet commander for the Zilantan armada, has always known he’d find his lifemate. He just wasn’t expecting it to happen right now, on Delta Blue, in the middle of an urgent visit to the station. Matebonds, you think they will go one way, but they really end up going another. Will true love win out? Will Ava find happiness with the man she was never searching for, but who is supposedly her perfect match? The Commander’s Lifemate is a standalone love story, sparked by a chance meeting on Delta Blue.