Burning Hunger Private detective Brea Maguire is on her first case, tracking down a stolen statue - the Sacred Triad - before it's buried in the black market. Unfortunately today - Friday the Thirteenth - isn't her day. Being kidnapped from the mall by a pair of bizarre guys who put the Chippendales to shame didn't figure into her new career plans. Dayne and Marek have their own problems. Dayne, forced into a blood-bond with Marek, his sworn enemy, sees his chance to exact vengeance for his family's slaughter slip away. For Marek, the blood-bond with Dayne may be too late. His enemies have learned the secret of the Triad, which holds the only hope for a cure for his dying brother, the king. Marek can help Brea find the Triad and use it to save his brother's life, but only if she too enters the blood-bond. The burning hunger that accompanies it is a major complication none of them anticipated. Two men, one woman and a driving sexual hunger that none can resist, in a race against time to save one man-or destroy thousands. Reader Advisory: Contains a scene of male/male sexual interaction. Carnal Hunger Jasmyne Vaughn's search for her drug-addicted mother-and the package she stole -was a nightmare in more ways than one. Jasmyn's plans had not included being kidnapped by two powerful vampires driven by the Hunger and the primal, carnal need to sate the blood-bond between themselves and a mortal woman. Sons of the Twilight Asher and Draven have their own problems. Asher is desperate to reclaim what's been taken from him. And Draven has learned his conflicting loyalties are going to cost a number of people a dear price. But the desperate effects of the Hunger have driven them both to near death-until Jasmyne completes their bond. Propelled by honor, duty and love, the three spend their nights searching for Jasmyne's mother and the ancient Greek relic she's stolen. And days sating their unrelenting carnal need for each other. Two men, one woman-and a driving sexual hunger t
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From the author of the critically acclaimed The Nightingale's Song ("An amazing piece of work...This is a stunning book" -- Boston Globe), comes an evocative, elegiac and rollicking portrait of America. The Nightingale's Song was Robert Timberg's extraordinary tale of well-intentioned but ill-starred warriors. In State of Grace, his long-awaited new book, he revives the powerful themes of courage, manhood and loss in a strikingly personal exploration of America between the Good War and Vietnam. "It was the twilight of innocence, or what passed for innocence if you didn't look too closely," he writes. "America was at peace, peering confidently into the future, when it should have been holding its breath for what lay ahead." Robert Timberg has his finger on the pulse of a generation that split along a fault line called Vietnam, between those who went and those who didn't. In his unflinching and riveting The Nightingale's Song, Timberg chronicled a nation haunted by the war and its corrosive aftermath. Now, in State of Grace, the author rediscovers an earlier time and an America now largely lost. Using the New York City sandlot football team he played for after high school as a rich metaphor for what was best about that bygone era, Timberg evokes the period in fine detail and vivid color. It was a world of girls, beer and the proverbial Big Game, but it also was defined by faith in tradition and institutions, including a still unsullied Catholic Church. State of Grace captures life on the threshold of Kennedy's Camelot, before the Beatles, before the Pill, but in the ever-expanding shadow of Vietnam, "a time when the path to an honorable future seemed as straightforward as playing hard, hitting clean, and not fumbling the ball." The tale is told through Timberg's own eyes as he moves from troubled youth to man, from running back on a team called the Lynvets to Naval Academy plebe to Marine officer. The story is also told through a collection of other characters, including a genius of a coach overmatched when off the field, a driven quarterback sidetracked by booze and an angry loner fresh from the army stockade who reclaims his life on the gridiron. As Timberg writes, the team was where he and his fellow Lynvets "found a toe-hold on our better selves during a troubled time in our lives. Those snatches of pride and courage and strength we shared...eventually grew within us, becoming the core of a decent manhood that might have easily eluded any one of us in other circumstances. There were times, for each of us, when it was all we had."
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Lucian Truscott takes the reader back in this military memoir to the days of the horse cavalry in American history.
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Dr. Cecelia Barnes' research on blood diseases made vampire Julian Mansfield want to watch her. Her intelligence and spirit, not to mention the sparkle in her eyes, made him want to help her. Julian planned to seduce her work - which endangers all vampires - out of her, but her strength and wit seduce him right back. Before he knows it he's changing his plans and starting a bloody, violent war against his old master in a desperate bid to save the life of the woman he's quickly realizing he can't live without. As their passionate meeting turns into a full-blown love affair more intense than either of them expected, Julian is tortured by the knowledge that he must admit to Cecelia that he is a vampire, or lose her. . .but when she finds out he's been lying, will she want to stay? Reader Advisory: This book contains a brief scene of light female/female sexual exploration.
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A light in the darkness for severely troubled children, former special education teacher Torey Hayden faced three of her most extraordinary challenges after she left the classroom Nine-year-old Cassandra, kidnapped by her father and found starving, dirty, and picking through garbage cans -- a child prone to long silences and erratic, violent behavior, whose hard-won recollections of the nightmare she endured could not be fully trusted. Charming, charismatic four-year-old Drake, who would speak only in private to his mother -- his tough, unbending grandfather's demands for an immediate cure threatened to cause the delightful boy and his family irreparable harm. And though she had never worked with adults, Hayden agreed to help fearful and silent eighty-two-year-old massive stroke victim Gerda -- discovering in the process that a treatment's successes could prove nearly as heartbreaking as its limitations.
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Twilight in Arcadia features an essay by Susan Neville, professor of English at Butler University, and the photography of Tyagan Miller. This documentary publication examines tobacco farming in Indiana and the recent changes this industry has experienced.
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Wisdom Literature is that divine revelation which occurs neither in a straightforward divine/human confrontation where God appears and just spells it out, nor in a human conjuring of knowledge, experience, or reasoning. Rather, the revelation of God found in Wisdom Literature occurs in ways that make the revelation trickier, in dreams, visions, but also narratives and the like which are a kind of murky, gray area similar to the light of early sunrise or late after sunset when things are not entirely clear-the "twilight zone." T. A. Perry, author of The Honeymoon is Over, has once again brought both the creative impulse and a critical mind to the study of some of the most enigmatic passages of the Hebrew Bible. What is the source of Wisdom? What, in fact, is the Biblical understanding of Wisdom? And how is wisdom revealed and understood? Wisdom is not limited to the so-called Wisdom Literature of the Bible. It is found throughout, but too often in poorly understood passages that seem out-of-place within the wider context in which they are found. Perry provides fresh insight into stories often avoided for their difficulty. Insightful, incisive, ingenious writing characterizes Perry's work. What can the serious student of the Bible learn from the story of Judah and Tamar, from the riddle proposed by Samson, and from the words of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) reflecting on the advancing years of life? One learns that God's Wisdom is profound and can be visible in the sometimes murky light of the twilight zone at the start and end of a day. This book will appeal to a broad audience, including pastors and rabbis who want penetrating insights into some of the more difficult passages of the Hebrew Bible; informed lay persons, both Christian and Jewish; and scholars in the field of biblical interpretation and particularly those interested in the Wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible.
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