The House On Gable Street (A Jack Nightingale Short Story)

The House On Gable Street (A Jack Nightingale Short Story)

Stephen Leather

Mystery & Thrillers

Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate spooky goings-on in a rock star's mansion. The House On Gable Street is a fast-paced supernatural story about 30,000 words long, almost a novella.Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan "Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful ebook authors and his ebooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. In 2011 alone he sold more than 500,000 eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world. Born in Manchester, he began writing full time in 1992. His...
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Secrets of My Hollywood Life: Family Affairs

Secrets of My Hollywood Life: Family Affairs

Jen Calonita

Children's / Young Adult

The filming for sure-to-be-blockbuster movie Pretty Young Assassins has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of primetime drama Family Affair. After ten seasons of filming the hit favorite TV show, Kaitlin would have thought that she could see any curveballs coming, but with a plotting new actress on set, all bets are off. The new diva, Alexis, makes even Skye seem like a puppy in comparison. Can Kaitlin keep her sane boyfriend, her insane job, and her composure in the face of this new star power? Combining the vicarious glamour of the New York Times bestselling A-List series with the innocence of The Princess Diaries, this commercial and appealing sequel offers another captivating glimpse behind the velvet ropes of stardom. Tantalizing new Hollywood secrets appear throughout.
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Longings of the Heart

Longings of the Heart

Bonnie Leon

Historical / Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction

It's the early 1800s and the wondrous land of Australia is full of possibilities as settlers stake their claims. Hannah and John are settling some land in New South Wales and hoping to start a family. But their bright hopes for the future are clouded with trouble. As they try unsuccessfully to have a baby, Hannah suffers from guilt over her past. Now this haunts her and her relationship with John—she's never told her husband about this chapter of her life. Full of the kind of emotional longings romance readers crave, Longings of the Heart is the heart-rending second book in the Sydney Cove series. Established and new Leon fans alike will finish this story wanting more.
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The Shanghai Factor

The Shanghai Factor

Charles McCarry

Literature & Fiction / Espionage / Thriller

An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper.He's meant to be laying low, polishing his Mandarin and awaiting further instructions from Washington. But Shandhai is a difficult city to sleep in, especially when his nights are taken over by the seductive but enigmatic Mei - a woman with secrets he'd rather not hear.Then he is tasked with a delicate operation. Infiltrate the core of the Chinese intelligence service. Distinguish friend from foe. Report to a single contact at HQ. Trust no one. Tell no one.Pushed out into the cold, in a city of millions he's suddenly very, very alone.But in Shanghai city you're never truly alone. Faceless strangers linger in the shadows, watching your every move. No one is safe from the Guoanbu. Not even a spy with no name...
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Bony and the Kelly Gang

Bony and the Kelly Gang

Arthur W. Upfield

Mystery & Thrillers

Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey 'stills' has been murdered, and it's Bony's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief, the Aboriginal detective hitch-hikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot...
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Shifty Business

Shifty Business

Greg Trine

Greg Trine

Fourth-grade superhero Jo Schmo doesn't know that a crime wave is about to hit her city. She's too busy learning new superhero skills, like shape-shifting. Only it doesn't seem to be going very well: what bad guy is scared of a superhero that looks like a frizzy-haired teacher? But Jo and her loyal doggy sidekick, Raymond, know they have to stop the villainous Numb Skull before the crime wave builds into full-on crime tsunami. And if that means Jo has to risk shape-shifting into a freckled monster, then that's just what she'll do!
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A Love All Her Own

A Love All Her Own

Janet Lee Barton

Janet Lee Barton

Socialite Abigail has always gotten what she wants. So when the plans for her nuptials go down in flames, she simply cannot stay in Eureka Springs. Bitter, angry, and humiliated, Abigail searches for somewhere to go. When Marcus receives a telegram requesting his protective services for the daughter of a friend, he obliges. But as he observes Abigail, what he sees doesn't match up with what he's heard. Which Abigail is real - the manipulative, vindictive woman of Eureka Springs, or the lovely young lady of Hot Springs? Will Abigail ever overcome the past to find a love all her own?  
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