A spurned husband confronts the family of the girl who threw him out The walk from the mental hospital takes Harold Page three days. After two years inside, he cannot start his new life until he confronts the family who put him away. He was poor when he married Wendy Whitman, and their wealth still terrifies him. When their first child was born deaf, the Whitmans tricked Harold into a divorce, saying that he assaulted Wendy. She got the baby; he got a straitjacket. Now that he's out he has come to say goodbye, but the Whitmans are not through with him yet.   The night before he arrives, Wendy's mother is attacked by a man who she swears is Harold. Wendy's brother vows to kill him, but Harold does not run. It is time to put the Whitmans in their place.

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When LCDR Pete Brauer, former U.S. Navy SEAL (retired), dies in Florida, he dies clutching in his hands the portrait of a beautiful French-Vietnamese girl that has hung on his wall for more than twenty years.“I will never forgive myself, Pollack,” Brauer told his neighbor and friend, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jack Kazmarek (retired). “I don’t think God will either.”“We’ve all done things,” Kazmarek replied. “Especially in Vietnam.”“We haven’t all done what I done.”After Pete’s death, Kazmarek sets out on a quest to discover the relationship between Pete and the Eurasian girl in the photograph, Mhai, and to lay to rest the demons which haunted his friend throughout his life. The quest leads him back to Vietnam, a return that many combat veterans of Vietnam are making to old battlefields and old memories.In the process of uncovering details of the romance between a Navy SEAL fighting in the Mekong Delta and the beautiful enemy he wounds and captures, Kazmarek must confront personal demons that he has also attempted to suppress since TET 1968 and the fighting that erupted around the VC village of Vain Tho. Although their paths had not crossed in Vietnam, the Navy SEAL Brauer and the army infantry platoon leader Kazmarek had fought in the same area of operations, against the same warlord of the Delta, the mysterious Commander Minh.Kazmarek finds himself re-living old nightmares of the horrors of war in Vietnam. Drawn inexorably back to Vain Tho and to what occurred there over three decades previously, he finds that his path and Pete’s must have crossed after all--in Vain Tho during a battle in which both men had “done things.” He finds himself not only confronting the past, but also reenacting it when Commander Minh, now also an old man, emerges to even the score.

Falling in love was never part of the plan!Sixteen-year-old Regan Stone wants nothing more than to escape her gossip-ridden hometown. Every choice she makes is deliberate, from the out-of-state college she’s aiming for, to her dual-credit classes. She has a plan, and it doesn’t include a boyfriend.Lane Cary's leaving for college soon. It's supposed to be the greatest adventure of his life. All he can think about is his best-friend-since-forever, Regan. It’s taking him all summer to work up the courage to confess she’s way more than a friend to him, but he’s running out of time.Can one kiss destroy childhood friends? Or could it be the spark that ignites hidden feelings? One thing’s for sure, summer’s end will change everything.If you're a fan of rollercoaster romances with plenty of swoon, and authors Jenny Han or Kasie West, you’ll love this fun read. Get your copy of Summer's End today!

In the elaborate fictional cosmos Michael Moorcock has created, Elric and the various von Beks are all aspects of the Eternal Champion who fights for the Balance, preventing both Law and Chaos from dominating the universe and trapping it in either barren sterility or pointless fecundity. Elric, the albino sorcerer and last prince of the inhuman empire of Melnibone, was the creation of Moorcock's adventurous pot-boiling inventive youth, just as the von Bek family featured in the heroic fantasies of his more thoughtful middle-life. In The Dreamthief's Daughter, he brings together Elric and Ulric von Bek, last scion of the family, and we finally learn the sin for which the perpetual villain Gaynor the Damned was doomed: Nazi occultists are searching for the Grail and the Black Sword and must be prevented from attaining them. Ulric seeks allies wherever he can find them, including Oona, who wanders through dream realities and with whom he falls in love. This is fast-moving phantasmagorical stuff with ambiguously virtuous heroes and baddies whose villainy and charm is total. Moorcock's immensely powerful visual imagination and sense of the innate drama of crucial scenes make this a breathtaking read.

Lost in His Arms by Carla Cassidy FORBIDDEN LOVE Talbot McCarthy was darkly sexy, enormously successful, and the only man who fired Elizabeth's passions. Unfortunately, he was her ex-husband's brother. So strong was the attraction that she'd not even been alone with him in nine years. But when her son turned up missing and Talbot offered his plane to bring him home, Elizabeth had no choice but to look temptation in the face. She managed fine -- until the plane took a dive, stranding them in a forest in the middle of nowhere. In the intimate glow of firelight, Talbot's shoulders seemed broader...his eyes deeper. Lost and alone, Elizabeth could only wonder: How could she resist temptation now?

When physicist Robert Strong – newly unemployed and single – is offered a hundred thousand pounds for a week's work, he's understandably sceptical. But Victor Amos, head of the mysterious Observation Research Board, has compelling proof that the next round of experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider poses a real threat to the whole world. And he needs Robert to sabotage it.Robert's life is falling apart. His work at the Dark Matter Research Laboratory in Middlesbrough was taken away from him; his girlfriend, struggling to cope with the loss of her sister, has left. He returns home to Scotland, seeking sanctuary and rest, and instead starts to question his own sanity as the dead begin appearing to him, in dreams and in waking. Accepting Amos's offer, Robert flies to Geneva, but as he infiltrates CERN, everything he once understood about reality and science, about the boundary between life and death, changes forever.Mixing science, philosophy and espionage,...

Grace, tough and wise, has nearly given up on wishes, thanks to a childhood spent with her unpredictable, larger-than-life mother. But, this summer, Grace meets Eva, a girl who believes in dreams, despite her own difficult circumstances. One fateful evening, Eva climbs through a window in Grace's room, setting off a chain of stolen nights on the beach. When Eva tells Grace that she likes girls, Grace's world opens up and she begins to believe in happiness again. How to Make a Wish is an emotionally-charged portrait of a mother and daughter's relationship and a heartfelt story about two girls who find each other at the exact right time.

Max Simon, a cricket loving graduate of Oxford University, is instructed by his German father to fight for the Fatherland on the outbreak of the Second World War. Simon serves with distinction on the Russian Front as a Tank Commander in the Wehrmacht, winning the coveted Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, before being "volunteered" to join Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS. A war-weary Simon is filled with despair as he witnesses the Third Reich collapsing during 1944-45 and is confronted by its monstrous evil. Author DNJ Greaves has written a compelling espionage story which drifts through the corridors of power in Churchill's London and Hitler's Berlin. "It is on a par with the very best of Leo Kessler." Steve Newman, Bookstove Website

This epic new Storm story tells of the relentless feud between two cattle kings and their survival against Indians, rogue gunmen, prospectors ... and the love of two men for Kate Storm. Packed with more charge than a herd of stampeding steers, here is a western adventure that thunders with risk and violence.

An astonishing story of the mysteries dividing truth and deception that follows the odyssey of Ahn Gil­mo, a young autistic math genius, as he escapes from the most isolated country in the world and searches for the only family he has left.An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. Gil­mo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Angela, CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process.The enigmatic Gil­mo used to have a quite life back in Pyongyang. But when his father, a preeminent doctor is discovered to be a secret Christian, he is subsequently incarcerated along with Gilmo, in a political prison overseen by a harsh, cruel warden.There, he meets the spirited Yeong-ae, who becomes his only friend. When Yeong-­ae manages to escape,...