Golf
Joshua Piven
Joshua Piven
The authors of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook take to the links! Dave and Josh join golf fanatic James Grace, drawing on their own tragic exploits and the experience of experts to help golfers survive dozens of dire situations. Learn how to finish a round with a broken arm, deal with a cigar brush fire, cure golf addiction, or remove a tick. Discover the best way to play out of a water hazard, make it through a lightning storm, or survive being hit in the privates. Hands-on, illustrated, step-by-step instructions guide you through these and other perils lurking on the fairway. With an appendix of rules for bizarre mis-haps, strategies for surmounting dress-code and equipment crises, and other essential survival tips, this handy guide won't help you save par-but it could save your bacon! Don't tee off without it.
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Serenity Valley
Rocky Bills
Rocky Bills
Medieval coming of age tale of a young boy and a great battle horse he shares a bond with. When Lady Bella takes an interest in young Gamel as a student, he soon finds out just how fragile the tranquil peace of Serenity Valley really is. Gamel soon finds himself thrown into battle where all hope seems lost.
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A Festival of Ghosts
William Alexander
Memoir / Humor and Comedy
National Book Award winner William Alexander conjures up a spooky adventure full of excitement in this entertaining sequel to A Properly Unhaunted Place.Rosa Ramona Diaz, the ghost appeasing assistant librarian, has unleashed all the ghosts who were previously shut out of the small town of Ingot. Now ghosts are everywhere, and the town's living residents are either learning to cope or trying to do the one thing no one can successfully do—banish the ghosts. At school, something supernatural is stealing kids' voices and leaving them speechless. And it's Rosa's job to solve the mystery and set things right. Meanwhile her best friend Jasper is dealing with what remains of the Renaissance Festival, where ghosts from Ingot's past are now battling it out with the ghosts of the Renaissance reenactors. And Rosa is experiencing a haunting of her own—could her father's ghost have followed her here? Somehow Rosa and Jasper are going to have to find a way...
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Wildest Dreams
Melody Grace
Romance / Contemporary / Ebooks
Welcome to Sweetbriar Cove: the home for feel-good summer romance! Paige Bennett is ready for an adventure. She's spent her life being the good girl, but after another underwhelming break-up, she decides it's time to shake things up. No more diets, Spanx, and searching for Mr. Right. She wants passion and excitement... And she knows just the man for the job. Bad boy chef, Declan Nash, lives by three simple rules: 1) Life's too short for cheap whiskey. 2) Everything tastes better with butter, and 3) Good girls mean trouble. So when the sweet, polite Paige proposes he teach her about life on the wild side, he knows he should steer clear. But it turns out, Paige is hiding a few surprises of her own... Their connection is immediate, and soon, this unlikely couple is heating things up in Sweetbriar Cove. But will they take a risk search of new love? And can the sparks between them burn out with the fireworks on Fourth of July? Find out in the sizzling,...
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The Whispering House
Rebecca Wade
Rebecca Wade
Maisie Holt.This is her book.It's an old house, one her family plans to stay in for only a short while; but for Hannah Price, secrets soon come creeping out of every corner of Cowleigh Lodge.First there's the old and dusty book of children's fairy tales that belonged to a young girl named Maisie. Hannah learns that the girl died mysteriously at age eleven in this very house nearly 140 years ago.Then, when Hannah draws a portrait of Maisie, things begin to fall apart. The house seems to be reverting to its nineteenth-century form, and Hannah's not sure whether it or Maisie herself is sending her messages. Hannah must solve the mystery of Maisie's death, because if she doesn't help her, Maisie may never leave Hannah alone. . . .Rebecca Wade has created a haunting story that will capture readers' imaginations until the very last page.
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Angels Passing
Hurley, Graham
Hurley, Graham
Why did a young girl fall to her death from a tower block? And is there a
connection with a ten year old boy captured on the block's CCTV system?
DI Joe Faraday is on the case, but his investigation is hampered when
resources are switched to a murder enquiry prompted by the discovery of
the body of a small time crook on wasteland north of the city. ANGELS
PASSING takes us to the core of Faraday's flawed relationships with both
his girlfriend and his son; it reveals more of Winter's brutally
effective take on the job and provides a grimly recognisable post mortem
report on a society that is coming apart at the seams . . .
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The Blue Hour
Douglas Kennedy
Douglas Kennedy
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Moment and Five Days comes "the best book about Morocco since The Sheltering Sky. Completely absorbing and atmospheric" (Philip Kerr).Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be—passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry, everything changes. As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape. With his acclaimed ability to write page-turners that also make you think, Douglas Kennedy takes the reader...
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