Layover Thirty Hours To Kill

THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A FLIGHT ATTENDANT THAT LEADS A DOUBLE LIFE. SHE’S BEAUTIFUL, SEXY AND DELIBERATE IN FINDING HER VICTIMS . . . MARRIED MEN THAT SECRETLY CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES. SHE IS SWEET, SMOOTH AND CALM AS SHE WATCHES HER VICTIMS TAKE THEIR LAST BREATH BEFORE LEAVING ON HER NEXT FLIGHT FOR ANOTHER FASCINATING LAYOVER DESTINATION! WILL SHE EVER FIND LOVE? PERHAPS IN 30 HOURS! AS A FLIGHT ATTENDANT, THE GLAMOUR WAS GONE, BUT THE INTENSE THIRST FOR HER NEXT VICTIM REMAINED STRONG! MELINDA WALKS THE STREETS AT NIGHT IN SEARCH OF HER NEXT VICTIM. PERHAPS SHE’LL FIND HIM IN A LOUNGE, A SEEDY BAR OR IN THE AIRPLANE SEAT NEXT TO YOU!

The Men of Matriarchy is composed of two books. Book One, A Few More Good Funerals, begins in central Texas in 1838 and traces the creation and evolution of the East Texas matriarchy through Jane White and her descendents in Sugar Springs to the present day. Book Two, Newtons Sewer, is the contemporary story of Dub Newton, one of Jane Whites descendents, and the impact the matriarchy had on his life and his character. Together, the two books are an accurate and detailed account of life in East Texas.

"Fresh, fun and romantic."—SARAH MORGAN, USA Today bestselling author of A Wedding in December How the moose (almost) stole Christmas. Lana Montgomery is everything the quirky small town of Moose Springs, Alaska can't stand: a rich socialite with dreams of changing things for the better. But Lana's determined to prove that she belongs...even if it means trading her stilettos for snow boots and tracking one of the town's hairiest Christmas mysteries: the Santa Moose, an antlered Grinch hell-bent on destroying every bit of holiday cheer (and tinsel) it can sink its teeth into. And really...how hard could it be? The last few years have been tough on Rick Harding, and it's not getting any easier now that his dream girl's back in town. When Lana accidentally tranquilizes him instead of the Santa Moose, it's clear she needs help, fast...and this could be his chance to finally catch her eye. It's an all-out Christmas war, but if they can nab that darn moose before it destroys the town, Rick and Lana might finally find a place where they both belong...together. Readers are falling in love with The Tourist Attraction: "Utterly charming—a delightful debut."—LAUREN LAYNE, New York Times bestselling author of the Central Park Pact series "An enchanting romcom debut! I loved it." —TERI WILSON, award-winning author of The Accidental Beauty Queen "After reading Sarah Morgenthaler's darling debut, I wanted to hop a plane to Alaska and find my own grumpy cinnamon roll hero!"—MELONIE JOHNSON, award-winning author of Smitten by the Brit "Prediction: Readers will stampede to Alaska looking for The Tourist Trap and their own Graham after they read the first chapter of The Tourist Attraction. Sarah Morgenthaler's Alaska is so vivid and amusing that it really should be a real place in the world!"—SARINA BOWEN, USA Today bestselling author of the True North series

This is the story of a pimp, Shame, the women he uses and abuses and how he recruited and maintained them on the street. First the street is revealed through Shame's mother, Latisa, as she works for different pimps, including a pimp/gambler who uses her to entice customers with live sex shows until they crossed organized crime. Shame has many run-ins with the law as a juvenile, but escapes detention while attending his mother's funeral. He falls in love, but is rejected when his lover finds out how old he is. As an adult, he encounters a couple of seasoned prostitutes. He convinces them to make him the kind of pimp they want. He quickly develops into a pimp like the rest of the vultures on the street. In the course of his initiation, a gangster pimp forcibly takes one of his women. Her wife-in-law attempts to rescue her. Shame moves on, recruiting young victims and learning from other pimps the ins and outs of the street. He meets a young woman and against the unwritten rules of the street falls in love. Fighting against his feelings he cons her into believing he's in trouble to get her into prostitution. When she finds out he is a pimp, she turns on him. She is kidnapped and drugged into submission. She tries to escape, but is found dead of a drug overdose. A policewoman who grew up with the drug victim conducts her own investigation. She goes undercover as a prostitute and another of Shame's women dies in a suspicious manner. She joins forces with a D.C. vice detective and they obtain enough evidence to get Shame arrested. The very dramatic trial does not turn out the way they expected and the victims of Shame decide to get their own justice.

„Whoever can give me a comprehensible reason for growing up, gets all the gold in the world, an Oscar in every category and at the same time be burning in hell.“ As Andi became infected with the surfing virus in Bali, his life was thrown overboard and scattered across the world. This was the starting point for a trip to the best waves on the planet and a search for deeper meaning between reason and wanderlust. And for a life in the midst of guns, precious gems, thieves, know-it-all professors and German beer cans. A spontaneous idea turns the life of an ingenuous university freshman into a 10 years journey around the globe. Drop outs and free spirits in Indonesia, monsterwaves in Australia, gangster in South Africa, smuggling gems in Sri Lanka and Salsa in Ecuador. The journey begins. And the struggle between conventional life at home and the new passion burning in his soul invites the reader to paddle out into the vast ocean of existence with its ups and downs towards understanding life´s most profound undercurrents. Boarderlines captures the rush of adrenaline in big waves and the touching smile in the eyes of people who have nothing but the biggest hearts.

A radio host’s rise is the fodder for this “funny, melancholy, frightening . . . absolutely American” National Book Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review). Since childhood, Dick Gibson has longed for a successful radio career to make him a household name. Seeking to hone his craft, Dick travels from stations in Nebraska and New Jersey to the Armed Forces Radio in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War, interviewing crooks, con artists, and hypnotists along the way. His show ignites the imaginations of all who listen to it—until one fateful night when a studio guest’s irresistible influence on Dick and all those listening to him will change their lives forever. Spirited and compelling, The Dick Gibson Show is a laugh-out-loud journey through the world of talk radio and a compulsively readable account of one man’s descent into the dark echo chamber of American media. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

Author Max Martinez once again finds murder and mayhem in the central Texas farm country featured in his tour-de-force White Leg. Here, a young, educated and hip Priscilla Arrabal had unwittingly become embroiled in a life threatening game of hide-and-seek with the police and an amoral killer. Her gradual awakening to her increasingly dangerous predicament makes for a suspenseful and surprise-filled read, one that regales readers with colorful characters, unexpected turns of plot and an unforgettable sampling of Texas back-country culture.

Set amid the social turmoil of the late sixties, Right to Kill is a Brooklyn tale about street smart characters, loyalty, romance, gritty combat, murder, and a touch of humor - all contributing to epic moral dilemma. A law student from a blue-collar neighborhood, Sean Cercone, puts his life on hold to join the Marine Corps. He makes his way from Gravesend, Brooklyn through Marine officer training and onto the blood soaked fields of Quang Tri. The crucible of vicious combat in Vietnam and a senseless killing back home crush his moral compass. Sean makes a clandestine trip out of the war zone back to his neighborhood to carry out vengeful mission and subsequently returns undetected to Vietnam. Coming home a second time damaged in body and mind, his family, boyhood friends, a war widow, and a holocaust survivor all try to help him attain peace and move on with his life.