Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.26 | Fiction literature | 1 April 2011
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Secrets of the Fire Sea
by Stephen Hunt
A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Rise of the Iron Moon. A secret grave enough to kill for! The isolated island of Jago is the only home Hannah Conquest has ever known. But her carefree existence comes to an abrupt halt when her guardian, Archbishop Alice Grey, is brutally murdered. Someone desperately wants to suppress a secret kept by the archbishop, and if the attempts on Hannah's own life are any indication, the killer believes that Alice passed the knowledge of it onto her ward before her head was separated from her neck. Meanwhile, a deadly power struggle is brewing on Jago.
Hammond (Going to Bend) shares the story of charismatic mega-vertebrate Hannah, the elephant star of the failing Max L. Biedelman Zoo, in her sweet but slow third novel.
Home care nurse Hannah Grey is dedicated to her patient, an aging widow still tainted by the financial scandal her late husband perpetrated. She makes Hannah promise that upon her death, she'll right the family's wrongs, and gives Hannah her offshore account's access codes. But Carrick Manly will do anything to discover where his family's fortunes lie - including kill his own mother. Fearing for her life, and desperate not to betray the widow, Hannah flees. And when Carrick's half-brother, Gabriel, tracks her down in Houston, Hannah must trust her own instincts - and her heart - to survive.
Hannah Fairchild is having a boring summer at home after all her friends leave town for the break. However, the day after having a horrifying dream about her room being on fire, she meets her new next door neighbor, Danny. While Hannah comes to believe that Danny is a ghost, he demonstrates to her that it is in fact she who is a ghost, having been killed in a fire five years prior.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 12 November 2010
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Last Place God Made
Sam Hannah had been a flying ace in the RAF. Now he is flying ancient planes across the jungles of Brazil. Neil Mallory is also a flyer - he needed a job and Hannah needed a partner. Their adversaries were the vast jungles and the Huna Indians, but they also came to be set against each other.