Hugh Marlow fought for his country before ending up on the wrong side of the law. After five hard years inside, thinking only of the fortune he'd stashed away before being thrown behind bars, he was ready to fight anyone who stood in the way of what was his. Rough justice was still the only thing he understood. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't the only one. Now the worst of London's gangsters and criminals are after Marlowe and his hidden bounty.
Policewoman Charlotte Monroe has a near psychic ability to read people's faces and body language and the FBI wants her in the worst way, maybe even to the point of blackmail. Still, Charlotte's gift fails to prepare her for the stranger who shows up on her doorstep with a chilling warning for her husband, a mysterious not scrawled in Cherokee hieroglyphics, and a promise of things to come: "You're next." When Charlotte's deeply troubled teenage daughter runs away with the stranger, she follows the two of them into the mists of the Great Smoky Mountains and into a 150-year-old blood feud that will endanger everything she loves.
A Romanian infant who flourishes when given the wrong blood transfusion could hold the key to a cure for AIDS and cancer, but he also shares an intimate link to a clan of vampires.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 1 November 2011
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The Library at Night
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries.
The winter room is where Eldon, his brother Wayne, old Uncle David, and the rest of the family gather on icy cold nights, sitting in front of the stove. There the boys listen eagerly to all of Uncle David's tales of superheroes.Then one night Uncle David tells the story, "The Woodcutter," and what happens next is terrible--then wonderful.
