Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 11 August 2011
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Conquistadora
A gorgeous epic of love, discovery, and adventure by the beloved author of When I Was Puerto Rican. Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in twin brothers Ramon and Inocente--both in love with Ana--she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramon and convinces the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation they've inherited on the island.
Andrew Vachss’s implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity and his life. But between the power of Strega and his own sense of justice, there is no turning back. In Strega one of our most acclaimed crime writers gives us a thriller that might have been imagined by Dante. For this is a tour of hell with no stops left out, conducted by a novelist who writes with the authority of the damned.
Jordan Buchanan is thrilled that her brother and best friend are tying the knot. The marriage of Dylan Buchanan and Kate MacKenna is no oridinary occasion. It represents the joining of two family dynasities. The ceremony and reception proceed without a hitch until a crasher appears claiming to be a MacKenna guest. The disheveled and eccentric professor of medieval history warns that there's "bad blood" between the couple's clans, stemming from an ancient feud that originated in Scotland and involving the Buchanan theft of a coveted MacKenna treasure.
Associations and Ceremonies of the Menomini Indians
The chief function of most Menomini associations is dancing, always with a religious motive, but, while there are no purely social clubs, per se, there is always great social activity during the performance of the public rites of the dreamers. At such times members and non-members gather for miles at the ceremonial ground, and social dances, gambling, and visits fill up the time between performances.
How to you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skilfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exemplary life, there were those who'd take advantage of one "indiscretion" and bring down the whole family. McGee also discovers he likes a few members of the family far too much to let that happen....
