There's room for everyone on the Nice List, but the Naughty List is so much more fun.
On Christmas Eve, while Santa Claus rewards good little girls and boys, there are some adults on the Naughty List who are receiving their own visits from the North Pole.
This year, Santa's elves are on a mission to turn Naughty into Nice... but not everyone wants to be on the Nice List, especially when the punishment for being on the Naughty List is so......
Ever since the Civil War the history of the Christian Church in England has been characterised by a threefold division, into the Anglicanism of the State, Roman Catholicism slowly being tolerated again and the fastest growing sector, Protestant Nonconformity. The great urban expansion of the 19th century saw the building of thousands of new chapels and meeting houses which form a significant part of the built heritage of our cities, towns and ...
Mirror Mirror on the wall, show me my true love.
Callie Ricci, research librarian and self-avowed romantic, has been waiting her whole life for her prince to come. She saw him for the first time when she was eighteen in a magic mirror, but his face was obscured. Every midwinter she gets a glimpse of him, but each year the figure moves slowly away, indicating the love is fading, become less of a possibility.
Alexander Morin, local police of...
A gripping psychological thriller with jaw-dropping twists and an ending you won't see coming. Get ready to stay up all night!
My name is Callie Crawford. I'm a mom and a survivor. I live with my daughter Ava in Boudreaux Parish in rural Louisiana, where I'm recovering from an accident that left me with a damaged hip and fractured memories.
Though I don't remember the accident, I'm not letting that stop me. I'm determined to move forward w...
Catch a killer, save the world....
¿Lucy felt a jolt of shock - even horror - at the sight of Jack Ford, jerk extraordinaire, staring at her in surprise.
¿"You?" he said, anger flashing in his eyes.
¿Heat rushed to her cheeks. The humiliation - the betrayal - of their prior encounter came roaring back. Nausea surged through her.
¿Why had Special Exploits called them in?
¿What in the hell was going on?
On a billionaire's Mediterranean...
An A.I.'s love for a human family leads to danger on an orbiting space station...
A hipster accidentally destroys Alcatraz while crushing on a cute coffee barista...
A girl on trial for mass murder is either evil incarnate -- or victim of a demon most foul...
Across the ages, a time-traveling secret agent fights to save the family he lost forever...
These stories -- and more -- are now available in Michael Ryder's debut collection o...
Delicious but deadly...
When a gorgeous San Francisco socialite is accused of poisoning her tycoon husband, private eye Daniel Hannity takes the case -- and finds himself caught in a twisted web of danger, desire and deceit.
A riveting whodunit in the tradition of Rex Stout and Ellery Queen!
Bullying. Something that is done every second, daily. Don't need a statistic to be told otherwise. Many don't even realize they are a constant victim of bullying, as it tends to get buried as an underlying emotion. Many don't realize they are actually a bully themselves. There are several references for parents to go to in order to help their children stand up against it, but there's not much for adults or depicting in why a bully is a bully i...
Three years ago, bride-to-be Aoife died at her own hen party.Now the hens have returned to the villa where that terrible weekend unfolded.They long for closure. But the moment they step back inside, old wounds open and tensions begin to rise.Everyone has a different version of what happened that night.Who is keeping secrets? And how far will they go to keep them hidden?
Honor must be restored. Vengeance must be had. Asgeir must go a'viking.
The battle won, his enemy slain at his feet, and the respect of the Viking ship's crew earned - but with his honor lost, Asgeir must set out to reclaim it.
However, when they sail over the open ocean, a storm - the wrath of the thunder god Thor - blows them off course.
When they arrive in unknown land, the misdeeds of the ship's captain causes disaster, and Asgeir ends ...
Art in the City: Michael VonDrak and His San Francisco Paintings is a biography and retrospect of American artist Michael VonDrak, focusing on his San Francisco paintings, and written by his daughter, Ilona Ryder.
When Ilona Ryder was writing the personal biography of her grandfather, Michael Curtiz, she asked her father Michael VonDrak many questions.At one point, exasperated, he turned to her and said, "you should be writing about me!" That...
I believe in competition, but I want things to be fair. When I was a kid, I would give my younger brothers a head start to make the race fair. Let's use sports as an analogy that everybody in America can identify with. Let's use MLB and the NFL as examples. Right now, I feel like the world is more like Major League Baseball. After the first month of the season, we know who is going to win, because the teams with the highest payroll have the be...