Highjacked & The Stranger
Bob Cucino
Publisher: BooxAi
Summary
Excitement and action will keep you at the edge of your seat. “With “Imagination" anything is possible."
Publisher: BooxAi
Excitement and action will keep you at the edge of your seat. “With “Imagination" anything is possible."
The void of space is dark and full of pirates. Holston Zakarian spent his entire life dedicated to shrinking the time it took to move objects from one place to another. With one invention, he became the richest man on Kalypso. But using his vast resources to shape the future was easy when weighed against the task of preparing his two sons to build on his legacy. There's nothing as dangerous as a jilted lover with the resources to make a man squirm. Edward Zakarian grew up in the lap of luxury on Kalypso. Despite all of his advantages, Edward can't avoid the largest landmine in the galaxy. Not that he thinks about Bianca LuClaire now he has Mercedes on his arm. In battle, only the final outcome matters. Christian Zakarian is tired of playing second fiddle to his undeserving, playboy brother. Edward may be older than him, but the corporation should go to the best man for the job. To take his brother out of the running and get what he rightfully deserves, Christian turns to the one person who wants to get back at Edward more than he does. Bianca Luclaire. The fate of the galaxy rests in their hands. Who will prove to be the better man?Show book
A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community When Lillian Stone lapses into a coma and is admitted to a San Francisco hospital in the spring of 1969, her only child, twelve-year-old Maggie, is temporarily taken in by her best friend's family. More than a month later, the neighbors can no longer afford to provide for Maggie's room and board. Uprooted again, she is sent to a local orphanage. Just as she's beginning to adapt to life at the orphanage, Ira Stone, a grandfather she never met, shows up unexpectedly and shuttles her 1200 miles away to live at his ranch on the isolated plains of eastern Montana. Maggie knows nothing about her hard-nosed WWI Veteran Grandpa other than being aware that he and her mother have long been estranged. Thrust into a culture and lifestyle that couldn't be more opposite of her San Francisco upbringing, Maggie is suddenly expected to do household and barnyard chores under the critical eye of a grizzled old rancher. Ira and Maggie are equally skeptical of each other as they attempt to adapt to the vastly different world they now share. In addition to facing all the challenges in her new life, the worry of whether her mom will ever regain consciousness is never far from Maggie's thoughts. Despite having to overcome the overwhelming obstacles placed in her path, Maggie's grit, determination, and can-do spirit are evident in this heartwarming story of how she wins the love and respect of the members of her new community, not the least of which is her grandfather, Ira Stone. Here's what early reviewers are saying about A Stone's Throw: Wayne Edwards deftly captures the emotional turmoil and confusion of young adulthood. Maggie is imperfect in all the right ways and her optimism is a positive example for all youth. Incorporating it into the curriculum or the YA offerings of the library would be perfect.Show book
Dirty gals taking it deep in the ass for the first time in rough anal sessions at the mercy of seasoned men! It’s some of the naughtiest erotica on the planet – come see if you can handle it!Stories include Anal Lovers AudioBooks 1 – 12: ‘Sex From My Friend While His Wife Showers,’ ‘The Power of Anal Sex,’ ‘Blown My Backdoor In,’ ‘My Boss Popped My Naughty Cherry,’ ‘Anal In The Mirror,’ ‘Well Hung and Drawn,’ ‘Getting Dirty,’ ‘My First Time Below Deck,’ ‘Grinding My Ass On My Friend’s Dad,’ ‘Steamy Anal Sex With My Friend’s Dad,’ ‘He Plastered My Ass,’ and ‘Put In A Room With My Friend’s Dad.’Show book
Many teenagers struggle to find their identity, but for Taliesin Weaver, that struggle has become life or death - and not just for him. Tal, as he prefers to be called, believes in reincarnation, and with good reason. When he turned 12, his mind was nearly shattered by a flood of memories, memories of his past lives, hundreds of them. Somehow, Tal managed to pull himself together and even to make good use of the lessons learned and skills developed in those previous lives. He even had the ability to work magic - literally - and there was no denying that was cool. No, his life wasn't perfect, but he was managing. Now, four years later, his best friend Stan has begun to suspect his secret, and Stan isn't the only one. Suddenly, Tal is under attack from a mysterious enemy and under the protection of an equally mysterious friend whose agenda Tal can't quite figure out. An apparition predicts his death. A shape shifter disguised as Stan attacks him. An old adversary starts acting like a friend. He and some other students get hurled into Annwn (the Otherworld), face Morgan Le Fay, and only just barely get back alive - and that's just during the first month of school! By now Tal knows he is not the only one who can work magic and certainly not the only one who can remember the past. He realizes there is something that he is not remembering, something that could save his life or end it, some reason for the attacks on him that, as they escalate, threaten not only him but everyone he loves as well. In an effort to save them, he will have to risk not only his life, but even his soul.Show book
He was my biggest rival in law school. Then my everything. Until he broke my heart. Mack McAllister was the most hard-core, winner-take-all law student I ever met. Next to me. It only made sense that we’d end up in a crazy, intense affair that lasted until we graduated. He went to the west coast. I headed east. Except, now, ten years later, I’m back in his territory. I don’t plan to call him. That was then, and this is now. But when I discover the tough-edged, take-no-prisoners Mack McAllister is moonlighting as a mall Santa, well -- this I have to see. But the line is wild, and in sneaking through the kids, I end up on my back, tangled in tinsel, elves at my side. And Jolly Ol’ McAllister is helping me up, a question in those familiar eyes. Does he get a second chance? -- Second Chance Santa is a feel-good romantic comedy in the blockbuster bestselling world of JJ Knight's Pickleverse, the Amazon Top 100, Kindle All-Star, get-you-through-a-bad-time, bust-your-gut stories about a family who owns a delicatessen chain. But you don't have to read any other Pickle book before this one. You can start you wild adventure with the Pickles right here.Show book
An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planetWell, that’s about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not much more than a piece of burnt coal. But, as Deb Olin Unferth shows in her latest electrifying novel, life and love persist, even in the most unexpected, inhospitable places.Two women meet on a beach of artificial sand. One was raised in a pod in the ocean and the other may or may not be a robot. Their love―or any love―seems so unlikely. Earth is severely depopulated. Some people have given up, gone off to Mars. Others pursue eternal life as digital code. And yet others, like Dylan and Melanie, are holdouts―and some of those holdouts are constructing a vast molecular collection in hopes that a future person may be alive to make a new Earth. Foolhardy? Misguided? Quixotic? Probably. But what can a human (or a robot) do?By the end of Unferth’s wild, poetic, revelatory, and slyly philosophical novel, the reader has traveled to the very edges of the cosmos as a “soul globule” and between grains of sand as a microscopic tardigrade. A slim book tackling big questions (is all matter conscious? will we tech ourselves into salvation, or out of existence?), Earth 7 is a poignant inquiry into death, mourning, and indefatigable life, the most exhilarating work to date by one of our most original and beloved writers.Show book