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Bold Texas Embrace
by Victoria ThompsonA Lady and the Cowboy Romance (#4)Art teacher Catherine Eaton discovers a gifted painter on Sam Conners' ranch...but the stubborn ranch owner refuses to allow the pretty and petite art teacher on his property. Spirited and willful, the blonde schoolmarm just will not to take no for an answer...only to find herself distracted by how ruggedly handsome this headstrong cowboy is...Sam Conners has a range war to deal with and doesn't have time for this beautiful art teacher from Philadelphia that everyone's talking about. That is, until the most sensual woman he's ever seen marches right into his office. From the moment Catherine opens her lovely full lips to voice her outrageous city demands, Sam can think of nothing other than kissing her quiet. In fact, in the days that follow, Sam can think of nothing other than ensuring that this beautiful woman remains in his bold Texas embrace...for all the days to come...
Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing
by Rajini SrikanthA century of Asian American writing has generated a forceful cascade of "bold words." This anthology covers writings by Asian Americans in all genres, from the early twentieth century to the present. Some sixty authors of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Southeast Asian American origin are represented, with an equal split between male and female writers. The collection is divided into four sections-memoir, fiction, poetry, and drama-prefaced by an introductory essay from a well-known practitioner of that genre: Meena Alexander on memoir, Gary Pak on fiction, Eileen Tabios on poetry, and Roberta Uno on drama. The selections depict the complex realities and wide range of experiences of Asians in the United States. They illuminate the writers' creative responses to issues as diverse as resistance, aesthetics, biculturalism, sexuality, gender relations, racism, war, diaspora, and family. Rajini Srikanth teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the coeditor of the award-winning anthology Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America and the collection A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America. Esther Y. Iwanaga teaches Asian American literature and literature-based writing courses at Wellesley College and the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Bold and Brave-Hearted
by Charlotte MaclayFIREMAN REPORT Name: Jay Tolliver Status: Relieved of duty to recover from injuries sustained in heroic rescue An earthquake had left celebrity Kimberly Lydell's once-flawless face permanently scarred. And though she withdrew from the world, Kim couldn't forget the strong, brave firefighter who'd risked his life to save hers. When she learned he'd been blinded in a fire, Kim flew to Jay Tolliver's side. Darkness temporarily held Jay prisoner. But he didn't need sight to know Kim was the woman he desired most in the world. Jay would accept her help - and show Kim that real heroes saw beauty with the heart.... Harlequin American Romance #886
Bold and Brave-Hearted (Men of Station Six)
by Charlotte MaclayFIREMAN REPORT Name: Jay Tolliver Status: Relieved of duty to recover from injuries sustained in heroic rescueAn earthquake had left celebrity Kimberly Lydell's once-flawless face permanently scarred. And though she withdrew from the world, Kim couldn't forget the strong, brave firefighter who'd risked his life to save hers. When she learned he'd been blinded in a fire, Kim flew to Jay Tolliver's side.Darkness temporarily held Jay prisoner. But he didn't need sight to know Kim was the woman he desired most in the world. Jay would accept her help-and show Kim that real heroes saw beauty with the heart....Men of Station SixThe courage to face danger was in their blood...love for their women ignited their souls.
Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem
by Frank M. Tierney Angela RobbesonA growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their national contexts.
Boldly Basil Murder (Papa Pacelli's Pizzeria)
by Patti BenningLife isn’t always smooth sailing. Sometimes a day on the water can be murder… Ellie Ward, amateur sleuth and owner of one of the most popular pizza places in town, just wants to get away from it all for a bit. A day trip on her boat goes horribly awry when Ellie and her friends come across another vessel that was the scene of a gruesome murder. There is a lone survivor, and Ellie’s worried that the person who did it might be out for more blood. With her law enforcement hubby working on one of his most dangerous cases yet, Ellie is determined to do her part in solving the crime. The entire town is reeling from the murder, and the twists and turns in the case will have you on the edge of your seat!
Boldly Go: Teen Astronauts #2 (Teen Astronauts #2)
by Eric WaltersTeen astronaut Houston Williams is finally headed into outer space. Houston Williams was thrilled to win a scholarship to attend a space program at NASA. What he didn’t realize was that organizers were recruiting people for a cutting-edge research project aimed at studying how space travel affects people of different ages. Now, after months of intense training, Houston is blasting off into space! He and his new friend and former rival, Ashley, are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) where, along with veteran astronaut Colonel Sanderson, they will be subjected to a variety of experiments. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the politics of space travel are getting complicated. Many feel the money being spent on Mars exploration should be redirected to address issues such as access to clean water and global warming. A planned mission to Mars may be accelerated before funding is canceled, and there is talk of repurposing the ISS crew. Houston doesn't dare say out loud what he's thinking: Is there a chance he could actually be going to Mars? This is the second book in the Teen Astronauts series, following Houston, Is There A Problem?
Boldt
by Ted LewisWritten at a tough point in his career and heavily influenced by Blaxploitation films and cop movies like Dirty Harry, Ted Lewis's lone novel set in America is a nasty and brutal look at police corruption in the United States.Roy Boldt is a bad cop. Corrupt. Violent. An extreme racist with a drinking problem. He is a man alone, outside of all the worlds he inhabits, and respected only by those who fear him. Boldt is too proud to bow down to the mob and too wicked to be a good cop.Roy's brother is the opposite: A seemingly shining light for good and a progressive political candidate. Roy thinks otherwise. He knows his brother too well. But none of that matters when an anonymous threat is handed over to the police. Someone is promising to kill Roy's brother when he stops in town while on campaign.What unfolds is Lewis's most nasty and violent novel. Boldt navigates a brutal chain of night clubs, halfway houses, and mobbed-up hotels in order to find those plotting to kill his brother. In the half-light of this lurid underworld he stumbles onto a conspiracy that will put him at odds with just about everything and everyone.
Boldt's Broken Angel (The Thriller Shorts #1)
by Ridley PearsonA disgraced detective gets a disturbing chance at redemption in the #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s thriller short.Police detective Lou Boldt returns from a three-month suspension and a demotion to work a missing person’s case. But when a second woman goes missing, Boldt realizes he has a serial offender on his hands, and the pressure to solve the case mounts. When all of the victims turn up dead, Boldt is forced to play catch-up and, as things spiral out of control and the killing escalates, a shocking revelation awaits—one that will forever change him.
Boleros en La Habana (Fábula Ser. #Vol. 315)
by Roberto AmpueroUn nuevo caso del detective privado Cayetano Brulé «Embárquese en el vuelo a Cuba que indica el pasaje adjunto. Hallará cuarto reservado a su nombre en el hotel Habana Libre... Asumo todos los gastos y le garantizo honorarios generosos. Es un asunto de vida o muerte. Confío en su discreción. Plácido.» Sin pensarlo dos veces, el detective privado Cayetano Brulé decide viajar desde Valparaíso a su Cuba natal para resolver el extraño misterio del cantante de boleros Plácido del Rosal, quien sin motivo aparente encontró en su maleta medio millón de dólares. Desde entonces, unos desconocidos van tras sus pasos con la intención de asesinarlo y recuperar el dinero sucio. Entre las luces del cabaré Tropicana y las curvas de sus bailarinas, Cayetano Brulé busca esclarecer los interrogantes de este sorprendente caso.
Boleros for the Disenchanted and Other Plays
by José RiveraPraise for José Rivera:"Even if you've never seen Puerto Rico or grown old, you sit there ruminating on love, sacrifice, and betrayal."-Chicago Tribune, on Boleros for the Disenchanted"Teasingly engrossing. . . . Vividly written. . . . An intriguing and evocative drama."-The San Francisco Chronicle, on Brainpeople"Mr. Rivera's intimate play . . . uses historical fact as a frame to pose intriguing questions about what might have happened."-The New York Times, on School of the AmericasThree new works from José Rivera, a writer known for his lush language, open heart, and stylistic flirting with the surreal. Boleros for the Disenchanted is the moving story of the playwrights own parents: their sweet courtship in 1950s Puerto Rico, and then forty years later in more difficult times in America. With Brainpeople, Rivera explores the troubled minds of three women in a post-apocalyptic setting who feast on a freshly slaughtered tiger. In School of the Americas, he imagines Che Guevara's encounter-more passionate than political-with a young schoolteacher in Bolivia. Also included is his one-act penned in protest of California's Proposition 8, Pablo and Andrew at the Altar of Words.José Rivera's works include the plays References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Marisol, Cloud Tectonics, and Sueno (an adaptation of Life Is a Dream), as well as the Oscar-nominated screenplay to The Motorcycle Diaries.
Boleros que matan
by Silvia PlagerUn policial ambientado en el mundo del periodismo y las redacciones, concrímenes, sexo, violencia y crítica social. Florencia, una jovenredactora recién llegada al país, es seducida por un veteranoperiodista. Juntos irán tras la pista del homicidio de Isaías Silberman,el abuelo de Florencia, un joyero judío, cantante vocacional de boleros,que fue asesinado en Tucumán dos décadas atrás en un episodio jamásesclarecido. Florencia regresa a la Argentina después de vivir varios años con sufamilia en Miami. Consigue trabajo como redactora en un periódicovecinal de zona Norte y se hace cargo de una columna de casospoliciales. Gracias a esa columna se pone en contacto con Juan «eltonto» Almeida, un periodista que supo ser una estrella de la prensaamarilla con quien quedará atrapada en una red de crímenes, droga, sexoy romance.En esta nueva novela atravesada por personajes entrañables y difícilesde olvidar, Silvia Plager construye un notable clima de suspenso en elque despliega los temas que son su sello como narradora: la búsqueda dela identidad, el paso del tiempo, las heridas que no cierran, lainequidad social, el papel de las mujeres como motor de la historia.La intimidad de la política, tanto en el pasado como en el presente, esparte fundamental de una trama de intrigas y pasiones que cautivará allector.
Boleto: A Novel
by Alyson HagyAn unforgettable story of men and horses, the American West, and the dream of a ticket out * A May 2012 Indie Next Pick *Will Testerman is a young Wyoming horse trainer determined to make something of himself. Money is tight at the family ranch, where he's living again after a disastrous end to his job on the Texas show-horse circuit. He sees his chance with a beautiful quarter horse, a filly that might earn him a reputation, and spends his savings to buy her.Armed with stories and the confidence of youth, he devotes himself to her training -- first, in the familiar barns and corrals of home, then on a guest ranch in the rugged Absaroka mountains, and, in the final trial, on the glittering, treacherous polo fields of southern California.With Boleto, Alyson Hagy delivers a masterfully told, exquisitely observed novel about our intimate relationships with animals and money, against the backdrop of a new West that is changing forever.
Bolivar (Bolivar Ser.)
by Sean RubinGoing extinct isn't for everyone. Sybil knows that there is something off about her next door neighbor, but she can't seem to get anyone to believe her. Everyone is so busy going about their days in the busy streets of New York City that they don't notice Bolivar. They don't notice his odd height, his tiny arms, or his long tail. No one but Sybil sees that Bolivar is a dinosaur. When an unlikely parking ticket pulls Bolivar into an adventure from City Hall to New York's Natural History Museum, he must finally make a choice: continue to live unnoticed, or let the city see who he really is.
Bolla: A Novel
by Pajtim StatovciFrom the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile to Albanians. In a café he meets a young man named Miloš, a Serb. Before the day is out, everything has changed for both of them, and within a week two milestones erupt in Arsim&’s married life: his wife announces her first pregnancy and he begins a life in secret. After these fevered beginnings, Arsim and Miloš&’s unlikely affair is derailed by the outbreak of war, which sends Arsim&’s fledgling family abroad and timid Miloš spiraling down a dark path, as depicted through chaotic journal entries. Years later, deported back to Pristina after a spell in prison and now alone and hopeless, Arsim finds himself in a broken reality that makes him completely question his past. What happened to him, to them, exactly? How much can you endure, and forgive? Entwined with their story is a re-created legend of a demonic serpent, Bolla; it&’s an unearthly tale that gives Arsim and Miloš a language through which to reflect on what they once had. With luminous prose and a delicate eye, Pajtim Statovci delivers a relentless novel of desire, destruction, intimacy, and the different fronts of war.
Bollenti Spiriti
by Pamela Morsi Rosa LosaccoLo scapolo Jedwin Sparrow nutre una sola speranza: placare i suoi bollenti spiriti. E da quanto ha appreso, il posto logico dove cominciare è il cottage della signora Cora Briggs, notoriamente divorziata. Il primo istinto di Cora è schiaffeggiarlo in pieno viso! Ma un piano migliore si delinea nella sua mente. Perché non stare al gioco tenendolo sulla corda? Quale modo migliore per vendicarsi di quelle perfide pettegole se non catturare uno dei loro nella malvagia rete di bugie? Un’inaspettata storia d’amore, due persone che scoprono la verità su se stessi, l’uno nel cuore dell’altra. Pamela Morsi dà vita a una cittadina americana in un’era ormai andata, con personaggi avvincenti e credibili e uno speciale senso dell’umorismo che tocca il cuore. Un altro gioiello di perfezione… una lettura meravigliosamente appassionata che regala ai lettori un senso di gioia e profonda soddisfazione. RT Magazine
Bollywood Babes
by Narinder DhamiThose fiesty Bindi Babes are back – and someone tougher than their auntie has moved in too! Geena, Amber and Jazz throw a Bollywood party to raise funds for their school. They plan to deliver a real Bollywood actress for a live performance but their star turns out to more of a handful than they ever expected!
Bollywood Burglary (Geronimo Stilton #65)
by Geronimo StiltonWhen you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure!My detective friend Hercule Poirat and I were headed to India. A Bollywood star we're friends with had received a valuable ruby and wanted us to help her protect it... which meant that I ended up acting in the movie she was filming! Rancid ricotta -- I'm a terrible actor! Even worse, just when we least expected it, the ruby was stolen. Could we find the thief?
Bollywood Dreams: A Novel
by Prasenjit ShomeSahil Hossain comes to IIT Delhi with big dreams in his eyes. He enjoys his hostel days to the hilt with ... Bollywood Dreams.
Bollywood Fiancé for a Day
by Ruchi VasudevaThe man of her Bollywood dreamsWinning the chance to meet the ultimate Bollywood heartthrob, Zaheer Saxena, is just what Vishakha needs to take her mind off her recent humiliation-being jilted the week before her wedding! And when gorgeous Zaheer offers to be her fake fiancé, the chance to save face with her family is just too tempting....It's a deal that benefits them both-Zaheer is warding off any unwanted female attention until his next film is finished-but can Vishakha trust herself not to hope that her dream fiancé for a day could turn into forever?
Bollywood Nights
by Shobhaa DeBollywood is no place for a vulnerable, small-town girl like Aasha Rani. But that doesn't stop her mother from pushing her into a world of exploitation and bedroom casting calls. Aasha has no choice but to thrive-despite the vicious circles of starlets, pimps, and celebrities who want to see her meet her end. But the day she meets Bollywood's leading man, everything she's worked so hard for is jeopardized. Because she may be falling for Akshay Arora-and there's no room for love in a business where it's the stranger under your sheets holding the key to your success. With her innocence stolen and nowhere else to turn, Aasha knows her downfall could come as quickly as her rise to fame. And letting herself love might just be the most fatal career move of her life...
Bollywood Shakespeares
by Craig Dionne Parmita KapadiaHere, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. In this collection, Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture.
Bollywood Wives
by Alex Khan&“Real Housewives meets Bollywood in a dangerous mix of sex, glamour and revenge. It&’s a real showstopper of a read.&” —Steph Broadribb, author of the Retired Detectives Club series Zara Das is Bollywood&’s hottest actress, stalked by paparazzi wherever she goes. But behind the glamour lies the truth of how she reached the top. Zara&’s new film, a Bollywood version of Pride and Prejudice being shot in London, should overcome the scandal that threatens her career—until a dead body is found in her hotel room. Someone is determined to take Zara down—and will stop at nothing to expose her darkest secrets. Zara has spent years running from her past. But now it&’s caught up with her . . . A sexy, gripping novel set in the world of Bollywood, for fans of Jackie Collins and Crazy Rich Asians. &“Wow!! Sexy, mysterious, suspenseful and full of delicious and devious surprises . . . Loved it!&” —Angela Marsons, international bestselling author of the D. I. Kim Stone series &“Full of glitz and glamour . . . I read it in a day.&” —Ayisha Malik, author of Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged &“Sex, mystery and a fascinating peek beyond the gold thread and jewel-coloured silks of Asia&’s own Tinsel Town. Move over, Jackie Collins!&” —Marnie Riches, author of The Silent Dead
Bolo
by Keith LaumerUnrivaled in the history of artillery and unsurpassed in its ability to reason, Bolo replaced man in that most human of endeavors: war.In these scintillating tales of the ever-advancing Dinochrome Brigade, the most effective weapons ever devised ell their own story in action-packed chronicles of extra-terrestrial adventure. Bolo: fighting in proud combat as monster saviors of their human creators.
