Showing results by author "John Hart" in Literature & Fiction

Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face. In the year since his twin sister's abduction his world has fallen apart: his father has disappeared and his fragile mother is spiralling into ever deeper despair. Johnny keeps strong. Armed with a map, a bike and a flashlight, he stalks the bad men of Raven County. The police might have given up on Alyssa; he never will. Someone, somewhere, knows something they're not telling.

After a tour of Vietnam and a three-year stint in prison, Jason is back in town and wants to rebuild his relationship with Gibby, the younger brother he hasn't seen for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women. But when the four of them encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road, one of the women taunts the prisoners, causing a riot on the bus.

The lure of the American West is in the spirit of adventure, in the majestic expanse of unconquered wilderness and in rugged individuals on a quest for identity and sometimes for survival. Owen Wister's unsmiling Virginian... Dorothy M. Johnson's, "A Man Called Horse": These are a few of the colorful, even legendary characters who populate The American West in Fiction, a collection of stories edited by Jon Tuska.

Lilja und Georg erleben neue und ungewohnte Abenteuer. Erlebt, wie Lilja neue Grenzen kennenlernt und Georg zwischen Lust und Eifersucht um seine Liebste kämpft.

Liljas neuestes Abenteuer führt sie in die Welt der erotischen Fotografie. Auf der Suche nach einem ungewöhnlichen Weihnachtsgeschenk für ihren Mann erlebt sie mehr, als sie erwartete. Eine Kurzgeschichte aus der Welt von Lilja und Georg für alle, die einen kurzen Blick in das abenteuerliche Leben der Beiden werfen wollen.

Lilija erlebt in ihrem zweiten Frühling unerwartete Abenteuer. Ihr stabiles und vorhersehbares Leben verwandelt sich in einen Taumel der Lust. Ihr kleiner Fehler könnte sie mehr kosten, als sie bereit ist zu opfern. Wird ihre Ehe dem standhalten oder wird sie der Versuchung nachgeben? Folgen sie der aufregenden, erotischen Verwandlung einer braven Hausfrau zum willigen Vollweib. Explizit, Dirty Talk.

Included in this volume: "Watson!" by Captain A. E. Dingle; The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace, by G. F. Forrest; The Stolen Cigar-Case, by Bret Harte; The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes, by O. Henry; and Mr. Raffles Holmes, by John Kendrick Bangs.

The CIA's most valuable assassin, Agent J.D. Mikel, wasn't supposed to fall in love with anyone - especially not Kate Morningside, a woman coveted by another powerful world player. When Kate is kidnapped, J.D. is pulled into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, and one false move could cost him everything. Indeed, there are players - and then there are the masters who make the rules, only to break them.