Water Eyes

London, 2095. Sixty years after rising seas drowned the old world, a corrupt system of servitude keeps the new one afloat. Alexander Lytton is now a pawn in his captor's hands. Stripped of his freedom and forced into a life of prostitution in Ghost Eye City, he clings to the memory of who he once was.

Have you wondered what a loved one is like in Heaven? Have you wondered whether you will actually enjoy life there? Do you wonder if your favorite pet will be there? There are many books telling what the Bible tells us about heaven and some books where the author claims to have been there. But can we trust such reports when they tell us things the Bible doesn’t mention? This book is a composite overview of details of heaven from fifty published eyewitness testimonies of heaven. All of these testimonies are combined with regard to many facets of heaven and are presented side by side to ...

Ethel Waters’s His Eye Is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a Black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman’s experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface.

En una casa cercana a la playa, en la costa gallega, se descubre el cadáver de un joven saxofonista que sufrió una de las torturas más crueles que se pueda recordar. Le asignan el caso al inspector Leo Caldas, un hombre solitario y nocturno, de buen paladar para los vinos y mejor oído para el jazz, y a su ayudante Rafael Estévez, un llano aragonés perdido entre gallegos. Este singular tándem deberá investigar las altas esferas y los bajos fondos de Vigo para descubrir que las dobles vidas, como las mejores intrigas, siempre esconden inesperadas dobleces.

When a swimmer goes missing off the coast of California, Samantha Moon enlists the aid of a very different kind of private investigator. Alexis Silver is quick-witted, clever, and Kingsley’s ex-wife. She’s also a mermaid. When the mystery of the swimmer’s disappearance deepens, Sam and Alexis will go to great lengths—and depths—to find a man who seemingly can’t be found. Luckily, not one, but two immortal detectives are on the case... Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE today!

Maggie Thomas likes to think she’s tough and totally into this private eye thing. She got off to a rocky start, but things aren’t so bad now. Until she discovers a couple dead guys. Plus, while at the scene of the crime her hot detective boyfriend Jake Jackson places her in handcuffs. At least she has the help of her assistant Dorothy Raye who likes to kick butt while wearing her orthopedic shoes. Wielding her knitting needles like weapons is only one of Dorothy's talents. Maggie finds herself in big trouble this time. Will she find the killer before she ends up dead in the water?

True love can withstand distance and time... but can it survive immortality? Over more than a century as a mermaid, Alexis Silver never really questioned the profound effect her first husband had on her, despite their brief time together. She’s tried a few relationships with other immortals, but none lasted. Content to be on her own, Alex chases the kind of adventures her mortal life could never offer. When her dark master friend Licinia suggests a trip to the land once called Ptolemais, Alex's curiosity is piqued. However, when their jaunt hits a snag. Licinia wants to conduct a ritual ...

In a small town where people go missing all the time, one might think a private detective would have no trouble finding work. Except for Max Long. His luck really is that bad—at least until a blonde bombshell hires him to look into the strange circumstances surrounding her sister's death. The blonde might be good luck, or more likely, entirely the opposite. Drop-dead gorgeous women aren’t exactly common in Shadow Pines, nor do they walk into his office. Everyone in town knows there’s something unusual about the place. The excuse of animal attacks claiming the unwary hiker works only ...

Another gripping story from the best-selling author of It Takes A Girl. Kavya Sharma has it all. Unearned privilege and long legs, a good family, a beach house and a loving husband but she also has a chronic drink problem and resents being told off about it. Determined to take control of her situation, she spirals into a shapeless world inhabited by those who have murder in mind. Atima Srivastava was born in Mumbai in 1961 and came to London at age 10. She was a film editor for 16 years and then a university lecturer developing and teaching courses in Literature, Film and Immigration. She ...

Earth’s oceans are so vast, not even merfolk have explored everywhere. And for good reason. An unexpected call from the CIA seems initially like a routine job, but Agent Michaels has a surprise for her. At a nondescript Agency warehouse, Alex discovers something she never imagined possible and soon finds herself on the way to Atlantis, deep on the ocean floor halfway around the world. Worse, the denizens of the fabled city are locked in a desperate fight for survival against an adversary older than human civilization... and they’re losing. If Alex gets caught up in the undersea war, she...

As if learning vampires truly existed didn’t shock him to his core already, Max grapples with the reality that he’s been given real magic. Indeed, he has the power of all four elements literally at his fingertips. They say every good private eye story starts with a crying girl walking through the door. Crystal hadn’t been the first upset woman to ask Max for help, not in a town with a murder rate far worse than any big city. Unfortunately, he’d made the biggest rookie mistake of all...falling in love with a client. As if becoming romantically entangled didn’t complicate matters ...

As a private investigator in uber creepy Shadow Pines, Max Long had no shortage of missing person cases. Unfortunately, they all ended the same way...with dead bodies. Whenever someone vanished, the official cause always said the same thing: animal attack. Shadow Pines always bristled with paranormal rumors and wild conspiracy theories. However, the truth is far more terrifying than rumors: vampires made the scenic mountain town their personal feeding ground. Nature abhorrs a vacuum, but it also seeks balance. When someone dear to Max becomes a missing person case, he faces the most ...

There is a way to be aware of the world without getting tossed around in the storms. There are a few people who embody the state of absolute peace in such a way that the storms of life can rage around them but cease to disturb them. This book offers several ideas through a 21 -day process that will assist you to become one of those few people. Additionally, this book features stories that reveal a supernatural force of Love that is guiding our every step. After such experiences others report of being left with an indelible mark of calmness and peace. Even though their current life ...

In a literary tour de force worthy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, author David Pirie brings his rich familiarity with both the Doyle biography and the Sherlock Holmes canon to a mystifying Victorian tale of vengeance and villainy. The howling man on the heath, a gothic asylum, the walking dead, the legendary witch of Dunwich - perils lurk in every turn of the page throughout this ingenious novel, as increasingly bizarre encounters challenge the deductive powers of young Doyle and his mentor, the pioneering criminal investigator Dr. Joseph Bell.

You may be asking yourself: Why Haiku, that very question has been bothering me ever since I wrote my first poem, how could I penetrate the way I think and express what is inside and outside my being? The characteristics of the Haiku are a great challenge. The gathering of three verses in five, seven and five syllables, not as a sum total, represents a field too small to recreate what a time and space is capable of impacting us. It must express, within its magical brevity, what happens in the place where the poet is and fix the subtle relationship that all the elements of the scenario have ...

What is haiku? Before entering the realm of Haiku, the reader must accept that he is dealing with a different style of poetry. The poet—within a magical brevity—invites him to recreate the images of the place where he is; without expressing opinions or concepts of their own. To savor and delight in this special poetic genre, he must learn to identify the symbols with which he identifies what nature places in front of his eyes; simplicity, brevity, color, sound, or silence; all within the instant it happens. Each Haiku consists of three verses: five, seven and five syllables respectively...

In the first installment of the Bowman Case Files, bored and entitled university student Julia Strauss meets a captivating man during a random encounter at a cafe. She is instantly attracted to the handsome stranger and pursues him obsessively. What she doesn’t know is that behind all the charm, he has a secret agenda of his own. Can Julia see beyond the haze of her infatuation before it’s too late?

Essays of bullying, heartbreak, racism, and confidence, Ashley taps into her own past and shares those stories that made her who she is today as she seamlessly weaves in parallel experiences that both she and Mrs. Obama have faced in their separate childhoods as well as their adult lives. Open, searing, and honest, these are stories listeners will feel seen with. listeners who are growing and learning as they move forward through life's triumphs and pitfalls will undoubtedly gravitate to and find comfort within its audio.