Water Eyes

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.

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.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power. “Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times...

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?

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Pearl Mackie, best known for her role in Dr Who. When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she...

The complete "Four Elements" trilogy of supernatural mystery thrillers, including: THE ELEMENTALIST (Book 1) In a town where people go missing with alarming regularity, you’d think a private investigator would be in high demand. Not Max Long. His luck has always been that bad—until a blonde bombshell walks into his office and hires him to investigate her sister’s mysterious death. In Shadow Pines, that alone is suspicious. Women like her don’t just show up. And neither do simple cases. Everyone in town knows something is off. Animal attacks are the official explanation—but only ...

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 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?

As if learning vampires truly existed didn’t shock him to his core already, private investigator Max Long grapples with the reality that he’s been given real magic. In fact, 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 ...

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...

She left home to find herself. She didn’t expect to find him. Adrianne Carter had a plan. University. Stability. The life she was supposed to want. Until one trip changed everything. Now, instead of lecture halls and safe decisions, she chooses something else entirely — a one-way flight to Sydney, chasing the feeling that there has to be more than the life she left behind. She doesn’t have a plan. She doesn’t have a place to stay. And within hours of landing, everything starts to shift. Because of him. Matt is nothing like the men she’s known. Steady. Uncomplicated. Grounded in a ...

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!

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 ...

In “Deep Waters, Dark Eyes,” the third installment of the Beyond the Picket Fence: The Coastal Sisters Journey series, join Ladonna Bradbury, Madeena Patton, and their diabolical niece and daughter, Paloma Moss, in an intertwining thriller and mystery. The story involves an unsolved murder, a luxury cruise to the Caribbean Islands, and a deadly reveal in their own backyard at the quiet, exotic Lake Jackson cottage home inherited by the sisters from their late mother.

"I met Irene at a seafood place one night, met being a word I use loosely since I knew who she was already. She was of the Kings of Hawaii, the family about whom jealous people would note looked too perfect, plastic-like as if they were real-life versions of Barbie and Ken. There was a lot of blondness to their hair, blueness to their eyes and blood—and eyebrows, what eyebrows, thick and so dark they looked dyed. That was the legacy of their Hawaiian ancestors. And in Irene’s case, her eyes were a palette of color, applied as if touched by the tropics, more surreal than real, more fluid...

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 so...

For over thirty years, I worked in educational institutions, and in most of them the Lord gave me grace to serve in the area of spirituality. That’s where much of my heart has been. I have been involved in teaching, preaching, discipling, and praying with students, staff, adults, and even fellow ministers. In some of those places, I recorded the teachings and sermons I shared. Over time, those recordings became podcasts, some became songs, and a sizable collection began to grow. Nevertheless, I realized that they were not being distributed widely enough. In a place of prayer, the Lord ...

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 abhors a vacuum, but it also seeks balance. And when someone near and dear to Max becomes a missing person case, he faces the...

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 ...