Lyle Davenport golfs for memories instead of birdies. The old course's clubhouse has vanished. His arms and back turn too stiff for a graceful swing, and Lyle realizes more tee drives arc behind him than fly in front of him. Still, Lyle keeps to his weekly rounds. He shares tee-times with ghosts, and Lyle would never traverse the narrow fairways of his memory from the comfort of a cart.Lyle Davenport's golf game has not changed for years. He shares his tee-time each Tuesday and Thursday morning with Ken Sutton, and the numbers penciled upon their scorecards never delineate from one round to another. Birdie always fall on the same puts as before. Water hazards and rough claim their sacrifices on the same swings as ever. But though Lyle's rounds hold a terrible measure of sorrow and pain, those rounds hold ever more exhilaration and joy. For in all his years flaying at a small, white ball, Lyle has never witnessed a swing as graceful as Ken Sutton's. And the memory is enough to keep Lyle coming back to those manicured and cruel fairways of grass.

Cedrick Pyle's tower stretches high to stand as a monument to the mogul's dominion over time. But when the wind blows cold, the desperate and the lonely trespass to find shelter upon Mr. Pyle's estate. Cedrick steadies himself for battle, for he suspects his tower and the poor surrounding it will attract the desire of his nemesis named Turner. And Cedrick knows monsters always follow that man.Ethan Pyle trembles for grandfather Cedrick’s obsession. Though the tower sways in the gusting winds, Cedrick remains adamant that his tower must continue to grow taller and taller. Only the most desperate of construction crews brave the heights and the cold to attempt to build one level more atop the Pyle spire. Ethan’s anxiety swells further when Cedrick claims monsters are gnawing at the tower’s foundations, that the homeless who shelter in his estate's warehouses have attracted monsters and a terrible enemy. Soon, Ethan can no longer deny the evidence that something wicked has its eye on the tower as grandfather Cedrick claims. Soon, Ethan’s sleep is disturbed by the sounds of teeth scraping against the tower's foundation stones.

I hope the investigations, interchanges, and interactions that surround the greatest discovery and controversy that pertain to the findings in the Sumerian clay tablets will eventually unite us in a beautiful harmony called love. In our quest for the ultimate Truth, we shall progress and usher in the Golden Age.It is my sincere hope that everyone who reads this work will be inspired to question things and to search out these and other new truths and discoveries for themselves.We should all be engaged in the most important intellectual dialog, exchange, and sharing of the twenty-first century.I do not ask or expect anyone to blindly believe what is written within the pages of this book without investigating all the evidence for themselves. In the quest for truth, all our shutters will be opened onto a brave new world, as if seeing with new eyes life and society in all its splendor and glory with an ever greater sensitivity and realization.Remember, with Truth, sometimes it is stranger than fiction, sometimes it is vastly outnumbered, sometimes it is out there somewhere, and sometimes it lies in our inner awakening.I hope the investigations, interchanges, and interactions that surround the greatest discovery and controversy that pertain to the findings in the Sumerian clay tablets will eventually unite us in a beautiful harmony called love. In our quest for the ultimate Truth, we shall progress and usher in the Golden Age.I thank you in advance for taking time to read my book and using it as a thought-provoking work.

A gripping psychological thriller by bestselling author J.A. Baker!Chamber Cottage holds many dark secrets...Struggling to overcome their marital problems, Alec and Peggy hoped their new life at Chamber cottage would be the retreat they both needed to recover. Both damaged by issues from their childhoods, they are trying to get on with their lives as best they can, but they can't help feeling that they are being watched....Peggy, already paranoid because of the terrible scars that mark her face, becomes even more agoraphobic and retreat further into the stone walls of the cottage, hoping it will keep her safe.Then Peggy discovers that her estranged mother is stalking her and Alec, claiming she has a dark secret that is putting Peggy's life in danger. And now Peggy doesn't know who to trust...What caused the scars on Peggy's face? Is Alec really the monster Peggy's mother believes him to be? And what secrets does Chamber...

Pre order the gripping new psych thriller from bestselling author J.A. BakerJackson and Lydia Hemsworth are pillars of the community, feted for having the perfect marriage and three wonderful children – Florence, Jessica and Ezra.But appearances can be deceptive.Because behind closed doors Jackson Hemsworth rules his family with cruelty and control. His marriage is a sham; his children for years have cowed in fear.Until the day that Jackson and Lydia throw themselves off Newport Bridge in a joint suicide pact – the final cruel blow by Jackson to control his wife and torture his adult children.As the Hemsworth siblings return to their family home, they must try to make sense of their parents' last act. But there are many dark secrets waiting to be unearthed at Armett House.Like, why are the townsfolk so suddenly hostile towards them? And who are the strangers who arrive at Armett House unannounced? And why has their...

Gareth harbors no desire to wear the heavy Stonebrook crown. But a brother's murder wrenches Gareth from his cherished dog field and sets him upon the keep's throne. Gareth has spent his years in the training of war dogs, and he knows little about ruling a kingdom. Somehow, Gareth's loyal dogs will have to be enough as he faces the monsters a necromancer cloaks in the fog.Gareth seldom looked back towards the Stonebook throne after the falling of a forest crushed his heart and sent him into the company of his father's loyal, war dogs. Running with the dogs, Gareth flees his memories of the basilisk that slithered out from beneath the last trees of a lost forest to kill his crowned father, and to terribly transform a brother. But a thick fog has arrived to hover upon the Stonebrook kingdom, and the monsters shrouded in its midst force Gareth to shoulder the burden of the stone crown. Gareth knows best the command of his mighty, black war dogs, and he pins his hopes that their tooth and claw will be enough to resist what a fallen, necromancer brother marshalls against him within the fog.

It is 3013. The City of Lions is a beautiful but treacherous city for children deemed useless by society, children like End Cloud. According to law, he must be brainwashed and turned into a manual laborer for life. But seconds before it happened, he received an invitation to join the most prestigious military school in the world where children convert emotions into energy for military purposes, knThe City of Lions in the year 3013 is a beautiful but treacherous city for children deemed silly, lazy or useless by society. Having been deemed useless by society for not achieving “Destiny” (which basically means not finding a job) by the age of 13, End Cloud is stripped of citizenship and subjected to the “Sphere of Influence”, a cruel device which will erase his memories, delete his ability to make decisions and force him into mechanical labor. But just as his mind was about to be completely erased, he suddenly receives a special invitation to join a prestigious military school for children gifted in LightCatching, which was a mysterious ability to channel power into military weapons by means of emotions. Possessing no such ability, though also possessing an abundance of volatile emotions, End fights to stay in the school whatever way he can, so that he may one day earn his right to return to society and see his parents once more. But as he journeys deeper, he begins to unravel the true mystery behind the school, and the real purpose and destiny of End Cloud. Welcome to the World of “End the LightCatcher”.

Hudson Keel cannot control his imagination, and so he fears that the tent of singers and storytellers which rises each year in his school holds a secret his classmates cannot fathom. Hiding a pocketknife in his sneaker, Hudson takes his first step into the tent and is surprised to learn that his imagination is a treasure, instead of the curse his mother and his classmates regard it to be.Imagination floods the elementary school's hallways each year when the singers and storytellers who visit during the winter raise their incredible tent in the the center of the gymnasium. Few students can concentrate on their assigned vocabulary terms and mathematical word problems, and every teacher must realize they cannot expect their lesson plans to compete with the songs and the stories that accompany the tent's hurry-gurdy melody. The day when the tent rises in the gymnasium is especially challenging for Hudson Keel, whose imagination runs so wild that Hudson suspects that tent truly journeys between the stars. Hudson fears the tent travels to the places where monsters tread, where danger might claim him, where there are no guarantees that an elementary student will be returned home. So Hudson hides a weapon in his left sneaker on the day the tent returns to his school's gymnasium, and so attracts the attention of the singers and storytellers who control the tent's surprising magic.

Black Beauty, Young Folks\' Edition By Anna Sewell

A LEGEND OF READING ABBEY.By Charles MacFarlaneTHE AUTHOR OF \'THE CAMP OF REFUGE.\'

The BRAND NEW psychological thriller from the author of top 50 bestseller The Perfect ParentsWhen she hears the baby crying, she knows she has to do something to keep it safe. To protect it from its terrible parents...When Melissa Crawford snatches a crying baby from outside a house, she knows she's done the right thing. She can't bear to see the baby suffer one more day in that house, with those people. With her, baby Gabriel will be safe and loved.But as Melissa is making her escape, she is involved in a terrible accident which forces her into hiding. She can't believe she's been so careless - now she has to lay low and let the dust settle.Gabriel's parents won't care where he is, they'll be glad he's gone. But if she goes to prison who will care for the little baby? Who will keep him safe?But looking after Gabriel is harder than Melissa imagined. Why does he keep crying? Why won't he settle? Why does he remind her of...

The next gripping thriller from best-selling author J.A. Baker!Welcome to Winters End...Winters End should have been the perfect place for me and my husband Neil to start again. To leave the terrible secrets and guilt of our past far behind us.But from the moment we arrived in the small, isolated community, it becomes clear to me that we are not welcome here. That someone wants us to leave...I'm certain that everyone knows our secrets – knows who we really are. But how can that be? Perhaps it's my mind playing tricks on me. Just like before. I know Neil thinks I'm paranoid. My thoughts spiralling. Again. If only I had someone else to talk to. Another woman to confide in.And that's when I realise something far more terrifying. I am the only wife at Winters End...and I could be the last...Don't miss the brand-new thriller by J.A. Baker! Perfect for fans of Sue Watson, Valerie Keogh and K.L. Slater.What people are...