Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco

Joseph Pistone

Joseph Pistone

Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, "connected guys," captains, and godfathers.Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys—their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings.With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world he penetrated...and draws a chilling picture of what the mafia is, does, and means in America today.
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The Speckled People

The Speckled People

Hugo Hamilton

Hugo Hamilton

'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages â?¦ It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.' Roddy Doyle The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. He himself wants to speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann, as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear and guilt and often comical cultural entanglements, he tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation, but not before he uncovers the long-buried secrets that...
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Meant for Each Other

Meant for Each Other

Rebecca Winters

Rebecca Winters

Forbidden love? They'd grown up as family, although there were no blood ties between them. Kathryn and Wade had always shared an emotional kinship that grew more intense with each passing year. An affinity that grew into passion... But because the family's approval was important to them both--and because she was older than Wade--Kathryn had decided to end her relationship with him completely. That was five years ago. Now, at her family's insistence, Kathryn had come home, with a failed marriage behind her. Despite everything, her love for Wade hadn't changed. How could she survive being close to him again?
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Still Just Grace

Still Just Grace

Charise Mericle Harper

Charise Mericle Harper

A fun new boy has just moved in next door to Grace's best friend, Mimi. When Grace has to go away on a family trip during school, she is terrified that when she comes back Mimi will be best friends with Max instead! After her trip, not only does it seem her fear has come true, but Mimi is even friends with the disgusting Sammy. Now Just Grace has to team up with two other Graces in her third-grade class for a school project, including the Big Meanie.
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Played Your Eyes

Played Your Eyes

Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll

A fantasy about a woman bequeathed an odd gift by a former lover who broke up with her, then died—his handwriting. Why did he do this and what does it mean?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Flowers in the Morning

Flowers in the Morning

Irene Davidson

Fiction / Romance / Contemporary

grieving artist hamish finds white briars, a gothic cottage set in a rambling unkempt garden surrounded by woods in kent, england. there he discovers and falls in love with liana, an immortal flower sylph who has slept years away in an attempt to flee from the grief of repeated loss but in waking liana, the garden's guardian also wakes green jack,a malevolent sprite with ill-intent in his heart.
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