Parsons: 402 books

It might have been yesterday, but in simple fact it was three hundred years ago, that something happened which has an important bearing on this story of the present. Antiquity is a great discourager of the sympathies: the centuries are apt to weigh like lead on an individual human sentiment. Yet we...

Money makes the world go round as can a few too many strong drinks. But when Benny, in a fit of sobriety, agrees to do a pre-Advent favour for Irving Braxiatel, little does she suspect that a bit of corporate schmoozing with a fast food magnate is going to lead her into the biggest spin she's experienced...

Ever since grade school, Penelope Tench has known there is no one on Colony Island she is interested in. She wants to find a mate and have a family someday, like most females, with or without scales, which seems to leave her with only one option—however, mermaids are strongly advised not fall to...

On a night when prophesies stir, an outraged dragon vents his anger, Damian is ripped from everything he knows and Sam’s nightmares become real… Sam isn’t enjoying university life, she’s disillusioned with her course and having second thoughts about her future. It doesn’t help that she...

Emily was not a romantic; she didnt believe in love at first sight. She had learnt the hard way a failed marriage, bringing up two children on her own, working full-time, and now looking after her ailing father. Was it too much to ask her selfish sister to help out for just one week? Tania was a spoilt...

In London macht eine Bürgerwehr, der Club der Henker, Jagd auf böse Menschen - auf Pädophile, Mörder, Hassprediger - und erhängt sie. Mit diesen Fällen von Lynchjustiz beginnen für Detective Max Wolfe seine bisher schwierigsten Ermittlungen. Denn wie fängt man Mörder, die von der Öffentlichkeit...

Bridget is in love with one man...and promised to another. Amid the liberty and promise of the New World, Bridget Barrington and Philippe Clavell fall in love. But nothing about their love seems possible. To pay for the Clavell family's passage from France, Philippe, a former member...

Sixteen year-old Amy Simmons is feeling miserable. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her plans for the school break are in tatters. Worse still, Amy's Dad has arranged a temporary house swap with some people who live in the country. He won't explain, except to say that the house is near a waterfall...

The neighborhood firehouse is a mystical place to the public, ignored until there is an emergency. This is a satirical observation at the personalities contained within the walls, their interaction with each other and the public. This is a story of life behind the big red doors. On day, the...

"La trentaine encore sportive, Steve Mitchell est chirurgien à Boston, l’élitiste cité de la côte est des Etats-Unis. Après son mariage avec Sally et la naissance de ses deux filles, il n’a plus qu’un rêve : devenir professeur de chirurgie à l’hôpital universitaire. Mais tout...

It is 1106 when an eight-year-old girl named Hildegard comes from Bingen in Germany to live with Lysanor of Rupertsberg. One of the girls will become a twenty-first-century saint and icona mystic, physician, teacher, and, most importantly, a composer. The other will make her mark on the world as a...

Zij een rijke erfgename, hij een arme knecht. Zij katholiek, hij Hugenoot. Hij in Frankrijk,zij in Amerika. Alles lijkt erop gericht te zijn Philippe en Bridget uit elkaar te houden. Philadelphia, 1685. Philippe, de oudste zoon van Madeleine Clavell, werkt in Amerika voor een rijke grootgrondbezitter....

Wrap yourself in a world of immortals, reincarnated souls and strange beings who are almost invisible. Meet Turlington Jones and his friend Amrita Mirpuri who, together with some new and strange friends, must find out who is trying to bring about the end of the world because even the most ordinary person is special.