The Black Ice

• Author : Michael Connelly
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 25 February 2010

When a body is found in a hotel room, reporters are soon all over the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics detective, apparently gone to the bad. The rumours were that he had been selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating Los Angeles from the Mexican cartel. The LAPD are quick to declare the death a suicide, but Harry Bosch is not so sure. There are odd mysteries and unexplained details from the

• Author : Lorene Cary
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 29 December 2010

In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and

• Author : J. V. Jones
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 01 March 2005

HIGH ADVENTURE ON THE SWORD EDGE OF DESTINY A Cavern of Black Ice is the first book in J.V. Jones's Sword of Shadow series As a newborn Ash March was abandoned--left for dead at the foot of a frozen mountain. Found and raised by the Penthero Iss, the mighty Surlord of Spire Vanis, she has always known she is different. Terrible dreams plague her and sometimes in the darkness she hears dread voices from another world. Iss watches her

• Author : Richard Stark
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 01 May 2011

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back—with the help of a “specialist”—Parker, that is. He has the best references in town. Will Parker break his rule against working with amateurs and help them because his woman would be disappointed if he doesn’t? Or because three hired morons have threatened to

• Author : Becca Fitzpatrick
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 10 November 2015

Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.

• Author : Andrew Lane
• Publisher : Square Fish
• Release : 17 September 2013

A third case for teen Sherlock involves a heinous crime . . . and a brother with blood on his hands When Sherlock and Amyus Crowe, his American tutor, visit Sherlock's brother, Mycroft, in London, all they are expecting is lunch and some polite conversation. What they find shocks both of them to the core: a locked room, a dead body, and Mycroft holding a knife. The police are convinced Mycroft is a vicious murderer, but Sherlock is just as convinced he is

• Author : Don Brown
• Publisher : Zondervan
• Release : 25 February 2014

When British geologists discover the world's largest oil reserves under the desolate, icy tundra of Antarctica, Britain and Chile form a top-secret alliance for control of petroleum resources that will rival the economic power of OPEC. But when their discovery is uncovered by an Argentinean intelligence officer, a surprise-attack against a secret British outpost in Antarctica triggers a war. Britain and Chile are in a military standoff against Venezuela and Argentina, and when the war escalates, Britain asks America for

• Author : Terry Goodkind
• Publisher : Head of Zeus Ltd
• Release : 21 January 2020

The dramatic conclusion to Terry Goodkind's New York Times bestselling Nicci Chronicles. As Richard Rahl's emissaries to the Old World, sorceress Nicci and her companions have travelled far into uncharted territories, battling tyrants, monsters and strange magics. Now in the wake of a brutal war unleashed around the once-shrouded city of Ildakar, they must face a terrible new threat posed by an old foe. The Norukai, barbarian raiders and slavers, have been gathering an immense fleet among the inhospitably rocky

• Author : Hans Werner Kettenbach
• Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
• Release : 25 July 2021

A beautifully crafted thriller set in a European world of small-town hypocrisy. Erica, an attractive local heiress, is married to Wallman. When she falls to her death near their lakeside villa, the police conclude it was a tragic accident. Scholten, a long time employee of Erica's, knows the true state of her marriage and suspects foul play. His maverick investigation soon buys him a ticket to a most dangerous ride. 'Black Ice...is one of the most beautifully told stories

• Author : C. R. Myers
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 October 2011

The Black Ice Conspiracy is a fast-paced, biting novel about a private, secret underworld organization made up of dedicated and wealthy individuals who use their power to fight terrorism in the hope of bettering the lives of those who cannot defend themselves World freedom has been threatened by a new mind-control virus. Can Black Ice stop the madness? Will Jason St. Claire defeat the leader of Dark Star-the man who was once his best friend-the man who taunts him with

• Author : Breda Sullivan
• Publisher : Salmon Publishing
• Release : 25 July 2021

Her poems resonate with an unnerving elegance and honesty and her voice is a trustworthy and intimate one. She writes about family and loss with ceremonial care. Her language is lucid, her images stark and striking. Indeed, her poems explore the life of the heart with an unflinching integrity.-Paul Perry "Breda Sullivan writes from the heart. She writes poetry which is both well-crafted and accessible.... She elevates the mundane by exploring the rich and varied threads of domestic living

• Author : Shameek Speight
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 20 February 2021

Faith finally learned the lessons the hard way that her father Black Ice had been trying to teach her. Trust no one and you're stronger on your own, but it is too late after she is betrayed by the ones she loved and the ones close to her and left for dead. Will she survive this ordeal and finally be who her father trained her to be. The daughter of the devil or is it too late? Find out in

• Author : George Robert Fosty,Darril Fosty
• Publisher : Nimbus Pub Limited
• Release : 25 July 2021

In 1895, The Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes was formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This was Twenty-five years before the Negro Baseball Leauges in the United States, and twenty-two years before the birth of the National Hockey League. The Colored League would emerge as a premier force in Canadian hockey and supply the resilience necessary to preserve a unique culture which exists to this day. Unfortunately their contributions were conveniently ignored, or simply stolen, as white teams and hockey officials,

• Author : Mike Keane
• Publisher : CreateSpace
• Release : 05 February 2015

The dansant in the dark side of the mind;the lost child skipping through the secret garden,fading in the light of the moonlit night,with the pink eyes of the rabbit bulging in a bursting delight.Another day,another night in a forgotten time.The eclipse of the land dwindles in a glimmering darkness.The cracked mirror dressed in a smile,leading to the freedom of the secret garden in a divine anonymity of refuge;cornered in the tranquility

• Author : Valmore James,John Gallagher
• Publisher : ECW Press
• Release : 01 February 2015

The first black American in the NHL tells his story Val James became the first African American player in the NHL when he took to the ice with the Buffalo Sabres in 1982, and in 1987 he became the first black player of any nationality to skate for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Born in central Florida, James grew up on Long Island and received his first pair of skates for his 13th birthday. At 16, James left home to play in Canada, where