Showing results by narrator "Leslie Howard" in Literature & Fiction

In the 1960s, project blue book assured America that no aliens visited its amber waves or shining seas. Thirty years later, project black book knows better and has the flying saucers to prove it, but they still can’t stop the body-possessing Kemtewet from scooping their pick of young women from Earth to host an alien queen. Sarah Anderson yearned for an escape from her new life in PA, but not for this: being kidnapped by aliens and faced with a choice between having a Kemtewet queen erase her brain or sharing her body with a Gertewet insurgent.

Mandy, Emma, and Jill are as close as three sisters who live hundreds of miles apart can be. They grew up together on Nantucket, but Mandy is the only one that stayed. The girls are stunned when they learn about the restaurant, Mimi's Place, and the condition their grandmother added to the will, leaving the restaurant equally to Mandy, Emma, and Jill - and also to Paul, the chef for the past 12 years, and Emma's first love. 

When Dr. Laura McDermott is diagnosed with stage IV melanoma, her perfect world is plunged into chaos. Resting between treatments on a Boston city bench, she is overwhelmed by an unexpected peace that appears to be emanating from an old stone church behind her. Despite being a proud atheist, she's unable to resist the pull to step inside, where she meets a mysterious priest who will challenge her deepest convictions and prepare her to receive life's greatest revelation.

Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. Combining new evidence and gripping cultural history, Michele Mendelssohn dramatizes Wilde's rise, fall, and resurrection as part of a spectacular transatlantic pageant. With superb style and an instinct for storytelling, she brings to life the charming young Irishman who set out to captivate the US and Britain with his words.

As a child, Alice was stolen from her backyard in a tiny Indiana community, but against the odds, her policeman father tracked her down within 24 hours and rescued her from harm. In the aftermath of the crime, her family decided to move to Chicago and close the door on that horrible day. Yet Alice hasn’t forgotten. She devotes her spare time volunteering for a website called The Doe Pages scrolling through pages upon pages of unidentified people, searching for clues that could help reunite families with their missing loved ones.

The Sefer Raziel led Rachel Jordan astray. Instead of answering all her questions, it posed infinitely more. Now at the helm of an ancient starship more advanced than anything humans can build, she’s at the center of an intergalactic controversy. Her government wants the ship. If Rachel were to hand it over, she’d be acclaimed as a hero. But that would end her quest for the secret truth behind the angels’ rule of mankind. The angels’ starship holds the answers, and the one she latches onto is the site of humanity’s birthplace.

With the Sefer Raziel in hand, Rachel races to escape with it before anyone discovers her. Hidden within the pages of the book are secrets that could destroy armies and reshape worlds - certainly enough to bring Rachel’s pursuers to their knees. Except she can’t read it. As Redeemers close in and escape from the planet’s surface restricted, Rachel has no choice but to trust someone who betrayed her - and hope she isn’t making an even worse mistake.

After millennia of oppressive dogma, one rebellious woman seeks to change it all and spark a galactic enlightenment. When Rachel Jordan dares to question the ancient beliefs governing her world, she finds herself alone. For refusing to conform, the inquisitors have branded her a heretic. Redeemers have hunted her to a remote corner of the universe, intent on forcing her back into obedience. But she isn’t hiding. Armed with proof that the angels who saved mankind weren’t angels at all, she will break this cycle and bring freedom to humanity!

Despite the best of intentions, Rachel Jordan has unleashed an apocalypse on the holy universe - possibly the apocalypse. As mankind faces the unforgiving judgment of the angels, she turns to every source she can think of for help. Even the unthinkable. The ancient Adversary that once nearly wiped out humanity is the only force ever known to have stood against the angels. By Rachel’s reasoning, that might make them humanity’s only allies worth having.

Wrath of Angels is the fourth book of Sins of Angels, an epic space opera series set 3,000 years after the fall of Earth. With the scope of Dune and the adventurous spirit of Indiana Jones, Sins of Angels delivers a conflict that spans galaxies and rests on the spirit of a single brave researcher. Follow the complete saga, and watch as the fate of our species hangs in the balance. 

Essence Seekers is an allegorical spiritual journey that takes us through practical, emotional, and psychological steps from a beginning curiosity and longing to enlightenment. It inspires with hope, while it aids with deep introspection and authenticity. Rooted in Eastern wisdom adapted from ancient texts, the universal and non-sectarian themes speak to any and all seekers of the essence of life. 

Mustang Sally has some speedy shoes to fill. This young superhero has waited her whole life to join Just Cause - the premiere team of American heroes. Now she's hoping her super-speed will earn a spot on the same team to which her parents and grandparents belonged. A chance encounter with the villain who killed her father changes everything. Even though she's only an intern, Sally devotes herself to finding the man known as Destroyer.

A stolen nuclear bomb. Sworn enemies forced together. A race to save the world. The last person emergency room doctor Lillian Whyte expects to collide with while on her vacation is the ruthless mercenary from her past. When she learns a stolen nuclear weapon is loose in Europe, she’s launched into a dangerous race to track and secure the weapon. Isolated from her CIA operative husband, she must undertake the life-threatening mission with a man she doesn’t trust at her side. Despite her best efforts, those intent on global catastrophe remain one step ahead.

A biological weapon engineered for mass destruction could be unleashed at any moment. When terrorists seize control of a genetically modified biological weapon, Emergency Room physician, Lillian Whyte, finds herself in the thick of danger. While her husband, CIA operative Sean Jennings, works to unravel the plotting terrorists, Lillian is swept into the deadly currents. As a UN peace-keeping meeting approaches and the threat level rises, she may be the world's only hope of stopping the release of the deadly disease.

Dr. Erica Bauer - an identical twin - studies twins at the university in Vancouver. Through the course of her research, she meets a set of preteen twins who are evidently fraternal, but who insist emphatically that they are identical. Their mother, Karen Oxley, is a West Van single mum whose life is on the wrong road - and who discovers an urgent need to put it back on the right one. As Erica sets out to help the twins, their family’s lives become increasingly intertwined with hers in unexpected ways.   

Emergency medicine physician Lillian Whyte is swept into a dangerous world when the camp of her Kenya mission clinic is destroyed by war profiteers. Lillian realized that the luster and idealism of medicine and healing faded and left her disillusioned after trudging through the hectic emergency room. Concerned about her swelling cynicism about her job, her supervisor volunteered her to lead a group of residents on a medical mission to Kenya. An ocean away from her troubles, she found comfort in aiding local inhabitants and refugees who fled from civil unrest in neighboring countries.

When criminals are convicted, they go to jail. When they have parahuman abilities, they go to Deep Six, the most secure prison facility in the world. Six thousand feet underground, nobody has ever escaped from the maximum security facility. Until now. A parahuman terrorist called Misrule engineers a mass breakout, and it falls to a pair of prison guards to stop the world's most dangerous criminals from reaching freedom.

The Bane brothers, banished Watchmen of the Empyrean realm, are sentenced to Earth to prove their worth before they can return home. But none of them are feeling the effects of their punishment more than Iain. A half-breed, Iain has two choices if he wants to survive his new home: feed on the essence of shades (the underlings responsible for slaughtering his people) or find his pure. He's almost lost his appetite for both when a human crosses his path. She's smart, powerful, and from their soul shattering first touch - destined to be his.

A City in Darkness - Four Lost Souls Seeking a Light - July 13, 1977 - The lives of four super-powered people become irrevocably intertwined when the lights go out in New York City, plunging their world into chaos. The superheroes of Just Cause, grown soft and complacent without any supervillains to challenge them, must overcome their personal demons as well as uphold the law in a lawless land of rioters, arson, and murder.

Abigail and Collin have an eight year old daughter through their arranged marriage. Abigail is being abused by her hot-tempered husband, however, and one day he simply drops dead. The community believes the death was no accident and the Bishop begins to investigate. Abigail is excommunicated pending the outcome but is rescued by the man she has loved all along, who joins her in her new adventure outside the Amish community.