Chase Banter had thought she'd adjusted completely to the demands of parenthood. She's not disconcerted by her four-year-old daughter building the city of Athens with Legos, or the first encounter with the PTA. Her writing career has hit bumpy roads on her latest tour, though, and then things don't go so well when denizens of the PTA mention book and banning in the same sentence.Her best friend forever Lacey has a plan. It's simple: worldwide domination. Gather all the sisters-in-arms together, empower them to be their inner lesbian superhero and take over. Even if it takes a couple of months, the outcome would be just what the world needs. It's a Lesbian Nation rumble as they raise the forces of revolution. Girlfriends, family, co-workers and especially the PTA aren't going to know what hit them. "Saxon Bennett's tongue-in-cheek take on Chase Banter's quirky lesbian life won a Golden Crown Award for Family Affair. Join the revolution and begin Marching to a Different Accordion. Superpowers not mandatory. Views: 49
The male enhancement of tomorrow has everything from shape-changing powers to a mind of its own. But what happens when this miraculous endowment refuses to cooperate with its new owner? War breaks out between man and enhancement, the ultimate struggle between two minds in one body. Only by guessing the enhancement's dark secret does the man stand a chance of breaking the stranglehold this high tech smart-part has on his life.Don't miss this twisted science fiction comedy short story by award-winning writer Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch. Views: 49
Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half of his plays from oblivion. The Millionaire and the Bard tells the miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession.When Shakespeare died in 1616 half of his plays died with him. No one—not even their author—believed that his writings would last, that he was a genius, or that future generations would celebrate him as the greatest author in the history of the English language. By the time of his death his plays were rarely performed, eighteen of them had never been published, and the rest existed only in bastardized forms that did not stay true to his original language. Seven years later, in 1623, Shakespeare’s business partners, companions, and fellow actors, John... Views: 49
How much can the heart accommodate? Death and love, an enemy and a sweetheart, war and an impassioned serenade, and more. Only four chambers, but with infinite space like memory, where there is room even for those whom we do not love. Fish Hair Woman is a novel of many rooms running between love and war. In 1987 the Philippine government fights a total war against communist insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella the Fish Hair Woman trawls the corpses from the water, which now tastes of lemongrass. She falls in love with the visiting Australian writer Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son Luke is reading this story in a mysterious manuscript sent to Australia with love letters. Tony left Australia when Luke was six. Now at nineteen, he travels to the Philippines because his father is supposedly dying. On... Views: 49
Nobody can lie to Amelia Landau, she hears the truth despite their best efforts. When she hears a man confess to the murder of a child, she knows he is lying and must do something to catch the real killer. Views: 49
Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's women. Meet Roger's ex-mother-in-law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer-space invaders with specific combinations of letters and numbers. And meet Della, the bird artist who captivates Roger with the sensible but enigmatic notes she leaves on things she throws away at the Dumpster ("This fan works, but makes a clicking sound and will not oscillate"). Heartbreakingly tender, often hilarious, Quite a Year for Plums is a delectable treat from a writer who has been called a national treasure.From the Trade... Views: 49
Garth Gilmore and Cindy Bedford, abused in their formative years, are unknowingly attracted to each other and after leave school at 16, begin living together. Garth, addicted to gambling, turns to robbery to support his habit. He accidentally kills his first victim and Cindy finds out. She becomes Garth's accomplice and the couple commit two more robberies before the police trace them. Views: 49
A killer hunts the members of an old Oxford club—and Sherlock Holmes's brother is the next target Six months after the bloody return of Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes is starved for entertainment. When a friend of Dr. Watson's suggests a shooting trip in Scotland, Holmes leaps at the invitation. But after nearly a week of dreary Scottish weather, and hardly any shooting at all, Holmes is worse off than before. Watson fears the holiday has been an utter bust—until they are confronted with a murder baffling enough to be worthy of the great detective. One of the local gentry has been found dead in his library, suffocated in the safe where he kept his most valuable documents. Holmes recognizes the dead man as a member of the same secret society as his brother Mycroft—the Oxford group known as the Seven Sinners. One sinner down, six to go . . . but if Mycroft falls, so does England, and Holmes must be quick in order to save both his... Views: 49
Light-hearted contemporary woman’s issues novel about a couple who, on the brink of enjoying semi-retirement, find themselves inundated by their grown up children returning home from unemployment and broken marriages. Far from suffering from empty-nest syndrome, middle-aged Susanna is trilled to be able to move to a smaller, more manageable house and give up her boring job as a pay clerk in order to realise her life-long ambition designing mosaics. This, she believes, is her time. But it is nineties Britain. Her children find it difficult to survive job cuts, broken marriages etc. Susanna is torn between her duty to them and her towards herself – a situation not helped by her husband taking sides with the children. Not surprisingly she turns to a sympathetic neighbour who happens to have too much time on his hands. Views: 49
The trail to Trinity is rugged and as dangerous as hell. Sage Paxton rides it only out of the direst of necessities, to avenge his murdered parents. Sage has decided that their killer will not see another day, and bad weather, a lame horse, a crooked army officer and outlaws will not keep him from his prize. A woman came close but she turned out to be as crooked as the rest, a beautiful vulture at heart.Nothing else matters now, not even his own life. Before the end of the day he will have his vengeance against his parents' killer and his own brother ... Views: 49
