From the 2005 winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the former national film critic for CBC television comes a delightful and absorbing book about the agonies and joys of home-schooling a beloved son. Written in the spare elegant style he is known for, "The Film Club" is the true story about David Gilmour's decision to let his 15-year-old son drop out of high school on the condition that the boy agrees to watch three films a week with him. The book examines how those pivotal years changed both their lives. From French New Wave, Kurosawa, and New German cinema, to De Palma, film noir, Cronenberg and Billy Wilder, among many others from world cinema, we read about key moments in each film, as the author teaches his son about life and the vagaries of growing up through the power of the movies. Replete with page-turning descriptions of scenes and actors and directors, the narrative is framed with the tender story of his son's first bittersweet first loves. This is... Views: 67
Jack isn't like the Pagoda brothers. He knows the difference between fun and stupid. Launching yourself across the backyard in a makeshift Roman catapult? Fun. Smoking an entire pack of cigarettes as fast as possible? Stupid. But when it comes to emergency self-surgery...Jack still has something to learn. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka. Views: 67
When Rick Ranière, an underground white rapper with misogynistic tendencies—and the songs to prove it—runs into Carolyn Coffman, the best-selling biracial author of Fighting the Pheromone Factor, he knows she’s like no woman he’s ever met. Carolyn knows she really needs to stay upwind. But the canyons of Manhattan keep shifting the breeze—and Rick’s policy of never trusting a woman. In the end, Rick’s only female fan who refuses to sleep with him might just have the answer to his writer’s block, and the man who sounds all wrong might just be everything Carolyn ever wanted. When an unexpected burst of publicity lands Rick on the iTunes’ charts and brands Carolyn a hypocrite to her readers, she can either save her career or this relationship. When you got a choice, Rick had told her, you really ought to make the right goddamn one. Or you could lose everything you ever wanted. Views: 67
Meridith believes she is capable of weathering any storm. But she's never experienced a love powerful enough to uproot her...until now.Meridith Ward has crafted a carefully ordered life to make up for the chaos that plagued her childhood years. But one phone call upsets all that. Within the span of several minutes, Meredith learns that the father who abandoned her is dead and she's been named the sole guardian of his other three children. She nervously heads to Nantucket to care for the siblings she's never met with plans to stay until their uncle returns from his trip before relinquishing guardianship to him.She arrives to find the children living in Summer House, a Bed & Breakfast that's falling apart around them. Meridith wants to move on as soon as possible, but the inn will never sell in its dilapidated condition. Then an itinerant handyman, Jake, shows up with an offer she can't refuse.Much like the powerful ocean just a short walk from her deck, Jake appeals to... Views: 67
A Catholic priest and a pagan priestess come together to solve the murder of a sex-guru.. Pagan priestess Meinwen Jones moves 300 miles to meet up with a man who turns up dead. She's approached by Father Brande, who needs her help to uncover the dead man's secrets. Why did he have so many women around him, and why do they all have matching tattoos? Just who was having an affair with the old lady who hung herself, and when will the priest stop putting out Meinwen's ritual fires? Content warning: BDSM, Erotic pain and violence, polyamory and murder. Views: 67
Science Fiction/Young Adult. 35272 words long. Writers Exchange E-Publishing 2004 Views: 67
The power of the old gods was certainly nothing for Mark and Edith—a modern, twentieth-century couple—to worry about. After all—everybody dies! Views: 67
The 40th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking teen classic. When the grandmother who raised him dies, Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old boy, must move to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Between alcohol-infused lectures about her self-sacrifice and awkward visits with his distant father, Davy's only comfort is his beloved dachshund Fred. Things start to look up when he and a boy from school become friends. But when their relationship takes an unexpected turn, Davy struggles to understand what happened and what it might mean.New York Times Best of 1969 Book ListSchool Library Journal Best of 1969 Book ListThis anniversary edition features reflections from Brent Hartinger (Geography Club), Martin Wilson (What They Always Tell Us), and Kathleen T. Horning (Director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center), with a foreword by Stacey Donovan (Dive). Views: 67
Araman Diago, Commandant of the Olean Intelligence, last medical reported too high a sexual libido level. In accordance to military regulations stating a sexually satisfied soldier is a happy soldier, General Herse had no choice but to order Araman to take as his personal gear, a military issued concubine. Araman was in no mood to receive such an instruction after his mission was just jeopardised. The idea of having to take a woman, let alone a concubine into his care was distasteful to his nature. His past experiences ending in tragedy taught him to avoid entanglements with the opposite sex. But she was not what the Commandant was expecting. He was issued a Shinwa warrior... ...One who takes him into a journey where only the strongest can go Views: 67
