Edited by David Niall Wilson & David Dodd, Tales From the Crossroad Volume 1 brings together ten short stories and five novel excerpts from a talented group of Crossroad Press authors. Consisting of obscure reprints and one original short story, plus chosen excerpts from the authors' novels, this is a great introduction to their work, as well as a valuable resource for locating their books. Each author's complete Crossroad Press catalog is linked in the book for your convenience.Contents:Simple & All Souls Day by AL SarrantonioThis, and That's the End of It & Woman in the Dark by Tom PiccirilliThe Three Srangers & NOK (previously unpublished) by Gerard HouarnerThe Unmasking & How to Survive a Fire at the Greenmark by Steve Rasnic TemJeaves & The Deteriorating Relations & "And So Will I Remember You" by Chet Williamson.Exerpts from The Boy With Penny Eyes by Al Sarrantonio, Nightjack by Tom Piccirilli, The Beast That Was Max by Gerard Houarner, The Book of Days by Steve Rasnic Tem and REIGN by Chet Williamson.Walk out onto the Crossroad...take that eBook reader in hand...enter, and read.Look for future volumes of Tales From the Crossroad available soon. Views: 28
By the celebrated author of A Dream in Polar Fog, a collection of the myths and stories of Yuri Rytkheu's own family that is at once a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the northern shores of the Bering Sea and a beautiful cautionary tale rife with conflict, human drama, and humor. We meet fantastic characters: Nau, the mother of the human race; Rau, her half-whale husband; and Rytkheu's own grandfather, fated to be an intrepid traveler, far-ranging whaler, living ethnographic exhibit, and the last shaman of Uelen. The Chukchi Bible moves through vast Arctic tundra, sea, and sky -- and to places deep within ourselves--introducing readers, in vivid prose, to an extraordinary mythology and a resilient people. Views: 28
The UK is under sustained attack from Islamic extremists. Jihadists bomb the London underground network; bomb a London nightclub; hold the nation hostage by attacking its nuclear power generating facilities then unleash wholesale slaughter on to the streets of Oxford. Individuals and the nation's security forces are left to deal with the consequences. Views: 28
The Crystal Warriors Series Bundle, three full-length sexy paranormal romances by multi-award winning author Maree Anderson. Bundle includes: The Crystal Warrior (Book One, Chalcedony and Wulf’s story), Ruby’s Dream (Book Two, Ruby and Kyan’s story), Jade’s Choice (Book Three, Jade and Malach’s story). Views: 28
An extraordinary collection of correspondence from the man who would be King. Prince Charles' penchant for writing to politicians to voice his concerns over the horrors of contemporary architecture and threats to the environment is well known. Now, thanks to one of the most extraordinary leaks of modern times, this book reveals the hitherto unknown and remarkably wide range of Charles's communications, from his attempt to get a Coronation Street wedding moved to avoid a clash with his own televised nuptials to his advice for Tracy Emin on giving up the adolescent fad that is modern art ('Get up and make that bed!').Spanning over forty years, from the Prince's investiture in 1969 to the present day, these letters provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the man who would be King. They reveal someone who is much more in touch with the modern world than people might think, and whose keen sense of duty has given him the firm conviction that, hang it all, something of some... Views: 28
Dumpster diving for her lost paycheck is definitely the low point of Kiki Lowenstein's day—that is, until she finds a severed leg thrown in with the trash. Who'd toss a body part in the garbage outside the scrapbook crafts store where Kiki works? Views: 28
For readers of Shanghai Girl, a new novel from Vivian Yang about a distinctively private Eurasian life amidst the turmoil of 20th century Chinese and Russian diasporas, a chapter of which has won a top prize of The WNYC Leonard Lopate Essay Contest. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY's review describes it as "an engaging exploration of a world unknown to most Westerners. Yang navigates Hong Kong and the insular Chinese world of Shanghai with equal ease, convincingly charting the protagonist's life from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. ... Readers will find this fascinating novel very enjoyable and readable." In Shanghai’s French Concession in 1944, a young Russian fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution from his homeland falls in love with a local teenager. She dies giving birth to a girl without his knowledge, and he is expelled from China along with most other Westerners following the Communist takeover in 1949. The daughter grows up to be a piano instructor and becomes an unwed mother herself in 1962. Her daughter Mo Mo, whose father remains a mystery to all but her reticent mother, is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious. But she is a rare Eurasian in a politically radical and culturally homogenous society. We enter her bleak yet fascinating world cloaked to the West where Eurasian appearances are a double-edged sword, cherished and fetishized simultaneously. As the plot of this evocative novel set in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, with snippets of St. Petersberg, London, and Warsaw twists and turns through the lost glorious days of the old Shanghai, the Sino-Soviet ideological split of the 1950s, the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the economic reform that ensued in China, the bubble years in the 1980s Japan, and the 20th century Russian and Chinese immigration, a captivating story of one girl’s courageous journey of overcoming extraordinary racial and socio-political circumstances unfolds … Themes of beauty, identity, race, romantic love, friendship, culture, language, food and cannibalism are vividly fleshed out in this unique tale of a private life heretofore unfamiliar to the West. Readers are urged to consider how Asian and Western views on eroticism differ. Memoirs of a Eurasian is a triumphant work of fiction - at once exotic yet universal, erotic but romantic, entertaining and enlightening -- and utterly captivating, seductive, and original. Editorial Reviews "This latest novel ("Memoirs") from Yang (Shanghai Girl) is an engaging exploration of a world unknown to most Westerners. Yang navigates Hong Kong and the insular Chinese world of Shanghai with equal ease, convincingly charting (the protagonist)’s life from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. ... Readers will find this fascinating novel very enjoyable and readable." -- Publishers Weekly The reader experiences 20th-century China -- the Cultural Revolution, the industrialization of the coastal regions and the transformation of Hong Kong -- through (the protagonist)’s struggles and triumphs and the novel progresses competently from episode to episode. This gives Memoirs of a Eurasian a pleasing, consistent tension ... The novel is structured as an Asian woman recounting her life story to a Westerner, and as such brings to mind Arthur Golden’s massively successful Memoirs of a Geisha. Despite these superficial likenesses, the protagonists of the novels are entirely different. While Geisha gave a delicately crafted look at the exotic, Yang's tale is more relatable ... (and) provides a unique perspective on an under-explored era. -- Kirkus Review "Shanghai Girl" is a delicious tale of cross-cultural adjustment, personal ambition, and self-discovery, peppered with steamy sex, ruthless exploitation, and mysterious murder. -- JADE magazi ### Review *Memoirs of a Eurasian* is a riveting narrative spanning decades of 20th century history, from the Russian exile to Shanghai's French Concession to Cultural Revolution to Japan and beyond ... ******A captivating reading experience. -- Virginia Heyler "Shanghai Girl - a feat in itself ... Yang puts a new, often lighthearted spin on frequently covered topics like Chinese identity, the U.S. immigrant experience and reverberations of the Cultural Revolution." --HK Magazine * "Shanghai Girl is superb literature ... one of the best of contemporary novels written by Chinese authors ... (Yang is a) Shanghai success ... We eagerly await Yang's next literary feat." --EVE Magazine* "A novel that is hard to put down once you've picked it up ... Yang masterfully transports the living onto the page in a way that is sure to make any writer jealous and any reader sit up and take notice." --Blogcritics.org "Compelling story ... Fiercely feminine voice ... Strong language ... Great description ... Inherently fascinating locale ... Very likable narrator ... A pleasure to read." --The New Jersey State Council on the Arts ### From the Author A chapter of "Memoirs of a Eurasian" was a top winner of The WNYC Lonard Lopate Essay Contest. Read it at: wnyc.org/shows/lopate/articles/web-extras/2007/jun/27/leonard-lopate-essay-contest_/ Views: 28
Scottish Highlands, 1703As the new Alpha of the Faol, a legendary clan possessing the power of the wolf, Eoin Tolmach knows he should put the needs of his people before his own. Yet the former warrior cannot resist the challenge of rescuing kidnapped heiress Freya Ogilvie himself...or his unexpected attraction to her. Eoin admires her courage and sensual beauty, but she doesn't trust her own passionate instincts. Now Eoin faces his greatest test: convincing Freya to indulge their mutual desire.... Views: 28
Kate has locked herself out of her new apartment building for the third time in a week. She’s on the stoop in the rain, barefoot, shivering and soaked to the skin. Her neighbor, Eric, arrives home in the nick of time and lets her in. That’s twice now he’s saved the day. When he invites her for a quick supper, how can she say no? Eric has been waiting for an opportunity to get to know Kate. His kitchen window faces hers across the courtyard and he noticed her right away. How could he not, with her lovely halo of short curls and her beautiful smile? When he finds her stranded on the stoop, he gets to play the hero. When she agrees to his dinner invitation, he hopes he’ll get to play a lot more than that. From the AuthorYou Might Just Get It began as a 5000 word Cougar challenge. The story was picked up for an anthology, The Cougar Book. Do I believe a twenty-nine year old man might find a forty-one year old woman attractive? Absolutely! About the AuthorI'm J.R. Barrett aka Julia Barrett aka Julia Rachel Barrett. I write because I love to write - nonfiction, fiction, romantic fiction, poetry. If you're reading this, thank you so much. Hope you'll try my books. Views: 28
