Enter a midnight world of the supernatural—a world of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and demons. A seductive world limited only by your imagination, full of dark fantasies, hidden desires, and sexy women who rule the night. Edited by award-winning editors Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman, Women of the Dark Streets presents all new tales of the paranormal from your favorite Bold Strokes authors. Views: 75
Coco is a successful writer, happily married, with no mortgage and a teenage son, Rosencrantz. Life seems sweet until husband Daniel gives her an iPhone for Christmas (he always used to buy her jewellery) and announces he has accepted a job in America without telling her. Their marriage disintegrates when she finds him in bed with a younger woman. Coco throws them out and gets very drunk. Waking up the next morning on the bathroom floor she realises she is booked to do a radio interview to promote her novel. Coco, still drunk, makes an on-air joke about the head of an influential Television book club. Her novel is withdrawn and pulped. Her nightmare mother-in law is evicted from her nursing home and comes to stay, and Rosencrantz is mistakenly held on a drugs charge whilst visiting Daniel. Coco's life is transformed when Angie a fearsome literary agent signs her. She also acquires a local allotment, not to grow plants but to get close to Adam, the dashing hunk with the firm produce...Read the emails, which tell the comic tale of her picking up the pieces. Views: 74
Science proves it: there is no God.The graduate student, her professor, his wife, her priest: four brilliantly realized characters spin out of control in a world where science and religion are in constant conflict. RABID examines the madness of blind faith in either.A priest of the modern Roman Inquisition arrives in a New England college town to investigate allegations of child abuse by the local parish priests who have suddenly, mysteriously disappeared. The priest, a famous scientist in his own right, is immediately drawn into the private hell, and bed, of a pretty parishioner who confesses that she wants to kill her husband, because of his infidelity. The self-absorbed husband, a prominent scientist/professor, is relentlessly driven by his mad quest to win the Nobel prize, and by his lust for casual sex with grad student assistants. When one of them falls ill with a mysterious neurological disorder, no one knows how bad things really are. Until, that is, the subject of the professor's secret research is revealed.The brilliantly depicted head-to-head between faith and science comes to a shocking conclusion. Views: 74
Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated editions of three Virginia Woolf classics, ideal for the college classroom and beyond. For the first time, students reading these books will have the resources at hand to help them understand the text as well as the reasons and methods behind Woolf's writing. We've commissioned the best-known Woolf scholars in the field to provide invaluable introductions, editing, critical analysis, and suggestions for further reading. These much-awaited volumes are the first of many annotated Woolf editions Harcourt plans on publishing in the coming years.This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party she is to give that evening,Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more; for it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so... Views: 74
A great bedtime story for young, young children, and a tale with large print for older children to read for themselves. Views: 74
Halldorr never did get his warm hearth and plump wife. Each time he
came close, Odin, Providence, or Glooskap saw fit to change his path.Older
now, feeling no wiser, he finds himself in the midst of a new people,
the Beiuthook, a captive demeaned to the point of performing the
drudgery of the village women. But he has fought, bled, and killed in a
life thrust upon him. His mind has adapted to his lot so that he now
longs for the adventure and camaraderie of war.The Beiuthook have
forever struggled against their more numerous rivals, the Mi’kmaq.
Halldorr arrives at a time when tensions are high with a new, aggressive
sachem controlling the opponents of the Beiuthook.Will Halldorr’s
experience on the killing fields and aboard the pounding longboats see
that he is returned to a place of honor among men? Or, will he toil his
life away in chaste misery mindlessly scraping at the hide of someone
else’s kill.Norseman Chief is the final installment of The Norseman
Chronicles, each of which detail the heroic life of Halldorr from the
icy fjords of Greenland, to sweeping battlefields in England, and now to
the foreign shores of Vinland and beyond in what he calls the merki. Views: 74
Aryavarta – the ancient Realm of the Noble. For generations, the Firstborn dynasty of scholar-sages, descendants of Vasishta Varuni and protectors of the Divine Order on earth, has dominated here. For just as long, the Angirasa family of Firewrights, weapon-makers to the kings and master inventors, has defied them. In the aftermath of the centuries-long conflict between the two orders, the once-united empire of Aryavarta lies splintered, a shadow of its former glorious self. Now, the last Secret Keeper of the Firewrights is dead, killed by a violent hand, and the battle for supreme power in the empire is about to begin. As mighty powers hurtle towards a bloody conflict, Govinda Shauri, cowherd-turned-prince and now Commander of the armies of Dwaraka, must use all his cunning to counter deception and treachery if he is to protect his people and those whom he loves. But who holds the key to the fantastic and startling knowledge of the Firewrights, which in the wrong hands will bring doom upon the empire? And does Govinda have it in him to confront the dark secrets of his past and discover the true meaning of being Arya, of being noble? Views: 74
A fast-paced psychological thriller that explores the explosive consequences of child abuse. On New Year's Eve, 2004, a woman awakens from a coma. She has been unconscious for 12 years since being viciously attacked by a lake. Nobody knows who or why she was assaulted but as the plot unravels it transpires the events of that night are linked to things that happened before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In East Germany in the spring of 1989, 14-year-old Felix Waltz had escaped from a life of abuse at the notorious Stasi youth prison, Torgau. He found a safe haven and went into hiding, leaving a tormented past behind. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, Felix had the chance to live a normal life with his uncle and aunt - until one of Torgau's abusive wardens turned up, threatening his new-found security and happiness. Felix turned vigilante to confront his past, resorting to murder, and his crimes remain hidden for 12 years. In 2005, Hanne Drais,... Views: 74
