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What the hell was this? I stared at the numbers, numb with horror. The box was a bomb. And it was going to go off in two minutes.*
Charlie's life is torn apart by a terrorist bomb in a London market. Months later she meets Nat, whose family has been left devastated by the same explosion. But as Charlie gets closer to Nat she starts to wonder if he knows more about the attack than he is letting on...
Life can change in the blink of an eye - whether you're ready or not.
The new bestseller from the award-winning Sophie McKenzie. Views: 460
After finding a mysterious wristwatch buried in the sand, sixteen-year-old John suddenly finds himself teleporting farther and farther away from his home each day when the hands strike 3:14. Unable to deactivate the device or remove it from his arm, John must do what he can to survive when its dangerous creator comes looking for his lost invention. John Gone is Book One of The Diaspora Trilogy.Sixteen-year-old John has stumbled across an abandoned wristwatch half-buried in the sand behind his house. Curious, he places it on his wrist; to his surprise, it won’t come off.Suddenly, each day at 3:14 P.M. John begins to uncontrollably teleport around the world. He might materialize anywhere--a burning African desert, a Canadian forest, even a Siberian prison--and must do what he can to survive until 3:14 A.M. when the watch takes him home again.But John's adventures come with a price ...When a scientist mysteriously trapped far below the surface of the Earth makes contact through a hologram in the watch's face, John learns that his travels will eventually kill him. Soon, he's faced with an impossible choice: continue to endanger his life by using the watch, or switch places with the scientist and risk losing his freedom forever. Views: 460
IT NEVER RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. WHEN IT DOES IT POURS. THIS TIME IT'S BLOOD.
In a quiet, Southern California residential neighborhood, in a basement converted into a dungeon of depravity, victims are starved, tortured, defiled & dismembered...
"Great book. Dark--yes. Grotesque--certainly. Sexually explicit--without a doubt. And the writing is excellent. Character development & dialogue, is as real as it gets. A terrifying, non-putdownable horror."
–Jeff Bennington, Kindle Book Review
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" Great book. Dark--yes. Grotesque--certainly. Sexually explicit--without a doubt. And the writing is excellent. Character development & dialogue, is as real as it gets. A terrifying, non-putdownable horror."
-Jeff Bennington, K/Book Review
About the Author
Kirk Alex’s novel Lustmord: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher was a finalist in the Kindle Book Review's Best Book Awards of 2014. He is also the author of Zook, Fifty Shades of Tinsel, the story collection: Ziggy Popper at Large, the Love, Lust & Murder series: Throwback & Backlash, the Eddie "Doc" Holiday Private Eye Series, and a few other novels & shorts. Views: 459
Jack is as a High School Football player trying to achieve his dream. Someone that normally would not is holding him back from this. Pain, frustration, and the need to impress are taken out on his girlfriend. Broken down Riley feels like she can do nothing to help Jack. When his football coach gets in the mix his future hangs in the balance. He will need all the support he can get.SEATTLE TRILOGY – PREQUEL: It’s the 1980s. The decade that launched the grunge movement. The era when weird became cool. In 1983, Howard aspires to be the next king of rock, and doesn’t mind bending a few rules to get there. Then he meets “Luna Tunes,” who sells limericks for a living. Sure, she’s cute, but who does that? And why is she with that goon Brian?Before Howard can even get her number, disaster strikes. Not once, but twice. Now how’s he ever gonna win the girl of his dreams?Prequel to Sapphire Secrets, When Lyric met Limerick is a light-hearted, fun romance. Views: 459
What happens when the masks come off?
When one of the supersexy Gage brothers blows Molly Devaney away with a scorching kiss at a masquerade ball, she thinks she's met her soul mate. But why does her masked seducer act as if she doesn't exist the next day? To win him over, she'll make him jealous, so she turns to his brother Julian Gage, who offers to play the role of her lover.
But Julian is playing for keeps. There's nothing fake about the way this woman makes him feel, and now he's going to show her just which Gage brother is right for her…. Views: 459
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY *KIRKUS REVIEWS*
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize. It was a heady moment, but for Kidder and Todd it was only the beginning of an education in the art of nonfiction.
Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as nonfiction writers, for models and instruction. They talk about narrative strategies (and about how to find a story, sometimes in surprising places), about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer. They offer some tart and emphatic opinions on the current state of language. And they take a clear stand against playing loose with the facts. Their advice is always grounded in the practical world of writing and publishing.
Good Prose—like Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style—is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike. This wise and useful book is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one.
Praise for Good Prose
“Smart, lucid, and entertaining.”—The Boston Globe
“You are in such good company—congenial, ironic, a bit old-school—that you’re happy to follow [Kidder and Todd] where they lead you.”—The Wall Street Journal
“[A] well-structured, to-the-point, genuinely useful, and fun-to-read guide to writing narrative nonfiction, essays, and memoir . . . Crisp, informative, and mind-expanding.”—Booklist
“A gem . . . The finer points of creative nonfiction are molded into an inspiring read that will affect the would-be writer as much as Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird or Stephen King’s On Writing. . . . This is a must read for nonfiction writers.”—*Library Journal
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“As approachable and applicable as any writing manual available.”—Associated Press
From the Hardcover edition. Views: 459
This Megapack collects 20 of Edward Bellamy's novels and short stories—including his classic political science fiction novel, Looking Backwards, and its sequel, Equality. Complete contents:LOOKING BACKWARDEQUALITYTHE BLINDMAN'S WORLDDR. HEIDENHOFF'S PROCESSMISS LUDINGTON'S SISTERAN ECHO OF ANTIETAMTHE DUKE OF STOCKBRIDGEWITH THE EYES SHUTA LOVE STORY REVERSEDLOSTTO WHOM THIS MAY COMEHOOKING WATERMELONSTWO DAYS' SOLITARY IMPRISONMENTA POSITIVE ROMANCEDESERTEDTHE COLD SNAPTHE OLD FOLKS' PARTYAT PINNEY'S RANCHPOTTS'S PAINLESS CUREA SUMMER EVENING'S DREAMAnd don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" (or just Megapack if Wildside Megapack doesn't work) to see all the entries in the Megapack series—including volumes of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns, and much, much more! Views: 459
Its a story about Nimmu, a sixth grade student in India, who moves to a village and struggles to settle there. As the days progresses, he wins new friends and establishes equations among them, and starting to enjoy his school life. Gopu Joins school in the middle of the year and he becomes Nimmu's best friend. How he earned Gopu as his best friend and why he is missing the friend is the story.WARNING! This is a Zed Lab Experiment! "Cursed chocolate" description:Samir is eight years old and he has left India with his family and he must make the accounts with the grayness in the Milan winter. Difficulty to integrate... if it were for the chocolate, that his classmates have passed of hand in hand during the interval, but as all the sweetest temptations, difficult to withstand this new intoxicating world, so much to be forgotten his own earth and his own origins. Integration, multiculture and loss of identity. The migration told by a child that it moves him with the family to Italy and that a new world must face, rich of temptations, that, just as the chocolate, they can make to forget his own origin and his own cultural baggage. Views: 459
The Cahill family has a secret. For five hundred years, they have guarded the 39 Clues – thirty-nine ingredients in a serum that transforms whomever takes it into the most powerful person on earth. If the serum got into the wrong hands, the disaster would rock the world. So certain Cahills have always made it their mission to keep the serum safe, buried, locked away. Until now.
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, are the latest guardians of the Clues. They think they’ve done everything right, but a tiny mistake leads to catastrophe. The serum is missing and Dan and Amy have to get it back and stop who stole it . . . before it’s game over. For everyone. Views: 459
When Dan put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, he thought it would all be over, but he soon learns that in death, just like in life, you don't always get what you want. Views: 459
Charlie gets much more than he bargained for when he breaks into a house across the street from a construction project he's working on. All he is looking for is some drugs to carry on his dependency, but he finds that sometimes dangers lurk where you least expect them.A SHORT STORY: With extra bonus chapter from "The Steel Van Man"Derry Brown looks through an otherworldly lens. In Derry's warped sense of reality, a mundane architectural review takes place in a bleak future ruled by high-tech racing. With the executive assistant protesting the race sponsors in the hallway, and a spectacular crash taking place between a marker and an eraser on his whiteboard, Derry has to try to maintain his sanity long enough to ask the most important question: Is spending money on this code change worth saving twelve cents?Start your engines, it's meeting time. Views: 459
Mermaids have been sinking ships and drowning humans for centuries, and now the government is determined to put an end to the mermaid problem—by slaughtering all of them. Luce, a mermaid with exceptionally threatening abilities, becomes their number-one target, hunted as she flees down the coast toward San Francisco. There she finds hundreds of mermaids living in exile under the docks of the bay. These are the Twice Lost: once-human girls lost first when a trauma turned them into mermaids, and lost a second time when they broke mermaid law and were rejected by their tribes. Luce is stunned when they elect her as their leader. But she won't be their queen. She'll be their general. And they will become the Twice Lost Army—because this is war. Views: 459
High stakes marriage After shooting a man, the stakes for gambler Logan Devereaux have never been higher. On trial for his life, he's offered a shocking alternate form of restitution...marriage to his victim's pregnant sweetheart! Beautiful Emma O'Toole has sworn vengeance against him—and when a newspaper man puts her tragic story to song, the whole nation waits to see what she'll do. Their marriage is the riskiest gamble Logan's ever taken. But he'll put everything he's got on the line for a chance at winning Emma's heart. Views: 459
Star Sailor is a series of episodic short stories about a girl named Najima Dezetoiles, and her travels by raft throughout a galaxy once rocked by a terrible war.In this episode, Najima travels to the desert planet of Nanda IV, where she meets the anti-Imperial rebel Otto al-Kara. But what are the intentions of this handsome, gun-toting terrorist in an Empire-controlled town?Najima's eyes trained across the room. From the hall on the opposite end of the control room, following the new girl and Priya, a tall man with olive skin and a thick, black, scraggly beard entered the room. The others nodded as he approached Najima and looked her over. He had a gaze like granite, his cheeks decorated with scars, and his body was well built, his arms looking as hard as the cave’s walls. "You look even smaller up close, kid,” he said, in his deep, gruff voice. “Not exactly what I expected when I was told you saved my friends.” "I can hold my own," Najima returned with a grin, no hesitation in her voice. "Are you the boss man, then?"He returned her grin. "My name is Otto al-Kara, and this is my little group of heroes. What's your name?""Najima Dezetoiles.""How does it feel to be hanging around with a group of terrorists?" Views: 459
