For 40 years, this adrenaline-packed winner of the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book has been gripping Kiwi kids. 'He's not there, Mum. He's fallen overboard.' What started as an exciting challenge turns into a nightmare when a gale unexpectedly develops during the night race to Kawau Island. Sam and her mother suddenly find themselves in charge of their yacht with a dangerous task ahead of them. It is the early 1980s, and technology on the yacht is limited: they are on their own. Will Sam be able to save her family? Views: 319
Reagan Hart is the DeLuca Girl, hers is the world famous face of a generation. Her husband has directed five of the highest grossing movies of all time, and her ex is a hunky detective who can’t get her out of his heart. She has all that glitters, but it isn't at all what she bargained for. Beguiled by the story of a mystical old house, she walks out on her past and into her future.What if you had to choose between a life of fame and luxury or finding your truest love while restoring a house overflowing with magic and enchantment in the Blue Ridge Mountains?Reagan Hart is the DeLuca Girl, hers is the world famous face of a generation. Her husband has directed five of the highest grossing movies of all time, and her ex is a hunky detective who can’t get her out of his heart. She has all that glitters, but it isn't at all what she bargained for. Beguiled by the story of a mystical old house in the Blue Ridge Mountains, she walks out on her past and into her future.In the village of Seven Devils, North Carolina she is drawn to and enchanted by “The Mary’s House” and comes face to face and heart to heart with breathtakingly handsome and reclusive Fletcher Green. Fletcher steals Reagan’s heart in an instant but there are secrets to be told and he hasn't uttered a single word in twenty years. His brother Teddy knows everything he’s thinking and the brothers will rebuild The Mary’s House for Reagan and along with a town full of eccentric’s she just might find her place among the charms and enchantments and lucky bits of magic as she lets fate, destiny, passion and desire work their magic as she settles in on Temptation Road and takes her place as the new and last Mary. This novella is part one of a series."A truly original and magical tale filled with romance, suspense and enchantment..."This novella is part one of an all new series by Amazon Best Selling Romance Author, Kimball Lee.Also... Check out Kimball's best selling romance series LEGAL ACTION... Views: 319
In this sort of prequel to IT'S OVER, Dwayne and Scott are headed to an out of the way place to make a score on a hot Texas afternoon in 1977. Dwayne is in dire need of a fix and as the day wears on he's not entirely sure if the hallucinations he's having are brought on by the sickness or if there's something about his friend Scott he doesn't know.In this sort of prequel to IT'S OVER, Dwayne and Scott are headed to an out of the way place to make a score on a hot Texas afternoon in 1977. Dwayne is in dire need of a fix and as the day wears on he's not entirely sure if the hallucinations he's having are brought on by the sickness or if there's something about his friend Scott he doesn't know.IT'S OVER: CHRONICLES is a multimedia online series in tandem with the IT'S OVER film trilogy, created by Snout Productions. For more information on the three films, the graphic novel, IT'S OVER: TRIBULATIONS, and all Snout music, film and multimedia content, visit www.snoutproductions.com Views: 319
A Haddington Manifestation is a humorous work of fiction set in England during the 1890s and centres around the character of Lord Haddington who suffers from a terrible affliction of great clumsiness so much so that he is known in the area as ’Lord Clumsy.’Haddington has been seeking his long lost grandson for some time and now he has two claimants as guests in his house.A Haddington Manifestation is a humorous work of fiction set in England during the 1890s and centres around the character of Lord Haddington who suffers from a terrible affliction of great clumsiness so much so that he is known in the area as ’Lord Clumsy.’Haddington has been seeking his long lost grandson for some time and now he has two claimants as guests in his house.All the characters have to endure a great deal of trials and tribulations before reaching a happy ending. Views: 319
Containing a handful of short stories and the novelette 'Frost', this holiday anthology brings together stories about the dark side of the season. This blackly humorous and chilling collection explores aspects of the holidays you won't read about in Chicken Soup for the Soul. Get your whiskey; it's going to be a long night.An unedifying episode from the unorthodox life of Captain Hesperus, star trader. Money is tight, the engines are failing, and there's soup on the ceiling ... still, there's nothing that can't be fixed with one sweet deal. A cargo of machinery destined for a low-tech Anarchy system: what could possibly go wrong?A novella set in the universe of the classic computer game "Elite", and its fan-made remake "Oolite". Views: 318
A witty but insightful narration of ‘normal’ and ‘orderly’ cultural realisms of contemporary world, from the perspective of a young duffer. This duffer believes; a normal person should know how this world looks to a stupid, whom the world loves to label ‘abnormal’ and ‘disordered’, to truly visualize realities of benchmarking. This duffer’s wife asked him to make it different; he truly does it!In the words of the duffer itself:“I must say I am not very inclined to do what I am doing. I am just 23 years old and all I can garner, as my achievement in life is my class 12 exam, which I passed against the wildest expectation of my family and friends. Yes, my life has been full of unimaginable stupidities but I cannot accept my wife’s suggestion that people would be interested in knowing about them and will derive the sadistic pleasure that they were not as duffer as me.I have my truths; I have my life experiences and my revelations, which my stupidities and that of others’ bestowed on me have made possible. However, I am not confident people will even accept them. Acceptance is not the contemporary intellectualism; I have seen it all through my life. In Twitter and Facebook, everyone is out to prove other wrong. Rejecting and rubbishing innocence has come to be recognized as highest intellectual pursuit. My wife has told me, ‘why would anyone listen to you if you are not different’ and she seems to be right as being different has become the core creed of intellectualism. But then, the question is, why anyone shall be interested in my stupidities? There are already so many around! Actually, all human stupidities and idiocy are primeval and all pervasive. I am not saying this; the whole world around me is out to prove that there are so many stupid politicians, bureaucrats and silly middle class around, who are making life hell for others. And, as aping is first instinct of humanity, everyone feels so happily inclined in adding loads of repeat value to these foolishnesses, which they decipher in others. Why should anyone be interested in my own, when mine are definitively anything but different?My wife works in publishing industry. To be very honest, she asked me to write my biography and even assured me that she would push it through to the bookstores. She has advised me to ‘make it fully loaded’. ‘If you can rake in un-patterned madness and patterned sex in your book, you may even find a publisher yourself; otherwise I am here for you’, she has told me. She is only three years older to me but always bosses on me. I am not sure what she means and what I can rake in. But I am not stuck, I move ahead.”The duffer says, it is his autobiography and that is why he is writing what he feels. If people do not like it, they always have their turn, when they write their own! Views: 318
“I’ve been running for as long as I could remember.” Sophia Talar has been on the run all her life. Being a daughter of the Talar family was rarity; The Talar family had daughters once in a millennium. With Sophia’s presence on the world, a man hunts beings for the last remaining Talar daughter. Living in the middle of Naples, Italy, Jamie and Draco Talar believe their family is safe until SopI kept running towards the house with the twins hot on my heels, I was trying to hold my cool but their presence affected me like no others had. Xena yelled at me “ stop running Soph, you are our soul come back please. You don’t know how much you mean to us now that we’ve found you.”I stopped walking when I hit the meadow clearing and I didn’t turned around but waited for the rain to come down as my eyes cleared to a Celestial blue. When the running steps came closer, my breath took a shaky turn. Dante moved towards me and spoke softly catching his breath, “ why do you keep running from us?”I took a sharp breath of salty air and expressed why. “I’ve been running for as long as I could remember. My parents fought for my safety and my dad lost his life in a hunt for my life. I am from a long line of Talaren daughters who have been hunted down for a power that we posses. But the only thing that is different from the early generation and myself is I am not in control of one element, I am in control of all of them. Running is all I know and I don’t have a reason to stop now. “ Views: 318
Park Square. Mass Ave. The Combat Zone. All hometo Boston's sex trade. Home also to runaways and lostsouls, home to high rollers and politicians looking foraction they can't find anywhere else. It is home, too, forFather Clancy Donovan, who spends his time here trying toget young girls off the street. Bone weary and frustrated, hehas lost the joy in his life and has no idea how to get it back.Divorced three times and not yet thirty-five, Sarah Connollyis trying hard to make a new start when life throws her acurve. Kit, her fifteen-year-old niece, has run away fromhome, and Sarah will need every ounce of her stubbornnessand determination to track her down. Suspecting Kit hasdisappeared into the Combat Zone, and with no one else toturn to, Sarah appeals to Clancy for help.The unlikely pair team up to find Kit, but in the process findsomething elsesomething powerful, something unexpectedand something that will shake them to their core. Views: 318
The best writers of our generation retell classic tales.
From Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene to E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright twisted tales. In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, the ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them, the ones that have become ingrained in modern culture, and the ones that have been too long overlooked. They take these stories and boil them down to their bones, and reassemble them for a new generation of readers.
Written from a twenty-first century perspective and set within the realms of science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and realistic fiction, these short stories are as moving and thought provoking as their originators. They pay homage to groundbreaking literary achievements of the past while celebrating each author's unique perception and innovative style.
Today's most acclaimed authors use their own unique styles to rebuild the twelve timeless stories:
Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene - Saladin Ahmed
W. W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" - Kelley Armstrong
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" - Holly Black
"Sleeping Beauty" - Neil Gaiman
The Brothers Grimm's "Rumpelstiltskin" - Kami Garcia
Kate Chopin's The Awakening - Melissa Marr
Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" - Garth Nix
Henry James's "The Jolly Corner" - Tim Pratt
E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" - Carrie Ryan
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto - Margaret Stohl
William Seabrook's "The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban" - Gene Wolfe
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark" - Rick Yancey
And six illustrations by Charles Vess Views: 318
Intrepid animal telepath and gravity defyer, Chandi is called on to pull of a daring rescue... it's a matter of mythical life and death.I can't go on any longerWithout making amends.Are we still lovers,Or are we just friends?------------I apologize.I know that I've been wrong.If you could see my eyes,Would you seeThat our love will go on?-------------It's all waiting for us.It's known to someone else.We might not know it ourselves,But it will all come to be.It will be me living for you...With you...And you living your life for me.These are the sweetest intentions That I can giveTo you. Views: 318
The Scanning takes one life every day. It has been a nightmare for the planet of Samna, virtually forever. And, although Samnyans learned to live with it, some tried to counter it, unsuccessfully. When Teftkra finally manages to detect the source of the Scanning's signal, it does not take her long to go exploring and, ultimately, facing the unexpected truth.Every day somebody on the planet dies because of the Scanning. As long as anyone on Samna can remember, the strange phenomenon that scans everything on its way, once per day, has been the planet's nightmare virtually forever.Over the centuries, Samnyans learned to live with it. Scientists were always either too busy looking for ways to counter it, or were too afraid of the issue to take their research on it any further.When Teftkra finally manages to detect the source of the Scanning's signal, it does not take her long to go exploring and, ultimately, facing the unexpected truth. Views: 318
The Healthcare system is a very complex system using multiple information technology systems. Vendors are absorbing different standards for the same systems which in turn shows certain inefficiency leading to errors in the healthcare information. This affects the patient’s medical information and the medical information is also not shared with the healthcare community members.There are 25 major industries. All 25 of the major industries shamelessly copy technology from the other industries to improve their services. Except one. The healthcare industry !Many hospital owners in India are confronted with a lack of a complete Hospital management system, lack of an electronic medical records system, that they could access from anywhere at any time for their hospitals. They are confronted with a lack of proper tracking system to reduce errors. The challenge is to create a solution to the many issues and challenges faced by hospitals. Remember, India caters to the medical needs of 1.25billion population.The SolutionPresent age Hospital Information System integrates different information systems into one single efficient system. It can be accessed from anywhere anytime from any web enabled device. An ideal HIS solves the problems inherent in a network of multiple programs that are not compatible. It can integrate almost any type of services, systems, departments, processes, data, communication, etc. that exist in a hospital. It can even handle non- medical services or functions like security, maintenance, etc. It is modular and highly scalable. Even if hospital are located in remote areas with poor internet connectivity, works offline and syncs later. It reduces medical errors and improves quality of care. To study how Indian hospitals were coping without a good HIS, I went from hospital to hospital to see how HAI was monitored. The number of deaths happening in hospitals due to HAI is high. Hospitals do not have tools to analyze data. – if they did analyze, they did nothing! i.e.they were in a in a phase of ‘analysis Paralysis’. Other challenges faced by hospitals were purchasing, running and maintaining large IT infrastructure and resources. Intercommunication is difficult, poor internet connectivity and obsolescence of existing software. Views: 318
A old friend's disappearance sets an FBI agent on a dangerous case where the line between good guys and bad guys might turn murky.(I'm giving the whole free thing a go for a while. Enjoy. If you like the story, please leave an amazon and smashwords review.)SUBURBAN HOME EXPLODES. FAMILY VANISHES.Working for the FBI certainly isn’t a “normal” job, but Special Agent Julie Ann Davidson has never encountered a case as personal as this one. Although not officially assigned to the case, Ann and her partner, Patrick Duncan, take up the cause of finding Rachel, Jason, and Emily Collins. As if that task wasn’t enough, Ann and Patrick also have a baffling case of internet thievery to investigate. Who is Christopher Collins and what about his past is endangering his family? Where are Rachel and the kids being held? Where is God in the midst of chaos? Will Ann and Patrick arrive in time or will they find only pain? Views: 318
