Pride & Prohibition!New York socialite Evie McKenzie is happy. At least, she tells herself that she must be since she has a ring on her finger from the man of her dreams and the city's hottest speakeasy named in her honour. But a secret job as a gossip columnist brings the elusive and sinfully seductive Jack Taylor back into her orbit, and resisting him is twice as hard second time around.For speakeasy manager Tug Hadley, the roar of the twenties is practically deafening – her eyes and ears are full of opportunity, and she's ready to grab life with both hands. If only the man she loves weren't engaged to her best friend...Beneath the bootlegged booze and beaded flapper dresses, Evie and Tug must decide how much they're willing to risk to get what they want in this most decadent era of high-stakes hedonism. Views: 277
Louise and Erica have been best friends since forever. They're closer than sisters and depend on each other for almost everything. Just one problem: Erica has superpowers. When Erica isn't doing loop-the-loops in the sky or burning things with her heat pulse powers, she needs Louise to hold her non-super life together. After all, the girls still have homework, parents and boys to figure out. But being a superhero's BFF is not easy, especially as trouble has a way of seeking them out. Soon Louise discovers that Erica might be able to survive explosions and fly faster than a speeding bullet, but she can't win every fight by herself. Life isn't a comic book – it's even crazier than that. Views: 277
Imagine being dragged from your bed in the darkest, coldest hours of the night, and taken to a place you believed only existed in nightmares.Imagine being dragged from your bed in the darkest, coldest hours of the night, and taken to a place you believed only existed in nightmares.That is what happened to Helena, and the rest of the haunted souls in Krakow's Podgorze Ghetto. She had heard the rumours. They all had. But with half of her family already dead or missing, hope was all that Helena had left. But hope can be distinguished as easily as a candle in the wind. Nazi liquidation wasn't just a nightmare. It was real. And it was happening to Helena. Views: 277
When Shelby, Steve's dog and best friend, is struck by the Enderman, he falls very ill. Steve is forced to travel far and wide in search of a cure and discovers that Herobrine is behind sending the Enderman to Steve’s village.Why is Herobrine attacking the village? Can Steve stop Herobrine? And will he be able to find the cure for Shelby before it becomes too late?(An Unofficial Minecraft Book for Kids Ages 9 - 12 (Preteen)When Steve and his best friend Shelby (his dog) went out hunting, they encounter a strange creature known as an Enderman. When Shelby is struck by the creature he falls ill while also absorbing some of the creature’s powers. Steve is forced to travel far and wide in search of a cure. During this time he discovers that Herobrine is behind sending the Enderman to Steve’s village.Why is Herobrine attacking the village? Can Steve stop Herobrine? And will he be able to find a cure for Shelby before it becomes too late?This unofficial Minecraft book is not authorized, endorsed or sponsored by Microsoft Corp., Mojang AB, Notch Development AB or any other person or entity owning or controlling the rights of the Minecraft name, trademark or copyrights. All characters, names, places and other aspects of the game described herein are trademarked and owned by their respective owners. Minecraft®/ /TM & ©2009-2016 Mojang/Notch. Views: 277
This in-depth, historical analysis of terrorism investigates the major funding streams of terrorists, insurgents, guerrillas, warlords, militias, and criminal organizations throughout the world as well as the efforts of the international community to thwart their efforts.• Examines the financing of major terrorist organizations such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and other significant groups• Features maps of key regions and graphs comparing funding streams of various groups• Includes information derived from interviews with expert threat finance practitioners, academics, scholars, and policy professionals• Provides a chronology of critical events** Views: 276
In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers and prisoners, hoboes and refugees and mice that steal medicines. Their surreal inner world is vividly reflected in Pavlov's expressive prose, reminiscent of Platonov. Poetic, tragic and darkly comic, the novel is at once a grotesque portrayal of late Soviet reality and an apocalyptic allegory that has drawn comparisons with Faulkner and Kafka.
**ReviewPraise for Requiem for a Soldier "Oleg Pavlov is a powerful writer and Requiem for a Soldier is his finest work. After being demobbed, a soldier who has done his service in a desolate firing ground is meekly continuing in the military infirmary, waiting for a savage paramedic to fit him with a steel tooth (to replace a perfectly healthy one), but instead of his ‘eternal tooth’ he ends up being charged with homicide. Yet the more penetrating reader will discern not so much a social flavour as an apocalyptic tone in this novel subtitled 'A Tale of the Last Days'." Alla Latynina, Vremya MN “Russian Booker Prize-winner Pavlov writes with the confident eccentricity of a man who knows what to do with words.” Steward O'Nan, Big Issue "Requiem for a Soldier . . . is the standalone third volume in the Russian’s Booker Prize-winning trilogy Tales from the Last Days. Set at the end of the Soviet Empire it’s a slim, dark and poetic volume following Alyosha, a soldier who has finished his service, as he journeys to the kingdom of the dead. It’s both a grotesque portrayal of Soviet reality and an apocalyptic allegory." Big Issue in the North "Pavlov’s reputation and style sets him among the ranks of authors such as Genet and Burroughs with comparison also drawn to Faulkner and Kafka. Lovers of the haunting, poetic, literary grotesque of these authors combined with a healthy level of surrealist humour will find great satisfaction in the pages." Booktrust "Chekhov would approve . . . Pavlov [is] a witness with a flair for spectacular images of surreal beauty – a mouse 'quivered like a little heart' – which simply ease into a narrative, blending heightened prose descriptions with political satire and punchy dialogue, often expressing exasperation, which is well rendered into colloquial English by Anna Gunin." Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times "A triumph of Russian farce . . . At a time when the bodies of soldiers are being returned to their families from a war that the authorities assure us … the country is not fighting, we can only marvel at the author’s prescience." George Walden, Times Literary Supplement “... a meditation on death and the downfall of the Soviet Union suffused with all the bleak absurdity of a Samuel Beckett play.” Workshy Fop “A brutal and thought-provoking book.” The Lady review “A grotesque, caricatural portrait of the last days of the Soviet Empire” The Skinny Other Praise for Oleg Pavlov "Captain of the Steppe combines a traditional Russian faith in the humanising power of literature with a boisterous energy and imagination. Pavlov wrote two further army novels which, along with Captain of the Steppe , have become known as the 'Tales of the Last Days' trilogy, and we can be grateful that both are due for publication by And Other Stories." Michael Nicholson, The Times Literary Supplement "Pavlov skilfully navigates the razor-thin gap between dark comedy and tragedy."
Christopher Tauchen, Words without Borders "Pavlov imbues his world with a very particular flavour: the mixture of tragedy, absurdity and black comedy that runs in the veins of Russian literature as far back as the work of Nikolai Gogol . . . Pavlov fashions a disquieting and comic elegy." Marcel Theroux "Pavlov is revered by some as a philosophical genius whose books capture the essence of Russia and dismissed by others as a drunken grumbler . . . The Matiushin Case is a timeless quest for existential meaning and deals with the horror of Russian history through the microcosm of an individual's journey into hell." Phoebe Taplin, The Guardian About the AuthorOleg Pavlov: Oleg Pavlov is one of the most highly-regarded Russian writers today. He has won the Russian Booker Prize (2002) and Solzhenitsyn Prize (2012) among many other awards. Born in Moscow in 1970, Pavlov spent his military service as a prison guard in Kazakhstan. Many of the incidents portrayed in his fiction were inspired by his experiences there: he recalls how he found himself reading about Karabas, the very camp he had worked at, in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago , became Solzhenitsyn’s secretary and was inspired to continue the great writer’s work. Pavlov’s writing is firmly in the tradition of great Russian novelists such as Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn. He was only 24 years old when his first novel, Captain of the Steppe , was published, receiving praise not only from critics but from the jury of the Russian Booker Prize, which shortlisted the novel for the 1995 award. Pavlov went on to win the Prize in 2002 with his next book, The Matiushin Case (English translation published in 2014 by And Other Stories). The Matiushin Case was the second novel in what would become the thematic trilogy set in the last days of the Soviet empire: Tales from the Last Days. All three works in the trilogy are stand-alone novels. The third book, Requiem for a Soldier , was published by And Other Stories in 2015.
Anna Gunin has translated I am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev and The Sky Wept Fire by Mikail Eldin. Her translations of Pavel Bazhov’s folk tales appear in Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov (Penguin Classics), shortlisted for the 2014 Rossica Prize. She has also translated poetry, plays and film scripts by Denis Osokin and Yuri Arabov. Views: 276
From Vampires in America...For the first time together in one collection...Betrayed, Hunted, and Unforgiven, The Cyn & Raphael NovellasThese novellas can stand alone or be enjoyed as part of the series.Betrayed: Vampires in America 5.5Love. Loyalty. Betrayal.Love...the ache in your heart when you meet The One. It can take you to soaring heights; it can leave you bleeding in the wreckage.Loyalty...the thing which binds a Vampire Lord to his children for eternity...unless it spoils from within, birthing hatred.Betrayal...it comes in many forms and from many sources.War has come to the North American vampires, and Vampire Lords are reaching across territorial lines to strengthen allies and weaken enemies. The most powerful Lord of them all, Raphael, could change the course of the war and determine who raises the final banner of victory. But at what price? And will his mate, Cyn, be the one to pay it?Hunted: Vampires in America... Views: 276
Rookie pilot Hank needs to impress new infantry officer Aurora in order to take her to the graduation dance. She craves adventure, and he'll have to do more than sneak out with a hovercraft to impress her. A duel in the cramped quarters of a small aircraft may not be enough for Aurora, and Hank might have to go beyond his danger limits to get his beautiful passenger to accept the date.Rookie pilot Hank needs to impress new infantry officer Aurora in order to take her to the graduation dance. She craves adventure, and he'll have to do more than sneak out with a hovercraft to impress her. A duel in the cramped quarters of a small aircraft may not be enough for Aurora, and Hank might have to go beyond his danger limits to get his beautiful passenger to accept the date.This is a stand-alone short story set within the Skylost series. It tells a tale that enriches the Skylost storyline. Views: 276
The Heartbreak Diary is a collection of deep poems that discusses culturally and versifies the complex emotional feeling that is called heartbreak. Its verses are arranged in three main styles, rhythmic quartets/quatrains, iambic sonnets and a few long verses that culminate in an ode sung to African literary juggernaut, Chinua Achebe.The Heartbreak Diary is a collection of deep poems that discusses culturally and versifies the complex emotional feeling that is called heartbreak. Its verses are arranged in three main styles, rhythmic quartets/quatrains, iambic sonnets and a few long verses that culminate in an ode sung to African literary juggernaut, Chinua Achebe. The theme of the poems range from a nationalist’s broken patriotism through exuberant teenage flings to somber vituperations of death, like Love is strong as death.It’s a work that subtly draws on its reader and reminds one of a young Wole Soyinka’s Idanre. Views: 276
Winner: 2017 Independent Press Award for Women's Fiction "Original, exceptional, impressive, and an absorbing read from beginning to end" —Midwest Book Review "From her afterlife a newly dead mother watches her restless wandering daughter arriving, late as usual, at the cemetery. Skeptic, forgiving, loving, the mother tells us the girl's story, about her wanderings and the whole family from which she wandered. This is an astonishing narrative feat—a self-portrait through the eyes of the Other, the Mother. Through her unforgettable debut novel, Roether sustains a luminous and compassionate embrace of how we fail, and fail each other, and life still goes richly on." — Robert Kelly Rose Healy of Blanchardville, Ohio, child bootlegger, WWII veteran, devoted reader of Tolstoy, and heroic mother of ten, had the nerve to die before her youngest daughter could get home. Which, as Rose would say, was her own damn fault. Yet, when... Views: 276
It's Mark's birthday, and he has a secret to tell his mother. But will the world as he knows it end before he can do it? Did it end years ago? Or did it ever exist?Mark: What if we're already dead?Cody: I think we would have noticed by now.Sometimes I dream that I'm in a dark room, and it's like nothing's there in the dark at all. There's no sky, no stars, no grass or carpet or anything else. I think, therefore I am. I think, therefore I am, damn it. I'm in a void, and all my words are silent.The world is silence, and nothing makes sense. My blood is 90 proof. I could bottle it and sell it if there were still liquor stores or grocery stores or even a gas station shining in the dark, flickering lights buzzing cold and florescent over a parked car. And then I'm there, I'm there, and it's so bright it hurts. The cooler's got shelves and shelves of 90 proof boy blood, and there's a car at the end of the row of gas pumps with the horn blaring, echoing into the night. The trunk is crumpled up into the back, and the front bumper is buried in the pole by the pump.Go look, I tell myself. I dream in the present tense, because I live in the past. I don't ever look in the car, though, because I already know what's going on. Views: 275
Everybody at the Women's Institute in the village of Upper Bottom is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a very special guest speaker: the world famous evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins. But with a blizzard setting in, their visitor finds himself trapped in the nearby town of Market Horten, with no choice but to take lodgings with the local Anglican vicar. Will the professor be able to abide by his motto - cordiality always - while surrounded by Christians? Will he ever reach Upper Bottom? And can his assistant, Smee, save the day? Views: 275
