Pirates + a frontier system + a rookie captain? Good times.Sydney Chambers is the Navy's brightest star until a superior's folly brings a court martial down on her career. Though found innocent, she's still tainted ... and though her Admiralty mentor salvages a captaincy for her, it comes with banishment to the farthest frontier system in the Confederacy. There she must face down two powerful bands of pirates armed only with a Navy ship recently salvaged from the scrap heap ... and only the vaguest idea of who her enemies are, or who her friends might be. Views: 31
Pocahontas, Tonto, Injun Joe, and other First Nations characters discover they are characters and attempt to rewrite their stereotyped roles.Dead White Writer on the Floor uses two literary conventions – theatre of the absurd and mystery novels – to create one of the funniest and most thought-provoking plays ever about identity politics.Cast of 5 men and 1 woman. Views: 31
An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by the author of the contemporary classic Edie Jean Stein influenced the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol "superstar" Edie Sedgwick that was edited with George Plimpton. Now, in West of Eden, Stein turns her lens toward the city Sedgwick came from--Los Angeles--and a mythic cast of fortune hunters and aspiring moguls whose quests for fame and power destroy many along the way. West of Eden, a work of history both grand in scale and intimate in detail, tells the stories of five larger-than-life individuals and their families, each one representing different aspects of Los Angeles and the American dream. There is Edward Doheny, the Wisconsin-born oil tycoon whose corruption ruins the reputation of a United States president and leads to his own son's violent death. Jack Warner, the son of Jewish... Views: 31
25 Authors. One SEXY Police Station. All for Charity.Spend your holidays with the brave men and women of Precinct 69 protecting citizens and stealing hearts in the Big Apple. Twenty-five authors have joined forces to bring you their stories--some sweet, some dangerously hot--but all for a great cause. These NYC police officers will keep you warm on a winter's night, make you sweat in the most delicious way possible, and have you wishing for your very own set of cuffs. Only further begging the question: Can anyone resist a hero in uniform? Multiple authors have come together to give you one police station where all proceeds from this collaboration go to families of fallen officers. Contributing Authors:Alexis AlvarezJosie BordeauxRebecca BrookeEmme BurtonM.C. CernySarah M. CraditChelle C. CrazeJami DeniseLisa EdwardMary Catherine GebhardZB HellerVanessa MarieGlenna MaynardKristen Hope MazzolaMorgan Jane MitchellJenni MoenAlexis NoelleRochelle PaigeBrandy L RiversKatherine RhodesEmerson ShawKacey SheaM. StrattonMadison StreetFelicia Tatum Views: 31
Jack the Ripper gave her his heart. Now he wants it back.
The year is 1888, the clockwork British Empire is crumbling and young writer Ivy Savage has literally received a heart in the post. Terrified, her father sends her north to a strange sanitarium in Lancashire where the brilliant but unpredictable “Mad Lord of Lasingstoke” makes his home.
Here, Ivy finds the dead are as dangerous as the living and she is immediately swept into a world of manners, mystery, and supernatural intrigue, uncovering a secret that will lead both her and the Mad Lord back to London and the dark streets of Whitechapel. Views: 31
