Intrigued by the unlikely invitation from a detective in Vienna to prove she murdered her lover, Harry Lindstrom finds himself in a strained alliance with a woman who seems to have stepped out of a painting by Klimt. His chaotic pursuit to unravel her story leads him home to Toronto, then back to Vienna, Salzburg, and salt mines near the ancient village of Hallstadtt, where stories from the past and present merge with horrific finality. Lindstrom's Progress is the second in a trilogy, between Lindstrom Alone and Lindstrom Unbound. Views: 21
The Woolworths girls have come a long way together . . .Fun loving Maisie, is devoted to her young family and her work at Woolworths. But her happy life with her RAF officer husband, their baby daughter leads her to think of the family she left behind . . . With the war now into its fourth year, what will she find when she sets about searching for them?Sarah and her husband, Alan, are blissfully happy and long for a sibling for their daughter. But dark days lay ahead for this close family.Freda heads home to Birmingham, to go in search of her family, back to the life she fled – far from the safety of Woolworths and her new friends.With families’ separated by war, will the Woolworths girls be able to pull together?Wartime at Woolworths is the third moving installment in the much-loved Woolworths series by bestselling author Elaine Everest. Views: 21
Nathaniel Moon is called The Reluctant Messiah by the media. He gained complete consciousness in the womb, and has powers and abilities that define the word "miraculous."And yet, he only wants to live his quiet life in Middle Falls, Oregon, as a hospital janitor, where he helps patients come to grip with their own mortality. When his goddaughter's very life is threatened by a bomb-wielding madman, Nathaniel has to step forward and show the world who he really is, giving up his anonymity forever.The Final Life of Nathaniel Moon is the fourth book in the Middle Falls Time Travel series. All books in the series can be read as complete and standalone novels. Views: 21
The data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink... or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thrillerWhen college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she's cut off from the neural implant community which binds the domed city of New Worth together. Her new masters exploit her rare condition which allows her to carry encoded data in her blood, and train her to transport secrets throughout the troubled city. New Worth is on the brink of Emergence - freedom from the dome - but not everyone wants to leave. Then a data drop goes bad, and Emery is caught between factions: those who want her blood, and those who just want her dead.File Under: Science Fiction [ Blood's the Thing | Under the Dome | Going Viral | Mega City Bytes ] Views: 21
The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial — and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. On March 15, 1348, twenty-two-year-old Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for the murder of her husband before the Pope and his court in Avignon. Determined to defend herself, Joanna won her acquittal against overwhelming odds. Victorious, she returned to Naples and ruled over one of Europe's most prestigious courts for the next three decades — until she herself was killed.Courageous and determined, Joanna was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own name. She was widely admired: dedicated to the welfare of her subjects, she reduced crime, built hospitals and churches, and encouraged the licensing of female physicians. A procession of the most important artists and writers of the time frequented her glittering court. But she never quite escaped the stain of her husband's death, and the turmoil of the... Views: 21
Mikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, who is anything but a model Soviet author: not only is he still attached to the era of the old regime, he is also, quite simply, not a very good writer. Shaped by Zoshchenko's masterful hands—he takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces—Kolenkorov's prose is beautifully mangled, full of stylistic infelicities, overloaded flights of metaphor, tortured cliché, and misused bureaucratese, in the tradition of Gogol.Yet beneath Kolenkorov's intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They tell tales of unrequited love and amorous misadventures among down-on-their-luck musicians, provincial damsels, aspiring poets, and liberal aristocrats hopelessly out of place in the new Russia, against a backdrop of...
Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894–1958) was a leading Soviet satirist. His stories of the 1920s made him enormously popular with readers. In 1946 he was expelled from the Soviet Writers’ Union. He never recovered from this trauma and died of heart failure in 1958. Boris Dralyuk is the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (2016) and coeditor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015). Views: 21
No turning back. No way out. The Onyx Gate awaits …
Blaze Ramirez and the crew of the Lizzie Borden have never been closer to finding the location of the Onyx Gate and saving the universe. Only one problem: Blaze’s foster father is the only one who knows the location, and being the low-down dirty drunk he is, he doesn’t want to tell them squat.
To make matters worse, other ghosts from Blaze’s Astral Corps days have come calling, along with Nauzea—the archduchess of torture. This time, there’s no turning back, there’s no way out, and in the depths of an ocean of diabolical ectoplasm, Blaze will finally understand the true nature of the demons he’s spent his life destroying.
The endgame has come … The question is, what will Blaze have to sacrifice for total victory over the horrors of the Onyx Gate? Views: 21
