Nineteen-year-old Jake Margate has had terminal leukemia for five years and is ready to let go but his mother has other ideas. She's found a rogue doctor pursuing radical treatments and takes her son to a remote institute where he does seem to get better...at first. But then the treatment begins to fail in strange ways just as Jake begins to fall for another of the test subjects. Slowly, he realizes he's been turned into something truly horrible. Two-timeLambda Literary Award-winning author Thornton has written a contemporary queer twist on the Frankenstein monster story."With a deft touch, Thornton takes his dark premise—a dying boy whose mother will do anything capable of offering a shred of hope—and spins a coming-of-age story suffused with chilling darkness. Jake's voice as a boy confronted with a dire illness, facing down a potential love that may come at too high a cost, charms with genuine notes that don't fade even as the story twists... Views: 689
Lieutenants Neil Harrison and Anna Drummond shared tragedy four years earlier during a special mission in Iraq, and despite their connection at the time, they both took their previous commitments seriously. Injured later in Iraq, Neil eventually returned to active duty in pararescue with a prosthetic leg, while former sniper Anna regained her weaponry skills after losing an arm. Now intent on retraining wounded warriors for active duty while working together as future instructors in a new program in Crystal Rock, Wisconsin, they realize the spark is still there. Their personal situations have changed, and both Neil and Anna are single. And they seem to have a lot in common; most particularly their love of music.But it's a few weeks before Luke Bryant and Kelly Callahan's wedding (Two Hearts Surrendered), when Anna and Neil find themselves assisting Sarah Benton's best friend Claire, who's certain her ex is trying to kill her. With Claire's life endangered, Neil and Anna make use of their skills to keep her safe.Neil and Anna have both been burned in the past, so they're in accord deciding on a no strings relationship. But will they finally admit that it's love?Despite their serious subject matter, the Two Hearts Wounded Warrior stories are all about hope, with happily-ever-after endings. This #1 bestselling series has won ten combined awards since the release of Two Hearts Surrendered, Book 1 in the series, including the Readers' Favorite Silver Medal in Military Fiction. Views: 689
Gambler's RunGambler I have it all, a great job, a good woman and wonderful son, all of whom I love very much.Then my son hears something that breaks his heart and he runs to the one person he loves more than me… his Cricket.My world falls apart and I'm torn, don't know which way to turn because he won't talk to me.My job and woman are next and I'm lost as to the reason why.I need to make this right but how do I do that when I don't know what made it so wrong in the first place?PaigeI have a man who sets my soul on fire and a boy I'm falling more and more in love with every day.These two men are my world and I wouldn't have it any other way.Then a ghost comes out of the shadows from my past.My past and Crickets'. He threatens the both of us.Can the man I love protect us? Me, Cricket and his son? Or is that too much to ask the fates watching over us? Views: 689
When the neighbours next door adopt three children in desperate need, the ladies of Harmony House embrace the sudden chaos with joy.But in this fourth instalment of the Home Sweet Home series, tragedy and loss are central as well. Light and shadow pass between the Ridley home and Harmony House. Joy becomes more important than ever to get the women through life's challenges. Views: 689
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, a paralyzed veteran's wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive, until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. An instant classic of post-Soviet Russian literature, Olga Slavnikova's The Man Who Couldn't Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life—and the means and meaning of their own lives—by creating a world that doesn't change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.After her stepfather's stroke, Marina hangs Brezhnev's portrait on the wall, edits the Pravda articles read to him, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile, her mother, Nina Alexandrovna, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets...
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life—and the means and meaning of their own lives—by creating a world that doesn’t change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled. After her stepfather’s stroke, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall, edits the Pravda articles read to him, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile, her mother, Nina Alexandrovna, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well—to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions.
Olga Slavnikova was born in 1957 in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg). She is the author of several award-winning novels, including 2017, which won the 2006 Russian Booker prize and was translated into English by Marian Schwartz (2010), and Long Jump, which won the 2018 Yasnaya Polyana Award. Marian Schwartz translates Russian contemporary and classic fiction, including Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and is the principal translator of Nina Berberova. Views: 689
The corpse of a woman is found in a tunnel next to the cliff of Pireia with a bullet in her stomach, wearing a necklace of precious stones and with a lot of money on her, Detective Lowe has just been assigned to the city of Pireia and still does not know what he is up against. Among the many suspects, the owner of the most frequented tavern in the port attracts his attention. The elegant businesswoman seems to know more than she seems. Who is Shara Marst? is the first part of the series of black novel Archives of Pireia. Views: 689
