The poems in Dobby Gibson's new book transform the everyday into the revelatoryLittle Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic, allusive, and collaged, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers, as family, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcasts to foreshorten the perceived distances between us, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. "This is my love letter to the world," Gibson writes, "someone call us a sitter. / We're going to be here a while."Elegiac, funny, and candid, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us... Views: 550
What would you do if the boyfriend you totally made up to get your sister off your back showed up at your place of employment?Free-spirited Stella Stone has always been the wild child in her family, but even she is surprised at the amount of trouble she's found herself in this time.Christopher Lockwood was a random name she chose from the internet. How was she supposed to know he would end taking a temporary position in the veterinary office she manages? Now she somehow has to keep the uptight, tie-wearing, self-contained Christopher from figuring out that the whole town thinks they are dating, and somehow also keep the whole town from figuring out she's a pathetic liar with a fake boyfriend.Oh, and it doesn't help that he's a major hottie under those Clark Kent glasses and stern demeanor. In fact, something about his need for control brings out Stella's inner brat, especially when he decides she needs a little discipline.Too bad there's no such thing as a secret in Brazen Bay. Not for very long.Author's Confession: This is the most opposite-y opposites attract book ever with added fake relationship crack. Stella is a fan favorite and Christopher is the Alpha Nerd Hero you didn't know you needed in your life. You are going to love the surprisingly dirty dude under the restrained and inhibited mask he shows the world. I mean unf, am I right? He's the only one who could keep up with our deliciously nutty Stella and give her a worthy HEA. *Previously published but no longer available by Brill under a different pen name with expanded content and new characters. Views: 550
A SPECIAL EDITIONTo the Sin's Bastards MC Series and the Satan Spawns MC Series(A READERS REQUESTED NOVEL)Together we will stand… nothing will ever change that.WileyHere I was thinking because I was a man, I didn't need anyone to watch my back but she was there the night I was ambushed.She was my guardian angel that night and many nights to come. She moved in the shadows because she had secrets to keep.Secrets...I didn't know about until it was almost too late.She loved me enough to give me up and disappear to stop an open war from coming to Troy, but by then it was too late, I couldn't give her up.Let her enemies come for her, if and when they do, they won't find her alone, waiting for them. I would take a bullet for her but I would kill for her as well. She belongs to me now and nothing will ever come between us. PhoenixI came to him with ghosts... Views: 550
In Ellison Cooper's suspense thriller Buried, an FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial killer who's turned up the heat on a cold case...Senior Special Agent Sayer Altair studies the minds of psychopaths. But even she didn't expect to uncover a killer within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Rooting him out and exposing internal corruption got her a bullet wound and six months of desk duty. Now, she's finally back in the field, called in when an off-duty FBI agent and his cadaver dog fall into a sinkhole filled with human bones.Found deep in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park, the skeletal remains date back almost two decades, the same time a beloved local teen disappeared. The cold case quickly heats up when Sayer's team finds two fresh corpses among the bones. When a gruesome clue ties these new bodies to a woman recently kidnapped along with her young daughter, Sayer has to uncover the connection between the old bones and the new... Views: 550
Parade's "10 Books Written by Women We Can't Wait to Read in 2019" | She Reads' "Most Anticipated Thillers of Summer 2019" | Pure Wow's "The Best Beach Reads of Summer 2019" | CrimeReads' "The Most Anticipated Crime Books of Summer"From bestselling author Michele Campbell comes A Stranger on the Beach, an edge-of-your seat story of passion and intrigue that will keep you guessing until the very end. Caroline Stark's beach house was supposed to be her crowning achievement: a lavish, expensive space to showcase what she thought was her perfect family. But after a very public fight with her husband, she realizes things may not be as perfect as they seem: her husband is lying to her, the money is disappearing, and there's a stranger on the beach outside her house. As Caroline's marriage and her carefully constructed lifestyle begin to collapse around her, she turns to Aidan, the stranger, for... Views: 550
My name is Haven, and for as long as I can remember, I've had the ability to cause madness with just a simple touch. I've spent my entire life being fear by others and believing I was the only one of my kind. Turn out, I was wrong.After an incident with my powers, I'm sent away to Monster Academy for the Magical, a school where monsters with magical powers are trained.But even at an academy filled with monsters, I'm still feared. And some will do almost anything to get rid of me.Episode 1 in the Monster Academy for the Magical Series. Views: 550
