Ripped from the headlines of today's news, "Are You Positive?" is a fictitious courtroom drama in the style of John Grisham. 26-year-old Tyree Johnson stands accused of first degree murder in Greenville, South Carolina. But his murder weapon is not a gun or a knife; it's HIV. “Everyone diagnosed HIV-Positive absolutely must read this book. The rest of us should too.” - Dr. Goddard, CO.Chauvinistic Adam Hodson, has the experience to remember when his new rented house catches fire and he is moved into a house of liberal, female nudists. As he struggles fully adapt, it is not just Adam who has to learn, as the girls have to adjust to his own foibles, weaknesses, and those of his violent, racist friend.Join Sarah, the sharp-witted primary school teacher, Tabitha, the pregnant girl and Natalie, the assertive Operations Manager as they get a conservative Adam to embrace their lifestyle while hiding secrets from others. The book is divided into around 75 small scenes to make it ideal for short journeys or where the reader is likely to be interrupted. This is a romantic story although it does contain some mature language and discretion is advised. Views: 823
Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who became the best-known black abolitionist orator and autobiographer, and Herman Melville (1819-1891), a fiction writer recognized for the elusiveness of his meanings, both composed stories about slave revolts at sea. In the decade just before the Civil War, during years of increasingly angry debate about slavery, Douglass in -The Heroic Slave- (1853) and Melville in -Benito Cereno- (1855) fictionalized important slave insurrections.
Of the mutiny on the Creole, on which Douglass's story is based, the editors recount what can be recovered about the slave Madison Washington, who led the revolt, and reconstruct the events before and after the uprising. The editors warn the readers that the official documents about the case are all biased against the mutineers, who were never allowed to tell their story to American officials. Addressing largely white readers in the North, Douglass, to the contrary, speaks clearly as an abolitionist: Slaves wanted their freedom and were justified in using violence to gain it.
-Benito Cereno- is based on Captain Amasa Delano's chapter in his Narrative of Voyages and Travels... (1817) about a slave mutiny off the coast of South America. Writing in part for a northern readership, Melville tells of a mutiny that, unlike Madison Washington's, was suppressed. Delano's account shows no sympathy for the slaves. Melville's view is hidden in ambiguities. -Benito Cereno- is one of Melville's stories most often collected in anthologies; Douglas's -The Heroic Slave- is rarely reprinted. Views: 818
Onward and Upward - the continuing adventures of our ‘reluctant billionaire’. He loses the new love of his life, only to replace her with a Hawker Hunter or 2, or 3, …,(a fair swop I think). He takes on Drug Barons and the paparazzi, and goes back in time – in the desert, before blowing a fuse. Just a few of his adventures as he moves onward and upward.After tragically losing his wife, and becoming the twelfth richest person on the planet at the same time, in the first book in the Andrew Michaels trilogy – 'Road to Recovery' – Andrew continues 'Onward and Upwards' as he loses the new love of his life, only to replace her with a Hawker Hunter (the most beautiful jet aircraft ever to take to the sky’s) or two, or three, …. Along the way he takes on drug smugglers, the paparazzi, and Farnborough Airshow as he starts to flex his new found financial muscle, but why is the President of the United States ringing him up?, and where did the twins come from? To find the answer to where the twins went, then follow his adventures in the third in the series – 'Above and Beyond', and it wasn’t on board a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Views: 806
Carmela Matthews is bound for college as a pre-med student. She decides to spend her summer vacation with her grandmother in the country. One night, a boy she's attracted to invites her to a party. What happens next will change the course of her life forever. Based on a true story.Carmela Matthews is bound for college as a pre-med student. She decides to spend her summer vacation with her grandmother in the country. One night, a boy she's attracted to invites her to a party. What happens next will change the course of her life forever. A cautionary tale that will stay with you always. Based on a true story. Views: 803
This story in the "Wessex Tales" collection—"Julia" (Story 11)—is sequel to "The Face in the Floor" (Story 10). It was Julia’s parents who commissioned their villa's magnificent mosaic floor in the previous tale; as a child, she watched the master-mosaicist lay it. As "Julia" begins, Julia is a young woman angry at life, angrier at expectations, and resisting marriage. (circa 335 CE)Another gem from the Japanese maestro of storytelling Kenji Miyazawa. Gauche plays the cello in the town orchestra, but he needs to do a lot better if he wants to keep his place. He realizes he is going to have to practice every spare moment if he is going to improve in time for the big concert. But will that be enough? Just when he is getting into his rhythm a visitor drops in - and then another. This beautiful short story (around 5,000 words) by Kenji Miyazawa explores themes of passion and music. Is there music in nature? Can there be music if there is no passion? Views: 802
Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 801
Robert Lucas is a up and coming poet new to the scene, but wow do his words speak truth! In this compilation Robert Lucas takes on many themes of the human experience including love, death and perseverance.Robert Lucas is a up and coming poet new to the scene, but wow do his words speak truth! In this compilation Robert Lucas takes on many themes of the human experience including love, death and perseverance. Buy now to see more from him in the future! Views: 791
How badly can a simple night at the movies go? When you're freelance monster hunter Eric Margrave and his ghostly partner Lydia, well, the simplest night out can end up being downright magical. And no, that isn't a good thing.Eric Margrave, monster hunter-for-hire, and his spectral partner Lydia have faced down ghosts, zombies, dark gods, and evil sorcerors together. But there is a thing more terrifying than all of these evil beasts combined: a broken television.Eric and Lydia are in need of a break. And when Lydia's beloved TV dies an early death, Eric offers her a night at the movies to help them both unwind. But this wouldn't be Eric's life without something going horribly wrong, and the movie theater is not the relaxing night they went out in search of.It's going to be a magical night for our heroes. Views: 787
In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history. Bamonte began to probe what had every appearance of widespread police crime and a massive cover-up whose highlight was the unsolved murder of Town Marshall George Conff. The fact that many of those involved, now in their 80s and 90s, were still alive made it imperative that Bamonte unravel this mystery. The result is Breaking Blue, a white-knuckle ride through institutional corruption and cover-up that vividly documents Depression-era Spokane and an extraordinary case that few believed would ever be brought to light. Views: 785
After a miserable high school experience, Jack has stopped evolving as a contributing member of society. Meanwhile, his career driven brother, Tim, has become about as exciting as an old hot dog. The story unfolds around these two brothers' pursuit of a misplaced family heirloom, resulting in an unusual tale of redemption, sibling rivalry, and lesbian coleslaw wrestling.Panegyric is a word coming to the meaning of something more than Eulogy but PANEGYRYIC is not a word. It is derived from the Islamic pious mocking statement of the Pushkin's beloved city-Erzurum cursing-even swearing-The Fate created by The Creator/Nature the MOM and looking forward the time The Messiah who shall carry to the Mankind alongside with all the creatures. Erzurum as being one of the key cities "The Silk Way" between the Asia and the Europe had a lot of flares left over from the history of living creatures! Views: 784
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and how it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten. Views: 784
Larvik is a sorcerer's apprentice with a problem: his former master has cursed him with a rotting disease and set him begging in the squalid streets of the capital. But a chance encounter with the queen's favorite spy has presented the beggar with a choice. Will he grasp redemption? Or will he settle for revenge?Larvik is a sorcerer's apprentice with a problem: his former master has cursed him with a rotting disease and set him begging in the squalid streets of the capital. But a chance encounter with the queen's favorite spy has presented the beggar with a choice. Will he grasp redemption? Or will he settle for revenge?"Beggar's Choice" is a short story set in the world of the Little Kingdoms. It is said that here women pay for magic with their bodies, but men pay for it with their souls. And while every power has a cost, there are always those who will pay, no matter the price. Views: 783
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. Views: 773
The earliest known mosaic floor to depict Christ was laid in a remote Roman villa in Dorset around 325 CE. (Discovered under meadow grass in 1963 it was moved to the British Museum.) The larger end of this mosaic measures 17 feet by 15, the smaller end, 16½ feet by 8. Why lay this magnificent floor in rustic Dorset? “The Face in the Floor" gives the origins of this floor an imaginative history.When his ship is damaged after being caught in a crossfire, Billy is left to drift across the blackness of space. His calls for help are finally answered, but by the one thing he would rather not get help from.Disclaimer: Strong language. Views: 768
"It's funny when a dinosaur tackles the big questions"Meet Philosoraptor. Just your average everyday dinosaur trying to tackle today's unanswered questions on life, people and the cosmos. Philosoraptor is famous for his deep thinking and his insightful view as he ponders, "If a hipster became mainstream what would hipster be?""It's funny when a dinosaur tackles the big questions"Meet Philosoraptor. Just your average everyday dinosaur trying to tackle today's unanswered questions on life, people and the cosmos. Philosoraptor is famous for his deep thinking and his insightful view as he ponders, "If a hipster became mainstream what would hipster be?" or "If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the other swimmers drown too?". Being a philosopher may not be easy for him, but it's hilarious for us!So sit back and enjoy this premium collection of some of the funniest deep thinking you'll ever find in an eBook.Everyone loves a Quikee!Quikees are a new type of eBook designed to deliver maximum entertainment at the lowest possible price. Follow us on twitter @quikees or online at quikees.com to keep up with the news and new eBook releases as they happen. Everyone has time for a quikee! Views: 766
