Product DescriptionAdam Maxwell's first collection of short stories is inventive, funny, dark, and hugely entertaining. The twenty stories included here range from a bizarre quest to find a dead rockstar's limb (Jim Morrison's Leg) to a memorable warning about the hidden dangers of building sites (the acclaimed Shooting Jelly With A Shotgun). Effortlessly fusing pop culture, gunplay, and simians, Dial M For Monkey contains a vibrant mixture of short stories - and short-short stories - most never published before. This unmissable collection represents another shot in the arm for the resurgent form of the short story. As featured in Tonto Short Stories and Dave Eggers' McSweeney's. About the AuthorAdam Maxwell was born in 1976 and has written for a plethora of publications, including Dave Eggers' McSweeney's, and Tonto Short Stories. According to his wife, he has an 'unhealthy obsession' with Bob Dylan and the Beatles, and manages to be 'increasingly worrying' in a number of other areas. He has a Masters Degree in Crea-tive Writing from Northumbria University, and lives in the wilds of Northumberland. This is his first book. He has a website at www.adammaxwell.com. Views: 116
From the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material comes a sweet and scrumptious romantic comedy about facing your insecurities, finding love, and baking it off, no matter what people say. Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have left him a curdled, directionless mess. So when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation’s favourite baking show, Paris is sure he’ll be the first one sent home. But not only does he win week one’s challenge—he meets fellow contestant Tariq Hassan. Sure, he’s the competition, but he’s also cute and kind, with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have. Still, neither his growing romance with Tariq nor his own impressive bakes can keep Paris’s fear of failure from spoiling his happiness. And when the show’s vicious... Views: 116
The story of The Claire Wiche Chronicles begins...When Annie Sullivan steps into The Wiche’s Broom, all she wants is a crystal, and a distraction from her life.What she finds is Claire Wiche, owner, witch, and the distraction she never even dreamed of – an encounter with a ghost, and a request that throws them both into a murder mystery stretching back two hundred years.The Claire Wiche Chronicles:Prequel - More Than A FeelingBook 1 - Rest For The WickedBook 2 - A Gathering of AngelsBook 3 - Carry On Wayward SonBook 4 - Annie's SongBook 5 - What Doesn't Kill YouBox sets:The Claire Wiche Chronicles Volumes 1-3The Claire Wiche Chronicles Volumes 4-5 Views: 116
Book 3 of The Maggie Mulgrew Mysteries.It's Christmas in Holmestead, England ~ but all is not merry and bright.Maggie Mulgrew has resigned herself to spending Christmas alone, since her love, Pembroke Martin, is neck deep in an important dig.When he shows up, surprising her, she sees nothing but happiness headed her way.She couldn't be more wrong.After a holiday play, she stumbles over the body of one of the actors. The Ghost of Christmas Past has been stabbed in the back, with a holly branch.Now it's up to Maggie and Martin to discover what happened, before they are all trapped by a coming snowstorm ~ along with the killer.Maggie Mulgrew Mysteries:Book 1 - Ghost of a ChanceBook 2 - Written on the WindBook 3 - Spirit of the Season Views: 116
Wendy Darling has a perfectly agreeable life with her parents and brothers in wealthy London, as well as a budding romance with Booth, the neighborhood bookseller's son. But one night, while their parents are at a ball, the charmingly beautiful Peter Pan comes to the Darling children's nursery, and—dazzled by this flying boy with god-like powers—they follow him out of the window and straight on to morning into Neverland, an intoxicating island of freedom. As time passes in Neverland, Wendy realizes that this Lost Boy's paradise of turquoise seas, mermaids, and pirates holds terrible secrets rooted in blood and greed. As Peter's grasp on her heart tightens, she struggles to remember where she came from—and begins to suspect that this island of dreams, and the boy who desires her, have the potential to transform into an everlasting nightmare. Views: 116
Colleen Oakes's twisted reimagining of the Queen of Hearts origin story comes to a thrilling conclusion in War of the Cards.Dinah has lost everyone she ever loved. Her brother was brutally murdered. The wicked man she believed was her father betrayed her. Her loyal subjects have been devastated by war. And the boy she gave her heart to broke it completely.Now a dark queen has risen out of the ashes of her former life. Fury is blooming inside Dinah, poisoning her soul and twisting her mind. All she has left is Wonderland and her crown, and her obsession to fight for both. But the war rages on and Dinah could inherit a blood-stained throne. Can a leader filled with love and rage ever be the ruler her kingdom needs? Or will her all-consuming wrath bring Wonderland to its knees?This is not a story of happily ever after.This is the story of the Queen of Hearts. Views: 116
Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other women in her family, is a Waker Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn't want that to be her future.However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. Views: 116
Chalmys has the power to do nearly anything—except set himself free. After a simple dinner with a god went very, very wrong, fae mage Chalmys was cursed to remain locked in his tiny realm. Until, that is, he could find someone to tell his story. All of his story. There are only two problems: Revealing the truth of his birth will put his mother at grave risk, and he has to send his story through dreams. Chalmys thought the second would be the easiest to overcome, but after centuries of tangled tales gone wrong, he has nearly given up hope. Until the night he connects with Holly. Now he has to convince her to risk everything to set him free. If only a certain god doesn't interfere... Previously published in Realm of Darkness. Views: 116
Sixteen-year-old Kayla was born with the ability to move things with her mind—things like credit cards and buttons on cash registers—and she has become a master shoplifter. She steals to build up enough money for her and her mom to be able to flee if her dad finds them again...which would mean grave danger for them both.When she's caught stealing by a boy named Daniel—a boy with the ability to teleport—he needs her help and is willing to blackmail her to get it. Together, they embark on a quest to find and steal an ancient incantation, written on three indestructible stones and hidden millennia ago, all to rescue Daniel's kidnapped mother. But Kayla has no idea that this rescue mission will lead back to her own family—and to betrayals that she may not be able to forgive...or survive. Views: 116
