Francis is touring with his band, missing Martine and writing songs about her. Meanwhile, Martine has discovered potentially damaging information about a local politician she dislikes. But making the information public could hurt a friendship. This prequel to "The Toe Incident" has Martine figuring out the importance of friendship, even if she hasn't quite grasped how much Francis cares for her.Imagine living with a bug that clings to the back of your skull. Only you can feel it. Is it really there? Are you insane? Join Blake on his journey in search of this very truth. Read 'BUG' and decide for yourself. A weird short story by James Pollard. Views: 651
Four of these stories are set on the shimmering desert fringes of Albert Camus' native Algeria. All of them first appeared in 1957, the year when he became the youngest French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Views: 651
Blues flames licked the air surrounding the boy's motionless body. His eyes opened. The blue flames burst forth with newfound vigor. He was alive. This is his story.Little Boy Blue,Come light your flame,Children won’t play,The parents to blame.Blues flames licked the air surrounding the motionless boy. His eyes opened. The blue flames burst forth with newfound vigor. He was alive. This is his story. Views: 651
Get ready to fight!It's Battle Month for the thirteen ancient ninja clans. A tournament where students represent their skill must prove themselves and their skills in the Ninjutsu Art. What happens when six new students have to compete and represent their own clan? Will the team known as Sector 7 be able to perform, or will the nerves of competition get the better of them?Get ready to fight, Sector 7!It's Battle Month for the thirteen shinobi clans spread across Shaaku Den. A tournament where students represent their skill must prove themselves and their skills in the Ninjutsu Art.The Kitsune Clan enters into the tournament, led by the second-in-command Akira Miyamoto, who grudgingly brings along Sector 7. Not only is Sector 7 one person short of a complete team, but five out of the six members are new students and ranked as fresh meat.Can the members of Sector 7 survive the tournament? Or will the nerves of competition and other shortcomings keep them from victory? Views: 651
Darsey Ice never thought her first trip past Jupiter would claim the lives of her crew. But then she hadn't expected to become the first person to make contact with aliens either.Kidnapped, enslaved, and lost on the Outer Rim of a mighty civilization light-years from Earth, the only person she can turn to is her enigmatic new owner. A dishonored outcast, he is just as alone as Darsey. Exiled by his people and struggling to survive, the last thing he wants is a rebellious primitive as a slave. She complicates his efforts to hide a dangerous secret and complete a quest that is likely to claim both their lives. They will only survive if they can find enough trust to forge an unwanted alliance.A science-fiction love story of alien romance, between a leading lady who packs a punch and her charismatic owner with a secret quest.The Iron Altar is waiting for blood. Will it be Darsey's? Views: 651
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was once his father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale that recalls early Marguerite Duras. Kitchen and its companion story, "Moonlight Shadow," are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul. Views: 651
Fifteen-year-old Dawn Rochelle has survived cancer not once, but twice. No one knows the battle better than she does. That's why Dawn agrees to be a camp couselor for young kids with cancer--the same camp she and her best friend Sandy had attended. Now Sandy is gone. Can Dawn handle the memories? How can she help the kids if she is still hurting so much? Views: 651
** Outer Dark** is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.
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Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. Views: 651
A portrait of a Muslim family—from the heady days in Uganda to hard times in a new country, and the tragic accident that forces them to confront the ghosts of the past"Anar Ali's Night of Power is a searing and beautiful novel. With perfect pitch, the story glides between the perspectives of father, mother, and son. It is an honest and utterly engaging meditation about love and loss, tenderness and violence, adaptability and delusion, dislocation and rebirth." —Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and The IllegalIt's 1998. And Mansoor Visram has lived in Canada for 25 years, ever since dictator Idi Amin expelled South Asians from Uganda. As a refugee with a wife and child, Mansoor has tried his best to recreate the life they once had, but starting over in Canada has been much harder than he expected. He's worked as a used car salesman, as a gas station attendant, and now he... Views: 651
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.
“A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” —Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review
“Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time
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