"Solstad doesn't write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, that's my idea...the drama exists in his voice" (Lydia Davis) T Singer begins with thirty-four-year-old Singer graduating from library school and traveling by train from Oslo to the small town of Notodden, located in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway. There he plans to begin a deliberately anonymous life as a librarian. But Singer unexpectedly falls in love with the ceramicist Merete Saethre, who has a young daughter from a previous relationship. After a few years together, the couple is on the verge of separating, when a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singer's life.The narrator of the novel specifically states that this is not a happy story, yet, as in all of Dag Solstad's works, the prose is marked by an unforgettable combination of humor and darkness. Overall, T Singer marks a departure more explicitly existential than any of Solstad's previous works. Views: 318
Combining the gritty surrealism of David Lynch with the explosive interior meditations of Clarice Lispector, the stories in Elvira Navarro's Rabbit Island traverse the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called "non-inventor" conducts an experiment on an island inhabited exclusively by birds and is horrified by what the results portend. "Myotragus" bears witness to a man of privilege's understanding of the world being violently disrupted by the sight of a creature long thought extinct. Elsewhere, an unsightly "paw" grows from a writer's earlobe; an obese grandmother floats silently in the corner of a room. These eleven stories from one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists" are psychogeographies of dingy hotel rooms, shape-shifting cities, and graveyards. They act as microscopes fixed upon the regions of our interior lives we often neglect, where the death of God and the failures of institutions have... Views: 318
Book three in the Dirty Wild trilogy that began with Wild Rebel. Views: 318
What do you get if you mix together two best friends, a witch's curse and a haunted house? A spell-binding mystery from acclaimed performer and bestselling author Carrie Hope Fletcher - star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella.They say children who are born on Friday 13th are immune to evil spirits. Whilst Ivy and Maggie liked to believe that was true, it didn't stop them checking for monsters under their bed each and every night. Ivy and Maggie have been best friends ever since they were born at exactly the same minute twelve years earlier. They're always on the look-out for a new adventure but unfortunately Crowood Peak is officially the most boring town in the world. Or at least it was until children start to mysteriously disappear and, even stranger, none of the grown-ups seem to have noticed . . . It's up to the Double Trouble Society to work out what's going on. All the evidence points to the old mansion next door with strange green... Views: 318
Short stories from a married couple who are veteran published novelists, some fiction, some non-fiction, some...well, you decide.From Delphi, Greece, to Colorado, to Roseburg, Oregon, to the terrors of Homeowners Associations, and the Post-World War II American shortage of lumber to build the houses for returning veterans, these short stories offer random readings on random subjects, to be read randomly. Views: 318
Berta Mast has died. Lindy is devastated, as are Berta’s twin sons. Now, Lindy has no reason to remain at the Mast farm. Her duties as Berta’s caregiver are over. But Lindy’s heart remains—fixed to very core of the Mast place. She has fallen in love with the wrong twin—her sister’s beau.Lindy’s sister Rachel is suspicious. Things aren’t going well between her and Robert. Is his heart elsewhere?Accusations fly and in the midst of her grief, Lindy struggles to do the right thing. She refuses to betray her sister even if it means giving up her true love. Even if it means denying her feelings and living a life without ever telling Robert how she really feels… Views: 318
When wealthy housewives are found dead in their own backyards, victims of a serial killer dubbed the "backyard killer," Jessie must solve the case in the face of tremendous media pressure and a ticking clock. What secrets lie behind these hedges? And what do these victims have in common? THE PERFECT RUSE is book #25 in a new psychological suspense series by bestselling author Blake Pierce, which begins with The Perfect Wife, a #1 bestseller (and free download) with over 5,000 five-star ratings and 1,000 five-star reviews. Jessie is baffled at these crime scenes, so isolated, with seemingly no way the killer could have known these women were there.Yet something, she knows, must be connecting them.Behind their troubled marriages and phony friendships, a killer is lurking.But can Jessie uncover him before the next victim dies?A fast-paced psychological suspense thriller with unforgettable characters and heart-pounding suspense, the JESSIE HUNT series is a riveting new series that... Views: 318
The Elmo Jenkins Trilogy includes all three full length Elmo Jenkins novels: Ordained Irreverence, Some Things Never Change, and The Old Man and the Tea.You get over 600 pages of hilarious anecdotes, touching stories, and spiritual insights all woven into the day-to-day life of young minister, Elmo Jenkins.The cast of characters filling the pews at First Church keep Elmo Jenkins on his toes and more than a little bewildered at times. The salty widow who serves up a homemade pie with a surprise ingredient. The quirky single adult with a heart as big as Elvis who deems himself quite the ladies man. The larger-than-life music minister who pulls more than a few punches along the way, and even an old church janitor with a few ancient secrets of his own.McMillian's Moody fast-paced novels will bring a smile to even the most backslidden amongst its readers. - OBT Bookz Views: 318
Elmo Jenkins 4-5-6 includes books four, five, and six of the Elmo Jenkins series.Book Four - A Tale of Two ElmosBook Five - A Time 4 FriendsBook Six - Hearts on FireYou get over 500 pages of hilarious anecdotes, touching stories, and spiritual insights all woven into the day-to-day life of young minister, Elmo Jenkins. Views: 318
Philip Steele\'s pencil drove steadily over the paper, as if the mere writing of a letter he might never mail in some way lessened the loneliness. The wind is blowing a furious gale outside. From off the lake come volleys of sleet, like shot from guns, and all the wild demons of this black night in the wilderness seem bent on tearing apart the huge end-locked logs that form my cabin home. In truth, it is a terrible night to be afar from human companionship, with naught but this roaring desolation about and the air above filled with screeching terrors. Even through thick log walls I can hear the surf roaring among the rocks and beating the white driftwood like a thousand battering-rams, almost at my door. It is a night to make one shiver, and in the lulls of the storm the tall pines above me whistle and wail mournfully as they straighten their twisted heads after the blasts. Views: 318
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Views: 318
The Fortunes of Nigel By Walter Scott Views: 318
