Joe B. enjoys the sweet life as a vice president at a huge conglomerate, Universal Whirligig. But along with the Big Boss' favor, he has also gained the notice of a bitter human resources manager, Luci Fernandez. Hateful of any success but her own, Luci manages to get him demoted to the mail room! A rollicking comedy of errors follows. "The Job" is a modern parable of ancient troubles and truths.Feisty female-wrestler Kate beats Nick into a pulp. Gazing up at her sweat-soaked skin, red face, and narrowed eyes, something entirely unexpected happens… He falls in love. So begins a whirlwind romance, set in the romantic utopia of the Washington State High School Wrestling Meet. However, fractures quickly divide them. Nick fights the cloud of darkness that threatens to overwhelm him. Meanwhile, Kate harbors a secret, one that slowly eats away at her from the inside out. And in the end, if they can’t overcome their differences, one of them will die. Views: 691
Jack Mac Fecker, pig breeder, farmer and father never thought that he would enter the world of spying, Steven Speilberg, badger rights, home brewing and gay farmers, especially not in the Mountains of Mourne. Temptation, in all its forms, invaded his world and he responded as any half educated Irishman would. Here we meet Jack and his family and find him at the doorstep of a world of espionage.Jack Mac Fecker, pig breeder, farmer and father never thought that he would enter the world of spying, Steven Speilberg, badger rights, home brewing and gay farmers, especially not in the Mountains of Mourne. Temptation, in all its forms, invaded his world and he responded as any half educated Irishman would. Here we meet Jack and his family and find him at the doorstep of a world of espionage, home brew and badgers. Will he go in? Will he cross that threshold and place his family, his farm and even himself in mortal danger? The first in a series of linked funny stories around the Mac Feckers. Views: 689
JANUARY – RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR by H. HUNTING
Secrets are shared, awkward conversations are unavoidable, and shenanigans abound when the Kids of Pucked get together for a New Year’s celebration.
FEBRUARY – SKATING ON THE STARS by DEBRA ANASTASIA
Asking her to marry him is the easy part, but Gaze needs everything to fall in line this Valentine’s Day. Pixie Rae deserves the best, and a wild racoon has no part in the beginning of their forever.
MARCH – BUTTERFLY, BROKEN by ILSA MADDEN MILLS
When Everly wakes up at Crystal Lake Academy, she has no idea how she arrived at the strange college. When a threatening letter appears, she seeks the help of the most ruthless gang at Crystal Lake. They’ll help her for a price.
APRIL – APRIL FOOLS by MAX MONROE
My April Fools’ Weekend beach getaway was only supposed to include three things: relaxation, wine, and fun in the sun. Something it absolutely wasn’t supposed to include: The bane of my teaching existence—Mack Houston—walking in on me in the shower.
MAY – OPERATION: MILE HIGH CLUB by BB. EASTON
An all new sexy, hilarious, (mostly) true story from BB Easton, author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men, the memoir that inspired the #1 Netflix series Sex/Life!
JUNE – FREE TO LOVE by KENNEDY RYAN
Mere weeks from my wedding, I don’t have jitters. I have a future mother-in-law making everything obnoxiously bigger. The guest list. The band. The pain in my . . .you get the picture. My sweet, hot, sexy fiancé better fix it or there may not be a wedding at all.
JULY – WEEKEND FLING by ELLE KENNEDY
Getting stuck with her brother's annoying girlfriend and his sexy best friend is not at all what Kate had in mind for her family weekend getaway. But sometimes, the unexpected can be exactly what you need...
AUGUST – TRAINING CAMP by SARINA BOWEN
Do an internship with a professional hockey team, they said. It will be fun, they said. Too bad I'm terrible at my job. Until the rookie defenseman offers to help...
SEPTEMBER – NO DRAMA, SERIOUSLY by TIJAN
Mara only wants to be a normal college student. No drama.
Too bad that her family might not let that happen. And who is Cruz?!
OCTOBER – POSSESSION by KF BREENE
When a deliciously sexy demon tricks Jaelyn into showing up at the hottest and most dangerous Halloween party of the year, she must confront him and her past if she hopes to survive.
NOVEMBER – FOREVER MORE by K. BROMBERG
When Lyric Evermore crashed Angie McIntyre’s all-alone-on-Thanksgiving pity party four years
ago, she never could have imagined it would be the start of their own annual tradition. Nor did
either of them know, it might be the start of something more meaningful . . .
DECEMBER – MY SECRET by W. WINTERS
She’s my secret. Mine and mine alone. Views: 689
This short story will give you the talking points, so that on your next museum visit you can pose perceptive questions to the Curator about provenance and authenticity of the artworks. Lee Roberts will also instruct how to deal with the FBI.What Does a Strip Club, a Dead Man and a Dove Ice Cream Bar All Have in Common?Peaches DonnellyPeaches has a major problem: she's just been fired.Unaccustomed to filling her days with nothingness, she embroils herself toute suite in the recent murder of a childhood friend.However, standing between her and the solving of this heinous crime are two pesky daughters, a selfish opera singer sister, the diet from hell and two sexy men she can't resist.Add to this bubbling pot a hasty decision to go undercover as a stripper and you have a story rife with drama, laughs and a little dash of danger.Follow Peaches and the always funny cast of characters in this first installment of a rollicking series of cozy mysteries. Views: 688
She is the most powerful woman in Britain,
A queen of the London Underworld...
But no one can ever know.
He is the only man smart enough to uncover the truth,
Putting all she has at risk...
Including her heart.
The fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean’s incredible Rule of Scoundrels/Fallen Angels series. These four dark heroes will steal the hearts of their heroines and the readers alike! This is the last in the Rules of Scoundrels series—Chase’s story
By day, she is Lady Georgiana, sister to a Duke, ruined before her first season in the worst kind of scandal. But the truth is far more shocking—in London’s darkest corners, she is Chase, the mysterious, unknown founder of the city’s most legendary gaming hell. For years, her double identity has gone undiscovered... until now.
Brilliant, driven, handsome-as-sin Duncan West is intrigued by the beautiful, ruined woman who is somehow connected to a world of darkness and sin. He knows she is more than she seems and he vows to uncover all of Georgiana’s secrets, laying bare her past, threatening her present, and risking all she holds dear... including her heart. Views: 688
Peter and Edward are best friends - they spend their days in blissful abandon, generally doing what little boys do best (that is, making messes and having fun). However, one day, Edward becomes ill. So ill that Peter thinks he isn't going to make it. All Peter can wonder is why did his friend get so sick so quickly?Grylio is first story in the Bestiary Tales.In A+ For Murder, English teacher Michael O'Brien has to solve a murder mystery before he becomes the next victim. But before he got caught up in solving murders, Michael had to handle smaller mysteries that sharpened his skills and failed to give him self-confidence.In The Adventure of The Costume Ball, Mike is stuck at a costume party event, and his superintendent is trotting him out as a mystery-solving teacher. But before Mike can make his escape, the lights go out and priceless jewels vanish, and Mike has to stop the thief before he gets through the very door Mike has been eying since the party started! Views: 688
Life is usually quiet during the off-season on Martha's Vineyard. But not for island newbie and bestselling novelist Annie Sutton . . . Finally settled into her adopted island home, Annie is looking forward to writing her next mystery, making soap for her new business, and starting renovations on the Inn she plans to open by the summer. She's also enjoying spending more time with local police sergeant John Lyons, the man she's only just gotten comfortable calling her boyfriend. She's even starting to relish her relationship with John's teenaged daughter, Lucy. It's probably not the best moment for a visit from the biological mother Annie only recently met. Still, it's high time she got to know the mysterious Donna MacNeish . . . But Donna's visit isn't merely a social call—she's come to share some devastating news. Seeking solace in an outing with Lucy, Annie and the teen stumble upon skeletal remains on the Inn's property, a finding... Views: 686
*From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President* comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America.**
On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant, foreign relations were fraught, and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans were certain that President Harry S. Truman’s political career was over. “The ballots haven’t been counted,” noted political columnist Fred Othman, “but there seems to be no further need for holding up an affectional farewell to Harry Truman.” Truman’s own staff did not believe he could win. Nor did his wife, Bess. The only man in the world confident that Truman would win was Mr. Truman himself. And win he did.
1948 was a fight for the soul of a nation. In Dewey Defeats Truman , A. J. Baime sheds light on one of the most action-packed six months in American history, as Truman not only triumphs, but oversees watershed events—the passing of the Marshall plan, the acknowledgement of Israel as a new state, the careful attention to the origins of the Cold War, and the first desegregation of the military.
Not only did Truman win the election, he succeeded in guiding his country forward at a critical time with high stakes and haunting parallels to the modern day. Views: 685
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's death in 1941.Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL,... Views: 685
A classic story of moral struggle in an age of turbulent social change and the final book in Chinua Achebe’s The African Trilogy
When Obi Okonkwo, grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in Things Fall Apart returns to Nigeria from England in the 1950s, his foreign education separates him from his African roots. No Longer at Ease, the third and concluding novel in Chinua Achebe’s The African Trilogy, depicts the uncertainties that beset the nation of Nigeria, as independence from colonial rule loomed near. In Obi Okonkwo’s experiences, the ambiguities, pitfalls, and temptations of a rapidly evolving society are revealed. He is part of a ruling Nigerian elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. His fate, however, overtakes him as he finds himself trapped between the expectation of his family, his village—both representations of the traditional world of his ancestors—and the colonial world. A story of a man lost in cultural limbo, and a nation entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease is a powerful metaphor for his generation of young Nigerians.
**Review
"Chinua Achebe is a magical writer — one of the greatest of the twentieth century."
— Margaret Atwood
"It is a measure of Achebe's creative gift that he has no need whatsoever for prose fireworks to light the flame of his intense drama. Wothry of particular attention are the characters. Achebe doesn't create his people with fastidiously detailed line drawings: instead, he relies on a few short strokes that highlight whatever prominent features will bring the total personlaity into three-dimensional life."
— Time
"The power of majesty of Chinua Achebe's work has, literally, opened the world to generations of readers. He is an ambassador of art, and a profound recorder of the human condition."
— Michael Dorris
"He is one of the few writers of our time who has touched us with a code of values that will never be ironic. This great voice."
— Michael Ondaatje
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Publisher
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him parts of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society. Views: 684
Home. . . . That's what Martha's Vineyard is to Annie Sutton now. After a winter spent writing her latest novel, Annie looks forward to a summer with friends who have become like the family she never had. But then her landlord announces that his grandson will be moving into her cozy Chappaquiddick cottage—and she'll be moving out. Year-round island housing is tough to find at any time; in summer, it's nearly impossible. Shaken by the thought of being forced to leave the people and the community she's grown to love, Annie seeks distraction in the July 4th celebrations—and stumbles upon a young woman who's unconscious on her front lawn . . . and barely alive . . . Summer on the Vineyard brings not only tourists, but also wealthy families with summer homes—like Fiona Littleton's—and tensions between them and the tight-knit island community often ignite. But when Annie's quick thinking saves Fiona's life, she's surprised to... Views: 683
Running - The Alien in the Mirror can be considered the prequel to the military scifi Iron Series but might also be the prequel to other science fiction thriller series.Ishmael Bodd 'wakes up' for the first time, a billion years in the future. He is a Citizen of Supercity, a city with no crime. But he suddenly feels compelled to commit a crime and goes on the run. He can never stop running.Running - The Alien in the Mirror can be considered the cyberpunk prequel to the military scifi Iron Series but might also be the prequel to other science fiction thriller series.Ishmael Bodd 'wakes up' for the first time, a billion years in the future. He is a Citizen of Supercity, on Marstoo, far away from old Earth in the Universe. In his world, crime doesn't exist and Citizens only need electricity to live, whereas clones, who eat food and drink liquids, are banished to Clonecity.But he suddenly feels compelled to commit a minor crime and goes on the run. He can never stop running until he has escaped his culture and found the reason why everything suddenly feels so 'strange' to him in this science fiction thriller.If you like the Terminator series, Blade Runner or Greg Bear’s Hull Zero Three, you will love Running - The Alien in the Mirror.Categories: science fiction, thriller, far future, clones, androids, cyborgs, time travel, genes, genetic engineering, military science fiction.Read more about the Ischians' war with Earth and blankers in Iron I: Too Bright the Sun, also available on Smashwords. Views: 682
