A witty and incisive state-of-the-nation novel from the acclaimed author of Number 11, The Rotter's Club andWhat a Carve Up! Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disruption in Britain.'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' Nick Hornby'Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times'Observer'You can't stop reading....I was haunted for days' Independent on 'Number 11' Views: 231
A love potion in a jelly bean?
Fame and fortune are surely only a swallow away when Dr. Sylvie Fontaine discovers a chemical formula guaranteed to attract the opposite sex. Though her own love life is purely hypothetical, the shy chemist's professional future is assured . . . as soon as she can find a human guinea pig.
The only problem is the wrong man has swallowed Sylvie's love potion. Bad boy Lucien LeDeux is more than she can handle even before he's dosed with the Jelly Bean Fix. The wildly virile lawyer is the last person she'd choose to subject to the scientific method.
When the dust settles, Sylvie and Luc have the answers to some burning questions: Can a man die of testosterone overload? Can a straightlaced female lose every single one of her inhibitions? And they learn that old-fashioned romance is still the best catalyst for love. Views: 231
It would be news to no one to say that college kids do stupid things at times. My dorm room buddies and I were no exception. Views: 229
Donald Robert Perry Marquis was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. Views: 228
I may be a shy, lowly letter carrier, but when my beloved apartment building is threatened by a mysterious and reclusive billionaire, I'm willing to push the envelope. I'm going to march right up to Malcolm Blackberg's fortress of fierceness and deliver a cease-and-desist notice he can't refuse. Except as soon as I get inside his gilded doors, things go sideways—I'm mistaken for Malcolm's court-ordered emotional intelligence coach—they think I'm acting out a wacky postal carrier cosplay. They drag me in, a sacrificial lamb for the big bad. Make that big, smolderingly sexy bad. Can I use this case of mistaken identity to make the case for him not to tear down our building? Or does his surly glower means he knows I'm not really his coach? Before I know it I'm flying around the country, up close and personality testing the most devilishly exasperating man I've ever met. He's scary for sure...but the way he sometimes looks at me turns... Views: 226
Do you know how God sees you? Ann didn't. She believed herself unworthy of God’s love. Ann struggles raising two young children alone. God takes her to a lifelike vision of a flowing wall of light where people are transformed into what they are really like inside. She wakes not knowing what it'll do to her. Tragedy strikes, her faith is tested, and God returns her to the light, revealing His love.Do you know what you are really like inside?Do you know who the God of life sees you?Ann didn’t. In fact, she believes herself unworthy of God’s love. And when God sweeps her away into a lifelike vision of a flowing wall of light, what she sees strengthens her doubts. First, a person she admires enters the crystal light and emerges as a deformed creature of hate and evil. Then the light transforms a crippled child into a beautiful, healthy, angelic being. Clearly the light is revealing their true natures. Ann is afraid of what it will expose in her.Without entering the light, Ann awakens in her apartment where she lives with her two young children. In the following days, tragedy strikes, leaving her in doubt of God’s love. Through trauma and pain she refuses to turn her back on Him. She tries to understand it all. Finally, He returns Ann to the living light, and this time she experiences the beauty God sees in her. And most of all, she grasps the truth about His love - despite her faults - and His mercy which is beyond her understanding. Come... join Ann in her discovery of how much God really does love her, indeed all of us, if we seek Him. Views: 224
Sometimes at night, she can hear the dead calling.
Julie Hall’s job is to find bodies. For the sake of her sanity, she’s taking a much-needed break—but the dead don’t wait. With bodies piling up alongside her guilt, she knows she has to dive back in, despite pushback from her FBI boyfriend, Garrett Pierce. But Garrett is working a troubling case of his own and no longer seems like the man she fell in love with.
Despite his warnings—or maybe because of them—when Garrett goes missing, Julie has no choice but to use her skills to find where the cartel buries their victims…before he becomes part of the body count.
Don’t miss books one and two in the Bodies of Evidence series by Wendy Roberts. A Grave Calling and A Grave Search are available now from Carina Press! Views: 222
Vampire hunter or serial killer? That depends on whether vampires exist . . . Simon Helsing believes the only way to stop a bad guy with fangs is a good guy with a stake. He has devoted his life to ridding the world of vampires. He hunts them, finds their daytime lairs, and pounds a stake through their hearts. Lexi Tarada wants to believe. She's desperate to prove that the strange and impossible can be real. She runs a website for the unexplained and tries to sift through the crazy conspiracy theories to find out what is - or might be - real. Detective Todd Carrow is a skeptic. Haunted by visions of brutal killings from a previous case, he sees the latest gruesome murders as nothing more than the actions of a madman targeting innocents. Helsing is convinced he's doing good, but what if vampires aren't real and Carrow is right? Views: 221
The Book That Inspired The Movie
My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. from the Introduction
Actual reader feedback:
"I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don't believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist."
"I'll stay with God as my lord, but you are my savior. I just finished reading your brilliant stories, and I laughed so hard I almost vomited. I want to bring that kind of joy to people. You're an artist of the highest order and a true humanitarian to boot. I'm in both shock and awe at how much I want to be you."
Now with 16 Pages of Photos and a New Introduction Views: 220
