When the boot of the government is stamping on the face of the citizens, there are two choices. Submission. Or defiance.The people of Owl Head chose defiance.Sophie Cook is found dazed after a brutal assault by local thugs, and is considered an outsider in the town she must now call home. Only with the help of Wolf Harndon, can she survive. Life is hard, almost impossible. In Wolf, Sophie sees compassion. In Sophie, Wolf sees a future he didn't believe existed. Peace is a fantasy as long as the Russells continue their raids. Wolf is tasked with stopping them. That's when the war begins and the losses start.Wolf and Sophie have no idea that even with nothing, there is still so much to lose.This is a stand-alone novella. Views: 55
A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quiet Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, a conservative Rust Belt town fallen sleepy after the steel industry's collapse. But the year Amy turned ten, her town woke up. That year, Howard Lotte, her beloved piano teacher, was accused of assaulting his female students. Among the countless girls questioned, only seven came out against Lotte, admitting his wandering hands. They were ostracized. As for the remaining girls--well, they were smarter. They lied. They said, He didn't. Amy Jo Burns was one of the girls who lied. But such a lie has its own consequences. In Cinderland, against a backdrop of fire and steel, shame and redemption, Burns tells of the boys she ran from and toward, the friends she abandoned, and the endless performances she gave to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place. Cinderland is the story of growing up in a town that both... Views: 55
The girl you love vanishes - you search and search. No trace of her is found. You find one who looks just like her - her eyes see you but they do not know you, no recognition flickers - is it a mirage, dream or desperate hope? She likes you. You ask and she comes with you. Her mind sees sunlight. You see dark shadowed edges. Can you remake your life with a person who holds no memory of you? Views: 55
A wealthy family tries—and fails—to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers.The last novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers, All for Nothing was published in Germany in 2006, just before the author's death. It describes with matter-of-fact clarity and acuity, and a roving point of view, the atmosphere in East Prussia during the winter of 1944-45, as the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army approaches. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into a state of disrepair. "Auntie" runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the Germany army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife Katharina and her bookish twelve-year-old son Peter. As the road beside the house fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof receives... Views: 55
Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades. At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune-Frank Herbert's final novel-a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan's no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy. To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology from Scytale, the last Tleilaxu Master, to revive key figures from Dune's past-including Paul Muad'Dib and his beloved Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh. Each of these characters will use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them. Views: 55
Some secrets are meant to be uncovered... Abby Hart leaves the USA to visit her grandfather's lighthouse on England's South Devon coast ready to spend a few quiet days and enjoy the old world charms of the small fishing village. When a stranger claims to know of a treasure hidden at the lighthouse, Abby's imagination is soon captured by the romance of ancient artifacts and lost hoards. But as the attraction builds between them it seems this modern day treasure hunter knows his way around the lighthouse all too well and has a secret of his own. Does he really want to help Abby and her grandpa or is he after his own fortune? When Abby is handed a key that will unlock a concealed door she discovers there is more to her grandfather's holiday home than meets the eye. Beneath the lighthouse of Hope Cove lies a treasure he kept secret from the family for many years. Until now. Views: 54
"The Sparkling-Eyed Boy is so full of color and light and life." — Brad Land, author of GoatThe theme of summer love, in Amy Benson's hands, grows up: The Sparkling-Eyed Boy searches out the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire. The achingly intense adolescent summer days that Amy Benson and the sparkling-eyed boy spend together on the remote shores of the St. Mary's River of Michigan's Upper Peninsula are at the complex emotional center of The Sparkling-Eyed Boy. For her, summers meant returning from her home in Detroit to a three-month idyll on much-loved family land, owned for generations, and to a heady culture of teasing, testing local boys. For him, this land is the place he was born, where he'll later find work, marry, and stay: and she was the one he had loved."Can you pinpoint that moment? When you made a choice before you even knew that choosing was possible, or the terrifying nature of choices?" The Sparkling-Eyed Boy, with its heart-stoppingly... Views: 54
The Red Notebook brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life stories—a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality.Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic—that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room—all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary... Views: 54
