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The Best Thing for Me

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 23:01:24 +0200

Emma Ross is a hard-working, quiet girl who tries to stay off the radar. It's all going okay for her until she starts getting along with one of the 'It' boys. Having this happen, comes with drama and pain, is it all worth it? Or it is just best to stay out of it all? As Emma battles with the conflict, which will she choose? It might just be the best thing for her...

Razorback

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:35:10 +0300

RAZORBACK is a story of the weird and unnatural from the author of PATASOLA. A young boy, uprooted, unschooled, alienated, comes of age on a self-sufficient smallholding on the Yorkshire Wolds. For the first time he ventures out into the wider world. His simple assumptions are torn down and he finds himself running wild.If nobody tells you, how can you know? You can guess, you can assume, but without anyone to share your assumptions with, how can you be sure you've guessed right? The arrival of the twins tore a massive hole in Stephen's young life. Uprooted from London to a self-sufficient smallholding in Yorkshire, taken out of school, ignored by his mother, unable to bond with his submissive father, Stephen is truly alone. Then, just before he turns sixteen, his father falls ill and Stephen has to take on a man's role in the wider world. And now, for the first time, his assumptions are challenged.RAZORBACK is a story of the weird and the unnatural. From the author of PATASOLA.

Study in Hysteria

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:26:34 +0300

"A heartbreakingly beautiful debut." Sandra A. Miller, author of Wednesdays at One

In the middle of 1974, Flora is privileged and middle-aged in a liberation-hued America, and feels both compelled by and left out of the women's movement. She finds it difficult to activate her limited supply of empathy as she contends with a clandestine and unlikely friendship, a worrisome health scare, a domineering and philandering psychiatrist husband or her own distant daughter.

Flora's secret foray into psychotherapy does nothing to halt the sense that there is a better life for her somewhere else, in some parallel existence. Through the continuum of psychological diagnoses, she is lost in the murky place between contentment and discontentment, normal and abnormal.

Is her state of mind a clinical, diagnosable condition, or common malaise? Perhaps she'll find out if she stops resisting to share herself with those who love her.

Max

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:45:04 +0300

Max Aries, a skinny twenty-seven year-old could leap up and snare a football thrown fifteen feet over his head. He could punt a football ninety yards in the air. Kick a seventy-yard field goal. Bend a steel bar, then straighten it out. Max joined a mediocre professional football team, and made them Super Bowl Champions. In short, Max Aries was out of this world. LiterallyMax Aries is a skinny, twenty-seven year-old who appears from nowhere to convince the coach of the Cincinnati Rams, a mediocre professional football team, that he can perform feats that will make them Super Bowl champions. Although he falls victim to a series of obstacles, he manages to live up to his promise. Little does anyone know that Max, or Xam, his real name, was sent from heaven. Not the heaven we all know, but the distant planet Oh Ess Yew.

The Anatomy Inspector

Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:56:38 +0300

A Twisted Tale of burkers and anatomists and how Victorian law was changed to bridle Victorian science."There was something about Mr Stapleton. Something different. No doubt about it, Mr Edward Stapleton was a man apart."Having first seen Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy in Westminster Hall, Tumbley comes face to face with him twenty years later when he, Tumbley, is a successful barrister on the verge of taking silk and Stapleton is surprisingly unchanged. It's the first rule of cross-examination: Never ask a question you don't know the answer to. After an evening with the singular Mr Stapleton Tumbley thinks that should be amended slightly. Never ask a question you'd rather not know the answer to.

Unwarranted

Sun, 18 Apr 1993 22:01:38 +0300

"At a time when policing in America is at a crossroads, Barry Friedman provides much-needed insight, analysis, and direction in his thoughtful new book. Unwarranted illuminates many of the often ignored issues surrounding how we police in America and highlights why reform is so urgently needed. This revealing book comes at a critically important time and has much to offer all who care about fair treatment and public safety." —Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization of law enforcement and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues that these two...

Meant to Be

Thu, 04 May 2023 08:46:08 +0300

Josie Mayor fled Fern Grove after a scandal that rocked the town, turning her back on her friends and family. She disappeared with no contact, no forwarding address and abandoned the only life she knew.
Now she's back and has to confront what she left behind. When Josie runs into her ex-boyfriend, Nick, and Harley, the boy who stole her heart, she is faced with the pain and heartache of a past she's desperate to forget. Josie must make a choice in doing what's best for her, or risk repeating history once more.
Filled with twists, turns and simmering tension, Meant to Be is perfect for readers looking for:
· Dual POVs and enemies-to-lovers
· Small town contemporary romance
· Second-chance romance
· Bad boys
· Happily ever after
· TikTok books
· Books like Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score and It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
What readers are saying about Meant to Be:
'This novel is everything you...

Die For You

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:36:30 +0300

A human searching for her sister, a grumpy vampire bodyguard in charge of keeping her alive, and a malicious creature hunting them down. What could go wrong?
THE SURVIVOR
The death certificate says my sister died two years ago in the accident but her body was never found. I was the sole survivor. Then I saw her. Someone lied. Now, I must travel across the country to find answers from a bloodthirsty vampire with one thing on his mind. I will find out the truth. Even if it kills me.
THE PROTECTOR
I didn't mean for this to happen. I didn't mean for any of it to happen. Now Raya is here. She is mine, and I must protect her at all costs. If she dies, I die. It doesn't add up, and it's all a mess. It's my job to fix it and find my brother. She knows I'm hiding something, but I'm terrified to tell her the truth.
THE PREDATOR
It's been years since I had a lead. Now, I have one. I will watch. I will wait. I will strike. He will be mine.
Filled with sizzling chemistry,...

A Day to Remember: The Best Thing for Me Sequel

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 23:01:24 +0200

After all the big kerfuffle and jumble of life, Emma seemed to never catch a break. After stealing the heart of an "It" boy, trouble seemed to be everywhere she turned. Decisions and shocking revelations leave her unsure of her future, And as she makes the big decisions with her life, will she ever find out what will be the best thing for her? A sequel of a Wattpad book with over 20 million views, will this nobody get her happily ever after?

Carnacki: The Saiitii Manifestation

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:28:46 +0300

A tribute to and continuation of the work of the horror master, William Hope Hodgson.Based on characters created by the legendary pioneer of supernatural horror William Hope Hodgson, this short story speculates what might have happened to the ghost-finder and his circle during World War I. In 1919 they meet again after the better part of five years - well, all bar one.

The Making of Michael Bishop

Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:32:07 +0300

Michael D'Augustino is a priest in the time of the Inquisition. Marked as weak for his refusal to torture those charged with sorcery, heresy, devil worship or worse, he's given another task. Feed the prisoner in the cell in the darkest corner of the dungeon. With the edict comes a set of instructions. But all is not as it seems and, before the night is through, Michael will be changed forever.Keep your distance. Don't look him in the eye. Feed him and leave.Michael D'Augustino is a priest in the time of the Inquisition. Marked as weak for his refusal to torture those charged with sorcery, heresy, devil worship or worse, he's given another task. Feed the prisoner in the cell in the darkest corner of the dungeon. With the edict comes a set of instructions.Ever obedient, Michael does exactly as he is told. Until the night his charge doesn't eat and Michael has to enter the cell to find out why. Instead of the beast he believes to be imprisoned there, he finds a man. A broken, tormented man who asks for help.But all is not as it seems and, before the night is through, Michael will be changed forever.

Notes from a Black Woman's Diary

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:20:33 +0200

A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM
Vanity Fair * Vogue * The Huffington PostA stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts by the brilliant African-American artist and filmmakerRelatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short story collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Said Zadie Smith, "To be this good and yet to be ignored is shameful, but her rediscovery is a great piece of luck for us."That rediscovery continues in Notes from a Black Woman's Diary, which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author's talent. The compilation is anchored by more of Collins's short stories, which, striking and powerful in their brevity, reveal the ways in which relationships are both formed and come undone. Also collected here is the work Collins wrote for the...

We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:21:45 +0200

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.
Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now" is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage. With original photographs by Liz Cooke and drawing on interviews with activists in many US cities and countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features stories of resistance and rebellion, as well as reflections on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up.

Barry Friedman - Dead End

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:11:21 +0200

They found Henry Gibson shot dead in his abandoned car on a dirt road. DEAD END. Then George Horner…and Noah Hamberger. Wait a minute…who’s depleting the population of Northeastern Ohio? Are these random murders or a sicko with an agenda? DEAD END.

That was the problem facing homicide detective Al Maharos. He ran out of ideas. DEAD END. Maharos had never worked with a woman partner until Karen Vandergrift—attractive, brilliant. Together, they uncovered other bodies and a pattern unique in the annals of crime. The problem: who was linked to the murders? DEAD END. They knew their path would converge with that of the killer. They knew when…but where? DEAD END.