Author : Paul Victor
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2017-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 150690419X
Katarina is 25, a charming, ambitious émigré from Russia looking for a better life. Alex is 79, a billionaire, and he likes her very much. When the old man suggests that after his passing Katarina would make better use of his estate, all in his family agree it would be better if she weren't around. When she vanishes, ransom notes start arriving as well as the ghosts of dead prostitutes.
Author : Xu Xiechunqiu
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647679540
After my ex-girlfriend got married and was sunning herself in a circle of friends, my hands just replied, "Why doesn't it look like me?" But his husband became serious and took me to be a paternity test. Something terrible happened! This child really isn't her husband's, but he isn't mine either! What should I do? He was carrying a kitchen knife downstairs in my house...
Author : James A. Terry
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499028407
The Blue Terraplane is a 89 page novel. This novel is written in the local unadorned Black dialect spoken in 1937 Bronzeville, Chicago. Bishop Flipper was a poor runaway southern Black orphaned teenager who encountered a starving crippled old Black man with a three-legged dog. After sharing his meager food with this old man, the old man promised the orphaned teenager a blessed life in Chicago for six and a half years. On July 12, 1937, Madame Madelyn, a frail pipe-smoking elderly woman, invited Bishop to her to mysterious storefront business. Madelyn, a voodoo priestess, warned her guest that his blessed six-and-a-half year period would end on July 13, 1937. This old lady offered the young man a battered old bronze magic ring, which she claimed would protect him from any harm. At noon, July 13, Bishop encounters Raoul La Croix and Paloma Issert. Raoul was huge menacing-looking, baldheaded Black man with a long serpentine stiletto who was treating the helpless Paloma Issert in the local Illinois Central train station. Paloma Issert was a young girl, from Algiers, Louisiana, who was desperately attempting to escape from Raoul. Quickly, Raoul became Bishop's adversary, while Paloma became his femme fatale.
Author : Peter Gilbert
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1496978692
Whilst there are enough celebrity connections and anecdotes not to be out of place in an A list autobiography, the real hook of this book is that the author isnt remotely famous. The endearing appeal is that it is the viewpoint of the everyman, but one who has had enough light brushes with celebrity that he has some great tales to tell. These stories, anecdotes and musings are seamlessly woven into what for many of us will be a memory jogging, laughter inducing remembrance of some of the major, as well as quainter, stranger and more trivial moments of pop culture over the last few decades. If you love pop music and pop culture, feared the Daleks, the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and mourn the demise of Pez, Cresta, conkers as a rite of passage, jokes on lolly sticks, Top of the Pops and pink vinyl limited edition LPs, then you will surely enjoy this. Please beware! This book may waste days (if not weeks) of your life as almost every paragraph will have you frantically typing into your search engine and getting lost, on what may turn out to be an endless Internet Safari. This book contains some adult humour. Best Wishes and Good Luck with your writing Ben Elton
Author : Miriiam Isa
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0557531527
A novel on deception. The book chronicles the first love encountered by the main character, Liz. It follows her observations from a tender age of 5 to present day, 2009.
Author : Maria M. Delgado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1134231326
Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dalí, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico García Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language’s most resonant voices; exploring how the very factors which led to his emergence as a cultural icon also shaped his dramatic output. The works themselves are also awarded the space that they deserve, combining performance histories with incisive textual analysis to restate Lorca’s presence as a playwright of extraordinary vision, in works such as: Blood Wedding The Public The House of Bernarda Alba Yerma. Federico García Lorca is an invaluable new resource for those seeking to understand this complex and multifaceted figure: artist, playwright, director, poet, martyr and in the eyes of many, Spain’s ‘national dramatist’.
Author : Lindsay Hunter
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374533857
Here you'll meet Peggy Paula, who works the late shift at Perkins and envies the popular girls who come in to eat French fries and brag about how far they let the boys get with them. You'll meet a woman in her midthirties pining for her mean-spirited, abusive boyfriend, Del, a nine-year-old who is in no way her actual boyfriend. And just try to resist the noir story of a reluctant, Afrin-addled detective. Self-loathing, self-loving, and otherwise trapped by their own dumb selves, these characters make one cringe-worthy mistake after another.
Author : Raymond (Ray) Berto
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 160791297X
Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ! Ray Berto and his wife, Karen currently reside Sumner Washington, They are active members of their local church. Ray has four children, and all have accepted Jesus into theirs hearts to be their Lord and Savior. This book came about through many years of prayer. Ray wants this book to be his voice for Jesus, so that he can reach as many as he can with the story of God's miraculous saving grace. It is his prayer that as you read his story you will know that God can do the same for you. Jesus is coming again and the time is short. Are you ready to meet God? Isaiah 55:6 says "Seek the LORD while He may be found." Will you do this today? Ray and Karen have started Lighthouse Rescuer Ministries and would like the opportunity to pray with you, talk with you and answer any questions you might have. Call or write. Jesus has done a tremendous work in Ray - healing emotions like hate, fear, anger, depression and suicide. He has put within him a love and compassion for others and vision to see them healed as he was. Ray gave his old man to Jesus and Jesus gave him a new man. His life is forever changed and God will do the same for you. Ray and Karen Berto Phone: 253-863-3033 Lighthouse Rescuer Ministries Web: lighthouserm.com P.O. Box 748 Email: [email protected] Sumner, WA 98390 Ray & Karen Berto c/o Faith Family Church Phone: 253-922-7773 1702 Milton Way Milton, WA 98352
Author : Jung Mi Kyung
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564789454
At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven short stories has earned the author widespread critical acclaim. With empathy and an overarching melancholy that is at times tinged with sarcasm but always deeply meaningful, Jung explores the ambition and chaos of urban life, the lives of the lost and damaged souls it creates, and the subtle shades of love found between them.
Author : Omar Khalifah
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2024-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566897343
A sardonic, Palestinian Citizen Kane, Sand-Catcher is a dark and thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be both saved and subverted. Four Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked with writing a profile on one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba, the violent expulsion of native Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. Confident that the old man will be more than willing to go on record about his experiences, the reporters are nonplussed when they are repeatedly, and obscenely, rebuffed by the man and his grandchildren. This living witness to history seems to have no desire to be interviewed, no desire for his memories to be preserved, no desire to talk. As the team's editor-in-chief puts more and more pressure on the young journalists, a battle of wills escalates to ruinous consequences that will leave no one unscathed. Omar Khalifah's debut novel Sand-Catcher is at once a polyphonic satire and a tightly plotted tale of suspense. Walking the line between gallows humor, rage, and depthless heartbreak, it is a unique reflection of contemporary Palestinian identity in all its facets.
