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By Heather Birrell. 2012
In 'Frogs,' a short story from Heather Birrell's Mad Hope, a science teacher and former doctor is forced to re-examine…
the role he played in Ceau?escu's Romania after a student makes a shocking request. A free e-book single from the Journey-Prize-winning short story author.By Lois Duncan. 1996
By F. Scott Fitzgerald.
By Peter Abrahams, Gene Luen Yang, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Patricia Mccormick, Sarah Weeks. 2008
Phase 2 by Peter Abrahams; Not just for breakfast anymore by Libba Bray; The vulnerable hours by David Levithan; Orange…
Alert by Patricia McCormick; Superman is dead by Sarah Weeks; The motherless one by Gene Luen Yang.By Melanie James. 2016
Six women...neighbors, friends, and sisters at heart. Together they tackled the challenges of juggling their roles as women, wives, and…
mothers. Now, the time has come to restore romance and passion to their marriages!Ashely and Jeff, Book 5 of the Éveiller Drive series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author Melanie James is an erotic short story about rekindling passion and love.When Ashley married Jeff she looked forward to their life together, but never considered the many ways becoming an instant mom could rip them apart. Her love for Jeff means more to her than anything in the world. However, never having kids of her own left her unprepared for the changing family dynamics. As her new step-kids test the boundaries all hell breaks loose.Can Jeff rein them in before it costs him his marriage or was the marriage doomed from the beginning?This contemporary erotic romance contains adult content and situations, and is not intended for readers under the age of 18.Previously Published (2015) Melanie James, Black Paw PublishingBy Bruce Coville. 2001
What is the source of our obsession with half-humans? Why do we still, in our modern technological age, find ourselves…
fascinated by mermaids and their ilk? Perhaps it is a recognition of our own divided nature. For all our wit and courage, our striving, stargazing, and philosophizing, we are still made of flesh, still have our animal nature -- and we need to remember that to live in our own skins. But we also yearn to escape our bodies' limitations. Who, watching our animal cousins, hasn't longed to be able to run like a horse, swim like a dolphin, soar like an eagle? Who wouldn't want to slip away, for a time at least, from the cares and troubles that bind us as humans and feel wild and free once more?By Oscar Wilde.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar…
Wilde and published in 1891His first attempted murder victim is his elderly Aunt Clementina, who suffers from heartburn. Pretending it is medicine, Lord Arthur gives her a capsule of poison, telling her to take it only when she has an attack of heartburn. Reading a telegram in Venice some time later, he finds that she has died and victoriously returns to London to learn that she has bequeathed him some property. Sorting through the inheritance, his future wife Sybil Merton finds the poison pill, untouched; thus Lord Arthur's aunt died from natural causes and he finds himself in need of a new victim. After some deliberation, he obtains a bomb from a jovial German, disguised as a carriage-clock, and sends it anonymously to a distant relative, the Dean of Chichester. When the bomb goes off, however, the only damage done seems like a novelty trick, and the Dean's son spends his afternoons making tiny, harmless explosions with the clock. In despair, Lord Arthur believes that his marriage plans are doomed, only to encounter the same palm-reader who had told his fortune late at night on the bank of the River Thames. Realising the best possible outcome, he pushes the man off a parapet into the river where he dies. A verdict of suicide is returned at the inquest and Lord Arthur happily goes on to marry. In a slight twist, the palmister is denounced as a fraud, leaving the moral of the story to show the power of suggestion. The story was the basis of the second part of the three-part 1943 film Flesh and Fantasy.By Melanie James. 2016
Six women...neighbors, friends, and sisters at heart. Together they tackled the challenges of juggling their roles as women, wives, and…
mothers. Now, the time has come to restore romance and passion to their marriages!Jamie and Brad, Book 4 of the Éveiller Drive series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author Melanie James is an erotic short story about rekindling passion and love.When Jamie married Brad, she was well aware of what it meant to marry a soldier--she was marrying into the Army. The long and frequent deployments were something their family faced together. New orders meant more than a new base. It meant a new community, new schools, a new home, and new friends. Brad's latest assignment promised a grueling deployment schedule to some of the most dangerous places a soldier could be sent. One thing was certain, the anxiety and stress would be nearly unbearable for Jamie and the kids. They knew it was best to move the family back to Brad's hometown. On Éveiller Drive, Jamie found more than a home, she found friends that welcomed her and gave her the support she needed.One day, Brad's messages home mysteriously stop. The lack of communication sends Jamie into a panic like never before. Convinced something was terribly wrong, Jamie turns to her friends for much needed comfort. When Brad finally makes contact, something has changed. Only Jamie has no idea of the effect that combat has had on her husband. It very well could mean the end of their marriage. With the help of the women of Éveiller Drive, Brad may be able to finally come home.This contemporary erotic romance contains adult content and situations, and is not intended for readers under the age of 18.Previously Published: (2015) Melanie James, Black Paw PublishingBy Melanie James. 2016
Six women...neighbors, friends, and sisters at heart. Together they tackled the challenges of juggling their roles as women, wives, and…
mothers. Now, the time has come to restore romance and passion to their marriages!Valerie and Greg, Book 6 of the Éveiller Drive series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author Melanie James is an erotic short story about rekindling passion and love.Valerie and Greg had it all worked out, even with four kids and running their own successful business. They managed to create a schedule that kept their romance as steamy as the day they were married.Everything changed when Greg's twin brother, Gary, found himself down on his luck and had to move in, interrupting the happy couple's intimate routine.Can Valerie and Greg find a way to get Gary back on his feet and out the door? Until then, what new tricks can Valerie come up with to keep her and Greg's passion fresh and alive?This contemporary erotic romance contains adult content and situations, and is not intended for readers under the age of 18.Previously Published (2015) Melanie James, Black Paw PublishingBy Katherine Vaz. 2008
The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories…
themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, immersed in the California culture of freeway and commerce. With lyrical prose laced with vivid detail, acclaimed writer Katherine Vaz conjures a captivating blend of Old World heritage and New World culture to explore the links between families, friends, strangers, and their world. From the threat of a serial killer as the background for a young girl's first brush with death to the fallout of a modern-day visitation from the Virgin Mary; from an AIDS-stricken squatter refusing to vacate an empty Lisbon home to a mother's yearlong struggle with the death of her synesthetic daughter, these deft stories make their world ours.By Bruce Lansky. 1995
By Melanie James. 2016
Determined to rekindle the passion and romance of her marriage, Ava has a plan and the determination to carry it…
through! Ava and Will is book 1 in the Éveiller Drive series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author Melanie James.Six neighbors, six women drawn to each other. Over the years, their friendships blossomed from friends to sisters. Together, they tackled the challenges they faced in juggling their complex roles as women, wives, and mothers. Now, the time had come for them to take on the most important challenge yet. To restore the passion and romance to their marriages that had been neglected through the years. These are the stories of six couples. Six stories of rekindling and reawakening their romance. Welcome to Éveiller Drive. Ava is shy and unsure. She loves Will more than anything, but lately he's not been the same man she fell in love with and married. Their marriage is strained, very near the breaking point. Fearing the end is near, she comes up with a plan to make her husband notice her. Can they recover what they once had? Is their love for one another worth the fight?This contemporary erotic romance contains adult content and situations; and is not intended for readers under the age of 18.Previously published: (2014) Melanie James, Black Paw PublishingBy Raymond Carver. 1981
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people -- people without education, insight…
or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.By Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli. 2014
“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series,…
set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen... transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.”—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Set on the Sicilian coast, a collection of eight short stories featuring the young Inspector MontalbanoIn 1980s Vigàta, a restless Inspector Montalbano brings his bold investigative style to eight enthralling cases. From jilted lovers and deadly family affairs to assassination attempts and murders in unexpected places, Death at Sea is the perfect collection to escape into Andrea Camilleri's unforgettable slice of Sicily.By Melanie James. 2016
When Dave realizes his marriage is heading for a crash, he decides it's time for drastic measures, and he won't…
let anything or anyone, including his wife, stand in the way! Kara and Dave is book 2 in the Éveiller Drive series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author Melanie James.Kara has serious doubts about herself after the birth of twins. She had no idea it would be so hard taking care of one baby, let alone two. With her self-esteem fading into oblivion, she's forced to choose between being a mom and having the career she always wanted. Kara is stubborn and refuses to ask anyone for help, even her husband.Dave loves his wife and new daughters more than anything, but since the girls were born he feels Kara slipping further away from him. Will Kara realize she doesn't have to conquer the world alone, and find her way back to Dave? Will her meddling mother-in-law use this opportunity to sabotage her and Dave's marriage?This contemporary erotic romance contains adult content and situations, and is not intended for readers under the age of 18.Previously Published: (2014) Melanie James, Black Paw PublishingBy Karen Pullen. 2017
The characters in the stories that comprise Restless Dreams share a certain resemblance: tired eyes, a slow trudging step, and…
the distracted air of someone with lots on her mind, some of it unspeakable. But despite sore feet and an aching heart, each yearns for better days, aims for what is right, and makes it all work somehow. She's a cop, a mom, a saleswoman, nanny, teacher, hairdresser, teen. None have it easy, but they don't give up their restless dreams of a more perfect life.By O. Henry.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or…
blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.By Madeline Smoot. 2017
It's amazing the kinds of monsters you can find in an old closet. Whether it's a dragon in a hotel…
room or a Bigfoot baby in an abandoned mansion, the monsters hiding in the closets come in all shapes and sizes. In this collection of ten exciting tales, monsters help show us what it is to be human. Includes stories by Elliot Addison, Jessica Lee Anderson, Susan Bianculli, Melanie Cole, Jaime Formato, John Linwood Grant, Laura Keating, Jonathan Lahr, Hope Erica Schultz, and Lisa Timpf.By Ruth Rouff. 2016
Where is Pagan Heaven? It's all around us. In our unceasing fascination with a movie star who died over half…
a century ago. In an inner-city youth who muses over the meaning of the word philosophy. In a statue of the Virgin Mary sitting atop a Coke machine. On a street where Walt Whitman once lived. On a lesbian-only cruise ship off the coast of Alaska. In an unusual melding of narrative poetry and spot-on prose, Pagan Heaven offers a wry take on the absurdities of modern American life, all the while celebrating human uniqueness whenever, wherever, and however it's found.By John Hersey. 1993
Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that…
reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him.