Author: Andrew Salomon Publisher: ISBN: 9781521494998 Category : Languages : en Pages : 115
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When a tall foreigner accused of stealing honey is brought to the police station on the Greek island of Kythnos, Sergeant Laziridis's uneventful night is about to take a very unexpected turn. A man regains consciousness and finds himself the only diner in a strange restaurant with some curious staff and a dinner literally prepared to be the meal of his life. Things fall apart on a newly-terraformed Mars. And then there are the pair of midwives from a secret society you never want to cross...These stories and much more await in this weirdly wonderful collection. Dark Shenanigans includes the PEN Literary Award-winning story A Visit To Dr Mamba and the 2015 Short.Sharp.Story best story Train 124.
Author: Andrew Salomon Publisher: ISBN: 9781973478294 Category : Languages : en Pages : 162
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Teresa Davey is flame-haired and six months shy of sixteen. Her microbiologist father calls her Wonderbear, after her favourite creatures; the microscopic but extraordinarily tough and resourceful waterbears. When her father becomes deathly ill, forcing their parents to seek treatment in Toronto, Tess and her six-year-old brother Sam are sent to stay with their independent and unconventional Aunt Sarah in a remarkable house in South Africa's Drakensberg - the dragon mountains also known as 'The Barrier of Spears.'But shortly after their arrival, Tess is kidnapped by a couple of unscrupulous fortune hunters, and forced to dive for treasure into a deep and secret mountain pool. And whenever she dives to the bottom the pool, she gets a powerful sense that she is not alone in the water. If Tess is to stand any chance of surviving her ordeal, she will need to have the courage and tenacity worthy of her nickname.Wonderbear is a sharp-witted thriller with a supernatural twist that is bound to satisfy young adult and adult readers alike.
Author: Andrew Salomon Publisher: ISBN: 9781521242483 Category : Languages : en Pages : 303
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On the first night the Circus Basilisk spends outside the Northern England town of Kirkholme, aspiring tightwire performer Flynn Oakley finds out just how easily his hard-earned and well-balanced world can fall apart. Falsely accused of a monstrous crime and forced to flee from his adoptive home, Flynn becomes the first person to run away from the circus.Finding himself hunted by a devious cabal formed by the candy butcher, a family of aerialists called The Flying Gremaldis and the sinister, crow-like Raffen, Flynn has to trust in unlikely alliances to try and save the only place he has ever called home.And even though he has found shelter inside a subterranean network of tunnels and caverns under the nearby Bleaks - a desolate high moor on the other side of the fell that looms over the circus camp - something else also inhabits this netherworld, and Flynn is yet to discover if it is friend or foe.
Author: Dave Cas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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Back in the 1980's the "Casual" scene was born. Young men that had been Punks, Skinheads and Mods decided to start wearing smart, casual sports and knitwear. They were also known as dressers. It went hand in hand with the music of the time and at football matches.Big groups of casual lads then had their own firm or mob and nearly every club up and down the country had their own. The author Dave re-lives memories of attending certain matches where there was trouble involving his favourite team Queens Park Rangers. Other fans from QPR and some from other clubs have also contributed to this book. Many teams are mentioned and among them are Arsenal, Spurs, Millwall, Crystal Palace, Brentford, Charlton, Watford, Luton, Cardiff, Swansea, Bristol City and Rovers, Mansfield, Sheffield United and Wednesday, Coventry, Ipswich, Norwich, Oxford United, Manchester United's Cockney Reds, Chelsea, Hull City, Peterborough, Everton, Middlesbrough, Grimsby, Union Berlin, W.B.A, Wolves, Aston Villa, Port Vale, Fulham, Leeds, Nottm Forest, Leicester, Southampton, Liverpool, Barnet, Derby, Portsmouth, Ajax, Newcastle, Crewe, Preston and Brighton. The final chapter explores the reason Why? young men got involved in hooliganism at Football. The author Dave strongly states that he does not condone or encourage violence at football matches and highlights the consequences involved in such behaviour.
Author: N. K. Jemisin Publisher: Orbit ISBN: 0316075973 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.
Author: Seth Skorkowsky Publisher: Crossroad Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
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SOME CALL HIM HERO. OTHERS, A MENACE. But everyone agrees that Ahren is the best thief in the world. Whether he’s breaking into an impregnable fortress, fighting pirates, or striking the final blow in political war, Ahren is the man for the job. After being framed for murder, his reward posters named him the Black Raven. To survive, Ahren finds himself drafted into the Tyenee, a secret criminal organization whose influence stretches across the world. Their missions are the most daring, the most dangerous, and the penalty for failure is death. When no one else can do it, they send the Black Raven. Mountain of Daggers is the first book in this collection of tales by Seth Skorkowsky, the author of Damoren, book one of the best-selling Valducan urban fantasy series.
Author: Ben Loory Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101529288 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
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“This guy can write!” —Ray Bradbury Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people-and monsters and trees and jocular octopi-who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination. Contains 40 stories, including “The Duck,” “The Man and the Moose,” and “Death and the Fruits of the Tree,” as heard on NPR’s This American Life, “The Book,” as heard on Selected Shorts, and “The TV,” as published in The New Yorker.
Author: Nick Cole Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062268538 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 135
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Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Forty years after the destruction of civilization, human beings are reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One survivor's most prized possession is Hemingway's classic The Old Man and the Sea. With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a living victim of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse. What follows is an incredible tale of grit and endurance. A lone traveler must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway's classic tale of man versus nature. Now with a new introduction by author Nick Cole.
Author: Jennifer Fulton Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc ISBN: 160282309X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 245
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Two sworn enemies who can't resist each other. Something has to give. The Blakes and the Cavenders have been going at it since 1870 and Vienna Blake keeps up the family tradition, gunning for the Cavenders at every opportunity. All the same, she's shocked when Mason Cavender confronts her in her office and accuses her of murder. Vienna has the stunningly sexual Mason thrown out by security, but she can't rid herself so easily of her powerful, instant attraction to the woman she's been groomed since childhood to destroy. Last in a long line of "Cursed Cavenders," as the media describes them, Mason has just walked away from the small plane crash that killed her brother. Now in charge of her family's crumbling business empire, she suspects sabotage and believes beautiful, ruthless Vienna Blake is responsible. Fearing for her life and grieving for her brother, Mason hires a private investigator to get evidence she can take to the police. She is frustrated when the man finds nothing but makes the bizarre suggestion that she hire a psychic to undo the "curse" on her family. He gives her a name. Phoebe Temple. Phoebe's dreams have always centered on the victims of crimes, and she isn't surprised when the woman steps from her dreams into her life, asking for help. Exposing family secrets always comes at a price. With passion and family honor in the balance, Mason is willing to pay her dues. But can she persuade Vienna to accept a truce before it's too late? Dark Garden brings together two powerful women who must confront the past if they want to seize the future.The third book in the Dark Vista series.
Author: Andrew Salomon
Author: Andrew Salomon
Author: Andrew Salomon
Author: Andrew Salomon
Author: Dave Cas
Author: N. K. Jemisin
Author: Seth Skorkowsky
Author: Ben Loory
Author: Nick Cole
Author: Jennifer Fulton