Author: Nerine Dorman
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sometimes gentrification brings with it unexpected, sinister results, or your neighbours harbour secrets. Social media has a darker side or maybe it’s your kitchen appliances that are plotting against you. Who knows? The South African HorrorFest Bloody Parchment anthology, Beachfront Starter Home, Good Bones and Other Stories, offers you a selection of tales that will take you from the comfort of your home to deeper, disturbing destinations drawn from its 2013 competition finalists. Step inside, draw up a chair near the fire, and discover the dark visions of these authors.
Bloody Parchment
Author: Nerine Dorman
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sometimes gentrification brings with it unexpected, sinister results, or your neighbours harbour secrets. Social media has a darker side or maybe it’s your kitchen appliances that are plotting against you. Who knows? The South African HorrorFest Bloody Parchment anthology, Beachfront Starter Home, Good Bones and Other Stories, offers you a selection of tales that will take you from the comfort of your home to deeper, disturbing destinations drawn from its 2013 competition finalists. Step inside, draw up a chair near the fire, and discover the dark visions of these authors.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sometimes gentrification brings with it unexpected, sinister results, or your neighbours harbour secrets. Social media has a darker side or maybe it’s your kitchen appliances that are plotting against you. Who knows? The South African HorrorFest Bloody Parchment anthology, Beachfront Starter Home, Good Bones and Other Stories, offers you a selection of tales that will take you from the comfort of your home to deeper, disturbing destinations drawn from its 2013 competition finalists. Step inside, draw up a chair near the fire, and discover the dark visions of these authors.
Sweet
Author: Tammara Webber
Publisher: Tammara Webber
ISBN: 0985661887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
SWEET is the third book in the Contours of the Heart series
Publisher: Tammara Webber
ISBN: 0985661887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
SWEET is the third book in the Contours of the Heart series
The Eve Project
Author: Al Bruno
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483637387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In an effort to save the lives of American soldiers in the Middle East, the U.S. Government has created a new weapon, one that kills without remorse, without conscience, without prejudice. They asked for a solution, what they received was a nightmare... Welcome to the next stage in battlefield warfare, The Eve Project...
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483637387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In an effort to save the lives of American soldiers in the Middle East, the U.S. Government has created a new weapon, one that kills without remorse, without conscience, without prejudice. They asked for a solution, what they received was a nightmare... Welcome to the next stage in battlefield warfare, The Eve Project...
The Gringo Champion
Author: Aura Xilonen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1609453670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The award-winning debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen, The Gringo Champion is a thrillingly inventive story about crossing borders that the Los Angeles Review of Books called "one of the must-read books of 2017." Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach "the promised land." And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal immigrant tells his story. As Liborio narrates his memories we discover a childhood scarred by malnutrition and abandonment, an adolescence lived with a sense of having nothing to lose. In his new home, he finds a job at a bookstore. He falls in love with a woman so intensely that his fantasies of her verge on obsession. And, finally, he finds himself on a path that just might save him: he becomes a boxer. This is a migrant's story of deracination, loneliness, fear, and finally, love told in a sparkling, innovative prose. It's Million Dollar Baby meets The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and a story of migration and hope that is as topical as it is timeless.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1609453670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The award-winning debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen, The Gringo Champion is a thrillingly inventive story about crossing borders that the Los Angeles Review of Books called "one of the must-read books of 2017." Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach "the promised land." And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal immigrant tells his story. As Liborio narrates his memories we discover a childhood scarred by malnutrition and abandonment, an adolescence lived with a sense of having nothing to lose. In his new home, he finds a job at a bookstore. He falls in love with a woman so intensely that his fantasies of her verge on obsession. And, finally, he finds himself on a path that just might save him: he becomes a boxer. This is a migrant's story of deracination, loneliness, fear, and finally, love told in a sparkling, innovative prose. It's Million Dollar Baby meets The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and a story of migration and hope that is as topical as it is timeless.
EXPOSED
Author: Tommy Clancy
Publisher: The Real Tom Clancy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Tommy first begins to suspect that Maxi is living two lives in the idyllic village of Unterhausen. One life where she puts up her façade and pretends to be happy in her unfulfilling marriage. Then when there is no one looking, she retreats into seclusion and turns to Tommy. This is where her heart has always been. However, with him, she has three lives. They have their romantic past. Now in the present, they are living in the throes of rekindled love and passion. However, it is their future that is being held hostage by her overbearing parents, feeble husband and the ultimate question of how to handle telling her boys. One cannot close the door to their past, while she still has one foot on the other side. He notices that although she is the life of the party and known as little miss sunshine, that she seems to have walls built all around her. Is it a self-defense mechanism or is she hiding secrets in that fortress? On one hand, she pours her heart and soul out to him. On the other hand, there are periods of unexplained silence. She never mentions her husband, but they are both aware that he is there. Once the walls have been breached, what other secrets will be exposed?
Publisher: The Real Tom Clancy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Tommy first begins to suspect that Maxi is living two lives in the idyllic village of Unterhausen. One life where she puts up her façade and pretends to be happy in her unfulfilling marriage. Then when there is no one looking, she retreats into seclusion and turns to Tommy. This is where her heart has always been. However, with him, she has three lives. They have their romantic past. Now in the present, they are living in the throes of rekindled love and passion. However, it is their future that is being held hostage by her overbearing parents, feeble husband and the ultimate question of how to handle telling her boys. One cannot close the door to their past, while she still has one foot on the other side. He notices that although she is the life of the party and known as little miss sunshine, that she seems to have walls built all around her. Is it a self-defense mechanism or is she hiding secrets in that fortress? On one hand, she pours her heart and soul out to him. On the other hand, there are periods of unexplained silence. She never mentions her husband, but they are both aware that he is there. Once the walls have been breached, what other secrets will be exposed?
Happy Birthday, Turk!
Author: Jakob Arjouni
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
“Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE When a Turkish laborer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district, the local polcie see no need to work overtime. But when the laborer's wife comes to him for help, wise-cracking detective Kemal Kayankaya, a Turkish immigrant himself, smells a rat. The dead man wasn't the kind of guy who spent time with prostitutes. What gives? The deeper he digs, the more Kayankaya finds that the vitim was a good guy, a poor immigrant just trying to look out for his family. So who wanted him dead, and why? On the way to find out, Kayankaya has run-ins with prostitutes and drug addicts, gets beaten up by anonymous thugs, survives a gas attack, and suffers several close encounters with a Fiat. And then there's the police cover-up he stumbles upon ...
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
“Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE When a Turkish laborer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district, the local polcie see no need to work overtime. But when the laborer's wife comes to him for help, wise-cracking detective Kemal Kayankaya, a Turkish immigrant himself, smells a rat. The dead man wasn't the kind of guy who spent time with prostitutes. What gives? The deeper he digs, the more Kayankaya finds that the vitim was a good guy, a poor immigrant just trying to look out for his family. So who wanted him dead, and why? On the way to find out, Kayankaya has run-ins with prostitutes and drug addicts, gets beaten up by anonymous thugs, survives a gas attack, and suffers several close encounters with a Fiat. And then there's the police cover-up he stumbles upon ...
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital
Author: Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350234389
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China."(Chicago Reader) Poetic and devastating, sensuous and politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Plays explore the forces of global capital as they explode within the lives of everyday people in contemporary China. This volume collects together the three plays in the series, including Cowhig's exploration of the human cost of development in China's socialist market economy (The World of Extreme Happiness), of justice and revenge amidst ecological and economic catastrophe (Snow in Midsummer), and the tale of the trade in blood that brought the AIDS crisis to rural China (The King of Hell's Palace). In addition to Cowhig's plays, the volume includes a host of supplemental materials including an editorial preface and three (previously published) brief essays responding to each play by the editor, Joshua Chambers-Letson; a new introduction by theatre/performance scholar and dramaturg Christine Mok that explores the key themes in Cowhig's body of work; a summary discussion between Cowhig, Chambers-Letson, and Mok, on Cowhig's process and the political and aesthetic currents animating her work. The World of Extreme Happiness: "Fearless, zippily-paced, and satirical . . . Cowhig forces us down the long hard look path" (Independent) Snow in Midsummer: “Gripping and affecting... graceful and impassioned” (Times) The King of Hell's Palace: "A medical-scandal drama that we can't afford to ignore" (Telegraph)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350234389
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China."(Chicago Reader) Poetic and devastating, sensuous and politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Plays explore the forces of global capital as they explode within the lives of everyday people in contemporary China. This volume collects together the three plays in the series, including Cowhig's exploration of the human cost of development in China's socialist market economy (The World of Extreme Happiness), of justice and revenge amidst ecological and economic catastrophe (Snow in Midsummer), and the tale of the trade in blood that brought the AIDS crisis to rural China (The King of Hell's Palace). In addition to Cowhig's plays, the volume includes a host of supplemental materials including an editorial preface and three (previously published) brief essays responding to each play by the editor, Joshua Chambers-Letson; a new introduction by theatre/performance scholar and dramaturg Christine Mok that explores the key themes in Cowhig's body of work; a summary discussion between Cowhig, Chambers-Letson, and Mok, on Cowhig's process and the political and aesthetic currents animating her work. The World of Extreme Happiness: "Fearless, zippily-paced, and satirical . . . Cowhig forces us down the long hard look path" (Independent) Snow in Midsummer: “Gripping and affecting... graceful and impassioned” (Times) The King of Hell's Palace: "A medical-scandal drama that we can't afford to ignore" (Telegraph)
Sinner's Steel
Author: Sarah Castille
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250056624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
When Zane "Tracker" Colter drops back into Evie's life, he hopes they can rekindle what they had before he broke her heart and left, but Evie's current relationship with Zane's rival, the leader of the Black Jacks, threatens any hope of a future together.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250056624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
When Zane "Tracker" Colter drops back into Evie's life, he hopes they can rekindle what they had before he broke her heart and left, but Evie's current relationship with Zane's rival, the leader of the Black Jacks, threatens any hope of a future together.
Zoo Station
Author: Christiane F.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1936976226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In 1978 Christiane F. testified against a man who had traded heroin for sex with teenage girls at Berlin’s notorious Zoo Station. In the course of that trial, Christiane F. became connected with two journalists, and over time they helped to turn her story - which begins with a dysfunctional but otherwise fairly normal childhood - into an acclaimed bestseller. Christiane F.’s rapid descent into heroin abuse and prostitution is shocking, but the boredom, the longing for acceptance, the thrilling risks, and even the musical obsessions that fill out the rest of Christiane’s existence will be familiar to every reader. Christiane F.’s Berlin is a strange and often terrifying place, but it’s also a place that remains closer than we might think….
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1936976226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In 1978 Christiane F. testified against a man who had traded heroin for sex with teenage girls at Berlin’s notorious Zoo Station. In the course of that trial, Christiane F. became connected with two journalists, and over time they helped to turn her story - which begins with a dysfunctional but otherwise fairly normal childhood - into an acclaimed bestseller. Christiane F.’s rapid descent into heroin abuse and prostitution is shocking, but the boredom, the longing for acceptance, the thrilling risks, and even the musical obsessions that fill out the rest of Christiane’s existence will be familiar to every reader. Christiane F.’s Berlin is a strange and often terrifying place, but it’s also a place that remains closer than we might think….
Seventh Street Alchemy
Author: Monica Arac de Nyeko
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770091450
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The 2004 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Brian Chikwava's "Seventh Street Alchemy" is featured alongside shortlisted stories from 2004, compositions from the Caine Prize's March 2005 Workshop for African Writers, and Charles Mungoshi's previously unpublished "Letter from a Friend" in this inspired collection of work from some of Africa's most promising young and new writers.
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770091450
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The 2004 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Brian Chikwava's "Seventh Street Alchemy" is featured alongside shortlisted stories from 2004, compositions from the Caine Prize's March 2005 Workshop for African Writers, and Charles Mungoshi's previously unpublished "Letter from a Friend" in this inspired collection of work from some of Africa's most promising young and new writers.