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Music may soothe the savage breast, but in this fifth collection of witty and wicked crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle, music provides the background for tales of murder and mayhem. Eighteen stories by Canadian women crime writers along with poems from Joy Hewitt Mann take their inspiration from titles as varied as the upbeat «Wake Up Little Suzie» through the romantic «Summertime» and musicals such as «There’s No Business Like Show Business». It’s a collection you won’t want to put...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Dogtooth is a book about ghosts: ghosts as in the spectres and echoes of absent friends, but also as in the discomforts, paranoias and phobias that haunt a very particular cultural moment. It's a book about fear, about a background static of suspicion. It's about the twin anxieties of identity and assimilation. There's folklore in it, the current that we carry and that which carries us; the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and the damage those stories can do. It's...
| Автор | Fran Lock |
Contains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate – political, environmental, economic – engenders its own nervy music. These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar. It is a collection that abounds in loss, in a sense of being lost, and in the gnawing fear of losing, yet...
| Автор | Fran Lock |
Set in the immediate aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Irma, the most catastrophic storm to strike the British Virgin Islands, Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia stands as a collection of rich, transcendental verse. Beyond the loss and devastation that such a natural disaster brings, Georges’ ideas span beyond the physical world, asking us to consider the ways in which families and communities come together amidst such tragedy. Blood runs under the earth. A father will instruct his daughter to the hills...
| Автор | Richard Georges |
Essential Oils Are a Natural and Effective Way to Look beautiful and claim your perfect health! Do you want to find out how to create a healthier lifestyle for yourself and your family by using essential oils? Essential Oils Beauty Secrets Reloaded: How To Make Beauty Products At Home For Skin, Hair & Body Care Step by Step Guide is one of the most complete book on the subject, especially for the beginner. Inside this book you will discover simple recipes for making beauty care products at...
| Автор | Janet Evans |
A Sign Language study guide is a tool that accompanies a basic course in American Sign Language. It is designed to contain drills featuring sentences in order to give the student an effective way to practice speaking this language. A study guide for Sign Language reinforces the lessons already learned, in addition to reviewing and incorporating previous lessons. Many individuals who are learning Sign Language for the first time find that a study guide is an immensely helpful and useful tool for...
| Автор | Speedy Publishing |
An English verbs study guide can help individuals when studying grammar. By having all the necessary information needed to study in one place, individuals won't need to flip through many pages of notes to figure out all of the verb rules that may need to be memorized. Having all the necessary information in single space will also cut down on study time and lead to greater focus. English is a difficult language with many verb rules and a innumerable amount of irregular verbs. Having a study...
| Автор | Speedy Publishing |
How does one become sexually aware? What exactly happens after the threshold of virginity has been crossed? It can be a disappointing thing for some and the greatest thing that ever happened for others. The protagonist in «Curvy Girls Have Fun Too!» goes through a lot of self discovery. She has had a lot of negativity hurled at her and, in the long run, she is very trusting of men and what they want from her. After she meets a guy through her best friend, she is faced with yet another life...
| Автор | Ashley Henry |
Have you ever had doubts about doing certain things and then decide to do it in spite of your feelings of doubt? That is what happens to the protagonist in «Taken By a Traffic Cop.» She makes the decision to do something as she really has no other option and she ends up in a life changing situation. She is at the mercy of a horny traffic cop with a chip on his shoulder. It is a battle of wits that unfolds with both ending up getting something that they desire most.
| Автор | Melinda Dillard |
"Adventures of a Military Wife" delves into the life of a scorned military wife. She is a newlywed and her husband has been deployed and away from her for four months. She had to find ways to keep herself sexually satisfied until he came home. He should be home pretty soon. She gets hit with a curve ball which makes her rethink her whole situation. She has to think about what her actions have caused and what decisions she needs to make to secure her future. It is a wonderful story about...
| Автор | Francine Browne |
Sarah has spent her whole life fighting against her father’s wishes. She doesn’t care about his old beliefs and traditions; she just wants to go to college. Sarah’s determined to do something with her life that doesn’t involve baking pies and being a good wife, and she’s convinced that with enough hard work, she’ll manage it all. That is, until she gets put on a class assignment with Robert Hasting who seems intent on causing trouble in her life in more ways than one. Robert is sick of his...
| Автор | Third Cousins |