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When Jake Bonner jumped off the boxcar in the little Ohio town, he had no idea that he would soon be facing a murder rap and would have to tangle with the Neo-Nazis, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Black Panthers. He didn't know either that the Moundsville Penitentiary, Where he would do his time was the meanest prison in the world, far worse than the French Devils Island Prison. He couldn't believe either the crooked lawyer who said he could spring him and could have never have imagined...
| Автор | Donald E. Morrow |
Did Lalo Montego commit suicide in the bullring–and if so, why? And why did he leave his ranchero, hacienda, and bulls to his once-upon-a-time stepdaughter, Alyssa Dunlap, rather than to his only son, Adriano? Alyssa is left wondering if Adriano’s sudden romantic interest in her is the result of true love, or just a maneuver to reclaim an inheritance he believes is rightfully his. The popular matador Funuco de Galena also warns her about Adriano's intentions, but he has his own reasons to...
| Автор | William Maltese |
Eliot Wilson is close to being called old and after his wife died it could be said that he had lost heart. Then a speaking engagement led to him being made an offer that both excited him and filled him with anxiety, an offer to work in a school in a small village in Uttar Pradesh. For Eliot, travel for the first time will be a solitary journey. On this journey he briefly enters the world of people who are confronted by their misfortunes, challenged by the actions and intentions of others. This...
| Автор | John Duke |
A Love That Binds is a fresh, debut novel surrounding the colourful lives of Jessica Gardener and Lillian Stone. Set between Washington DC, Las Vegas and New York comes a story of strength, courage and inspiration. Two friends that unapologetically follow their dreams no matter what adversity comes their way. Two friends who are not afraid to think big, feel deep and live boldly.<br /><br />"I'm essentially writing about the human condition and the journey of two incredible...
| Автор | Rochelle Chase |
In the not-quite-Earth of Nova Europa, east is fighting west, in a war of politics, culture, and religion. The King of Korynthia has assembled an army to invest neighboring Pommerelia. Initially, everything seems to favor the invaders–save for the continuing unexplained murders of high-level Korynthia officials. Some malevolent force is at work, driving the combatants forward, driving them toward the climactic battle of Killingford. And there everything–or nothing–will be decided! Dr. Michael R....
| Автор | Robert Reginald |
Anasuya's father–a notorious financier and arms dealer–has disappeared. Has he been kidnapped–or murdered–or just plain dropped out of sight? His daughter claims a complete lack of interest in her father's fate. But why is she hiding on a Greek island with her mother's second husband (now her own lover), and writing obsessively in her notebooks about her father and the other members of her family? Slowly her diary starts to make sense of the disappearance–or, at least it appears...
| Автор | Rory Barnes |
‘Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He’s a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read.’ A. L. KennedyBernard lives with his sister Yolande who hasn't left the house since 1945. Bernard is now in the final months of a terminal illness. With no longer anything to lose, he becomes reckless—and murderous.Locally the A26 is under construction. Concrete still wet, it stands ready to serve as a...
| Автор | Pascal Garnier |
Sixteen-year-old navy cadet, Andrew Collins, is spending the April school holidays with his older sister, Carmen, assisting a university research program on the Great Barrier Reef. Whilst SCUBA diving hundred kilometres out to sea around Yule Reef, they find something out of place, something unnatural that should not be there… and that they should not have seen. The discovery leads brother and sister into the most desperate situation they have ever encountered. Join them as they struggle...
| Автор | Christopher Cummings |
An old, smoldering passion turns into a Hot Summer Fling. Home from college on summer break, Lily Rios is bored to tears after only a week. Just when she's ready to run back to school early, she reunites with Jack Turner, the one who got away. Back in high school, Lily had let others convince her Jack wasn't the «right» kind of guy: no money, no status and no power. Now that she's grown up and calls her own shots, she discovers just how very right Jack can be — he knows...
| Автор | Toni Zuma |
Eight stories of love, friendship, and indifference.<br /> <br />Ashley Sievwright is the author of <i>The Shallow End</i>, and <i>Walter</i><br /> <br />'An impressively fresh voice in Australian fiction' … 'evocative prose and cynical humour are Sievwight's strengths' … 'droll observations about life, presented at a gentle pace' … 'Well that was unexpected. Not sure if I loved it or hated it' …...
| Автор | Ashley Sievwright |
This is issue Forty (Extraordinary) One of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet which is being published in June of 2020 and is being sent out free to subscribers as a bonus to add joy to this daily more complicated world. (Contributors were paid the usual rates.) Readers who’d like to support the zine are encouraged to subscribe, mais oui, but also to donate to Color of Change, buy books through Black-owned bookstores such as Frugal Bookstore, and bookstores damaged or closed in the civil...
| Автор | Группа авторов |