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Gloria, living with her mother in a Kingston tenement yard, wins a scholarship to one of Jamaica's best girls' schools. She is the engaging narrator of the at first alienating and then transforming experiences of an education that in time takes her away from her mother, friends and the island; of her consciousness of bodily change and sexual awakening; of her growth of adult awareness of a Jamaica of class division, endemic violence and the new spectre of HIV-AIDS. The novel's...
| Автор | Jacqueline Bishop |
Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a small book that tackles large, wholly human questions–what it means to live and date under white supremacy, to never know if one is loved or fetishized, how to navigate fierce desires and tectonic heartbreak through the rise and eventual eruption of a first queer...
| Автор | Sabrina Imbler |
Kelly Link's new collection of stories explores everything from the essence of ghosts to the nature of love. And hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the pyramids. . . The Summer People is a bite-sized sample of Link's incomparable writing, telling the story of Fran, her friend Ophelia, and their adventures at the house belonging to the mysterious and rarely glimpsed 'summer people'. As the tales Fran...
| Автор | Kelly Link |
Is it possible to reunite with people and places that we loved in previous lives?<br><br>As a child, Massey Roberts spends her summers in Seaside, Oregon where she and Mama rent a small cottage each year. Here, the salty warm air gives them an appetite, browns their skin to a healthy glow, and all but carries the fearful echoes of winters out to sea. For three months each year, mother and daughter live a fantasy life free and safe from Massey's abusive...
| Автор | Honey Boone's Perkel |
In this thought provoking follow up to Slone's first allegorical masterpiece, The Great Mystery, we are once again reminded to slow down, and be inspired by Life. <br><br>As part of an ongoing effort to shift our focus to a more interdependent reality, Slone uses this story to remind us of the world's most powerful, and universal law: "The Golden Rule." <br><br>Through both tragedy and triumph, this creative experience invites the reader...
| Автор | Travis Jr. Slone |
Boone's Dock Review (1.2) is a literary review including short stories and poetry from various authors. The Spring 2012 issue brings together experimental and traditional talent from across the United States. <br><br>New to this issue is Poetry Editor, Anthony Sovak.<br><br>Fiction writers featured include: Denis Gray, Barbara Southard, Anatoly Molotkov and Raymond DiSanza. <br><br>Featured poets include: Nancy Keating, Tom Stock, Doreen Spungin, Tony...
| Автор | Various Boone's Authors |
The Black Squares Club is a gripping psycho-sexual detective novel written for the<br>mature reader. It is the second novel of the Sam Sonn series, built on the personna<br>of a hi-tech sleuth who undertakes high profile cases. This time, a serial killer<br>taunts both the police and his victims by mailing in crosswords that give clues<br>to the time and place of his next murder. Sonn attempts to unmask the killer by<br>applying his knowledge of crosswords, his...
| Автор | Joseph Cairo |
In every life there are moments when things change and we are never the same afterward. Sometimes we make our choices with careful consideration. Other times circumstances thrust change upon us and we must act quickly. Sometimes it is only in looking back over the space of years that we realize how a small event can cause large change. We may sometimes wonder-who might we have become if we had chosen differently. But in life, there is no going back. <br><br>Mike Trial shares twelve...
| Автор | Mike JD Trial |
Mikail Roshan Housani was a man who always got what he wanted and he had no qualms whatsoever about using abduction, rape and murder to achieve his goal which isn't surprising because he was a past master of all three and a practicing psychopath. <br><br>What he wanted now was Mrs Develin Capritzo Sarquazi Rose – Sarah and her children but it had to be accomplished before she returned to Morocco and the gathering of the Benghazi. And there was another matter; the...
| Автор | L. M. Ollie |
Young, intelligent, beautiful, Sarah Churchill knew exactly what she wanted from life and what she wanted was a career in medicine. On New Year's Eve, 1979 she was abducted. Forced to confront the worst possible nightmare at the hands of a man with few moral scruples – or so it would seem – Sarah soon learns not only the art of adaptation but how to quite simply survive. Lessons well remembered in advance of the day when she would find herself as the Hunter although she would pay dearly...
| Автор | L. M. Ollie |
Phil Fish, aka Kingfish, is about to find out he has a lot to learn. He's just an average guy who can't seem to catch a break. Life's not turning out the way he'd hoped. Until, that is, he gets some valuable advice from a mysterious lady and her tiny dog.<br><br>This advice leads Phil to meet a prophetic mechanic, a dreamer on a four-wheeling beer cooler, an Asian named Bubba with a penchant for rock necklaces, and other memorable characters while he...
| Автор | Rob Wood |
1 Law 4 All – Vegas<br><br>This second book in the 1 Law 4 All series dives into the heart of political corruption with a remarkably diverse band of characters. Vegas dances from adventure to adventure beginning with the mysterious disappearance of Mark's twin sister, Janelle. From American Samoa, Kitiona calls on her 1 Law 4 All Foundation pals to investigate.<br><br>The fledgling 1 Law 4 All Foundation parleys the missing person's report into a web of...
| Автор | Billy Angel |
The Big Midget Murders by Craig Rice, the first mystery writer to be featured on the cover of Time magazine.<br><br>The Big Midget is the hit of the show in Jake Justus's night club, until someone puts an abrupt end to the Midget. Why were eleven unmatched silk stockings used as a noose? Who conked Jake when he got on the killer's trail? John J. Malone finds all the answers with the energetic and hilarious assistance of Jake Justus and the beautiful...
| Автор | Craig Inc. Rice |
