Download or read book Chimera for Christmas written by Ursa Dax and published by Peace Weaver Press Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're supposed to spend Christmas with the person you love most. But what if that person turns out to be the biggest, grumpiest alien you've ever met? SOPHIE When you find out your boyfriend is cheating on you and you get laid off all in the same week, something's gotta give. I need a change, and a seasonal work contract aboard the bustling Elora Station is just the ticket. I'll spend the holidays on the glittering, festive commerce station, make a little money, and clear my head before returning to my colony planet life. It's a perfect plan. One thing I'm not accounting for in that plan, though? My coworker. He's not human. In fact, he's one of the deadliest alien soldiers in the universe - a Chimera. Seven feet tall with black horns, heated yellow eyes, and an exceptionally grumpy disposition, I cannot for the life of me figure out why this genetically modified beast of a man is working in a tiny, human-owned coffee shop at Christmas time. But there's more to X than meets the eye. And the longer I work with him, the more I grow to like him. Soon enough, his taciturn nature begins to charm me. Suddenly, his looks aren't quite so fearsome, but actually kind of... attractive? As the holidays hurtle on and my work contract on Elora Station draws to a close, I realize that I don't want to go back to my old life in the colony. And I don't want to leave X. Can a regular human girl like me find a permanent place on Elora Station and in X's guarded alien heart before Christmas? Chimera for Christmas is a sweet and spicy, cozy, grumpy sunshine, alien monster holiday romance.
Download or read book The Woman Who Died a Lot written by Jasper Fforde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of Early Riser With more than one million books in print worldwide, Jasper Fforde’s beloved series charms a growing number of readers with each new adventure. In The Woman Who Died a Lot, Thursday Next faces her trickiest assignment yet. When her former SpecOps division is reinstated, Thursday assumes she’s the obvious choice to lead the Literary Detectives. Instead, she’s put in charge of the Swindon All-You-Can-Eat-at-Fatso’s Drink Not Included Library. But where Thursday goes, trouble follows. As the new Chief Librarian faces one-hundred-percent budget cuts and the ever-evil Jack Schitt, the Next children face their own career hiccups—and possible nonexistence.
Download or read book Love from Kew written by Sophie Shillito and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together messages from vintage Kew postcards with new prose reflections, Love from Kew is a one-of-a-kind look at the enduring needs for human connection--with each other as much as the natural world. In 2020, the United Kingdom recognized the 150th anniversary of the official introduction of postcards. At the peak of their popularity in the early twentieth century, more than two million postcards a day were mailed in the UK. One could view postcards as the texts or tweets of their day: brief communiques that provide glimpses into the lives of others, with stories that are often as funny or poignant as they are cryptic. These messages were often sent to family or friends back home from a site of special importance--like, for example, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Love from Kew is a valentine to these missives of the past, placing vintage Kew postcards--and the messages written on them--alongside new prose reflections from multi-genre writer Sophie Shillito. The decades-old correspondence and Shillito's wonderstruck contemporary reflections offer a meditation on how these Kew postcards speak to the eternal human need for both personal connection and communion with the natural world. In today's world of environmental precarity and increased isolation, these themes are just as relevant as they were when these antique postcards were first penned. Love from Kew is a fascinating and heartfelt blend of social and visual history, observed through the singular lens of Kew Gardens.
Download or read book Chimera Chronicles Rise of the River Man written by L. S. O'Dea and published by Linda O'Dea. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this FREE dystopian, genetic engineering story about hybrids by bestselling science-fantasy author L. S. O'Dea. Imagine a world filled with human-animal hybrids. They're stronger than us. Faster. More deadly and hungry. Always hungry. Now, step inside the laboratory and witness their creation. Created as weapons. Designed to obey. No one expected them to want revenge. This is Mutter's story. For the first time in his life he's afraid. Afraid of the shots his new master is giving him. Afraid that if he doesn’t escape, he’ll become food for one of the creatures in the nearby cages or worse... He'll become one of them. Rise of the River Man, book one, in the Chimera Chronicles is a stand-alone dystopian, genetic engineering science-fantasy story about human-animal hybrids. It’s urban fantasy/science fiction that’ll make you question who the real monsters are. If you love animals, this book will make you root for those in the laboratory. Fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky, J.N. Chaney, and K.J. Gillenwater will love this series.
Download or read book Chimera s Waltz written by Bibi Brock Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROYAL HARLEY IS DRIVEN TO SEEK ABSOLUTION for the evil he has committed, and approval from his dead father whom he never could please. He marries deplorably innocent young Tilda Ullmann and soon she understands the terrible mistake she has made. Royal, all charm and magnetism, is also an abuser. He finds he is unable to make a union with his bride because in his skewed mind she is saintly, unlike other women whom he sees as craven. It is at the turn of the last century when America went to war with Spain. To achieve his goal, Royal volunteers to join Teddy Roosevelt and his band of cowboys and playboys in Cuba, but finds himself instead serving in the Philippine Islands. Tilda joins him there and incites Royals fury when she meets young Lieutenant Evan Winslow who soon declares his love for her. Royal doggedly pursues his quest to find redemption by some deed of valor, which ultimately takes him deep into the untamed Cordelliera jungle of Luzon where his hideous act of betrayal finally forces him to face himself and see what is there. Tilda comes to believe that she has found a way out of her entrapment.
Download or read book Alien Orc for Christmas written by Ursa Dax and published by Peace Weaver Press Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The huge alien orc who runs the pub on Elora Station knows what he wants for Christmas: me. MAGGIE Seeing my friend Sophie find happiness on the bustling Elora Station is just the kick in the pants I need to follow my dreams. I’m finally going to open my own bakery. When a coveted rental space opens up on the festive commerce station, I jump at the chance. I have my work cut out for me getting the bakery ready in time for Elora Station’s busiest season: Christmas. I don’t mind – I’m used to hard work. What I’m not used to? Having a flirtatious, grinning orc all up in my business. Literally. The absurdly-named Archibald runs the pub next to my bakery, and he spends more time in my shop than his own. Sure, he’s attractive in a giant, muscly, boisterous sort of way. He’s also funny and kind and shockingly generous. But I need to focus. A girl’s gotta have priorities. And those priorities absolutely do not include falling head over heels in love with an alien orc at Christmas. Alien Orc for Christmas is a sweet and steamy cozy monster alien romance taking place during the holidays!
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Download or read book Fintan Fedora The World s Worst Explorer written by Clive Goddard and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bursting with energy and exuberance, FINTAN FEDORA is a delightfully silly page-turner. In the deepest, darkest jungle grows something of such immense value that men will do ANYTHING to get their hands on it: the elusive and delicious chocoplum! Can Fintan Fedora, the world's worst explorer
Download or read book The Chimera s Coming written by Nathan Kuzack and published by Nathan Kuzack. This book was released on with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When chronic misfit Isaac Winter walks out into the freezing cold of a January night, he only has one thing on his mind: ending his own life. Instead, he encounters something in the darkness that makes life worth living. Something strange. Something scary. Something not of this world – an extraterrestrial machine of unknown origin and intent. After developing an obsession with this other-worldly entity, events are set in motion that lead Isaac to a secret military organisation, strangers with superhuman powers, and – ultimately – a revelation about his own past he could never have dreamt of.
Download or read book Chimeras of Form written by Aarthi Vadde and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War I, the “international” emerged as a distinct scale of political and cultural focus. Internationalisms proliferated in kind as writers and thinkers sought to imagine modes of cooperation that would balance transnational solidarities with national sovereignty. While so-called political realists across the twentieth century have regarded such attempts as wishful thinking, Aarthi Vadde argues that the negotiation of wishing and thinking is at the very heart of internationalism. In Chimeras of Form, she shows why modernist literary form is essential to understanding the aspirational and analytical force of internationalism in and beyond Europe. Major writers such as Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, George Lamming, Michael Ondaatje, and Zadie Smith use modernist strategies to reshape how readers think about the cohesion and interrelation of political communities in the wake of empire. Vadde lucidly explains how their formal experiments with the novel, short story, poetry, and political essay contribute to and sometimes even anticipate debates in postcolonial theory and cosmopolitanism. She reads Joyce’s use of asymmetrical narratives as a way to ask questions about international camaraderie, and demonstrates how the “plotless” works of McKay and Lamming upturn ideas of citizenship and diasporic alienation. Her analysis of twenty-first-century writers Smith and Shailja Patel shows how ongoing conflicts around migration, displacement, and global economic inequality link modernist, postcolonial, and contemporary traditions of literature. Vadde brings these traditions together to reveal the dual nature of internationalism as an ambition, possibly a chimeric one, and an actual political discourse vital to understanding our present moment.
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Download or read book Saving Christmas Breakfast written by L. S. O'Dea and published by L. S. O'Dea. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this short holiday fantasy story about a sick boy and an Angel of Death who's sick of his job. Micah hates miracles. They always have a cost, but as an Angel of Death he must grant one every year. It looks like Bobby is going to be the recipient of this twisted miracle. Poor kid. Like dying from leukemia wasn’t enough, now the boy is going to be given a miracle that won’t end with a happily ever after. This stand-alone paranormal short story (6800+words) about crappy miracles and an angel who is sick of his job will make you laugh, cry and hope someone is brave enough to defy the immortals in power.
Download or read book A Chimera s Revenge written by Eve Langlais and published by Eve Langlais. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mad scientist. An even madder patient. A fiery kind of love. All he ever wanted was to be one of the boys. To run and play—and love—like all of them. So Adrian made that dream come true by experimenting…on himself, and in curing his disease, he became something more. Someone special. Intoxicated with his discovery, he shared his healing gift, but not everyone was grateful for the second chance. Some of his patients tried to kill him. Many more became feral. Minor setbacks on the road to greatness. A road Adrian might not travel for long, given his enemies are intent on stealing his life’s work and the madness within creeps closer. And the only person that might be able to save Adrian wants to kill him. Genres: paranormal romance, shapeshifter romance, romantic horror, mad science romance, genetic engineering, supernatural medical thriller, monster romance, interracial romance , phoenix , chimera secrets
Download or read book Eight Nights in December written by Keira Andrews and published by Keira Andrews. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight Nights in December: A Novella
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