Download or read book Jack Spartan Varaci Runner written by K. Edward Mallory and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth mission of the new Advanced Space Shuttle program begins without a hitch but something goes horribly wrong as the shuttle vanishes at T+15 minutes after launch. The second in command pilot Jack Spartan awakens in the wreckage of the shuttle Victory only to find himself in a horrifying survival situation. His crew and Victory are gone but he is somehow alive in the bowels of a gargantuan space freighter. Captured by the space freighter’s crew he is unable to communicate with them so he is deemed a stowaway and is sold into conscript slavery. He must use every bit of his intellect, military training and martial art skills to survive the deadly challenges he encounters. How will he escape his fraudulent conscript sentence? How will he survive the planet’s vicious terraformed jungles and vast deserts and rescue the friends he had to leave behind? Written for those who crave a degree of technical and scientific realism as well as for your average sci-fi reader, Jack Spartan Varaci Runner is based on plausible scientific and engineering theory.

Download or read book Curses of Scale written by S. D. Reeves and published by Riversong Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16-year-old Niena wants to attend an elite bardic college, but the dragon that shattered the empire awakens she finds herself on the run to her birth city. If she kills the dragon, she'll save everyone she holds dear but be cursed to become it.

Download or read book Cosplay Killer written by Dahlia Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when an autistic firefighter and his paramedic boyfriend share a thirst for true crime?Osian Garey and Dannel Ortea live together in a colourful flat in Covent Garden. They run a podcast and throw themselves wholeheartedly into Cosplay, video games, and musical theatre. This year, they're all fired up to attend their annual convention with a group of first responders.When Osian finds a paramedic friend murdered in the middle of the crowded venue, the police immediately turn their attention to him.They have one question on their mind. Is he the first witness on the scene or the killer? As the mystery unfolds, Osian has to face the trauma of his last job as a paramedic. Somewhere in those memories, a killer waits to exact revenge. They'll have to prove Osian's innocence and fight for their own survival when the killer puts them both in their sights.

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Download or read book Uptown Blues written by Seth Pevey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre loves three things most of all: his daddy, his trumpet, and Louis Armstrong. But when his father is killed on the St. Charles streetcar, and Andre is the only witness, he'll have to grow up fast. There is one problem. The boy can't, or won't speak-no one is really sure which. Under pressure from all directions, Andre's silence and eventual disappearance will spark a chain of events that quickly spiral into out of control, as authorities try to piece together what happened that day on the streetcar and save Andre's life. Thankfully, the boy has friends. Private detectives Felix Herbert, and his crumbling but affable partner David Melancon are on the hunt for the boy, and they'll need to act fast if they hope to find him before the killer does. Uptown Blues is the fifth installment of the universally praised Herbert and Melancon mystery series, but it can be read as a standalone novel! Read some of the thousands of gushing reviews for the series: ★ "One of the best series I have read". -- Glennise Remick ★ "You can bet I will read everything I can find written by him" - Randy Yost, Amazon Reader ★ "Graphic, taut, fraught with wild ideas that actually work...a compelling sense of reality that is extraordinarily well written... very very good" -Chancy from Texas, Amazon reader ★ "One of the most interesting books I have read in awhile" - Marilyn Amazon Reader ★ "Story lines are unique and brought to life wrapped in outstanding prose. From the first paragraph to the last I am drawn and held."- Diana H, Amazon reader ★ "This is so well written and the story (and stories) within are brilliant. I couldn't stop reading it"- Roberta J, Amazon Reader Grab your copy today and get hooked on this taut, gritty, and tightly-written noir epic, equal parts Gillian Flynn, James Lee Burke, and John Grisham!

Download or read book The Happy Clam written by Rosemary Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book picks up where Rose's last book left off. If Go Forward, Support! was all about staying a child as long as possible, this book is all about being an adult. Started many years ago and finished in 2020, with the world on the brink of a global pandemic, this book's messages of hope and happiness are perhaps needed now more so than ever before. The Happy Clam scales the realms of happiness - physical, intellectual, emotional, relational, spiritual - bringing together findings from across the fields of psychology and philosophy, with practical advice on how to apply them and be happier. It turns out there are a thousand little things we can do to invite a little more happiness into our lives, to nudge the needle a tick or two, but only a few things that really make a difference. Why happy clam? Just as clams are filter feeders, taking in nourishment from what's in the passing current, Rose has taken in all the bits and bytes of daily news, research, and experience, and stitched them together to create a delicately-crafted mosaic rich in hope and inspiration. The book also shares deeply personal experiences, with both humor and gravity in the face of loss, along with serving up some favorite family recipes.

Download or read book Garden for the Blind written by Kelly Fordon and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All readers of fiction will enjoy the nimble unfolding of Fordon's narrative in this collection.

Download or read book Earth As It Is written by Jan Maher and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A small-town hairdresser is not quite what she seems in this . . quietly luminous tale of folksy gender-bending that’s entertaining and authentic” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Texas, 1930s. Charlie Bader has come of age struggling with urges he doesn’t understand. After his new bride finds him wearing her lingerie, she leaves in disgust and Charlie tries to move on. Landing in Chicago, he soon discovers a community of cross-dressers and starts attending their secret soirees. But when the attack on Pearl Harbor draws the United States into World War II, Charlie volunteers for the army, serving as a dentist and trying once again to leave his obsession with soft clothes behind. After the war, thanks in part to the army’s faulty record-keeping, Charlie reappears in the small town of Heaven, Indiana—as Charlene. There, Charlene opens a beauty shop where Heaven’s women safely share their stories and secrets as she shampoos, clips, curls, and combs their hair. Charlene manages to keep her story hidden and her sexual desires quiet. But when she falls in love with a female customer, she faces a moment of truth—and risk—unlike any she’s known before. “A complex and deeply emotional novel which explores a rarely discussed aspect of gender identity in the post-war Midwest . . . captivating.” —Historical Novel Society

Download or read book Thief in the Interior written by Phillip B. Williams and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This gorgeous debut is a 'debut' in chronology only. . . . Need is everywhere—in the unforgiving images, in lines so delicate they seem to break apart in the hands, and in the reader who will enter these poems and never want to leave."—Adrian Matejka Phillip B. Williams investigates the dangers of desire, balancing narratives of addiction, murders, and hate crimes with passionate, uncompromising depth. Formal poems entrenched in urban landscapes crack open dialogues of racism and homophobia rampant in our culture. Multitudinous voices explore one's ability to harm and be harmed, which uniquely juxtaposes the capacity to revel in both experiences. From "Agenda": I. While two women kissed in their house I watched a jury hide bullets in a Black boy's body, all rigor mortis and bass line. I landed in Chicago, a lead box. The airport showed CNN and a Black mother could not be heard over gate changes, bistro jazz. Subtitles gathered and faded like gossip while I made my mouth vacant in my hometown. I carried a fever of insufferable noise that skin, illuminated by a hoodie, held close, a forced kin. Phillip B. Williams has authored two chapbooks: Bruised Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc.) and Burn (YesYes Books). A Cave Canem graduate, he received scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His work appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Poetry, the Southern Review, West Branch , and others. Phillip received his MFA in Writing as a Chancellor's Graduate Fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis. He is the poetry editor of Vinyl Poetry.

Download or read book I Have the Answer written by Kelly Fordon and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories that manage to feel both fantastical and disturbingly familiar. If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. Kelly Fordon's I Have the Answer artfully mixes the fabulist with the workaday and illuminates relationships and characters with crisp, elegant prose and dark wit. The stories in Fordon's latest collection are disquieting, humorous, and thought-provoking. They might catch you off guard, but are always infused with deep humanity and tenderness. In these thirteen short stories, Fordon presents people dealing with the grayness of reality and longing for transcendence. Characters within these stories are often as surprised by their own behavior as that of their neighbor's. In "Jungle Life," the narrator attempts to clarify and document the stories of his father, a war veteran, before he descends into dementia. In "Where's the Baby?" a woman reflects on her difficult childhood as she grudgingly cares for her more successful, yet exasperating sister. In "In the Dog House," a woman visits an estate sale and sifts through the layers of lifetimes past while grappling with her long-standing jealousy of a mysterious neighbor. In "The Shorebirds and The Shaman," a woman who has just lost her husband winds up at a kooky weekend retreat role-playing her way out of debilitating grief. Award-winning author Desiree Cooper has called the stories in I Have the Answer"pitch perfect . . . Fordon takes us to the precipice where trauma and triumph are equal possibilities. The people in these stories are so hauntingly real that long after I put the book down, I found myself wondering what had become of them." Readers of contemporary fiction and short stories will enjoy mulling over the complicated feelings this collection evokes.

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Download or read book The Manual Workers Family written by Terezia Kontova and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manual workers' family rise out of poverty to become wealthy in the world full of fantasy and black humour.

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Download or read book Ashes in a Coconut written by Bo Kearns and published by Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempting to save her marriage, Laura Harrison arrives in Jakarta with her husband Jack who is to take over as president of a troubled bank, but things are not as they seem and soon events spin out of control.

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