Download or read book Dancing Towards the Blade and Other Stories written by Mark Billingham and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available together in ebook for the first time ever, this trio of brilliant short stories showcases the writing talent of number one Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham. Dancing Towards the Blade: They are waiting for the boy on his way home, the racist thugs. For Vincent, it is the latest in a string of violent events his family has faced since moving to England. But Vincent knows something that the thugs don't: he has in him the spirit of his father who, once upon a time in a far off country, also faced down fear to prove he was Grade A. Stroke of Luck: During a summer cricket match, Alan meets Rachel, and they start a relationship - but soon Alan discovers he is having an affair with a married woman. Though not a happily married one. Rachel's husband abuses her physically and psychologically and Rachel is at her wits' end. Alan vows to protect her - but her husband is not the only one who is a threat. Rachel is being secretly watched... The Walls: When Chris spots a beautiful woman across a crowded restaurant on his business trip to Texas, he never imagines that she would be interested in him, let alone be waiting for him when he returns to his hotel later that evening.As the two strangers talk, the true and haunting reason for their visits comes to light...
Download or read book Chronicles of Conan Volume 8 Brothers of the Blade and Other Stories written by Roy Thomas and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fantastic world filled with malevolent magicians and dangerous doppelgangers, one man pits his flesh, blood, and steel against an endless tide of enemies-natural and supernatural-that would seek to destroy him. That man is Conan! Whether he's going toe-to-toe against a lumbering beast or taking on a shipload of cut-throats and pirates, Conan's strength, cunning and iron will know no equal. Collecting issues #52-#60 of the original series. • Presenting more of the celebrated Roy Thomas/John Buscema Conan the Barbarian run. All featuring completely remastered color; all proving once again why Conan is considered the greatest and most savage Fantasy characters of all time.
Download or read book Must I Weep for the Dancing Bear and other Stories written by Louis Phillips and published by PBS Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Phillips writes and teaches. Mostly he writes. He's published well over forty books, including poems, plays, novels, and short stories. He's published compilations of theatre quotes, TV history, sports nicknames, and jokes. He's a walking encyclopedia of cultural trivia. And he can't stop writing. We're very happy about that. This is the second book of his that we've published, the first being The Woman Who Wrote 'King Lear,' and Other Stories. He lives in New York City.
Download or read book A Dance of Blades written by David Dalglish and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish It's been five long years since the city learned to fear. . . In book #2 of the Shadowdance series, the war between the thief guilds and the powerful allegiance known as the Trifect has slowly dwindled. Now only the mysterious Haern is left to wage his private battle against the guilds in the guise of the Watcher -- a vicious killer who knows no limits. But when the son of Alyssa Gemcroft, one of the three leaders of the Trifect, is believed murdered, the slaughter begins anew. Mercenaries flood the streets with one goal in mind: find and kill the Watcher. Peace or destruction; every war must have its end. Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.
Download or read book Dance of Knives written by Donna McMahon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vancouver in the twenty-second century is a city of stark contrasts, divided between its prospering Guild citizens and the starving descendants of American refugees who fled ecological catastrophe and political chaos decades ago. Newcomer Klale Renhardt is struggling to survive on the half drowned, ungoverned island of Downtown, where every type of trade is controlled by tongs or gangs. When she finds a job through Toni, the tough, beautiful American bartender at the famous KlonDyke nightclub, Klale finally allows herself to feel safe--until she hears that Toni may have been a torturer for the tongs. Even more disturbing is Toni's strange connection with Blade, the giant, bio-altered slave of Downtown's most feared blackmailer. Klale fears the rage that simmers behind the giant's eyes, but when she attracts the vengeful attention of a hidden enemy, Blade may be the only person who can save her. Blade's psyche has been so profoundly twisted by neural implants that he doesn't even realize he's human. If Klale can't find a way to help him discover his own soul, she may not survive either her murderous enemy or the looming tong war.
Download or read book Lynerkim s Dance and Other Stories written by R. H. Emmers and published by Dog Soldier Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories that are, by turns, intense, visionary, mysterious and humorous, touching matters as diverse as spontaneous human combustion, dentists mysteriously disappearing from a town that appears on no maps, a former drug dealer searching for her long-lost home and missing dog, a murderer setting in motion The Plan. In the title story, Lynerkim's Dance, a contract assassin plagued by visions of a giant comet striking earth, seeks to unravel his father's disappearance and fiery death, while carrying out a deadly assignment during which he himself becomes the target.
Download or read book Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories written by Kenneth C. Gardner Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories--The Canadian, Royce Hare, Home, Meatball Birds, The Falls Brawl, Conrad Forester, Miss Hutchinson, and The Horse--add more details to the lives of the Cockburn family and other residents of Menninger, North Dakota, the fictional town first introduced in the novel The Song Is Ended and continued in the novel The Dark Between The Stars. They are visits to small town life from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1960s.
Download or read book The Wrong Hands written by Mark Billingham and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Had me laughing out loud one minute and emotional the next. I'm excited to have found a new favourite detective' --- CLAIRE DOUGLAS This is one case Miller won't want to open . . . Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands. Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife's death. Now Miller has leverage, but unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of. Chuck in a Midsomer Murders-obsessed hitman, a psychotic welder and a woman driven over the edge by a wayward Crème Egg, and Miller is in a mess that even he might not be able to dance his way out of.
Download or read book DANCE MY LOVE OTHER STORIES written by Gerald Kithinji and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PITHY STORIES FROM MOZAMBIQUE AND ZIMBABWE: The Pub Crawl, The Vengeful Matamba, Stoking the Fire, The Feast, The Totem and Dance My Love will leave you craving for more of African short stories. You will be jumping from the literary frying pan into the fire.
Download or read book The Pierced Heart and Other Stories written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Freckle Toad and Other Stories written by Mrs. Olive Beatrice Flint McKibben and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories written by Russell Charles Leong and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans. In styles ranging from naturalism to high-camp parody, Leong goes beneath stereotypes of immigrant and American-born Chinese, hustlers and academics, Buddhist priests and street people. Displacement and marginalization — and the search for love and liberation — are persistent themes. Leong’s people are set apart, by sexuality, by war, by AIDS, by family dislocations. From this vantage point on the outskirts of conventional life, they often see clearly the accommodations we make with identity and with desire. A young teen-ager, sold into prostitution to finance her brothers’ education, saves her hair trimmings to burn once a year in a temple ritual, the one part of her body that is under her own control. A documentary film producer, raised in a noisy Hong Kong family, marvels at the popular image of Asian Americans as a silenced minority. Traditional Chinese families struggle to come to terms with gay children and AIDS.
Download or read book Dance Among the Flames written by Tori Eldridge and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion. Horror. Betrayal. From the national bestselling author of the Lily Wong thriller series comes a "stunningly original" (F. Paul Wilson) dark journey into Brazilian mysticism about a desperate mother who rises from the slums to embrace Quimbanda magic amid her quest for the ultimate revenge. Across forty years, three continents, and a past incident in 1560 France, Serafina Olegario tests the boundaries of love, power, and corruption as she fights to escape her life of poverty and abuse. Serafina's quest begins in Brazil when she's possessed by the warrior goddess Yansa, who emboldens her to fight yet threatens to consume her spirit. Fueled by power and enticed by Exu, an immortal trickster and intermediary to the gods, Serafina turns to the seductive magic of Quimbanda. It's dangerous to dance in the fire. But when you come from nothing, you have nothing to lose.
Download or read book Orientation and Other Stories written by Daniel Orozco and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakfast's boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker's taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown. Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination. Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction. Orientation is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Short Story Collections title.
Download or read book Sword of the King written by Megan Derr and published by Less Than Three Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons are amongst the most feared creatures in the paranormal world, nigh unbeatable and barely controllable. Every year, countless men and women with dragon potential are kidnapped and changed, their former lives lost forever. They are drugged to compliance and trained to fight in the notorious Pits for the profit of the crime lords who breed them. Blaze has been a pit fighter all his life, and it is a life he hates. The only thing that keeps him going is that if he stops, he risks losing the only thing that matters to him: his dragon Erie. Though pit rules say it's a bad idea to get too close to the dragons, Blaze has never been able to help it. He'll do anything to protect Erie. Ken and his dragon Nevada were once victims of the pits, stolen from their normal lives and forced to fight. Now, they work to bring down the pits they despise, though the battle seems futile. Everyone who has ever tried has wound up dead. Stopping the pit fights once and for all will take a miracle—or a legend.
Download or read book Mrs Caudle s Curtain Lectures and Other Stories and Essays written by Douglas Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE JUNGLE OTHER BOOKS 8 Titles in One Volume written by Upton Sinclair and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-09-10 with total page 2221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Jungle King Coal: A Novel The Moneychangers The Metropolis Jimmie Higgins 100%: The Story of a Patriot The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation The Brass Check Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American author who wrote books in many genres, but in all of them advocating for the moral ethics, better life style for the working people and social justice. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
