Mirage
Mirage

Author: Julie E. Czerneda

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0756415624

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The second book in the Web Shifter's Library series returns to the adventures of Esen, a shapeshifting alien who must navigate the perils of a hostile universe. Relationships get complicated when you don’t know who—or what—you really are. Esen must find a way to rescue a hapless group of chimeras, beings who are a new and unique blend of species she knows, when she can’t become one herself. When Evan Gooseberry tries to help, he is shattered to learn he himself isn’t entirely Human and begins to suspect his new friend Esen isn’t what she seems. Complicating matters, a mysterious contagion has killed the crew of the ship that brought the chimeras—and Evan—to Botharis. Everyone’s been quarantined inside the All Species’ Library of Linguistics and Culture, including over a hundred disgruntled alien scholars. The risks climb as Skalet and Lionel continue their quest to solve the disappearance of Paul’s mother’s ship, the Sidereal Pathfinder, only to find themselves caught in a tangle of loyalties as Skalet is betrayed by her own Kraal affiliates, who infiltrate the Library. All of which would be quite enough for one Web-being’s day, but Paul Ragem hopes to rekindle the romance of his first love. A shame Esen hasn’t told him who’s hiding in their greenhouse.

Planet Reese
Planet Reese

Author: Cordelia Strube

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2007-03-30

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1770702520

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Long-listed for the ReLit Award, 2009 Reese Larkin is desperate to find the perfect mattress. His job is in jeopardy and he’s been forced to separate from his wife and children, but he believes that if he can find the ultimate sleep system his life will begin anew. In her seventh novel, Cordelia Strube grabs readers by the neuroses with a dark but wickedly fun story about a former Greenpeace activist forced to turn marketeer who battles against a world in which he is confronted by shift mattress sales clerks, a Fred and Ginger-obsessed strip-bar waitress, derisive colleagues, and a wife who has mysteriously turned cold and is keeping his children from him. Alone in his damp basement apartment with his daughter’s hamster, he longs for a good night’s sleep and, though faced with despair, begins each day hopefully as he grips tighter to the edges of his life. Engaging, enlightening, and always entertaining, Planet Reese is an intensely personal and endearing tale of a man holding on to his sanity against all odds in an increasingly unhinged world.

Percy
Percy

Author: Valda V. Upenieks

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2015-05-05

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1681810476

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Based on a true story, Percy is a touching and emotional novel as told by Percy, a German Shepherd mix living in an animal shelter for over two years. More than a simple dog story, this heartwarming tale is intended as an allegory of a spiritual journey. From Percy’s idyllic beginnings in a loving family, to the years spent waiting in a shelter nestled in the mountains of Southern California, she lived in the kennel for such a long period because of the shelter’s no-euthanize policy. Percy’s experiences are very real, and she has a pure and honest way of answering the challenges in life that young readers will respond to. Percy’s story is a profound account of the “cycles of life” relevant to us all. Her experiences are very real and she has a pure and honest way of responding to the challenges she faces. There is feeling of hope, and despite the odds, Percy finds her treasure at the end of the rainbow. Readers will be mesmerized by Percy’s world, experiencing a time when life was simple and uncluttered, as seen through a gentle “dog’s eyes.”

The Lawyer & the Colonel
The Lawyer & the Colonel

Author: Raffaella Bossi

Publisher: Edizioni Il Vento Antico

Published: 2020-07-25

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 8894806928

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How far would you go for love – and money? As a feisty, smart, beautiful, high-powered Milan attorney who’s just made partner at her law firm, Rossella Odescalchi thinks she finally has it all. That is, until the day she walks in on her husband with another woman. Shattered, she flees to the Caymans to try to pick up the pieces of her life, where she meets the mysterious, handsome Colonel, an American with a devilish smile and a hidden past. In the blink of an eye she’s caught up in a high seas adventure involving a missing 16th-century Spanish treasure and a ruthless multinational company that will stop at nothing to get it back. Sparks and bullets fly, but will stubborn, strong-willed Rossella try to secure her future by stealing a fortune in gold, or risk everything for the man of her dreams?

Küchlya
Küchlya

Author: Yuri Tynianov

Publisher: Academic Studies PRess

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1644696878

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The poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Pushkin’s school-friend, suffered twenty years of imprisonment and Siberian exile for his part in the ill-fated Decembrist rising of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. His largely forgotten life and work are vividly recreated in Küchlya (1925), a pioneering historical novel by the eminent literary scholar and Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov. Writing at a time when Stalin was tightening his grip on Soviet culture and society, Tynyanov implicitly brings together the disquieting experiences of the 1820s and the 1920s. In a lively, innovative style, his gripping and moving narrative, here translated for the first time, evokes the childhood, youth, beliefs and often absurd adventures of a Quixotic, idealistic protagonist against the richly complex backdrop of post-Napoleonic Russian society.

The Untouchable
The Untouchable

Author: John Banville

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0307560929

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One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence, for many years art expert to the Queen. Now he has been unmasked as a Russian agent and subjected to a disgrace that is almost a kind of death. But at whose instigation? As Maskell retraces his tortuous path from his recruitment at Cambridge to the airless upper regions of the establishment, we discover a figure of manifold doubleness: Irishman and Englishman; husband, father, and lover of men; betrayer and dupe. Beautifully written, filled with convincing fictional portraits of Maskell's co-conspirators, and vibrant with the mysteries of loyalty and identity, The Untouchable places John Banville in the select company of both Conrad and le Carre. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction "Contemporary fiction gets no better than this... Banville's books teem with life and humor." - Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review "Victor Maskell is one of the great characters in recent fiction... The Untouchable is the best work of art in any medium on [its] subject." -Washington Post Book World "As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland; Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding." -San Francisco Chronicle

The Secret Language of Cats
The Secret Language of Cats

Author: Susanne Schötz

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1488099618

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Have you ever wondered what your cat is saying? Cats do not meow randomly, nor do they growl or hiss because they have nothing better to do. Cat sounds have a purpose, and they can carry important messages, whether for us or other cats. Susanne Schötz is hard at work on breaking the cat code. She is a professor at Lund University in Sweden, where a long-standing research program is proving that cats do actually use vocal communication—with each other and with their human caretakers. Understanding the vocal strategies used in human-cat communication will have profound implications for how we communicate with our pets, and has the potential to improve the relationship between animals and humans within several fields, including animal therapy, veterinary medicine and animal sheltering. In The Secret Language of Cats, Schötz offers a crash course in the phonetic study of cat sounds. She introduces us to the full range of feline vocalizations and explains what they can mean in different situations, and she gives practical tips to help us understand our cats better.