Emerging brittle and cynical from a wildly dysfunctional family, Ngaio careers from ice cream factory to children's home to Oxford to rehab. Along the way, she discovers herself and her sexuality -- at raucous parties with trainee nurses, in feminist encounter groups and Wiccan covens, in university classrooms and legendary sapphic hotspots. This novel delivers vivid and hilarious snapshots of late 20th Century lesbian life: witty, tender, frank.
A very ordinary man wakes up in an African police cell. He has no idea how he got there, nor why he's there. He's tortured for information about which he has no idea, and then he's threatened with execution. When British Consular staff ignore his pleas for help because of a trade deal, he realizes that the only person who is going to help him, is himself. It's towards the end of the 1980s and all this is happening in the middle of a very unstable Zaire that is about to descend into civil war. He knows that to survive, he must escape. This he does, but only by killing some of his guards in the process. He on foot, in the middle of nowhere and everyone wants him dead; and now he must find out why he's Zaire's Public Enemy No1, if he wants to clear his name and return to a normal life.
Abby Simon, successful bakery owner, never thought she'd have two hot men from her past asking for a second chance. Adam always made Abby's heart melt with his chocolate brown eyes, blonde hair and perfect body. The only problem...he dumped her a year ago on their wedding day. He's desperate for Abby's forgiveness and will stop at nothing to win her back. Max was Abby's first crush who moved away and now he's back in town after thirteen years. His dark hair, emerald eyes and smoking hot body has her doing double-takes each time she sees him. He wouldn't give her the time of day back then but he seems very interested in her now. As Abby bakes delicious treats that will have you drooling, she gets to know Max and learns why Adam left. Now, Abby must choose which guy deserves a second chance. *Finalist 2015 National Indie Excellence Awards *A superbly sumptuous read. *YUMMY! YUMMY! YUMMY! I'm looking forward to the next book from this author.
As Cyberface escapes from Beast Boy's care, The Dragon, Rapture, and She-Dragon battle the Dragon-Slayer, a robot sent to kill the Dragon by newspaper publisher R. Richard Richards, who maintains a personal hatred for the Dragon. Dragon defeats the Dragon-Slayer, arrests Richards, and returns home to find the Fiend waiting for him.
Lady Grace Rowe, the dowager Countess of Colbourne, is ready to indulge in an affair. Still in the late blush of youth and after a loveless marriage to a man old enough to be her grandfather, she believes that is the least she deserves. She also believes that the dowager Duchess of Winterset’s “Night of a Thousand Stars” ball at Highburn Castle during the Christmas season is the place to conduct such an affair – if only she knew who she wished to conduct it with! Lord Marcel Blanchard, Count Aris, is half French, half English and not the sort of man given to brief affairs. Lonely and searching for a place to call home, Marc isn’t certain that he wants a wife, but he does know he desires something more permanent than one night in a lady’s bed. When Grace and Marc meet in a shadow hallway with Highburn Castle, sparks fly between then. She wants an affair. He doesn’t know what he wants. The only thing they are both certain of is that they want each other. Is there a future for them outside of the magical Christmas castle or is one night together all they will ever have?
Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer’s Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author’s twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet’s ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer’s work.
"In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? At the center of this puzzle is Adrian Wolfe, a successful architect and grief-stricken widower, who, a year after his third wife's death, begins to investigate the cause. As Adrian looks back on their brief but seemingly happy marriage, disturbing secrets begin to surface"--Amazon.com.
