Whole Lotta Love and Other Tales

Whole Lotta Love and Other Tales

Author: Theodore Lyons

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2008-02-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1469108917

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In the novella Whole Lotta Love, a successful 29-year-old Sino-American entrepreneur named Xu Tang, a part-time heroin smuggler, is found murdered in Chicago‘s Chinatown, and her casual Mexican boyfriend, Jose Agave, is indicted for murdering her. Agave is freed unexpectedly when one of the jurors in his murder trial, a promiscuous legal secretary named Carlotta Jeffries, refuses to find him guilty and forces a hung jury. In the aftermath, the lives of Jose Agave and Carlotta Jeffries, now forever linked, are turned upside down when everyone around them mysteriously dies one by one.


Two Occult Tales

Two Occult Tales

Author: Theodore Lyons

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2008-03-28

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 1469108909

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TWO OCCULT TALES are now together in one volume: Respect for the Dead, set in Africa, and the gripping sequel, Sleight Return, set in witchy New England.


Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love

Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love

Author: Lara Vapnyar

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2009-06-02

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 030727988X

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Each of Lara Vapnyar's six stories invites us into a world where food and love intersect, along with the overlapping pleasures and frustrations of Vapnyar's uniquely captivating characters. Meet Nina, a recent arrival from Russia, for whom colorful vegetables represent her own fresh hopes and dreams . . . Luda and Milena, who battle over a widower in their English class with competing recipes for cheese puffs, spinach pies, and meatballs . . . and Sergey, who finds more comfort in the borscht made by a paid female companion than in her sexual ministrations. They all crave the taste and smell of home, wherever—and with whomever—that may turn out to be. A roundup of recipes are the final taste of this delicious collection.


Engines of Desire

Engines of Desire

Author: Livia Llewellyn

Publisher: Lethe Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1590213246

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Death and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfills the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards.... The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power." Few authors have spun stories of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn. In his introduction to this volume, Laird Barron writes, "Scant difference exists between exquisite pleasure and pain." An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshipping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks to serve as wombs. A suburban housewife troubled by her present encounters the sixteen-year-old girl she ached to touch in her dreams. These ten stories promise to indulge a reader's sensibilities, fears, and desires. A finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award in two categories: Best Novella and Best Collection!


South Seas Congé

South Seas Congé

Author: Theodore Lyons

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2007-12-05

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1469108925

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South Seas Cong is a lurid hodgepodge of seven previously published Pacific island taleshumorous, mystical, romantic, occult, tragic, transsexual, or death-defying, featuring sharks, centipedes, parasites, sacred cows, fortunetellers, prisoners, beatings, shootings, the devil, and the walking dead.


Another Bad-Dog Book

Another Bad-Dog Book

Author: Joni B Cole

Publisher: Affinity Systems

Published: 2017-01-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780975304327

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Self-aware, edgy, and masterfully crafted, this charismatic collection (including some heartbreakers) is for anyone who has ever felt over-attached to a pet, stalked her high school crush, said long goodbyes to loved ones, or tried to talk (and talk and talk) her way through the ups and downs of life. A wonderful new addition to a genre best described as humor that matters. These are roll-on-the-floor-funny, embarrassing and just plain crazy stories that your female friends have told you compiled into one handy book. Except that these stories are well articulated by an imaginative and excellent writer and they have all the guilt, shame and modesty removed from them.


Other Ever Afters

Other Ever Afters

Author: Melanie Gillman

Publisher: Random House Graphic

Published: 2022-09-20

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 0593303210

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Once upon a time . . . happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, feminist, queer fairy-tale collection, you’ll find the princesses, mermaids, knights, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the sidelines in classic stories taking center stage. A gorgeous all-new collection in graphic novel format from a Stonewall Honor-winning author and artist. What if the giant who abducted you was actually thoughtful and kind? What if you didn’t want to marry your handsome, popular, but cold-inside suitor? What if your one true love has all the responsibilities that come with running a kingdom? Award-winning author Melanie Gillman’s phenomenal colored-pencil art creates another "ever after" for the characters who are most worthy of it.