Publisher: BookRix
Being a Queen or King in a Fantasyland is every girl or boy's dream. Enter into the realms of Fantasyland. QUEEN BETH dreams are just getting started.
Bartleby the Scrivener meets Catch-22 in this charmingly sardonic tale of love, war and fertilizer. WINNER OF THE PRIX DES COLLAGIENS Simon turned his thoughts to her daily. There were few enough of them, but each one lingered. He imagined their life together. Sometimes even their children’s lives. Sometimes he set his fantasies in Spain, sometimes America, less often Peru– so many settings, all of which turned into the bedroom, eventually. It's 1862, and Spain is a little rueful about letting Peru have their independence. Or, more importantly, letting Peru have the guano – 'white gold' – on the Chincha Islands. Simon is the ship's recorder on a scientific – okay, military – expedition when he meets, in Callao, the mysterious Montse. She asks of him only that he write her letters. Which he utterly fails to do. As military tensions escalate, so does Simon's unabated lust for Montse – even if he can't bring himself to do anything about it. "A novel that makes you want to read long passages out loud – or at least memorize snippets, just for the music of the words of Québec writer Louis Carmain." — La Presse (translated from the French)Show book
Detective Heinz Noonan, the Bearded Homes, is sent to Virginia Beach, North Carolina, to find 30 antique Christian crosses that have vanished. The crosses could not have been stolen because they had no value. So why did they disappear? Who wants them gone and why? There must be a back story that involves money. But what is it? It did not take long for Heinz Noonan to realize he had to solve the back story in less than 24 hours. Can he do it? Follow the breadcrumbs with Detective Heinz Noonan as he unravels The Matter of the Misplaced Crosses!Show book
When school-days were over and Colonel Munro had returned to England for good, Hector and his sister were taken abroad by their father. They lived in Normandy and then in Dresden, where the first German words that Hector learnt were the names of birds, sometimes picked up from strangers in the zoological gardens. Then came a strenuous series of visits to German and Austrian cities, which Colonel Munro arranged as much for the education as the pleasure of his son and daughter. Museums and picture-galleries were visited everywhere. Hector amused himself by counting up the number of St. Sebastians in each gallery and making bets with his sister as to which would have the most. Berlin won with eighteen. The impression made on Munro by this tour is to be seen in his books, and in the present volume there are two tales, The Interlopers and The Wolves of Cernogratz, which seem to have been inspired by the memory of some romantic castle in the heart of Europe. A short play, Karl Ludwig's Window, which will be published later, is based on an idea given by a visit to a castle near Prague...FROM THE BOOK.Show book
Turns out there are monsters in the world. Why couldn't my midlife crisis involve a new hairstyle? I went from ordinary working gal to demon killer. Sounds exciting? Not really, seeing as how I got fired from my job, my apartment was trashed, and the cops think I'm involved in something shady. Especially that cute detective who keeps questioning me . . . Pity there's no time to flirt, what with all the demons that keep emerging from sewer grates and subway tunnels. Something has to be done before they overrun the city. If only that something didn't involve me! I never asked to be a heroine, but apparently, I've been chosen and now I must reap what fate has bestowed before chaos is sown. Contains mature themes.Show book
“The Young Girl” is a 1920 short story written by Katherine Mansfield. Mrs. Raddick’s and her beautiful daughter waited on the steps of the casino. The daughter was incredibly beautiful with flushed cheeks, blue eyes, and golden curls. She “might have just dropped from this radiant heaven” (79), and Mrs. Raddick seemed to think so too - if her appreciative glances were any indication. The girl; however, appeared only bored as if heaven had been full of casinos and they no longer held any interest for her.Show book
They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions and this time they're all about 'murder for hire'. My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at an Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and most of my patients know me as their Angel of Death. I know them as mass murderers, rapists, and serial killers - among other things. Here's what happens: they come on my floor, they give me their deathbed confession, and I help to make their death less painful. There's a catch, though: I want the real story, the one they haven't told anyone else.The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. They could be playing their final game with me by messing with my head.Now, maybe they're messing with yours too. Inside this book are 4 DeathBed Confessions that relate to KILLERS FOR HIRE: Patient Ernest is a cold-blooded killer. Period.Patient Tommy is the killer in the sea you don’t want to meet.Patient Shannon is a black, red, and green widow.Patient Jimmy Dale has a thing for hunting the two-legged prey. WARNING: Some stories might be a trigger for something you have a hard time handling. But, these are the confessions of serial killers, mass murderers and such.Show book
