Editora: Bluemoose Books
Roanville, Kentucky 1977. Marie Higginbotham's life is transformed when the 'Paris' ballet, comes to town. Guided by 'Chopin' the 19th century pianist, full of artistic and dietary advice & Misty, the world's first female Elvis impersonator, she rises above the religious mania of her father, to dance her way out of her small town existence.
Gian-Luca has a rocky start in life, his mother dying in childbirth, his father unknown, and he is sent to grow up with his grandparents amongst an Italian immigrant community on Old Compton Street. He becomes a waiter, where he learns the value of hard work, and soon lands a promotion to head waiter in a fine-dining restaurant. He excels in this position, and it is not long before he meets Maddelena, to whom he gets married. It seems he has found a happy ending. However, despite his marriage to Maddelena and his achievements in his work, he finds he is not happy, after all. Life loses its joy, and he comes to despise those he serves in the restaurant, seeing in the diners the ugly side of society. Disconsolate, he sets out to seek a more fulfilling life, and becomes a hermit, trying to reconnect with nature, and hoping to find peace outside of society. Despite winning awards upon its publication, Adam's Breed sank into obscurity following the censorship of Hall's later novel The Well of Loneliness. An early example of immigrant narratives, yet still relevant today, it is time Gian-Luca's stirring tale found its way back to the canon.Ver livro
She broke up with him to date another man...who broke her heart. He's a former CEO with nothing to do who can't get her out of his head. Can Wes and Bree find a way toward happily-ever-after at Whiskey Mountain Lodge? Breeann Richards plans events that everyone loves at Whiskey Mountain Lodge, where she lives and works. But when it comes to matters of the heart, she fears hers has been broken ten times too many, most recently by a man who made her pay for everything. So much so, that Bree had to get a second job to make ends meet. Not only that, but she can't get Wesley Hammond out of her head, and she's never even met him. They texted and called a lot once, but she broke up with him and is too embarrassed to reach out to him now that she's single again. Wesley Hammond recently retired from being the CEO of his family's multi-billion-dollar business, and he's spent the last six months on a bucket list quest to visit every state in the US. When he rolls into Wyoming - state number 40 - he plans to meet his brother for lunch. And hears the female voice that has haunted him since last Christmas. Bree's voice. He takes a job at the lodge where she works just to be near her, and a new relationship quickly forms between them. But Bree has secrets she hasn't told anyone...a terrible, awful event from her past that has shaped who she is and how she trusts those around her--including Wes. Can they navigate their challenges to find happily-ever-after?Ver livro
He's relentless. He's aggressive. His armor is scarred to hell. Toth Krag is infamous among bounty hunters. Nobody has ever seen his face and lived to tell the tale. He doesn't fail. He doesn't quit. And he doesn't take prisoners. But maybe he's getting soft. For once, he showed mercy, and no good deed goes unpunished, so now he's tracking the deadbeats who run Volant's Fabulous Spectacle. She's casual. She's spontaneous. She never liked Earth that much anyway. Yara Duncan is always at the wrong place at the wrong time. That's how she wound up as the human attraction in a space circus. Frankly, it's the best gig she's ever had. Aliens pay to watch her eat and do puzzles, and she gets to see the galaxy free of charge. She's enjoying the adventure, until the scariest hunter in the universe shows up. For some reason, he thinks she's in charge, and he's determined to drag her back to face his employers. Yara doesn't run from her problems, and Krag doesn't know what to do with a human who seems more interested in what he looks like under his armor. This time, the hunter becomes the hunted in the wildly unpredictable game of love . . . Contains mature themes.Ver livro
“Every sentence drips and unsettles, every character lusts and schemes, every landscape is alien and forbidding. … I am obsessed with these lush, feral stories.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties “Beautiful, visceral, surprising stories, both wild and dangerous, with a Southern twang but universal appeal. Elliott is an Angela Carter for our times.”—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Absolution From the acclaimed author of The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal. In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript. In rural South Carolina, an alligator named Dragon becomes a beloved pet for a precocious, tough-talking twelve-year-old. During a long, muggy July, an adolescent girl finds unexpected power as her family obsesses over the horror film The Exorcist. On the outskirts of a Southern college town, a young woman resists the tyranny of a shape-shifting older professor as she develops her own sorceress skills. And at a feminist art colony in the North Carolina mountains, a group of mothers contends with the supernatural talents their children have picked up from a pair of mysterious orphans who live in the woods. With exuberance, ferocity, and astounding imagination, Julia Elliott’s Hellions jumps from the occult to the comic, from the horrific to the wondrous, in eleven stories of earthbound characters who long for the otherworldly.Ver livro
George Dalton, a brilliant software engineer at the J&A Company, finds that youthful arrogance, and a habit of making inappropriate remarks, hinders his advancement within the company. After making an ill-considered comment, George is tasked with a simple assignment as punishment. However, George desires a more exciting use of his time. Exploring an abandoned area, he unexpectedly encounters, Adam. Despite the fact that they are completely different, George and Adam form a friendship, as their lives take an unexpected turn. They uncover a mysterious set of clues, left behind by a long dead and nearly forgotten inventor. George believes the clues hint at the existence of the inventor’s final creation: a time machine. While Adam is skeptical, George is convinced the machine is real, and was deliberately hidden years ago. Now it silently awaits for the clues to be understood and its location revealed. George and Adam slowly unravel the cryptic and off times misleading writings of the inventor. As they come to understand the intricacies of time travel, and the genius behind it, they discover not only its potential, but also the danger it represents. Adam and George decide to use their knowledge to help people, and protect the innocent. It could be as simple as keeping someone from walking into danger, to preventing murder. It all awaits in ‘Adam.’Ver livro
A deadly puzzle. A closing trap. My name is Nadia, and I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means it's my responsibility to broker a peace deal between the dwarves and the Elven commoners...and there are lots of Elven nobles who would like to see the deal fail. So when the Lord Inquisitor Arvalaeon arrives on my doorstep, critically wounded and missing the last week of his memory, things have just gotten even more complicated. One false step and the embers will become an inferno...Ver livro
