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  The Tale

  Joseph Conrad

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  One of Joseph Conrad's most haunting sea-stories, describing a haunting life or death decision at sea which is made in a moment... and takes a lifetime to doubt it's wisdom.

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  Jack Stone-Hard and the Amazon...

  Jack Stone

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  Jack Stone-Hard returns to the Tau Ceti star system to meet the woman with the best pussy in the galaxy, the Amazonian Melanie Bosom. Much to Jack's dismay, his lightspeed travels have caused a massive time dilation, so 20 years have passed in the Tau Ceti system. During this time, zealots have kidnapped Melanie and forced her to marry the gay Grand Cleric Brogdan Dalamir. To win her back, Jack has to kill Brogdan and prove that he is a better lover than Brogdan's handsome son, Paris Dalamir.

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  Sea Fangs - Golden Age Stories

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Bob Sherman signs on the crew of the yacht Bonito with hopes of revenge, and he'll need every ounce of his strength and courage to overcome the forces arrayed against him—in Sea Fangs.He'll take on the forces of nature—a hurricane smashing into the boat off the Venezuelan coast. He'll stand up to the forces of ignorance— Bonito's incompetent captain. He'll defy the forces of corruption—the boat's owner, who stripped him of his land years ago. And he'll fight the forces of evil—a ruthless band of pirates who take all aboard, including the owner's daughter, to the uncharted Island of Death.His fate intertwined with a woman whose father stole everything he valued, Sherman is about to discover that there's one force as powerful, unpredictable and dangerous as the sea itself ... the force of a beautiful woman's love.

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  The Ruby Glass

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. One recurring theme in his works, based in his own unhappy experiences of being bullied at school, is alienation in childhood.The Ruby Glass is a story of dysfunctional childhood. The Cole family play host to their little cousin, Jane, one spring. The other children, Jeremy, Helen, and Mary take an instant dislike to this scrawny, terrified child, and although they do their best to include her in their games, Jane will not join in or engage with them.The only person who seems to like Jane is Hamlet, Jeremy's beloved dog. Jeremy is having a period where whatever he does, he seems to be in increasing trouble with his parents. And the hated cousin, Jane, always seems to be at the root of everything that goes wrong. He feels that she will be the source of his downfall.Then one day, the Jane commits the worst act that any of the children could possibly imagine. And Jeremy's response...even with hindsight he cannot understand how on earth he came to do what he did. And why. Why on earth did he do that?

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  Barbara of the House of Grebe

  Thomas Hardy

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  Barbara, a young and impetuous heiress, rejects the stern Lord Uplandtowers to elope with a poor but handsome man, Edmund Willowes. When Barbara’s parents send Edmund to Europe, they hope to change him into a more suitable match for their daughter. But after disaster strikes, Edmund returns in a way nobody could have imagined.

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  My Parent's Bedroom (A Story...

  Uwem Akpan

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  Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately.  The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent.

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