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  Patchwork Girl of Oz The [The...

  L. Frank Baum

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  Ojo, known as Ojo the Unlucky, lives in poverty with his laconic uncle Unc Nunkie in the woods of the Munchkin Country in Oz. They visit their neighbor, the magician Dr. Pipt who is about to complete the six-year process of preparing the magical Powder of Life, which can bring inanimate objects to life.

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  Con-Fen - When Two Aliens Crash...

  James R. Adams

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  Two visitors arrive on Earth expecting comfort, indulgence, and invisibility. They have done this before. Earth is rich, forgiving, and full of people who refuse to notice what stands directly in front of them. For these travelers, that blindness is not a risk—it is protection. They move freely through cities, eat without restraint, and treat the planet as a seasonal retreat meant to be consumed. 
  What they do not account for is how fragile that protection really is. A single shift in awareness, a moment where disbelief collapses, turns safety into exposure. When recognition spreads faster than they can flee, the rules they rely on no longer apply. Streets, crowds, and machines become unpredictable forces, and survival depends on whether invisibility can return in time. 
  “Con-Fen” blends sharp irony with dark humor, using a light touch to build toward a brutally specific outcome. The story escalates through misplaced confidence rather than malice, and its tension comes from watching certainty erode step by step. What begins as indulgence narrows into panic, and the final moments hinge on whether belief can be undone once it has taken hold. 
  James R. Adams published a small number of science fiction stories during the pulp magazine era, with work appearing in Planet Stories. “Con-Fen” stands as his most widely remembered piece, notable for its satirical take on alien contact and its unforgiving sense of narrative consequence. Rather than centering heroism or discovery, Adams focuses on entitlement, ignorance, and the hazards of assuming the universe will always look the other way.

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  Only Soft for You

  Lily Maren

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  Description：
  One Long Island Iced Tea. One terrible idea. One very attractive traffic cop.
  Chloe Turner can barely recall the night she drunkenly ambushed an on-duty cop—hugging him, refusing to let go, and shouting her measurements to a crowd. She wakes to a viral video, a call from the Traffic Division, and the mortifying truth: the man she embarrassed herself in front of is the most handsome person she's ever met.
  Officer Ethan Cole is calm, principled, and far too easy to fluster. When her chaos causes a minor accident, Chloe shows up to apologize—with a statement, no dignity left, and a wild plan.
  What follows is a slow-burn chase through traffic stops, awkward fines, emergencies, and one unforgettable princess carry. He's steady. She's a mess. And he only softens for her.
  For lovers of enemies-to-lovers slow burns, chaotic heroines, and swoon-worthy men in uniform.

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  Babylon Revisited - Like his...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
   
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
   
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
   
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack. 
   
  In this bittersweet story of a man who enjoyed the boom years of la dolce vita and now, in more straitened times, is unable to get what he really wants; the custody of his daughter.  He returns to Paris to meet the ghosts of those good times and to make amends for his past.

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  In His Hands

  Tanisha Stewart

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  Tony is a man after God's own heart. Saved from a past that was riddled with criminal activity, it is now his life's goal to build a future as a minister-in-training. With his beautiful wife Meka and their unborn child by his side, Tony feels like his life is complete. 
  Until he delivers his trial sermon, and tragedy strikes in the worst way. 
  Devastated by the blow he was dealt, Tony strives to shake it off and hold himself together. Tony clings onto hope, and things start to get better . . . until they get worse. 
  Dazed and confused, with competing voices drowning his focus, Tony finds himself at his wit’s end. The Bible says that vengeance belongs to the Lord, but whose voice will Tony bow to, the Holy Spirit, or the venomous whispers of his flesh?

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  The Freedom Trap

  Desmond Bagley

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  Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Malta. 
  The Scarperers, a brilliantly organised gang which gets long-term inmates out of prison, spring a notorious Russian double agent. The trail leads Owen Stannard to Malta, and to the suave killer masterminding the gang. Face to face at last with his opponents, Stannard must try to outwit both men – who have nothing to lose and everything to gain by his death… 
  This top fiction book, THE FREEDOM TRAP by Desmond Bagley, is a suspenseful thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The best of its kind, it's a must-read for anyone who enjoys a good action-packed adventure. 
  For fans of Eric Ambler (The Schirmer Inheritance), Dick Francis (In the Frame), Michael Connelly (The Proving Ground), Elly Griffiths (The Last Remains), and Robert Harris (Act of Oblivion).

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