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  The Lady

  Serena Akeroyd

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  Part Two of The Oath DuetI’ve spent a lifetime avoiding the various factions of the mafia in NYC, yet somehow I’m in it up to my eyeballs.I should be scared.I should want to run.Yet the city quivers in fear with every designer-clad footstep I take, because the Valentinis have ascended, and I’m the Don’s Lady.It’s intoxicating.However Luciu comes with vendettas and a craving for vengeance that could get him killed.With my allegiance tied to the Irish, can I say yes when he wants me to take an oath to the Sicilians?Is a happily-ever-after on the cards when the ‘after’ isn’t even promised?

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  Near Flesh - Stories

  Katherine Dunn

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  A previously unpublished collection of stories about motherhood, violence, and desire, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love. 
    
  A woman invests in a series of sex robots to get her off and comes to terms with the limitations—and real threat—of automated companionship. A knowing young student pursues an affair with an older man, the poet in residence at the university where she studies writing, and weighs the benefits and costs of their arrangement. A mother moves to a farm with her family and must come to terms with the violence simmering beneath her skin. 
    
  Near Flesh is the first and only collection of short fiction by Katherine Dunn, the author of the bestselling novel Geek Love. These nineteen stories are, like Dunn’s entire body of work, attuned to the spit and grit of tough living. They pulse with yearning for a more prosperous life, for sexual satisfaction, to escape abusive husbands and the disappointments of convention. A better life, for these mostly female protagonists, seems always just out of reach. In Near Flesh, Dunn explores the struggle of women to live on their own terms, and the desire to relish—rather than squash—what distinguishes a person.

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  A Kiss From a Knave

  Leslie Kelly

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  He's a thief. She's a teacher. A wicked queen is screaming, "Off with their heads!" and a white rabbit is helping out. 
  They must be in some kind of Wonderland! 
  Jack Harte doesn't mind being called a knave; after all, he is the best thief in the land. But when he's hired by a group of rebels to steal back relics from an evil queen, he ends up in more trouble than he'd ever imagined. On top of it all, he's stumbled across a woman unlike any he's ever met. 
  Now he has to: Evade the queen. Hold onto the stolen artifacts. Get out of Wandeer alive. Deliver the priceless objects to the rebels. And try to get Allie Lang back to her own home. 
  But how can he do that when he's falling madly in love with the woman?

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  Art of Being Photographed The...

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer.
  He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction"
  THE ART OF BEING PHOTOGRAPHED: "An album," said my uncle, as he sat and turned over my collection of physiognomy, "is, I think, the best reading in the world. You get such sidelights on the owner's heredity, George; distant cousins caricature his features and point the moral of his nose, and ancestral faces prophesy his fate.

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  Christmas Stories From...

  Charles Dickens

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  Twenty stories were originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stories have little holiday sentiment and exhibit much of the indignation Dickens felt at the social and economic injustices of his day. Some of the stories were written in collaboration with other authors. The editor of this volume chose to omit those other chapters and include only Dickens' work. The result is that some of the stories are a bit choppy, not to say confusing.

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  Snowblind Friend - Tales From...

  Douglas A. Walker

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   The Recollector 
  I am the watcher, the memory, a wanderer and a collector. You can't discern me, but I leave my footprint. Very young children and animals can detect me sometimes – their parents or owners catch a glimpse as a result. This is not a role anybody wants, no; ego has no place here. It needs to be removed before one can resume the process; an arduous task. 
  I'm just a warrior, I'm not even sure what that means, I know that love and kindness are my tools, I guess you could say they are my weapons, but somehow that doesn't fit because I use them to heal rather than maim. It is an inner battle, but that reverberates outward. Most of it is just following orders, to go with the flow, understand what is being imparted and finding ways to soothe my restless spirit so it can become more, understand more, and become even more kind. That way I can be there for others when they need me. I have a feeling that I need to do everything I can to be at peace with myself. Kindness and love, kindness and love, that's how we fight this battle....Wildheart aka Snowblind Friend 
  Catharsis 
  [kəˈTHärsəs] 
  NOUN 
  The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. 
  "music is a means of catharsis for them" 
   

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