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  Captiva Breeze

  Ed Robinson

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  Florida's government is building a bridge to North Captiva Island, which will ultimately result in a second bridge to Cayo Costa. Breeze takes action as only he can. He finds himself in an unlikely alliance with the governor as a result.He's given another assignment that appears to be out of his league. Can he pull it off, or will it be his downfall?

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  The Sea Beggars - A Novel

  Cecelia Holland

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  Against the background of the Protestant Reformation and conflicts between England and Spain, this novel relates the rise of the House of Orange and the beginnings of Dutch nationalism. The factual history of the conflict is long and complex, but Holland tells an insightful, if small, slice of a much bigger picture, through the stories of one Dutch family. Holland brings the reader into the action, fighting alongside Jan & Hanneke against Alva and the Spaniards who seek to crush their revolution.

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  Jonah

  Aldous Huxley

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  Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of poetry, is a collection of twelve poems (four of which are written in French). He published it, at the age of 23, for Christmas in 1917.He stated his intention to stop writing poetry at the end of the volume, but actually went on to publish numerous compilations after Jonah. (Mary Kay)

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  Damage Control - Stories

  Amber Dermont

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  A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of The Starboard Sea 
  Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In " Lyndon,"  a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In " Damage Control,"  a young man works at an etiquette school while his girlfriend is indicted for embezzlement. A widow rents herself to elderly women and vacations with them as a " professional grandchild"  in " Stella at the Winter Palace."  And in " The Language of Martyrs"  a couple houses a mail order bride on behalf of the husband' s Russian mother. 
  Dermont's stories have previously been published in many literary magazines and have also been featured in anthologies edited by Jane Smiley and Dave Eggers. Damage Control includes three previously unpublished pieces.

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  Yellow Book The - Vol 3

  Ada Radford, Netta Syrett,...

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  During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate.  This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for literary sustenance.  Many of our greatest authors contributed and expanded their reach whilst many fledging authors also found a ready source for their nascent works and careers. 
   
  Amongst the very many was ‘The Yellow Book’.  Although titled as ‘An Illustrated Quarterly’ it was sold as a cloth-bound hardback and within were short stories, essays, poetry, illustrations and portraits.  It was edited by the American author Henry Harland, who also contributed, and its art editor was no less that the formidable Aubrey Beardsley, the enfant terrible of illustration. 
   
  Its yellow cover and name gave it an association with the risqué and erotic yellow covered works published in France.  It was a visual shorthand for ideas that would push many boundaries of Society to more open interpretations. Being complete in each volume and slightly aloof it stayed away from serialised fiction and advertisements.   
   
  Within each lavishly illustrated edition were literary offerings that included works by such luminaries as Henry James, H G Wells, W B Yeats, Edith Nesbit, George Gissing and many others from the ascetic and decadent movements of the time.   
   
  The other notable inclusion was women both as contributors and amongst its editing staff, which was at odds with the then patriarchal gender norms.   
   
  Although it only survived for 13 issues its reach and influence were second to none.   
  1 - The Yellow Book - An Introduction. Volume 3 
  2 - Scarlet Runners by James S Pyke-Nott 
  3 - The Love Germ by Constance Cotterell 
  4 - Chopin Op 47 by Stanley Victor Makower 
  5 - A Little Holiday by Oswald Sickert 
  6 - Alexander the Ratcatcher by Richard Garnett 
  7 - Far Above Rubies by Netta Syrett 
  8 - The Christ of Toro by Gabriela Cunninghame Graham 
  9 - The Runaway by Marion Hepworth-Dixon 
  10 - An Immortal by Sidney Benson Thorp 
  11 - A Melodrama - The Union by T Baron Russell 
  12 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford

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  Reality - And Other Stories

  John Lanchester

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  Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very foundations of human relations; and the merry contestants in a reality TV show may actually be . . . somewhere very hellish indeed. Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.

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