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Joan Liang’s life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan for California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode—especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Through all this she wrestles with one persistent question: Will she ever truly feel satisfied?

Two new tales from John Fraser. These two tales consider basic questions. Life is a test, they say, but life comes to us as unanswered and even unanswerable questions - come to each, but surely we can't respond to all those questions, not with any confidence or authority? It all shimmers, seems uncertain, without a purpose, and yet - the heroine in The Test sees her partner swept away by gunfire, gone for good or ill, unloved and probably unmourned. She sees the solidity of all around her questioned, religions which might seem to give an answer instead propose a self-denial, abnegation ... ...

La guerra infuria a pochi chilometri dalla Linea Gotica, sulle colline di Pesaro, dove tedeschi e fascisti si scontrano con i partigiani del Toscano in attesa delle truppe alleate. Evelina ha solo cinque anni quando i primi rifugiati trovano riparo nel granaio di suo padre, quell'attimo in cui la sua vita viene travolta e la spensieratezza dei giochi d'infanzia lascia il posto all'orrore della guerra. Realtà e magia si mescolano e si intrecciano, riportando in vita un mondo contadino e fiabesco, l'intrico della guerra civile e quella mondiale.

Iain Banks, aka Iain M Banks, came to fame in 1984 with his transfixing debut The Wasp Factory, described as both ‘a work of unparalleled depravity’ and 'a masterpiece'. In 1993 he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers, and his numerous bestselling books include The Crow Road, Complicity and the ‘Culture’ sci-fi series. Collected here are three of his best works, as heard on BBC Radio.

Synopsis Antonio embarks on a thrilling quest to uncover a mystery surrounding his ancestor, Ernesto Goti, and his connection to the Declaration of Independence of Panama. Alongside a fellow Mason, Antonio becomes entangled in a dangerous plot to disrupt both Panamanian politics and the Masonic order within the country. As the clock ticks down towards dawn, Antonio and his companion must race to follow a series of clues scattered throughout Panama City, leading them to a long-hidden secret. Failure to uncover this secret could mean a deadly consequence. The stakes are high as Antonio and ...

The Tiny Things Are Heavier follows Sommy, a Nigerian woman who comes to the United States for graduate school two weeks after her brother, Mezie, attempts suicide. Plagued by the guilt of leaving Mezie behind, Sommy struggles to fit into her new life as a student and an immigrant. Lonely and homesick, Sommy soon enters a complicated relationship with her boisterous Nigerian roommate, Bayo, a relationship that plummets into deceit when Sommy falls for Bryan, a biracial American, whose estranged Nigerian father left the States immediately after his birth.

Rätselhafte Morde und berühmte bretonische Chocolatiers. Noch nie war Kommissar Dupin so froh, einen neuen Fall zu haben, wie an diesem herrlichen Frühsommertag. Mit einem Bein steht er bereits auf dem – bedrohlich schwankenden – Boot im Hafenbecken von Concarneau, um unter der Anleitung eines Coaches seine Thalassophobie zu überwinden, als ihn der Anruf erreicht: Eine Frau ist ertrunken. Allerdings nicht im Meer, sondern in einem Bottich aus Schokolade. Was kurios anmutet, entpuppt sich als kaltblütiger Mord an der Inhaberin einer alteingesessenen Schokoladen-Confiserie in der Ville Close.

In Echoes of the Lost: The Guardian of the Forgotten, Chandraish Sinha spotlights an engrossing tale of strength, mystery, and the tenacious pursuit of justice.

Tara thought she was cheating. Rico thought it was just another job. Only Derek knew the truth. On their wedding anniversary, Tara’s husband leaves for a "business trip", but what he really leaves behind is a stranger. A dark, magnetic man with one job, to seduce his wife and give her the kind of night she’s never had. Rico is a professional. A discreet escort who specializes in pleasing women stuck in lifeless marriages. But Tara is different, beautiful, hungry, and impossible to resist. What starts as a hired act turns into something more dangerous, raw chemistry, real surrender, and ...

Lent against a lamppost in the black of night as freezing cold rain lashes down from above. He wants to reach the sanctuary of the bar on the other side of the road, but the night and the cold rain and the lack of light make it seem a wide reaching roadway that perhaps is too far for him to stumbling across. Join our protagonist striving to make his way out of the driving rain to the bar that teases just out of reach and leads us to distraction, as haunting lights bedazzle and amaze the eye once we're lost in the abyss of night's darkness.

In David Joseph’s fourth collection of fiction, I Wanted To Be A Bluesman, he explores human relationships through the Delta-dipped lens of the blues. Each of the twelve stories in this collection are carefully intertwined with the blues—from Mississippi to Chicago and places in between. Along the way, the bricklayer, priest, car thief, cook, and others are connected through the common thread of the blues. Whether traveling by car towards Clarksdale in searing summer heat or on a train bound for the north, the blues cross borders and play on. And yet, these aren’t so much stories ...

"Blind love, blind hate, desire of emprise, / And pride, and all the weakness of the man." In this powerful story of honour and pride, the knight Balin struggles to control his fierce temper and live by the ideals of King Arthur's court. But when he is deceived by the cunning Vivien, his path takes a dark turn. A fateful clash with his twin brother Balan leads to a heartbreaking end.

Rhona Dewar takes her niece, Syn, into her home after a tragic accident. Together, they discover the healing powers of nature, dedicated kindness, and disarming honesty. Cultural identity, mystery, and humor bring this family drama to life. On her sixteenth birthday, Syn’s brother, Andy, gave her a secret gift: an ancestry DNA test. As he suspected, the results proved that she was not their father’s daughter and carried not an ounce of Asian blood. Though she had her mother’s Scottish heritage, her father was a mysterious Venezuelan. Was she the child of an unrevealed love affair? ...

Las vecindades de la ciudad de México, como del resto de las grandes ciudades, son sitios peculiares. Es el cúmulo de familias que por el reducido del espacio, la similitud de problemas, y el que pasen por etapas de su existencia parecidas, tienen un comportamiento colectivo muy particular. Los mitos y leyendas, el pensamiento mágico, la visión infantil que subyace de los fenómenos naturales, se traduce en una mitología muy particular. Este es el caso de la vecindad de “Nuestra Señora de los Remedios”, en donde hay un Vigilante, Simón Melquiades, que desde la azote, y por las ...

She buried the project that almost ended the world. Now it’s waking up. Cassie Leigh Horner thought she’d sealed the door on Omega—a classified defense initiative that nearly caused a global tech collapse. But when a ghost from the past breaks into her facility, it triggers a cascade of secrets she thought were long erased. A rogue AI signal. A buried failsafe. A countdown she didn’t authorize. With her brilliant hacker son by her side and an estranged partner demanding the truth, Cassie must unravel who resurrected Omega—and why they want her code. As digital shadows close in, ...

When Freddy Stein escapes the net cast by the police forces of Guernsey and Munich, he becomes embroiled in a plan to preserve the lucrative drugs' dealings of a sinister crime lord. But miles away from his familiar city surroundings, on a remote Channel Island, Freddy's life is changed forever. His fate, and that of his victims, take a turn nobody, least of all Freddy, could have predicted. This gripping conclusion to Peter Lihou's debut novel skilfully fuses together another tale of action, suspense and romance set in the spectacular Channel Islands.

Jamie Goldberg suspects his homosexuality at an early age and manages to hide it from his homophobic ’80’s Detroit Community; his Jewish political activist parents; and even from himself until his rape, at the hands of a male prostitute, at the age of 15, which seems to hint at some mysterious background even darker. Profoundly ashamed, Jamie hides in two worlds one is a beautiful cocoon spun from music, art, theater and literature, another is darker with a sado-masochistic desire to obliterate his sexuality. His elaborate fantasies are no match for real life or his true affections, ...

The second book in the TWISTED EVER AFTER series that takes familiar fairy tales and transforms them into contemporary horror novellas. Perfect synchronization. Flawless harmonics. Absolute unity. Seventeen-year-old Melody Chen returns to Resonance Falls High School after three months at the Braddock Auditory Processing Center, still struggling with lifelong amusia—an inability to process musical tones that teachers and doctors have always labeled a defect. But what awaits her isn't normal teenage life; it's a town transforming into something inhuman. Her classmates move with unsettling ...

Laura and Laurie: The Trilogy was just the beginning of something extraordinary. The Art of Appreciation: Laura and Laurie part IV is a short story/essay about love, friendship, destiny, and the power of giving.

Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His stories have been published by reviews, journals, and magazines in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA. Here, for the first time, fifteen of his best short stories are gathered together in one collection. An aging veteran who despises his neighbor ends up in hospital under her care. An isolated married couple search for help to deliver their first child. A man pauses on a wind-swept cliff to converse with a dead friend. A young kitchen boy is sent on a ...