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The Pyrate
Young Cooper Cain is driven from his home and his country by a nefarious cousin. Little does he expect the life that awaits him... On his way to Antigua from his native England, Cooper finds himself captured by pirates and eventually signs on to be a member of their crew. Follow Cooper Cain as he finds his way aboard a real pirate ship, navigating through extreme danger, love, and loss on the high seas, trying to reconcile his ideals with his adopted way of life.
ParenTrapped
You love them. Of course you do. But they're driving you crazy! They're overly demanding, inpatient, unreasonable, self-centered and selfish, and expect you to drop everything for them at a moment's notice. And they act so juvenile! No, we're not talking about the kids. This dissertation deals with those who brought you into this world - your parents, AKA Mommy and Daddy. They've entered their golden years and can?t get around like they used to, and have turned to you for help- lots of help. Are you feeling caught between a rock and a hard place, or 'trapped' as it were? Then it's time to turn to "ParenTrapped"! "ParenTapped- A Guide for the Sandwiched Generation" takes a heartfelt and humorous look into the world of parental caregiving. It is based primarily on the author's and others' personal experiences in dealing with aging parents. It provides some insight into what can be a trying situation, that is, dealing with elderly parents and their needs on a regular basis, coupled with valuable information regarding services for both seniors and caregivers.
A Slow Cold Death
A cozy academic mystery featuring a girl genius detective, a physics department, and a six-hundred-million-dollar motive.
Diggers
This book is the story, intimate and moving in the telling, of a group of Lativan men who refer to themselves as the Diggers. This platoon of digger colleagues gathers from disparate fields and disciplines. Digging in the old trenches and sunken bunkers of the Latvian forest, you may find, among others, the Communicator, the Classicist, the Forest Man, Little Spirit, and the venerable Legend. Their abiding interest is in discovering and preserving what happened in the Latvian forest during the two major wars of this century. As they uncover the large number of men left dead in their last defensive fortifications, the Diggers often think that their work is perhaps the only semblance of victory to have occured in that place.
A Self-Made Monster
The dead too have hopes... And among the hopeful dead is Alex Resartus: obtuse professor, obscure novelist, schizophrenic...and vampire. As an obtuse professor, he bewilders and frustrates his bored students; as an obscure novelist with a once-promising reputation, he desires to recover his creative powers, but his shattered mind stands in the way. As a schizophrenic, Alex's mind is broken, and in this most unusual novel, A Self-Made Monster, Alex plans to reorganize his broken mind with whole blood. For Alex's special quirkOCoboth his blessing and his curseOCois that he takes on the traits of his victims in most surprising ways. Alex sees the brilliant and socially backward student, Edward ...
Duck Boy
When Steve Best was 12, his mom disappeared—literally vanishing from her armchair in the sitting room. A terror-stricken scream for help, a blinding flash of light, and she was gone. Only a puddle of coffee and a stained notebook remain. Now, on the second Christmas since her disappearance, Steve’s life is a disaster. He’s failing everything at school. His dad alternately mopes and yells at him. Even his attempt to save a duck from the school bullies led to the nickname he’s dying to forget. To make matters even worse, his dad is forced to travel over the holidays, leaving Steve to stay with his dotty great aunt Shannon and her bookish, absent-minded husband. Shannon insists that Ste...
Belaset's Daughter
England, 1264: as Simon de Montfort and his fellow Barons challenge Henry III's arrogance, the country moves inexorably towards civil war. In the little town of Lewes in Sussex, Judith, daughter of Belaset, seizes the opportunity to strike one last blow against de Montfort before her wedding to Aaron of London, as revenge for the massacre of her family. A trusted messenger between the King and his loyal followers, she agrees to act as go-between for King Henry and William Foville, Prior of St Pancras. In Lewes Castle, built when the Conqueror gave the land to William de Warenne, Jervis FitzHugh, squire to William's descendant John, longs for adventure, and for the hand of Madeleine de Tourney. Judith, Aaron, Jervis and Madeleine all become closely intertwined in a way that none of them could have foreseen. Far from a simple journey to France and back, Judith finds herself facing danger and deceit, as de Montfort's followers do all they can to prevent the message getting through. Help comes from the King's supporters, in England and in France, and from other more unexpected quarters. When the inevitable happens, and the Battle of Lewes is fought, Judith's work is done.
Available Light
Eighteen tragicomic short stories that explore love, tragedy, and loss. As he disassembles an infant’s nursery, a father struggles for ways to tell his young daughter her brother is dead; a boy learns the truth about his parents’ divorce; an out of work rock musician finds himself custodian of an abandoned child; a wife who sets out to find her husband’s secret lover discovers a secret she’s kept from herself; while settling their estranged father’s estate, adult sisters encounter a side of their parents they never knew; a ne’er-do-well uncle pays the price for putting his young nephew’s life at risk; a widow discovers that her need for love lives beyond the man she loved; a fifteen-year-old boy seeks to know his older brother who is away at war. Although the characters often lack the navigational tools for finding and sustaining meaningful love, they all courageously follow the path illuminated by whatever light is available to them.
Someone To Crawl Back To
Someone To Crawl Back To is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what theyOCOve always wanted or what theyOCOve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes salesmen. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene ServeranceOCOs, forms the spine of the book, but included in this small community of seekers are George Scarborough and his softball-playing wife; Evander Baker, who helps his sister bury a bag of chocolate chip cookies near the septic line; and Warren Oxendine, whose wife buys a vibrator at a ...
Out On the Drink
Sean Bulger is a 16-year-old alcoholic from Newfoundland. His life revolves around avoiding his abusive stepfather and sneaking booze wherever and whenever he can. One of his party crashes goes wrong when a group of fellow teens dare him to check out a condemned Russian cruise ship. Stone drunk and obsessed with the promise of more alcohol, Sean scrambles aboard the ship, and blacks out when the boat is towed from harbour–and soon he’s adrift in a ruined ship, looking for fresh water, food, navigational tools, or anything that will help him survive. When rescue finally comes, it’s not who he expected, and Sean gets a first-hand look into the shady worlds of ship-breaking and piracy. A YA adventure for ages 11 and up, Bill Bunn’s latest book will grab your attention and make you feel the waves and the cold sea spray of the North Atlantic.
