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Sara's New Realm
In the exciting sci-fi novel Sara’s New Realm, Sara and Matt’s honeymoon is interrupted by her life-long guide, Rowena, who gives her an urgent assignment: She must locate an alien named Dardo. A rumor is spreading fast that Dardo is asking all aliens to leave Earth before it is destroyed! She must find out if the rumor is true. Jenny and Beau, their best friends, join the couple in their quest. Trouble starts when the American government issues warrants to stop them from interfering with the alien nation. Sara learns of her true origins and destiny, angering the alien king’s nephew enough to make him kidnap Matt and her friends. New alien friends help her locate them and find the real reason behind the rumor about Earth’s demise. She discovers that a large asteroid is heading straight for Earth! Sara wants to help destroy the asteroid, but no one – not the American government, the aliens, or the fairy world – can solve the problem. When all looks hopeless, Sara’s guide Rowena sends Sara to the mythological god, Vishnu, whose mighty weapon may be the only way to save Earth.
One-of-us
War is hell, and never has it been more hellish than in this moving collection of poetry by Viet Nam War veteran Jim Soular. Few today can deny that the war was a horrific tragedy, resulting in the deaths of 60,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians. The first section, "In Country," assaults the reader with all the charm of a meat grinder as the poet serves up image after violent image of the indiscriminate carnage of war and the gruesomeness of death in the triple-canopy jungles of Viet Nam. The second section, "Back in the World," returns us to the States but not necessarily to sanity as Soular wades through the psychological aftereffects of the war for both the veterans and their families. With vivid and carefully chosen imagery, this section portrays the mind-numbing consequences of exposure to war, its accompanying PTSD, and the tremendous guilt, sorrow, and despair that many veterans and their families live with to this day. These poems are a raw, new look at war, vignettes of horror, guilt, and sorrow in what many consider America's longest and most brutal conflict, as well as its most divisive since the Civil War.
Psychobattery
It is an honour for me to be asked to contribute a foreword to the book of my friends Therese and Ralph Spitzer. I got to know them during an assignment as Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, and I have shared to the full the distress that comes to all those who have to watch people that they love affected by mental illness in one form or another. I have been an orientalist for only half my life; for the first half I was a biochemist, embryologist, and experimental morphologist. "When I, a young man, was called to the bar" (as Gilbert & Sullivan have it), in other words, when in the early twenties I was starting life as a research biochemist, I was greatly ...
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature is a pioneering study that addresses these methodological and contextual gaps. Focusing on texts produced since the late-1980s, and drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Kathryn James shows how representations of death in young adult literature are invariably associated with issues of sexuality, gender, and power. Under particu...
All This Life
With a wide cast of characters and an exciting pace that mimics the speed of our modern, all-too-connected lives, All This Life examines the dangerous intersection of reality and the imaginary, where coding and technology seek to highlight and augment our already flawed human connections. Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amidst the river of metal and glass a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face the ramifications of his actions as he learns the perils of ou...
Betrayal
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author “mixes love and vengeance in this fast-paced . . . romantic thriller” (Publishers Weekly). In Fern Michaels’ dazzling new novel, a woman devastated by betrayal embarks on a daring quest for justice. She Lost Everything . . . Kate and Alex Rocket are blessed with a wonderful marriage and a lovely home. Although Kate can’t have children, she and Alex look upon Sara and Emily, daughters of their good friends Don and Debbie Winter, as part of their family. Except Hope . . . With one phone call, everything changes. Sara accuses Alex of a terrible act, opening up a vicious rift between the couples. Kate watches helplessly as her innocent husband is ...
McCall
Sara Brighton, Savannah’s rising star in the competitive culinary scene, is devastated when her historic riverside restaurant burns to the ground. Finding herself without the creative chaos that has defined her world for the last decade, she impulsively decides to pack up her life and return to McCall, Idaho, the last place she remembers being truly happy. Sam Draper, head of the Lake Patrol division of McCall Police Department, is less than pleased to see another entitled tourist putting down roots in her picturesque hometown. Still, Sara surprises her by helping her swerve a professional disaster, and Sam returns the favor by teaching Sara to drive the ski boat languishing at the marina. Their chemistry heats up under the summer sun, and they are falling in love, at least until Sara decides to buy her late father’s iconic diner and turn it into yet another pretentious gastropub. Can they build a future amid the ghosts of the past that surround them?
Retribution
A small vigilante team comes together in Bel Air, California to right some of the wrongs that are threatening the very fabric of American decency. Talk is over. Now is the time to take a stand against pure evil. Get ready for a wild ride that takes the reader from the glitzy streets of Beverly Hills to Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, Lake Tahoe, Miami, Cuba, Chicago, Atlantic City, New York, and Las Vegas. A lot of very bad criminals are brutally put to rest but danger for the team is becoming a reality. America is asking "who" could be responsible for these dramatic assassinations of so many highly publicized criminals and "why" is it happening? Is this right or wrong is the moral question to be ...
Ten Thousand Horses
Matt James is in trouble. Recently promoted to head his division, he has delivered two years of divisional losses in clients, market share, and profits. He knows his workers are talented and creative, but they don't respond to his efforts to lead them, and he's on the brink of being fired. In desperation, he reaches out to an old mentor, David Butler, who now works with wild mustang horses and hard-to-place foster children on a ranch in Colorado. David agrees to work with his former student but only on the condition that Matt comes to him--to the ranch. Matt has no idea what the ranch could possibly have to do with his problems, but David assures him that if he spends some time there, he'll ...
