A little girl finds the resin figures in her garden have come to live.Follow up to the original "Planet Me". Very little to do with Whisky, or even the Scottish. Simply "a book with some more stuff in it". A large glass of red should make the words go down easier. A humorous philosophical look at life in general and incompetence in particular. Check out the full original book Planet Me.

Lugah dreams of uniting the feral races on Ketu against the Methuselan Empire. When the Regent on Methuselah learns of the potential uprising, he enlists his most feared Bishop to cull Lugah's village. Can Lugah and his friends make it back in time to save the village, and Lugah's son? Or will their mission lead them further from home?Lugah dreams of uniting the feral races on Ketu against the Methuselan Empire. When the Regent on Methuselah learns of the potential uprising, he enlists his most feared Bishop to cull Lugah's village.Returning from the Druid planet, Whetu, Lugah's wayward portal strands him in ant territory. Caught trespassing, he convinces his young captors that pursuit of a shared enemy could save them from being recycled. Recaptured, he is ordered to rescue the young ants. Together with his friends - Honey, Sito and Olim - Lugah must venture into hostile lizard territory. Failure will mean the death of Lugah and his party.Can Lugah and his friends make it back in time to save the village, and Lugah's son? Or will their mission lead them further from home?

SUITABLE FOR TEENS, YOUNG ADULTS, & THE MORE MATURE - Serena Lewis is dead . . . but only temporarily! All because God decreed at the dawn of time that a Daughter of Eve will be born with the providence to defeat evil. This soul is said to be so powerful, Lucifer fears her arrival. This soul is Serena Olivia Unity Lewis, A.K.A. Daughter of Eve, Devil Slayer, & God’s Angelic Secret Agent Number 444Suitable for teens, young adults, and the more matureSerena Lewis is dead . . . but only temporarily! All because God decreed at the dawn of time that a Daughter of Eve will be born with the providence to defeat evil. This soul is said to be so powerful, Lucifer fears her arrival. This soul is Serena Olivia Unity Lewis, A.K.A. Daughter of Eve, Devil Slayer, and God’s Angelic Secret Agent Number 444 If you enjoy espionage with a twist of magic and a mix of angels, dark and light elves, demonic bats, dragons, fairies, leprechauns, ogres, and unicorns, held together with a love triangle and colossal karmic debt, all of which is overseen by the Almighty and His Eight Lords of Karma and overshadowed by Lucifer, then the tale of Divine Hope will take you to heaven.

A favour for a friend turns into a nightmare as Sylvain Jones stumbles across a horrific murder. But his attempts to find out the truth and to stop a serial killer lead him into a dangerous game; is he the victim of a vast conspiracy, or is the truth far more sinister?Recently single and depressingly lonely, Sylvain Jones finds himself spying on his best friend, whose wife suspects him of cheating. But a seemingly simple task has shocking results, and leads Sylvain to question whether the person he has known for thirty years is hiding a horrific secret behind his façade as a boring, middle class lawyer. As he tries to find the truth, he starts to realise that he is in the middle of a conspiracy so huge it threatens everything he has ever understood and believed in. Can he find the courage and the will to fight it, or will he allow it to destroy his loved ones, his sanity, and ultimately, take to a truth that is far more sinister than he could have imagined?

The II Volume of short-stories about the working world. Surreal aspects of everyday workplaces and exaggerated characters, that we can all, unfortunately, relate to. Working for heat is a direct translation of the Portuguese idiomatic expression - “trabalhar para aquecer” - which, very roughly, translates into working to no avail. A humorous satire about the working world.The II Volume of short-stories about the working world. Surreal aspects of everyday workplaces and exaggerated characters, that we, unfortunately, can all relate to. Working for heat is a direct translation of the Portuguese idiomatic expression - “trabalhar para aquecer” - which, very roughly, translates into working to no avail. A humorous satire about the working world.Featuring four stories:- The Amazing Discarder- The Board of Zombies- To Teach is no Peach- This is not an Epilogue

Modern twenty-first century poetry. From the playful and whimsical to the deep and thought-provoking, Reflection Point is the perfect accompaniment to a little me-time. There is absolutely no promise that the poems will change your world or the way you think. Or will they? Reflection Point contains adult language.Reflection Point: A collection of thoughts and poems based on true stories (and lies)Modern twenty-first century poetry. From the playful and whimsical to the deep and thought-provoking, Reflection Point is the perfect accompaniment to a little me-time. The collection, which is more than a decade in the making, encompasses a diverse array of elements making it suitable for young and old. There is a fine line between the optimistic pessimist and the pessimistic optimist. Adam Elias Zain does not help one little bit in drawing or defining a distinction between the two, merely creating an interesting curiosity within the reader to have a seat in the company of the writer's vivid thoughts. There is absolutely no promise that the poems will change your world or the way you think. Or will they? Reflection Point contains adult language.

In this palace exploring adventure we’ll see familiar characters from Leros of the Underworld: The Tournament. Ghost, the creepily adorable humanoid spider of the Dark Palace has many eccentricities and even more social issues but tries her best to be nice to others, even if it is in a deluded and perverse way. Let’s see what’s in store for this spider today.In this palace exploring adventure we’ll see familiar characters from Leros of the Underworld: The Tournament.Ghost, the creepily adorable humanoid spider of the Dark Palace has many eccentricities and even more social issues but tries her best to be nice to others, even if it is in a deluded and perverse way. Let’s see what’s in store for this spider today. Seeing the palace today is: Nekona the dim and energetic cat, Mimi the enticing succubus, Cobera the shy and timid snake, and Scorpina the large and silent mutant scorpion. There will be tears, smiles, and secrets revealed. A Day’s Venture is set after the events of Leros of the Underworld: The Tournament.

Jacob didn’t know he would have to give up everything he loved after he got married. It took him many years and a kid later to finally get tired of it. Now he’s off fishing, and no one’s going to stop him. It’s not like a supernatural creature is going to trap him in some other-world and try to kill him. It’s not like that at all.One day, Little Red's Grandmother becomes sick. Little Red's mother makes Grandmother some muffins and soup to help Grandmother feel better, however before Little Red leaves her mother warns her about the wolf that lives in the woods. While Little Red walks through the woods to Grandmother's house, the wolf smells the muffins and decides to talk to Little Red. He asks her where she is going and why to which she replies. He then asks if she was afraid of the woods which instead of replying yes or no, she answers that her father is a lumberjack and that he should be strong because her Grandmother taught him everything he knows to be a lumberjack. The wolf doesn't believe Little Red and so leaves her with a fair warning of his own before making his way to Grandmother's house. He arrives thinking that Little Red was far behind him and so knocks on the door to Grandmother's house. Grandmother tells him to come in and asks if he was feeling good, since he was trying to impersonate Little Red. When he gets to the kitchen, Grandmother hits the Wolf with a frying pan telling him that she doesn't need his muffins cause Little Red already gave her some. Little Red laughs and tells him she warned him.

One man - two seagulls - three life-altering choices.When a bird brings beach-combing drifter Richard a powerful charm, he learns that choices can be a gift and a curse.Will the Chooser change the course of Richard's life forever? Find out in this unusual short story about second and third chances...One man - two seagulls - three life-altering choices.When a bird brings beach-combing drifter Richard a powerful charm, he learns that choices can be a gift and a curse.Will the Chooser change the course of Richard's life forever? Find out in this unusual short fantasy about second and third chances...

Poverty and wealth collide in this story about a Rio taxi driver who struggles to fulfill his daughter's dreams.It is Senior Sergeant Gordon 'Laney' Lane's last day at work before retirement. He has had a full life of watching changes occur with not only the police department, but in his life; not all of which are good. He is walking the beat he used to walk, back in the day when cops used to 'walk the beat,' in the rain, remembering his life to that point.'Laney' has an appointment. An appointment which, to him, will right a wrong; a serious wrong. He will avenge a life lost too young, that must be done, on this his last day.

The usurper has gathered his fleet in orbit, and he prepares to invade the Bion home world and end the war. The true emperor knows that the invasion will cripple his empire. He has to stop the usurper before it is too late.On the other side of the front, the team of Bion criminals is determined to find the mysterious sect and use their knowledge to defeat the Empire and save their home world.Emperor Titus is dead and a usurper has claimed the throne. With an empire-wide broadcast he revealed his plans – the ceasefire with the Bion tribes is no longer in effect and the final battle is about to begin.Far from the capital, the true emperor is still in the hiding. He knows that the final clash between the two rivaling civilizations will devastate the Empire. He has to claim the throne and stop the slaughter before it is too late. But that is not an easy task for a man without a body and with limited resources.Meanwhile in the shadows, the mysterious sect is growing their numbers…

Reiya's brother Taji is convinced that he's a long lost fairy prince, and it's usually up to her to protect him from doubting bullies. But when some village boys decide to kidnap them both in order to get a fairy's ransom, Reiya has to convince Taji to believe the truth - without breaking his heart.Being sixteen is Tupac Eminem. Ella has no one to talk to except her new diary, which she has to hide from Ma and Pa Warden, the foster parents she’s stuck with since her family got flattened in a car accident. Now that she lives with the wardens, she has to switch to a new school, where people act like her tragedy is contagious. Her new suburb is just as boring as the last, and offers no hope of secret passageways or magic. But life is not all bad. There’s an interesting boy at the new school – although his family turns out to be impossibly dangerous. And there’s a feral cat, living in the suburb’s only open space, a pitiful excuse for woods. Sometimes the cat invades Ella’s mind. She tells her diary, ‘I’ve gone a special kind of crazy, a split personality. And my other personality is a cat, not a person.’

P. L. Travers introduced Mary Poppins to the world in 1934. Ever since, the no-nonsense English nanny has been beloved by children and adults everywhere. Originally published in 1962 and long unavailable, Mary Poppins from A to Z offers a unique glimpse of the famous Poppins cast. Twenty-six vignettes--one for each letter of the alphabet--weave unexpected tales of Mary Poppins, the Banks children, and other characters from Travers's timeless novels. As an added twist, each vignette is filled with fun and unusual words that start with the featured letter. In full color for the first time, this enchanting new edition will delight both old and new fans of the inimitable Mary Poppins.

From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace. Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us—our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found. Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.

MYSTERY.  Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident.  During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t.  Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death.  When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons from the past and the dark secrets that still haunt the present.

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, “God willing, strike sparks off each other.” Here and Now is the result of that proposal: the epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other’s friendship is apparent on every page.

Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933, is Nathanael West's second novel. It is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. "Money and fame meant nothing to them. They were not worldly men." "Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.” –Dorothy Parker

A Cosmos' Gateway short take. A young woman falls for the college geek and has to convince him that he is the man for her. Available for free from S.E. Smith's website: http://sesmithfl.com/free-reads/ A delightful, complete short story by S.E. Smith based on her USAT Bestselling Series, Cosmos' Gateway. Find out just what happens when Tilly sets her sights on Angus Bell.

Three classic Richard Sharpe adventures Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814 It is 1814. Rumours abound that Napoleon has surrendered, been murdered, or fled. But before the French are finally defeated and Sharpe can lay down his sword, one of the bloodiest conflicts of the war must be fought: the battle for the city of Toulouse. Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June 1815 It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the Prince of Orange, who refuses to listen to Sharpe’s reports of an enormous army, led by Napoleon, marching towards them. Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-21 Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth.

From the author of the Amazon #1 bestselling romance, Jake Undone, comes a friends-to-lovers story of longing, passion, betrayal and redemption……with a twist that will rip your heart out. Skylar was my best friend, but I secretly pined for her. One thing after another kept us apart, and I’ve spent the last decade in fear of losing her forever. First, it was the cancer, but she survived only to face the unthinkable at my hands. Because of me, she left town. For years, I thought I’d never see her again. But now she’s back…and living with him. I don’t deserve her after everything I’ve put her through, but I can’t live without her. This is my last chance, because she’s about to make the biggest mistake of her life. I can see it her eyes: she doesn’t love him. She still loves me...which is why I have to stop her before it’s too late. My Skylar is a STANDALONE novel and a companion to Jake Undone. **Contains graphic sexual content and harsh language. It is only appropriate for adult readers age 18+

In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.