Quala - Escape From Headhunter Island

      Mark Richmond
     Quala - Escape From Headhunter Island

Book 02Escape from Headhunter Island Kimi & Quala drift off to sea in a small fishing boat, landing on a strange Island, Kimi tries to escape from headhunters, wild animals, meanwhile, revive Quala.His Excellency Walter Brown, Ireland's first resident Ambassador to Turkey presented his credentials in September 1968. He delegated the business of finding a residence to his wife, a French Countess, Colette Coerduroi-Brown.It is left to Dennis O'Gorman, the mission's Third Secretary, to restrain the exuberance of the Countess and handle the negotiations. He becomes embroiled in Turkish politics, in a house that is considered to be haunted. Enter a murderer!Diligent, ambitious, often unlucky; Dennis is obliged to turn detective.Millicent, his fiancée in Limerick, disapproves. The Department in Dublin frowns.He is fed a diet of red herrings, washed down by undependable wine.Dennis perseveres.

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    None Cares for Me

      Hiranya Borah
     None Cares for Me

Anamika returned back to her boring life once again. She felt nobody had cared for her liking or disliking other than Rahul, whom she had dumped for the very family who never cared for her. She thought deeply about herself, ‘I have to think for everyone; but none thinks about me!’ This negative thought took over her mind and soul slowly but steadily.Anamika returned back to her boring life once again. She felt nobody had cared for her liking or disliking other than Rahul, whom she had dumped for the very family who never cared for her. She thought deeply about herself, ‘I have to think for everyone; but none thinks about me!’ This negative thought took over her mind and soul slowly but steadily.Her unhappiness towards her life continued to grow day by day.Finally, one day she took that drastic step of committing suicide!

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    The Journey Stories

      Cindy Kane
     The Journey Stories

She stared at the back of his head as he led the animal down the bumpy, uneven path. A path that would take her on a journey away from her home, the friends who didn’t believe her, and the family who wanted to, but couldn’t. A journey that would change her life forever.The Journey Stories, by Cindy Kane, are a compilation of Christmas Eve and Easter vignettes.She stared at the back of his head as he led the animal down the bumpy, uneven path. A path that would take her on a journey away from her home, the friends who didn’t believe her, and the family who wanted to, but couldn’t. A journey that would change her life forever.The Journey Stories, by Cindy Kane, are a compilation of Christmas Eve and Easter vignettes told through the eyes of an out-casted mother fighting for the life of her son. In A Journey we follow Mary and Joseph as they’re turned away from relative after relative just hours before the birth of Jesus. And in A Journey’s End (Parts I-III) we’re with Mary as she pushes through an angry mob to find her son after his arrest. We sit with her as she mourns his death, and experience the first Easter morning by her side. The Journey Stories tell an emotional tale of one mother’s sacrifice for her son, his sacrifice for her, and the beauty of their love reunited.

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    Fourteen

      Bill Yarrow
     Fourteen

Fourteen 14-line poems by Bill Yarrow; selected + arranged by Matthew S. Barton; Naked Mannekin Press, Chicago, 2011; OUP. Eyes off the Road, Hitting the Wall, Bogdan, Love and How It Gets That Way, Joan of Dark, Stevie’s Knees, George, Nothing Beside Remains, Four Noble Lies, The Proud Accounting, Uncle Moscow, Raw Salt, Gabrielle in Arrears, Picking the Bark off Experience.Fourteen fourteen-line poems by Bill Yarrow selected and arranged by Matthew S. Barton. Originally published by Naked Mannekin Press in 2011. OUP. 1. Eyes off the Road. 2. Hitting the Wall. 3. Bogdan. 4. Love and How It Gets That Way. 5. Joan of Dark. 6. Stevie’s Knees. 7. George. 8. Nothing Beside Remains. 9. Four Noble Lies. 10. The Proud Accounting. 11. Uncle Moscow. 12. Raw Salt. 13. Gabrielle in Arrears. 14. Picking the Bark off Experience.You should be calling 911, wavingat headlights, flagging down trucks, pullingyour bleeding husband from the car. Insteadyou’re just staring at your hands as if somehowthey were imperious tools capable of magic.(from "Gabrielle in Arrears")

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    The Herb Gatherer's Disciple

      Barry Rachin
     The Herb Gatherer's Disciple

Seventeen year-old Laurel Evers is running off to a fictional village in rural Maine in search of an idyllic existence that hasn’t existed since the era of the horse and buggy. Life was simpler, idyllic then. People meandered about in horse-drawn wagons, fished, grew their own potato crops and made throat lozenges from locally-grown spearmint boiled in metal cauldrons over the stove.Seventeen year-old Laurel Evers is running off to a fictional village in rural Maine in search of an idyllic existence that hasn’t existed since the era of the horse and buggy. Life was simpler, idyllic then. People meandered about in horse-drawn wagons, fished, grew their own potato crops and made throat lozenges from locally-grown spearmint boiled in metal cauldrons over the stove. Women braided floor mats from swamp-grown rushes, and even fashioned sandals from those very same pliable plants. The Civil War was a recent memory not some moldy, historical trivia and neighbors were more 'civil' or at least it seemed that way.

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    Memories of the Ford Administration

      John Updike
     Memories of the Ford Administration

When historian Alfred “Alf” Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974–77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf’s highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857–61). The alternating texts mirror each other and tell a story in counterpoint, a frequently hilarious comedy of manners contrasting the erotic etiquette and social dictions of antebellum Washington with those of late-twentieth-century southern New Hampshire. Alf’s style is Nabokovian. His obsessions are vintage Updike.

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