Dead City

      James Ponti
     Dead City

A tween takes on undead New Yorkers in this paranormal action-adventure that "breathes new life into the zombie genre" (Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games).Most kids have enough to deal with between school, homework, extracurricular activities, and friends, but Molly Bigelow isn't your typical tween. By day, Molly attends MIST—the Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology—but it's what she's learning outside of school that sets her apart from her classmates. Molly is a zombie hunter, just like her mother. This, however, is news to Molly. Now she must come to terms with not only the idea that zombies exist, but also that they're everywhere, and it's her job to help police them and keep the peace. Sure, she'd like to be a regular kid, but "regular" just isn't possible when it turns out the most revered (or feared, depending on your perspective) zombie hunter in the history of New York City is your mother. It seems Molly's...

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    Numbers

      John Rechy
     Numbers

Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the "numbers," the men who will confirm his desirability, and with the hungry focus of a man on borrowed time, he stalks the dark balconies of all-night theaters, the hot sands of gay beaches, and shady glens of city parks, attempting to attract shadowy sex-hunters in an obcessive battle against the passing of his youth.

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    A Tale of Two Christians

      Jason J. Cross
     A Tale of Two Christians

Old friends, Jane and Kerri, are having an argument about when it is appropriate to talk about the Word and Jesus. Which one is correct?Warning: experimental translation (hybrid)Leo is a police officer dog, a half-caste with the passion for the Looney Tunes. It has always desired to have the hands to be able to manage the remote control of the TV and the refrigerator, but when its master Steve was killed in a trap, it desires become a real fixed, because the hands are the only mean that would allow him to unmask the assassin and to do justice. From that moment in then it will be found involved in a spiral of adventures during which "it will take on loan" the hands of other characters, met along a tortuous walk that will bring more and more it of time in time next to the assassin, up to the "confrontation" final.

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    The Thirty Days

      Ally Mare
     The Thirty Days

Ally L. Mare has took part in the National Poetry Writing Month for 2017 with various of challenging prompts such as an elegy, repetition, a nine line, the Bop and so much more. Thirty days with thirty poems filled with humors, creativity, life lessons, romantic pleasure and silliness.What William wants, William takes. He doesn't need to ask for permission. He wasn't raised to accept rejection. And yet, his promised fiancee dares to turn him down and betray him. But William's obsession with her has turned unhealthy at best, and he's not about to let her go so easily.

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    The Secret Carnival

      Erik Ash
     The Secret Carnival

Written during a wild, passionate love affair that turned out to be a fever dream, The Secret Carnival is a series of grotesque and uplifting vignettes concerning the cycle of creation and decay.This book is meant for children aged three to seven years old. The stories in the book have valuable life lessons taught in a way that small children understand. The stories can be used as bedtime stories or for any other occasion. Parents can read them to their children during bonding sessions.

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