A thrilling tale of wartime espionage by the acclaimed Alistair MacLean.During World War II, Yugoslavian rebel forces struggle to resist the German occupation, even as a three-way civil war tears the nation apart. In the mist of this terrible confusion, three compatriots set out across their besieged country to relay the German battle plan and unmask a double agent. But where do their loyalties really lie? On this dangerous journey with dangerous companions, everyone's motives are uncertain—and no one is who he seems.

Faith Carew was ten years old when Esther Eldridge came to visit her. Faith lived in a big comfortable log cabin on one of the sloping hillsides of the Green Mountains. Below the cabin was her father’s mill; and to Faith it always seemed as if the mill-stream had a gay little song of its own. She always listened for it when she awoke each morning.

The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses, and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path. From the Paperback edition.

'"First Steps" is the story of Dave Riggler's first psychotherapy session. He's a handicapped teenager, who uses a wheelchair, in therapy (he thinks) because the school he's going to wants him to walk on a walker, but he doesn't want to. "First Steps" is a story about being handicapped, identity, and self-determination, for better or worse.This short story series concludes with 'New Roads'. The series follows two retirees, widowers, and former next door neighbors, as they close the doors on their previous long term marriages and seek in each other a loving partner to share the remainder of their life with. Their dramas are not unlike what many face, but it is their joy of life and appreciation of each other that lights their way through the dark times as well as the stormy times.

A small collection of stories about judgment, vengeance, inspiration, inter-connectedness, and devotion. With each tale, the reader is challenged to consider new ideas or perspectives. There are twists, surprises, lovable and detestable characters, epiphanies, and revelations that will stay with the reader long after the reading is done.This is the second in a series of haiku on the four seasons. It follows "5 Winter Haiku."

Gravity Files is a collection of selected prose and poetry about the human condition. Both dark and light in feeling these works offer a range of feelings emotions and experiences.Gravity Files is a collection of selected prose and poetry about the human condition. Both dark and light in feeling these works offer a range of feelings emotions and experiences.I call my writing Splatter. Some of the writing is about me while some pieces are observational but in the first person. The words, phrases, paragraphs, and poems come to me in bursts. And are usually created in under 15 minutes. I make no claim of quality. I write what I think and do not censor nor edit. Like Jackson Pollack, and his paintings, my work goes places that are not always obvious, even to me. They are rough and at times profane, but words though haphazard are chosen carefully. There are purposely no titles to any of the pieces. A title suggests a mood or an explanation. I offer neither. Each piece was arbitrarily placed in the collection. No attempt was made to group the pieces by mood or feeling. The chapters are broken only into prose and poems J.L Wolf

What you get is a hundred short poems of varying lengths and topics. Most of which rhyme and all which are free for you to browse and read.A hundred days ago I set myself to a task of writing a single poem once a day and this is the result. A hundred short poems of varying length in the amount of lines and width in the number of words. There is no overall theme to this collection as each poem was written separately from the latter. Thus you can feel free to read them in whichever order you wish, and it should not affect the over all experience.But I suppose you are still curious of what you are about to leap into. Thus a brief summary of the poems would be; depression, love, popular culture, politics and regret.My personal favourite is the one called "Fishfingers" that also happens to be the shortest by my estimate. So go ahead and read.

as if we didn't have enough trouble already: suddenly the great chicken shows up in minnesota. first thing you know, a million lime egg chickens are marching on new york city. can beulah and harry foil the great chicken or will he achieve world domination? one hair-raising episode follows another until beulah and harry finally hit on a plan. just in time too.'people eat boiled eggs, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, you name it, they eat it, without a word of thanks to the great chicken. I'm going to teach them a lesson they will never forget.' with these dreadful words the great chicken declares war on anyone who has ever eaten an egg or a chicken leg or told a chicken joke. but it's beulah, an ordinary chicken from minnesota, who hatches the first lime egg chicken. naturally the egg is green, the color of limes, but that's not the worst of it because in a wink of an eye that lime egg chicken hatches another lime egg chicken and she wastes no time hatching a lime egg chicken of her own; before you know it the next chicken does the same, and so on, until pretty soon a million chickens are heading straight for new york city. poor beulah: smart as she is, she can't prevent those lime egg chickens from invading the big apple. already they're chasing people into the suburbs. the great chicken's fiendish plot is succeeding. fortunately beulah is a plucky chicken. she recruits harry the kid and together they mastermind a scheme to stop the great chicken in his tracks. one hair-raising episode follows another as beulah and harry battle the great chicken for world domination. it's a cliffhanger.

Late at night or at dawn, when dreams are shattered, there is someone who opens his eyes and he restless moves his sweaty head in the pillow. It is as if a sword hurt him by treachery and blood gets coagulating immediately, leaving a permanent scar in the mind of the man for all the days to come.“For a week I did not dream anymore, but every holy morning just opening my eyes I'm relive theLate at night or at dawn, when dreams are shattered, there is someone who opens his eyes and he restless moves his sweaty head in the pillow. It is as if a sword hurt him by treachery and blood gets coagulating immediately, leaving a permanent scar in the mind of the man for all the days to come.“For a week I did not dream anymore, but every holy morning just opening my eyes I'm relive the same scene of that my last nightmare - my sister Miyabi had disappeared after one of the many fights with my father. I'm running out of the house on the street in an undershirt and panties, it was pitch dark, after a few hundred meters I stopped next to a lamppost. I had shortness of breath, I looked around in search of Miyabi, but there was none, only papers, cans and other trash. I looked down and saw my feet bare and bleeding, I started to feel pain, I raised her right foot and saw that, embedded in the sole of the foot for two or three millimetres, there was the needle of a syringe, someone had thrown it to the ground after being injected with the drug. I grabbed it and pulled out slowly, while blood flowed along the outer edge of the needle into the hand. The left foot was bleeding, I was relieved and pasted like a shard of glass still attached with a piece of etiquette, it was the shard of a bottle of beer, not surprisingly was the favourite brand by Miyabi . When I lowered my eyes, I had both feet in a pool of blood and then I passed out.“

What is it about poetry that captures your soul? Deepening soul will take you to a place that will elevate the mind, body, and spirit. Deepening soul deals with love, peace, & heartbreak. It delves deep into the bottom of your soul. Deepening soul is soul wrenching!Vallanie Sharp is an ordinary genetically designed girl who has always dreamed of being a perceiver. After her sixteenth birthday, she is finally given a chance. Leaving home and her over-protective mother for the first time, Vallanie follows her mentor, Scia, to the city, where she learns to conduct mental evaluations on the disorderly. While struggling with the pressure of her prestigious mentor, hoping to avoid the mean taunts of a former classmate, and trying to gain the attention of the cute valedictorian, she is reunited with an old friend and his mentor who may be more than they appear. When the tables start to turn and Vallanie finds her friends in the patient’s gowns, she begins to question her job and her surroundings. What dark secrets are embedded at the root of her society and—more importantly—does she want to know?

** *Sometimes one night just isn’t enough.* ** Though they see each other only once a month, Amanda’s sweet body and wicked ways have been driving Derek wild for over a year. And now that he’s moving to Austin, Derek is determined to have Amanda in his bed permanently. There’s only one problem: Amanda’s happy with their current arrangement. Can Derek convince her a lifetime of nights together will be so much sweeter? ** *Meet Mr. July … he’s determined to heat things up.* ** Each book in the series is a STANDALONE novel with NO cliffhanger and a guaranteed HEA! And don’t miss Bar Bites: A Man of the Month Cookbook by J. Kenner and Suzanne M. Johnson, featuring recipes, slices of life, and an all new short story!

Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an insane asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. Cornelius, who has political ambitions and a litany of health problems, is trying to find a large amount of moonshine money his gentle wife Bella has hidden somewhere in their collapsing house, but his noisy efforts are disrupted by a stream of remarkable characters, both living and dead. While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it was through this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," that he was best able to chronicle his vision of the fragile state of our world.

Hidden in plain sight… Former Marine sniper and current NSA agent Jack Stone has a new face to go with his new identity. But he still has the same tortured memories—which include the woman he let get away years ago, when they were teenagers. Now his new assignment in Miami will put him so close to the woman he’s never been able to forget, he could reach out and touch her—if only she weren’t under suspicion. When Sophie Moreno uncovers evidence linking the medical supply company she works for with arms smuggling—and worse—she doesn’t know who to turn to. After a shocking betrayal, she realizes the only person she can trust is a mysterious new person in the company—a man with hauntingly familiar eyes. As Sophie questions her intense attraction to this man and Jack struggles not to blow his cover, the two of them must race against the clock to stop terrorists from killing scores of people—starting with them.

After kissing way too many frogs, all Laney has to show for it is sore lips and a bruised heart. Luckily, Carson Bennett isn’t interested in her for her heart. Her lips? Hell yes. Other parts of her anatomy? You better believe it. But her heart? Nope, not even a little bit. But what neither of them want to admit is that their choices—not to love or be loved—have never been theirs to control.

Durrell's remarkable memoir of his spiritual journey with famed Taoist philosopher Jolan ChangBeginning with their first meeting over lunch at Lawrence Durrell's Provencal home, Durrell and Jolan Chang—renowned Taoist philosopher and expert on Eastern sexuality—developed an enduring relationship based on mutual spiritual exploration. Durrell's autobiographical rumination on their friendship and on Taoism recounts the author's existential ponderings, starting with his introduction to the mystical and enigmatic "smile in the mind's eye." From parsimony, cooking, and yoga to poetry, Petrarch, and Nietzche, A Smile in the Mind's Eye is a charming tale of a writer's spiritual and philosophical awakening.