An insecure writer gets involved in the dangerous world of ambulance chicken, illegal lobotomies, and zombie farming. A bizarre novel.Death, Life, or Love—Unbounded Always Play for KeepsThere are only two ways to kill Unbounded, and fire isn’t one of them—as law school dropout Erin Radkey learns the hard way. By fluke of a recessive gene, she has become Unbounded, a nearly immortal being with paranormal abilities. Erin’s Change separates her from her loved ones and alters everything she believes to be true. A week earlier she was considering a marriage proposal; now she contemplates the best way to stay alive. Caught in a battle between two Unbounded groups, the Emporium and the Renegades, she is also hunted by a secret mortal society sworn to eradicate the Unbounded gene. As Erin plunges into this dangerous new life, she must carve out her own place in the madness, protect her mortal family, and decide which group she should join. Her unique ability is vital to both groups in the race to secure an identification software that spells death for all Unbounded—or enslavement for the entire mortal world. Some will stop at nothing to use Erin as one more pawn in a battle that has spanned centuries. Erin’s undeniable attraction to Ritter Langton, whose family was massacred by opposing Unbounded two hundred and forty years ago, complicates her choices. There are no second chances. Death, life, or love—Unbounded always play for keeps. Non-stop action, terrifying consequences, and powerful romance make The Change an exciting addition to the world of romantic urban fantasy.

The hilarious instant New York Times bestseller, The Hunger Pains is a loving parody of the dystopian YA novel and film, The Hunger Games. Winning means wealth, fame, and a life of therapy losing means death, but also fame! This is The Hunger Pains. When Kantkiss Neverclean replaces her sister as a contestant on the Hunger Games—the second-highest-rated reality TV show in Peaceland, behind Extreme Home Makeover—she has no idea what to expect. Having lived her entire life in the telemarketing district’s worst neighborhood, the Crack, Kantkiss feels unprepared to fight to the death while simultaneously winking and looking adorable for the cameras. But when her survival rests on choosing between the dreamy hunk from home, Carol Handsomestein, or the doughy klutz, Pita Malarkey, Kantkiss discovers that the toughest conflicts may not be found on the battlefield but in her own heart . . . which is unfortunately on a battlefield.

A soulful journey through India, a detour into amnesia, a plunge into adventure as humor lights the way to liberation. A book for awakening Minds who know that spiritual truth lies within—and that it takes a bit of laughter, plus facing the muck at times, to get there. Fiction based in fact, the sacred tinged with sacrilege, and an entertaining boost for those on their path to freedom."The Now or Never" is much like the fabled elephant probed by five blind sages who each perceive it in a different manner. For some readers, the book will be an entertaining adventure populated by colorful characters, with India’s rich heritage and natural beauty providing an attractive backdrop to tale unfolding. Others, while reading, will glimpse the light and shadow in a psyche truthfully exposed through a man’s twisting spiritual path, juxtaposed against a fictional tale in which characters spring from his scattered mind to frolic in both conflict and harmony. Many readers who are tired of dry, spiritually-correct writings, may be refreshed by the abundant humor and gentle sacrilege that are used to delve into spiritual insight as well as to enhance the story line laced with intrigue, manipulation, kindness, murder, and perhaps, redemption.The plot centers around a man who awakens each morning with a fresh case of amnesia, a predicament soothed only slightly by lush garden setting and the rumbling Ganges River outside his isolated ashram hut. He does his best to slowly piece together has past and present, while his future attracts a cast of characters eager to take advantage of his mental handicap. Shri Shri Cy Bubba, a guru of questionable repute who caters to ‘the serious seeker or the gullible wealthy’, is the primary bump in our forgetful protagonist’s road. But getting shaken up by a trickster like Cy Bubba has it’s spiritual advantages, as does running into Alberta who thinks it a hoot to provide a series of…'innovative', shall we say, wake-up calls to a confused and pliable man with no memory. Also, the protagonist periodically discovers pieces of his spiritual autobiography dropped along the path that were written just prior to his plunge into amnesia. They tell the true story of a man having lost his comfortable life, as a respectable engineer and lawyer, to a mind-bending spiritual awakening in the 1990’s filled with inter-dimensional spirit guides, psychic encounters, and reality shifts that sent him spinning off into the fast lane of spiritual highs and shadowy lows.As the book draws to a close with fiction and fact intertwining to weave a fitting climax to the story, the protagonist/author realizes that he has actually been caught in a deeper, lifelong cycle of forgetfulness than the one recounted in the novel.This amnesia of the soul sends the author off on a true-life search for his higher mind and to recollect why our spirits fell into human embodiment in a convoluted earth world. Three subsequent books in "The Nyxall Chronicles" follow this journey through soulful loss and exquisite discovery that climax in 2015 in the Peruvian Andes. The Chronicles may be read and enjoyed in any order since each contains a unique storyline, message, and resolution.

An inverse correlation seems to exist between an invention's size and its numerical success. Small inventions can infest the world (mobile phones, Velcro, spray cans); larger ones may seem to (shopping trolleys, cars, shipping containers), but really huge ones (suspension bridges, radio telescopes, tunnel boring machines etc) do not. Norman Watt's invention was at the latter category's extreme endOne dark and quiet night in Valdare, the village far below Valdarius’ castle, a young woman was returning home from her daily duties at the magistrate’s manor house. She was the only person in the streets on this night, but she thought nothing of it, for it was a routine she had done many times before. Little did she know that tonight would be very different from any she had ever experienced in her young life As she was walking along, whistling her favorite tune to help drown out the silence, she felt a cold chill run through her body that made the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. She bundled up and started walking faster. As she rounded the corner into the alley to her house, she noticed movement out of the corner of her eye. She stopped to take a look around, but saw nothing. Thinking that it must have been an ally cat or a street rat, she continued walking towards her house.

When the crew take a break on a shopping space station, Captain Wingclipper takes the place of a missing actor to film a commercial. Meanwhile, the other crew members follow a suspicious runaway thespian who could leave them all stranded.WARNING! This is a Zed Lab Experiment!"The bed" description:A man is attended that delivering him his new bed. The time passes but nobody introduces him to effect the delivery. When two men finally transport it thin in his room, the man realizes that the bed is wrong. A model has been delivered for another. The two calls the shop but the salesclerk it informs them that it materially is not possible to effect the delivery. It happened something to his bed. It will need that the man brings him in the shop to discover what is happened.

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: "That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them." "Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking." "The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two." More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, Sht My Dad Says* is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.

The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?

Percaline Golden’s life hasn’t exactly been easy. Family tragedies have forced her to grow up a lot faster than she wanted to, but at least she’s always been able to be strong for her younger sister, Savannah, and lean on her best friend, Lucas. But an encounter with a prophet and a dream sent by a ghost will lead Percaline on a journey to a bizarre and wonderful world where she’s legendary.Percaline Golden’s life hasn’t exactly been easy. Family tragedies have forced her to grow up a lot faster than she wanted to, but at least she’s always been able to be strong for her younger sister, Savannah, and lean on her best friend, Lucas. But an encounter with a prophet and a dream sent by a ghost will lead Percaline on a journey to a bizarre and wonderful world where she’ll have to learn the true meaning of strength—because the whole world will be depending on her. Read the amazing tale in House of Phoenyx, Book 1.

An old dog dispenses wisdom (whether you want it or not) and reminisces about her halcyon puppyhood with the human family she lost long ago.In Junk Shop: a Dog Memoir by Jennifer Erickson we are presented with a story that offers some wistful and nostalgic wisdom from a dog that proves it knows as much about being human as any body else. -Judge, 2nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published eBook Awards

James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life--which the LA Times called "a perfectly pitched novel"--is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large. After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone.Wrong! It's more competitive than Rafe ever expected, and to score big in class, he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art. His method? Operation: Get a Life! Anything he's never done before, he's going to do it, from learning to play poker to going to a modern art museum. But when his newest mission uncovers secrets about the family Rafe's never known, he has to decide if he's ready to have his world turned upside down. (Includes over 100 illustrations.)

In one week the anti-Christ is due to be born, and it’s up to Barnaby, an Agent of Death to try and stop it. Assisted by an angel, a human woman, a self-obsessed Sci-Fi actor and the flamboyant Santa Clause of Norway, he’ll try his best to keep the world from coming to a premature end. With time running out they’ll race to keep humanity from ending and the after-life from overcrowding.In one week the anti-Christ is due to be born, and it’s up to Barnaby, an Agent of Death to try and stop it. Assisted by an angel, a human woman, a self-obsessed Sci-Fi actor and the flamboyant Santa Clause of Norway, he’ll try his best to keep the world from coming to a premature end. With time running out and humanity’s stupidity getting in the way at every turn, they’ll race to save the after-life from over-crowding. At least they’ve got a little extra time on their hands, as the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are stranded in the desert after misplacing their rides.

There are some very interesting people in the world, dullness is never part of life in their company. Such a person was the crippled photographer Jack Snaps, whom I learnt to know very well while reporting for a small country newspaper.Sometimes men do not become friends out of choice, but out of necessity. That is how my friendship with Jack Snaps started, but it grew into an exceptional partnership. Jack did very seldom consider the consequences any of his actions might bring forth, thereby landing himself, and often his friends, in situations that should rather have been avoided. Maybe that is why I cared so much for this man, with him around life certainly was never boring, and at times downright dangerous.

With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we recognize, believe in, and care about deeply. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a twelve-million-dollar debt, and a hot tub by the pool; Jacy, who's finished playing "Jungla" in Italian movies and who's returned to Thalia; and Sonny -- Duane's teenage rival for Jacy's affections -- who owns the car wash, the Kwik-Sackstore, and the video arcade. One of Larry McMurtry's funniest and most touching contemporary novels.

Baritone Juicebox is a jaded young man who decides to commit suicide by jumping from the earth to the moon, but doubt causes him to fail, and so reality fractures, leading to a myriad of shenanigans and hijinks, as well as the obligatory valuable moral lessons.Baritone Juicebox is a jaded young man, who decides to kill himself, by means of shooting himself on a rocket into space, but fails. In doing so, he lands on the moon, and decides to drown himself in the ocean's of the Earth. However, when he hits the Earth's atmosphere, his inner doubts causes the realities of his life to fragment. In one, he becomes a basketball, falling to the earth's surface to score the winning point for the local team, leading him on an adventure of self discovery for him and his newfound friend, the one who scored that point, Arthur Crouton. In the second, he falls to the surface of the Earth, and dies, but is resurrected by a sardonic magician, and is thusly deified by the inhabitants of a primitive island. In the last one, he is rocketed out into space, wherein he encounters the four sided triangles of the grilled cheese nebula, and must aid them to save their species. Eventually, all the realities collide, in an unforgettable basketball game, in which the future of all of our protagonists is decided.

Underground is a book about a creature/monster that lives in the London Underground.The book was a big hit, a massive best seller and inevitably Hollywood wants to turn it into a film. So Big Bill, a studio executive under pressure goes to London. With the pressure to get the film done in record time and under the lowest budget, chaos erupts and the real adventure begins...Underground is a book about a creature/monster that lives in the London Underground system.The book was a big hit, a massive best seller and inevitably Hollywood wants to turn it into a film. So Big Bill, a studio executive under huge pressure to make money in an age were movies are made by spotty kids with camcorders and break box office records, goes to London himself with he’s assistant Sue and an intern Frank, just out of college, to meet the writer and buy the rights for a film. The author of the book, UNDERGROUND is in a psychiatric hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown unable to cope with his new success, he’s left in the care of the Hollywood trio and even stars in the film.With the pressure to get the film done in record time and under the lowest budget possible, the pressure piles on and a chaotic scenario develops. The already vulnerable book author who plays the monster in a suit with huge sharp claws he has a nervous breakdown, taking on the monster persona he chases everyone down the corridors and tunnels. But there is a twist...I have created a story that appeals to a wide audience range and by having Americans in the story, my idea is to also make it attractive to Hollywood and the possibility of having it turned into a film. As you will be able to read I have exploited every angle possible in this book it has been 20 years in the making.I paid careful attention to highlight the differences between the two cultures (British and American) and exploit it to the maximum playing on stereotypes but without being too obvious. The way the story is written at the moment, in this format is its strength. It’s direct and straight to the point, descriptive just enough to make the characters and plot understandable without going on and [email protected]