I was a good girl. I ate my vegetables, volunteered at the local autism centre and sat in the front pew of church every Sunday. Then, I got cancer. What the hell kind of reward was that for a boring life well lived? I was a seventeen-year-old paradigm of virtue and I was tired of it. So, when I
February 26, 1924 was the first day of the greatly anticipated high treason trial that would galvanize Germany - but few in the courtroom that morning anticipated that the leading defendant, General Erich Ludendorff, whose risky offensives during World War I doomed Germany to defeat, would soon be
Artist Heidi Gibson is spending the summer up in Anchorage doing some painting when she gets attacked by a crazed wolf. She is rescued by golden-eyed wildlife biologist Luke McCall, who calmly informs she has been bitten by a werewolf and will turn into one during the next full moon. Thinking he’s
Over the centuries, the viel of mystery shrouding Tibet has only rarely been lifted. In 1975, however, Han Suyin travelled to Lhasa - the first person from abroad to do so in thirteen years. This is the absorbing account of her journey, a book which counters the view that Tibet, as a Lamaist
„The Diverting History of John Gilpin” to ballada komiczna Williama Cowpera napisana w 1782 roku. Ballada opowiada o sukienniku nazwiskiem John Gilpin, który jeździł na koniu jeździeckim. Cowper usłyszał tę historię od Lady Anny Austen w czasie kiedy przechodził ciężką depresję. Opowieść ucieszyła
It is 1950 and Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager for a Liverpool rep company. She quickly becomes obsessed with their dissolute director, but when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, a different drama unfolds. He and Stella are bound in a past neither dares intepret.
Embittered and cynical, Denny Hargate is doomed to spend his days in a wheelchair. But one day he sees a beautiful young woman make a strange and elaborate sign in the air - and vanish! He is Terran. She is Gretana ty Iltha, an observer from the distant world of Mollan. They were not supposed to
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is the final installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This expansive collection contains 27 stories and novellas written between 1963 and 1981, years in which Dick produced some of his most mature work, including
Revisit Hamilton High in this MUST READ for all fans of The DUFF - co-starring Bianca and Wesley. Sonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. She lies about her dad being in prison. She lies about her mom kicking her out. And she lies about sneaking into her best friend's house every night because she has
When the giant Millpond Company finds its plans for a mega-shopping mall stymied by the refusal of an elderly lesbian couple to sell their home, the ladies are subjected to ugly vandalism and frightening death threats. The powerful director of Millpond in turn hires Don Strachey, Albany's only gay
