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California. Close your eyes and say it: California. Images of perpetual sunshine, swaying palm trees, and blue waters lapping at sandy beaches. That one word conjures visions of gold and fame, luring dreamers to its mythic shores. The original peoples lived in an abundant paradise. The Spanish found a familiarity to their homeland. The Gold Rush, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley promised instant wealth. But the beaches are only a sliver of this v...

As with the first volume of Transcendent, Lethe Press has worked with a wonderful editor to select the best work of genderqueer stories of the fantastical, stranger, horrific, and weird published the prior year. Featuring stories by Merc Rustad, Jeanne Thornton, Brit Mandelo, and others, this anthology offers time-honored tropes of the genre--from genetic manipulation to zombies, portal fantasy to haunts--but told from a perspective that break...

Sünden und Böcke" spielt in einem mitteleuropäischen Land. Zum Umfeld gehören Medien, Ministerien, Marketingstrategien. Die Zeit ist die Gegenwart.Dem Titel entsprechend geht es um Verfehlungen, also Sünden, und um Menschen, denen solche Verfehlungen - zu Recht oder zu Unrecht - in die Schuhe geschoben werden, also um Sündenböcke.Die Welt ist ja bekanntlich schlecht. Und insbesondere die Politik. Hört und liest man jeden Tag.So auch in dieser ...

Snappy Stories digs deep into some of the earliest in 20th Century illustrated fun and fiction! Adult comics, strips, poetry, and other shorts of excellent erotica! 100 Big Pages!

Covers AMX, Avanti, Crosley Hot Shot, Kaiser Darrin, DeLorean DMC, Hudson Italia, AMC Javelin, Nash-Healey and Packard and Studebaker Hawk. Excellant primer and reference Gudie. Over 150 Large B&W, photos. Details and basic specs. Historic text.

Half angel. Half demon. 100% teenager. Everything changes for Esme on Halloween: her family, her classmates, her friends, her life. Bullied and alone, she makes her first friend and learns he's a lot like her - special in a way no one else will understand.

He slips through the hedgerow and in no time is seen sitting on the bench surprised by it all.In the shadow of Old Sarum he sits. Salisbury is in sight. It slopes slowly from the old to the new. Now hungry and not too sure what to do about the rue he concludes…'I can live with the hunger for a bit… but the thirst I can't.'He finds a thrown water bottle and heads into town down a road sloping into Salisbury. Just short of the town, he passes by...

How well do we really know each other?Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics. Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon--fully nude. Single mother Margot Pierce moved across the country to build an inn, but so far all she does is binge on gelato, the Hallmark Channel, and fantasies of murdering her ex. High school senior Emilia Forester, daughter of celebrity parents, is stru...

Paperless is a crime novel inspired by the atrocities against children and their families that took place between 1988 and 1996 in the United Kingdom. The national outrage emanating from what became known as the Alder Hey Organ Scandal, resulted in the U.K. Human Tissues Act of 2004. Emotionally charged from the outset and fast-pacedthroughout, the story involves aviation, computer technology, health care fraud and the persistence, in the face...

On February 1, 2016, the date of the Iowa Caucus, David Breskin began a project that would carry him through the American presidential election. An ex- journalist, Breskin set out to "cover" this most strange and historic election, under the pressure of a reporter's daily deadline, by writing one poem a day. He created a deliberately awkward, rollickingly restrictive form-seven beats per line, eleven lines per poem-and, noting our preference f...

Many people believe that only a few can have a brilliant mind. This book will change your mind. In order to develop brilliance, change must take place. To remember things in a manner of genius, we have to understand how the mind works. Start by creating a story. When we create a story, we are linking information together. It seems crazy that something this simple can work, but it does. If you want to have a strong memory, then create weird sto...

A single-lane, dirt road, 18 miles long, leads to a secondary school in the deep bush of Southern Tanzania. Jim French and his wife Marlyn, CUSO volunteers, journeyed to the end of this road in 1967 for two years of teaching and unexpected adventure. The only Canadians ever at St. Joseph's College, Chidya, they learned to dodge camel spiders in the bedroom and red ants on the paths, to live with skinks in the attic, and to cope in a region of ...

Discover why a Japanese family are forced to live on a staircase, an elderly woman's routine slips into anarchy, a teenage couple's taunting backfires, environmental terror at a Antarctic resort, a threesome goes wildly wrong and more. Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans. A multifarious mix of stories from satire to tragedy, depicting fancies and failures and the pathways in-between.'Langford humanises the dehumanised. Pse...

Eleven-year-old Jase Freeman is confused when the line between his dreams and his reality blurs. How can climbing hills in his dreams make his legs hurt during the day? He realizes the multi-colored creature in his dreams is leading him. But where?Secrets, the school bully, strange dreams, and trouble at home are about to collide and Jase has decisions to make.Can people really wish on stars?Does God hear the prayer of a mixed-up boy just tryi...

Will it Stand Up? Uses the London 2012 Olympic Stadium to demonstrate the seven principles for running successful projects.As well as sharing what went on behind the scenes of this iconic stadium, it provides you with a clear blueprint for improving your own project outcomes.Whether you're an architect, engineer, developer or contractor, you'll find this book both entertaining and educational.

Christmas coloring book for kids of all ages! Celebrate the season with this cute Christmas coloring book features full page designs of Christmas trees, Santa Claus, reindeer, snowmen, and more. Printed on high-quality, pure white paper, single side of easy removal and no bleed through.

During the days and nights following the massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the world listened as various spokespersons attempted to explain to the general public exactly what the gay bar/club meant to LGBTQI people. The words "safe place, " "refuge, " "free to be ourselves" flew through the air. We queer writers grappled with the tragedy alongside our brothers and sisters. How could we express our feelings about the places w...

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Black Books - Vol. 1 - 1422 -1586 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly p...

A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation - Third Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available to...