Otherwise: A Novel by Geoff Camphire (20 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Larkin Mullaney has written plenty of obituaries for the small-town newspaper where he works. But never before has he been assigned an obit like this one -- about the beloved local nun who died in a mysterious car wreck earlier this week. There are just a few nagging questions. Was it Larkin who was driving on the same stretch of dark highway when the church van swerved and careened off a precipice? Who were Larkin and his drinking companion David Diaz following on that night anyway? And why does Larkin feel like he's stumbled onto a secret message, intended for him, hidden in the weirdly unorthodox teachings of the late Sister Helen Kennedy? Larkin needs to figure out exactly what happened before the police do. Maybe he can find some answers in the visitations that he has begun receiving from an otherworldly figure that calls itself The Moon Over Winston, Pennsylvania. From award-winning author Geoff Camphire comes this poignant, thought-provoking tale of fear, guilt, ...

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Charley Is My Darling : An evacuee coming of age tale by Joyce Cary (Lume Books) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A charming, accessible tale of childhood and youth, that offers plentiful insight and raises many questions. Charley is a London lad and an evacuee. Initially an outcast, his wit and humour win him friends, although not always of the best type. Among Charley Brown's first deeds as an evacuee to Longwater in the West Country is to let loose the local bull. Boys who one minute had taunted him with the refrain 'Ballocky baldy' (Charley's lice having been evacuated from London with him), were the next minute acknowledging him as their natural leader. Charley Brown, one of Joyce Cary's most uproarious and memorable creations, is a love and a terror. He is a quivering jelly in the hands of girls and women of any age who show him kindness; through the wild force of his imagination he holds children rapt with tales of desperate gunmen with exquisite manners and a taste for the beautiful. He leads his gang into daring acts both grand and bad. As Charley's sweetheart Lizzy Galor rightly puts ...

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Ninety Days Without You by Jennifer Woodward (38 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Is falling in love your ambition? It's certainly Kat's. The high of giving your life over to love is exceptional. Finding the Person to Complete You = Mission Accomplished. Kat, a heartbroken American playwright, meets Charlie and is instantly smitten with his delightful British accent, his insight and humor, and his frank honesty at being 15-years sober. Finally, here's a man with the outgoing, fun-loving soul of an alcoholic -- but he doesn't drink. A whirlwind transatlantic romance ensues. But what looks like love turns into the shock of Kat's life. Can she face the reality of his other illness? Can she come to terms with her own addiction to him? Woodward's dark, funny and heartbreaking tale blends romance and comedy with brutal self-discovery and compelling readability. Ninety Days Without You is about relationships, addiction, mental health, family, friends, love, sex -- and the essential journey towards knowing and loving yourself.

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The Note by Reggie Turk (169 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

One year ago Chellie Morris drove through a stop sign--less than a mile from her house--into the stampeding traffic of State Route 30. Nathan, her husband, arrived home after the accident to find a four-word note on a bookshelf; not a suicide note, not a goodbye, not even a reminder for something he might forget, just four unexplainable words. Too much alcohol and too little sleep have turned the last 365 days into a stagnant haze. Painful flashes from the last day, uneven rewinds of the past, and the haunting words of the note chaotically rumble and roll through his mind. Four words--only four words left.

Genre: Literary Fiction

Let's Get Lost by C. H. Smith (Swamp Island Words) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Storytellers are made... they ain't born. Whether you believe it is God or just the world that shapes them is your own prerogative. A story about the beauty and sweet decay of a southern swamp, Let's Get Lost, explores the ramifications of losing one's way. The struggle to recall the details of a squirrel hunting trip gone terribly wrong for our narrator in his youth. Short but rich in detail and emotion that goes beyond the typical hunting tale.

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Climies by Michael J. Vaughn (73 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

"The Handmaid's Tale" meets climate change. Russell Peppers emerges from a curious labyrinth to find that the world has changed. He kayaks over underwater towns, past woods cut in two by new shorelines, and meets Mimi, owner of a Victorian that cruises the bay atop a barge. The survivor community of Skyline is beautiful, but the erratic weather and a drowned metropolis point to a species that fell prey to its own greed. "CLIMIES makes for a captivating read. All of the advanced technology created to accommodate itself to life post global warming was ingenious. Alice in Wonderland (Al S), and a dystopian Willy Wonkaesque quality magnified a trillion times via a post apocalyptic re-engineering of the remnants of a galaxy, interspersed with a moving story line of a lost boy and the political dynamics of the Climies vs. right wing Patriots, contributed towards a timely and novel approach informed by the mayhem characteristics of a surreal era. Parts of the backstory are ...

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When I Save Us by Ellie Sabine (43 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Betsy's marriage is slipping away from her, so she's decided to push up her sleeves, don her high heels and steely determination, and set to work on a steamy thirty-day stay and fight for your man plan. But she's fighting more than she realizes. When Betsy's handed a magic ring and the unbelievable happens, she's thrown into the past and given the chance to make things right. Strap on your high heels, buckle your seatbelt, and hold on tight because When I Save Us is a roller coaster ride! This heartwarming novella is a quick, unputdownable read, but it deals with some heavy topics.

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Cordelia's Journey (Pierce Family Saga Book 1) by Hazel Hart (1,848 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

A brutal stepfather... A dying mother... A loving daughter who tries to save her Kansas Territory, 1855 In this coming-of-age story, thirteen-year-old Cordelia endures her stepfather's abuse until she learns her ailing mother is pregnant again. Fearing her mother will die in childbirth, she runs away, heading for Westport and her aunt, the only person who might be able to save her mother. She disguises herself as a boy and sets out on foot to make the 150-mile trip. Following the Kansas River, she hitches rides with a variety of travelers going east, facing setbacks along the way while learning lessons about the world and her place in it. Cordelia's Journey is the first book in the Pierce Family Saga, a series of historical novels that follow Cordelia and her family through the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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The Epic Saga of Razzle, Dazzle and Gustov, Vol 2 by Arsidious The Great Writer (5 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Follow Razzle, Dazzle, and Gustov as they explore the universe one catastrophe at a time in this campy sci-fi gag gift romp! Listen as they hysterically describe how they each arrived on earth. An unintentionally hilarious saga full of twists and turns and epic errors. This set of stories are a disaster from start to finish. Nothing is left unscathed: Ghastly plot and character development, wretched formatting, horrible headers and page numbering, misuse of punctuation and fonts, atrocious poetry, wretched formatting, ghastly plot and character development, and so on. Guaranteed to haunt any bibliophile and grammar guru. You will never read a novel the same again! This is one gag gift that people will be discussing for ages to come.

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Let Right be Done (Tanner Trilogy Book 1) by Neno Umbra (11 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

One part mystery, one part history, one part adventure. Peter Lansdown works quietly in the Suffolk County Museum as assistant curator. The bequest of the Grantby papers to the Museum, after their vetting by the Security Services, changes everything. What's the mysterious package Peter discovers when collecting the bequest - and takes on a whim, knowing full well he has no right to it? Why does Rosemary breeze into Peter's shy and ordered life in the midst of his ethical quandary? What, exactly, is this shady Government department which vetted the papers in the first place, and precisely how interested would the spooks be if they knew the narrative in Peter's hands existed? Whose story does it tell and why would it matter? After all, the past is just history, isn't it? About the Author Neno Umbra relishes the idea that nothing is ever really quite what it seems or is reported, and that life was ever thus.

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The Bitter Glass: A haunting and evocative novel set during the Irish Civil War by Eilís Dillon (Lume Books) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

From the pen of one of Ireland's most distinguished writers comes a powerful novel, set in Connemara at the time of the Civil War. A group of young people, isolated in a remote farmhouse by an IRA attack, are confronted with questions of life and death. As the plot builds to a shattering climax, their harrowing experience alters their lives and their hopes forever. The Bitter Glass is a haunting and evocative book, and enjoyed critical acclaim upon publication in 1958. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Irish literature and history, and a superb novel in its own right. Praise for The Bitter Glass: 'The Bitter Glass has a rounded excellence which comes from a mature technique and imagination of high quality. Without being in the least overwritten or sentimental, this is a most poetical book' - The Times 'This is a subtle and nicely crafted story, which deals directly with themes of life and death and war, without becoming sentimental or over dramatic. The descriptions ...

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