Fratricide, Werewolf Wars, and the Many Lies of Andrea Paddington

Fratricide, Werewolf Wars, and the Many Lies of Andrea Paddington
Author: Stephen Bills
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2013
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 0987172824

Chief Constable Paddington is about to become a father. Happy day. Pity families and Paddington don’t go together. The family of vampires has disappeared, presumably to fulfil another ancient prophecy to destroy the world. The werewolf pack – the closest thing he has to family – are going to war for bloody retribution. The Supernatural Help and Investigation Team – his friends – want the vampires brought back alive. Oh, and then there's the question of Paddington's father's death; specifically, whether it actually happened... Yeah, it’s going to be another one of those weeks, isn’t it?

Bovicide, Zombie Diaries, and the Legend of the Brothers Brown

Bovicide, Zombie Diaries, and the Legend of the Brothers Brown
Author: Stephen Bills
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2011
Genre: Australian fiction
ISBN: 0987172816

Constable Paddington has a few problems. One, something has been devouring livestock on his sleepy English island. Two, said island is ruled by a tyrannical dictator who only comes out at night. Three, the trigger-happy military squad Paddington called in to fix problem one are threatening to shoot problem two. And that’s not even mentioning the horde of philosophical zombies led by an overweight accountant... Or the vague, ancient prophecy about the end of the world that’s due to occur... ah, this Saturday? Yeah, it’s going to be a busy week.

Story Fix

Story Fix
Author: Larry Brooks
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-08-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1599639130

Reinvigorate Your Fiction! You've written the first draft of your novel or screenplay, and you've released it into the world: to your critique group, to your most trusted beta readers, or even to an agent or an editor. But something's wrong. You're not getting the glowing response you had expected, or you might have even received a rejection. Your story is getting a "Meh..." when you had hoped for an "Amazing!" But have no fear--the piece you've sweated and bled over isn't dead on arrival. It just needs fixing. Story Fix is the answer to your revision needs. With practical techniques from critically acclaimed author and story coach Larry Brooks, you will learn how to: • Develop a story-fixing mind-set • Navigate the two essential realms of revision: story and execution • Evaluate your novel or screenplay against twelve crucial storytelling elements and essences. • Strengthen your concept and premise. • Punch up the dramatic tension, pacing, thematic weight, characterization, and more. • Align your story with proven structural principles. Filled with candid advice on the realities of the publishing world and helpful case studies of real authors who fixed their own stories, Story Fix isn't just about revision--it's about resurrection. Infuse your fiction with a much-needed jolt of electricity, and bring it back to life. "Larry Brooks is a superb storyteller and teacher. If anyone can fix your novel, it's him. Put this one on your desk and read it often." --Robert Dugoni, #1 Amazon and New York Times best-selling author of My Sister's Grave "Story Fix is the ultimate writer's companion for taking any manuscript to the next level. A staple for the beginner, a refresher for the pro." --Joe Moore, #1 Amazon and international best-selling co-author of The Blade and The Shield

Lady Cop Makes Trouble

Lady Cop Makes Trouble
Author: Amy Stewart
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544409620

“A colorful and inventive adventure tale.”—Washington Post “It’s True Grit, New York style.”—New York Post “One of the best mystery novels of the year: wonderful and very entertaining.” —New York Journal of Books “Stewart deftly combines the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of early twentieth-century New York City with the story of three women who want to live life on their own terms.” —Library Journal, starred review In 1915, lady cops were not expected to chase down fugitives on the streets of New York City. But Constance Kopp never did what anyone expected. Constance and her sisters aren’t living the quiet life anymore. They’ve made headlines fighting back against a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs. After Sheriff Heath sees Constance in action, he appoints her as one of the nation’s first female deputies. But when a German-speaking con man threatens her position—and puts the honorable sheriff at risk for being thrown in his own jail—Constance will be forced to prove herself again. Based on the Kopp sisters’ real-life adventures, Girl Waits with Gun introduced the sensational lives of Constance Kopp and her sisters to an army of enthusiastic readers. This second installment, also ripped from the headlines, takes us farther into the riveting story of a woman who defied expectations, forged her own path, and tackled crime along the way. “A fast-moving, craftily written novel.”—BookPage “[An] irresistible madcap adventure.”—PopSugar “Stewart leaves the reader wondering about one mystery still developing unsolved . . . Readers will just have to wait—impatiently, no doubt—for book No. 3.”—Boston Globe

Mad Woman

Mad Woman
Author: Kat Savage
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9781530327232

Author of Learning to Speak, Kat Savage, returns with Mad Woman which is comprised of 40 pieces that capture her stream on conscious, her confessions, and her strange thoughts. In Mad Woman, she bears it all and embraces her madness driven by loneliness and disappointment.

The Couch and the Silver Screen

The Couch and the Silver Screen
Author: Andrea Sabbadini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2005-07-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135444528

Only book that focuses on psychoanalysis and European Cinema As well as more academic essays the book contains transcriptions of informal discussions between experts and live audiences

What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day

What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day
Author: Pearl Cleage
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061807176

This New York Times–bestselling novel is “lively, topical, and fantasy filled. Watch out, Terry McMillian. Cleage is on your tail” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild—her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love. Acclaimed playwright, essayist, New York Times–bestselling author, and columnist Pearl Cleage has created a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding, in a remarkable novel that sizzles with sensuality, hums with gritty truth, and sings and crackles with life-affirming energy. “Very funny and charming . . . Following Cleage’s twists and turns of the human spirit, readers may find themselves on a very inspired and uplifted plane well before the last page.” —Washington Post Book World “Cleage . . . delivers a work of intelligence and integrity. . . . [A] memorable tale.” —-Publishers Weekly, starred review

There Was Still Love

There Was Still Love
Author: Favel Parrett
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 073363009X

Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a man steps out, a man wearing a hat. Eva runs into him, hits the pavement hard. His hat is in the gutter. His anger slaps Eva, but his hate will change everything, as war forces so many lives into small, brown suitcases. Prague, 1980: No one sees Ludek. A young boy can slip right under the heavy blanket that covers this city - the fear cannot touch him. Ludek is free. And he sees everything. The world can do what it likes. The world can go to hell for all he cares because Babi is waiting for him in the warm flat. His whole world. Melbourne, 1980: Malá Li?ka's grandma holds her hand as they climb the stairs to their third floor flat. Inside, the smell of warm pipe tobacco and homemade cakes. Here, Mána and Bill have made a life for themselves and their granddaughter. A life imbued with the spirit of Prague and the loved ones left behind. Favel Parrett's deep emotional insight and stellar literary talent shine through in this love letter to the strong women who bind families together, despite dislocation and distance. It is a tender and beautifully told story of memory, family and love. Because there is still love. No matter what.

Betwixt

Betwixt
Author: Tara Bray Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316022551

For three teenagers, dark mystery has always lurked at the corner of the eyes and the edge of sleep. Beautiful Morgan D'Amici wakes in her trailerpark home with dirt and blood under her fingernails. Paintings come alive under Ondine Mason's violet-eyed gaze. Haunted runaway Nix Saint-Michael sees halos of light around people about to die. At a secret summer rave in the woods, the three teenagers learn of their true, changeling nature and their uncertain, intertwined destinies. Riveting, unflinching, beautiful, Betwixt shows a magic as complex and challenging as any ordinary reality.

Pink Mountain on Locust Island

Pink Mountain on Locust Island
Author: Jamie Marina Lau
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1566896002

Fifteen-year-old Monk drifts through a monotonous existence in a grimy Chinatown apartment with her “grumpy brown couch” of a dad, until she meets high school senior Santa Coy ([email protected]). For a moment, it looks like he might be her boyfriend. But when Monk's dad becomes obsessed with Santa Coy's artwork, Monk finds herself shunted to the sidelines as her father and the object of her affections begin to hatch a scheme of their own. To keep up, Monk must navigate a combustible cocktail of odd assignments, peculiar places, and murky underworld connections. In Jamie Marina Lau's debut novel, shortlisted for Australia's prestigious Stella Prize when she was nineteen years old, hazily surreal vignettes conjure a multifaceted world of philosophical angst and lackadaisical violence.