A smart, funny, poignant, very modern autobiographical coming-of-age novel, written when the author was sixteen years old. Like**Catcher in the Rye,**Crazy appeals to the teenager in us all.Benni himself is partially paralyzed and a serial failure (he's been kicked out of four boarding schools in his short life and has just entered his fifth). So he's a little odd, but he's cool and he finds other strange boys to hang with. Together they set out to experience what ...

Henry and Paul are strangers when they find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment on a night train from Munich to Berlin. When they begin to talk, their stories appear to be variations on the same theme: young guys adrift in the big city, relationships gone wrong, broken hearts. Henry is running away from a triangle of friendship gone sour; Paul is running away too, but as the night unfolds and the train speeds north across the German landscape, his story turns ominous. What he finally...

wo messengers, six allies, one fight for survival! A gateway to a world of the past, of vanished names, hopes and dreams has opened in the depths of the Black Forest. Two messengers have come to our present from the immense sunken realms of time. Tristan is the messenger of doom. Martha is the messenger of preservation. They used to be lovers, now they are sworn enemies. They have come together to fight one final, decisive battle. But they cannot fight this fight alone. Both must win allie...

This is a novelty book that takes a humorous look at what drives men nuts when it comes to women and what they say to men.Chauvinistic?..........Probably!Controversial?..........Yes!True?..........You be the judge!

“Value, worth – these are things I don’t have. College degree, great job – none of it matters if you look in the mirror and can’t find anything to love.” Candace Jones.Structure, dedication, and determination are the traits Candace Jones has survived on. Life is a school of hard knocks.Lance “Rush” Miller works hard and plays even harder.He lives his life from one adrenaline rush to the next. He has it made and he knows it.What happens when firm res...

SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTHFEATURED IN THE TIMES' BEST CRIME BOOKS ROUND-UPWINNER OF THE PETRONA AWARD 2022A remote island. A brutal murder. A secret hidden in the past . . .In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland.Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimö, after many years...

Stretched features twenty-five stories written with the intention of arousing the body and stretching the imagination. The sex in Stretched is over-the-top, but not entirely unbelievable. Get ready for stories that make you want to race to the finish.

Coming out of an unhappy relationship and a stint at an artist colony, Charlotte, a writer, takes a job teaching at a private ESL college. There she befriends Renata—audacious, sexy, and as changeable as Proteus. “I have a story for you,” Renata says to her one day over lunch. She doesn’t elaborate further, but Charlotte soon discovers that she has found in Renata an unexpectedly passionate and compelling subject.“Caroline Adderson is such a graceful and intelligent writer that the...

In oppressive darkness, successful novelist Stephen King sits on his throne mapping out a new story of the macabre. But there is a problem; he's stuck. Writer's block has set in. But soon familiar voices offer advice and King begins to type: the flow comes and goes just as distractions and inspirations surface - then disappear then reappear. Real life begins to merge with his creative stream of consciousness and his creations start to mirror and comment on his own existence in a terrifying...

Kathy is a confused girl and longs for release from the madness that plagues her.This story first appeared in the anthology The Asylum: The Psycho Ward.

It was a practical joke, a playful kiss, that she wished had gone differently.

Long before Lauren escaped to the mortal realm and hooked up with Dermott, she was simply known as Lore, the daughter of Morgen Le Fae. This short tale covers the role she played in the betrayal and murder of the Lady of the Lake.