Roger Owen, an African American family man in the year 2011, awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to discover himself inhabiting the body of Sydney Hamilton, a Caucasian sixty-six year old Welsh Harvard Professor of History, whom he remembers nothing of, in what is now the year 2125. Roger's entire life up to that fateful evening in October 2011 is soon revealed as being only a memory of a past life. His odyssey of this strange new existence in the twenty-second century takes hi...

Dedicated to everyone who has a dream. The Remarkable Travels of Billy Sparks is not a travelogue or even a saga of one man's life. It is the story of a man with a dream. In the case of Billy Sparks, his is a childhood dream that evolves into being a lifelong obsession. It is a dream that never varies, never weakens, but only grows stronger throughout his passing years. His is a dream of travel. To see and explore every part of this big multifaceted extraordinary world that beckons his sou...

The Calla Lilies is a narrative account of the first London bombings at the onset of the Blitz as seen through the eyes of a young child and the unusual symbolic circumstances by which she is able to find hope and optimism amid fear, confusion and loss. A symbolism that reemerges within her, later in her adult life, as she bears witness to yet another historic tragic event.

Do you keep hitting the snooze button on your emotional alarm clock hoping by ignoring the day your life will improve?Do you need a better way of gaining control over your life?Does your anger cause problems with others?Do you make bad decisions when consumed by strong emotions?Would a step-by-step, practical, and proven method to understand and manage emotions be helpful, especially if it were for real people and not theoretical psycho-babble?If you answ...

The world of Warhammer is filled with stories of survival and bravery, and also with tales of death and dishonour. This collection explores those themes with stories from some of Black Library's leading authors including Nathan Long, Anthony Reynolds, CL Werner and many more.

In the first half of the twentieth century, modernist works appeared not only in obscure little magazines and books published by tiny exclusive presses but also in literary reprint magazines of the 1920s, tawdry pulp magazines of the 1930s, and lurid paperbacks of the 1940s. In his nuanced exploration of the publishing and marketing of modernist works, David M. Earle questions how and why modernist literature came to be viewed as the exclusive purview of a cultural elite given its availabi...

A gripping short story from the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her.A beautiful young girl was walking down the street―when suddenly…Julia Carroll knows that too many stories start that way. Beautiful, intelligent, a nineteen-year-old college freshman, she should be carefree. But instead she is frightened. Because girls are disappearing.A fellow student, Beatrice Oliver, is missing. A homeless woman called Mona-No-Name is mi...

What you don't expect when on a world cruise could fill a book. And it did!On our first try we crashed off Egypt. The second try, we made it, but not without some wild stuff happening.I promise this book will make you laugh!

Do your grandparents moan on about what life was like in the war? Want to know if they're telling the terrible truth? Read on to explore the horrible hardships the Blitzed Brits suffered while bombs dropped out of the sky! Find out what really happened in Dad's Army! See how to make a rude noise with a gas mask! Learn why the Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty! Faint at the thought of spending seven years without TV! Plus there's heaps of spiffing slang, foul food facts about rotte...

A "deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing" book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion ( Paris Review).In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael,...

**The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series!From #1** New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl WoodsWhen bullying threatens to destroy a teen’s life, painful memories resurface for dedicated high school teacher Laura Reed and pediatrician J. C. Fullerton. With the support of the Sweet Magnolias, they bring the town together to ensure that a promising student’s future isn’t ruined. And to establish once and for all that ...

This collection gathers the best travel essays from The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and more—featuring Paul Theroux, Alice Gregory, Dave Eggers and others.Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, "I wasn't at all sure I knew the answer," these questions start us on the path of some fascinating exploratio...