Living alone looking out onto the harbour in a secluded part of town, August works in a cafe as a waiter spending his free time drinking at their main competitor on the point and looking after his cat.For the most part it's a good if lonely life until unexpectantly his neighbour dies and in the ensuing storm of conjecture he meets a strange creature from the sea.At the first they embark upon an unusual urban adventure through the streets he thought he knew so well until a pol...

Many are the tales of young men lying about their age to join the Army, yet Jack Evans sought far more at the age of just possibly just seventeen to act behind enemy lines as an agent of the Special Operations Executive.Evans had joined the RAF in 1940, despite being well under the legal age, and two years later was recruited into the SOE as a member of the Small Scale Raiding Force. Evans related his experiences with the SOE to author Ernest Dudley in the 1950s, in which he describes his ...

This is your opportunity to experience the life of an average African-American male. You will become him and experience all the happy moments and all the joy, pain, suffering, and misery that he does. You will experience the love and even the hate that he experiences. You will experience the sex, violence, drugs and alcohol, the loneliness, the bitterness, and the reasons behind it all. You will take a ride down the back alleys of life, where even hope is afraid to go. And in the end, you ...

Yankel Krutiansky was supposed to go with his father to America in 1913. Instead, his brother was chosen and twelve-year-old Yankel was left behind in the collapsing Russian Empire. It was supposed to be just for a few months, but it turned out to be eight long years. Eight years of war, revolution, poverty, and murderous anti-Jewish pogroms. Eight years in which Yankel—the family clown, the family bad boy, and the oldest son left at home—was responsible for keeping his mother and four lit...

What do you think when you hear the term 'Pit Bull'? Some think of a cold-blooded killer dog who shouldn't be considered family, while others think of a misunderstood soul who just wants to be loved. But for Jack, the term goes deeper. It's an insult to how he looks, its a set of rules on how he should behave. For him, the term 'Pit Bull' is a reason to be treated like a monster.But Jack tries his hardest to show everyone that he is no monster. That just because he is judged, abused...

Stewart Evans is a policeman whose hobby is collecting true crime ephemera. When a second hand bookseller rang to ask him if he would be interested in a collection of letters from the Special Branch, he had no idea of the sensational revelation they would contain. One of these letters supplied an astonishing piece of infomation not contained in the decimated Scotland Yard files. The police had actually arrested and charged an American with the Ripper murders, but he escaped and disappeared...

Twenty percent of proceeds will benefit EveryLibrary, which supports libraries and fights censorship.The wet dreams of book lovers come to life in these seven erotic stories of library liaisons, bookstore hookups, and book convention orgies. Gay, straight, sapphic, cis and trans--everyone has a place between the stacks.A bookstore meet-cute gets steamy. Closeted gay men find connection in libraries. Roommates act out scenes from a smutty book. A man meets h...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Jack Ma (born 1964) is a Chinese entrepreneur and co-founder of Alibaba Group, one of the world's largest e-commerce and technology companies. Rising from humble beginnings as an English teacher, Ma faced multiple rejections before launching Alibaba in 1999, transforming it into a global powerhouse in online retail, cloud computing, and digital finance. His visionary leadership and emphasis on innovation helped revoluti...

Two experienced Ripperologists have applied their joint knowledge and expertise to the painstaking collation of all the known official records to produce the ultimate Ripper book - a narrative account of the murders encompassing all the known evidence.The most complete work on the Ripper case ever, contains: the entire contents of the Scotland Yard files covering the full series of murders; extensive press reports; witness statements and extracts from police notebooks; documents mi...

An autistic necromancer, his undead lover, and the case that could destroy everything.When a necromancer turns up dead, Oliver and Felipe think it will be the perfect, straightforward case for their new partnership. That is, until it leads them to a clinic promising a cure for magic, but they aren’t the only ones investigating the Institute for the Betterment of the Soul. Oliver’s ex, Ansley, is in town, and he’s certain the clinic isn’t the paragon of righteousn...

Love makes monsters of us all.Descend to the darklands. Walk the shadowpath. Pray the goddess shows you mercy.Power requires sacrifice.I promised Eloise a crown. After hundreds of years of fighting and sacrifice, I swore I'd make her a princess and give her the peaceful life she deserves. But when I return to claim my throne, I find my brother sitting on it instead—with no intention of stepping aside. I'm t...

Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to c...