Goleman Eck is an abortion survivor. Literally. As such, he is subject to other people's uses of him for political, religious, and media purposes. Some for whom he "doesn't look right" threaten his life. Others know Gole as a lover or true friend.Whirling together the contemporary outrageous and the serio-comic, Robert Ready's Eck: A Romance is wholly new fiction, a quest for identity, purpose, love-even what it means to be alive.---Novelist and critic Will...

The groundbreaking No. 1 bestseller is sure to turn nightly bedtime battles into a loving and special end-of-day ritual. This child-tested, parent-approved story uses an innovative technique that brings a calm end to any child's day.Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep?Join parents all over the world who have embraced The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep as their new nightly routine.When Roger can't fall asleep, Mummy Rabbi...

This side-splitting collection of 101 of the best lightbulb jokes you have ever heard is dangerously funny! Jack Goldstein aims his humour cannon at older children with this hilarious joke book containing over one hundred jokes that will have the whole family laughing. Organised into categories so you have a lightbulb joke for every occasion, this is an ideal addition to any budding comedian’s bookshelf. How many seabirds does it take to change a light bulb? About four or five terns ought ...

Children's book: "The Kid who never gave up"This is a a story of a boy named Max who used to give up easily. Then he learns the value of never giving up while playing a football match.This story is best for bedtime stories beginner / early reader story for kids. best inspirational stories, value tales.Most importantly it offers kids (and adults) a perspective That family and friendship are big part of life. This is an important message and at the rig...

I remember my death so clearly.People say that your whole life flashes before your eyes. That didn't happen to me. For me it was an explosion of light and then a searing pain that vanished in an instant as the .50 calibre Desert Eagle round ripped through my sternum.I remember my resurrection less clearly.What do you do when you wake up in a coffin after being mugged at gunpoint? Dead! is a short zombie tale.

Bugsy first appears in my short story "East Village" as a 16-year-old runaway living near Tompkins Square Park in 1967. Here we meet him again exactly one decade later and his circumstances have changed dramatically. If you don't set a course in life, you begin to drift, which has good and bad aspects. This story takes place in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, twin-cities dominated by the biggest university in Illinois. Many graduates hang around town for a few years after graduation trying to ...

What is deja vu, but a sense of having been somewhere before. The subconscious forgets nothing and can recreate every sense received by the central nervous system (except for pain...that's forgotten; had to be, or women would give birth only once otherwise). In Sand Soldier, patterns that began as a child are found to repeat twice more in later life, each time having deeper, and more dangerous, circumstances. Are they deepening of lessons started as a preschooler, or repeated warnings to c...

My non smoking journey is my experience and that is what I hope you take away from it. The writing of this account is not to encourage or discourage anyone to smoke or to quit.I did it my way. If you want to make it your way, be my guest. It was written purely for the pleasure of entertainment.Smoking in the 60s was considered cool. There was no hiding out behind buildings or having your evening smoke on the front porch. You could smoke wherever you wanted, whenever you wante...

When Fred is hired to carry out a hit, he has to wonder who hired him—and why he has to return home to do the job. Sometimes your past is better left buried.

Back like he never left, young A.C. brings us more poetic relatability in a similar fashion with this new book. Though not rushed, A.C. stated that the concept for this book came to him over night. He went on to say that he hoped some of his own logic lodged inside the book is absorbed rather than to be misconstrued.

A second son tries figuring out the sad and troubling relationship between his older brother and their father.

Following the Final War, humans are forced to join an underground society of cave dwellers. The last remaining group of survivors tries to move forward despite great loss and a now inhabitable Earth surface. But when a virus threatens animal life, will it be a minor setback? Or will it signal the end of any hope for a future?