In 1955 Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita, a novel about a older man’s fascination and subsequent involvement with a flirtatious twelve year old girl who is as scheming as she is beautiful. Fiction? Non-Fiction? Fantasy? Reality? Who can say? I guess that every older guy has a secret wish to meet a younger woman who is attracted to him; but not necessarily one that is underage.The most commonly held belief regarding age and romance is that young girls would not ...

In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them.NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian

Bill is a story of the author's life as he has lived it. He is a boy who has experienced life as a member of a family that was poor but faithful to one another. He has gone through boyhood and into manhood, living life to the fullest and experiencing two marriages and two divorces and with the honor of having a son born on his birthday by his second wife. His son continues to make his life worthwhile with each passing day.

Carden Bottoms was a community at the west base of Petit Jean Mountain and east of Holla Bend, near the Arkansas River.Now the foundation of the once popular school is the only evidence to be found that it ever existed. The structure and its gym no longer mark the community as a proud structure. The gym collapsed and the school building was destroyed by an arsonist.What used to be a bustling little community is now full of ghosts and memories, with some of those memories be...

Blurred Images is a fictional story of Tommy Owens, a Marine Corps decorated sniper from the Vietnam War area.The story begins with his enlistment, initial training, and his assignments with the CIA.Tommy rotates back to the United States after setting several records for the number of kills and the longest kill by a Marine sniper. He accepts work for the CIA as a sniper and gets sent to Iraq, where he loses his sight in an ambush and roadside bomb.After being rotated...

As long as there has been news media, there has been audience feedback. This book provides the first definitive history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the early newsbooks of the 16th century to the rough-and-tumble online forums of the modern age. In addition to tracing the historical development of audience feedback, the book considers how news media has changed its approach to accommodating audience participation, and explores how audience feedback can serve the needs of bot...

I'm telling you this is the most essential, pivotal time of all time. I truly think that things are in motion, that things are being put in order. When you keep going after something and the doors don't open or things don't happen, it's frustrating. What's wrong with you simply going after it and going after it, but nothing seems to open up? Is it necessary for a court ruling to be made? I believe so. I started searching my heart for what God had to say today, and then He started speaking....

This is a true story of faith, hope, and love that happened to two average people who came from small towns in Iowa, the heartland of America. God has blessed both of us with miracles, time and again, asking nothing in return except for love and reverence for Him. This is our testimony. As we look back at our lives, it often becomes clear that God intervened, at times and in ways that we did not understand. His plans for us aren't always or even very often understood, but they are always p...

She was no ordinary woman. She was beautiful and irresistible. And yet she had a deformity, a mutation, which compelled her to take any man who aroused her, latch onto him with her legs around his face, subdue him with her narcotic secretions, and ride him until his life was taken from him to fill the aching void in her womb. The police would find her eventually, but would that be an end to it?

Baba's Love is a story about a family's journey of adoption. Baba is referred to as father in some parts of Africa. By surrendering to the will of God, they learned of a father's love. Walking by faith through the emotional process, they laughed and cried together. It is a true story of suffering, perseverance, and love. Relationships with the beautiful people in Central Nigeria are of valued gifts given to the authors. While living in a different culture, they learned about their own cult...

Gongja has vanquished the Demon King of Autumn Rain—formerly known as Esther—marking his victory over the final boss of the twentieth floor, though his work isn’t done yet. A simple question aimed at the tower grants Gongja a sudden audience with the Six Pillars of All Lives—a feat that not even the Sword Emperor has accomplished. Before he can dwell on the implications, Gongja finds himself faced with a seething horde calling for the death of Esther and anybody associated with her, no mat...

The definitive portrait of Shohei Ohtani's momentous debut season in Dodger blue Baseball has never seen a player like Shohei Ohtani. After six seasons establishing himself as a once-in-a-century two-way star but making zero playoff appearances, Ohtani's record-shattering $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers paired the sport's most prominent global celebrity with one of it's crown-jewel franchises, and in the entertainment capital of the world. "You might have played with oth...