During a standardized exam, Finn Mercer watches a textbook fall from his desk. No one else reacts. Moments later, the book is back where it started.Then the errors spread.Hallways shift. Memories stop lining up. People become calmer in ways that feel less like healing than subtraction. The more Finn notices, the more visible he becomes to something designed to correct what people can no longer bear.As the li...

David Peterson had his whole life charted out for him by his parents. An athletic scholarship to a prestigious college in California and a future in major league baseball were almost certain. But his high school love affair with quarterback Kaden Morris almost changed his predetermined path. When Kaden eventually rejected him, David swore he would never return to Orlando.Fifteen years later and divorced with a child, David returns home to find a newly divorced Kaden seeking forgive...

The best-selling gay romance trilogy by W.S. Long is now available in a box set! Contains the stories:Starting His Engine: Athletic and handsome, Florida boy Caleb Youngblood has always wanted to race stock cars like his father and his brother. When Caleb falls in love with Sebastian Rush, a sports writer, he knows he must make a decision. Will he stay in the closet and follow his dream, or can he make a life with Sebastian and follow his heart?Too ...

In 1890 Gilbert produced Songs of a Savoyard, a volume of sixty-nine detached lyrics from the Savoy Operas, each with a new title, and some of them slightly reworded to fit the changed context. Many of them also received "Bab" illustrations in the familiar style. He also included two deleted lyrics from Iolanthe (footnoted as "omitted in representation"). The effect was that of a new volume of "Bab Ballads". Indeed, Gilbert considered calling the volume The Savoy Ballads (Ellis 1970, p. 27...

Saigon, 1968: Sergeant “Maddawg” McCluskie of the US Military Police has a reputation for facing trouble head on as he keeps the peace whilst patrolling the city’s streets and bars. With the advent of the Tet New Year celebrations, Saigon’s festive fireworks turn deadly as the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army sweep across Cholon, placing Maddawg in a life-and-death struggle for survival.

Saigon, 1968: “Maddawg” McCluskie, a newly-promoted Lieutenant in the Saigon CID, is assigned the task of tracking down an escapee from Long Binh Jail who has fled to Soul Alley, a refuge for the Black flotsam and jetsam of the Vietnam War. It is a hornets’ nest that Saigon’s Military Police do their best to avoid, and where Maddawg is to face his toughest test. From the streets of Oakland, Black Panthers have arrived in Saigon, who are organizing a high-stakes operation t...

Saigon, 1967: The wildest city in the world, where life is cheap, one misstep could be your last, and crime, corruption, and the Viet Cong hang over the metropolis as persistently as its pall of smog. Sergeant “Maddawg” McCluskie of the US Military Police patrols a beat where arguments are settled with fists, bar-room brawls are settled with a billy stick and, for anything worse, he has his Colt Government and his partner’s M16. Someone is murdering GIs and dumping their b...

Jojo Arias, a Spanish-Filipino mestizo, didn't expect to meet a U.S. Marine in a tony bar in the Philippines. But, Jojo can't deny the electricity they have once he meets Adam.Although they come from different worlds, they struggle to keep their relationship private to protect Jojo's status and position as an heir to one of the wealthiest and powerful families in Filipino society. Billions of dollars could be easily lost if his family business is jeopardized by Jojo's secret love a...

Over 40 Illustrations of the officers, men and battles they engaged in.The Rifle Brigade has a long and distinguished history in the British Army as a corps of elite troops with a fighting pedigree stretching back to the times of Wellington, the Peninsular War and Waterloo. During the First World War the huge number of volunteers from New Zealand overstripped the ability of the administration to provide more than one brigade of infantry in 1915. However in 1916 a second brigade was ...

The novel is likely structured as an allegory, a narrative in which characters and events symbolically represent broader themes, ideas, or moral lessons. In "Mr. World and Miss Church-Member," the characters Mr. World and Miss Church-Member may serve as archetypes, and the story may use them to explore philosophical or moral concepts.While allegorical works often use a fictional narrative to convey deeper meanings or lessons, the specific themes and messages in this novel would need to be ...

"H.M.S. Pinafore" is a comic opera that premiered in 1878 and became one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular works. The operetta satirizes British society and politics through its humorous story of love, class distinctions, and mistaken identities aboard a British naval ship."The Pinafore Picture Book" adapts the plot of "H.M.S. Pinafore" into a simplified narrative accompanied by illustrations, making it accessible to children. The book likely includes colorful illustrations depicting ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...