Paul Lima
Chronic: A Sick Novel
Chronic: A Sick Novel
"If this book were a movie, the cleaners would have to mop up buckets of tears. Of joy. Of laughter. And yes, of sadness. I'm lucky I had a box of tissues close by."
If you want to understand people who are chronically ill, or disabled, but are functional within their limitations, read on...
Paul and Deena are friends with MS and Parkinson's Disease respectively. They've found a wonderful flat renovated for people with disabilities, only they can't afford it. Enter Albert, a former nurse in remission from cancer, and Bolton, a former athlete who is now a paraplegic. They too look at the flat, and love it. But can't afford it. The solution? The four of them move in together. And life happens.…
Jorge Alberto Gudiño Hernández
Fuera de lugar
Tras un divorcio bien habido, el protagonista se embarca en una nueva relación. Ésta lo llevará, casi sin querer, a un torneo de futbol infantil en Punta Cana que coincide con su cumpleaños 45. A él no le interesan mucho los partidos y, mucho menos, los niños. Sin embargo, se encuentra inmerso en la peripecia que le significa ser uno más de los acompañantes del equipo en el que juega el hijo de su nueva pareja.
Ahí, en lo que es un paraíso tropical, en medio de un torneo lleno de contratiempos, se dará cuenta de tres cosas que lo definen como persona: le da trabajo nombrar ciertos colores, tiene un problema que sólo puede resolver un proctólogo y no es una buena persona.…
F. S. Clock
Confessions of a Thought Daughter
a collection of Prose and Poetry that explores gender, love, sex, and feminism.
Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli
Bingo! Stories from Daily Gambles
Life is a gamble: unpredictable, capricious, luminous, and brutal.
Within these pages, each card is a story, and each story leads to another: love that hurts, desire that burns, loneliness that lingers, and human beings searching for meaning amid the chaos of everyday life.
Here dwell the woman who slips into someone else’s dress to imagine an impossible wedding; the man who falls in love with the abyss; the princess who flees an inherited destiny; the single woman surviving on chocolates and fantasies; the bastard who promises and slips away; the couple that breaks apart, the one that reinvents itself, the one that lies to itself.…
Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli
Bingo! Stories from Daily Gambles
Life is a gamble: unpredictable, capricious, luminous, and brutal.
Within these pages, each card is a story, and each story leads to another: love that hurts, desire that burns, loneliness that lingers, and human beings searching for meaning amid the chaos of everyday life.
Here dwell the woman who slips into someone else’s dress to imagine an impossible wedding; the man who falls in love with the abyss; the princess who flees an inherited destiny; the single woman surviving on chocolates and fantasies; the bastard who promises and slips away; the couple that breaks apart, the one that reinvents itself, the one that lies to itself.…
Anessa Cole
Sarah grows a garden
Sarah Watched her Mom grow beautiful flowers every day.
Soon, She dreamed of having a garden of her own.
With a little help, patience, and lots of love Sarah learns that even the smallest seeds can grow into something magical.
A heart warming story about growing, believing, and blooming
Whitney LeShay
Crimson Tides and Moon Shadow
Crimson Tides & Moonshadow is a dark fantasy novel set in the enigmatic and treacherous world of Black Cliff Academy, a boarding school built on ancient secrets and a fragile supernatural truce. The story follows Grace Vance, a seventeen-year-old orphan and scholarship student who arrives at the isolated, storm-lashed school carrying a mysterious past and an even more mysterious locket, the only link to the mother she never knew.…
P. J. Parker
Smoke
Thomas Smoke is a killer.
An uncompromising predator.
Considered boy-next-door handsome by those who know him—and those who want to, he is a man with a ready smile, who loves to kiss, and who does it often and well.
Hunting the trails of Central Park’s densest woodland and within the chrome-plated grunge of New York City, he is as well suited to its opulent penthouses, tony rooftop bars, and socialite bedsheets as he is to the bone-numbing grottos and bloody subterranean passages hundreds of feet below the Manhattan grid.
But he isn’t the only killer in the city. And when their paths cross, the race for his life begins. Not only to stay alive but to determine his own identity and whether he is the good guy or the bad.…
Selena Millman
The Journey Continues
"The Journey Continues" is connected to the "Spoken Word" playlist. Messages in this book include The Journey Continues, Every Day Is Another Battle, How Do You Forgive Someone, Every Journey, How Do I Let It Go, Small Things Do Matter, Depression Is A Fight, Behind The Author, and Why I Believe.