The Getaway That Got Away
Dismayed by a basement-apartment existence supported by two low-paying radio jobs, twenty-something workaholic Nicki Rodriguez experiences a dramatic change in outlook when fate transports her to an even lousier place-a distorted world inhabited mostly by canine-humanoids trapped in a dimension somewhere between new Jersey and outer space. Nicki searches desperately for her pilfered portfolio containing ten thousand hard-earned dollars, praying that her life-threatening dimension burn will heal, so she can try to return to "regular new Jersey" and her old life. All the while, Perswayssick County's greedy, tail-wagging leader, self-described "business maggot" Dr. B. Z. Z. Gneeecey, is selling out Perswayssick County to a mob of waxy-faced gangster-style aliens. and he's convinced them that Nicki has something they need!
Time Wasters #1
Time Wasters are short adventures based on true stories. They're all titled Super Short Preludes because they are just that: super short stories that lead up to big life concepts or events.Designed to help pass short spouts of time, most of the Time Wasters stories range from 8 to 15 pages. Each mini-book in the series actually contains an entire story that will draw you in, make you laugh, and then allow you to move on with your life.If you want to read, but don't have the time or are in no mood to commit to a novel, then a Time Waster is just what you need.Love or Low Places: Dana is young, wild and free - until her entire world is turned upside down by a man she meets at karaoke night. Is there really such thing as love at first sight? You be the judge.Sabotage by Hook and Dog: Dani convinces her husband, brother-in-law and friend to go on a fishing adventure, only to have a disastrous turn of events completely take over.Trampling Beast: While spending time on her cousin's farm, Diedra finds herself making an effort to help guide an escaping animal back to its rightful place... until things take a turn for the worse.
Floating Paris
Francis Goodwine is an aspiring English artist, who resigned from his job and moved to Paris with the dream of making a living as a painter. In this book we follow his exploits as he finds a local Irish bar, where he meets lots of fascinating characters. We are treated to a snapshot of his life as he plods from one night out to another, and one gallery to another leaving us to wonder if he will be successful or whether he will have to return to London.
Time Wasters #1
Time Wasters are short adventures based on true stories. They're all titled Super Short Preludes because they are just that: super short stories that lead up to big life concepts or events.Designed to help pass short spouts of time, most of the Time Wasters stories range from 8 to 15 pages. Each mini-book in the series actually contains an entire story that will draw you in, make you laugh, and then allow you to move on with your life.If you want to read, but don't have the time or are in no mood to commit to a novel, then a Time Waster is just what you need.Love or Low Places: Dana is young, wild and free - until her entire world is turned upside down by a man she meets at karaoke night. Is there really such thing as love at first sight? You be the judge.Sabotage by Hook and Dog: Dani convinces her husband, brother-in-law and friend to go on a fishing adventure, only to have a disastrous turn of events completely take over.Trampling Beast: While spending time on her cousin's farm, Diedra finds herself making an effort to help guide an escaping animal back to its rightful place... until things take a turn for the worse.This is the large print edition of Time Wasters, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Time Wasters #1
Time Wasters are short adventures based on true stories. They're all titled Super Short Preludes because they are just that: super short stories that lead up to big life concepts or events.Designed to help pass short spouts of time, most of the Time Wasters stories range from 8 to 15 pages. Each mini-book in the series actually contains an entire story that will draw you in, make you laugh, and then allow you to move on with your life.If you want to read, but don't have the time or are in no mood to commit to a novel, then a Time Waster is just what you need.Love or Low Places: Dana is young, wild and free - until her entire world is turned upside down by a man she meets at karaoke night. Is there really such thing as love at first sight? You be the judge.Sabotage by Hook and Dog: Dani convinces her husband, brother-in-law and friend to go on a fishing adventure, only to have a disastrous turn of events completely take over.Trampling Beast: While spending time on her cousin's farm, Diedra finds herself making an effort to help guide an escaping animal back to its rightful place... until things take a turn for the worse.
The American Claimant
" '...and a manner so peculiar and romantic, and extraneous, and ad libitum, and heart-searching, that- that- he- he is an impressionist, I presume?' 'No, ' said the captain simply, 'he is a Presbyterian.' "-Mark Twain, The American Claimant (1892) The American Claimant (1881), by Mark Twain, is a humorous book about mistaken identities. The main characters are Colonel Mulberry Sellers, an eccentric American claimant to the Earldom of Rossmore in England, and Berkeley Rossmore, heir of the Earl of Rossmore, who is captivated by American democracy.This replica of the original edition of The American Claimant, containing 23 illustrations by well-known American illustrator Daniel Beard, is a pleasure to read.
Don't Bank On It Sweetheart
To aspiring writer Arthur Conway, the job offer from a small bank proves a welcome haven - especially with his mounting bills.But Alastair - his cousin who works at the same bank - sees Arthur's arrival as an opportunity to unlock the fortunes of the bank while the manager is away. When his scheme fails, a new manager takes over with a bold plan to transform the bank.After Arthur falls in love with Jenny, the young consultant brought in - he faces stiff competition from her pet dog, Ben. Spurned by his love in a jealous misunderstanding, can Arthur foil an attempt to rob the bank - and win her love?This is the large print edition of Don't Bank On It Sweetheart, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Don't Bank On It Sweetheart
To aspiring writer Arthur Conway, the job offer from a small bank proves a welcome haven - especially with his mounting bills.But Alastair - his cousin who works at the same bank - sees Arthur's arrival as an opportunity to unlock the fortunes of the bank while the manager is away. When his scheme fails, a new manager takes over with a bold plan to transform the bank.After Arthur falls in love with Jenny, the young consultant brought in - he faces stiff competition from her pet dog, Ben. Spurned by his love in a jealous misunderstanding, can Arthur foil an attempt to rob the bank - and win her love?
Don't Bank On It Sweetheart
To aspiring writer Arthur Conway, the job offer from a small bank proves a welcome haven - especially with his mounting bills.But Alastair - his cousin who works at the same bank - sees Arthur's arrival as an opportunity to unlock the fortunes of the bank while the manager is away. When his scheme fails, a new manager takes over with a bold plan to transform the bank.After Arthur falls in love with Jenny, the young consultant brought in - he faces stiff competition from her pet dog, Ben. Spurned by his love in a jealous misunderstanding, can Arthur foil an attempt to rob the bank - and win her love?
Bob by Bob
The novel is interspersed with rambling reflections and philosophical musings that alternate between vile and inspired. Bob is a rejected man. He is rejected by his family, by his community and by a system of justice disgusted by his existence. Yet, although he is admittedly the lowest order of man, he retains a sense of justice, equanimity and visceral love of fairness and his fellow creature. While the world has tossed him away, Bob embodies a humanity unblemished by greed, self-love, or ambition. Bob is a man of his own making, appearing broken through the twisted lens of modern society. Bob is the voice of the unrepresented, the despised, and typecasted. Bob's station has only been represented in literature as the comic foil, the sage homeless, or the pugnacious malcontent. None of these characters accurately represent a man. In this story, Bob is complex and raw; he is unrefined and thoughtful; he is a man of unique and immutable qualities. Bob is a voice for the voiceless, and that quiet participation adds a truly unique perspective to a deeper, universal conversation.
Don't Bank On It Sweetheart
To aspiring writer Arthur Conway, the job offer from a small bank proves a welcome haven - especially with his mounting bills.But Alastair - his cousin who works at the same bank - sees Arthur's arrival as an opportunity to unlock the fortunes of the bank while the manager is away. When his scheme fails, a new manager takes over with a bold plan to transform the bank.After Arthur falls in love with Jenny, the young consultant brought in - he faces stiff competition from her pet dog, Ben. Spurned by his love in a jealous misunderstanding, can Arthur foil an attempt to rob the bank - and win her love?
Don't Bank On It Sweetheart
To aspiring writer Arthur Conway, the job offer from a small bank proves a welcome haven - especially with his mounting bills.But Alastair - his cousin who works at the same bank - sees Arthur's arrival as an opportunity to unlock the fortunes of the bank while the manager is away. When his scheme fails, a new manager takes over with a bold plan to transform the bank.After Arthur falls in love with Jenny, the young consultant brought in - he faces stiff competition from her pet dog, Ben. Spurned by his love in a jealous misunderstanding, can Arthur foil an attempt to rob the bank - and win her love?This is the large print edition of Don't Bank On It Sweetheart, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Optical Delusions in Deadwood
Someone is spreading rumors around Deadwood that Violet Parker likes to chat with dead folks. With her reputation endangered, her bank account on the verge of extinction, and her career at risk of going up in flames, Violet is desperate. When the opportunity to sell another vintage home materializes, she grabs it, even though this "haunted" house was recently the stage for a two-act, murder-suicide tragedy. Ghost or no ghost, Violet knows this can't be as bad as the last house of horrors she tried to sell, but sexy Doc Nyce has serious doubts. Her only hope of hanging on to her job is to prove that the so-called, ghostly sightings are merely the eccentric owner's optical delusions. But someone--or something--in the house wants Violet stopped...dead.
Doghouse Blues 3
Roger Fraser continues to battle the vexing absurdities of modernism, his aim to stay out of the doghouse by adopting meditation as an antidote to combat his hang-ups.When it comes to neutralising uppity officials and slaying implacable harridans masquerading as mewling princesses, Roger has no equal in the world of high-finance and within his wife Charlotte's social set.He survives a no-nonsense outward bound course instructor, boldly engages status quo doyens including an intractable hanging judge and a very persistent spook, avoids being mugged by lazoonland trailer trash, and subdues an autocratic drama teacher.On a lighter note, Roger dodges the clutches of jailbait schoolgirls, is bedeviled by an overzealous impresario and battles intransigent shrews amongst a plethora of highly contentious and hilarious incidents, but despite his new found remedy, inevitably he winds up in the doghouse, wondering where it all went wrong.
Dear Crabigail
Twins Penny and Pam are hot on the trail of an evil serial killer, this time for their own preservation. While Penny has tried her best to lay low, Pam has become somewhat infamous as the writer of a "Dear Crabigail Column." Her notoriety may have made them a target of the murderer who specifically seeks out twins as victims.A Berry College graduate, Penny Gardin Lewis began her career as an Industrial Arts teacher. Heavily involved with the Carroll County Community Theatre, she first served as a volunteer building sets, and later became the CPRCAD's Arts Coordinator and then its Arts Manager. She was the inaugural director of the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center, where she built Carrollton's reputation as a leader in the visual, literary and performing arts in Georgia. Her unique talent for engaging audiences led to many memorable performances and gallery shows highlighting local actors, musicians, dancers, writers and artists. In 2002, she launched MeccaFest, a juried arts festival, to celebrate national artists and showcase Carrollton's vibrant art community.With the help of her husband, Dan and other collaborators, she has written and produced 38 musicals for children in the past 27 years, which have been performed by children all over the world.Penny is enjoying semi-retirement in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina writing novels, creating art, and hanging at the beach where happiness comes in waves. Her first two novels, Bearing Crosses and Microwave is Dead, were published in 2017 and earned Penny two Georgia Author of the Year nominations. (Bearing Crosses for Best First Novel and Microwave is Dead for Best Literary Fiction.)Penny and Dan are parents to grown and gone children Meagan (Jeff), Leslie (David), and Chris (Sarah). They are eagerly waiting the birth of their first little grand child. Penny's next book will most likely be for that baby girl.
Boom! A Miami Beach Story
Zoe drives a cab in Miami Beach: Zippity Cab is her sixty-year-old pink Cadillac Sedan Deville that she's kept in tiptop shape until the day that it's battered by Tootsie, the mother of a Miami Beach commissioner, Hal, who is having career problems of his own. The vehicular conflict leads to a resolution of sorts when Hal hires Zoe as a driver for his father, Max, a once-powerful developer whose driver's license has been revoked. Max discovers that his most famous hotel, the legendary Louis Quinze, will be demolished and replaced by a glitzy new condo, and that his son Hal had a role in this. Max's decision to salvage his legacy exposes the mid-life delusions of Zoe and Hal. Unhappily on the cusp of fifty, Zoe ditches her once-beloved but now-mangled Caddy for a flashy new BMW. Fifty-something Hal, desperate to regain his place in a political and social climate that has left him behind, sells his soul to a developer and chases youth in the form of Staci, a comely Cuban who fears it's too late to achieve her own dream of Maxim fame. Each is at a turning point in life, trying to deal with change through the often-mindless pursuit of irrational desires, driven to recoup some part of their lives that may be gone forever-and may never have existed at all.
The Wild Turkey Tango
One gun + two turkeys + three Morgan sisters = One helluva Jeep ride!It's Thanksgiving Day in Jackrabbit Junction and the feathers are flying before the food even hits the table. What starts out as a quick trip to pick up a turkey turns into another messy Morgan sisters' mystery filled with hijinks and adventure.Never has Thanksgiving been so wild!
Love Your Life
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher, an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer's retreat in Italy--only to find that real love comes with its own filters "Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter."--Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers' retreat in coastal Italy. She's determined to finish writing the novel she's been fantasizing about, even though it means leaving her close-knit group of friends and her precious dog, Harold, behind. At the retreat, she's not allowed to use her real name or reveal any personal information. When the neighboring martial arts retreat is canceled and a few of its attendees join their small writing community, Ava, now going by "Aria," meets "Dutch," a man who seems too good to be true. The two embark on a baggage-free, whirlwind love affair, cliff-jumping into gem-colored Mediterranean waters and exploring the splendor of the Italian coast. Things seem to be perfect for Aria and Dutch. But then their real identities--Ava and Matt--must return to London. As their fantasy starts to fade, they discover just how different their personal worlds are. From food choices to annoying habits to sauna etiquette . . . are they compatible in anything? And then there's the prickly situation with Matt's ex-girlfriend, who isn't too eager to let him go. As one mishap follows another, it seems while they love each other, they just can't love each other's lives. Can they reconcile their differences to find one life together?
The Fur and Feathers Party
For fans of Animal Farm, a quirky, humorous and moving modern-day fable for grown-ups, of love, loss, hope and heroism, as the animals take environmental damage into their own paws, claws and hooves. This is an original, imaginative and entertaining novel set in a suburb of Sydney and Washington D.C. It tells the story of Pup, an abandoned Australian silky-haired terrier dog with low self-esteem, who joins forces with Cracker, a feisty Yellow-crested cockatoo with no time for wallowing, to get the Fur and Feathers Party of Australia into government in the U.S.Pup has to overcome her low sense of self as she, and her irreverent cockatoo friend face dirty politics, romantic loss and betrayal in their quest to stop mankind from destroying their natural home.
Money Man
Tom Frye's life couldn't get much better. The handsome financial advisor has a lucrative career, a beautiful family and a McMansion on the golf course. But when his wacky, demanding clients push him to the brink of madness, he turns to unhealthy methods of coping. Can he find a way to turn his life around that doesn't involve Valium, Heineken or Swedish Fish?Fans of John Irving and Wally Lamb will appreciate this dark comedic spin on one man's journey to find a new career without losing his mind, his family or his dignity.
Money Man Marooned
The Money Man is back... and neurotic as ever!Five years after leaving his high-stress job as a financial advisor, Tom Frye is enjoying his new business venture as owner of the landscaping company, the Country Bumpkin. With his daughters in college and wife Vicky pitching in, the change of pace suits him well. Or does it? Wrestling with another midlife crisis, Tom misses the thrills and rewards of playing the markets.When his wife wins a luxury cruise for four through the Panama Canal, Tom and his family embark on a well-deserved vacation. Little do they know they'll be joined by Tom's least favorite ex-clients-Dr. Sam and Mina Stab. While Tom and Mina exchange verbal warfare onboard the ship, no one can foresee the alliance they must forge to escape the suspected drug lords who kidnap them for ransom.
Scatman Dues
"The Scat's Meow!" "A love letter to Florida, and all her idiosyncrasies.""Goofy characters, crazy situations, and plausible endings. All you need for easy summer reading."Portal Letting for Fun & ProfitWhen Bobbie and Grayson head back to Plant City to help out some old friends, they run into a "hole" new set of problems. While investigating a rash of missing persons, it's not long before they get under each other's skin. What's making them all hot and bothered? Each other. In more ways than one. Bobbie's down-to-earth explanations for the missing men irritate Grayson, while his otherworldly theories have her itching for a sane solution. But when new, conflicting evidence emerges in the case, they soon realize they've only scratched the surface of the mystery at hand. Worm butts. BIMBO mobiles. Mystery meatballs. It's enough to make someone break out in hives! Complicating matters, Grayson finally gets word on his Mothman scat samples-escalating their problems excrementally. This time, it looks like these two have truly stepped in it-big time. Like Carl Hiaasen? Christopher Moore? Dorian Box? You'll probably love Freaky Florida Investigartions, too! The weirdness of The X-Files and the unwashed insanity of My Name is Earl collide to form this deliciously snarky, totally abnormal mystery series. New from the author of the best-selling Val Fremden Mystery Series! What Readers are Saying about the Series: "This series cracks me up!" Amazon Review"I have read Tim Dorsey, Carl Hiaasen, and Randy Wayne White. Those writers are funny but they need to watch out for you." J. Heinrich"I've heard the expression "I laughed so hard I cried" but I never experienced it until I read this book." Amazon Review"I read a lot, and Kindle suggested this. (It's) laugh out loud funny. Is everyone in Florida crazy?" Facebook Review"Not a scary or over the top paranormal book. I stayed up until 2:30 in the morning reading it. It was just that good! I'm a real scaredy-cat, just not into reading about things that go bump in the night. It is filled with quirky characters, mystery and a lot of humor. So if you want to be truly entertained, READ THIS BOOK." Amazon Review"Plenty of mysteries and slap stick humor with a backwoods redneck cousin thrown in the mix. I almost felt like I was reading a cross between Terry Pratchett and Piers Anthony." Amazon Review"Full of wacky characters, amazing descriptions, and lots of theories of the unknown, this book makes for a funny mystery." Amazon Review"Rampant with humorous banter and fun interpersonal relationships over a solidly bizarre mystery and great characterization." Amazon Review"This is a rollicking ride from the very beginning with laugh-out-loud prose, rednecks, weirdos and Tootsie Pops...oh my!" Amazon Review
The Gabbin
He realized just then that he could do it. He could do great things- if only people would force him to.In the lands of Skiddle Earth, a Gabbin named Bobill is coerced by a mysterious Wizard into traveling across the world with a group of obnoxious insufferable Dorks, and to assist them in the taking back of their long lost secret treasure hoard from a fire-breathing monster of old. Death, perils, frustration and ridiculous nonsense await them around every turn of the long and dangerous road to the Mountain of Solitude.
A River To My People
Some communities are odd, some communities are not odd, surely that is a matter that a community can decide for itself.Do you have eccentric neighbors? Have silly or irritating things happened in your community? Join me on a witty romp through subdivision living. A River To My People is a collection of short stories about life in the suburbs and the funny and infuriating antics, behaviors, rules, and regulations of community life.While every neighborhood is unique, people are people, and you are going to bump into many of the same types: the gossip, the penny-pincher, the blowhard, the maverick, and all the rest Our subdivision is no exception to the rule that truth is stranger than fiction. Every story is true, only the names have been changed to be more ridiculous.Follow these droll tales of walking dogs, trying to get grass to grow, dealing with speeding by teenagers and parents, errant parking, the work and the pleasure of a backyard swimming pools, homeowners association election politics, and so much more.
Tuition
The novel is a tale of the once-prominent Pious College struggling to keep its doors open through decreased enrollment, unsavory reputations, repugnant relationships, and a puzzling, eye-opening murder.The book's story line is set springtime through summer, in the year 2010, snug in the small beach town of Wildwood, New Jersey. Each reader will experience their own form of addiction with each passing chapter, craving more as the tale ends with a jaw-dropping final chapter. Novel connoisseurs will find suspense, hilarity, and even experience a few roused hormones as they ride the roller coaster of events in this compelling and engaging novel. With an unprincipled, yet relatable, cast of characters the book will enthrall readers to take sides in hopeful outcomes and whom to root for. With its less-than-Ivy League campus, the college is led by a president who is blackmailed by a despicable past, forcing the involvement of the institution's underworld kingpin chairman. This story has a character for everyone, from its pretty little fundraising nun struggling with her vow of celibacy to the sidesplitting buffoonery of its incompetent main-office secretary. Each reader, hell-bent on discovering what happens next, will relish the antics of the gambling coach, the young and inexperienced performing arts director, the CFO foster mom, the narcissist provost, and the alcoholic academic dean. Each character, but save a few of genuine nature, are compelled to positively contribute but ultimately find themselves forfeiting their nobleness, intertwined in a story line that will push each reader to recommend the novel to others. The ending will leave booklovers little choice but to beg for more, relieved to find out that book two in this absorbing series is right around the corner. The novel represents a work to be enjoyed by a broad segment of adult booklovers. It will attract all genders, from all backgrounds, reading for the same reason that millions hook themselves to every episode and multiple seasons of a trending Netflix or HBO series. We all wish to be entertained, and Tuition surely will not disappoint.
My Mom is the Best Mom
Whose Mom is the Best Mom? It's an age-old question, with only one correct answer, whether we're talking human moms or those with furry babies. Tag along with these adorable pups as they set out to prove once and for all whose mom is best.
Vice Versa
Vice Versa (1882) is a comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Guthrie's debut novel was a popular success, earning him a reputation as a leading humorist of his time. Adapted several times for film, theater, and radio, the novel inspired Mary Rodgers' beloved Freaky Friday (1972) and is referenced in such wide-ranging works as C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.As holidays draw to a close, Dick prepares to return to boarding school. Dreading the inevitable encounter with harsh headmaster Dr. Grimstone, he shows obvious signs of trepidation as he packs his luggage to leave. Watching from the doorway, his father, businessman Paul Bultitude, attempts to console his son. He encourages him to enjoy his time at school, warning that life gets much more tiresome as one ages. Nevertheless, Dick remains morose throughout the day. At the last minute, the boy asks if he can take with him the stone brought back by his uncle from India. Hesitant at first, Mr. Bultitude goes to fetch it, failing to realize its potent magical properties. Struggling to convince Dick to leave, he admits that his only wish in life would be to live as a boy once more. Just then, the magic of the stone takes hold, transforming Mr. Bultitude into a child the same age as his son. Terrified, he begs Dick-now doubled over with laughter-to change him back. But the boy senses a once in a lifetime opportunity and wishes on the stone to become a middle-aged man. As they navigate one another's daily lives, father and son gain a deeper understanding of one another's fears, dreams, and desires, all while desperately attempting to keep their transformations secret. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Thomas Anstey Guthrie Vice Versa is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers.
Little People
I was eight years old when I saw my first elf. And for unlikely hero Michael it was his last. Cruella, Michael s unfortunately named girlfriend, doesn t approve of his obsession with the little people. But the problem is that they won t leave him alone. And who can blame them when it s Michael s own stepfather who s responsible for causing them so much misery? Oh yes. Daddy George knows that elves can do so much more than gardening.This is awildly imaginative fantasy from Tom Holt."
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
From the author of countless esteemed classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, , Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court follows an American engineer named Hank Morgan. When Hank suffers from a severe head injury, he falls unconscious, only to wake up in the medieval Camelot years. Learning that he has somehow traveled through space and time to be present in 6th century England during the time of King Arthur's rule, Hank is shocked and worried when he is discovered by guards. However, after the initial confusion and concern, Hank understands the potential of his situation, and decides to use his future knowledge for the good of the people now around him. Of course, the subjects of King Arthur's kingdom were skeptical of him, and consequently, soon after Hank arrived his execution was scheduled. However, because of Hank's knowledge, he is able to trick the people, including the king himself, into thinking that he has special powers. After using a solar eclipse to "prove" his ability, Hank is elected into a position of power, using his new authority to modernize and Americanize the medieval people. Accepting the kingdom as his new home, Hank build relationships and feels that he is making an immense difference in the lives of King Arthur and his subjects. But when the Catholic church grows uneasy about Hank's new influence and ideas, Hank finds himself in even more danger than he was in when he was scheduled for death row. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a classic comedy that features reflective and fascinating topics of social justice and science. Though originally published in 1889, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court addresses social and political issues that are still relevant today and even predicted the first world war. With an anecdotal narrative, Twain delivers a compelling plot with humorous prose and discussion of serious societal concerns. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
A Merry Mersey Christmas
As Liverpool's Special Murder Investigation Squad prepares for Christmas, Detective Inspector Andy Ross receives a phone call.Someone has murdered Santa Claus (well, a department store Santa). As the officer on call for the night, Ross attends with his sergeant Izzie Drake, and begins one of the strangest investigations of his career.With the main suspects being Santa Claus himself, in cahoots with an elf, Ross needs luck - and lots of it - as he seeks to solve the mystery of A Merry Mersey Christmas.
Our Lady of Black Diamond
There can be a fine line between a mystical experience and just some really weird stuff happening. And, as Debra Patrick discovers, it can be both ... at the same time.Debra's biggest concern had been the gigantic house being built on the small formerly-empty lot next to hers. But then Miriam shows up and all ... heaven ... breaks loose.Here's the touching and comical story of Debra, Miriam, Shelley, Emily, and Arnold (the big, dumb dog) sharing a week together in the little town of Black Diamond.
A Merry Mersey Christmas
As Liverpool's Special Murder Investigation Squad prepares for Christmas, Detective Inspector Andy Ross receives a phone call.Someone has murdered Santa Claus (well, a department store Santa). As the officer on call for the night, Ross attends with his sergeant Izzie Drake, and begins one of the strangest investigations of his career.With the main suspects being Santa Claus himself, in cahoots with an elf, Ross needs luck - and lots of it - as he seeks to solve the mystery of A Merry Mersey Christmas.This is the large print edition of A Merry Mersey Christmas, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Sci-Fi Lampoon Winter 2020
The second issue of the Sci-Fi Lampoon featuring humorous work from Y.J. Jun, Romana Guillotte, Jim Webster, Christopher Hinkle, Jeff Gard, Geoff Habiger, Margret A. Treiber, Ralph Benton, Candice R. Lisle, J.P. Roquard, James Rumpel, Bill McCormick, Carl Reed, Ian K. & M. Frank Owen, and the Space Love Sage
A Merry Mersey Christmas
As Liverpool's Special Murder Investigation Squad prepares for Christmas, Detective Inspector Andy Ross receives a phone call.Someone has murdered Santa Claus (well, a department store Santa). As the officer on call for the night, Ross attends with his sergeant Izzie Drake, and begins one of the strangest investigations of his career.With the main suspects being Santa Claus himself, in cahoots with an elf, Ross needs luck - and lots of it - as he seeks to solve the mystery of A Merry Mersey Christmas.
Punk City
You see, it's about a literary movement that did or did not happen on South Street in Philadelphia 35 years ago. Punk musicians obtained experimental software that enabled them to write fiction in groups, very much like rock bands. The software overcame their educational and cultural deficiencies. They became writers, warriors, and possibly citizens of a parallel quantum dimension that swallowed them and their history. Along the way they created fiction that mimicked the entire recorded history of poetry and prose, and they fought actual wars to earn the life experience writers need.
A Merry Mersey Christmas
As Liverpool's Special Murder Investigation Squad prepares for Christmas, Detective Inspector Andy Ross receives a phone call.Someone has murdered Santa Claus (well, a department store Santa). As the officer on call for the night, Ross attends with his sergeant Izzie Drake, and begins one of the strangest investigations of his career.With the main suspects being Santa Claus himself, in cahoots with an elf, Ross needs luck - and lots of it - as he seeks to solve the mystery of A Merry Mersey Christmas.This is the large print edition of A Merry Mersey Christmas, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
A Dark Secret
A Dark Secret is a heartwarming tale of a police inspector with a broken marriage who received suspension from work. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to have a double mastectomy. On the day she left the hospital, she was handed her divorce papers. During her recovery, her husband was shot dead. She would now like to return to work, but only on her terms. This is the story of her fight back with dignity.
The Night, the City, and Miss Thing
With a wink to dime-store pulp fiction and film noir, award-winning author Angela Carole Brown's novelette THE NIGHT, THE CITY, AND MISS THING is, in a way, a love letter to Los Angeles. It follows the adventures of Elvis Schoenberg's Orchestre Surreal (a real-life Los Angeles orchestra that Angela has fronted as lead singer, under the moniker The Fabulous Miss Thing, for over two decades). The Orchestre Surreal is a deranged-seductive-Felliniesque-German-Expressionist-John-Waters-circus-of-a-wild-ride, and THE NIGHT, THE CITY, AND MISS THING is no less a wayward midnight odyssey of playful mood, mystery, and shadow, as it unfolds the antics of femme fatale Miss Thing, conductor Elvis Schoenberg, and ultimate fighting champion turned opera singer Dangerous Dan. Read it if you dare, Palooka.
Uncle Bob’s Red Flannel Bible Camp - The Book of Exodus
All right - so if you enjoyed UNCLE BOB'S RED FLANNEL BIBLE CAMP - THE BOOK OF GENESIS, then you are going to LOVE this next book in the series. This is the whole entire story of the Book of Exodus and several books thereafter, encompassing the entire lifespan of Moses himself - as told to you by the world's oldest storyteller, Uncle Bob. This isn't exactly a solemn retelling of the Bible. In fact, I guarantee a giggle or two along the way. The fact is this is the story of the Book of Exodus as retold by a country gentleman who read the Bible a couple of times and is doing his level best to retell it in his own words. Means he takes some liberties with the Gospel. Or - in the words of Uncle Bob - this here is mostly the truth with only a few lies stirred into the broth for pepper. Don't say I did not warn you! "My golly, but I just can't tell you people just how very much that I wish Uncle Bob had written the screenplay for my very first movie, Julius Caeser!" - Charlton Heston (or some fellow that looked just like Charlton Heston if you squinted around an eyeful of powdered glass and Pop Rocks)
The Ping-Pong Champion of Chinatown
Buffeted by a cheery outlook, Gertie McDowell, a na簿ve young girl from Turkey Roost, Kentucky, pens her diary-a series of bizarre misadventures that take her from starring on a foot fetish site in Los Angeles to hustling bets as a mechanical bull rider in Texas. From serving a stint in West Virginia's Alderson Prison, because she "trusted the wrong kind of fella," to getting sold into white slavery. But perhaps her crowning mishap is seeking the ping-pong championship of San Francisco's Chinatown-all while hiding out in the Witness Protection Program. A zany yet tender book that will have you laughing out loud.
Lorry
This is one of the first fantasy stories by Joanna M. Pilatowicz."Lorry" belongs to the series published in Poland by the title of "Stories from the Borderlands". It is a metaphor for addictions presented in a lighter way, where a truck has a habit of speeding up and crashing into the trees. Special agent Lisa is sent to take care of Lorry and other creatures, such as Dutch Wind, who stops to blow in the Netherlands and who is addicted to marijuana, or Salamander, who cannot control her flame and burns herself out. The series of events lead Lisa to question her job, wondering about her own memory gap ...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to the town of Windsor, also the location of Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. Though nominally set in the reign of Henry IV or early in the reign of Henry V, the play makes no pretence to exist outside contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It features the character Sir John Falstaff, the fat knight who had previously been featured in Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. It has been adapted for the opera at least ten times. The play is one of Shakespeare's lesser-regarded works among literary critics. Tradition has it that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written at the request of Queen Elizabeth I. After watching Henry IV Part I, she asked Shakespeare to write a play showing Falstaff in love. (wikipedia.org)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to the town of Windsor, also the location of Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. Though nominally set in the reign of Henry IV or early in the reign of Henry V, the play makes no pretence to exist outside contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It features the character Sir John Falstaff, the fat knight who had previously been featured in Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. It has been adapted for the opera at least ten times. The play is one of Shakespeare's lesser-regarded works among literary critics. Tradition has it that The Merry Wives of Windsor was written at the request of Queen Elizabeth I. After watching Henry IV Part I, she asked Shakespeare to write a play showing Falstaff in love. (wikipedia.org)
New Cardiff
As a discerning reader of nineteenth-century American fiction, Englishman Colin Ware is familiar with the tradition of transcending disastrous love affairs by booking the next ocean liner to Europe. Now that he has experienced the pain and humiliation of heartache firsthand, he decides to try this cure in reverse. New Cardiff, Vermont, may be an infinitesimal blot on the rural American landscape, but to Colin it's the ideal place to mend his broken heart. The townsfolk are a quirky, endearing lot, and they welcome the migrating artist into their fold. Colin does his part by capturing his adopted countrymen and women in charcoal and ink. He even discovers love again -- with Mandy, an attendant at the Shining Shores nursing home. When Colin's ex arrives to woo him back to her and his native land, he has to choose between his new love and the woman he's known for years. With its pitch-perfect dialogue, New Cardiff takes readers on the exhilarating cross-cultural odyssey of a man hurtling headlong into life.
The Peterkin Papers
Laugh aloud as you enjoy the tales of the Peterkin family. They're a large and smart group, but with not a lick of common sense between them. They'd raise the roof to fit a tall Christmas tree, and not go for a ride because they forgot to unhitch the horse. No simple problem has a solution that is too complex when you're with the Peterkin's. If it wasn't for the intervention of the Lady from Philadelphia, who knows what would happen!This edition includes all 22 stories and 153 images.
Dearne Valley Blues
South Yorkshire, Winter 1989. A young Canadian blues musician, scraping a living in London, gets a weekend of gigs in local coalminers' social clubs. Plunged into a series of comic mishaps and adventures, his journey of self-discovery blends music, romance, comedy and philosophy as he learns about love, loss and what really matters in life.
Crump
Crump was the 47th President of the United States, and as it happened, he was also the billionaire founder of Crumpburger. Although his second term in office was coming to a close, Crump had no intention of giving up his lucrative sideline as the leader of the free world to anyone, and especially not to the Democratic presidential candidate, Smilin' Mo Fudrucker. Seen through the eyes of his intern and chief confidant during the yearlong run-up to the presidential election, the conniving Crump, with the help of his assbrained administration and the conservative news network, SHITE news, is determined to not only beat his Democratic opponent but also make a shitload of cash for himself in the process.
The Allergic Boy Versus the Left-Handed Girl
When Jimmy Nail finally gets around to reading the phenomenally popular novel The Left-Handed Girl, written by the iconic P.J. Darbin, he recognizes it immediately. It's his own book, the short novel The Allergic Boy, that Jimmy had written back in college, and given to Darbin to read, when they were both eager college students. That was before Jimmy dropped out of school. Before Jimmy joined the Army. Before Jimmy suffered a severe head injury that leaves him with screaming headaches and occasional confusion. But it's his book. He knows it's his, even if no one will believe him. Not his wife. Not Darbin's big-city publisher. Not Darbin's team of lawyers. And not the mean-spirited judge who's assigned to hear Jimmy's lawsuit. How can Jimmy prove that he's the true author of the hit novel and not just a greedy and addled war veteran with a head injury and a frivolous claim? When his dusty old notebooks and his own memory convince no one, Jimmy knows that his only hope is to find the red-haired girl he'd been mad about as a teenager, the enigmatic Poppy Fowler. Or Poppy Fahrenberg. Or Poppy Fahrenheit. Whatever her surname, she is Jimmy Nail's one and only hope. His one and only hope for love. His one and only hope to establish his sanity. And his one and only hope to get the credit he deserves. The money, too. He can't forget the money. But did Poppy even exist, or was she just the creation of Jimmy's sad and troubled mind? Jimmy has lost everything. He's lost his wife and his daughter. He's lost his parents. He's lost his savings. What he hasn't lost is his love for a red-haired girl who may have been the basis for a novel that has made someone else world-famous and awfully rich. In this unique and inventive novel, Michael Kun explores the nature of truth, the imperfection of memory, and the very idea of love. As Jimmy Nail learns that he must love whom he loves, regardless of appearance and even gender, Kun infuses Jimmy's quest with humor and emotional depth.
