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A collection of light hearted short stories which could be set any where in the world. We can find humour and interest in any situation and possibly reflect on the absolute joy of living. These little anecdotes have been the result of some of the wonderful quirks of our human nature. Take a moment to read and look around you and find other classic moments of our fantastic world....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Kate Loveday
Size: 28 pages
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34 reviews
SIX WEEKS FOR LIFE OR DEATH ...... In 'Six Weeks', Jessica L. Degarmo departs from the style of her very successful Romance novels - 'Hooking Up', 'The Storm Within', 'Decisions' and 'How To Meet A Guy In The Supermarket' - to examine every teenage girl's nightmare: that she is pregnant and not certain she's ready for a child. It is a life and death decision – not her life, but her decision - and despite the opinions of those around her, she is on her own. In a world of gray, one thing is black and white. Six weeks is her deadline to decide. Maybe you have been there, in which case you will understand....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Taylor Street Publishing
Size: 178 pages
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Natasha is a successful attorney living in upmarket Umhlanga Rocks. With a solid marriage, a beautiful daughter, and a thriving law practice, she seems to have it all. But the pressure of maintaining this façade is taking its toll, and cracks are starting to appear. Sean is a younger, up-and-coming lawyer. Charismatic and attractive, he finds himself fascinated by his boss, Natasha. Knowing that the consequences may be catastrophic, they nevertheless tumble into a destructive affair. Wanda is a young woman living on the edges of society, whose life is one of daily poverty and hardship. History dictates that she has no future, and when her mother becomes ill, Wanda needs someone to blame. She meets Sean in the courtroom, and despite their obvious differences, they are drawn together by...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Susan Pedersen
Size: 426 kb
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Return to the Beginning - Book One of the Company Wars Chronicle
A democracy at war must have strong leaders, people who know the fine line between autonomy and autocracy. It is their duty to keep the enemy uninformed; shroud the truth in propaganda, and encourage misinformation to mimic the truth. Barbaric acts are the way of the adversary; compassion and mercy is ours alone; but who is the final judge of which side is right, and which is wrong, when you begin to suspect you are the enemy....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 212 pages
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Joseph wakes up to find himself in his dream world after he is hit by a car but things seem to be moving just too smoothly. Is Joseph really in his dream world? Is he in a dream?...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 151 kb
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100 reviews
Warning! This book contains themes of sexual abuse and infidelity. Pam of Babylon is the First in a series of Five books. Don't You Forget About Me, Dream Lover and Prayers for the Dying and Family Dynamics follow. For Long Islander Pam Smith, keeping house and staying beautiful dominate her daily routine as she awaits the return of her husband, Jack, every Friday evening. When he suffers a fatal heart attack on the train home from Manhattan, Pam's exquisitely arranged life is catapulted into turmoil as she is forced to face the realization that her marriage is nothing more than a black hole plagued with cruel infidelity, abuse, and sexual deviance. Witness Pam as she graciously and gracefully accepts the foul world her husband's "other life" forces on her previously immaculate existen...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 334 pages
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Twenty-Five Thoughts (The Short Stories of Daniel Mark Brown)
Things are not always what they seem in this fantastic collection of short stories. Written to give a quick burst of entertaining, interesting reading they are ideal to read in those few calm moments of hectic modern day life. Containing twenty-five stories that aim to throw a different light on all sorts of elements of life this book might make you rethink how you view even the smallest things in life. A unique viewpoint, the unexpected and even a touch of humour make this a great read....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 54 pages
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The Adventures of Marty the Ant and Millie the Ant
Short stories from the lovable brother and sister ants....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 19 pages
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223 reviews
In Chicago's Ukrainian Village, Nadya Lysenko has built her life on a foundation of secrets. When she was sixteen, Nadya snuck out of her house in Western Ukraine to meet a fortuneteller in the woods. She never expected it to be the last time she would see her family. Decades later, Nadya continues to be haunted by the death of her parents and sisters. The myths and magic of her childhood are still a part of her reality: dreams unite friends across time and space, house spirits misplace keys and glasses, and a fortuneteller's cards predict the future. Nadya's beloved dead insist on being heard through dreams and whispers in the night. They want the truth to come out. Nadya needs to face her past and confront the secrets she buried--in The Silence of Trees....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Wolfsword Press
Size: 336 pages
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DANDY : Welcome To A Dandyworld
"The Dandy Story has been featured in a major campaign by McDonald's which included a contest, a page on the company's website, 16 million placemats, and even subway signs throughout Sweden, where Dandy "The Novel" reached #1. The magical tale is currently in the works for a Vegas Musical." DANDY - WELCOME TO A DANDYWORLD. Book One in the DANDY SERIES. In a world of glitz and glamour, mansions and limousines, a boy is born into the lap of luxury. In a tick of the clock, it all is taken away. Young Dandy finds himself cast out from the lavish world he knew, and thrust into a harsh reality as a resident of an orphanage. All alone, except for the rats that scurry amongst the shadows, Dandy sits at his bedroom window, when suddenly he is visited by a melody that sweeps him out into the...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Carnival Comics Entertainment
Size: 22.10 mb
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Dream Keeper -- Part I -- Fatum Meum
So much for a quiet life. When a terrifying nightmare awakens Deedra from a peaceful slumber, her world is torn apart and thrown into chaos. Finding herself knee deep in a murder investigation, Deedra races against the clock to stop a brutal serial killer before he strikes again. With no time to spare, Deedra enlists the help of a local detective and finds herself hanging between life and death. In a heart racing adventure, her destiny is revealed...if she can live long enough to control the power....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Knogwod Publishing
Size: 296 pages
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Beyond Fields of Rabbit's Foot
Beyond fields of rabbit’s foot, where foxtail touches every tree, where no current frost or flake fell, Kivi, the dwarf, sat, undisturbed—his blue beard nearly reaching to his knees. THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FOR FREE THROUGH GOOGLE BOOKS / GOOGLE PLAY....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 38 pages
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35 reviews
Enlightenment on Route 66 - Humorous, Painful, Rewarding Live from the Road takes the reader on an often humorous, yet harrowing, journey as Meg Newton and Sally Sutton seek a change in the mundane routine of their lives. Joined by their daughters, they set off on a journey of salvation enhanced by the glories of the Mother Road. Along the way, they are joined by a Chicago bluesman, a Pakistani liquor storeowner from Illinois, a Marine from Missouri, a gun-toting momma from Oklahoma, and a motel clerk from New Mexico. Death, divorce, and deception help to reveal the inner journey taking place under the blazing desert sun as a Route 66 motel owner reads the Bhagavad-Gita and an eagle provides the sign they've all been seeking. Enlightenment comes tiptoeing in at dawn in a Tucumcari laun...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: P.C. Zick
Size: 268 pages
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The phrase ‘Going Out’ can be defined in so many ways: an exit, an ending, a single date, or a description of an entire relationship! Add ‘In Style’ to this, and the possibilities within the world of fiction become extraordinary. “Going Out in Style” is a 28,000-word collection of six stories from the master of the short story, Daniel Kelley. In “Performer,” it’s Thomas L. Blatten’s final day at work. After 42 years of playing the same chair in a symphony orchestra, he has concocted his own special way to say goodbye and thank you. During a concert! And he isn’t entirely sure what to expect from the audience or his fellow musicians as the performance unfolds… “Bathtub Ripples” is Andie’s tale. Abused years before by an uncle, she’s found that everything ...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 86 pages
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Teresa thinks she has meet Mr. Right but before long she finds out that Mr. Right turn out to be Mr. Wrong....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Desiree Violett Publishing
Size: 23 pages
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After Billy Reeves had survived a poverty ridden and violent childhood on a council estate in Newcastle he thought he had it all; a loving family, money and respect but a face from the past with a point to prove and muscles to flex is out to bring his world crashing down on him. He turns down an offer of a job with Tyneside’s most paranoid and psychotic gang lord and is faced with bent police, a corrupt judge, an army of bouncers and the knowledge that if he makes one wrong move in this game of cat and mouse his family will end up imprisoned, abused or worse. Billy is going to have to work very hard just to keep everyone he cares about alive and that means the gloves are coming off......
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Byker Books
Size: 268 pages
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In a quintessential small Midwestern town, Professor Joshua Stone is a popular, outgoing, and quirky professor at Grant’s Hill College. He lives alone with his dog, rides a bicycle everywhere, and has memorized the high school mascot names of his students. He’s a 3-on-3-basketball player and fan who’s insular life centers around his teaching. Joshua confronts his demons while recovering from an unprovoked near-death attack. His search for an elusive witness challenges his instinctive moral and ethical compass. Woven through a gripping storyline is one man’s quest to find strength and courage. Joshua is plucked from the cocoon of teaching English composition at a small liberal arts college and thrust in to survival mode, seeking a logical explanation for the irrational violence....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 380 pages
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Billy's Room is a haunting meditation on time and nature. In the title story, a man's sense of time has been warped by a mirror. Another involves a dystopian town called Place and the rumor that a frightening giant puppet is controlling people's minds. And, in perhaps the most poetic story of this collection, the residents of an Arcadian town have been forced by a terrible flood to flee into a haunted forest....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 73 pages
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What seemed like a simple program glitch on a revolutionary mining machine turns out to be more serious. Far more serious. The machine, called BARD-P1 is hijacked by a hacker who has no idea what he is about to unleash. The machine punches through side of a cavern that is over five miles deep. The tunnel fills with a fog that is from an unknown origin. In an attempt to clear the tunnel they use large fans to vent it into the atmosphere. Within days workers start to become sick and die. The CDC, and a special agency created during the height of the Cold War, the Deadly Virus Containment Team , are called in to identify and stop the spread of the virus. In the beginning it is identified as Ebola but soon mutates into a chimera. As millions are dying, the virus continues to spread. The tw...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 229 pages
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20th September 1917 – Wakaya, Fiji. The Count Felix von Luckner, Master of the German raider Seeadler, lowers a sealed iron chest into the waters of a small unnamed bay under cover of darkness. 17th December 1971 – Cairns, Australia. The chance mention of von Luckner’s name revives memories of boyhood tales of the secrets of that far-off night, and of the iron chest watched over by the stone dog. But were the tales, told by Uncle Max, bosun on the Seeadler those fifty-four years ago, true, or were they merely that, yarns, nothing more? And if true – would the chest still be there? And if true – will it be worth the bloodshed?...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Robert Mitchell
Size: 343 pages
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Washington, 1865: As the American Civil War drew to a close, military and government leaders realized they were facing grave dangers they had not anticipated. There were many who did not understand that it was easier to start a war than to end one. The Confederacy was crumbling rapidly, and Generals Nathan Bedford Forrest and Robert E. Lee were willing to surrender, provided they could do so with honor. Many government and military leaders did not agree with President Lincoln’s intention to grant a full pardon to anyone who would agree to the terms of surrender. And the most difficult thing of all was the radicals who were not willing to give up a lost cause, and were determined to stop the peace process regardless of the cost. This book is the prequel to The Renegade series....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Joe Prentis
Size: 281 kb
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An inside look into one of the most publicized for-profit higher education companies in America. Nudged tells the story of the world of for-profit higher education by following an individual who stood up to this billion dollar industry and changed the world of online for-profit higher education forever....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 40 pages
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This book is a work of fiction that allows me to articulate some of the insights I have been privileged to experience as a Medium. Taking the reader on a journey into a world that for now is out of reach. Please put all your preconceptions to one side and follow me as we delve into a world that is filled with wonder and magic. Death isn’t something we like to contemplate. We all know it happens. One day we’re laughing and joking and the next… Well it happens. There are those who make a good income from the dying business - but for most of us, it is something we’d rather not think about. Not while we’re fit and healthy. As the years roll by, sometimes we are forced to face our own mortality. The fact remains that one day we will no longer be here, but from the work I do as a Med...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 88 pages
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Twenty-Five Things (The Short Stories of Daniel Mark Brown)
Twenty-Five Things is a wonderful collection of short stories, many of which feature unexpected twists or turns while others are written in a way to draw attention to simple aspects of experience that are often missed or overlooked in our daily lives. Fans of author Daniel Mark Brown's previous work will be happy to see another broad set of short stories with twists while also discovering some of his first experiential stories that may cast an unexpectedly different light on seemingly everyday things. This collection also features the authors first ever linked trilogy of short stories in the form of the stories "Stream", "River" and "Sea" as Daniel Mark Brown expands his writing style to both keep fans entertained and bring new reading experiences to new audiences. As with previous books...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 47 pages
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The fiction work is an intricate but easy read with a good ending. Guiding you through the lives of Walton Bradshaw and Craig Miller from an early age to adulthood. The story begins with Walton and Craig standing in the rain waiting at their adoption home waiting to be picked up by their new parents. Both Walton and Craig are holding their only belongings donated clothes in little cardboard suit cases. The boys and their fathers have many great times through the years. When you chose to read the rest prepare for a roller coaster ride of fun and reality....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: self
Size: 160 pages
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What life do you want to live? The world is your oyster when you’ve got money. Rich in a way that you didn’t know people could be rich, this is Mikhail Khachaturian, also known as ‘Ketch.’ A mega-yacht, a private plane, homes around the world, and women, these are the perks of the trade for a man who’s willing to do whatever it takes to get a deal done. Someone’s standing between you and something you want, well then, move them out of the way. This is the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, the way we’re made. This is Capitalism: caveat emptor, buyer beware. This is Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand: if you’re too slow, or stupid, you get eaten. Struggling as an academic, Ketch’s brother, Dimitri, asks Ketch to teach him his trade. Well, brother, what are ...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: T. Scott McLeod
Size: 346 pages
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Partying took on a whole new meaning in the early nineties. Clubbing became supplemented by a mass exodus to raves in fields. In the middle of the Norwich dance scene is Ryan, seller of recreational substances. Ryan's world is a typhoon of stupid antics and pilled-up revelry. But all that could be about to change. He's sure he is being followed. Or is it just the paranoia from all those drugs?...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 388 pages
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He shouldn't have survived. . . not the crash landing in the Vietnamese jungle nor the years of backbreaking labor. But the painfully thin man with the arresting blue eyes had paid a high price for survival. The man Melora Delaney faced across a rice paddy, the man she was to bring back to America, had lost his youth and his memory. As a psychologist she couldn't restore Bo's lost years, but she could help him begin life again. Melora planned two months of intensive work with her patient. But then she came to know the man, who existence was a miracle of strength and will. When the time came ... and it would ... would she be able to let him go? NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: When I wrote KISSED BY AN ANGEL, Scott's RIO and best friend was supposed to be dead. But he spoke to me in a dream, telli...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 250 pages
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“It won’t do. It’s no fun at all being explorers with somebody running about seeing you’re alright all the time. It spoils things. We’re not children … well, I suppose we are … but you know what I mean. It’s awful not knowing what it is they’re up to.” It is 1929. When Uncle Albert arranges a surprise holiday for the children, he imagines he’s looking after them, after his own fashion. But things don’t always turn out quite the way you expect and before the story ends it is he in need of help. In desperate need, in fact, with his life hanging on a thread and only the children to save him in a frantic race against time. The story leads to a dramatic climax on a remote island in unfriendly seas, cut off from the familiar world. And we learn how an idyllic holiday can...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: LASSERRADE PRESS
Size: 286 pages
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Europe is in the grip of a deadly storm, and London is flooding. For Robert, a young precarious worker who finds his life empty of meaning and subject only to working in unfulfilling jobs and getting drunk at the weekend, the flood offers a grim liberation from his daily life. When he meets Odile, a strangely religious and angry young French woman, they embark together into the unknown of a changed Europe whose future is dark and unpredictable. Partly an allegory of the financial crisis, partly a love story, The Flooded Shore shows that from tragedy can come new life and light, even under terrible hardship....
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Size: 166 pages
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