A Simple Assignment
Publisher: 53rd Street Publishing
In Degenerate City there is only one private dick that hunts the names on the naughty list. Christmas Elf Cheerful Baby Vickers, C.B. Vickers to her enemies and Vickers to friends and coworkers, cleans up the streets to safeguard the integrity of the lists.
When a new case draws her into murder and conspiracy Vickers must uncover the truth and bring a killer to justice to complete her investigation.
Teaming with her sometime partner, DPD homicide Lieutenant Jack Spike O'Malley, they must face the thugs and scum of the city to solve this deadly case. They soon discover a scheme that will disrupt North Pole operations for decades to come and change the naughty and nice lists for billions of people around the world.
Will Vickers and O'Malley survive a confrontation with a killer and save the future of North Pole operations in the bargain?
A thrilling noir elfin mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat as Vickers discovers this case is not a simple assignment.
International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge...
Burning - An Anthology of Short...
Peter Oxley, Simon Finnie, Craig...
If you woke up with a gun in your face, what would you do?Plagued by mysterious dreams which are quickly becoming a real-life nightmare, where would you turn?What was the real truth behind the Iraqi invasion and the search for WMDs?What if the one person you relied on to keep you safe, instead became your jailer?Forced to confront the mistakes of your past, where would you hide?14 original stories with one red-hot connection… Burning.Thrillers to shock. Thrillers to excite. Thrillers to challenge and make you think.An anthology of 14 original short stories by a collection of outstanding thriller writers.Craig Hart's "Loose Ends" thrusts a wise-cracking PI into the center of a deadly—and highly personal—case.In Fiona Campbell's "From a Flicker to a Flame", a woman finds herself trapped, a prisoner in a loveless marriage.In "The Five Votive Candles of Joe Wray" by Simon Bewick, Joe Wray is a husband, a father, a brother and a business owner. They all need his protection. He doesn't have a prayer.A mysterious man sparks unexplainable fires in Carla Day's "Scintillation", where a woman's dreams may be the clue to saving the world.The dark and seedy underbelly of the City of London is exposed in Will Patching's "Old Flame": a tale of lust, greed and a decidedly nasty twist.The repercussions of the Iraq war and memories of WMDs plague the characters of Dana Lyons' "Fire and Brimstone", with a weapon which could truly be the end of all things.In "Ava Edison and the Burning Man", by Marcus Cook, a thief with an unlikely accomplice faces a race against time to get a priceless jewel for a ruthless client.Tom Goymour's "Circle of Friends" finds a man and his long-forgotten friends being forced to finally confront the mistakes of their youth.In Peter Ellis' "Reprogrammed", a woman wakes in a strange warehouse with terrifying new abilities, but with no knowledge of how she got there.The hero of Michael Peirce's "Accidental Operator" unwittingly becomes the key member of a new, highly deadly team of mercenaries."Valley of the Shadow" by Pat Moore is a moving exploration of love and loss, where those left behind suffer more than the ones they mourn.Lori Lacefield's "The Fire Keeper" follows Frankie Johnson, an FBI Profiler, as she tries to decode a terrifyingly macabre fire ritual, before the killers strike again.Free will, morality and redemption lie at the heart of Simon Finnie's "Burning", as a Professor is forced to confront the mistakes of his youth.And finally, in Peter Oxley's "Burning Greed", a thief simply has to battle through a burning island to steal the score of his life: what could possibly go wrong?Burning - bringing destruction or a new beginning? To find out, get Burning: An Anthology of Short Thrillers - now!
H P Lovecraft The Complete Fiction
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Among his most celebrated tales is "The Call of Cthulhu", canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46.
Emperor of the Air - Stories
Ethan Canin
The award-winning, bestselling debut collection of "beautifully crafted stories" from the acclaimed author of The Doubter's Almanac (Chicago Sun-Times).   Highly acclaimed and wildly successful upon its debut, Ethan Canin's now classic collection of nine stories combines exquisite precision, humor, and a rare maturity of observation, capturing those miraculous moments when life opens up and presents itself to us. Full of life, rich with personal history, plot, and revelation, the stories in Emperor of the Air are the work of an extraordinarily gifted young writer.   Capturing a wide range of vivid characters and their unforgettable moments of ache, epiphany, humor, and wisdom, Canin would go on to prove himself as "the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation" (NPR).   "Dazzling . . . at times breathtaking, at other times heartbreaking." —Walker Percy   "A glowing first book . . . An engrossing and unified collection." —Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe
Puck of Pook's Hill
Rudyard Kipling was a prolific British writer and poet.  Kipling's children fiction, specifically The Jungle Books and Just So Stories, are some of the most famous in English literature.  This edition of Puck of Pook's Hill includes a table of contents.
Garden of the Goddesses
Matthew Wilson, Zimbell House...
Garden temples, ancient aliens, mythic gods and creation tales are but a few of the whimsical short stories spun in this anthology by six emerging writers; all with unique approaches to story-telling.
Zimbell House Publishing is committed to helping new writers become quality authors.
Dan Rhodes
For every happily-ever-after fairy tale that waxes poetic about true love, there is a piece of flash fiction from Dan Rhodes to provide the perfect antidote. In this collection of bite-sized vignettes, Rhodes masterfully explores the distance between what we believe is real and what others know to be true–and nowhere is this distance greater than in the realm of romance. Told with inimitable humor, with, and irony, as well as deep undrstanding and compassion, these short stories are guranteed to elicit both yelps of laughter and winces of recognition. All offer the gift of humor, though none are a paean to the institution of marriage. By turns poignant, surprising, and laugh-out-loud funny, Dan Rhodes has created a fresh and recognizable cast of scorned lovers, jilted fiancées, and vengeful spouses who wholeheartedly subscribe to the adage that "all is fair in love and war."