And What of Earth? (Jennifer Hodges/Warrior Queen Book 1)
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No need to cut a nervous investor off in traffic to initiate a stock market crash. All you need is unlimited computer power and the ethical nihilism to manipulate lives. The R-Group, a high-level information gathering and security team, believes at least one group - possibly several - are using Big Data analysis to customize the future to their image. Earth pilot Maeve and her son Davin have joined the Ixtrayu, hoping to avert the destruction that their leader, Kelia, has foretold.
But will Maeve's burgeoning Wielding powers be enough to thwart the machinations of Elzor and his lightning-wielding sister, Elzaria, before everything the Ixtrayu have ever known is destroyed in Elzor's quest for ultimate power? New Releases New at Audible. Under 1 Hour 1. Over 20 Hours 1. Whispersync for Voice Space Team Saga , Book 8 Length: Add to Cart failed. Please try again later. Add to Wish List failed. Remove from wishlist failed.
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Makes a great stocking stuffer. In this collection of 25 short stories, one of the original masters of early 20th century science fiction and fantasy is introduced to a new generation of readers. Often cited as a major influence on J. Lovecraft, Dunsany's work continues to delight and intrigue whether he is weaving fanciful tales of strange adventure in imaginary exotic locales, or depicting grim and creepy visions of otherworldliness.
More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Each adventure - every action and choice - leads to unexpected situations Long after nightfall, America's best contemporary writers shine their flashlights into a world that begins around the time when most people fall asleep.
A superb exploration of inner city America told from the perspective of an African-American young man in short poetic prose pieces. Hypnotic and scary, just as you think you're reaching the end of a piece and that you understood it, Jackson twists the knife 90 degrees and exposes a point of view that catches you unawares, then he's through your defenses and into your heart.
Author Bruce Jackson has lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and currently resides in Seattle where he works with troubled children in a public elementary school. Drunk house painters, guys playing golf in a graveyard at midnight, Euripides made incomprehensible: Kassel writes up a storm in this collection of hysterical short stories. The Ghastly Ones and Other Fiendish Frolics follows in the grand and ghoulish tradition of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams in a delightfully gruesome and fanciful, tongue-in-cheek look at maniacs, monsters, and mayhem.
Creeping through the pages are lurking beasties, axe-swinging psychos, and pouncing bloodsuckers - each one described in darkly witty verse and captured in Sala's fine, quirky drawing style. Universe got elected governor of the most populous state in the U. Connect the dots to find Arnold groping a nearby female, draw a picture of yourself between Arnold and George W. Bush, color in the governor as Conan the Barbarian, drive a Hummer through a maze from Hollywood to Sacramento, and more. Great drawings, hilarious real quotes that we couldn't make up if we tried!
He creates beauty with an original hybrid of brutality and love that takes my brain to its favorite place. Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club called Lilith or revealing the inner thoughts of young hustlers in Hollywood, Catalyst unearths the trashy truth in his characters' unconventional lives. A humanist poet who sees the world from a very personal perspective. After a poignant exploration of her family's curses and blessings, Po allows the healing process to begin.
Without slogans or dogma, these seven authors have created an original literary manifesto of progressive ideas. Passionate stories about gentrification, discrimination, and identity politics unite with heartfelt poems exploring poverty, race and disability that positively shine with subversive solidarity.
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Compiled by a veteran of the underground after spending 30 years in the alternative art trenches, these experiential, very real commentaries from today's underground luminaries offer honest and humorous advice on everything from "Door Etiquette for the Nightlife-Challenged" by Clint Catalyst to "How to be an Art Star" by downtown NYC scenester Reverend Jen.
Without a hint of irony, Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages shows would-be bohemians how things really are "How to Live in Debt" by Mykel Board , instead of selling far-fetched dreams of writing the great novel or producing a top gallery show. Narrative poems with straightforward, feisty sensibilities confront the difficulties and rewards of love: Often funny, with a subtle sting, Coppola's heartfelt writing reveals an unrelenting, courageous struggle with a progressive disabling disease "Enlightenment and Muscular Dystrophy".
A man tells his wife, "You know, I don't feel like going to the Robinsons' party. With so many remarkably unfunny things going on in the world today, everyone desperately needs to laugh just to relieve the tension of everyday life. In fact, laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect against a heart attack, according to a recent study by cardiologists. In the interest of restoring mental and physical health in the general population, Intelligent Jokes appeals to clever readers looking for more than a rudimentary punchline.
Lovers of "shaggy dog stories", as well as those who appreciate witty insights into personal relationships, send-ups of human folly, and our preoccupation with sex, will find these amusing jokes enormously entertaining. Cover painting by Mark Ryden. Travel a picturesque and often harrowing road through these narrative poems to encounter the quiet survivors and overlooked places fallen through the cracks in the American Dream.
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Meet a battered wife wearing a celebratory dress to her husband's funeral "The Red Dress" and a fed-up woman who shoots a complaining nonsmoker at Denny's "Mother of Four". With empathy for the human condition, Juliette Torrez captures the absurdity, hypocrisy, and ultimately the beauty of the places and people she has known.
Hard-hitting stories, accessible poems, and hair-raising comix answer the question of millennial ennui in the wake of economic crashes, Zoloft for breakfats, and governmental insanity. This lively collection contains fresh work by more than 40 cutting-edge writers and artists: Outstanding writers from every region of the US are featured in this celebration of human spirit and good ol' American originality. B etween and , Manic D Press produced more than a dozen page photocopied and stapled books of fiction and poetry by some of the most talented young writers from the Bay Area and beyond.
Collected for the first time in a single trade paperback edition, this archival volume includes rare works by twelve authors including Jon Longhi, Wendy-o Matik, Jorge Argueta, Lisa Radon, Jerry D. In these never-before-seen live and backstage photos, Sid Vicious is alive and sneering, the Red Hot Chili Peppers barely have a tattoo between them, the crowds are moshing, and the hairdos are tremendous. North America's favorite crypto-zoological homonid recast as the modern day everyman bravely struggling with casual cannabalism, eating disorders, pop culture and philosophical quandaries.
Absolutely hilarious - a total laugh riot! Whether Jeffrey McDaniel's denouncing insomnia "4, A.
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In Jeffrey McDaniel's second book, it is hard to separate the humor from the pain. Both qualities are omnipresent whether he's tackling dysfunctional family memories in 'The Most Awful Lullaby', or broken-hearted romance in poems like 'Another Long Day in the Office of Dreams'. Fresh, provocative, non-doctrinaire, his poems are the kind I want to grow up to write. Earnest and confessional in the best sense, Maybe's poems about self and vulnerability reveal her beliefs in family, love, identity, and anti-establishment idealism.
Her uncanny ability to pivot at multiple places within a poem, using surprising observations and control of language, wraps beauty and purity around her day-to-day experiences. In this wholly unpredictable collection of tongue-in-chic short stories, Beth Lisick casts a cool eye on the lost and living dead of offices, nightclubs, shopping malls, and rent-controlled apartments.
Pretentious web designers, reality show wannabes, and hipster party girls are among the characters populating a seemingly ordinary world teetering on the brink of chaos.
Her first book was Monkey Girl , this is her second. I n her first collection of short stories, celebrated spoken-word artist Beth Lisick evokes the rollicking world of post-boom America. An impoverished but proud office drone "I am the reigning queen of the Toshiba BD copy machine" gets a makeover. A teenager is drugged by her fraudulent, sadistic orthodontist. On a five-hour flight to Cabo San Lucas, the author psychically bonds with a flight attendant. In this collection of 25 hilarious, anecdotal short stories, spoken-word performer Beth Lisick creates a panoramic tapestry of strip malls, junk-food habits, and yuppie pickup joints, unveiling a world that most of us simply drive past.
Blending the everyday and its sometimes grotesque underside, hallucinatory detail, and stripped-down dialogue, Lisick's descriptions are almost hypnotic with their complex rhythms and cadences. These stories - all of which Beth Lisick uses in performance - imbue the ordinary with unique and unexpected hilarity. Striking, witty, and vividly contemporary, these stories evoke what it's like to live now, in the suburban wasteland of the '90s.
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With nothing but the bankrupt station as severance pay, Director Fujita Hiroko moves to the edge of the galaxy to keep the station afloat as an independent mining operation. He loves New York City like nobody's business but does it still love him despite his lack of affluence and influence? Animals turn aggressive and deadly. A Child's Guide to Anarchy follows Wild Child as she learns about just being herself and how that translates into kid autonomy. Her heart shines as she revels in a carnival of delicately drawn characters.
T wisted stories, bone-chilling poems, and harrowing yet humorous comix that deal with failed relationships, religious cults, loneliness, and drugs, penned with razor-sharp precision. A voluptuous gift for highbrow art connoisseurs and lowbrow eccentrics: Why should kids have all the fun?
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In more than 50 brilliantly humorous short stories and vignettes, Ayn Imperato writes about a contemporary punk rock gal in search of love, fun, and gainful employment. Along the way, she works at a Goth store "where lots of morbid kids in black wearing pointy buckle boots trudge in lamenting about life in the dreary suburbs and then spend what was a week's worth of pay for me on a bunch of rubber eyeballs, bat wall hangings, and cheap Ankh jewelry" Mr. Janglin' Bones and the Brain ; posing for soft porn photographs while covered in mud Dirty Money ; and as a movie extra playing a refugee in Hell Dirtier Money , among other attempts at earning a living.
Cover art by Mary Fleener. It's lurking in your favorite bar or following you down a freeway at night or standing perfectly still just behind the door to your apartment. Her writing will find you in places you thought were safe.
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In an urban framework of love and sex and betrayal, these sizzling poems and scorching stories explore the inexplicable politics of human relationships while breaking open the boundaries of the heart's language. An uproarious collection of 11 intoxicating short stories and a staggering novella about fist fights, love bouts, the trials and tribulations of minimum wage employment, and of course, carousing in bars and nightclubs.
From the glittering debauched nights of s Hollywood "Escape from Houdini Mountain" to the festering bowels of New York's Lower East Side "Must Have Been Love" , these 23 mind-bending tales chronicle a young woman's quest for romantic adventure. Spun from her experiences in the L. Pleasant's eye for the human condition is pristine. Her heart shines as she revels in a carnival of delicately drawn characters. Some are sad, some sick, some brilliant, but in Pleasant's world they are all appreciated equally.
Ultimately this book, for all it's wildly funny tales, is an evolved praising of feminine beauty and it's power in a world gone mad. Pleasant Gehman has been writing about L. She has appeared on E! The author of several books including Senorita Sin and Princess of Hollywood , her work has been widely anthologized. Whether he's writing about drug deals gone sour, hobo camps at war with the local rednecks or his hillbilly childhood, Sparrow 13 LaughingWand spares no details. His inimitable character portraits and depiciton of life on society's fringe are at once haunting and unforgettable.
Be prepared to burn as you consume Hell Soup. After leaving school to pursue a career in vagrancy, experimental mysticism, and small villainies, Sparrow 13 traveled a million miles with his right thumb. He's alive and well in San Francisco. The story is heartbreaking, so have tissues ready. The winners of the Audie Awards have arrived! You can watch a video of the event on Facebook.
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Revenge of the Nerd: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton Describes how a former boy scout launched Silk Road on the Dark Web, where people could buy anything anonymously including drugs, spying software, forged passports, counterfeit cash and rocket launchers and the Federal agents who spent two years trying to find him. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: In this book, pirate women are pulled from the shadows into the spotlight that they deserve.
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