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Felix Palmer

This is a literary novel. It is the story of a man in his early thirties who is determined to murder a perfect stranger, only once, in order to give his life a sort of meaning, and change his personality. However, this is not another crime-story. This novel shows the inner struggles of an individual vascillating between banality of everyday life and insanity. The novel contains precise definiton of the sublime, the beautiful, and a complete elaborate discussion on the origin of art and tragedy, all disguised as dialogues among friends. This novel is not pompous elaboration of a conceited academician. The novel is readable and entertaining, the style natural and simple. The work contains a few passages with vulgar expressions, which may not be suited to all readers.

Rasheed Clark

Not since Terry McMillan?s ?Waiting To Exhale,? has a book been so raw, gritty and honest about love, loss, family, relationships, acceptance and trust and put a voice to the collective frustration felt by millions of people looking for love in all the wrong places? Stories I Wouldn?t Tell Nobody But God,? the long awaited, debut novel by Rasheed Clark, is an emotionally charged, provocative and page turning story of four friends, Sista, Brian, Day and Nikki and the rollercoaster ride that they call their lives? Sista, who will lose the only man she ever loved, as she allows her weight to determine her self worth. Brian, who learned the hard way that a good woman isn?t hard to find, he just has to be man enough to keep her. Day, who must learn to accept himself for who and what he is. Nikki, whose perfect world is shattered when she loved a man more than she loved herself and it almost cost her, her life, because of her man?s infidelity and lies. Powerfully told, heartwarming and funny, ?Nobody But God? will leave you wanting more. ?Stories I Wouldn?t Tell Nobody But God,? because there are many things, many people tend to keep to themselves, out of fear nobody but God will understand?

Montez DeCarlo

Black Chameleon Memoirs tells the gripping saga of how one of the most successful Black businessmen in America rose to prominence using criminal activity and murder while overcoming adversity and an abusive childhood.

Jill Divine

The people on Planet Tirleen are subliminally controlled. They are led to believe that not only are they the only surviving planet, but also that God does not exist. God sends them some gifts to prove his existence. Twenty five children who died twelve years ago now live, but they are a threat to the leader, and he imprisons them. Unless rescued they will die. The dark angels are arriving and gathering the negative energy that has been created, and are slowly suffocating the planet.

Tony Nesca

?About a girl? is a short novel that begins with two strangers, a man and a woman, who meet at a bus-stop and go on an impromptu bar-crawl on a cool, winter day. Taking place in twelve hours it recounts the oddball, hardcore, characters they meet and their increasing emotional connection as they fall for each other almost immediately. Infused with sexual energy, pop-culture references, intellectual debate and literary allusions this is an unapologetic, uncensored look at our society through the eyes of the outsider. It is written in a free-flow, spontaneous style with long unhindered sentences that enable the reader?s eye to glide down the page as the story flows and moves to an urban beat of strippers, punk rockers and nightlife happenings.

H Jay Scheuermann

What unique attribute dwells within the creative individual? Is it a flaw in the unconscious psyche that gives rise to talent, influencing artists to fashion the product of their imagination into tangible form, just as the grain of sand gives rise to the precious pearl? Or is it more? To the world around him, Jerrod Young appears to be a typical, mature art student. He certainly has talent as a painter, but hidden within the darkest corners of his mind are unsavory secrets, and a different man that nobody knows. H. Jay Scheuermann, author of The Gore Experiment, gives us another great psychological thriller, delivering a chilling look inside the psyche of a man whose deepest thoughts begin to assume control over his actions. The needs of the darkness within him seem to grow with each atrocity, his ever-increasing confidence fueling an inexorable force for evil. Hell is not a place, but a state of mind, a state of being: it exists within each of us. We like to believe we can control it, but the cruel alternative is that our choices have already been made for us. Jerrod has accepted his truth, and is resolved to serve his inner demon. Special Agent Jackie Jonas has been given her first assignment, a case that may mark the beginning and the end of her FBI career, as it leads her into a web of violence and deception, with each new clue ensnaring the lives of the ones she loves?. This gripping story brings to life the awful truth that the Jerrod Young?s of this world do, in fact, exist. It could be one of your co-workers, the person behind you in the supermarket checkout line, or even the person next door. Can you tell? Are you willing to stake your life on it?

John Schasny

Narrator is intrigued by a group of losers who embark upon a search that includes a visit with the channeling "Cure Girl" who promises to lead them to the Promised Land to avoid total annihilation, but when he falls in love with a fellow traveller, all hell breaks loose, and he decides to bore a hole into his own head so that they might all "see the light." But once cured, everything changes, and our Narrator learns that he has become that thing which he despised most...a loser.

Kadashan

A short story collection about a small village in Southeast Alaska.

ANNIE GRANT

Meet Annie, mid-twenties, moving into an apartment on Urban Street.What starts out calm soon becomes chaotic. Will Annie become what she despises the most? Will she turn into a dysfunctional neighbor? Meet the neighbors. The neighbors from Hell. The neighbors from Urban Street. If you have ever lived with neighbors like this, you would agree, "Love thy neighbor? No Way!"

Afshin Rattansi

The first deals with the aftermath of the Big Bang in the City of London and how it disturbs all relationships in the British capital, exacerbating differences between rich and poor. It follows an unnamed protaganist fall from grace in the City as he watches London almost tear itself apart over social unrest.In Reproach, Rattansi deals with Londoners trapped in a bar during a suspected terrorist attack. In A Taste of Money, he examines the omnipotence of property prices for Londoners, how it affects all who live in the capital. And in Good Morning, Britain, he satirises the way news is gathered and disseminated in Britain during a war in Europe and burgeoning insecurity for Londoners.

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