Shimmers and Laughs: Eight Wildly Hilarious Tales - format ePub

Huram, the Phoenician, crafts bronze masterpieces for King Solomon's temple. When the two most highly prized pieces disappear, suspicion falls on the only three Israelites in the camp. With one of them...

Detective Jack McTavish takes every murder on his watch personally. Even the ones "upstanding citizens" consider a cleansing of the city's mean streets. Tough as nails, he's seen it all. Nothing knocks...

From Boston's Faneuil Hall to the sleepy suburbs…From ancient Israel to "Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin"Award-winning master of romance D. H. Hendrickson finds romance wherever he looks…And these sweet tales...

From dragons to retirement homes…From music to email Spam…From Africa to the Garden of Eden…From the comic to the deadly serious.Award-winning master of the fantastic David H. Hendrickson spins spellbinding...

Sportswriter Olivia Turnbull covers the Blades, Boston's professional hockey team. She'd never break the taboo against dating one of the players. The temptation never even crosses her mind.Until, that...

Already one of the world's great concert violinists, Julia Chu strives for ever greater perfection. Nothing else matters. Especially not romance. She learned the hard way years ago that romance threatens...

How did the kid who was always falling down achieve his dream of playing college hockey? How did he finish as co-captain on a team that enjoyed the best season in the program's history? Hendu's Story...

 Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldIn present day Cave Creek, a powerful and dangerous current flows beneath the town's peaceful and prosperous surface.Strange, unexplained events...

Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldA mythical town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas, Cave Creek attracts the strange, weird, and inexplicable.Founded by a few settlers...

10 Tales of Unlikely PartnersThe Odd Couple, Remington Steele, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Kirk and Spock, any couple in Friends or The Big Bang Theory or...Thrown together by chance, assignment, or circumstance....

ulphouse Fiction Magazine specializes in strange and weird and head-shaking stories. But in among the strange stories lurk some really, really strange stories that seem to push limits no one else thought...

A crazy collection of twisted stories in the tradition of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, from the editor of Pulphouse, Dean Wesley Smith.Head-shaking stories such as the one about a cop with a rose for a...

Thirteen tales of excitement and adventure from Thrill Ride - the magazine: Year One.Tales of honor and betrayal, of amazing women and unexpected partners.Conquer villains, cheer for thieves, battle espionage,...

The Most Twisted Stories from Pulphouse Fiction MagazineWhat gives the "twist" to these stories? They wouldn't fit in any other magazine, for one thing. They leave readers shaking their heads in amazement...

Want to read a twisted take on historical fiction? Well, look no further than stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine!From a skillful historical baseball story to masterful historical fantasy stories...

Short story master David H. Hendrickson spins nine twisted tales of the fantastic in a distinctive, head-shaking style and voice all his own. Filled with heart, imagination, and frequent hilarity, this...

In 1968, at the height of the Civil Rights struggle, Jessie Stackhouse leaves home to break the color line at an elite, all-white prep school. He arrives filled with dreams of winning championships and...

From the mean streets of "Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin" to the sleepy suburbs…From the grime of the Boston subways to a tavern in the afterlife…From sandy ancient Israel to the plains of the Serengeti…Award-winning...

"Rabbit" Labelle excels at high school sports, despite being five-nothin', hundred-nothin' and in way over his head after his family moves from their small rural town to the big, bad city of "Lynn, Lynn,...

What penalty must be paid when an otherwise good cop looks the other way? Can he still claim innocence? Or does the guilt of the cop gone bad damn them both?Maybe Hell is having your heart ripped open...

Shimmer, the legendary female impersonator, haunts the Key West cabaret she made famous and the pale imitators who try to fill her stilettos. They inevitably fail, until a new contender to her throne...

Second-rate comedian Earl Weatherbee uses his AI to translate his culturally dependent jokes into what evokes laughter among the bumpkins far out on the galactic fringe. So when the rubes turn to throwing...

Everything comes easy for Lisey, one of the Beautiful People. Pearly-white teeth. Long, flowing blonde hair and blue eyes. Borderline anorexic and with all the brains and wit of a gob of spit. And filled...

"Rabbit" Labelle, the charismatic and improbable football star of Offside and unlikely basketball player in Offensive Foul, continues his high school sports journey in Bottom of the Ninth.While struggling...

From a little blue fuzzy monster in a Casanova's pants... to a movie star wannabe raising money for her boob job.From rival Key West female impersonators... to the wife of the Biblical King David.From...

Have you ever dreamed of an entire school reading your book? Would you like to double (or more!) your writing income?  This book shows you how.  Drawing from his own first-hand experience, David H. Hendrickson...

After giving up the worst goal of his NHL career and at the worst possible time – overtime of the Stanley Cup Championship Game 7  -- Tyler McKenzie flees to Africa. But even a safari into the famed Serengeti...

Nothing much happens in Fernville, New Hampshire—aka Sleepyville, USA. Eventually even cops there turn soft, like marshmallows. When murder comes to Sleepyville, the case falls to the softest marshmallow...

“I realize how fortunate I was to spend the first half of my life with a passion, thanks to my hockey career. It took me a while to realize it, but now I feel fortunate to have lived the second half of...

“Rabbit” Labelle, the charismatic and improbable football star of Offside, returns in Offensive Foul, where he faces even stiffer odds on the basketball court. While battling to secure his place on the...

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre.A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used...

Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented and ambitious young woman, as she...

Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,...

**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!** From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve...

A runaway heart. A waiting bookshop. A love story written by fate.When Charlotte returns to Sweetwater, she doesn't expect the bookshop she ran from to be alive with magic—or for the man she left behind...

In Catastrophe, Devon inadvertently enters an underground fighting ring. He believes he is going to renege, but he discovers his brother had medical issues. He's determined to win the money to help. Macko,...

A man seeking peace and solitude at a secluded seaside hotel soon finds himself entangled in a web of mystery and danger. What begins as a simple getaway takes an eerie turn when he is woken in the night...

He has one chance to live again . . .Four years ago, Patrick MacClairns lost his life rushing to Lady Sarah's side. As the anniversary of his death approaches, he has one final chance to defeat death...

Evan McKinnies is off limits.He's the scoundrel that stole my brother's dream job.But when I'm left standing in the cold…About to be late for work again…Evan's offer to give me a ride to work is hard...

Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest…...

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume – plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years. ‘My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

I'm a dirty mechanic who's all jokes—but she makes me want to be more.When Ellie walked into McCafferty Customs looking to fix up a vintage motorcycle, I knew I'd do anything to help.Turns out she needs...

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign...

Majestic sun-temples. Mystic cenotes. Sacred ball-courts. Ritual sacrifice to blood-hungry gods. Mighty jaguars, feathered serpents, obsidian, jade, and gold.Join Splatterpunk Award Winner Christine Morgan's...

Poisoned Uxor 77 radioactive meteor fucked Hearth with a big Kaboom! changing the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet.No more animal protein, no more moral values or conscience, weird and obscene...

Grab your air-sick bag and get ready to sample some of the goriest gore and grossest grossness that the great country of Poland has to offer. This ain't Harry Potter, folks, this is a gleeful bacchanal...

No narrative ever ends; each crawls inside its readers to decay eternally. Those readers become authors to write themselves out of existence, reading themselves into our unspooling.Presenting A Carcass...

THE UNFORGETTABLE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR'Recalls early Murakami. An enchanting read' FT____________Readers are obsessed:'Every word resonated in...

🔥 "A love that survives fists, fireworks, and fate…" 🔥"I fell in love with him twice: once when he broke my heart, and once when he saved my life."In this breathtaking emotional saga by bestselling author...

Short stories of science fiction and fantasy.From Gold Rush miners - to alternate universe octopuses - to a lonely mission to a distant star - and more. Nine stories ranging from the meta-verse to ancient...

**The Starlight Fairy and the Lost Wish** ✨🌙  In the magical land of Luminara, where the stars shimmer and dreams take flight, a tiny fairy named Celeste discovers a lost wish. When she meets a little...

Across space, in the vast expanse between the realms, Odin and the Gods of Asgard do battle with the Jotunn. The Jotunn have managed to destroy one planet already, forcing the realms to unite against...

From a run through the primordial jungle, hunting Scottish mammoths, and contemporary run-ins with the law, Dino Dice has it all.Dino Dice vol.1 is a collection of short stories inspired by the roll of...

Between life and death, there is music.Martin Carpenter has always turned to music when words fail him. But as he keeps vigil beside his partner's dying father, the song that rises from his guitar stirs...