Bush Studies, written during the 1890s, presents a bleak and uncompromising image of life in the Australian bush. These classic stories of pioneering Australia are introduced by Elizabeth Webby. These are not the stories of mates gathered around a fire, but of the dark loneliness of women. Not only are there fences to be built and a living to be ......
Reuben Downes is a Mallard. The kind that dominates the Co-Ed Fastpitch Softball League for Adults in Western Vermont, aka COFSLAW VT, aka The Coleslaw League. As a newcomer to the team and the town, Reuben is viewed as the oddball "from away" by his teammates and the quirky, curious, often opinionated locals. So, when he puts an "art" ......
Ghosts of Glencoe is a riveting multi-generational adventure of self-discovery. The novel spans a mere four months, set at a unique junior boarding school, and played out in the rugged Adirondack mountains of New York. This is a hero's journey for two flawed protagonists, one fifteen, the other sixty-three. Both struggle to be accountable to ......
For Will Watson, it was time for a change. Life in England had gone sour for him, so he and his Golden Retriever Mia headed to the other side of the world -- to a small Australian mountain town called Maleny. There, Will tries to navigate through the surprising and sometimes sinister ways of his adopted community while trying to make a living. As ......
Lennie Lower, Australia's answer to James Thurber and S.J. Perelman, wrote humorous columns for Smith's Weekly and The Women's Weekly and by 1930 was seen as our greatest humorist with his novel Here's Luck. HERE'S LOWER is a selection of the whimsical Lower from his newspaper columns of the 1930s, illustrated by Patrick Cook. These short tales ......
Deirdre and Sam, mother and daughter, have been stuck in individual grief cycles since husband and father Niall died less than a year earlier. Now it is time for a change. For Deirdre, this means hiring a life coach, rediscovering long-dormant parts of herself, and putting the family home on the market. For Sam, it's jettisoning an abusive ......
Three light-hearted heists:
The Coat Hanger: Mug and his crew are hired to steal a coat hanger from a dry cleaner. It’s a matter of life and death.
The Argument: Mug makes a bet over why two people are arguing. Will Mug finally make a bet he can win?
The Second Safe: One job, two safes. One contains money, but what’s in the second safe?
A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck.
For sixteen-year-old Nate Alexander, music is more than sound. It's a symphony of color, vibrant and beautiful, a blessing and a curse. For all that he may love about living with Chromesthesia, however, the added weight of undiagnosed autism clutters his life daily, turning school into a trial of his oddness, social encounters into a jumble of ......
Allegra Gordon knew there was much she could learn from Faith Hale. From the moment she met the esteemed writer and feminist icon on the campus of New York's Abigail Stone College, Allegra understood that Faith would be a force in her life, one that would wrench the best work from her and encourage her to lay her soul bare. The relationship that ......
In Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions, Daniel Cooper Alarcon argues that travel literature performs important social and cultural criticism often overlooked in studies of the genre. By examining non-fiction and fiction novels and short stories that purposefully examine different types of travel in relationship to each other, Cooper Alarcon ......
This anthology takes its theme, Unprecedented Times, from the state of the world in 2020, though not all stories are set in this point in time. There are historical, mysteries, poetry, science fiction, literary and other stories.
Join little Skipper, a curious puppy in an orange life preserver, as she meets a galaxy of sea dogs from past and present. Inspired by the exhibit Sea Dogs! Great Tails of the Sea at Mystic Seaport, What is a Sea Dog? combines poetry, history, and fun in a celebration of the many dogs who love the water.
Insightful stories from the heart about the tears and laughter, the rise and fall, the love and pain felt by women in Malaysia and Singapore. Intimate collection of autobiographical essays every woman should read.
