The Runaways of Phayendar explores the themes of love, forgiveness, and redemption amid a land of turmoil over the slave trade and greed. It is a story of innocence and heroism in the face of formidable danger. It shows the triumph of the human spirit over evil as it ravages the country of Aksanda, a country of farmers and fishermen whose children are abducted and sold into slavery to foreigners at auctions. Homes are burned and people killed by hordes of evil elves called Bitters who organize for a battle at Orthrund against the dwarves living in the Aikasse Mountains. Bright Elves, men and dwarves, unite to defend Orthrund. Tall Sky, while helping a few runaways, is caught off guard by love with a feisty redhead named Melody and her little dragon, Daisy. They become involved with King Aryante's purge of slavery that has far-reaching effects on the country of Aksanda and beyond.
Carol Carr had several roles in the literary SF scene a while back, and only some of them were behind-the-camera. She knew everybody and everybody knew her. What may not be known is that she wrote some evocative stories and poems that have never been collected in one place - until now. And she's even added a bunch of stuff - yes, that's her word for it, stuff - which you will find irresistible.
The superb first novel from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Judith Gill is a well-respected biographer who desperately wants to write fiction. When she joins her academic husband on sabbatical in Birmingham, she finds on the shelves of their rented flat the notes of a failed novelist. With considerable guilt, Judith decides to plagiarize one of the ideas and brings it home to Canada to work on. Frustrated by the creative process but determined to be more imaginative, Judith attends writing classes and later discovers that her tutor, suffering from writer's block, has ripped off 'her' idea. Once again, Shields focuses her sharp gaze on the small ceremonies of life in this novel of rare intelligence and wit.
Novelist Reta Winter's idyllic life is shattered when her eldest daughter abandons her life to sit on a gritty street corner with a sign reading "GOODNESS" around her neck, a situation that prompts Reta to uncover what drove her daughter to her new existence.
Originally published in the collection of short stories of the same name, in Faithless Joyce Carol Oates dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power as two adult sisters recall their mother’s disappearance when they were children.
Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.
The Runaways of Phayendar explores the themes of love, forgiveness, and redemption amid a land of turmoil over the slave trade and greed. It is a story of innocence and heroism in the face of formidable danger. It shows the triumph of the human spirit over evil as it ravages the country of Aksanda, a country of farmers and fishermen whose children are abducted and sold into slavery to foreigners at auctions. Homes are burned and people killed by hordes of evil elves called Bitters who organize for a battle at Orthrund against the dwarves living in the Aikasse Mountains. Bright Elves, men and dwarves, unite to defend Orthrund. Tall Sky, while helping a few runaways, is caught off guard by love with a feisty redhead named Melody and her little dragon, Daisy. They become involved with King Aryante's purge of slavery that has far-reaching effects on the country of Aksanda and beyond.
Tall sky, a bright elf, and Melody, with her miniature dragon, Daisy, join King Aryantes caravan to help rescue Aksandan girls who were abducted by bitter elves and sold into sexual slavery in Orendia, where men view women as properties to be used for pleasure and for childbearing. Throughout their journey, the caravan was attacked by pirates, bandits, giant mantises, and demons sent by the kings adviser, an evil sorcerer named Ahriman. The rescued girls were in need of healing and counseling. They had been used and abused for eight months and had lost hope. On their journey home, the girls learn to trust, to forgive, and to have hope for the future.
A collection of sixteen stories explores the mysteries and varieties of American experience and includes "Golden Gloves," the story of a would-be champion boxer whose career and marriage fall tragically short of his expectations.
From writer Carol Bergman comes a second collection of five unconventional novellas: Water Baby, The View From Here, Lost to Sight, Will Wonders Never Cease and The Unforgiven. Told from the point of view of a baby, a kidnapped bride, a country doctor, Houdini and Freud, and a young Pilgrim woman, each story is set in a diverse time and place. Elegiac, tragic or sensuous, Bergman evokes the complexities of life as it is challenged and transformed.
“Both based in South East Queensland, Coral Alma Slater began writing her memoirs with her granddaughter, Ashleigh Venz, in 2013, with the intent of preserving her remarkable life story for their family and future generations.”--Back cover.
Until events run wildly out of hand, Charleen Forrest manages to cope with the uncertainties of a failed marriage, trying to live her own life and raise a son on her frugal income. She is not unaware of the hazards: "family, banktellers, ex-husband, landladies, bus drivers... men on the make who want her to lie back and accept (this is what you need, baby), friends who feel sorry for her." Her resourcefulness is a delight; her uncanny observations and surprising irony reveal a witty, wry edge that is apt to make you laugh out loud.
Eleven stories deal with life behind the Iron Curtain, a little girl who has witnessed a murder, a woman deserted by her husband, a mentally ill college student, a visit to Poland, and a U.S. diplomat
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