Book Review This is a short story that is amusing but has some dark corners. It is about a child who believes he is everyone’s favourite and everyone likes him, or does he? He psychologically tortures his teacher to... Read More »
Book Description There’s a chuckle on every page of Looking Back with a Smile as the author recollects in brief but entertaining anecdotes (bits and pieces) of a life that has spanned seven decades. Bits and pieces are what... Read More »
Book Description Can a cockroach enter into Heaven? Will Saint Peter allow it? In the tradition of Psalms, Socrates, Solomon, and Seuss, “On how the Cockroach…” tackles the canons of our catechisms, the perceptions of our realities, the emblems... Read More »
Book Description Jumping Off The Page uses ephemera as a portal to fascinating and seldom explored aspects of history and pop culture. Each of the three chapters of this eBook begins with a piece of ephemera–America’s cultural flotsam. The... Read More »
Book Description Shopaholic meets Woody Allen as one middle-class, smartass Jewish gal is ejected from her cushy life as a banker after the crash of Washington Mutual Bank. Gone are the horses and weekend getaways, and in their place come... Read More »
Book Description Thirty-something’s Nick and Laura have been married for ten years and things aren’t going well. Her biological clock is ticking away and she wants children while he doesn’t. He feels a child would be just one responsibility... Read More »
Book Description During the horrible recession, former airline pilot Annie Mullard feels she has sunk to a new low when she’s forced to go to a run-down laundromat, the Golden Coin, after her washing machine breaks. But it’s here... Read More »
Book Description There are two basic types of animal in Nature’s Kingdom. The first, like lions and turtles, produce many offspring and simply hope that some will survive. The second, like elephants and people, produce one or two at... Read More »
Book Description This book has three or more main storylines, and over fifty endings. Here’s how it works: You, Dear Reader, are the main character of this story. Live, die, and rise again based solely on the merit of... Read More »
Book Description This book has everything, a dark family secret, an adoption, a Scottish/Chinese social worker, a gay physiotherapist, romance, an Asian matchmaker, a fatal degenerative disease, a catholic funeral, a talking dog, religious conflict and much more, in... Read More »
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