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Dragons, Droids & Doom

Wanna date a dragon? How about defend yourself in court with an orc as your lawyer? Or maybe you want to just sit in your loft and have a couple beers with your imaginary friend, or follow Merlin on his final days as he fights to stay alive.No seriously, what if your girlfriend's skin was stolen by a hag? Or if you found sheet music to a song to end the world... what would you do?Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One is a collection of all the stories published online by Fantasy Scroll Magazine in its first year. It includes a wide range of speculative short stories from fantasy to science fiction to horror. Some stories deal with death, others will leave you laughing to death. It's all here, and it's fantastic. Take a look; you won't be disappointed.

A Catered Fourth of July

High noon on July Fourth in the quiet town of Longley, New York, and it's got to be one hundred degrees. Thankfully, sisters Bernie and Libby are setting up their yummy catering out of the sun in the gazebo for the reenactment of The Battle of Meadow Creek—and not baking in those Revolutionary War uniforms with their fellow townspeople . . .

Бул юрак доғиндадир

Ушбу китобда «Сариқ аждар ҳамласи» роман-дилогияси (1984, 1988, 2013) билан ўқувчиларга яхши таниш Абдуманноп Эгамбердининг узоқ йиллар давомида яратган ғазал, мухаммас, шарафлов, марсия, қитъа, фард ҳамда тўртликлари ўрин олган. Унинг ижодида замонавий илмий дунёқарашни бадиий шаклда таърифлаш алоҳида ўрин эгаллайди. А. Эгамбердининг шеърлари адабиётимиз тарихида ўзига хос ва бетакрор ҳодиса бўлди. Шоирнинг бу тўплами ҳам аруз ихлосмандларига унутилмас шеърий туҳфа бўлади деган умиддамиз.

A Catered Thanksgiving

Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons have handled plenty of catering challenges with grace and aplomb. But this Thanksgiving, they're cooking a feast for felons...Whipping up Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings can be stressful for anyone, but that goes double for the Field family. They know that every family get-together has to be picture perfect, or they risk getting cut out of dominating patriarch Monty's extremely lucrative will. That's where A Little Taste of Heaven, Bernie and Libby's catering company, comes in. Surely with their lump less mashed potatoes and to-die-for gravy on the table, even the super-dysfunctional Fields can pretend to get along for one meal. But no one can dress up the disaster when the cover-worthy turkey goes boom right in Monty Field's scowling face, sending him to that great dining room in the sky. And to make matters worse, the Field Mansion is draped under a freak November snowstorm, making any hope of escape - or getting outside help - vanish faster than the Simmons' famous stuffing. Now, trapped with a killer determined to get more than his fair share of the pumpkin pie, Bernie and Libby are going to have to convince the Fields that they aren't to blame - and find out who really is, fast. Because it won't be long before the leftovers - and the Simmons sisters' chances of surviving this real turkey of a day - run out for good.

A Catered Murder

I’d like to thank Kathy Feeley for her editorial acumen and her cultural references. Larry for reading my book. Linda Nielsen for her cooking advice and support in all areas of my life, dog and otherwise. Amy Zamkoff for kindly donating her recipe. And Ann Marie Grathwol and Kathy Verbeck for their contributions.

A Catered Wedding

Bernadette and Libby Simmons have been working twelve-hour days at their store, A Taste of Heaven. And in between whipping up sweet treats and catering high school graduation parties, the sisters have to fit one more event into their busy schedule: catering a high-society wedding that takes a very low turn. . .

Voices from the Carpathia

When Titanic began sending out distress calls, one of the first to reply was the Cunard liner Carpathia. As it turned out, Carpathia was the only vessel to reach the scene in time to save the lives of any of Titanic's passengers, and, after she arrived in New York, reporters crowded the pier and vied with each other to obtain interviews with the survivors of the disaster. In their zeal to interview survivors, though, the reporters brushed right past other people who could have provided their own eyewitness accounts - namely, Carpathia's own passengers, largely left to their own devices as to how and when they discussed their participation in events. A few wrote letters to relatives, others wrote accounts intended for publication. The author's collection of these rare written accounts and interviews sheds new light on the tragic way the lives of so many were impacted by the loss of the largest passenger liner in the world.

Amadeus, Trust No One!

(Target audience recommended: Young Adult such as Jr. High Boys to College Male humor)

How Do You Live?

Anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite childhood book, in English for the first time.   First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino’s How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic for young readers. Academy Award–winning animator Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle) has called it his favorite childhood book and announced plans to emerge from retirement to make it the basis of a final film.   How Do You Live? is narrated in two voices. The first belongs to Copper, fifteen, who after the death of his father must confront inevitable and enormous change, including his own betrayal of his best friend. In between episodes of Copper’s emerging story, his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and offering advice on life’s big questions as Copper begins to encounter them. Over the course...

My Date with a Wendigo

Elizabeth Rosseau and Abigail Lester were best friends. At twenty-one, they confess their feelings for each other before leaving for winter break. It should have been a love story, only Abigail never came back.

Emotional Inheritance

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experiences—to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives; "intimate, textured, compassionate" (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness).

Blood

“You’re looking for Skizz.” Ed’s skin felt tight as he said it. The thought had just popped into his brain, and he wasn’t sure where it had come from. But as soon as it left his lips, he knew it was true. He could tell by the wild, wary look that flashed in Gaia’s eyes, the sudden tightening of the line of her body. The way her hand tensed on the strap of her bag. Her knuckles, he noticed, were grazed and raw.

The Secret Agent

Mathews, a former CIA agent, delivers the goods in a powerful, atmospheric thriller suggested by the colorful life and mysterious disappearance of Jim Thompson, who served as the first chief of U.S. Intelligence in Bangkok and founded the famed Thai silk company that still bears his name. In the author's telling, Thompson is Jack Broderick, whose grandson Max stakes his claim to the treasure of ancient artifacts and jewels amassed by the Silk King and appropriated by the Thai government after he vanished into the jungle at the height of the Vietnam War. When Max hires Oliver Krane's "risk management" firm to help him secure his legacy, Krane offers the brilliant and beautiful Stefani Fogg an irresistible challenge: prove Max's claim by solving the riddle of who Jack Broderick really was. Cutting back and forth between the past and present, Mathews weaves a fascinating web of intrigue and adventure that encompasses four decades of American involvement in southeast Asia as Krane leads Stefani into a shifting, shadowy world where nothing is ever as it seems, including the truth. The characters are unforgettable, the pacing is impeccable, and the narrative never loses focus despite the complicated plot in a page-turner that richly fulfills the promise of the author's first espionage novel (__). --Jane Adams

The Woman Who Took a Chance

'Fabulous, warm and witty... Lots of laugh-out-loud moments... and dilemmas that are relatable... Fun-filled with a big heart' NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Meet Jen. Flight attendant. Mum to a grown-up daughter. Permanently single. Age: Fifty (gulp) Number of children: One Number of husbands: Zero (it's complicated) Number of failed first dates in the last month: Too depressing to contemplate Number of tickets for a romantic, once-in-a-lifetime trip: Two Number of days left to find her Mr Right to take on holiday: Quickly running out... A heart-warming and hilarious novel that proves age is just a number and it's never too late for a second chance. Fans of Kristen Bailey, Sophie Kinsella and Jill Mansell will be totally hooked from the very first page. Readers love The Woman Who Took a Chance: 'An honest to goodness sublime and funny five-star read... Do not miss this great story if you are after funny, but real' NetGalley Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Such an uplifting and inspirational story! The...

The Ninth

Set in a sleepy village north of Budapest in 1968, this touching, unsettling novel paints a richly wrought portrait of mid-twentieth-century Hungary. The narrator is the ninth child of a family distinguished by its size, poverty, faith, and abundance of physical and psychological disabilities. His confusion is exacerbated by the strict, secretive Catholic household his parents keep in the face of a Communist system. These dual oppressions propel him toward an inevitable realization of his guilt and desire that speaks to his struggle with a fateful, seamless beauty.

Deeds of Darkness

The latest in the Home Front Detective series by master of historical fiction, Edward Marston.In June 1916, a young woman is found dead in a cinema. Harvey Marmion and Joe Keedy are assigned the task of finding the killer who fled in the dark. Before long, two more victims, of striking similarity but differing backgrounds, are found dead around the city. Meanwhile, miles from home, Marmion's son, Paul, prepares for life on the front line as he marches towards the Battle of the Somme.