A CIA program code-named Project Olympus targets a member of the Saudi Royal family for elimination. The assassins find their attempt complicated when the butler shows up at exactly the wrong time.

In this book, Pat has planted 33 seeds for readers to nurture and bring to fruition. An alchemic mix of wisdom that turns dross to gold. These seeds traverse our thinking, feeling and acting. They address the whole, interconnected person, physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual, and engage us in facing our inner demons, letting go of what pulls us back, taming our egos so that soul emerges, appreciating what we have and who we are...

Depuis toujours, Alice a du mal avec elle-même, du mal avec son corps. Alice voudrait être comme les autres, comme Astrée. Ne pas se gaver à la moindre contrariété. Manger à sa faim, ni plus ni moins. Répondre au besoin physiologique de son corps sans lui infliger ce cirque sans fin. Elle ne sait pas faire. Ce que tout le monde fait sans même y penser, elle ne sait pas le faire. Contre toute attente, c'est en donnant la vie à un autre...

Introducing a gripping vampire romance quick read by Summer Cooper, a USA Today Bestselling Romance Author. Lexa is paid to stalk cheating partners! Well, she's a private investigator! She is doing her usual stalking when she gets herself into some deadly trouble... A mysterious man saves her and then just leaves! He is just too attractive and out of her league. But why did he leave her like that? She didn't even get his name. Then there he is…...

The World Fantasy Award–winning collection from the architect of the Well-Built City Trilogy No matter how far into the realms of space and fantasy Jeffrey Ford's stories may venture, they have one trait in common: They're grounded in the universal. The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, Ford's debut collection, is no exception. "Creation," which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, relates a boy's attempts to animate a man made of sticks...

From a technological dystopia to small town Canada, this collection of short fiction explores themes of change, memory, and things hiding in the shadows. These tales, previously published and new, take classic space opera, pest problems, and the recent pa

Bear Stories is a collection of seventy-seven tales that are designed to be humorous while still speaking to larger issues and truths. This is a rich, multi-faceted manuscript that is designed to appeal to readers of all ages. Among his "Bear Stories," Shaffer delivers the unknown biography of Smokey the Bear, he celebrates the cleverness of Wilbear and Orville Bear as they take to the skies, and he reveals how the assistance of a bear helped result...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories. Joyce Lempiere tells the Tuesday Night Club of an incident that occurred five years ago when she was vacationing at a small inn on the Cornish coast. She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on the balcony of Denis and Margery Dacre, when she realised she had included blood...

Il y a les murs d'incompréhension, de solitude, de désarroi, de douleur et d'injustice. Face à ce genre d'épreuves, il y a ceux qui se recroquevillent, s'enfoncent, se rebellent, se transcendent ou s'accommodent. À chacun sa nature. Quatre personnages réagissent ici, face aux difficultés et aux surprises de la vie, dans des contextes bien différents.

À travers différents styles littéraires allant de la dystopie à la poésie, en passant par le journal ou encore l'anticipation, Nouvelles d'un esprit sans repos aborde le thème de l'amour sous toutes ses coutures : l'amour de soi, l'amour de l'autre, celui de sa famille ou encore celui que l'on subit. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Au cours d'une remise en question professionnelle, Romain Rothenbühler prend conscience de l'effet de l'écriture sur...