The most recent project 2020 is our cat series- 52 cat books in all genres and all sizes (including miniature books with short stories). One book every week beginning with March 2020. The series bestseller: Loving Reaper (author and artist Jenny Jinya), a comic that sold more than 2000 during the first 4 weeks. Read the comic online for free!
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Agence éditoriale depuis 2009. Cette maison généraliste, ouverte sur le monde, se distingue par sa connaissance de la Russie et de ses talents contemporains. Son objectif est de proposer aux lecteurs des ouvrages variés, parfois surprenants qui, chacun à leur manière, invitent à découvrir des univers, une partie de soi-même, ou simplement à se divertir.
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The Book of Souls A "Dorian Gray" story about the power of imagesFor generations, Elsie's family has owned a photography studio. Elsie loves the old cameras and the historic photographs; she is particularly taken with the portrait of the young lord Aidan Storm. Every now and then, she even tells the picture about her worries. What she doesn't know is that he can actually hear her. When Aidan's photo disappears from the album one day, Elsie is inconsolable. But then the young lord suddenly reappears. On Instagram, of all places - and then she meets him in real life.Aidan Storm was born in 1873 and there is a centuries-old curse on his family. With every newborn, a new ghost is born into the world. Aidan sets out to break the curse and recapture the spirits, using the new technology of photography to help him. Until Aidan himself gets captured in a photo that is found 120 years later by John's great-great-granddaughter Elsie. But who has summoned Aidan and the other ghosts that suddenly haunt modern Edinburgh back to reality? And why?Told in two time levels, the story alternates between the perspective of Elsie in modern-day Edinburgh and Aidan at the end of the 19th century. Like in Emma and the Forgotten Book, Mechthild Gläser takes inspiration from a 19th-century classic and brings the portrait of a young man quickly to life, in a modern-day story about the power of images. • Urban fantasy story combined with a tender, humorous love story• The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children• Set in picturesque Edinburgh • By internationally successful Mechthild Gläser (SERAPH Fantasy Award), who has been published in 14 languages
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As one of the sustained buildings, containers are widely used in many countries. The reason why containers come into use in such a vast range is that the cost of container building is controllable and is good for environment protection, and especially the recircled containers should cost less money and be better for environment protection, so that container building is applied in construction industy. All kinds of franchised stores of containers, art galleries, dwellings and container art exhibitions appear everywhere. We attribute achievements to the architects and artists. In the recent years, the ideas, the work and the samples of containers spread all the places in China. There are many fine and beautiful pictures and illustrations of container designs in the book showing how wonderful the containers are. Mainwhile the book delivers techniques to build and repair containers. This is a conference book with its full and accurate account of the matter.
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This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the medieval through de Sade to Foucault. ;
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Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include: Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns. Includes 'loco-specific' chapters, on cities including Hull, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on 'post-industrial' cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee. ;
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Jack Price ist Drogengroßhändler, aber nicht irgendeiner, sondern der beste: cleverer, smarter und intelligenter als alle seine Konkurrenten zusammen. Mr. Cool himself. Und er hat sich bislang noch vor jeder unliebsamen Überraschung geschützt. Als man jedoch eine Nachbarin, die unter seinem Penthouse wohnt, ermordet auffindet, wird er nervös. Sie war zwar eine garstige alte Frau, mit der er nichts zu tun hatte. Was aber, wenn dieser anscheinend sinnlose Mord eine Botschaft seiner Gegenspieler an ihn war?Er zieht Erkundungen ein und erfährt, dass die »Seven Demons« auf ihn angesetzt sind – eine exklusive, hocheffiziente »Bruderschaft«, die bösartigsten, gnadenlosesten Hitmen überhaupt. Sieben absolut tödliche Spezialisten, die nie aufgeben und noch nie einen Auftrag vermasselt haben. Aber Price nimmt den Kampf an und setzt damit eine Kette unfassbarer Ereignisse in Gang ...
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Jack Price ist Drogengroßhändler, aber nicht irgendeiner, sondern der beste: cleverer, smarter und intelligenter als alle seine Konkurrenten zusammen. Mr. Cool himself. Und er hat sich bislang noch vor jeder unliebsamen Überraschung geschützt. Als man jedoch eine Nachbarin, die unter seinem Penthouse wohnt, ermordet auffindet, wird er nervös. Sie war zwar eine garstige alte Frau, mit der er nichts zu tun hatte. Was aber, wenn dieser anscheinend sinnlose Mord eine Botschaft seiner Gegenspieler an ihn war?Er zieht Erkundungen ein und erfährt, dass die »Seven Demons« auf ihn angesetzt sind – eine exklusive, hocheffiziente »Bruderschaft«, die bösartigsten, gnadenlosesten Hitmen überhaupt. Sieben absolut tödliche Spezialisten, die nie aufgeben und noch nie einen Auftrag vermasselt haben. Aber Price nimmt den Kampf an und setzt damit eine Kette unfassbarer Ereignisse in Gang ...
Aidan McRaney is a young man with secrets. Written in the first person, present tense, we are immediately drawn into the action. After he has taken revenge, in company with Verdi Benson, eleven years his senior, on the man who violated and killed Aidan's 18 year old sister Laurena, he decides he needs to escape for awhile. He leaves London to stay with his Aunt and Uncle in Dublin, where he meets Irish country singer Caitlan McKenna. She also works in the bar near the quayside, where she sings. Caitlan has a boyfriend, but he is abusive to her. Aidan falls for the pretty 19 year old girl, and wishes to make her acquaintance. When Aidan rescues her from her greasy punk boyfriend, he is immediately drawn into her world, which isn't without it's own secrets. Caitlan, however, believes that Aidan is merely a landscape gardener back in London, and has no idea that gangland is trying to pull him back into its own world. Since her mother committed suicide by crashing her car into the Dublin traffic, in which Caitlan was also pronounced dead for six minutes, she suffers with psychotic episodes and distressing migraines. Aidan is compelled to return to London when his ex-wife calls him, while he is with Caitlan in a hotel room, to say that their son Patrick has been hospitalised with meningitis. He reluctantly leaves Caitlan, only to discover that his jealous ex Judy has lied. Patrick has nothing worse than a head cold. He angrily challenges Judy over this, and retaliates by telling her that he has met someone. His son doesn't want him to have another woman. When Patrick meets Caitlan, who has journeyed to London to be with the man she loves, Patrick is spiteful to her, and reveals that his father went to prison for killing a man, which is something that Aidan doesn't wish her to know, because he is scared of losing her. Caitlan is upset. But during a schizophrenic episode, in which they have sex, she tells Aidan that it turned her on what he did. During the Christmas period, Aidan learns of an incriminating DVD of what he and Verdi did to Stephen Fitzwalter in a farmhouse in Joydens Wood. How Aidan took a serrated edge blade and sliced Fitzwalter up. Aidan holds Suzanne Markwell hostage in the room above the club in exchange for the DVD to be delivered by his ex-cell mate Dennis Mitchell.
Wedding planner Devyn is a hopeless romantic. Unlucky at love, yet hoping for his prince charming to arrive, Devyn sets his sights on Aidan, who is tired of looking for love. But can Devyn convince Aidan to take a chance on him?A part of the 2009 Daily Dose Set, To Have and to Hold, which includes 30 M/M romance stories providing a glimpse of the many forms of love: love at first sight or a love for the ages, wedding bells or engagements, or that inexplicable something that makes you think "I do," the men in these stories are all touched by its spell. ;
Aidan Mason and his partner moved to San Diego to start a new life, but soon after, Aidan's world changed when Kyle died. Now a wedding invitation from friends back home in Connecticut has arrived, and Aidan decides to attend. He knows he'll have face his prejudiced family, but he doesn't even suspect he'll find a way to heal his heart.A part of the 2009 Daily Dose Set, To Have and to Hold, which includes 30 M/M romance stories providing a glimpse of the many forms of love: love at first sight or a love for the ages, wedding bells or engagements, or that inexplicable something that makes you think "I do," the men in these stories are all touched by its spell. ;
A clairtangent girl. A memory that was brought to life. A young man who escaped death. And a promise to take care of each other. Rhea Rafanda, a grade 12 student, has clairtangency ability. She can read memories through touch. With her talent, she helps the police solve dead-end cases and is given a code name, Clair. However, memories of violence and death can physically hurt and even block Rhea's memory. For that reason, Rhea was kept away from traumatic cases. When the case of Aidan Narayana's death emerge, Rhea breaks the keep-away-from-traumatic-cases-rule and gets involved in the case. She could hardly believe that the classmate she admired and was her first love was suicidal. Rhea must bring Aidan's memory to life to find clues. What if Aidan left her unexpected messages? What if her own hidden memories come to the surface? To uncover the truth and protecting the loved ones, Rhea must exert her clairtangency beyond the limit.
Spurred by mutual physical admiration, a scorching summer, and a cup of ice water, waiter Aidan and artist Jackson discover that sometimes it pays to listen to lust, as long as you don't ignore the following soft sigh of love. ;
The volume looks especially closely at Ruskin's changing attitudes to Catholicism. The son of a stoutly Bible-Protestant mother and a father politically opposed to the civil emancipation of Catholics, Ruskin found it increasingly difficult to combine his inherited anti-Catholicism with his appreciation of Byzantine-Venetian, Renaissance-humanist, and Franciscan-evangelical art and the program for living these contained or implied. The rumors in late life of his immanent conversion to Rome proved unfounded, but they were not implausible. All Great Art is Praise seeks to show why ;
Every writer has that special place where he or she can write. Writers’ Retreats explores these quirky, private, and sometimes curious places, and unveils the stories associated with them — and the literature that was conceived and written in them. Each of the 50 writers’ retreats is shown in a specially commissioned sketch by leading UK artist and illustrator Robert Littleford. The accompanying entry, meanwhile, begins with a concise summary of the writer’s life and work. The text goes on to describe how the author came to find his or her “special place” and, where possible using the writer’s own words, talks about what made that place so perfect for thinking and creating. Author Neil Burkey has also painstakingly researched the writing methods of the writers he explores — most follow a set ritual before settling down to work, while others are more eccentric in what they require to get the creativity flowing… Some writers lie down to think — with a drink and cigarette to hand, like Truman Capote — or only write from midnight onward, sustained by black coffee, in the manner of Honoré de Balzac. Without these important spaces and determined working habits, no matter how eccentric, the world would perhaps never have been able to share and delight in the works of these celebrated writers.
Two travelling musicians attempt to come to terms with a nightmare scenario at home; restless teenagers run riot during lockdown, with drastic consequences; Albert Einstein’s reputation grows, as does his absence as a father; a cantankerous ninety-nine year old contributes to the chaos of a night ward....
Throughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here, in his first collection of writing, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music, life, and death. Through essays, short stories, and the occasional unfilmable film “mistreatment” that showcase the sheer range of his voice, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage. In the first section of the book, “Lies and Distortion,” Ribot turns his attention to his instrument—“my relation to the guitar is one of struggle; I’m constantly forcing it to be something else”—and reflects on his influences (and friends) like Robert Quine (The Voidoids) and producer Hal Willner (Saturday Night Live), while delivering an impassioned plea on behalf of artists’ rights. Elsewhere, we glimpse fragments of Ribot’s life as a traveling musician—he captures both the monotony of touring as well as small moments of beauty and despair on the road. In the heart of the collection, “Sorry, We’re Experiencing Technical Difficulties,” Ribot offers wickedly humorous short stories that synthesize the best elements of the Russian absurdist tradition with the imaginative heft of George Saunders. Taken together, these stories and essays cement Ribot’s position as one of the most dynamic and creative voices of our time.
