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THE MEMORY OF MARBLE is a collection of ten stories that examine the boundaries we create between passion and obsession. The people in the stories seek refuge from emotions by cocooning themselves in the worlds of books, pianos, art, and fingerprints. A dying man imagines he can smell the history of graveside monuments, a fresco restorer battles madness as his diseased skin appears on the paintings he loves, and a blind book collector's world ...

2015 SAN FRANCISCO BOOK FESTIVAL HONORABLE MENTION Amelia has broken up with Jasmine, the love of her life. She begins a new existence of having to adapt to a single life and is not coping well. To help her ease the pain, she has a string of one-night stands and indulges in drugs and self-mutilation. But her life gets quickly out of control, and before she knows it, she can no longer accept the churning emotions of separation. With her father ...

Sarah Arden is a forensic technician with a special talent and a medical abnormality. She can profile a person's passions from a fingerprint, yet due to disease has no classifiable fingerprints of her own. On a cold winter night, Sarah is called to Melbourne's Williamstown Beach where a young woman has been murdered. When Sarah attempts to print the girl, she notices that the fingerprints have been removed. Sarah not only identifies the girl b...

She was sitting there, at the end of the bar, the most beautiful girl John had ever seen. How could he resist talking to her, taking her home...falling in love. It was just supposed to be a one-night stand, just another girl to fill his lonely nights, but Lina was more than that - so much more. Love has no boundaries and even death cannot stop the inevitable. He will break all the rules, all moralities and all reasoning just to be with her. Hi...

Today is the day Danielle is going to find out her sister is a complete bitch." Danielle lives a quiet life until she arrives from work one day, and her young sister Sarah is wrapped around naked with Danielle's boyfriend on her couch. Straight out of rehab, Sarah wants to re-start her life but goes all the wrong way about it. Slowly she slides back into addiction and effects everyone around her. Danielle must choose to help Sarah or let her g...

In this small but comprehensive volume, Laurent Boulanger shares his wisdom of years of combined creative writing knowledge for the new novelist. He goes through the various aspects of setting yourself up as a novelist, including what genre to write in, career advice, traditional vs new publishing opportunities, not giving up, time management, and learning the craft.

This is an acerbic and often humorous memoir written from the point of view of a septuagenarian. Jennifer Dabbs reflects on the Good Old Days and wonders if they were better than today. Growing up without television, computers and mobile phones produces a different sort of sensibility. Or does it?In a candid style, Jennifer reflects on modern mutilation, bubble-wrapped babies, coddled kids, the National Service, men, and Germaine Greer. A fasc...

Brentwood, Los Angeles, 1995: Senator Trevor Garry is killed in the middle of night by an intruder. Young journalist Amanda Ryan is assigned to cover the case, but she is inexperienced and her drive gets her deeper into a world where lies rule and corruption is business as usual. When another politician is killed, Amanda is determined to find who is behind the murders. But as she gets closer to the truth, the killer turns his attention to the ...

Katie Mitchell is a well brought up Catholic girl in the dark ages of the nineteen fifties. Her father loves her very much. Her mother values piety and chastity above all.This is a brave and funny novel about falling rapturously in love and being condemned for it, about wakening sensibility and constraint, and about finding oneself growing up in spite of the voices that say 'no'.

In this follow-up to 'First Kill' (Tom Howard Honourable Mention for Best Mystery), Dr Kristina Melina is assigned to a case where a young girl has been killed and her body dumped by the side of well-know city lake. Back with her partner, Frank Moore, she tracks back the killing to the most unlikely suspect -- in a cat-and-mouse game, she must get to him before he gets to her.2015 WINNER HOLLYWOOD BOOK FESTIVAL - BEST SEQUEL

Dr Kristina Melina is a forensic consultant for the VFSC. On a hot night she finds herself at a crime scene where a man has been decapitated and his wife almost beaten to death. Clues indicate that the assault is the work of Walter Dunn, a close friend of the couple. But as Dr Melina and her partner Frank Moore track down the killer, someone gets to him before they do, and they now have a double homicide on their hands. Caught in a strange tri...

Patricia Lunn takes on a hopeless case after an old friend from her days in uniform asks her to dig into a supposedly wrong conviction of a serial rapist turned killer. But as she knocks at the doors of the city's most influential people, someone wants her dead before she finds out the truth. She uncovers a world filled with police corruption, racism, sexual debauchery and a killer who will do anything to protect his identity...including putti...

Crime-scene contractor Dr Kristina Melina is called to the homicide of a prostitute. The victim is her best friend from high school - the investigation becomes personal. She tries to track down the murder...before the murderer finds her. In a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, she gets too close to the truth and comes face-to-face with the killer for a final showdown.

Here's a delightful collection of fairy-tale short stories written by children for children. A sheep with two heads. A fish who wants to be an adventurer. An inseparable sheep and a fish. A sad moon who learns to accept life. An ugly fish with three eyes. A baking sheep. From the depth of the imagination of young readers who take their turn at storytelling with wonderful hand-drawn illustrations by Alain Boulanger.

Jarod is an average guy with an average job. But he has a problem: the shimmer. He sees what he shouldn't be seeing, and the offset of migraines that accompany the shimmer are destroying his life. He doesn't know what is wrong with him, but he intends to find out. Soon he will lose everything, his job, his girlfriend, his life. Or will he?

Nathan is convinced his partner Lucia is cheating on him, Lucia is having an affair with Lorenzo, a man half her age, Lorenzo is sleeping with his friend, Tom, Tom is kicked out of home and seduces Walter to get free shelter, Walter is no longer in love with Marilyn, Marilyn cannot accept rejection. Six interconnected people are interviewed about their most intimate secrets and opinions of love for a university research project. Everything is ...

WINNER - 2014 PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL BEST E-BOOKIn the cold winter of Strasbourg, a medieval town in the North-East of France, 11-year-old Clotilde is living a quiet existence with her frail father, a Catholic priest. To the world outside, she is an adopted child-in reality, she is the bastard child of a sinful relationship. In the loneliness of her existence, she daydreams of literature and hot summers in Provence. She self-destructs with wine, ...