Mother and daughter Anne Mayer Bird and Catherine Mayer were widowed within 41 days of each other on the eve of the pandemic, then locked down alone. Their isolation was broken just once a week, when Catherine visited Anne to care for her, at distance and in a mask. Together they...
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What do you do when you go to your boss's beach house for the weekend and find that your boss is already there ... but he's dead? You spend the weekend creating the illusion that he's alive, of course!
A comet hits earth killing everyone who was not protected by steel. Now it's up to two valley girl high school seniors to protect themselves from cannibals, zombies, and still look good for any survivors they come across.
What do you do when you go to your boss's beach house for the weekend and find that your boss is already there ... but he's dead? You spend the weekend creating the illusion that he's alive, of course!
" The stories of rock musicians who die young are the thing of lore and legend. Accidents, drug overdoses, plane crashes -- all have taken the lives of male rock stars still in their primes. But what became of their widowed brides? How did they survive a loss so great? What is it...
Miriam the vampire, subsists on the blood of her lovers, who do not age, until she has had enough of them. John is currently in that position, and is expected to die in the next 24 hours. He seeks help from a doctor who does not believe his story.
Six-year-old Andy is thrilled when he gets a brand-new cheery Chucky doll for his birthday. But he quickly discovers that Chucky is possessed by the soul of a notorious serial killer who swiftly begins terrorizing Andy, his ill-fated babysitter and his disbelieving mom. And he do...
He is one of the world's most fascinating and least understood figures: now sixty-six, Prince Charles has spent his entire life preparing to be king while insisting on being his own man. In this brilliant portrait, he emerges as a complex character driven by a painful past, a que...
He has lived his whole life in the public eye, yet he remains an enigma. He was born to be king, but he aims much higher. This book reveals Prince Charles in all his complexity: the passionate views that mean he will never be as remote and impartial as his mother; the compulsion ...
Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.
"Catherine Mayer and her mother Anne Mayer Bird were widowed at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is their story of supporting each other through whirling grief, 'sadmin' and the darkest of times, as they learn to embrace life again. Now updated with brand new chapters, Go...
Go into a mountain poor, come out rich. Rian Mitchell has spent years chasing a fortune and now in the Andes, he may have found a fabled emerald mine of the Conquistadors. He may also have found something more precious: the love of coffee plantation owner Catherine Knowland, if h...
In the late 1950s, experiments such as the cybernetic sculptures of Nicolas Schöffer or the programmatic music compositions of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis transposed systems theory from the sciences to the arts. By the 1960s, artists as diverse as Roy Ascott, Hans Haacke, Rober...
Now living in London, writer Catherine Tramell sets her lethal sights on Michael Glass, the control-freak psychiatrist assigned to evaluate her as a risk-addicted suspect in the "accidental" killing of a star soccer player. Turns out Catherine's just getting started (or is she?),...
Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.