Since I can remember, my parents have recognized a snake father for me.But suddenly, one day, the father snake actually entangled me.I recognize you as my father, how can you be like this!

Derek's lifelong work is about to be sold to pornographers for a lot of money. His wife has left him, for that and other reasons, and he's having a hard time keeping existential focus. Into this maelstrom, flies a package from his mother that contains his father's account of his experiences in the European theater of World War II. As he reads about his father's war, while struggling with the business deal and its ramifications for his idea of himself, he begins to expand his understanding not only of who his father was and the character of his country, but also of the ebb and flow of the seemingly conscious force of war. All of which comes into focused during one terrifying night of the rape of a girl.

Frictions: An Anthology of Fiction by Women marks the distance Australian women have travelled as writers.

A Life Without Purpose After the assassination of King Sweyn and the execution of Askeladd,?Thorfinn lost the object of his vengeance, his sense of purpose, and?his freedom. Now a broken young man, he labors far from the battlefield,?clearing a forest for his slave master's farm alongside the amiable?Einar. But a sudden and brutal tragedy will shock Thorfinn out of his?apathy, and force him to answer the question, "Do I still want to live?" From the Hardcover edition.

Should she have known? After all, he was attractive, exciting, it was such a thrill. Was it all just too perfect? Did the others know? Could they smell the rot? See the evil beneath the glossy surface? What about the men? Aren't men supposed to be more aware than women when it comes to this sort of thing? Would you have known? Get caught up in the evil beneath the exciting world of San Francisco money, San Francisco society, religious cults, fraud, glamour, sleaze, and sex!

Tomilola had a life the rest envied. Prestigious schools, dotting parents and a tight circle of friends. She had her life figured out until him! Roman had been a puzzle she could not piece. Unexpected yet what she needed at the moment. With the past two men she had dated, Tomi had handled walking away delicately in a civil manner. With Roman, her life had taken a merry go ride to the point of destroying everything she stood off. He was off the books. Forbidden! Entracing and tantalizing. He was beautiful. An adonis. Getting pregnant at college for him, waging war against her family for the sake of the unborn life in her womb. Labelled a disappointment, she fought the odds and turned the tables around. Taking a stand yet again, she battled to re-align with her dreams a warrior.

When outlaw Suzy Spitfire flies to Venus in search of a vicious serial killer, she’s looking for the road to redemption—but instead, instead, she quickly becomes involved in a gang war, a revolution, and a desperate attempt to protect a young girl from a violent future. Join Suzy Spitfire and her friends for another wild ride through the solar system!

Starting with the death of his father and chronicling backwards, the author examines their relationship in order to understand his dad, not just as a father, but as a man.

Weak and sickly, I have a boyfriend, but he's been acting weird lately. I went to find the Goddess to heal my body and invited the Snake Immortal to protect me, but I didn't expect to discover my boyfriend's shocking secret!

He was an Ink Boa Python that had cultivated for close to ten thousand years.Waiting until after his ninth Heavenly Tribulation, he would be able to enter the immortal class.He didn't expect that the heavens would actually joke with him at this moment.A woman was thrown down from the sky?This woman was actually the fisherman who he hadn't been able to find for a long time?It looked like he wouldn't be able to reach the Immortal Realm if he didn't repay this kindness!Fine! Then he would grant her a life of wealth and prosperity, a life of 100 years!What? She doesn't want it?Was it his she wanted?