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Misfortunes' Windfall
John Jeng
Fiction / Contemporary / Ebooks
Tabitha teaches English in Japan. Or she did, but after losing her job on Christmas Eve, insecurity overcomes her. Just as nothing is going well in her life, Tabitha meets a dubious girl at a Shinto shrine. Her advice can change Tabitha’s life but only if she has the courage to take it.At thirty, Tabitha is a self-defined failure. Japan was supposed to be the chance for her to reinvent herself, but her insecurities continue to plague her. Recently fired from her teaching job and facing an uncertain future, Tabitha makes a wish at an Inari shrine.The encounter with an eccentric shrine maiden keeps Tabitha on her toes. Then a mysterious man transports her to a hidden village in Nagano. As she grows aware of the supernatural forces surrounding her life, she realizes that the opposite of accepting fate is choosing it.
The Misfortunes of Family
Meg Little Reilly
WHAT BRINGS A FAMILY TOGETHER CAN ALSO TEAR IT APARTThe Bright family is the picture of perfection—attractive, competitive and a bit badly behaved. As the four adult sons of retired senator John Bright head with their partners to the annual family reunion, they have everything they need, except self-awareness. This year the senator has agreed to let a producer document the reunion at the lake house. Of course, they let their guard down.As petty jealousies surface, Philip, the youngest, reveals a surprising personal decision that earns the ribbing—or is it scorn?—of his brothers, JJ, Spencer and Charlie. Then the senator unexpectedly announces his desire for another political run. Not everyone is on board, especially matriarch Patty, who is keenly aware of the toll it will take on their private lives. Suddenly closely held family secrets start tumbling out and keep coming, including the biggest one that will rock this family to the core.
Fae MisFortunes
T K Eldridge
It's their first case. Sid & Sin are tasked to find the missing kids. Then they hear that this has happened before. To one of their family. 140 years ago. Kids with a fae bloodline are being taken, and one may be Sin's future son. How is a guy supposed to plan his future with the perfect woman when her son is missing? The twins are racing the clock to keep the past from imploding the present in this tale of old hatreds, jealousy, power, love, and the strength of family. This is the second book in the Sid & Sin Series, a five-star, fast-paced ride from the author that reviewers say "...makes you believe in magic". Get it now!
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Fiction / Politics / Nonfiction
"My true name is so well known in the records or registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work; perhaps, after my death, it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, nor not though a general pardon should be issued, even without exceptions and reserve of persons or crimes. It is enough to tell you, that as some of my worst comrades, who are out of the way of doing me harm (having gone out of the world by the steps and the string, as I often expected to go), knew me by the name of Moll Flanders, so you may give me leave to speak of myself under that name till I dare own who I have been, as well as who I am." This book has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication.
On the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Art in Post-War Germany
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an unconventional book
appeared in Germany which ignited a firestorm of cultural debate.
Decried by many as the work of a dangerous mind, it was defended by
the more discerning as an intrepid appraisal of the illness of our
times. But despite all its defenders, both the book and its creator
were cast into the shadows of unofficial censorship.
Here for the first time is the full English translation of this
controversial and eminently important work of cultural criticism by
groundbreaking film director Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. Syberberg, whose
films include the radically innovative Requiem for a Virgin
King and the monumental Hitler: A Film from Germany,
turns his uncompromising creative vision to the poverty and paralysis
besetting contemporary European culture.
Broad in its knowledge, deep in its passion, relentlessly keen in
its insight, Syberberg’s On the Fortunes and Misfortunes of
Art in Post-War Germany is one of the most
profound meditations on the culture, society
and politics of modern Germany and the West.
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes
Eric LaRocca
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones. Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novella.A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s—a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son’s death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm…And a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his back yard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game.Three devastating, beautifully written horror stories from one of the genre’s most cutting-edge...
The Misfortunes of Others
Gloria Dank
While Maya suffers through morning sickness and Bernard paints the nursery a chocolate brown, Snooky becomes involved in a romance and mischief."You're pregnant, aren't you?" Maya Woodruff's peripatetic brother Snooky, calling collect from the French Antilles, makes this psychic diagnosis and instantly flies to Connecticut to offer a stuffed platypus, good cheer and gourmet cooking for the last seven months of his sister's ordeal. Her devoted, grumpy bear of a husband, Bernard, suffering his own labor pains from trying to deliver his latest children's book, is torn between his habitual hatred of all guests and his happy deliverance from the kitchen. (His coq au beer was not well received.) The misery of Maya's pregnancy, which makes the gestation of Rosemary's Baby look like a piece of cake, is compounded when her old friend Weezy becomes the target of an anonymous hate campaign by phone and mail. But Snooky takes charge with his usual...




