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Girl, 20
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
Kingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and Girl, 20 is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. Amis’s antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer who bears more than a passing resemblance to Leonard Bernstein, is a pillar of the establishment whohas fallen hard for protest, bellbottoms, and the electric guitar. And since vain Sir Vandervane is a great success, he is also free to pursue his greatest failing: a taste for younger and younger women. Highborn hippie Sylvia (not, in fact, twenty) is his latest infatuation and a threat to his whole family, from his drama-queen wife, Kitty, to Penny, his long-suffering daughter.
All this is recounted by Douglas Yandell, a music critic with his own love problems, who finds that he too has a part in this story of botched artistry, bumbling celebrity, and scheming family, in a time that for all its high-minded talk is as low and dishonest as any other.
The Hawaiian Shirt
Stacy Kingsley
Horror / Thriller / Paranormal
Where were you when the zombies rose? At home with the wife and kid? At the store? Driving to work? She was at home. She was hoping to protect her family. She failed. Betrayed by those she loved, and innocent life is taken, and her family suffers. In the end who do you save when everyone you love has turned against you? Read about a minor character from the book ZOMBIES BITE!Hazel Haven is a small, tropical island in a world where humans and monsters live together. But for Heather, Hazel Haven is boring. Craving the life of an adventurer, she sets sail across the ocean, only for things to go from bad to worse. She is attacked by pirates, breaks her leg, and becomes stranded on a foreign island... and that's just in her first few days at sea! Clearly, she was a little too eager to leave home, but there's no turning back now.Of Pirates & Castaways is the first book in the Hazel Haven trilogy. The series is a labor of love that combines the quirky characters and over-the-top fights of Japanese anime with a Western sense of humor and pacing. Inspired by stories like One Piece and Ranma 1/2, this lighthearted tale of islands, monsters, pirates, and castaways is a fun read for all ages.
Dear Illusion: Collected Stories
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
When he published his first novel, Lucky Jim, in which his misbehaving hero wreaks havoc with the starchy protocols of academic life, Kingsley Amis emerged as a bad boy of British letters. Later he became famous as another kind of bad boy, an inveterate boozer, a red-faced scourge of political correctness. He was consistent throughout in being a committed enemy of any presumed “right thinking,” and it is this, no doubt, that made him one of the most consistently unconventional and exploratory writers of his day, a master of classical English prose who was at the same time altogether unafraid to apply himself to literary genres all too often dismissed by sophisticates as “low.” Science fiction, the spy story, the ghost story were all grist for Amis’s mill, and nowhere is the experimental spirit in which he worked, his will to test both reality and the reader’s imagination, more apparent than in his short stories. These “woodchips from [his] workshop”—here presented in a new selection—are anything but throwaway work. They are instead the essence of Amis, a brew that is as tonic as it is intoxicating.
Hereward, the Last of the English
Charles Kingsley
Christian / Children's / Historical Fiction
Hereward The Last of The English
Once Upon a Forbidden Desire: Fairy Tales and Other Stories
H. R. Moore , Zoey Ellis , Kathryn Ann Kingsley , A. J. Lancaster , C. M. Nascosta , Kristin Gleeson , L. Penelope , Colleen Cowley , Maria Vale , Lisette Marshall , Vela Roth , Erin Vere , Trish Heinrich , S. L. Prater , Elsie Winters , November Daw
When it comes to true love, rules are meant to be broken…
Dark forests and locked doors, poisoned apples and forbidden lovers . . . Bold heroines and swoon-worthy heroes break all the rules in this enchanting anthology of the fairy tales you thought you knew.
Once Upon A Forbidden Desire features 20 enticing fairy tale retellings by a diverse selection of fantasy romance authors. From sweet true love’s kisses to sizzling passion, from the streets of Seattle to enchanted forests, and from poor scullery maids to a winged Prince Charming . . .
If you enjoy spellbinding romance, enthralling new worlds, and stories with a taste of the forbidden, these happily ever afters will leave you spellbound. Give in to the temptation and grab your copy of Once Upon a Forbidden Desire now.
This limited edition anthology celebrates the variety of the fantasy romance genre. It contains stories ranging from sweet to steamy and is recommended for an adult audience.
Ending Up
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here
The title refers to how we spend our retirement years, often called "golden," though in Kingsley Amis' hands anything but.
At Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage a clutch of oldsters, brought together more by ill fortune than blood or love, struggles with problems that range from penury to prostate. That's the good news. The rest is Amis as usual, providing fun for himself and his readers at the expense of his characters.
Deep Winter
Part #1 of "Tears of Winter" series by Kingsley Khan
Change is the only constant, and not all change is good. Waking on his couch after a bright flash of light, with two suns hanging in the sky, Tristan Walker is in for a whole lot of change.
This is not a happy harem story.
-Warning- This book contains graphic depictions of adult scenes; the good, the bad, and the ugly. Profanity is used, and some content may be traumatizing or triggering. (18+)
The Water-Babies
Charles Kingsley
Christian / Children's / Historical Fiction
The Water-Babies is a classic Fairy Tale by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Created in 1862–63 and since then has become one of the best loved stories ever told. This is a high quality new print edition of a classic timeless tale.The Water-Babies is a classic Fairy Tale by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Created in 1862–63 and since then has become one of the best loved stories ever told. This is a high quality new print edition of a classic timeless tale.
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Journey Into the Past
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
A deep study of the uneasy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, published here for the first time in America, is a novella that was found among Zweig’s papers after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything - time, war, betrayal - can last, Zweig tells the story of Ludwig, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich employer. His love is returned, and the couple vow to live together, but then Ludwig is dispatched on business to Mexico, and while he is there the First World War breaks out. With travel and even communication across the Atlantic shut down, Ludwig makes a new life in the New World. Years later, however, he returns to Germany to find his beloved a widow and their mutual attraction as strong as ever. But is it possible for love to survive precisely as the impossible?
Dr Mathieson's Daughter
Part #2 of "Emergency Doctors" series by Maggie Kingsley
Bachelor father! Specialist Elliot Mathieson is known for being able to charm women with just a smile! But it looks as if he's going to have to say goodbye to his bachelor lifestyle for good, now that he's discovered he's a father. Elliot begs nurse Jane Halden to help him look after his little girl. And she can't refuse him, though perhaps she should. Because, unknown to Elliot, his good friend Jane has been in love with him for years! EMERGENCY DOCTORS Where passions run high and lives are on the line!
The Somber Shoe
Stacy Kingsley
Horror / Thriller / Paranormal
Find out what happened to Charlie from the book ZOMBIES ARE PEOPLE TOO!Charlie was Valerie's best friend, until something happened to separate them forever. He awoke to find himself in a busted car with only woods around him. His best friend, Valerie, was unconscious in the driver's seat. He needed help. What he found was chaos and death. Find out what happened to Charlie before Valerie was reunited with him. This may contain a spoiler to the book ZOMBIES ARE PEOPLE TOO!
Origins: Starburst
Harper Kingsley
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Contemporary
Teenage boy wanders into superbattle. Teenage boy gets killed. Then he gets back up again.The Origin mythos of the superhero Starburst.The Apocalypse – Doomsday – Armageddon. It had been called so many things, always an ever-present possibility in the back of mankind’s collective psyche. Our story begins in the far distant future; Erin Conyers suspended in animation for over 52 years, further out in space than any had ever been. Ten years prior to the catastrophe that changed the face of the planet forever, mankind had been forewarned by an unknown intelligence of an impending disaster. One of the relatively few to survive, these are her remembrances of those very dark days, when the world collapsed in a hail of nuclear destruction occurring on an unimaginable scale.
One Fat Englishman
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything, not least his own overgrown self. In America, Roger Micheldene must deal with not so obliging suburban housewives, aspiring Jewish novelists who as good as clean his clock, stray deer, bad cigars, children who beat him at Scrabble (“It was no wonder that people were horrible when they started life as children”), and America itself, while making ever-more desperate and humiliating overtures to Helen, a Scandinavian ice queen. If only Roger would dare to show some real feeling of his own. This comic masterpiece—about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspring—is one of Kingsley Amis’s greatest and most caustic performances.
Difficulties With Girls
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think. It is not long before they realize their respectability will be severely tested by seductive neighbours with a taste for whisky, the sexually confused Ted Valentine, and the literary set of Hampstead.In this funny and provocative study of a young couple growing up, Amis shows us that the difficulty with marriage is that it's so hard to preserve, especially when Patrick and Jenny harbour deep yearnings for a different kind of life.Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such...
War of the Reapers
Mariah Kingsley
Death came easy for Piper. Living forever is the hard part. Just days ago she was killed and her killer walks free, and there is nothing she can do about it. Or so they keep telling her. Callum just wants his old life back, it seems that since his father came back nothing but chaos has been in his life. The only bright side is Piper. Saving her life was the best gift eternity could ever give him, but it came with a price. War. Anubis is doing all he can to reconnect with his son, but sixteen years of absence is too much between them. And it seems nothing will bring them together. They say a house divided can't stand, and with a war eminent division is the last thing they need. With War on the horizon will this family fall, or stand strong? In War of the Reapers.
Ritual Woman
Ugochukwu Kingsley Ani
Fiction / Thriller / Contemporary
Fidelia was happily married, with one child, but her life was about to turn into a nightmare, for her only child had gone missing from school. In the ensuing quest for the girl, she is to realize that the ideal life she had been living was nothing more than a sham; that the wealth she had come to enjoy had been hinged on ritual murders, the likes of which she had never heard of before. She was theFidelia was happily married, with one child, but her life was about to turn into a nightmare, for her only child had gone missing from school. In the ensuing quest for the girl, she is to realize that the ideal life she had been living was nothing more than a sham; that the wealth she had come to enjoy had been hinged on ritual murders, the likes of which she had never heard of before. She was the chosen blood for the ritual goddess. And now, her only child was the ultimate blood sacrifice for the altar.She would have to battle to save, not only herself, but also her daughter, from the greatest evil they had ever encountered.
The Alteration
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice. In the audience is a select group of experts whose job is to determine whether that faultless voice should be preserved by performing a certain operation. Art, after all, is worth any sacrifice.
How Hubert realizes what lies in store for him and how he deals with the whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion that he soon finds himself in are the subject of a classic piece of counterfactual fiction equal to Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle.
The Alteration won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel in 1976.
The Green Man
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
A ghost story for adults. Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. All the while, the skeletons in the cupboard of Allington's own domestic affairs rattle to get out too.
Everly Dalton's Dating Disasters
Claire Kingsley
Dating can be tricky, but how hard can it be to find the right guy? Or even just a normal guy?For Everly Dalton, it's a bit like trying to walk in stilettos—while drunk, blindfolded, and wearing the wrong size shoes. She hasn't exactly been lucky in love. In fact, she just might be cursed.A guy who only dates lookalikes of his ex? Pass. An alpha-male businessman who bolts in a moment of crisis? No thanks. A date that turns into the creepiest interview in the history of ever? Where does she find these guys?Join Everly as she dishes to her friends about the surprising, unpredictable, and sometimes crazy adventure that is modern dating. Will she keep matching with frogs or find her Prince Charming?Everly Dalton's Dating Disasters originally appeared as six serial episodes in Claire Kingsley's newsletter. The complete series is available here in one volume. Each episode is an account of one of Everly's (typically terrible) dates. This series of short...
I Like It Here
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
Garnet Bowen is a literary gent from Wales, author of one obscure book,
disconsolate husband, father and son-in-law. When he gets an offer that
requires travel to Portugal, he figures it can't be worse than London.
But it is."Kingsley Amis strikes again. Not only is he
funny--and he is very funny, as anyone who has read LUCKY JIM knows--his
very absurdities are profound." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
Ravenshoe
Henry Kingsley
Fiction
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Trapped in Room 217
Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Jayla Walters isn't sure what to expect when her father's job uproots her and her brother, Dion, to Estes Park, Colorado. But right away, something doesn't seem right with their hotel. Jayla soon discovers that their home for the week, Room 217 of the Stanley Hotel, is the most haunted place in all of Colorado. Barely asleep the first night, Jayla watches a ghostly woman walk toward her bed. And the ghost visits her room every night. What does the ghost want? And what happens when Jayla and Dion get in her way? Every state has its own spine-tingling stories of ghosts and mysterious hauntings grounded in its regional history. The Haunted States of America series uses real-life ghost lore as jumping off points to new, chilling tales. But beware: sometimes real life is stranger than fiction.
Take a Girl Like You
Kingsley Amis
Fiction / Humor and Comedy / Memoir
In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. It is a story about 'the squalid business of the man and the woman' and 'the most wonderful thing that had ever happened' to Jenny Bunn.Few twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other...
Allison Kingsley - Raven's Nest Bookstore 04 - Extra Sensory Deception
Part #4 of "Raven's Nest Bookstore Mysteries" series by Allison Kingsley
Mystery / Cozy Mystery
You don’t have to be a psychic to know the rodeo is coming to town! Clara’s boyfriend, Rick Sanders, invites her to the show to meet his high school buddy and expert calf roper, Wes Carlton. But when Clara’s Quinn Sense offers her a disturbing vision involving a rodeo clown, she worries that there will be more danger at the rodeo than just the traditional bucking bronco.Of course, her premonition turns out to be accurate, and a dead body is discovered behind the concert stage, strangled by Wes’ piggin’ string. Rick is sure that there’s no way Wes could have murdered anyone, but he’s going to need Clara’s Quinn Sense to keep the authorities from roping the wrong suspect.
Jewel of the Galaxy
Thomas Kingsley Troupe
This is it. The mission to end all missions. Judy is finally fixed, and she is ready to take the rest of the Star Belchers on the biggest adventure of their lives! Following a treasure map, the crew travels to both new and familiar places. But the treasure waiting for them might not be what they had in mind.
The Sham City of Atlantis
Thomas Kingsley Troupe
A young boy investigates an online claim about the lost city of Atlantis in this installment of the Cyber Sleuths chapter book series. Nick Pendleton's favorite online star, Griff Willis, is lighting up the internet. In a series of social media posts, the star claims to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis! Has the star actually located one of the world's greatest mysteries, or are his claims another epic myth? Follow along as Nick enlists the help of other mystery-solving kids—the Cyber Sleuths—to uncover the whole truth. Created in partnership with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), this action-packed chapter book is perfect for young readers and demonstrates valuable media literacy skills. Books in This Series:The Lip-Sync ScandalThe Sasquatch SuspectThe Sham City of AtlantisThe Super Berries Scam
The Unseelie Wish
Part #2 of "Deal of Shadows" series by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Step into the enchanting realm of the fae, where wishes weave a perilous dance with desire.
In a world where fae magic thrives and wishes hold unimaginable power, Alex faces a choice. The rules are set by Izael, the beguiling Unseelie Duke, who presents her with a simple gamesurrender her soul with a wish within seven days or prove her indifference and gain freedom from his enchanting clutches.
As the sands of time slip away, the stakes skyrocket. The sinister Unseelie King, Valroy, emerges with nefarious intentions, seeking to exploit Alex's wish to unravel the very treaty that safeguards Earth from the dark forces of the Unseelie fae. To make matters worse, newfound magical abilities transform Alex into a potential weaponone capable of unleashing chaos upon Earth and Tir nAill.
With each passing moment, Izael's allure tightens its grip, drawing Alex into a web of temptation. His teal eyes flicker with an otherworldly flame, beckoning her to succumb to desires that pulse beneath the surface. But can she bear the cost of surrendering to the intoxicating charms of the snake?
In this gripping fantasy romance, Alex must navigate a treacherous path between love and duty, as the clock ticks relentlessly towards an inevitable, heart-wrenching choice.
From USA Today bestseller Kathryn Ann Kingsley, this steamy conclusion of the Deal of Shadows series is a sizzling tale of love, power, and deceit, perfect for fans of dark fantasy and fae romance. Follow Izael and Alex as they navigate the treacherous world of Tir n'Aill, where the only thing that's certain is that nothing is ever as it seems.
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Charles Kingsley
Christian / Children's / Historical Fiction
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children\'s novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan\'s Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin\'s The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children\'s literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in part due to its prejudices (common at the time) against Irish, Jews, Americans, and the poor
