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The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires
Part #1 of "Half Moon Hollow" series by Molly Harper
Humor / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers
Iris Scanlon, Half-Moon Hollow’s only daytime vampire concierge, knows more about the undead than she’d like. Running all their daylight errands—from letting in the plumber to picking up some chilled O neg—gives her a look at the not-so-glamorous side of vampire life. Her rules are strict; relationships with vamps are strictly business, not friendship—and certainly not anything else. But then she finds her newest client, Cal, poisoned on his kitchen floor, and only Iris can help. Cal - who would be devastatingly sexy, if Iris allowed herself to think that way - offers Iris a hefty fee for hiding him at her place until he figures out who wants him permanently dead. Even though he’s imperious, unfriendly and doesn't seem to understand the difference between "employee" and "servant," Iris agrees, and finds herself breaking more and more of her own rules to help him - particularly those concerning nudity. Turns out what her quiet little life needed was some intrigue & romance—in the form of her very own stray vampire.
Stray Woods
Shaun Tennant
Horror / Paranormal / Vampires
While on the run from the law, Josh Farewell decides to visit a park he remembers fondly from childhood. However, things have changed over the years, dead bodies are turning up, and Stray Woods Park is now home to something sinister. Something that won't let Farewell leave alive.A "Farewell Reality" short story.A collection of seasonal stories, poems and greetings on the subject of Christmas, written by members of the Coventry Writers' Group. Writers include well known authors such as Ann Evans, Rosalie Warren, Michael Boxwell and Martin Brown, along with a number of new up-and-coming writers.Many of the stories and poems are light-hearted, others more thoughtful. All of them delight and inspire, making Christmas Tales a wonderful book to dip into and enjoy.
Stray Dogs
Rawi Hage
From the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receives haunting news from the Persian Gulf. And in Berlin, a Lebanese writer forms a fragile, fateful bond with his voluble German neighbours.The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states—nation-states and states of mind—seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the...
Stray Cat Strut 5
Ravensdagger
Cyborg samurai Cat LeBlanc takes charge when aliens overrun a city—only to discover humans may be the greater threat—in this cyberpunk adventure. A small city mostly populated by well-to-do retirees, Burlington, Vermont, is now home to the Antithesis. The alien flora has taken root underground and throughout the surrounding woodlands, giving birth to monstrous beings driven by instinct to consume Earth's own living creatures. With only three rookie samurai to protect them and resources dwindling fast, the people of Burlington are facing extinction. Cat LeBlanc's success against the Antithesis in the megacity of New Montreal has raised her profile amongst the samurai. And despite her antiauthoritarian attitude and appetite for destruction in combat, she's been assigned to assume command of Burlington's defenses. Against her better judgment—and though it means taking time away from her girlfriend, Lucy, and their adopted gang of children, "the kittens"—Cat...
The Stray and the Strangers
Steven Heighton
The fishermen on Lesvos call her Kanella because of her cinnamon color. She's a scrawny, nervous stray — easily intimidated by the harbor cats and the other dogs that compete for handouts on the pier.One spring day a dinghy filled with weary, desperate strangers comes to shore. Other boats follow, laden with refugees who are homeless and hungry. Kanella knows what that is like, and she follows them as they are taken to a makeshift refugee camp in the parking lot of an abandoned nightclub. There she comes to trust a bearded man — an aid worker. She gradually settles into a contented routine, given shelter like the other refugees who line up for food and sleep on the ground for a few nights before being taken to a much bigger, permanent camp that the aid workers call Mordor.Kanella grows healthy and confident. She has a job now — to keep watch over the people in her camp.One day, a little boy arrives and does not leave like the others. He seems...
Stray Dogs: And Other Stories
Rawi Hage
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories.
In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receives haunting news from the Persian Gulf. And in Berlin, a Lebanese writer forms a fragile, fateful bond with his voluble German neighbours.
The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states—nation-states and states of mind—seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing and often random ways our fragile modern identities are constructed, destroyed, and reborn. Politically astute, philosophically wise, humane, relevant and caustically funny, these stories reveal the singular vision of award-winning writer Rawi Hage at his best.
Wish Upon a Stray
Yamile Saied Méndez
A heartwarming and authentic immigration story about a stray dog, the power of music, and celebrating old traditions along with new beginnings, by Pura Belpré Award-winning author Yamile Saied Méndez.María Emilia's life turns upside-down when she and her family immigrate from Argentina to the US. How can she make new friends when simply speaking English all day is exhausting?Luckily, she has the company of a stray dog in the neighborhood, who happens to look and act just like her beloved pet cat back home. Eventually, it turns out the pup isn't a stray after all — she belongs to María Emilia's new neighbor, Donovan. In order to spend more time with the dog (who totally isn't her reincarnated cat... right?), she agrees to sing in Donovan's band. But can Emilia find her new voice without losing herself?
Stray
Rachel Vincent
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Young Adult
There are only eight breeding female werecats left...
And I'm one of them.
I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.
Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.
I'd been warned about Strays — werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female, and fertile. I fought him off, but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared.
This brush with danger was all my Pride needed to summon me back... for my own protection. Yeah, right. But I'm no meek kitty. I'll take on whatever — and whoever — I have to in order to find my friends. Watch out, Strays — 'cause I got claws, and I'm not afraid to use them...
Stray Cat Strut 2
Ravensdagger
A young warrior discovers her true potential as a cybernetic samurai battling conspiracies and aliens in this original, action-packed cyberpunk series. There's always a need for heroes in the city of New Montreal. So when a young girl is kidnapped by business-backed mercenaries, Catherine "Cat" LeBlanc—who's been a cyber-samurai for little more than a day—teams up with pyrotechnic nun-samurai Gomorrah to determine why a corporation would target a child . . . and what exactly they did to her. Having only recently ascended from your average nobody to what many would consider the pinnacle of humanity, the inexperienced Cat is overwhelmed, to say the least. She's worried about how her girlfriend, Lucy, will react to the changes, and wonders whether she can use her newfound power and growing influence to care for her "kittens," a group of orphans in her charge. Meanwhile, as if black-ops assassins and their corporate masters weren't dangerous enough, the alien...
The Stray
Part #0 of "The Memory Trader" series by Angeline Trevena
Horror / Fantasy / Science Fiction
Stray
Stephanie Danler
From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy.When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots of her inability to feel were deep in her childhood. With some hope of finally facing down her past—of looking clearly at her parents and what she did and did not inherit from them—she returned to California after a decade away, a decade in which she'd honed the practice of apathy. Stray is an account of that remarkable emotional journey. We meet her mother: a depressed alcoholic, now mentally and physically handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm and living in squalor; and her father: once...
Stray Cat Strut 4
Ravensdagger
When an alien invasion threatens everyone she loves, cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc must upgrade her warrior skills, in this thrilling cyberpunk tale. The megacity of New Montreal has become ground zero for the Antithesis. Having burrowed deep beneath every continent on Earth, the aliens have emerged in massive waves, destroying all sentient creatures in their path. All that's standing in their way is the elite vanguard of cyber-samurai determined to stop humanity's extinction at all costs. Catherine "Cat" LeBlanc has only been a samurai for a week, tackling trials by fire as they erupt with guts, grit, and a lot of explosives. As a warrior-still-in-training, her unorthodox and spontaneous fighting style has saved many lives. Now, with New Montreal recruiting soldiers for war, Cat will be on the frontlines with fellow samurai like pyrotechnic nun Gomorrah; buggy, trigger-happy Grasshopper; and goth public relations specialist Emoscythe Mordeath Noir. Despite her prowess...
The Stray - A Samantha Short Story
Daisy Griffin
Children's Books / Ebooks / Science
Samantha hears about the bombings at the Boston Marathon and struggles to deal with the tragedy. Meanwhile, she faces a crisis of her own when she sees a stray dog hit by a car. A short, non-illustrated story, for my readers who may be struggling with the tragic news.We follow Gus Bovington through a typical 24 hours in his work life, and watch as he issues directives to subtly brainwash his fellow citizens.No adult-only content.
Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam
Part #1 of "Bungo Stray Dogs" series by Kafka Asagiri
Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is going just as he's planned...until one day, he's paired up with the agency's newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated -- and it looks like the detective agency's sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too!
Set two years before the events of the manga series, this is the tale of how two seemingly incompatible personalities end up forming the partnership that has made them one of Yokohama's top detective duos!
Stray
Bernard Farai Matambo
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Zimbabwean writer Bernard Farai Matambo's poems in Stray favor a prose-shaped line as they uncover the contradictory impulses in search of emotional and intellectual truth. Stray not only captures the essence of identity but also eloquently articulates the pain of displacement and speaks to the vulnerability of Africans who have left their native continent. This collection delicately examines the theme of migration—migration in a literal, geographic sense; migration of language from one lexicon to another; migration of a poem toward prose—and the instability of the creative experience in the broader sense.
The Stray Spirit
R. K. Ashwick
An anxious bard with a talking lute—what could go wrong?Struggling bard Emry Karic has only one path home: impress the Auric Guild, join the ranks of the elite musicians therein, and return to his family with his honor in hand.Just before the biggest performance of Emry's life, a talkative forest spirit named Aspen traps themself in his lute. Emry swears the spirit to silence on stage, in exchange for a favor—he will help Aspen investigate the magical earthquake that forced them into the instrument.But Emry is a bard, not a scholar, and their research leads them straight to the person who resents him the most: Cal Breslin, his academia-entrenched ex-girlfriend. As they delve into the forgotten mythology of spirits and gods, they uncover a much greater threat looming beneath the surface—one that throws his family's ultimatum into conflict with their very survival.The Stray Spirit is a low-fantasy novel with a riff...
Stray Cat Strut 3
Ravensdagger
A wave of kidnappings leads cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc deep into the labyrinthine tunnels beneath the city in this action-packed cyberpunk adventure. In the megacity of New Montreal, those with wealth and power live in towers high above the teeming masses struggling to get by day after day. When the poor and destitute vanish, the police can't be bothered to spend time and resources investigating. But Franny, a nun who isn't afraid to practice what her religion preaches, sets out to find the missing by confronting street gangs with nothing but a baseball bat . . . and a lot of pent-up frustration. Afraid for Franny's safety, pyrotechnic nun-samurai Gomorrah recruits Catherine "Cat" LeBlanc to protect her zealous friend and get to the bottom of the mysterious mass disappearances. And get to the bottom is exactly what Cat must do when she discovers the gang known as the Sewer Dragons has been abducting people into their underworld. Within the cavernous channels...
The Stray Cats of Homs
Eva Nour
'This is a searing and incredibly important book, storytelling at its best' Donal Ryan'A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise I don't know how you've made it this far.'Sami's childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of family and school, of friends and relations and pets (including stray cats and dogs, and the turtle he keeps on the roof). But growing up in one of the largest cities in Syria, with his country at war with itself, means that nothing is really normal. And Sami's hopes for a better future are ripped away when he is conscripted into the military and forced to train as a map maker. Sami may be shielded from the worst horrors of the war, but it will still be impossible to avoid his own nightmare... Inspired by extraordinary true events, The Stray Cats of Homs is the story of a young man who will do...
Stray
Evan Fuller
In this sequel to the dystopian novel Mutt, Emery and Green work together to locate a shipment of medicine being smuggled from the black market inside the walled city of Rittenhouse to the crime lords outside it.In the depths of winter, Emery is digging. Two months after the conclusion of Mutt, he is building an underground highway into the walled city of Rittenhouse to smuggle food and medicine to those living in the wasteland outside. When the gateman Green comes to him with news of a secret shipment and plans to intercept it, Emery sees a chance at redemption for his past failings. But as the search pulls him into a broadening web of conspiracy, his closest friends worry he is in too deep, determined find the shipment--or lose everything.
A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Ann M. Martin
Children's Books / Young Adult
Newbery Honor author Ann Martin's "heartwrenching and heartwarming" (Kirkus) dog story, now in paperback, with After Words bonus material.
Squirrel and her brother Bone begin their lives in a toolshed behind someone's summer house. Their mother nurtures them and teaches them the many skills they will need to survive as stray dogs. But when their mother is taken from them suddenly and too soon, the puppies are forced to make their own way in the world, facing humans both gentle and brutal, busy highways, other animals, and the changing seasons. When Bone and Squirrel become separated, Squirrel must fend for herself, and in the process makes two friends who in very different ways define her fate.
My Stray Cat
Shelley Munro
A stray cat struts into a bar...I met a male lion shifter in the pub last night. Not that my father would approve since it reinforces my gay status, but Lucas Huntingdon is incredible. Tall. Golden. Sexy. Our gazes met and we clicked. The evening turned into night. The sex was hot. Intense. Real magic that doesn't happen every day. Hell, it electrified me. By the time the night was over I craved more…I hungered for a future because it's no fun living alone like a stray cat. I'm just like every Middlemarch shifter, gay or not. All I want is love.Note: Readers first met Saul Sinclair in My Scarlet Woman. He made an appearance in My Estranged Lover, and now he gets his own story in My Stray Cat.
Stray Witch
Part #1 of "The Vampires of Emberbury" series by Eva Alton
Magic, love and a secret vampire nest beneath a graveyard.Alba is running away from a bad marriage and is about to lose everything. The good part? She's a witch. The bad one? She doesn't know it. But the vampires of Emberbury are about to turn her whole world upside down.And Alba is about to find out that, sometimes, the scariest monster isn't the one with fangs...A story about a lost witch recovering her self-esteem, a seemingly cheerful vampire with a tortured past, and finding love in the most unexpected of places.Stray Witch is a Vampire and Witch Urban Fantasy and Romance novel for lovers of magic and paranormal women's fiction.What are readers saying about Stray Witch, book one of The Vampires of Emberbury series?"The story was very engrossing… really hard to put down.""Great pacing, teasing and I loved the humorous bantering between the main characters."The Vampires of Emberbury is a Paranormal Vampire Romance & Fantasy Series with an adult female protagonist.Other titles in this series:Stray Witch (Book 1)Witch's Mirror (Book 2)The Vampire's Assistant (Prequel)
Stray Bats
Margo Lanagan
Short Stories / Young Adult
Dachshund droids, mad crones, shapeshifting children, a plethora of witches, dragonstalkers, familiars, slithering eels and, of course, bats, flit and fly through these pages, aided and abetted by Kathleen Jennings's deft and inspired pencil drawings. Stray Bats is a glorious miscellany of vignettes based on poems by Australian women. While some of the pieces hie close to the originals in form and theme, some stray far, far from them even as Lanagan delights in playing with language, rhyme, and rhythm. This could be the perfect gift for that slightly otherworldly person in your life—or for yourself, when you need a moment of magic, a dip into darkness, a spark of light. For the reader who would like to explore further, there are a list of poems that inspired the author and notes on where those poems might be found.
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Stray Hearts
Jane Graves
When Kay Ramsey catches her fiancé cheating on her, she takes revenge on him in a most creative way. She's shocked when he sues her, and even more shocked when he actually wins. Then he tells her he’ll forget the money she owes him—if she’ll perform a hundred hours of community service at a local animal shelter. Battling an empty bank account and a childhood fear of animals, she can't imagine a worse sentence—until she meets the sexy veterinarian in charge, Dr. Matt Forester.Matt’s animal shelter is operating in the red and in danger of shutting down, and only with a grant arranged by Kay’s ex-fiancé will he be able to keep the doors open. His marching orders? Make Kay suffer. Soon, though, Matt realizes Kay isn’t the terrible person she’s supposed to be, and he finds himself attracted to her more every day. But with the fate of his shelter hanging in the balance, how can he even think of falling in love?
Stray Love
Kyo Maclear
Born of an adulterous affair in London, England, Marcel is ethnically ambiguous, growing up in the racially charged 1960s with a white surrogate father named Oliver. Abandoned as an infant, Marcel is haunted by vague memories of his bohemian mother, and is desperate to know who his real parents are.When Oliver is promoted to foreign correspondent, he leaves Marcel in the care of his ill-equipped friends, including the beautiful Pippa. The world is being swept by a wave of liberation— coups, revolutions and the end of colonialism. While Oliver rushes toward the action, Marcel is set adrift in swinging London, a city of magic— and a city where he can never quite fit in. Just when it seems they will never be reunited, Marcel is sent to join Oliver in Vietnam. But by the summer of 1963, the war is escalating, and Oliver is finally overwhelmed by his doomed love for Pippa. When Marcel eventually uncovers the shattering truth about his mother, his entire world is rearranged.Now, as his fiftieth birthday approaches, Marcel is asked to take care of his friend’ s eleven-year-old daughter, Iris. Prodded by her sharp-eyed company, he reflects on his own bittersweet childhood and the experiences that have shaped his present. Stray Love is beautifully illustrated with original drawings by noted Toronto artist/filmmaker Heather Frise.
Island Hearts (Jenny's Turn and Stray Lady)
Vanessa Grant
Romance / Contemporary / Suspense
… Jenny and Georginatwo classic Vanessa Grant romances
JENNY’S TURN
Life with Jake was fascinating!
His energy, arrogance and talent made working with him an exciting experience. For years Jenny had managed to keep her growing feelings for him under control.
Sometimes he looked at her as if he wanted her; but then he wanted so many women, didn't he? She wasn't about to become one of the gang. Loving, Jenny had learned early in life, only brought pain, and she knew the only way to get over Jake was to leave Vancouver and get out of his life. So she ran – but not far enough!
STRAY LADY
One minute George was sailing single-handed down Canada's west coast, willing the salt breezes to show her how to go on living without her husband. The next she was being pulled from the waves by lighthouse keeper Lyle Stevens and drawn into a magic existence with him and his daughter.
Lyle offered George love and the home she'd never known – but did she have the courage to gamble on love again?
Stray Magic
Kelly Meding
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Romance / Horror
Shiloh Harrison was hoping for a few days off to recover from a particularly nasty assignment, preferably with the help of the talented hands (and, well, the rest of his body too) of her sexy boyfriend, Vincent. But when a group of vampires takes an entire trailer park hostage, there's nothing to do but make her apologies and get to the scene.Such is the life of a Federal Marshal in the Paranormal Investigators Unit.Yet this isn't like her typical track-and-nab case: something is going on that has vampires scared, and it takes all her strength not to imagine what could frighten such powerful creatures. Unfortunately, she doesn't have that option. Her boss is MIA, someone is snatching vampires, and there's a ticking clock that can only end one way: a bloodbath.Unless she can stop it.The first book in a new series, Stray Magic is a dark and sexy mystery, with enough twists and curves to keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
Lady in the Stray
Maggie MacKeever
Vashti Beaufils, beautiful French émigrée, inherited her cousin Marmaduke’s mansion—but she’d never even met Marmaduke. Discoveries rapidly followed: her notorious cousin Valérie had impersonated her when she had an affair with Marmaduke, and the mansion was being used as a gambling establishment. And Lord Stirling though Vashti was up to no good! Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Coventry
Ginger the Stray Kitten
Holly Webb
Rosie loves going to her local farm to play with the stray cats. When the farm is sold off, though, she searches desperately for her favourite kitten, Ginger. From best-selling author Holly Webb.
Stray City
Chelsey Johnson
"I tore through this novel like an orphaned reader seeking a home in its ragtag yet shimmering world." — Carrie Brownstein"Our '90s nostalgia is hella high these days, and this tender, funny story made our aging hipster hearts sing." — Marie ClaireA warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging—to a city, a culture, and a family—when none of them can quite contain who you really are.All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . .Twenty-three-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood—and the closet—to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. But one drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a friend's betrayal, she recklessly crosses enemy lines and hooks up with a...
Stray Horse
Bonnie Bryant
Children's
Something's wrong at home and Lisa feels powerless every time her parents get angry at her or at each other. When CARL, the County Animal Rescue League, puts out an SOS for volunteers, Lisa knows she's found a place where she'll be appreciated. Before long, a stray horse named P.J. steals her heart. But just as things seem to be getting better, Lisa's parents deliver some news that will change her life forever.Stunned and upset, Lisa pulls away from everyone--even her friends--and devotes herself to caring for P.J. Stevie and Carole know that The Saddle Club can pull through anything, as long as they're together. But how can they help Lisa if she keeps shying away? When a fiery and famous show jumping team arrives at Pine Hollow and begins stirring up trouble, Carole and Stevie have to convince Lisa that they need her help--fast.
Stray
A. N. Wilson
Fiction / Nonfiction
Pufftail the tabby cat was a prince among strays. He was charming, adventurous, a gentleman of the road - not for him a life purring around the shins of a Two Footer. Now that he's old and grey-whiskered, he can laze in the sun, telling the story of his life to his admiring young grandkitten.Not all his memories are happy though. He's been thrown out of a moving car, been experimented on in a science lab and joined the violent Cat Brotherhood. Some Two Footers have been kind to him, but he'd rather be free. And he can't understand humans at all. Why do they live in giant cages? Why do they put smoking chimneys in their mouths? And why do they want their own animals?Clever, moving, imaginative and funny, this is both a wonderful adventure story, and a sly look at humans through the eyes of a cat.
A Stray Drop of Blood
White, Roseanna M.
Beautiful is a dangerous thing to be when one is unprotected.For seven
years, Abigail has been a slave in the Visibullis house. With a Hebrew
mistress and a Roman master, she has always been more family than
servant . . . until their son returns to Jerusalem after his years in
Rome. Within a few months Jason has taken her to his bed and turned her
world upsidedown. Maybe, given time, she can come to love him as he says
he loves her. But how does she open her heart to the man who ruined
her?Israel's unrest finds a home in her bosom, but their rebellion tears
apart her world. Death descends with Barabbas's sword, and Abigail is
determined to be there when the criminal is punished. But when she
ventures to the trial, Barabbas is not the one the crowd calls to
crucify. Instead, it is the teacher her master and Jason had begun to
follow, the man from Nazareth that some call the Son of God . . .Born
free, made a slave, married out of her bonds, Abigail never knows
freedom until she feels the fire of a stray drop of blood from a Jewish
carpenter. Disowned by Israel, despised by Rome, desired by all, she
never knows love until she receives the smile of a stoic Roman noble.
Stray Dog
Gareth O'Callaghan
Can a tired marriage be saved by man?s best friend? Jo and John are slowly drifting apart. Their marriage has been stalled for years, but they carry on, pretending to be together. Then the unthinkable happens: John is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Jo is overcome with sadness and regret. There just isn't enough time to rebuild their relationship, to fall in love again. But then a mysterious stray dog enters their lives. The scruffy fellow brings with him the most rare and wonderful gift: a second chance. Part of successful Open Door series, originally designed to help adult literacy in Ireland. Original stories from best-selling authors and important new voices, never published in the States before now.
Stray
Allison LaSorda
Poetry / Cultural / Canada
Allison LaSorda’s Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSorda can conjure childhood memories of beaches and ice cream, ponder the elemental force of the ocean, and plumb the depth of loss in a coal mine disaster. LaSorda presents the messiness of daily life with emotional honesty and humor. Stray examines intimacy, memory, and decay, often betraying existential bewilderment. Deft word play and musical sense underscore the absurdity these poems explore, while surprising rhymes and unexpected images resound in deeply personal narratives.
A Stray Cat Struts
Slim Jim Phantom
In June 1980, 19-year-old James McDonnell (known as Slim Jim Phantom) boarded a plane to the U.K. with his childhood friends and bandmates Brian Setzer and Lee Rocker. In less than a year, they went from being homeless, hungry, and living in punk rock squats to the toast of the London music scene.The Stray Cats developed a signature sound and style that swept across the world, released double-platinum albums, and were embraced by classic rock acts like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, as well as original punk heroes such as the Sex Pistols, the Damned, and the Clash, and rock and roll originators Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. After ten years of marriage to actress Britt Ekland, Slim Jim moved down the hill to Sunset Strip, where he raised his son and owned world famous nightclub the Cat Club, while continuing to play with a host of well-known musicians.A veteran of the London and LA music scenes, Slim Jim's memoir recounts not just the Stray Cats' rise but...
Jade and the Stray
Amy Brown
Art / Fantasy / Paranormal
Jade loves reading about beautiful, clever horses and their young riders. It takes her mind off her real-life troubles. Ages 8-12. It must be fate. After a family tragedy, Jade Lennox has moved to tiny Flaxton to live with her grandfather. A whole year in the middle of nowhere, and the future looks bleak. Until, that is, she finds someone else who's lonely and despairing - a pony under a death sentence. Jade can't let the black pony die. But what can she do? She has no money, no land for grazing, and doesn't know the first thing about looking after horses. What she does know is that she must save the stray . . . Ages 8-12.
Stray Dog Winter
David Francis
Steeped in intrigue, sexuality, and a stark noir beauty, David Francis' Stray Dog Winter is at once an unconventional Cold War thriller and an original, unforgettable love story set in 1980s Moscow. Darcy Bright, a hapless young Australian artist, receives a surprising birthday present from his elusive half-sister Fin, ostensibly in Moscow on a prestigious fellowship painting industrial landscapes. Fin sends Darcy a ticket to the Soviet Union housed in a leather money belt, and an invitation to join her-only if he's willing to bring the money belt and its contents. Although their relationship has, in the past, swung between passionate attachment and startling disloyalty, Darcy has been drifting in his own life, and sees this as an opportunity for direction and purpose. Or, at the very least, adventure, and decides to put himself in his sister's hands, bringing himself and the belt into the USSR. Upon his arrival into the bleak Soviet winter of 1984, Darcy is quickly engulfed in...
A Love Letter from a Stray Moon
Jay Griffiths
In this fictional tour de force Jay Griffiths, acclaimed author of Wild, creates a portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo-her devastating accident and her love for Diego Rivera-that is also a celebration of the spirit of poetry and the art of rebellion.Spellbinding and luminous, A Love Letter from a Stray Moon is a unique work about passion, grief and transcendence.'A wonderful book. It's like a dress that Kahlo invented for herself and wore.' John Berger
