Kirjahaku

The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude. Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Tan, A.J. Jacobs, Daniel Clowes, Jeff Greenwald, Po Bronson...the list goes on. They all sucked once, and they all have the guts to share some of their crappiest early work in "Drivel: " an uplifting bit of voyeurism, based on the sold-out "Regreturature" stage shows in San Francisco, and brought to you by Litquake and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Within these pages you'll find abstruse and esoteric poetry (bad); incoherent and illogical short stories (worse); bumfuzzling proto-journalism (shameful); and pretentious, overwrought journal entries (we'll not speak of this again). Thanks to these courageous but foolhardy writers, the world now knows the real meaning of a work-in-progress.

Would you want to know your future?For Addie Butterfield, it's both a blessing and a curse. Especially when her life's plan is revealed to her when she is a teenager. Live in Texas, become a teacher, marry a man with an odd list of attributes. Really?Now, at 27, she has ended yet another doomed relationship with a man who failed the psychic dream test. Brokenhearted and fearing she will never find "him," Addie is distracted by a trip to Destiny in West Texas to settle a relative's estate.There, Addie meets Cole Westcott, a handsome attorney and heir to the largest ranch in the county. She also meets Travis Granger, an athletic fireman whose confidence is both appealing and annoying. Both men are intriguing and meet many of the criteria on her list-and both harbor secrets beneath their charming good looks.But not everyone in Destiny is smitten with the new girl. Addie's arrival entangles her in a decades-old land grab with a dangerous adversary whose desperation turns deadly.With growing feelings for both Cole and Travis, Addie works to unravel the mysteries of Destiny and the two men who have claimed her heart to find a place where she truly belongs. A place just......Seven Miles from Destiny

Beth is a sixteen-year-old mother, facing all the responsibilities of parenthood whilst still little more than a child herself and still under a legal obligation to remain in education. Her parents have rejected her, so she is under pressure.Her own family dysfunctional, now living with elderly grandparents, her only true friend hundreds of miles away, is she strong enough? Will she cope with the emotional rollercoaster that life seems determined to keep her on?

It's 1938 and the world is changing quickly. Hitler is stirring the German nation into a xenophobic frenzy. Michael, a British officer in the Gurkhas serving in the North-West Frontier, is trying to keep the bloodthirsty and ruthless Afghan tribesmen, the Pathan, under control. The horrors perpetrated by the Pathan make Michael angry and vengeful. On leave in England, Michael finds that his war experiences have changed him and made him intolerant of the conventionality of British society. He begins to see his fiancee, Sarah, in a different light. On his return to India he seems to be heading for disaster...Julia Scott was born in Weymouth, Dorset. She attended Winchester School for Girls and gained a degree in French from Liverpool University. Her early working career was spent as a health journalist, and later as Editor of Director magazine for the Institute of Directors. In 1987 she married a neurologist and together they moved to Malta, and then to the United States where they lived for fifteen years before returning to England in 2005. In 2001 Julia was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and wrote Afghan Silk while fighting the disease and looking after her six children.She died aged 49 in 2006.

A scrap book of letters, photos, travels, newspaper cuttings and history insights from a "white witch" in Sierra Leone 1965-1968