Showing results for "time-out!" in Literature & Fiction

Mother of one and professional writer Saoirse is still adjusting to the demands of motherhood, four years after the birth of her daughter, Anna. Living in the claustrophobic London suburb of Woodvale, and being surrounded by passive-aggressive mum-wars, isn’t helping. Neither is her increasingly pent-up anger at her once-perfect husband. Her only comrade in arms, best friend Bea, is the one thing keeping her sane. When Saoirse’s agent asks her to pitch for a book, she is horrified to discover the topic is motherhood.

Their love was a quiet, slow-growing thing that built from friendship, adventure, and shared experiences. In this final chapter of The Immortal Descendants series, Ringo and Charlie begin their own journey of love, laughter, and all the misadventures a pair of Victorian street urchins can encounter when they’ve traveled through time. Where, exactly, is home for two people who have journeyed so far, and if they find it, can they ever truly go back?

The year 2057AD. Mankind is exploring the outer planets, but something goes terribly wrong. A probe is destroyed by the extreme gravitational force on the satellite of Uranus. Then, another anomaly sets the Moon on a collision course with Earth.

On what should have been a typical Monday morning in the business district of Starbanks, Rae Stevens and her coworkers are faced with a workday they'll never forget. Held captive inside the building they work with no explanation as to why, they band together to try and figure out what exactly is going on.

Geoff Schmidt's debut collection, Out of Time, is a meditation on meaning and mortality, and the ways that story and the imagined life can sustain us. In these stories, vengeful infants destroy and rebuild the world, rivalrous siblings and their mother encounter witches and ghosts and the possessed, Barack Obama and Keith Richards smoke their last cigarettes, men and women with cancer variously don gorilla suits or experience all time simultaneously.

Years ago, a drunken night of debauchery got Daniella pregnant and sent her down a very different path. Today, her young son has leukaemia, and only a marrow transplant from the true father can save him. Can Daniella find the man from all those years ago? Can she save her son and face the demons of her past?

Kate Brewer is a successful High Profile Prosecutor for Atlanta biggest law firm. When she lucks up and gets a day off due to her client surprisingly confession, she takes it upon herself to relax and chill. After falling asleep, Kate awoken by a blow to the head. After being ducked tape and rapped, then she is kidnapped. With time running out will she survive this ordeal? Will the police arrive in time to save her? Interviews and discussion with related stories.

2 guys just talking about whatever and everything