Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Literature & Fiction

Fatima, a Brazilian head teacher, is being threatened as a consequence of a decision she made some time ago. Then, she dismissed a pair of untrustworthy coaches from her school, which prompted the clampdown on an organs' traffic mafia with a fatal outcome, whereas Clara, a British investigative journalist, strives to pay back some members of a Bacchus sect which abducted and raped her in Majorca.

Lukas is an underdog and a winner: intelligent, angry, humorous, and 14 years old. He is a guerrilla warfare fighter against the establishment and injustice. Lukas discovers his teachers to be people with faults and failings, and he is prepared to manipulate them to his advantage. To Lukas comes Donny: teacher, coach and mentor. What happens when Lukas finds something to admire in the enemy? Worse still, what happens when your mate is unjustly judged guilty of the sexual assault of the girl you have the hots for?

A mistake in Mr. Portland’s store sees the whole damn milk aisle come crashing down around me. He sends everyone else home, but tells me to stay put. What follows is some rough and naughty punishment as he does things to me that I didn’t even know I was capable of. Soon it’s not just cow’s milk that’s messing up the aisle!

This is a novel about a single-A baseball team in California, called The Dog Sox. It is owned by a woman who received it as a birthday gift from her boyfriend. The team has a phenomenal pitcher, with a very strange delivery, and a drunken and abusive father. This is a love story about the sport of baseball, a story which is replayed every summer, in every state. The characters come alive in this lively and often humorous novel.

Love Is Not Pie is a personal exploration navigating the world of consensual non-monogamy and polyamory. This collection of poems - erotic, yearning, sweet, and angry - was written by Lazaruk to and about her two beloved men over the course of several years. Collected here for the first time, the original poems are woven together with new pieces that provide context for how the story unfolded. In this expressive work of poetry, Lazaruk explores attachment, fear, love, lust, grief, and the push-pull between what she knows is right and how she justifies her actions.

"Adolf" is a charming story of a wild rabbit introduced by the father into a miner's home, to the delight of the children and the despair of the mother. Larger questions of life and death and nature and civilization are touched on with a light hand.

Upon the great land of Canazar, a war between mankind and the dragons raged onward until the dragon lord was captured, imprisoned, and tormented, only to break free and rampage once more, causing the wizards of each race to work together and create the item known as "The Eye", to imprison the dragons’ wrath. Millennia later, and a young boy named Markus is sent on a quest to find the Eye in order to save the life of his friend and mentor. Darkness stirs in the land as Markus comes to terms with his fate upon his quest.

La storia inizia nel 2010. Affiliati a cosche mafiose, soubrettes e faccendieri erano stati ammessi nelle istituzioni più alte dello stato. Accumulavano prestigio e denaro, tra sorrisi compiaciuti e pacche sulle spalle. La politica italiana non era mai stata così grossolana e rapace. La situazione era andata ben oltre il tollerabile. La narrazione parte da qui, e ci conduce attraverso le fasi di una metamorfosi sociale, in un dialogo continuo tra finzione e fatti realmente accaduti. Quali sono le leve che fanno scattare una rivoluzione nazionale? Cosa succederebbe se?

Jack would do anything for the farmer’s daughter Betsy, even going so far as trading his prize cow for a few measly seeds. But when the seeds sprout into giant stalks and suck up all the surrounding water, the farmer and Betsy aren’t too happy. Betsy pays Jack a visit, imploring him to cut down the beanstalks to save their crop, but Jack has a counteroffer, and Amazonian babe Betsy is all for it. Listen as Jack finally gets his wish and Betsy has her way with him, tossing him around like her own personal rag doll and treating Jack to a kind of pleasure he didn’t know he liked!

I’m the main event at the Cirque De Lacto, and people flock to our traveling circus to witness my show-stopping release of milk. Mr. Fantastic is the seasoned circus master, and he has some very intimate tips that he thinks will make my performance better. Listen as he takes me beneath those hot lights, squirting my milk all over the both of us as we commit the ultimate sin.

A troubled woman marches west across the great, barren prairie. Suffering from a mental trauma, she's barely aware of the grim changes that have consumed the world around her. She avoids the dead, hides from people, and wanders westward in a daze. Hungry and tired, she finds her way to Montana, where she is taken prisoner on an Indian reservation run by a man with an iron fist and a cold heart.

Goose Fair was written by D H Lawrence in 1910. Lawrence sets his story against the backdrop of the industrial troubles caused by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. A young woman is torn between her need for a lover and her contempt for what she perceives to be his dishonesty in the burning down of a mill. Is all love a compromise between the ideal and the reality of life?

We return to the story of Seth and Melinda, siblings who've fallen in with the likes of Noone Tompkins, a bad man with a fast gun and a cruel disposition. The group's journey south, to a promised oasis in the New Mexico desert, is interrupted by a war between the citizens of Billings, Montana and the scattered survivors of the Crow Nation.

Beach Tidings tells of the spreading of ashes - the mystery of their journey, the link with a Great Escaper from Stalag Luft III, and the intertwinement with beach rhythms during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The central character, Mara, is drawn to the beach, as an ongoing pandemic escape, along with her two dogs and husband. Their souls are alleviated by walking through shallow waves, but Mara has to contend with images of drowning.

Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he knew intimately. The main themes of the story are the class system that dominated society at the time and the pressures put on the young lovers who have to overcome it, and the position of women in society who have nothing to offer but their bodies. For the sake of security and position, one daughter makes a loveless marriage whilst the other daughter gives all that up for love.

When I find an ungodly porn DVD in the player, I know it’s time for a house meeting. I call Paul and Sophie to the living room, hoping that one of them will explain themselves, but when no one confesses, I have to turn things up a notch and hope they respect their elders.

Inspector Cameron Rande is head of Homicide in Toronto's Police Service, but he doesn't want to be chained to a desk. He assigns himself to head the investigation into the murder of a high-profile developer in one of Toronto's modern skyscrapers with a bullet from an ancient rifle. Rande and his team are soon plunged into a double murder probe as a contractor is beaten to death with a musical instrument out of the 1950s. Both deaths are tied to The Revelle, a downtown, iconic theatre, which had been slated for demolition by the dead men.

Features audiobooks 9 through 12 of the series, where naughty damsels demand to be taken in the most sinful spot of all for the first time. Listen as these brats get everything that’s coming to them from dominant, alpha males who wow them with a wealth of experience. Contains "A Pawn in His Game", "My Manager Took Down My Jeans", "Trying It in My Ass with My Friend", and "Air Force Anal".

A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house (the eponymous "House to Let") opposite her own, and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within.

Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Degambia is the daughter of a wealthy African American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for White. Balancing on the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave the way to her success. Her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by prejudiced officials eager to seize the plantation.