Résultats pour "Mark Williams" dans Littérature et fiction

"Isn't so and so a snob?" he asks. "She won't even admit she liked Grease." Looking for an author who ponders the imponderable, expresses the inexpressible, describes the indescribable, and leaves no burning issue of American popular culture or world concern unexamined? Well, you'll find him in Mark Leyner. On this recording, Leyner, one of the most gifted and original young American writers around, reads 6 prose pieces from his first published book.

Edward Hudson was a good and kind man. At least, he tried to be. Most of the time. He had gone through life thinking that nothing he did mattered or made any difference to anyone. After two careers and a busted marriage, with tattered relationships left behind him like a snail trail, Edward Hudson didn’t think his life’s story was worth the paper it was written on. He couldn’t have been more wrong.

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle-class peers. After a messy breakup from her White long-term boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places...including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.

Phillipsport, Maine, is a quaint and peaceful seaside village. But when hundreds of creatures pour out of the ocean and attack, its residents must take up arms to drive the beasts back. They are the Clickers, giant, venomous, bloodthirsty crabs from the depths of the sea. The only warning to their rampage of dismemberment and death is the terrible clicking of their claws. But these monsters aren't merely here to ravage and pillage. They are being driven onto land by fear.

Nathaniel and Suzie Bathhurst were kind and simple people in the last season of their lives. They ran a flower shop and enjoyed their friends and simple times. That is, until the world of war took their son away. Now, the two of them have to decide to play out a gamble to save their only child, knowing it could cost them everything.

In the third installment of the runaway hit series Girls from da Hood, street-fiction veterans KaShamba Williams and Mark Anthony are joined by newcomer MadameK as they turn up the heat with fiery stories that will leave the listener breathless.

The "Randomness of Life" is never random. It had been the roughest day of Cooper’s life, the first morning of Tet. It was followed by years of broken promises, broken hearts, and eventually a couple of cracked ribs delivered by some boys who didn’t take kindly to his rough demeanor. He was struggling with life. Everyone saw it, but him. Police officer and helicopter pilot Cooper Gardner hadn’t seen the worst - or the best - the world still had to deliver.

Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors.

In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets. You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime. You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.

This series contains mature themes and strong language, and listener discretion is advised.

The Person Sitting in Darkness by Mark Twain is a searing political satire that exposes the hypocrisy and brutality of imperialism at the turn of the 20th century. With his signature wit and razor-sharp critique, Twain challenges the moral justifications used by Western powers—especially the United States—in their global conquests.

Introducing a mind-captivating journey with M.A. Senft's "The Unseen Player," a spellbinding fusion of action adventure, mystery thriller, and murder mystery. Follow Clint Reeves, a man whose life takes an unexpected turn when, as a boy, he finds himself abandoned and raised in the sheltering walls of an orphanage. Years later, as an older gentleman, Clint moves to a new property, setting the stage for a gripping tale of enigmatic visions and ghostly encounters. The plot thickens as he uncovers the true story behind his father's disappearance, guided by a mysterious phantom entity.

Cullen McPherson, insurance agent, just wanted to get the refund check to his client. He didn’t know his client was a world-class spy in pursuit of a missing flash drive and other cryptic items held in secret by such characters as the Jewish proctologist and the Washer Woman. Cullen was chasing a man but, in fact, Cullen McPherson was chasing his own identity, long since undermined by a domineering mother and a weak father. It was here, on the bridge of one of these ships, he found himself, his value, and the captain who had always been....

Peace was always an elusive thing for Detective Carter Boyce, even before his wife died. Since then, living has become even harder. Now, investigating what looks like a murder suicide, Carter begins piecing back together a life he didn’t even know was broken. He stumbles back into his childhood neighborhood, where Old Man Kopchek is still missing a leg, but none of his acerbic wit. The old man begins teaching him the magic of savoring the mundane and the seemingly unimportant.

Dr. Paul Clarin was an "arrogant bastard". He will tell you himself as you start up the hill with him. Years ago, he just wanted to ask the old Navajo about the meaning of some words, copied onto what looked like deer skin. He didn’t know it would take days to tumble out in haunting images through the old man’s thoughts and words.

In the North Pacific, the crew of a deep-sea recovery ship, the MV Challenger, are mercilessly gunned to death. Only one man survives, adrift in the ocean, and hundreds of miles from land. In the deserts of Iraq, a clandestine meeting between one of the world's foremost assassins and his ruthless benefactor sets in train a cascade of horrific events that will shape the world for good.

Author, Screenwriter and high-profile Sensitivity Reader, Patrice Williams Marks gives you the unvarnished truth and tips on writing as a screenwriter turned author and Sensitivity Reader. Her expertise also includes books on crowdfunding and the infamous O.J. Simpson trial. Podcast Website and Newsletter Signup: https://podcast.authoruncut.com Sensitivity Reading: https://sensitivityreviews.com 

Known as the 'Irish Chekhov', Brian Friel was one of the most renowned dramatists of his generation, producing over 30 plays in a career spanning six decades. Included here are some of his best-known works, as well as mesmerising radio documentaries featuring the author himself, in his own words.

Law Abiding Citizen meets The Brave One in this mother of all revenge stories with a twist ending. Everyone is capable of murder. Everest was not the perfect mom, but what she was was fierce. After her husband Anthony died at the hands of a drunk driver, it was up to her to raise their daughter Mo alone. Her love for Mo was both unmistakable and unshakable. But when Mo failed to return home from swim practice with not so much as a text, Everest knew something was wrong. Will Everest find Mo in time to save her life?

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Five is the fifth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Five features 14 essential works that reach across Europe, America, and Russia - from Twain to Dostoyevsky to Austen - to bring together some of the most influential authors of the 18th and 19th century. Read by a cast of incredible narrators, this is a chance to expand your listening by going deeper into some of your favourite authors' works and find your new favourite piece of classic literature.