Thought Provoking Fiction

At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan, England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history.

If you like poetry but read one poem and continue on, this is not the poetry book for you. These poems are meant to keep you thinking throughout the day. Have you been through something similar? Are you going through something but don't know how to express it? This book will take you on a journey from life to death. It takes you from shallow to deep from one poem to the next.

A quick listen. Filled with humorous and thought-provoking poems that are fun to listen to. My mission is to provide an escape from the always serious and sometimes overbearing world of being an adult. No responsibility here to weigh down on your sole. Think of it as a kids poem book for adults. Listen and enjoy!

Some short stories are amusing and soon forgotten, and others set one thinking. "Oh yeah, or what if". This collection narrated by award-winning audiobook narrator, Mike Vendetti is in the latter category.

Lal, Janetta and Rose are living in a time of flux. Technological advance has brought huge financial rewards to those with power, but large swathes of the population are losing their jobs to artificial intelligence, or auts, as they're called. Unemployment is high, discontent is rife and rumours are swirling. Many feel robbed - not just of their livelihoods but of their hopes for the future.

The expression, "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies to this book. You will be captivated the author's command of the English language, the fluency and fluidity of his style of writing, and the beauty and complexity of his rhyming scheme. Each poem will make you think, hence the title of the book.

Brilliant scientist Phineas Templeton is out for revenge. Left for dead (or at least “dead drunk”) in 2002, only one thing can derail his quest to punish those who discarded him into the wastebasket of time and space: a message that his good friend, the great scientist Klaus Thurber, has stolen a time machine from Chronosaber and has gone missing in time.

Slightly Scary Short Stories with humorous, creepy, historical, and thought-provoking tales. An entertaining Halloween book. Featuring new urban legends like "The Coquina Madman", the creepy "Sleepless", and the amusing "What’s in the Attic?".

From the day that you are born into this world, you start to experience what life throws at you. For some of us, it is largely a pleasant experience. For other people, however, it is a different story. As I spend each day of my life, I reflect on what I have seen, heard, and felt. I see the evils that people do. Some of these things have caused me to ask myself so many questions, to which I know, of course, I have no answers. A lot of the things that I have seen in life makes my heart ache. I have always thought of a way to express my thoughts. Pages of My Heart, is a collection of these thoughts put together into poetry.

In 2296, an unstoppable mass extinction is underway, and history proves society will collapse before it can change. Climate Council scientists have no choice but to unveil the Dawn Project. Their audacious plan will terraform the planet back to life… by erasing its civilization. Biologist Kaia Badra commits her life to the project’s success at all costs after a storm surge takes her parents.

A thought-provoking collection of poetry and thoughts as seen through the eyes of the author's own depression.

The Power of Poetry is a collection of modern, thought-provoking poetry that is based upon the experiences of life that we all have at some point during our time on this earth. Inspiration, encouragement, advice, comfort, and strength can all be found in this book.

In stories that evoke the haunting beauty of New England beaches and resonate with a bittersweet loneliness, Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels her son’s fiancée on how to be a good wife to him, with disastrous consequences. A mysterious cat appears in a young woman’s home, as inexplicable as the demise of her years-long relationship with her boyfriend. At turns humorous, sorrowful, and whimsical, this collection spans the familiar setting of a college town supermarket to eerie dystopias that are not just post-pandemic, but post-art.

Beth Brandon has always dreamed of owning a flower shop, but today the bouquets of peonies and bright spring flowers are failing to calm her nerves...because, today, Beth has a life-changing decision to share with her husband. Izzy Vaughan thought she and her husband would stay together forever, but sometime last year, their love began to fade. They both find such joy in their young son Noah - but is he enough to keep them together? Eight years ago, something happened to these two women - something that is about to bring them together in a way no one thought possible....

In Alexandra Kleeman's second book, a collection of 12 stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she explores human life from beginning to end: the distress of birth into a world already formed; the brief and confusing period of "living" where we understand what is expected of us and struggle to do it; and the death-y period toward the end where we sense it is ending and will end only partially understood, at best.

You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block's new novel is not for everyone. It's recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman. And rapes and murders her. But, um, not in that order. Right. But it's what he does with the rest of his life that's really interesting....

In the week before Christmas, two people are brutally murdered in their homes. There is no sign of a struggle, and both victims have had their throats slashed open. Detective Jason Smith is on holiday for the Christmas period, but he finds himself in the middle of the investigation before he knows it. There are no clues left at the murder scenes besides a bizarre series of numbers and letters left in random places—E.6.T.0.M. Smith and the team are baffled.