Henry and Paul are strangers when they find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment on a night train from Munich to Berlin. When they begin to talk, their stories appear to be variations on the same theme: young guys adrift in the big city, relationships gone wrong, broken hearts. Henry is running away from a triangle of friendship gone sour; Paul is running away too, but as the night unfolds and the train speeds north across the German landscape, his story turns ominous. What he finally...

A smart, funny, poignant, very modern autobiographical coming-of-age novel, written when the author was sixteen years old. Like**Catcher in the Rye,**Crazy appeals to the teenager in us all.Benni himself is partially paralyzed and a serial failure (he's been kicked out of four boarding schools in his short life and has just entered his fifth). So he's a little odd, but he's cool and he finds other strange boys to hang with. Together they set out to experience what ...

Coming out of an unhappy relationship and a stint at an artist colony, Charlotte, a writer, takes a job teaching at a private ESL college. There she befriends Renata—audacious, sexy, and as changeable as Proteus. “I have a story for you,” Renata says to her one day over lunch. She doesn’t elaborate further, but Charlotte soon discovers that she has found in Renata an unexpectedly passionate and compelling subject.“Caroline Adderson is such a graceful and intelligent writer that the...

Some people would say this is the story of a photograph. How it was taken and what happened to me after the whole world saw it. And it is. But it's also the story of a lot of other things.So look at the picture all you want.I am so much more than what you see.

Stretched features twenty-five stories written with the intention of arousing the body and stretching the imagination. The sex in Stretched is over-the-top, but not entirely unbelievable. Get ready for stories that make you want to race to the finish.

After months of hoarding his allowance, Zack is on his way to buy a prized baseball card. But when he gets to the store, the owner tells him that someone else has just bought it. Who, you may ask, has beaten Zack out of the card? A boy named Mack, who claims to be Zack's son from the future.

In this "riveting debut" a Russian teenager living in Berlin dreams of taking revenge on the man who killed her mother—"A stark, moving tale of resiliency" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).A finalist for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann PrizeNow an award-winning motion pictureSeventeen-year-old Sascha Naimann was born in Moscow, but now lives in Berlin with her two younger siblings. She is precocious, ind...

Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary AwardBased on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers. The award-winning rihannaboi95 centres around a Toronto teen whose world comes crashing in when YouTube videos of him dancing to songs by his favourite pop heroine go viral. Finally, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes chronicles the...

Injured, weary, Duncan McClain had come home to forget….To forget his last mission, to forget a friend had died. This should have been a time of healing for the haunted soldier, a time of peace. But then she walked in.She was Gwen Van Allen. A fragile, sophisticated beauty–who also happened to be the mother of his brother's secret son. She'd come to introduce little Zack to his father, but it was Duncan who was stricken with desir...

From the author of Fast Forward comes a sweet romantic comedy about three wishes, a high-tech genie in a lamp, and one very unfortunate typo...'I loved the premise of this book...A light, modern take on an old trope - great fun!' Australian author Alison StuartGetting three wishes isn't all it's cracked up to be when an unfortunate spelling error in Mandy's high–tech magic lamp changes her wish for a Greek God to a Geek God. His fa...

Mike escaped from Barb's torment with a well-aimed bullet to his brain. But life doesn't end at death, and Mike's now stuck in Hell with the exact person who was out to get him all along. 'Not a happy camper' is an understatement.This is the third short story in the DEAD(ish) Allsorts series. Timeline-wise, it follows DEAD (and hellbent).Warning: Contains copious foul language. Not suitable for children.

Violation. Assault. Murder.The men and women who take up the badge are supposed to protect society from these terrible crimes. However, police officers are as human and fallible as anyone . . .Two kinds of people become cops: those who want to do the right thing, and those who want power. This short story explores what happens when these two personality types butt heads.What unspeakable crime can pit cop against cop? Officers Jennifer Wayne and Carl Bean are about to...