Showing results for "Kyle" in Literature & Fiction

The last women alive locate the last man alive. Now, a confused 21st-century male must save and satisfy all these beauties from the other end of spacetime. The survival of humanity depends on it. For the first time, the hit time-travel serial The Harem at the End of the Galaxy is collected into one complete, hilarious, smokin' hot romp of a volume that contains every word of the five novellas in the series.

Kay and Matt—disenfranchised, manic depressive pagan deity assassins, cult busters, and office drones, real "all-in-one" employees of the clandestine, Pan-Abrahamaic conglomerate known as CrossTech. You might conjure up an exciting, high-octane fantasy over such a profession, but in reality they are not so different from you. They mostly file reports, attend seemingly pointless meetings, and have to explain every decision they dare make outside of the chain of command to an uncaring, angelic manager, and his self-important, weaselly assistant.

Ryan Fleming is a young agnostic reeling from his brother’s death. Though he is deeply angry with God, he makes good on a promise he made to his brother in the final moments of his life: to visit a church at least once. But shortly after his arrival, the slick megachurch’s shoddily installed video projector falls on his head—sending Ryan through a wormhole into another world. To make it back to his own universe, he must partner with a woman named Faith to awaken a long-sleeping King—the World-Maker who can make all things new.

In the year 2030, a dying scientist released a volatile pathogen into the atmosphere. It granted the elderly a plethora of augmented abilities, near-immortality, and an insatiable bloodlust for the generations that have wronged them.

What if Adam and Eve never left the garden of Eden? That simple question launches this hilarious joy of a novel Genesis 2.0: Eat, Sleep, Know, a combination of religion, mythology, and social commentary that reads like a fantasy novel in the tradition of Terry Pratchett, Christopher Moore, and William Goldman. The Boss creates Adam and Eve, places them in the garden and tells them not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - and they don’t. Instead of being banished in less than a generation, they stay where they are and know and know and know.

Horror, humor, and science fiction collide in this collection of weird tales about possible futures, warped present-day realities, and alternate history. Unreliable narrators run rampant alongside aliens, ghosts, bullies, cannibals, home invaders, heroes, villains, unimaginable creatures, and gifted individuals of all ages. Paranoia, fear, and bizarre situations abound in these reality-bending stories guaranteed to take you places you've never been.

Every day is like Christmas for Caroline, a young, blond editor at Presents, the shopping magazine. On Christmas Eve, the ghost of Caroline's dead roommate, Carly, returns to warn that three more spirits are coming. Caroline begins a trip to Christmases past, present, and future, but though she has nine closets, she doesn't have a thing to wear.

Residents of Austin, Texas, so value individualism that most (but not all!) of them rally around the phrase, "keep Austin weird". In the midst of that off-kilter vibe are two mildly weird kindergarten teachers, Eleanor Cooprider and Kim Park. One of them possesses a superpower and the other recognizes superpowers in others (and she can talk to plants, though they never answer). Once they share this super-secret, their mutual attraction blossoms into love, and there is nothing weird about that.

Tombstone: Not a Western is a comic novel about the funerary business. It begins with its two protagonists, Robert and Marsha Bernstein, making their arrangements. Cremation versus interment are debated with a mortician at a prominent Manhattan funeral home. Wills and trusts are complicated by a financial scandal which lands Robert and Marsha at El Rancho de Campo, an all-inclusive resort in Tombstone, Arizona, catering to those whose concerns lie with the afterlife and where graveyards and golf courses collide.

Felix Hines is a data entry specialist, and that’s as exciting as it sounds. It’s only for the love of his coworker, Brittney Masterson, that keeps him pressing on throughout each day. Since childhood, Felix has battled an uncontrollable condition that keeps him from pursuing her, or anyone else, but it doesn’t stop him from being pursued. However, he has found a way around the issue of a real relationship.