Deborah: 3153 books

Ever have one of those days? It's snowy, it's cold, you have to park half a block away and you slip on the sidewalk coming into the house because the lazy bastard forgot to shovel? The cat's screaming for dinner and you hear a noise upstairs when you know there shouldn't be anyone there. What else could go wrong?

Note to Self: File under interesting job perks—Trevor Dalton, best dating lead in a while. He's a lot like Brett, only not off limits. Professor Merrideth Randall has an insatiable curiosity about the past. But unlike other historians, she has the means to satisfy it—an amazing computer...

What's Bathology? Remember 'Lather, rinse, repeat'? Scientists have recently shown that we can revitalize our brains as we do our skin and hair: With only a few minutes a day of the right kind of repetitious behavior, we can reshape our neurology, thereby improving our resilience, well-being and overall...

Volume Nine of the Bardic Tales and Sage Advice collection features the winners of our annual writing competition, as well as selected works from some of the amazing authors we have had the pleasure of working with over the course of the previous year. This volume features works by Anna Cates, Deborah...

When Scottish water sprite, Cassie, volunteers for an anti-fracking protest, the last thing she expects is to find herself at odds with a druid. But with time running out for the local environment, she can't afford to be distracted by the handsome hunk of a Highlander. Intent on a minor act...

She's a force of Nature, and someone is trying to use her... On the surface she's a cute and feisty blonde, a slender pocket rocket fitness coach.  But Cassiopeia Lake has a secret: she's really a force of Nature - an elemental.  Water sprite, Cassie, has lived undisturbed in her native...

Threaded with echoes of familial trauma—a sister’s battle with cancer, a brother’s struggles with depression—the lyric poems in The Human Half reveal an open-hearted speaker who finds solace in the beauties of celestial navigation, the flowers along the railroad tracks, and the brushwork of...

Brimming with laugh-out-loud Santa stories, How Santa Lost His Jollies is a humorous take on Santa “events” from around the globe, from Santa gropers, to flying Santas (Elvis impersonators), to patented Santa traps, and of course, the usual kids (naughty) with their Santa-defying tricks. Fully...

Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here...

Suffering from hopelessness is hard enough for Mitch Wilder to contend with. Remembering to take his medication is a chore. Keeping on top of his secrets and lies is nearly impossible since he's been diagnosed with manic depression. And living three different lives is starting to crash down upon him. Mark...

FIRST PUBLISHED IN POSTSCRIPTS MAGAZINE #17: "Stories of children lost to the theriomorphs were like the ammonite fossils: everyone had their own." Alessia Kinshin is an archaeological anthropologist at the University of New Persia, a city surrounded by salt pans and beset...

The challenge: write a 200-word story inspired by the line "This corpse is full of birds".This is my result.Download a copy for yourself to keep, or read the story via my website: http://deborahkalin.com/blog/2015/01/this-corpse-is-full-of-birds/

The second novel in the Mr Pepys series by popular historical novelist Deborah Swift, featuring the Great Plague Sometimes the pursuit of money costs too much... Ambitious Bess Bagwell is determined that her carpenter husband, Will, should make a name for himself in the Navy shipyards....

When a riverboat gambler's daughter is rescued from unsavory gunfighters by a strong, handsome stranger, she never suspects the true reason for his heroics. Anne Cameron wants nothing more than to start over, to have a real home for the first time in her life. She makes the long, dangerous trip...