Giles: 674 books

A selection of Short Stories by Vonnie Giles. Following Vonnie’s successful contributions to the short story anthology ‘Picked and Mixed’, Vonnie was invited to publish a selection of her unique and quirky short stories. Acid Rain delves into her eclectic collection of dark and esoteric...

Nicholas Garrigan has fled his native Scotland, and his parents' expectations, to take a position as a doctor in a remote rural outpost of Central Africa. Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, he is called to the scene of a bizarre car accident: Idi Amin, manically driving his red Maserati down the...

Daisy DeVoe has left her abusive husband, her father has been pinched for bootlegging, and she’s embarrassed by her rural Kentucky roots. But on the plus side, she’s climbing the ladder in the salon of Paramount Pictures, styling hair for actress Clara Bow. Clara is a handful. The “It” Girl...

A fascinating look at British battles during the Victorian era by boys' literature writer William Henry Giles Kingston.

Ronald Ray Giles offers readers his newest collection of witty essays. He unpacks complex theories in a fun and simple way —The Three Laws of Reality, Shakespeare’s Ghosts, and Walt Disney’s Post-Industrial Fairy Tales. He tackles exciting ideas like Change Blindness, The Rip Van Winkle Effect, and The Reality Police, leaving readers wanting more.

Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such...

What if Cinderella was the wicked one, and manipulated her kind, loving stepmother and stepsisters? Is being a handsome, charming prince really as effortless and trouble-free as it seems? Would you be alarmed if you realized that the beautiful red shoes you’re admiring change their...

From the author of the Whitbread Award-winning The Last King of Scotland comes a spellbinding tale of a town under siege in colonial Africa and a young woman who finds love and freedom in the midst of a devastating war. The year is 1899, and the South African town of Ladysmith is surrounded...

Best known for having declared the death of God, Nietzsche was a thinker thoroughly absorbed in the Christian tradition in which he was born and raised. Yet while the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognized and rarely understood. Redeeming Nietzsche examines the residual...

Take our gift and make us shine The richest, the most righteous The stars of our time Pod says it began with the crow. Manny says it began with the rat. Flaco says it doesn’t matter—the boys in the band have to roll with the trouble that started in Pod’s barn, when their...

“One of the best novels of [the year]. . . Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent.” —Tony Hillerman “Forceful . . . surprising . . . [Blunt’s] insights into suffering and madness give his characters their true voice.” —The New York Times In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin...

Recently forced into the underwater city of Atlantis, Emma Harris has managed to avoid marrying the merman who brought her, but her grandfather—the Sea King—insists that joining with the abusive Merrick is inevitable. When Emma discovers a poison that might restore her human lungs, she goes in...

This collection of seven short stories is truly out of this world, all showing an event of some shape or form that takes place fifty years in the future. Each competitor truly surpasses the talents of any athlete you have witnessed in the traditional Olympics. In theory, that is, because they may...

Little Penguin Pip-Pip would love to join in with all his friends swimming in the sea, but there's just one problem . . . he's scared of water. Can Pip-Pip overcome his fears and finally take the plunge? This irresistible story shows that sometimes all it takes is a little bit of encouragement --...