Samantha David: 15 books

Some reviews of I Married a Pirate: "A rip-roaring ride. Huge fun and a really interesting new voice." Katie Fforde "A swashbuckling lesson to us all... Samantha David got me hook, line and sinker." Guardian Abroad "Pure joy - this unlikely romance between...

Funny, tender and wise, this is the story of Rosie, who prefers dogs to men. She lives in a massive, half-drelict château in the French countryside with her two children and a pack of dogs. As a favour to an old school friend, she takes in one of the world's most famous filmstars, a man on the...

Suzie and Lyndon have the perfect marriage. In fact their entire lives are perfect. They have crowds of friends, lots of money, two beautiful children, and a lovely home in the centre of Brussels, with an au pair and a gardener to help them keep it all together. But in the midst of this perfection,...

In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers—in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author (and Matthews's cousin once removed) David Shields—a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history....

Dangerous fates, mysterious curses, twisted fairy tales, and doomed prophecies… Explore new worlds in Prophecy of Magic: a collection of over twenty urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels curated especially for the genre’s biggest fans! These stories include all of your favorite...

Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area,...

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...

This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical...

Jared and Cassie have secrets.Those secrets will be tested when the world is plunged into darkness. The green flash that lit up the sky short-circuits all technology—cars, computers, pacemakers. Everything.They wait for help to come, but their daughter’s fever continues to rise. As...

American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century. The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide....

The warped minds of WPaD are proud to present this tribute to the bizarre: - People who eat Tide Pods turn into detergent-craving zombies - A gift of a fishing bobber turns deadly - A woman lost in the desert makes friends with an ancient creature - A hole inside a closet...

From Scout Media comes A Contract of Words—the fourth volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world. In this installment, the authors wove multi-genre tales around characters entering into contracts, who found repercussions or rewards. From comedy,...

Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white...

John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process...