Wilson: 1037 books

The loss of a child's pet leads to grief but eventual acceptance; two stories offered to a magazine raise questions of which is fact and which is fiction; the tale of a wise and beneficent Empress with a surprising origin is recalled through her gift of a child's bauble; showing off to impress a girl...

There is a saying that we can’t change the wind, we can only adjust our sails so that we can take great advantage of the natural force caused by the wind. This book is not about marine or naval life, it is about the lives of men and women on the earth and their reactions to situations that face...

Author, Zoe Saadia says of The Oubliette, "Unusual and riveting! The Oubliette was an exciting read that I found plain impossible to put down. Unusual, deeply educating, revealing, it kept me glued to my Kindle, unable to guess what will happen, desperate to find out, surprised with the ending...

In this evocative series of short stories, Richard Price captures lost childhood, and the demise of the Scottish village as the train line to Glasgow closes and new housing estates and light industry encroach. Scenes from a Scottish rural childhood are portrayed ... stream fishing for brown trout,...

BOILWORT STOOD STOICALLY as the devils crowded into the great Hall of Learning. Scorndob and Angrielle glared at the master tempter in guarded anticipation. They were just as surprised as I was that we had been invited to participate in advanced studies. I wondered what that meant. Boilwort moved closer...

The girl you love vanishes - you search and search. No trace is found. You see someone who looks so like her - she looks at you but does not know you, no recognition flickers. Is it a mirage, dream or desperate hope? She likes you. You ask and she comes with you. Her mind sees only sunlight....

Memsahibs weren't supposed to murder their husbands. Freemasons weren't supposed to murder their Brothers. Over tiffin and tea, on the verandah, in the Club, all British India gossiped about the shocking trials of the Englishwoman and her doctor-lover, who was part-Indian. Augusta Fullam had committed...

Many moons ago, in the high Victorian era, Mrs. Guppy, the famous medium, was enjoying a sparkling success. Over the rooftops of Bloomsbury she sailed, was infused through lathe and plaster, and clambered on to tables in the darkness, magicking down showers of apports. Night after night, once the...

Change was never popular on the island of Muckle Flabbay, a bastion of tradition, but the death of the landowner heralds the end of the Old Order: ... the heir to the estate seeks to implement 'nouveau landlordism' - radical land reform with community participation - but he will only inherit if he...

WIDOWED BY A BULLET, SHE  FIGHTS FOR JUSTICE.  - Alane Drummond buys into a Tacoma, Washington, newspaper after her young husband is shot trying to stop a lynching by the Vigilantes.  Bent on bringing his killers to justice, she writes an editorial that spurs lumber baron Cordell Stanton, head of...

For Ella Richards, love is a forbidden 4 letter word. No one knows her past and she likes it that way. She never lets herself get attached because getting attached means getting hurt and getting hurt is the last thing she wants. So when she gets whisked away to the Sky Lounge by the mysterious Kayden...

This is a love story about a gifted and artistically inclined handsome young man, his relationship with a beautiful mysterious woman and the effect she has on his life.

A pseudo autobiographical account of my Atlantic circumnavigation written in third person. It was where I found redemption and peace, coming to terms with the death of my father, injustices I endured, and anger and resentment which drove me to lose myself and make serious and costly life mistakes, and how I found redemption, forgiveness, and resolve to life by my conscience without regrets.

I thought I knew the dirt about an old Hollywood crime, a murder that was covered up by crooked cops and the studio. I decided to write a tell-all about the murder, hoping to flush out the killer who was responsible for the assault of a dear friend. I'm not stupid, though. I used a pen name....