Burns: 965 books

With a 1st in Mechanical Engineering, Asa has turned her back on Scotland for a successful career in Calgary. Leaving her friends to the prosaic life of Orkney, an undefined incident at Birsay with Roddy has appeared to sever her wish to ever return. Her close friends, Rosie and Julietta, have sent...

Hypolite Corrillon views life as a fiasco to share any fleeting pleasures with others without rancour, recrimination or painful regret. This outlook has led him into affairs that do not go without pejorative questioning which, he feels, point more towards misunderstanding on the part of others, rather...

Art and industry are often seen as mutually exclusive, but it wasn't always that way. In this modern myth, we learn the story of a nemesid named Adrastia Young -- one of the spirits of vengeance and retribution, partnered to a spirit of Good Order and a muse. When Adrastia sees her partners...

I ain't got a city named for me . . . The swans have though, haven't they. They got a city named for them. Seventeen-year-old Emma dreams of travelling adventures beyond her Swansea home. Rhys, her boyfriend, has other plans for them. Facing the consequences of their actions under the...

Susan Price and Reed McCourt were in love. Due to a misunderstanding, she left him. Now, six years later, unable to get him out of her mind, she is back to find out if there is still something between them. Or had she been living in a dream world? As complications abound, Susan finds herself...

Running from the man who gave her life, Katherine has nothing – no phone, no car, and no money.  Not willing to jeopardize the life and well-being of her sister, and her new family, she stows away on a shrimp trawler. Caleb is virtually alone and prefers his life of solitude.  After an...

Where has the road taken you? What wisdom have you gained on this journey?The world needs our stories, tales of both passion and pain. Told from your deep truth, the words can cleanse the soul and heal the heart.Writing Wild was crafted for new writers and non-writers who identify with...

Some words in Russian language have exactly the same pronunciation and meaning as English words. For instance, tennis – теннис, resume – резюме, passport – паспорт, visa – виза. Other words may sound the same in Russian as English words but have completely different...

That dandelion. A flash of stubborn yellow in a dark box of space. It had promised sunshine but had tasted sour. Artefacts. A dandelion. A mayfly. A family, bereft. Items and mementos of a life, lived hard and with love, or long, empty, bitter. In these sharply drawn and unflinching short stories, Rebecca Burns unpicks the connection between the lives we live and what we leave behind.

You love your dog and you want to do the best for it, this book shows you how to achieve it. you will discover how to have a happy, healthy and active dog.Many people take on dogs without knowing very much about their needs, however, there are some very important do's and dont's which...

Emma Masters-Carter finds herself a virgin widow after three years of marriage. Following the stress and turmoil of caring for her terminally ill husband, she is forced to leave her remote desert home that she loves to travel to Tucson, Arizona. Here she meets with her husband’s lawyer and finds...

Growing up, Matilda Furst knew she was different from the rest of her pack of werewolves: she disliked the idea of eating humans. After enduring repeated attempts to make her "be normal," Matilda took flight and found the world at large was vastly different than she expected. With a group of seasoned...

One Christmas, Eve Amy’s Uncle Lawless takes her high into the woods of Cogan. He takes her to a place that some people know as One Tree Wood. It is called such because it is a natural clearing where one solitary tree grows. Amy is bewildered as to why he has brought her there, it is snowing and...

Catherine Lloyd Burns's The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen is an outlandish tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter whose us-against-the-world friendship teaches them both about what it means to tell the truth. Cricket Cohen is not a liar. She just enhances the truth. Often. Cricket is...