Alison: 1980 books

Un agent très spécial, de Penny Jordan En vacances sur la très select riviera italienne, Suzy immortalise le paysage, lorsqu’un inconnu surgit et lui arrache l’appareil des mains. Un inconnu ? Pas vraiment, puisqu’il s’agit de Lucas Soames, agent de sécurité du gouvernement. Un...

Students’ backpacks bulge not just with oversize textbooks, but with paperbacks, graphic novels, street lit, and electronics such as iPods and handheld video games. This book is about unpacking those texts to explore previously unexamined assumptions regarding their usefulness to classroom learning....

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing...

Maybe you learned about sex in school—anatomy, STIs, and pregnancy, right? You might think you’ve learned all there is to know, but there’s so much more to sex than just “doing it.” What about masturbation, is that OK? Are you dirty for having sexual fantasies? What about kissing, giving...

Life for students at a school for magicians is dull. Samantha and Amber are best friends with a knack for practical jokes. The pranks have grown with the girls, and now these nineteen year old knockouts have started using their spells to make them more memorable. The spells have taken turn for the...

Gunfire erupts on a Chicago sidewalk and controversial secretary of State Henry Landis lies bleeding from an assassin’s bullet. But who really pulled the trigger? And what were the motives behind it? GLOBAL magazine reporter Stephanie Bosworth Thornton, the Deputy Secretary of State’s estranged...

Across the land, wedding bells ring out their joyous announcement. But, when a wedding gift is discovered to possess a dark and sinister secret, the damage has already been done. As the dust settles, Faedra is thrust into a different role. One she is not ready for. The only hope she has of...

Kat had spent much of her life trying to fit in and be normal. The gift she possessed made her attempt to do so all the more challenging. Abandoned as a baby, Kat often wondered about the strange scars on her back. She wondered about the kind of person who would do such an atrocious thing to...

Alison Jackson goes behind the headlines with a hilarious collection of the year's best stories. It's been quite a year in the world of celebrity... - Wayne Rooney said 'I'm worth it' with his new head of hair; - Charlie Sheen went from losing it to WINNING; - Cameron and Clegg continued their bromance;...

"I am sorry Mister…," the young lady looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to supply his name. When he did not budge, she smiled sweetly and went on with her sentence. "…I am sorry again. I was not looking at where I was going…"

Since little, Sugar Cohen has been a joke to her hometown. Now in Boston, she lives a relatively normal and happy life doing what she loves, designing. Fate would have it to thrust Jason Marson into her life again. There are many problems with that but with her wacky friend and coworker, perhaps she'll...

Alison Barnard's A Walk in the Rain is the story of two women who meet when each is on the brink of world-wide fame and trying not to face her dissatisfaction with the life she has made for herself. It is a love story, but it is also about a journey to self-acceptance. By the end of it, both major characters...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have original fiction from Alison Littlewood ("Ways to Wake") and...

Most of us turn into someone we would not want to know when we drive in our vehicles. We allow other drivers to control us - instead of keeping a calm composure, we give in to rage when we encounter annoying, aggressive, selfish, inconsiderate, and stupid drivers. We may not want to admit it, but...