James Rice

Perfect for fans of Nathan Filer's THE SHOCK OF THE FALL and Mark Haddon's THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, comes the book of the year.... A spellbinding first novel by a British author about how obsessions and phobias can upend your entire life. This is a book about phobias and obsessions, isolation and dark corners. It's about families, friendships, and carefully preserved secrets. But above everything else it's about love. Finding love - in any of its forms - and nurturing it. Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition's caused by some traumatic incident from my past I keep deep-rooted in my mind. As soon as I come clean I'll flood out all these tears and it'll all be ok and I won't be scared of Them anymore. The truth is I can't think of any single traumatic childhood incident to tell her. I mean, there are plenty of bad memories - Herb's death, or the time I bit the hole in my tongue, or Finners Island, out on the boat with Sarah - but none of these are what caused the phobia. I've always had it. It's Them. I'm just scared of Them. It's that simple.

Alice and the Fly

Greg es un adolescente retraído y solitario. Su padre es un cirujano plástico que nunca está en casa, su madre está obsesionada con el estatus y la decoración y su hermana menor solo se preocupa por sus ensayos de baile. Pero el principal problema de Greg son Ellas: Ellas, que imaginariamente lo persiguen por todas partes; Ellas, que aparecen en los lugares menos pensados; Ellas, que bajan del techo o caminan por la pared y la regadera; Ellas, que lo paralizan; Ellas... Las arañas. Pero una tarde cualquiera, durante un breve segundo, encuentra la sonrisa de Alice y eso le basta para llenar el vacío de su vida. Sin saberlo, ella se convertirá en su interlocutora, en el motor de todas sus acciones, en su obsesión. Alice y la mosca es una novela sobre las fobias, el aislamiento y el lado oscuro de las personas. Es sobre los secretos que la familia y los amigos esconden con tanto cuidado. Pero más que eso, es un libro sobre el amor, sobre encontrarlo y protegerlo de cualquier peligro.

Alice y la mosca

Stephen had seemed enthusiastic about the walk, when Benny first invited him. He kept going on about how amazing it'd be, the two of them out in the wilderness - the landscape shots, the pubs, etc., etc. Benny didn't interrupt this stream of enthusiasm. They were in the car park of the Miners, and Benny was too busy concentrating on his own stream of piss. He didn't think about it at all until the next morning. When he remembered inviting Stephen, Benny laughed out loud - a single ha - then spent three minutes silent-screaming into his pillow. **** Benny thought that it would be him and his dad doing the walk. Just him and his father, hiking through the Welsh countryside, like they used to. Only, when his dad got ill, it became obvious that this would never happen. So Benny was forced to consider other options. If Benny is honest, him and Stephen haven't been close since school, but once Benny had drunkenly blurted out the invitation, he couldn't take it back. Now Benny and Stephen are on the walk. A walk Benny has vowed to finish, no matter how hard it is. But as food runs low and money runs out, Stephen and Benny find themselves stranded on the edge of the world, far from home, where the possibility of return is becoming increasingly distant...

A Novel

Walk

Or, Memoirs of Mr. Golightly

The Cambridge Freshman

Walter Besant

"The Golden Butterfly" by Walter Besant, James Rice. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Golden Butterfly

Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition's caused by some traumatic incident I keep deep rooted in my mind. The truth is I can't think of any single traumatic childhood incident to tell her. It's them. I'm just scared of them. It's that simple.' Dubbed 'psycho' and tormented at school, Greg keeps his head down, takes his medication, and bares his soul only to his diary - addressing his words to Alice, a fellow pupil he watches from afar. Then things begin to spiral out of control. And all the while, he must keep up his guard against Them...

Sir Walter Besant

Novels

Harp

With Harp and Crown

A Matter-of-fact Story

Ready-money Mortiboy

Short alphabetical rhymes introduce Cajun vocabulary and Cajun culture.

Cajun Alphabet

Lord Mayor of London

Sir Richard Whittington

The Captains's Room

Gaston, the green-nosed alligator, heads offshore, dons a hard hat and steel toes, and helps pipeliners lay a pipeline.

Gaston Lays an Offshore Pipeline

And Other Stories

'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay

My life has been (above any merits of my own) so blessed by Providence, that methinks its history should be begun with the ringing of bells, the singing of psalms, the sound of cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music. For surely the contemplation of a happy course should, even towards its close, be accompanied by a heart full of cheerful piety and gratitude. And though, as often happens to us in the Lord's wisdom, ill fortune, disappointment, troubles of the flesh, and pain of disease may perhaps afflict me in these latter years of fleeting life, they ought not to lessen the glad song of praise for blessings formerly vouchsafed (and still dwelling in my memory) of love, of joy, and of happiness. Truly, the earth is a delightful place; a fair garden, which yields pleasant fruit; and, if it may be so said with becoming reverence, there are yet, outside the gates of Eden, places here and there which for beauty and delight, to those who thither win their way, are comparable with Paradise itself. In such a place it has been my happy lot to dwell.

The Chaplain of the Fleet

Taken from the infamous query letter: HOLLYWOOD UNDERGROUND is the TRUE STORY about how I lived inside two major movie studios, undetected for over three years in pursuit of a show biz dream. I was a film and journalism student at California State University, Long Beach, but after being kicked out of college for failing a class, due to making my own film, I left Long Beach behind for a dream and found myself on the streets of Hollywood for ten days, growing more and more desperate. A freak occurrence led me to walking into Sunset Gower Studios through an open door of the sound stage, where they filmed the TV show Moesha. Once inside the movie studio, I would live high atop the catwalks of STAGE 1 for a few months, getting an audition from Keith Wolfe a casting agent on the lot, placing one of my screenplays on a production office desk of Big Ticket Television and trying to make subsequent connections for work. The plan was to make the most of this weird opportunity. Inside STAGE 1, after hours, I used the bathrooms to wash clothes and clean up, but a couple months later after being chased off the lot by armed guards, perplexed on what to do next, I still didn't want to give up on my dream... So, I did what anyone with a passionate dream might do, I jumped the fence of Paramount Studios later that night around 2:00 a.m. I would end up living inside Paramount for the next THREE YEARS hidden in plain sight, acting like I belonged in this world of actors, but acting not for a paycheck or fame, but to merely survive another day and to keep this dream alive. During this once in a lifetime trek, I ate from the craft service tables of various TV shows like: Becker, Roswell, Judging Amy, The Amanda Show, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Frasier, Growing Up Brady and the movie, Fifteen Minutes, to name just a few. At first, I slept on an elevated outdoor ivy-covered catwalk at the very back of the back lot, which was attached to the sound stage where they filmed, Star Trek: Voyager. A year later, I would be found out by landscapers trimming the ivy that covered this outdoor perch. As they went to get security, I grabbed what was left from my life, stuffed into a backpack and made STAGE 30, where they film the TV show Soul Train my home, as well as the back lot where they shot The Godfather, Laverne and Shirley, and Little House on The Prairie to name a few. Inside Paramount Marathon Office Building, I took up a desk of an employee named Bob Stanton and worked on my scripts before hours on his computer. I would get there well before the start of the 9 a.m. workday and leave just before the rush of real employees filled the office, erasing the cookies of course, as well as throwing out all the coffee cups. I took on many jobs as a volunteer, but to the security staff and many other Paramount employees I came into contact every day, it became a juggling act to keep these perceived "roles" in the air. To some, like a security guard named Tom, I was the promotions guy named Bob Stanton, who could help Tom himself sell his very own screenplay, to others on the set of Becker, I was an assistant editor for Judge Judy, a professional extra, a reporter for Newsweek on the movie Fifteen Minutes, a production assistant for The Amanda Show, a young up and coming actor, an intern, a grip without a Walkie-Talkie, and young screenwriter, to name just a few. HOLLYWOOD UNDERGROUND is all about going for the dream no matter the cost. I mean, imagine being thrust into a world of movie stars, Hollywood icons, and movie producing moguls, yet you haven't anything but the will to succeed? This is quite simply a story that has never happened before and one that will likely never happen again.

James Rice

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