Gathers stories and poems by John Cheever, Anne Sexton, E.E. Cummings, Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Thurber, Peter Matthiessen, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Bret Harte, Charles Dickens, Willa Cather, and Alex Haley...
In Florida Stories, Tales from the Tropics by Elmore Leonard, Cabeza de Vaca, Tennessee Williams, Damon Runyon, Joan Didion, John D. McDonald, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and John Sayles, you will be drawn into an alluring collection of sto...
Alaska Stories is filled with an array of classic and recent voices--native Alaskans and newcomers, environmentalists and hunters, essayists and fiction writers. From the childhood view of the expansive frontier in Robert Coles's 'Distances' to the e...
A comprehensive anthology collects the literature on drugs and drug users by the world's most imaginative writers, including Jim Hogshire on the reptilian effects of DM cough syrup and Lewis Carroll sending Alice down the rabbit hole. Original
From the drifting sand dunes and quaint shops of Provincetown to Nantucket's white-washed verandas and craggy beaches, Cape Cod Stories captures all of the rustic beauty and history of this picturesque area in the words of America's best writers. Rev...
Beauty is more than skin deep. In this anthology of fiction, science, lore, and just plain gossip, a remarkable range of authors ruminates on the subject that captures everybody's attention. Camille Paglia talks about pagan beauty, Sophia Loren offer...
When Anna and Sadie discover the diaries of their mother, Rebecca, in the days following her death, they learn that her life was far more complex than either of them knew: a garment worker in early-1900s New York; the reluctant wife in an arranged ma...
Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has...
Raymond Harrison hadn't seen his childhood friend Daniel Thompson in over fifteen years. When he suddenly found himself seated next to Daniel over lunch, he could hardly believe his eyes. Less than a week later Raymond was at the County Morgue asked ...
Winner of the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Awards - Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction Born with a split lip and cleft palate, Toshy Wolfman’s life is an uphill battle. Believing he is dim-witted and ugly, Toshy finds his resentment slowly...
John Babineaux completes his military service, and since re-enlistment guarantees a trip to Viet Nam, he chooses to return to his Cajun home and then realizes his future lies elsewhere. With his lifetime savings, John drives east in search of “else...
John Babineaux, the Cajun who left home and family in search of his future, continues to live in Valdosta, Georgia, and employed as a gofer by Phillip Klein, owner of the Triple A Detective Agency. After John solves a long-dormant case, Phillip prese...
Formidable Scot's underground comic and outsider artist, John Miller has been producing his unique work for the past 30 years, contributing to dozens of fanzines and small press here and abroad. This collection draws together his output from the '90s...
For many rural, Southern young men and women, the armed services have traditionally represented a way out of the life their parents struggled to survive. John Miller offers glimpses into the hearts and minds of these soldiers and their friends, lover...
“You wouldn’t mind if I asked you a question, would you?”She sat down and, before I could say a word, said, “A faerie.”“I beg your pardon?”“You were going to ask what I am.” She held up her right forefinger and blue light seemed to...
In this the fifth installment of the Babineaux series, we find John coping with news of his father's serious illness. John's father takes the news of his illness in some unexpected directions and his strength serves to teach life lessons to his son a...
Kevin Born is just graduating from the 5th grade. A wonderful experience for any child and the start of a long vacation before he has to start in Middle School. But his vacation takes a turn when his father tells him he is going to Summer Camp instea...
David is a young boy of 10, who has a special place he goes where he dreams amazing dreams. In his dreams he can fly about the lake near his home and he meets his friend Alexander, who is an angel. They enjoy flying together around the lake and then ...
Gorgeously illustrated, this is the story of a crocodile and a crocodile bird. These animals exist in a symbiotic relationship. Crocodile birds pick leeches and lice from the crocodile's skin and cry out whenever they see danger. In this story, Wi...
Follow the exploits of Squad A, 2nd Platoon, Company C, 2nd Battalion of Royal Fusiliers and thrill to their exploits as the Founding Fathers accidentally rise from their ranks in the desperate final months of the the First Great Intergalactic War....
Joshua Brandt cuts ties in Tennessee and goes in search of his brother in the Wyoming Territory. Along the way he finds old friends and new enemies. A Texas judge lets him forge an unlikely team of U.S. Marshals. He leads them against train robbers, ...
Jack lives in Gladstone now but it’s time for a trip. He invites Susan along to get his printing press, see Denver, and meet his best friend Frank. Jack's got a surprise or two for Frank. Susan gets to show off her skills. Gladstone’s rescue squa...
From Book 1: Joshua Brandt cuts ties in Tennessee and goes in search of his brother in the Wyoming Territory. Along the way he finds old friends and new enemies. A Texas judge lets him forge an unlikely team of U.S. Marshals. He leads them against tr...
On a small piece of sidewalk, there once lived a teeming colony of teeny tiny red spiders. These spiders were so tiny that when it rained they never got wet and when people stepped on them they never got squashed.
Even so, they were all quit...
This book, 2nd in the Conquered Armies Series, picks up where Founding Fathers left off with the introduction of Sam Hall, a #1 Hero of the Resistance or #2 Terrorist scum, driven by a self-appointed mission and preaching imminent apocalypse and doom...
Paulette and Danni grew up miles apart -- Paulette in Hamilton and Danni in North Toronto -- but they might as well have been worlds apart. Paulette's family emigrated from Jamaica. Danni grew up Jewish in an affluent neighbourhood of Toronto....
Rex Bonner’s next case began with the appearance of a strange and engaging woman. She arrived at the office with a very odd and unusual tale to tell. The roots of which began in war-torn Italy in 1944. A group of young girls who had banded together...
Uncovering the history of the tattoo in classic fiction for the first time, this original selection depicts the tattoo as a catalyst for scandal in society, as a symbol for an unknowable supernatural force, and as transcendent living art merging the ...
Coinciding with the return of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 10), the authors invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy their FIFTH! offering: The LOST Episodes: Curb Your Enthusiasm – For ALL Eternity -- ’til Death Do Us Part ...
Oftentimes, the intentions of honest and law-abiding people are subjugated by the elements of the occupations that they pursue. Why would a skilled precision machinist want to give up on that life track to pursue a career of violence and danger in th...
Rex Bonner's next case began with the appearance of a strange and engaging woman. She arrived at the office with a very odd and unusual tale to tell. The roots of which began in war-torn Italy in 1944. A group of young girls who had banded together f...
Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic, and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can’t see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thicke...
A story of childhood dreams and adventures, and of the parental love that in seeing you, nourishes you to become yourself.★ A Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) Loveliest Children’s Book of 2021 ★Using notebooks, paintings, and s...
“As I moved with stiff legs along the reefs I slipped into the water.It was cold beyond belief–thevery quintessence of deathly Arctic ice, so cold that it seemed to sear and bleach the skin.” Fired up by the accounts of exploring pa...