In a world of strange magic, dangerous creatures, and villainous wyverns, an ousted young queen struggles to regain her throne.Sophia Pendergast''s quest is complicated by deep-rooted misogyny embedded in her culture and religion. Her lover, a dashing young knight, offers her a life in obscure comfort, but she refuses to abandon her people to the usurper''s whims. To retake her throne and set prophecy on its path, she must embrace a long-denied secret and discover a prophecy''s hidden meaning.In S. L. Wilton''s Queen of Crows, we discover simple truths may not exactly be simple.
When the world is collapsing, how is survival possible?When a three-year-old stuffs paper into the toilet, it seeps through the ceiling onto the mahogany table to enrage his mother. Money tight, a girl does farm work in hot sun. A homeless man yearns for his childhood home. A young Merchant marine sails into the port city just A-bombed. Millions are stunned as planes slice into their tallest skyscraper.In Jean E. Verthein''s Bottled Cries at Sea, as events grow ever more gross and confounding, how do we cope?
The winding roads we endure in life are one of our greatest mysteries and unpredictable circumstances; we travel those roads fearlessly, unabashedly, and full-steam ahead in this journey-filled endeavor.This non-traditional book uses an unorthodox form of speculative non-fiction, speaking from numerous personas, with visceral language and intriguing storylines. It delves into the importance of perspective both individually and collectively, ranging from the receptivity of internal sentiments to the adventurous mystique of well-known historical figures.In The Unsolvable Intrigue: An Anthology of Poetry and Short Stories by D.C. Stoy, we experience an introspective dive into historical, fictional, and current-event-related topics, uniquely orchestrated in poetic form. This collection displays Stoy''s creative and ideological repertoire, prompting emotional discoveries and philosophical reconfigurations, challenging readers to expand their paradigms and increase their self-awareness.
The silver spoon lodged in George''s throat was choking the life out of him. The obsessive need for power and control of a global empire overshadows the Leibnitz family. Favored heir George struggles to reconcile the person he could become with the ruthless leader he is expected to be. A new world emerges when he meets the captivating M. On his journey, we find intrigue, betrayal, and mortal danger lurking behind the most unlikely doors. In Twisted Silver Spoons by Karen Wicks, we experience the inner and outer struggle of a protagonist who defies expectations to find his voice and become his own man.
Go on. Take the ride.Riding coattails to a notorious street racer investigating the disappearance of her brother, Zap's humdrum existence is galvanized into a weird and wild ride of high-octane racing that leads him out of his home town, the megatropolis Troubadour, and into the unknown. On this journey Zap will encounter all manner of exotic places and outlandish people, including a vampyre television heartthrob, an A.I. housekeeper with a fetish for romcoms, dangerous assassins, and the ruler of the galaxy. Yet perhaps more intriguing than the rest...the androgynous girl (or boy?) that he so strongly gravitates to, and who jump-starts the chaos that lead to it all in the first place.James Callan's Neon Dreams is a narrative with an adrenaline surge, pedal to the metal from first page to last. Unapologetic and stimulant-riddled, it's a live wire on hot sauce.
If you knew one party would change your life in unimaginable ways, would you go? Senior year was supposed to be pointless and fun. For Rose Jackson, it turns into life or death when she and her bodyguard are taken as hostages to a remote island. As they struggle to understand their captivity and their growing feelings, circumstances introduce them to two very different captives: an insurance salesman and a delirious model. Trying to find a way off of Abaddon Island, our four unlikely heroes navigate complicit strangers and familiar evils. As they get to the bottom of the island's secrets, one question rises to the surface: "e;Can we live with the choices we've made?"e; Abaddon Illusion by Lindsey Bakken is a thriller about finding your identity in extreme circumstances and never letting go of the person you want to become.
"e;Time is the school in which we learn/Time is the fire in which we burn."e; - Delmore SchwartzA young couple finds themselves hip-deep in sex, social change, the Arts, Civil Rights, politics, warfare, and - ultimately - children, as they negotiate the paths of self-discovery spanning over fifty years and four continents.In the twelve stories of Richard Scharine's The Past We Step Into, we experience the America we remember, the America we want to forget, and the America we dream of achieving.
Three sets of twins attending the annual Twins Days festival are about to have their lives - and their whole universes - turned inside out.Teens April and May are there on their own for the first time. Along with elderly funeral home operators Jeff and Davis, and middle-aged fraternals Minnie and Max, they are split apart when something strange happens: Half go to a universe where twins are unheard of, so there's no festival going on. The others go to a different universe where almost everyone is a twin - so again, there's no festival.How did they get there? Does it have anything to do with the pains May has been having? How can they get back where they belong?In Twins Daze, a truly delightful debut novel, Jerry Petersen explores the issues of what is and isn't normal, and how society reacts to those who are different.
"e;The Museum of an Extinct Race"e; is a soul-shaking tale of faith and resurrection in the face of crushing persecution. The novel resonated with me long after I reached the last page."e;Claire Wachtel, Editor Emeritus, Harper-Collins--In a world too impossible to imagine... A future too possible.Adolf Hitler's Germany has won the war and conquered the world. He has succeeded in eliminating any vestige of Jews and Judaism. 70 years later, his successors realize Hitler's desire for a museum to memorialize that extermination. The Museum of an Extinct Race, told through the eyes of its two protagonists-Dano Adamik, a Czech native coerced into curating the museum, and Eva Novak, a museum docent with Jewish heritage-unveils a beaten, subjugated society, dominated by a self-proclaimed super race.Through emotionally charged scenes of an all-too-real, anti-civilization, the novel plunges us into a world absent of Jews and bereft of the ethical guidance of Judaism.
In a single, blinding instant all they have known is destroyed and they awaken to a hostile and uncertain future.Marooned, Angus Hirano and Eilen Macumbo fight to survive among alien inhabitants who should not exist. Within the boughs of a vast arboreal world, Eilen adapts as Angus struggles, dreaming of once again roaming the stars. Odd hints of civilization kindle hope and set the pair upon a quest for answers to questions they can scarcely form. Nomads and traders accompany them through forest and across desert plateau, until, in the heart of a far mountain, they encounter a startling, long buried past and discover a path they could never have imagined back to the stars.Between its covers, Uko's Legacy unveils an exciting odyssey while revealing the surprising secrets of a strange new world.
One lives to uphold the law. One lives to break the law.Sammi Reilly thinks she has everything figured out with her friends and band of thieves. Then they meet their match: a lone law enforcement officer. Detective Mack Johnson is just doing his job but gets more than he bargains for when going toe-to-toe against-and falling head-over-heels-for Sammi. Can Mack be more than just Sammi's way out of an abusive relationship, or will their worlds implode if thieves and cops try to coexist?Love Against the Law by Justine Klavon takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride through action and romance, showing us friendship might be the key to happiness, leaving us with new friends we never knew we wanted.
Marie Autumn yearns to willingly submit to someone. To lose control. To surrender. The woman has endured a great deal of abuse from her father, and she wishes to control the pain, in some way at least, through BDSM. Unfortunately, the dom she submits to gets consumed by the power he holds over her, which leads them down a very dark road. Will Marie escape and find love? Or will she forever be tied to the man's bed in golden handcuffs, starving because he refuses to feed her?
A mother who gives away her daughter in a relative's kitchen; a little girl who watches from behind a partly closed door; a father who leaves his daughter beside the trash cans in an alley while stealing her brother-Leah lives these lives and more in this memoir of growing up a girl in post-WWII America.Holding Up the Sky by Lessie Auletti shares parent-child relationships as seen through the eyes of Leah, a little girl born shortly after Pearl Harbor, who views both the wars between nations and those of her parents. She survives divorce, kidnapping, and family betrayal. This story of the struggles of family and childhood will have you turning the pages in excitement.
Teaching during the Jurassic: Wit and Wisdom from an Old Hippie Teacher is a memoir in the vein of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. Instead of the Appalachian Trail, we follow all the twists and turns of Martin Settle's teaching career from his first approach to teaching as a hippie subversive to his eventual triumph as a self-actualized person.Part memoir, part teaching guide, this book charts the "e;Jurassic"e; period of teaching - no personal computers, no cell phones, no internet, and the introduction of new social movements in the classroom (women's rights, civil rights, and gay rights). Settle addresses some of the universals of the profession - how to deal with administrators, behavioral problems in the classroom, the outsider student, the psychologically dangerous student, and more."e;Perfect for the reader who is an aspiring, current or retired educator, the book is also a must read for those who enjoy exploring the intersection between all domains of knowledge and long for hopeful possibilities for the future."e;- Robert Corbin, PhD, Educational Consultant, International, Discovery Education"e;In a year that's shown us just how essential good teachers are, Martin Settle's book Teaching During the Jurassic will leave you with a newfound respect for this noble profession."e;-Taylor Bowler, lifestyle editor at Charlotte magazine "e;There is wisdom in this book about not only enduring the teaching experience but prevailing as a self-actualized person. This memoir is a must read for all in the education profession."e; -Jackie Fishman, National Teacher Leadership Team, Facing History and Ourselves
Constance Studer's collection of short stories, Queen of the Sugarhouse, brings to life strongly drawn characters dealing with challenging circumstances. A registered nurse in ICU struggles to do the right thing after she makes a mistake. A homeless Desert Storm veteran grieves for his own loss of health, as well as for the loss of his father. Two women test their life-long friendship while one of them undergoes a facelift. A doctor's life is forever changed during one twenty-four hour shift in the Emergency Room. A writer, committed to a psychiatric hospital because of an accident, uses her writing to heal. A novice nurse learns her job from taking care of a confused old man who has suffered a stroke. A waitress struggles with caring for her younger brother, who has muscular dystrophy. A daughter reluctantly comes home to nurse her difficult mother, who drove first her husband then her daughter to flee the Ohio farm where their livelihood was making maple sugar. "e;Every person has a story,"e; Carl Jung observed. "e;Derangement happens when the story is denied. To heal, the patient needs to rediscover his story."e; Constance Studer's characters find healing in making pottery, taking photographs of objects not usually thought of as beautiful, in climbing mountains, in writing a novel. Healing is a process, a journey toward balance, connectedness, meaning and wholeness, rather than an outcome.
The company has been separated. The goblin chief has been defeated, but the goblins have regrouped and resumed their search. Adroegen has taken a fall over a cliff and may be gone, while Caitren is captured and will be brought before the evil lord Vyroun, who will soon wage war upon the kingdoms in the north. Gleowan and Vaenn search for Caitren, while Edelbir and Kattalin must find Adroegen, as well as a hidden kingdom of dwarves to aid them against Vyroun. The Tempter''s Bane is the second installment of The Drifters'' Road series, in which Adroegen''s friends lose their guide in lands unknown to them. On their own, they despair over the coming assault from Vyroun, and over fear that their friends might be gone.
When Jason Williams, an alienated and unemployed artist and poet, plots with his "e;homies"e; to construct an African American hydrogen bomb-Boom Shakalaka!!!-he has no idea this desperate quest for dignity will propel him to a new world. Opening doorways to the "e;many rooms in [his] father's house"e; leads him into the multiverse's mansion of 10^500 rooms. Jason finds himself riding the rails of a ridiculously sublime "e;underground railroad"e; to the utopias of stars and galaxies within each of us.Blackland is an outrageous postmodern novel, seen through prisms of philosophy, physics, and poetry. As he swaggers and staggers through "e;the great conversation,"e; Jason tags "e;Phew Yawk Shitty"e; with the graffiti of urban angst and humor, while "e;joning"e; with hood-rat desperation and bluster on the perversities of Black lives in America. Yet, could it be the banter disguises his grander ambitions to relocate the entire population of the earth to the Andromeda galaxy? In his ongoing search for "e;the best of all possible worlds,"e; he awakens on a hay wagon in Blackland, a world where white people have opted for virtual reality and left the Earth to the mud people.Blackland's satirical humor provokes both belly laughs and moral outrage. As political satire, Blackland questions the contemporary racialized imaginaries that create our shared futures. In the traditions of writers like Paul Auster's Travels in the Scriptorium, Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Jason lives in a library of books. As his adventure evolves, he reads and writes himself not only into a world, but also into the multiverse, where he is everywhere at once. Blackland is an exuberant dreamscape, a paradoxical novel inscribed within itself that will fuel your imagination and, as it draws you on its fantastical journey, stoke your outrage, and drive you to fits of laughter.
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