Vehicles define eras and are a means for advancing economies from traditional to high mass-consumption. They can also play diverse roles within amazing stories.A train was the setting for Agatha Christie's famed Murder on the Orient Express. A river boat then took center stage on Death on the Nile. Stephan King's Christine showed us a blood thirsty side, while in real life, the disappearance of Emelia Earhart and her plane continues to tease imaginations. Cars have been prominently...

An alien encounter opens the door to a new way of life for mankind.When a man encounters a wounded creature in his garage, a strange calm comes over him as he realizes the creature can read his mind. He is in the presence of an alien, and in that moment, his life will never be the same. He comes to call the alien Ianote`, short for I Am Not Of This Earth. Racing the clock, the man ...

In the English language, there are a few, very special words that can function as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. One word goes further, creating new words from old. That word is Jack. For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Things that Go Jack in the Night. Twelve stories arranged for you to beat the detective to the solution. Twelve "jacks" that should definitely not be taken at face value. It's a race between you and the detective to find the killer amid ...

The rules for law and order create boundaries for civil co-existence. Ideally, the rule of law provides the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem.For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Anything but M...

Games are a thing for children; a pastime for those with nothing better to do…or are they?At the most basic level, games are competitions that are conducted according to rules with participants working toward a goal. Sometimes those goals are mutual, but most of the time, not so much. Games are a part of every culture and go back further than human records. Take the simple marble which has been found in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, in the ashes in Pompeii, and in North Ameri...

The Frostfyre Valley wakes to tragedy. Bells toll, announcing the Queen's death, and while there must be time to mourn, the people of the valley know a new Queen must rise.Throughout the Frostfyre, women and girls wear masks of sadness, but inside they dream of power. A rise to royalty.But what will the task be this time? What must they do to be dubbed "Queen"?Many women have spent their entire lives training for this moment, pushed by eager parents or power-hungry ...

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poetsAnother South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at onc...

A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams’s best-known poetry, including Sectio...

Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry is an exciting collection from poets who teach both in and outside academia. Fifty-eight poets in various stages of their careers have contributed sixty-one exercises ranging from quick and simple to involved and multi-layered. In seven chapters, ranging from "Springboards to Imagination" to "Chancing the Accidental" to "Complicating the Poem," each exercise includes not only clear step-by-step instructions, but numerous poems that exemplify the su...

With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent collections, Domanski’s poetry has deepened and expanded, with longer lines and more complex structures that journey into the far reaches of metaphor. Now, with Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski, t...

" Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work." — The Washington PostWith work from the seventy-five poets who are the game-changing, bar-setting voices of our time first published in this volume, Conjunctions: 35, American Poetry is the definitive collection for the contemporary poetic landscape. Includes astonishing uncollected work from masters of the form, as well as breathtaking new...

About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these poems explore the asymmetry of the body's chemistry and its effects on expression and form. The poems in Threshold Songs tune us to the microtonal music o...