An anthology of twenty-one crime, mystery, suspense and romance stories from nineteen authors, including Emmy-nominated John Goldsmith and Booker-nominated Jim Williams.This global collection of short stories from 400 to 7000 words covers everything from crime fiction to romantic suspense and historical mystery.Authors: John Goldsmith, Jim Williams, Jeremy Hinchliff, John Holland, Gerry McCullough, Alexandar Altman, R.A. Barnes, Maura Barrett, Eileen Condon, Mary Healy, Sus...

Winner of the Griffin International Poetry PrizeA collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths’ inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also addresses memory’s threads and galaxies, “the rule of remoteness,” and “the luminous story surrounding all things noumenal.”Following the preface are fou...

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York SunFor Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's inte...

A stirring, lyric new collection by Susan Howe, one of America’s foremost poetsSHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/VOELKER AWARD FOR POETRYWhat labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in the little of it.In four parts, Susan Howe’s new book opens with the arresting long prose poem “Penitential Cries,” followed by a group of word-collages “Sterling Park in the Dark,” “The Deserted Shelf,”...

In Frame Structures, Susan Howe brings together those of her earliest poems she wishes to remain in print, and in the forms in which she cares to have them last.Gathered here are versions of Hinge Picture (1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975), Cabbage Gardens (1979), and Secret History of the Dividing Line (1978) that differ in some respects from their original small-press editions. In a long preface, "Frame Structu...

The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces.A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new "Vagrancy in the Park" (about Wallace Stevens) through such essential texts as "The Disappearance Approach," "Personal Narrative," "Sorting Facts," "Frame Structures," and "Where Should the Commander Be," and ending with her seminal early criticism, "The End of Art." Th...

Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature.In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville and Emily Dickinson as a fel...

Susan Howe’s newest book of poetry is a revelation as well as a mystery."What treasures of knowledge we cluster around." That This is a collection in three pieces. "Disappearance Approach," an essay about Howe's husband's sudden death—"land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth"—begins the book with paintings by Poussin, an autopsy, Sarah Edwards and her sister-in-law Hannah, phantoms, and elusive remnants. "Frolic Architecture," the second secti...

Lily is a feisty young businesswoman, seduced by the prospect of turning round a company as a distraction from her messy divorce. She soon finds herself up to her pretty neck in mystery and intrigue – with devastating consequences. Add a gorgeous bodyguard, Brian; his young boss, Ayesha; Mohammed, Ayesha’s damaged husband - plus a couple of villains - and the stage is set for an interesting journey. Lily’s love of animals, ecology and Africa are the theme throughout the book – with fascina...

Attraction sizzles in the heat of the vineyardA nurse recovering from addiction. A fighter pilot broken by the horrors of war. Two damaged souls attracted to each other. Will their demons bring them closer or tear them apart?Author's note: Unlike my usual sweet romances, this book contains two mild sex scenes.

Capitol Danger A romantic suspense anthology like no other! Four stories, one event and four dangerous missions on the same night. It’s Inauguration Night. Glamorous balls throughout the nation’s capital celebrate a landmark event. The town and nation are in the mood to celebrate. But not everyone is so pleased. A home-grown sect known as the Red Mantle plan to make it an event to remember for their reasons. As their assault succeeds it will be up to those attending...

Working under the nom de plume George Eliot, gifted writer Mary Anne Evans made a name for herself as one of the foremost innovators in the realm of realistic fiction. In The Lifted Veil, however, she takes a sharp detour from the detailed depictions that characterized novels such as Middlemarch. In this short novel, Evans explores the realm of extrasensory perception, focusing on a protagonist who seems to have been given the ability to peer into the innermost thoughts of those around him...