Changing Roads, a book of poems written by TFSneider, is mostly true-to-life experiences. It is a mix of rhyming ballads, sonnets, and short quatrains and couplets created by a motorcyclist, grandfather, son, and friend. Many will make you sit and contemplate your life experiences dealing with a painful relationship, fun at a local bar, the passing of different seasons, and a vision to a bikers past, present, and future. After a long day of riding kick off your boots, grab a beer, and ride...

The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016“There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from...

This book has alot of good old fashion jokes and alot of new ones. I know you'll read it over & over so you can tell them to all your friends or at your next Party.

Married to an uncaring, workaholic husband, Shylia Allred walks to alleviate stress and to consider her divorce. Typical of many abused spouses, she dreams of escape but always comes up with a reason to thwart her own plans. Then, as she's walking past the local parish hall just as an AA meeting is letting out, she literally bumps into Randall Sly. As they get to know each other, she comes to trust him completely. He's the one man who can bring a huge change to her life. But change isn't a...

A road trip novel from the author of Fup that "reads like Kerouac's On the Road as it might have been written by Hunter S. Thompson" ( The Plain Dealer).George Gastin is a Bay Area tow-truck operator who wrecks cars as part of an insurance scam. One of the cars he is hired to demolish is a snow-white Cadillac that was supposed to be a present for the Big Bopper, who died in the Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. ...

With "vivid scenery and realistic dialogue" this rural crime noir novel "evocatively shows how a regional mystery can incisively explore an area." — Washington PostOne hot summer day, in his home in the southern Illinois coal country known as Little Egypt—a Midwest Gothic wonderland of barren vistas, sinister hollows, petty corruption, and deeply strange characters—the self-appointed "redneck detective" known as Slim gets a visit from a shady-looking pair l...

The National Book Award finalist. " Limón's poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." — The MillionsBright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."A book of bravado and introsp...

If you're looking for a book to help you rebuild the brakes on a 1978 Honda CB 750 or adjust the carbs on a 1986 Yamaha Midnight Special, then this isn't the book for you. But if you are looking for a book that is an easy read or one that might be a good "rainy night in a motel" book, you've found it.Come along and join us as we wander some back roads, meet some unusual people, dine on some fine home cooking, and discover that adventure can be found almost anywhere. As you travel a...

This collection of poems is about today, yesterday and tomorrow. They're about an unrelenting sun, and a moon that shows up just in time each and every night to ease our stresses. They're about shadows you never think too much about and past loves that still know how to make you remember a moment of happiness, even when you don't want to.

After years of living in a dream of ghosts, a homeless man finds his salvation on a cold Christmas Eve. In the underpass of a busy highway he settles in to his usual nightly accomodations and celebrates Christmas with his lost family.

Charles is back and his latest case has his client getting their moneys worth. He was hired to clear the name of a man who was framed for murder, but the small time dealer that made the hit was working for the Grid. Charles is going to have to climb his way to the top in order to make sure that his client gets out of this alive. But what about Charles? Can he really put a stop to this new threat known as the Grid?

Where am I? The question is paramount. In total darkness, at the side of a dirt road, Richard is paying for breaking up an instance of domestic abuse outside an Albuquerque saloon. Attacked by the woman he thought he was rescuing and then by two of her assailant's friends, he is knocked cold, hogtied and left in the middle of nowhere to die of the things you die from in the middle of nowhere. But someone else is out there, too, and he's praying that the driver of the truck he hears will sp...