Short story. All they wanted - all any of them really wanted - was a family. A family of their very own.

Short story. A man returns to the aboriginal community where he first learned the indigenous legend of the mermaids.

Poems from Inside. Poems and short oddities originating from my time as a guest of the Acute Psychiatric Unit.

"Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged betwe...

From John Mack, former CEO of Morgan Stanley, an intimate personal memoir and riveting business story, recounting how he helped grow the company from 300 to 50,000 employees over four decades, transformed a notoriously competitive culture into a successful and collaborative one, and lead the company through the 2008 financial crisis.During his thirty-four-year tenure at Morgan Stanley, John Mack’s goal was to build the strongest and most productive team on Wall Str...

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation“A masterful history.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles.”—Carlos E. Cortés, University of California, RiversideCalifo...

"[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian fronti...

Short fiction. There are few enough rewards to the work. But today, Alisha will see that the mortician gets what's coming to him.

Short fiction. A quick guide to the dos and don'ts, things to say and to not say, when seeing a friend off on a long trip.

Short story. Erasmus stalks the halls of his lonely ancestral manor, awaiting the visit of his estranged brother, Leopold, and Leopold's new bride. But what else does the prodigal bring home with him?

This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and...

In Tight & Bright, John takes you from the desert southwest (New Mexico, West Texas, and Arizona) through the jungles of South Vietnam to the big-time in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Youre there in the control room with John and the greatest hit music of all time. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Motownits all there in the pages of Tight & Bright, including country music where John started. If you love music and want to know what it was like spinning the hits, playing those 45s, Tight & ...