For 17-year-old queer street-punk Girl, the gutters of San Francisco are home. But when her best friend dies, she escapes the city for the heartland, in search of a place where she can breathe again. Torn between her restlessness, a longing for home, and a desperate fear of impending death, Girl seeks to link herself with almost anyone who crosses her path: a bored housewife in Salt Lake City casting a net for illicit thrills, a born-again Christian punk rocker and his girlfriend, a teenag...

A Highwayman ravages the countryside, robbing the unsuspecting traveler. He promises to come at midnight for Bess, the landlord’s daughter.But when the redcoats come, and lay a trap for the Highwayman at the inn, Bess warns her lover in a method and manner never to be forgotten.

From the author of Indie Next Pick and New York Times Editors' Choice Goodnight, Beautiful Women comes a transportive and chilling debut novel of two sisters growing up on an isolated Northern European island in the shadow of their late mother and the DevilIt’s 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island’s women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young d...

UNBREAKABLE BONDS OF FAMILY AND LOVE ARE EXPLORED IN THIS BRILLIANTLY TENDER STORY FROM THE AUTHOR OF GUY’S GIRL----On the day she arrives in Canada for her older brother’s wedding, Eliot Beck hasn’t seen her family in three years.Eliot adores her wacky collection of siblings and in-laws, but there’s a reason she fled to Manhattan and buried herself in her work – and she’s not ready to share it with anyone.Eliot thi...

**Praise for the Soul of Shadow series...."CRACKLES WITH CHEMISTRY." - Booklist"BURSTING WITH MAGIC AND DANGER." - Publishers Weekly"ABSOLUTELY SIZZLING ROMANCE." - Betty CayoutteLove, magic, gods, and monsters collide in the thrilling conclusion to the Soul of Shadow trilogy, a romantic fantasy for fans of Twilight and Teen Wolf.**When Charlie Hudson awakens after her Trial, it’s to find that nothing will ever be the...

The boy who couldn’t love and the girl who wouldn’t.Ginny Murphy is a total guy’s girl. She’s always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free – as long as they don’t fall for her, and she doesn’t fall for them. She and her best guy friends have stuck to that. But then she meets Adrian Silvas, the only one who’s ever made her crave more, and Ginny begins to question her own rules.Piece by piece, Ginny and Adrian begin to fall into somet...

A demonstration of how the negatives of power-sharing accords all-too-often outweigh the positivesPower-sharing pacts are a key tool for resolving wide-ranging violent conflicts, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and with a particular concentration in sub-Saharan Africa. Historically tried in countries experiencing civil war, power sharing has been increasingly deployed to end less bloody and shorter conflicts like election violence. But does this tool actually work? D...

SOME DESTINIES ARE WRITTEN IN THE STARS. HERS WAS FORGED IN SHADOW.Vampire Diaries meets A Fate Inked in Blood in this breath-taking YA fantasy series that merges high school paranormal romance with Norse mythology.When Charlie Hudson awakens after her Trial, she discovers that nothing will ever be the same.The king of the gods is plotting to destroy Asgard. Charlie and her brother are stranded a w...

An intertextual examination of the storytelling of Israeli backpackers that analyzes their unique patterns of communication to create a thorough picture of this "narrative community."Backpacking, or Tarmila'ut, has been a time-honored rite of passage for young Israelis for decades. Shortly after completing their mandatory military service, young people set off on extensive backpacking trips to "exotic" and "authentic" destinations in so-called Third World regions i...

This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short unsubtle antiwar play by the English poet Alfred Noyes , published in 1915 while World War I is in progress. Part of the work is in verse. Music sung by Duane Steadman.

In sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic, even violent contexts, the characters in these stories struggle to fathom the complexities and circumstances of their lives. Here are ordinary people trying to come to grips with the implications of where they've been, and preparing themselves for where they're headed. All these stories seek to interrogate and render in genuine and unflinching ways the nature of doubt, delusion, and surprisingly, the potentially rescuing powers of faith and grace...

It is a perilous adventure—the writing of a preface, however brief, to one’s own poems. For one may be tempted to re-state matters that could find their full elucidation only in the verses themselves. Tennyson once remarked that poetry is like shot silk, glancing with many colours; and any attempt to define its meanings is as great a mistake as the attempt of nineteenth-century materialism to enclose the infinite universe in its logical nut-shells. But this revelation is the sole end and o...