The poems, songs, and letters described and written in this work, the PoemsSongs and Letters volume by Vance, refer to people, places, or events either experienced by or known to the author. All accounts are true. Some, however, may be blessed with flavor and coloror flair, if you will. Those will be left to the individual readers interpretation or discretion. There has been no intent to mislead or wrongly inform during the assembling of this volume.

On a wet winter night in Paris, a boy is abandoned at the restaurant Troyon's. Without even having a name, the boy makes a new life for himself under the stern eye of the restaurant's owners, when through one of its guests he's introduced to the criminal underworld. Years later, the boy-now named Michael Lanyard, the Lone Wolf-is a seasoned jewel thief, learned in mathematics, mechanics, and the ways of elegant society. He finds himself on the run, and returns to Paris where he must choose...

The poems, songs, and letters described and written in this, the Awesome Oak volume by Vance, refer to people, places, or events either experienced by or known to the author. All accountings are true. Some, however, may be blessed with flavor and color, or flair, if you will. Those will be left to the individual readers interpretation or discretion. There has been no intent to mislead or wrongly inform during the assembling of this volume.

The book begins with religious pages then lead into normal, everyday poetry about patriotism, letters, work, love, and tears then ends with drinking and dying.The intent is to present a mix of easy-to-readand also not-easy-to-readpoems and songs that you may or may not want to read.

Groundhog Day meets the worst super-spy, ever.Every time Rueben Peet dies, he "returns" to his body with the memories of what's to come. It seems that he gets to "repeat" his mistakes again and again.Good thing, too . . . Rueben is the worst super-spy ever.When New York City comes under threat of nuclear destruction, Rueben is the only one who can save the city. But even an infinite number of re-dos is not enough, for lurking in the background is a ...

She thought she loved him. He wants to kill her.Eva allows her love for her handsome kidnapper, Maxwell Hampton, to carry her away. But danger still hovers over her.Faced with a deadly threat that has dropped all pretenses, she is trapped. The jaws of the vise are closing in on her, about to crush her, holding her captive. How could she possibly escape? Maxwell is her last hope.But where is the handsome billionaire? Was his love real? Will Maxwell a...

Darien Mackey wasn’t looking for an adventure. For ten years, he’d been happy living in Brooklyn, working as a butcher in the same job, living in the same apartment, dating some “nothing-special” guys. Until one night his buddy Jacob talked him into taking ayahuasca, the soul-changing drug. And Darien had a vision…of a wolf, its all-too-human eyes on him, its paws on his chest, its enquiring mind in his own…Darien Mackey is changing. He’s more confident, more assertive, hungrier, h...

Five intergalactic criminal masterminds raid the tranquil world of Mount Pleasant, leaving behind only ruin and slaughter—and the orphaned child Kirth Gersen, who comes to manhood swearing to take bloody revenge. Now Gersen roams the galaxy, bringing vengeance to the Demon Princes one by one, in Jack Vance's classic series of hardboiled space opera.The fourth Demon Prince, Lens Larque, combines murderous criminality with a taste for horrific practical jokes. Escapi...

What would you do if you were being held captive and your abductor was as handsome as he was mysterious?Maxwell Hampton's revelations confuse the pretty Eva. She is under her kidnapper's charm, and yet she is hesitant to trust him despite their growing attraction. The young woman is eager to know the whole truth and she doesn't know what to believe anymore - or if the danger is even real at all! She is powerless to resist her feelings for Maxwell, despite her force...

"The Tree ruled the horizons, shouldered aside the clouds, and wore thunder and lightning like a wreath of tinsels- it had come to be worshipped by the first marveling settlers on Kyril". Joe Smith arrives from Earth and soon is caught up in a political plot between opposing worlds. Ultimately he discovers the true, horrific nature of The Tree of Life...Cover art by Howard Kistler

With the guidance of the Gray Prince, the fierce Uldrans prepare to reclaim their rule over the planet Koryphon, seizing power from the hands of the aristocratic Outkers.

An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society.The Waste Makers was the first book to probe the increasing commercialization of American life—the development of consumption for consumption's sake...