When Jake Solomon learns of the death of his estranged father, including the fact that he was murdered, it is viewed as little more than an annoyance. But when he finds his father has left him $300,000 hidden in his secret toy chest and he discovers his father was a CIA agent involved with drug smuggling, this fosters an attitude adjustment, and Jake sets out to find out who his father really was. In the mold of Chinatown, nothing Jake is told is completely accurate. He finds himself embro...

Trapped by a dead man!When an age-old nemesis finally gives up the ghost, Vampirella and her young assistant are lured to his rural gothic estate, Rookhaven, for the reading of his last will and testament. There they meet the manor staff: the prurient assistant, the wild-eyed groundskeeper and his pensive young daughter, and the sinister and enigmatic Mr. Frey. Expecting a trap, Vampirella is not disappointed — but she gets even more than shebargained for in this thrilling adventure!Writte...

Imagine a world, exactly like ours, but different…Welcome to the H2LiftShips series, a cosmic romp fans have compared to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for its witty quirkiness, and that critics hail as "The most unique and weirdest book series out there."Captain Graciela is where she wants to be, far from her controlling mother, in a rented solar sail cargo ship, trading and gambling throughout the heliosphere. It can be lonely in the void, but the crew on the H2Lift...

“Our planet Zavre will be covered by one hundred feet of ice within twenty years….” So starts my science fiction novel about a civilization that existed a million years ago. How scientists, intellectuals, and the government respond to that news is the premise of this 270 page novel. Dr. Andros is given the authority to assemble experts to resolve the terrible dilemma of a world on the edge of extinction. What has caused this pending destruction? Is the dire prediction reversible? What will...

It's cold, rocky, and a little dark.Solar Sail cargo ships ply the commercial space from Earth to the distant Asteroids. Trading foodstuffs, coal, and nuclear engines for pure steel alloys, ZeroG Wool, and bioGel computers.Anti-Dystopian SciFi because we have too much Dystopia right now.Just regular sentients making a living in the void around our Sun: Earth, Luna, Mars/Phobos, and the Asteroid belt. Gig work is the norm, jumping from job to job, trying to earn enou...

The Essex Experiment is an adult story that incorporates intrigue, love, and mystery. It places the main characters in a series of events that include industrial espionage, murder, scientific investigations, and family relationships. The theme centers on the possible discovery of a cure for HIV. The novel explores the attempt by a few unscrupulous individuals for greed, vengeance, and the lure of money to hold back that discovery from the public. It might seem like chance that brought Dr. ...

The ultimate resource for learning how to design, plan, build, and manage extraordinary events!Events matter. When people come together to share ideas, they can forever change the course of progress. No one knows that better than Bob Priest-Heck and Carrie Freeman Parsons of the Freeman Company, one of the world’s leading event companies. These two event pros have seen firsthand the power of uniting people to explore innovative ideas, grow businesses, advance educa...

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poetsAnother South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at onc...

A man's frantic search for his missing family draws him into a terrifying plot in this novel from "one of the best thriller writers in the business" ( Library Journal, starred review).Though Jeff and Sarah Griffin are teetering on divorce, they try to keep the heart-wrenching turmoil from their young son, Cole. In fact, they all travel from Montana to Manhattan to give Cole a dream vacation. While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to bu...

A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams’s best-known poetry, including Sectio...

Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry is an exciting collection from poets who teach both in and outside academia. Fifty-eight poets in various stages of their careers have contributed sixty-one exercises ranging from quick and simple to involved and multi-layered. In seven chapters, ranging from "Springboards to Imagination" to "Chancing the Accidental" to "Complicating the Poem," each exercise includes not only clear step-by-step instructions, but numerous poems that exemplify the su...

Back from the Cold War, intelligence officer Keith Landry returns to his hometown of Spencerville, Ohio. Twenty-five years after their last encounter, Keith runs into his first love, Annie, now unhappily married to the town's chief of police--an abusive alcoholic. In his efforts to reclaim Annie, Keith will have to draw on all the skills of a violent lifetime.