How communities across the US South are fighting to save their home from the effects of environmental changeRising seas, extreme heat, fragile infrastructure, and long-standing social inequities make the American South particularly susceptible to the hazards of climate change and weather events. Climate Crossroads reveals how environmental factors are reshaping the South’s landscape, politics, and identity—and how the region’s history magnifies every storm...

Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy AwardFlorida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida NonfictionAmerica’s wettest state is running out of water. Florida—with its swamps, lakes, extensive coastlines, and legions of life-giving springs—faces a drinking water crisis. Drying Up is a wake-up call and a hard look at what the future holds for those who call Florida home.Journalist and educator John Dunn untangles the many ...

Jason O’Donnell is a journeyman reporter whose big dreams of finding the elusive, career-altering Story have been blunted by the relentless demands of daily, big city journalism. In the newspaper business, where the high node of success almost always portends the deep trough of failure, Jason has clearly hit bottom. In search of new material, he flees the suburban conformity of the south to work for the Lost River Journal, “the best daily north of 60" and the central nervous sy...

Jason O'Donnell is a journeyman reporter whose big dreams of finding the elusive, career-altering Story have been blunted by the relentless demands of daily, big city journalism. Once transfixed by the sight of his articles rolling off the press, he has now lost hope after being relegated to his paper's lifestyle pages where he coaxes awkward poetry out of stories about prize-winning pumpkins and the best way to floss one's teeth. In the newspaper business, where the high node of success a...

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back...

Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepes...

A new short story by award-winning author Pasha Malla.Set during the summer in a small town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, To Sweep the Light is a love story about solitude and companionship, proximity and distance, and the quest for intimacy between a boy and a girl.

When the mutilated corpse of a wealthy author is found within the grounds of a stately home, the police officer sent to investigate finds a curious diary amongst the occult objects that dominate the scene. Will he uncover the author’s secret at the ruined chapel that lies across the wasteland, and does he really want to pay the price of such knowledge?

Dirk Cobb, an ambitious young lawyer with a fondness for the ladies that is not always reciprocated, hooks up with a sweet and very stylish department store manager as a diversion from the pressures of his job. But Dirk finds more than he bargained for when the young lady turns out to be not quite so innocent as he thought and soon leads him on a wild chase to solve an age old prophetic riddle, one that might just get him killed."There are lots of surprises in this opening volume o...

One snowy midnight in Chicago a drunken ex-priest is accosted on the street by a well-dressed stranger, who turns out to be his former altar boy. The young man — now a successful lawyer — wants Father Delaney to perform a very special ancient ritual — the spiritual cleansing of a mystery mansion; an exorcism.Hands down, Oblivion is one of the scariest haunted house novels you will ever read — and just wait until you find out where this haunted house is located! Evil reigns in this ...

This is the gripping story of the collision between two vastly different human civilisations. One is Earth in the early 21st century, rushing toward self-inflicted nuclear doom. The other is the distant world of Mollan, whose inhabitants have achieved great longevity and the power to transport themselves instantly from star to star.Bob Shaw's novel unfolds a tale which spans thousands of years and the reaches of interstellar space. On Earth's side, there is Denny Hargate, whose ind...

***Get 6 FREE ebooks @http://www.DavidMarkBrownWrites.com as part of the FREE DMB PRIMER LIBRARY!*** Raising Arizona meets Joe Black "A provocative moral tale as much about embracing life as meeting Death." "Never has Death been so human as a kiddie pool, a folding chair and a bottle of regret. If only the other three horseman could be as easy to relate to." WARNING: Handling a scythe without proper ...