Orinally published by the now-defunct Starcherone Books, and widely reviewed, all rights to this ebook reverted to the author and its is now again evailable in as an ebook. Starcherone's original summary read as follows:“Joyce is part of a revolution in narrative form.”-Newsweek” Dawn it is, to be sure. The granddaddy of full-length hypertext fiction is Michael Joyce’s landmark Afternoon"-Robert Coover, The New York Times Book Review Michel Foucault famously wrote, “I am fully awar...

His major league baseball dreams dashed, a former pitcher returns home to make a life or death family decision.Finalist for the 2013 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Literary CategoryFinalist for the 2013 CASEY Award presented by Spitball: The Literary Baseball MagazineGoing the Distance is a baseball novel with a difference;...

Liam Williams is heading to college, and eagerly anticipates his coming independence. But for his poet mother, Cathleen, and his lawyer father, Noah, Liam's going is anything but easy. Each projects their lost dreams of youth onto their only child, and when Cathleen leaves Noah alone upstate to drive Liam down through New York's Hudson Valley to his school, their separation becomes quite literally a moving story of learning how to come to grips with losing . . . without letting go....

A post-cyber “Pilgrim’s Progress.Was is half-poem, half-narrative, a nomadic history whose main character is the fleetingness of information itself. The novel’s title figure, the word was, marks that instant of utterance outside the present; neither past nor future but rather the interstitial space of any telling. Like Ariel in flight, Was takes place before you can say ‘come’ and ‘go,'" slipping away before you can "breath twice and cry ‘so, so."T...

Royalties from the book will be donated to Parkinson's disease research at UNC Chapel Hill

"Sarah and Things that are Two" is the second book in a series designed to explore a child's imagination while learning to count. The book incorporates everyday examples of things that are two to emphasize the process of counting to build on the process. The book also provides opportunities for the reader to interact with the child and expand the of list things that are two from the child's perspective.

In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is u...

This new edition offers a practical, streamlined guide for clinicians learning to perform and interpret bedside ultrasound. Designed for use in fast‑paced clinical environments, it covers the core scans most commonly performed in the emergency department, intensive care unit, and other acute care settings. After a concise review of fundamental ultrasound principles, the book walks through image acquisition and interpretation for each major organ system.In a quick‑reference bulleted...

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author "mixes love and vengeance in this fast-paced . . . romantic thriller" (Publishers Weekly).In Fern Michaels' dazzling novel, a woman devastated by betrayal embarks on a daring quest for justice.She Lost Everything . . .Kate and Alex Rocket are blessed with a wonderful marriage and a lovely home. Although Kate can't have children, she and Alex look upon Sara and Emily, daughte...

Kate Malick’s first calling was as a Carmelite nun, a life devoted to prayer and faith. Now she runs a Hollywood security service dedicated to protecting its clients. But Kate’s most troublesome client, teenage celebutante Chelsea Brewer, is a walking, talking, slow-motion train wreck who’s testing that devotion. The poster child for the pitfalls of childhood fame and fortune, Chelsea careens from one party to the next, riding the ragged edge between celebrity…and fatality.When a h...

For four decades, Gare Joyce has profiled hockey’s icons and obscurities, but he’s saved the strangest and funniest stories for Portrait of a Hockey Scribe.A memoir tracking a child’s worship of sportswriters, Portrait of a Hockey Scribe is a cautionary tale about getting exactly what you want — for Joyce, a seat in Maple Leaf Gardens’ press box.Joyce spares himself no embarrassment in cataloging his persistently humbling beginnings — from...

The main character in this short story is Gabriel Conroy and the entire short story takes place during his attendance at a holiday party, annually thrown by his aunts. Near the end of the party Gabriel sees his wife, Gretta, in a new and expanded way at the same moment when she is reminiscing on a song being sung at the party. Listen as James Joyce weaves harsh realities back into this story, as is characteristic with other stories in this series, Dubliners.