Among the Blueberries is a novel - the author's first - and sequel to Purple Phoenix, the epic poem. This ebook version is a much revised edition from the original book. In this story, two generations after the events in the prequel, a family emerges from the wilderness in an attempt to integrate into society. It does not go well for them as one of them is committed to a psychiatric institution, and her baby child lost, due to an abduction by a caregiver. Years later, the child, now a youn...

A young man has died in a car crash on the coast of Wales, his body apparently lost at sea. An inspector discovers that the man had been involved with a venerable Wiccan sect with connections to the elite. As he digs further, he comes to suspect that perhaps, Pedro, the young man, is not dead at all. There are some tenuous links to the mysterious history of the region going back to Druidic times, and that what was past is present, as indicated by some interesting clues from an archaeologic...

This is a speculative fiction based on some of the apocryphal alien stories that have emerged over the years. Whether true or not depends on how close to the loop of ultra classified intelligence one is. In this case a foreign aid worker has disappeared for a quarter-century and presumed dead. He reappears and is wanted by authorities. He reconnects with two ex-girl friends who seem to compete for his attention, but also get drawn into the vortex of his circumstances. The question is not j...

Now that the war has ended, three soldiers make a pact to meet again in two years. One has lost a foot, one has lost a hand, and one hears voices in his head. Will they keep their promise to meet? Will their plans for the future work out as they hope? Find out what lies ahead for these soldier friends.

Honey heart is a book of poems dedicated to the love that transforms our existence in the dinghy rocking, in the murmur of waves, in the flooded spell, in the promised land, in the enlightened manna, in the unexpected rain, in the uncontrolled offence, in the dressed up sunset, in a dance of souls.It marks a new course for all those that wish to experience divine infatuation.I am through your truth.I am through your truthful love.I am through your universal sou...

With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape ...

A navigator joins forces with a female warrior to avenge a murder and save a princess in a fantastic world of madness and magicHome is calling to Moichi Annai-Nin the navigator, oath-brother to the great Dai-San. But a series of horrific deaths in Sha'angh'sei have tied him indefinitely to this land, and justice must be served before he can set sail for the place where his heart truly dwells. A strange destiny awaits Moichi at the Circus of Souls—a treasure and a cu...

From the National Book Award–winning author comes a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction—a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today.In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly “parties of interest” to the government tell their stories. A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses to seek a new understanding of ...

Riot faithfully served his lord for two decades, putting his mage skills to use helping to fight the beasts in the Territories and to make the lives of the castle inhabitants easier. When his lord dies, he is replaced by a younger man with no interest in retaining a man of Riot’s age and old-fashioned notions. His position lost, his belongings confiscated, with barely any coin to his name, Riot flounders in a world that seems to have no place for him, desperate for whatever work he can fin...

The June 2012 issue of the Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine, Clarkeworld. This issue features the following stories: "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard, "If the Mountain Comes" by An Owomoyela and "You Were She Who Abode" by E. Catherine Tobler. Non-fiction includes an group interview on economics in speculative fiction, an article on the how SF fuels itself by Stephen Gaskell, and an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham.

Driven by his dreams, Asa will stop at nothing to find Tanja Duhr again: he will leave home, disappoint his parents, cross the wastelands, and, somewhere, find the courage to tell her who he is, and how she loved him, once."River of Souls" takes place in the same world as Beth Bernobich's Passion Play, some 400 years before the events of that novel.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.