I aspire to one day take over the family law firm, the largest on the East Coast. But for that plan to become a reality, I must do everything my father asks, including marrying a man I barely know.Enter Maxton Colter, a walking contradiction and not the man my father chose for me.He's infuriatingly arrogant . . . yet charming.He's inappropriate . . . yet intriguing.He's a playboy . . . yet focuses all his attention on me.He's doing everything he can ...

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery."Nonconformi...

Some storms don't just strand you. They choose you.When Flight 252 makes an emergency landing at a remote, half-forgotten airstrip, fifty strangers find themselves cut off from the world. No phones. No signal. No way out. Just each other and a place that doesn't feel quite real, full of doors that shouldn't open and things that shouldn't be possible.They never make it home on that plane.What happens next cannot be explained. Not by the investigators. Not by the medi...

The anticipated conclusion in the Massey Security DuetI lived life on my terms, keeping people at a distance for a reason. I rebelled every chance I got, shutting down any sensibilities that remained. But then danger swallowed me whole, and all I wished for was a different life. A life where I listened to the concerns of those who loved me. A life that had meaning. A life where I could follow my dream of becoming a designer. Secrets would be revealed. Lies...

Alcoholic Korsakoff's Syndrome: An Information-Processing Approach To Amnesia presents an overview of one of the theories of amnesia, namely, the extent to which it represents an information-processing deficit. The book discusses the clinical symptoms, neuropathology, and etiology of the alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome; the influence of the original memory model on the research in amnesia; and the functional differences among long-term memory, short-term memory, and sensory memory. The text...

A chance encounter with two members from a local MC changed my life, but not in a good way. At least, not at first.After being tortured because of who my biological father was, a man I'd only met a handful of times, the president of the club gave me two choices. Either end up in the ground or become a prospect for the Knights Corruption. My decision was a no brainer.Over time, I found my place, solidifying a bond with the men I never thought possible. I fought alongside the...

I'd been in survival mode my entire life, battling the ghosts of my past, believing I was destined to either die at a young age or end up in jail. Thankfully, neither occurrence happened, although not for a lack of trying.I'd succumbed to the idea I'd be alone for the rest of my life. It was the reason I closed myself off from everyone. I had nothing to offer except anger and regret.Then I found solace when I joined the Knights Corruption, discovering the sense of family I'...

I was happy being single. No relationship drama. No woman putting demands on my time. I had my family and my club. I didn't need anyone else.But when a mysterious brunette walked into our clubhouse, something inside me shifted.She wasn't like anyone I'd ever met. Everything I prided myself on, being unattached, emotionally unavailable, in it for nothing but sex . . . it all shattered.But with the cartel still threatening the Knights Corruption, I kept her at a dista...

A Lakota boy comes of age and finds his courage in Gift Horse, a picture book from award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson.When Flying Cloud’s father gives him a Gift Horse, marking the beginning of his journey to manhood, Flying Cloud names the horse Storm. The two become inseparable: They spend their days riding across the prairie, hunting deer, and roughhousing with the other boys and their horses. But as Flying Cloud becomes a man, his life t...

Nelson Slade Bond (1908-2006) had a remarkable career as a science fiction writer. He wrote extensively for books, radio, television and the stage, and especially the pulp magazines. Like Ray Bradbury, he did his journeyman work in the science fiction pulps before graduating to the higher-paying “slick” magazines like Bluebook. The quality of his work was such that Arkham House, Gnome Press, Prime Press, and Doubleday issued collections of his early short stories. At Wildside Press, we wer...

As the publishing sensation of the last half-century, Harry Potter dominates early education in politics. Children, tweens, teens, and adults love it; and most students come to college knowing at least some of it. This dark fantasy analyzes politics in strikingly practical and institutional ways. Like ancient Sophists, modern Machiavellians, and postmodern Nietzscheans, the Potter books treat politics as dark arts and our defenses against them. The Potter saga overflows with drama, humor, ...

The story is set on Io, one of Jupiter's moons, where a group of colonists faces a revolt. The novel explores the conflict between the colonists and the authorities overseeing their operations. As tensions escalate, the protagonists find themselves in the middle of a struggle that involves advanced technology, political intrigue, and the harsh realities of life on a distant moon.The narrative combines elements of adventure and speculative science fiction, focusing on how the characters dea...