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Doctor Impossible—evil genius, would-be world conqueror—languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could with his life. After all, he's lost every battle he's ever fought. But this...

Edith is forced to take a polygraph in a deep underground military base. She and her twin Irene develop supernatural abilities when massive flying objects appear from the sun, and the government wants answers. With each question, the answer silently comes, but some questions have no answer and some...

Catskill Rivers is the story of the “birthplace of the American fly fishing.” Readers will discover this birthplace in such hallowed trout streams as the Beaverkill, the Willowemoc, the Neversink, the Delaware, the Esopus, and the Schoharie. While originally published in 1983, Catskill Rivers remains...

At the Foundling Hospital is a magnificent full-length of Coram, with curling white locks and kindly, weather-beaten face, from the brush of his friend and admirer, William Hogarth. It is to Hogarth and his fellow-Governor at the Foundling, John Wilkes, that my next jotting relates. These strange...

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The explosive story of the highly political process of railway closures and their implications, focusing on the period from the Beeching Report on 1963 through the Serpell plans of the early 1980s to the modern age and the recent McNulty Report on railway finances. Fiery stuff from two industry insiders and expert commentators.

I hope my readers will enjoy this account of the twists and turns in a small part of my life in the pits. It was written for others like me who have floundered and spun around in periods of their lives; having no clue as to what is up and what is down. So if you are having a bad day, weeks month or...

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...

“On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages.”—Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization focused on the writer’s creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival...

Stories and photographs celebrating the city’s history through its abandoned architectural landmarks. Lost Detroit tells the stories behind twelve of the city’s most beautiful left-behind landmarks and of the people who occupied them, from the day they opened to the day they closed. While...

Train yourself into deep hypnotic trances and work with your subconscious mind to transform problems and reach your full potential. Self-hypnosis can be a great tool to overcome obstacles in our lives. Self-Hypnosis Made Easy gives the reader the skills to train themselves into deep hypnotic...

What is the purpose of every person who has lived, who is living now, or will ever live? Knowing the answer to this question will make sense of our daily living. How can I live as one with God? By knowing the answer, we can fulfill our destiny. We can live in joy and peace and make sense of the path...

My Dear L: Do you remember standing with me upon the bridge, and tossing chip boats into the river, and how eagerly we watched to see which should drift ashore, or wreck themselves against the stone pier, or remain idle and motionless in the eddy pool, and which should glide safely through the arch...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...