James D : 1091 books

"In the First Year came the Plague, and in the Tenth Year the Burning, and afterwards came the Grooglemen out of the Dead Lands...."—A History of the New World From the Beginning to the Present Day, by Absolom Steerforth, Speaker of the Amity Crossroads Assembly.

"Up the Airy Mountain" is a short young adult horror story that originally appeared in A Nightmare's Dozen edited by Michael Stearns.

"Foreshadowing of impending doom and a bit of dark humor woven into the story kept me waiting in suspense for what what was to come." -- Sift Book Reviews +++ This story originally appeared in Newer York, edited by Lawrence Watt Evans, Roc, 1991. +++

A dark, rainy night, and a serial killer has claimed another victim; another stripper. Lieutenant Phil Paran has his theory of which really sick bastard is doing 'em. Orville Nesbit, psychic investigator, has another.+++"Ecdysis" originally appeared in OtherWere, edited by Laura Anne Gilman &...

Doyle and Macdonald are the authors of the Mageworlds series, the Circle of Magic series, and the Bad Blood series.Stories in this collection include:"Witch Garden" :: Something odd's in Henry Thatcher's garden."Nobody Has To Know" :: It's easy to be a vampire. And nobody...

In Beyond Mammoth Cave: A Tale of Obsession in the World’ s Longest Cave, James D. Borden and Roger W. Brucker provide gripping first-person accounts of the discoveries, including Roppel Cave, that made Kentucky’ s Mammoth Cave three times longer than any other cave in the world.             Borden,...

Who is a Yankee and where did the term come from? Join author Jim McNiven as he explores the emergence and influence of Yankee culture while traversing an old transcontinental highway reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific—US 20, which he nicknames "The Yankee Road." The Yankee Road:...

Critical Issues in Homeland Security: A Casebook encourages analytical and careful examination of practical homeland security problems through the presentation of contemporary cases involving major state or national events. Case studies demonstrate the complexity of challenges within the domain of...

Love beneath the Napalm is James D. Redwood’s collection of deeply affecting stories about the enduring effects of colonialism and the Vietnamese War over the course of a century on the Vietnamese and the American and French foreigners who became inextricably connected with their fate. These finely...

Book 3 forms the denouement for SEEDS IN THE WIND. In Part Four, THE PLAN, Jahthra and Sprout put together bits and pieces and are gradually drawn into an unexpected adventure. “A Field Guide to Inner Peace for Dummies” serves as the ultimate addendum for Part Four. In Part Five, THE CONCORD...

Cherry shooters, slingshots, fish muddle, and chicken potpie were all a part of growing up in Southampton County, Virginia, for author James D. (Archie) Howell. In Shady Brook and Deeper Waters, he shares the stories and life lessons learned during his childhood and youth in this rural community during...

This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries. Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of objectification,...

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Unquestionably the most iconic Japanese fighter of World War II, the Mitsubishi A6M Rei-Sen, Type Zero fighter was used from the initial raid on Pearl Harbor up to the Kamikaze attacks at the end of the war. Facing off against the likes of the Wildcat, Corsair and even the Spitfire, the Zero gained...