Lincoln: 668 books

“Dark, surreal, and imaginative, Lincoln Michel’s short story collection Upright Beasts is full of surprises at every turn.” —BuzzFeed Children go to school long after all the teachers have disappeared, a man manages an apartment complex of attempted suicides, and a couple navigates...

What if a soldier returns from war, but he has no memory of home?Kentucky farmer Ben Jones has a good life. He’s married to a fine woman and he loves his four children. At the start of the Civil War he answers the call to serve his country, but never returns.After the Battle of Shiloh,...

Are vampires real? It's a question young college student, Yuki Yamamura, is about to find the answer to the hard way. In a city plagued by a rash of gruesome killings, a late-night lapse in judgement puts Yuki in harm's way. Even with the aid of a mysterious stranger, an ally she never knew she had, it's a night of terror she might not live to see the end of.

A man on a deadly solo mission, an assassination attempt with only one acceptable outcome, finds his task far more difficult than he had first taken into account—his quarry is extremely hard to kill. Will dogged persistence, and a variety of lethal talents, help him get the job done in spite of this unforeseen complication?

A man gifted with mathematical genius uses his miraculous formulae for purely selfish and materialistic ends, and the path he's chosen lands him in a life or death situation from which there may be no return. Now, with the odds stacked against him, he's got nothing but survival on his mind and vengeance...

A wealthy industrialist with a terminal illness, cryogenically preserved in the hope that a cure will eventually be found to save him, wakes from his long sleep to an almost unrecognizable, distant future. But has he found the salvation he ultimately sought or unimaginable horror?

The bar was a tumult of sound—a blend of boisterous voices and pulsing music; the clink of beer bottles, shot glasses, and ice-filled tumblers—sounds telling her that this was the right place. Yes, this was where she needed to be. How was she to know the night would end in unimaginable terror?

A lonely widower, accused of a horrendous crime for which he claims innocence, is given the chance to tell his side of the story--a bizarre tale of the choice he had to make to save not just his soul but, perhaps, even his own humanity--to the one man who just might believe him.

A major earthquake in Alaska exposes a rare archeological find not in line with accepted history. In the aftermath, a local research team, assisted by a Princeton professor known for his expertise on North American antiquities, is sent to determine the discovery's authenticity and significance, but soon discovers that some things are best left buried.

Marooned on a remote, desolate world, the surviving crew of the Serpent's Kiss must struggle to find a way back to the known, planetary systems to impart a warning of dire importance, a warning that could save billions of lives. With the fate of entire empires hanging in the balance, the solution may lie in a terrifying new discovery.

An elderly woman dies under seemingly inexplicable circumstances, and Detective Josef “Grim” Belasco, assigned to the case, gets more than he bargained for when he begins to unravel the bizarre truth behind the woman's ultimate fate. Juggling both the tasks of his job and the arrival of the dead...

In this short story set after the events of novels Tiger Lily and The Straw Doll Cries at Midnight, Tiger Lily and her lordling, Ashikaga Yoshinori travel to Dejima Island, the home of foreign doctor, desperate for a cure for Ashikaga's father, the Lord Daimyo's, mysterious illness. But someone else...

In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing...

When the Democrat-appointed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, she triggered concerns about judicial ethics. But the political concerns were even more serious. The Supreme Court is supposed to be what Alexander Hamilton called "the least dangerous"...