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After getting his diploma in criminal justice from a backwoods community college, Delbert Clanton, a would-be private investigator, leaves The Economy Trailer Park to seek his fame and fortune in The Big Apple. Before you know it, he is hired to work in a position that he labels as being a "pea eye"...

College friends fret on the eve of separation. Going into the world, they feel that the future sparkles with limitless possibility and that their bond is unbreakable. Quickly a sort of social gravity catches them out, revealing that for adults choices are few and ties are tenuous. Their trajectories—pulling apart, drawing calamitously close—plot the erratic orbit of modern existence.

Life for Irish village people during the turbulent early 11th century is not easy for anyone. Against the backdrop of King Brian Boru's conquest of Ireland, it is even harder for a boy that is branded a fool. The blacksmith's son, Balor is one such fool. His father is ashamed of him and despises him...

In Fire and Iceland, Volume 2 of Fables of the Carpailtin Campfire, the Shindaheen, Chadishar, and four thousand Native American warriors meet the unlikeliest invasion at the unlikeliest location, turning our conception of off-world life upside-down. Where are they from, why are they here, and do they really eat that stuff? Vilia isn't going to like this one bit.

The four stories in this collection explore the vagaries of intimate human relationships. The subjects—a freshly retired couple with a no-longer-young daughter whose behavior still vexes them, two stoic men working adjacent farms in the American Midwest, a pair on the cusp of middle age facing a...

In 1860, David Lofland and his family, residents of Hickory Flats, Tennessee, will relocate to Arkansas. Before the move to Bluffton, Arkansas, David’s love, the beautiful Lillie Mashburn, will be enticed to marry the local parson, Reverend Claxton. The long trip to Arkansas will yield even more...

From "Matters Familiar." Adrift in his own life and desperate for a belief system, a young man finds direction and purpose from a surprising source.

This is the story of Shopkeeper Wang and the friends, the regulars, and the transients who visit the Yutai (Abundant Peace) Teahouse, a Beijing neighborhood institution, during the decades of the early twentieth century. The setting is intimate and the atmosphere, action and themes, Dickensian. The...

"Finalement, j'ai pris une vie sabbatique" constate non sans surprise mon globe-trotter de patron en rentrant de son dernier pays visité, le Mustang.C'était le 249e et dernier pays de sa longue liste. Le rêve d'André Brugiroux était de taille : voir le monde entier...il l'a réalisé! Moi, "Sire...

A touching true story of how one couple stepped up and took responsibility to help fix the ongoing abandoned animal crises due to foreclosures—a problem humans created—and only human can fix. This book is about how helping one animal can not only change the animals life, but how it can change...

A teenager returns home from school to find a gruesome scene: the apartment he shares with his mother, Shao Mei, in Boston’s Chinatown has been ransacked and she is dead. There is a bottle of Moutai—the most exotic and expensive Chinese liquor—left at the scene and traces of rat poison in one...

This is the second issue of our magazine for fairies, elves, mermaids and all the rest of the Fae. We are grateful for the patronage of both the Seelie and the Unseelie courts. The contents of this issue include, Fae magic, Fae cooking, Fae buildings, Fae genealogy, Fae creatures, helpful herbs and a dash of Fae humour.

A terrible accident turns young Kerry into an orphan. Alone in the world, she is placed in her nasty uncle's care. He and his family make her life even more miserable until the lawyer arranges a change of guardianship.The lawyer reveals that her deceased parents had kept life-changing secrets...

After 437 years in space, the Phoenix is in desperate trouble. The ship has arrived at Alpha Centauri only to find that the planets are not habitable. They only enough fuel left for manoeuvering into orbit.Along the way, the cryonics system that keeps the 96 passengers frozen failed. Repairs...