Bears on the Road to Damascus presents a mad hodgepodge of the real and the fantastic, a literary buffet designed to please several palates.In this collection of short stories and essays, often macabre and always touching, strange tales of terror, love, absurdity, violence, loss, and conviction await. Just when things may seem a bit bleak, charming folk tales emerge to inspire and delight. The title story tracks a convoluted murder mystery in the beach town of Santa Roma, ...

Patrick Rooneys debut novel is an explosive coming of age story for the Millennial generation, those who watched Saddam fall and New Orleans drown when they werent old enough to drive, but not too young to think. Sixteen-year old Joe King struggles to maintain his first sexual relationship, but is driven to question injustices in his personal life and the increasingly violent world outside.Trust Fall is both a heartfelt story of first love and a philosophical search for id...

Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor. Financing Nonprofits draws upon a growing body of scholarship in economics and organizational theory to offer a conceptual framework for understanding this diverse mix of financing sources. By applying theory, readers can understand when a nonprofit organization should pursue particular sources o...

Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade-and-a-half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps to George W. Bush's faith-based initiatives, it is undeniable that communities are looking to increase their levels of charity and voluntarism in the provision of public goods and services.What mobilizes giving and volunteering?...

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —Oprah Daily“A book that has stayed with me ever si...

A rabbi raises a terrifying ancient creature - the golem - to protect his congregation, but the results are far bloodier than he could ever have imagined. Now, Jaz and Vayl, the CIA's top assassins, must hunt down the golem and end its reign of terror. The events of this short story take place between Biting the Bullet and Bitten to Death, books 3 and 4 of the Jaz Parks series.

The Locus Award-winning short story collection from the multiple-award winning brain of Charlie Jane Anders. Enter the wild and fantastic worlds of one of the brightest minds in science fiction today.A short story collection packed with infinite worlds and endless possibilities, from the electric mind of Charlie Jane Anders.Cracking open science fiction and fantasy ideas with joyous exuberance, Anders delivers a riotous cavalcade of ideas. These stories of ...

A Short Story by Ann GallagherSteve hates Christmas, and he's pretty sure everyone else is just faking it. After all, his family can't be the only one who seasons their get-togethers with fighting, judgment, and guilt.Eric—his coworker and secret crush—has tried to convince him not to go for another round of family drama this year, but to no avail. It's Christmas. Steve can't just not go home.But when Eric tells a little white lie, Steve's Christmases may n...

Don't Ever Change is a stand alone short story.High school was a time of fond memories for Lori. Twenty three years later, she's back in town for her mother's funeral. Not wanting to deal with family right away after a long drive, she roams around town, only to find herself in front of her old school.On a whim, she decides to sneak through a hole in the fence and take a look around. The last thing she expected was to find a classmate from long ago. Even more shocking was the ...

Still reconciling over the death of one of their own, Fang, Kella, Trish, and the rest of the Oath Keepers and employees of the Illinois Northern Railroad soon find even more trouble headed their way as they are the targets of a suspected arsonist in the area whom ends up demolishing nearly half of the company's most important infrastructure downtown and soon plans on bringing the rest of it to its knees by wiping out even more in his path. With the addition of a new member to the team, th...

A selection of five unrelated short stories. In Expanse, a poor soul alone on an island far too long. In Gargoyle, read a first hand account what one particular Gargoyle sees over time. In Meeting Pope Gregory, get a glimpse into another time and place, maybe Victorian Times. A Rusty Chain brings back childhood memories for one man and understand himself. Top Floor brings us to a mysterious boss in a penthouse office that has a high turnover rate in assistants. See which stories you can re...