The elevator sinks down until you’re deep underground. When the doors open, you stare into the silent darkness. Then a phantom girl holding a candle appears out of nowhere. She whispers your name. Will you follow her into the dark underground?

What’s that blue-faced animal with the pushed-in nose? It’s a snub-nosed monkey! Beginning readers will learn all about these strange yet wonderful creatures in this delightful title. They will also learn basic information about snub-nosed monkeys, including where they live and the story behind their strange features. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The lively text, colorful design, and eye-catching photos are sur...

What’s that huge green insect with a fuzzy body? It’s a luna moth! Beginning readers will learn all about these strange yet wonderful creatures in this delightful title. They will also learn basic information about luna moths, including what they eat—and don’t eat—and how they stay safe from their enemies. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The lively text, colorful design, and eye-catching photos are sure to capture...

Have you ever loved a dog, a work of art, any part of Venice past, present or yet to be discovered?In this humorous art world adventure Piccolo, a young artist who happens to be an Italian greyhound, leaves his native Venice to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance in America. Following his paw prints, readers will relish the sights, sounds, fine art, and culinary masterpieces of NYC and Venice Italy.Eager to make art, Piccolo is soon thrown off his father's trail ...

Elizabeth Ann Seton grew up in New York City during the very beginning of America’s independence. Let author Anne Merwin, former president of the Mother Seton House in Baltimore, guide you through the life of this young socialite who becomes the pioneer of the Catholic school system in the United States and the foundress of the Sisters of Charity.Discover the secret of Elizabeth’s holiness—a courageous determination to allow God to guide her, no matter where he might lead.

This issue, we have a pair of Irish-themed stories (one dark, one light) by Christina Hoag and David Dean to welcome St. Patrick’s Day. Of course, there’s plenty more original fiction, too: tales by Ron Miller, Grant Tracey, Susan Shwartz, and CJ Erick, plus a new solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles. And, as always, we have some classics, too: science fiction shorts...

"The Sane Men of Satan" by Sam Merwin Jr. is a gripping science fiction novel published in 1951. Set in a dystopian future where a totalitarian regime known as Satan rules with an iron fist, the story follows a group of rebels who call themselves the "Sane Men." Led by the charismatic leader Richard French, the Sane Men embark on a daring mission to overthrow the oppressive government and restore freedom to the people. As they navigate through a treacherous landscape filled with danger and...

Merwin McCrady has been writing poetry since he was sixteen. He has always seen poems as tools to help him cope with mental trauma and anxiety. He is now sharing his work for the first time in this new poetry collection, Truth Confessions.Truth Confessionscontains nineteen poems written about different points in Merwin's life. His work gives you a powerful glimpse into his inner turmoil and past traumas. Through poems written in free verse, Merwin confronts a numb...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It was a strange and bitter Earth over which the Chancellor ruled—a strange and deformed world. There were times when the Chancellor suspected that he really was a humanistic old fool, but this seemed to be his destiny and it was difficult to be anything else. Human, like all other organic life on Earth, was dying. Where it spawned, it spawned monsters. What was to be the answer?

Created by Merwin Gerard and produced by Collier Young, One Step Beyond was hosted by John Newland, "your guide to the supernatural" (also credited as "Our guide into the world of the unknown"). Newland, who also directed every episode, presented tales that explored paranormal events and various situations that ...

America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation," writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty–one, married a...

In "The Trufflers," Samuel Merwin masterfully intertwines elements of adventure and intrigue, reflecting the exuberance of early 20th-century American literature. Set against the backdrop of both the opulent and grittier settings of the time, Merwin explores the lives of oddball characters who embark on a quest for valuable truffles, delving into themes of greed, camaraderie, and the unpredictability of fortune. His prose, characterized by sharp wit and a keen eye for detail, captures the ...