Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic qualit...

The guy on the train is just Marcia’s type. A face like an angel, a scent like raw honey, treats her like he has a white horse and suit of armor stowed in his messenger bag. Perfect.Too perfect. No guy like that would be interested in prim, awkward Marcia, notorious goody-goody and a twentysomething still clutching her v-card. She’s been following rules her whole life—but somewhere, the game changed. And left her behind.So when she meets Damien, with his rumbling motorbike,...

Book 3 in The Fast and the Fae. The adventures of Goldilocks, Prince Charming, and the Bandit continue!

Writer Ron Marz has revitalized Witchblade and is the architect behind the acclaimed First Born and Broken Trinity crossover events. Now, joined by artist Lee Moder (First Born: Aftermath, Painkiller Jane), Marz debuts DRAGON PRINCE, a four-part modern fantasy with equal doses of magic and martial arts mayhem. Like a lot of teenagers, Aaron Chiang feels he's never fit in, though he's never known why. But all that changes when he learns the truth of his heritage: He is the Dragon Prince, la...

Pearly Kings and Queens are one of the quintessential icons of 'old London', originally invented to imitate and parody wealthy West End society but also to raise money for charities and good causes. Alf Dole lived his life in this tradition and was the grandson of the very first Pearly King of St Pancras. Born in 1930, Alf grew up in a close-knit family of costermongers - fruit and veg sellers - and his heartwarming memoir recounts London life in the city in a time of horses and trams, pub...

Imprisoned in a dungeon high up in the Himalaya Mountains, Aaron Chiang comes face to face with the father he always believed was dead - the Dragon King. Can father and son manage to escape from their imprisonment - or will one have to sacrifice his own life to save that of the other? The modern fantasy by Ron Marz and Lee Moder roars to its pulse-pounding climax! Featuring a special variant cover by Ryan Sook (Countdown)!

Aaron Chiang has learned the truth of his heritage - he's the last of the dragons, which have been hunted to extinction by a secret society of wizards called the Magi. Only Aaron's mother stands between him and the Dragon Hunters...but she might very well be far more than she appears. Featuring a variant cover by Brandon Peterson (X-Men: Divided We Stand)!

Book #1 in the new Fantasy Romance series from award-winning, bestselling author Jeffe Kennedy. Follows The Long Night of the Crystalline Moon in the Under a Winter Sky fantasy holiday anthology.A Legacy of HonorCrown Prince Astar has only ever wanted to do the right thing: be a credit to his late-father’s legacy, live up to his duties as heir to the High Throne of the Thirteen Kingdoms, and cleave to the principles of honor and integrity that give his life structu...

The fantastic tale by Ron Marz and Lee Moder continues! Aaron Chiang has learned the truth " the blood of dragons flows through his veins, and he is the last of his kind! But now, evil wizards known as the Magi " who would see dragonkind erased from the Earth forever " have sent a merciless Dragon Hunter after Aaron, forcing the boy to leave behind everything he knows and flee into the unknown. Featuring spectacular covers by Jeff Johnson (Amazing Spider-Man, Way of the Rat) and Michael Avon ...

Bears are iconic animals, playing a variety of roles in human culture. They have been portrayed as gods, monsters, kings, fools, brothers, lovers, and dancers; they are seen as protectors of the forest; symbols of masculinity; a comfort for children; and act as symbols for conservation and environmental issues. They also symbolise wilderness, reinforcing and maintaining our connection to the natural world. And stories abound of cultures that gathered berries in the same fields as bears and...

The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping, previously untold story of the world’s most controversial military contractorBlackwater is one of the most misunderstood companies of our time. As Erik Prince, its founder and former CEO, writes:“Hundreds of American citizens employed by private military contractors, or PMCs, would lose their lives helping our government wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, only to have their memory tarnished by the unfai...

Kesh fled Faerie as a queen killer. Now she returns as the Faerie King’s secret obsession. But on Faerie, nothing is as it seems, not even Kesh herself.With days to stop Arran’s execution and the stoic guardian, Sirius, as her constant shadow, Kesh must weave her lies deep within Faerie’s courts where magic and whispers combine and conspire. Soon, Kesh learns there is more at stake than Arran’s life. Faerie is dying. Oberon’s reign is crumbling. The time to strike against the fae i...