Tom Howard’s award-winning debut short story collection, Fierce Pretty Things, won accolades for blending “raw emotion with surreal forays into the supernatural and metaphysical.” With his second collection, Invisibilia, Howard takes the reader on a mesmerizing ride through a haunting, haunted landscape of children, drifters, soldiers, lovers, and ghosts, and the unseen forces that shape their lives.Two sisters and their parents slowly disappear, each in their own way, after a univ...

Are you considering getting a cat as the new family pet? If so, there are quite a few things to consider first; 21 to be exact! In this book, Tom Howard will help you consider whether or not a cat is right for you. He covers such issues as vaccinations, declawing, nutrition, spaying/neutering, cats with kids, litter boxes, play time and much more! He discusses everything you need to know to become a responsible and loving cat owner. So before you take on the responsibilities of cat ownersh...

This debut story collection from the Tobias Wolff Award–winning author "is streaked with fantasy that deconstructs society's lost and wasted lives" ( Publishers Weekly).In these eight darkly comic stories, acclaimed author Tom Howard explores the conflicting instincts for tenderness and violence that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome hi...

In these eight darkly comic stories, Tom Howard explores the instincts for violence and tenderness that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome his demons. A man in the grips of dementia is visited by his children's ghosts. The people in these blistering tales grapple with past mistakes, trying to navigate their way toward redemption and resurrection and failing often—but alw...

In this exciting collection of noblebright fantasy, fresh new fantasy voices and award-winning authors explore grief and hope, sacrifice and heroism. Rediscover the best aspect of classic fantasy - the noblebright ideals that made heroes heroic, even when the world grew dark around them.Thieves, dragons, nightmares, fairy warriors, pookas, enchanted bear-men, and other magical creatures will delight you in these unique tales of possibility, courage, and hope.This anthology ...

From the time humankind first walked the earth, they have strived to do one thing -- to live. And sometimes, the idea of living beyond what the gods and nature deem necessary becomes the focus of their efforts. This collection of stories from authors such as Suann Amero, Tom Howard, and Ziaul Moid Khan to name a few focuses on the themes of reincarnation, resurrection, and living beyond death.Please enjoy -- after all, who doesn't want to live forever.

The New York Times bestseller that's "so glowingly human a picture of Tom Paine and America in the revolutionary days" ( The New York Herald ).Thomas Paine's voice rang in the ears of eighteenth-century revolutionaries from America to France to England. He was friend to luminaries such as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and William Wordsworth. His pamphlets extolling democracy sold in the million...

In this wide-ranging, insight-provoking conversation, Howard states in simple terms what must be done to reach enlightenment. Powerful, incisive and mystical are only a few words that describe this rare and penetrating voice in the wilderness.

When a lanky, unpretentious, incredibly gifted, twenty-three-year-old Texan took Moscow by musical storm in 1958, it launched a sensational career that began at the age of thirteen and was to span over four decades. At the height of the Cold War, this friendly, open-hearted pianist enchanted the hearts of Americans and Russians alike with playing that was more about “personal communications than exhibitionistic virtuosity.” Winning the Soviet-sponsored Tchaikovsky International Piano Compe...

West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoke Simpson, Ivy Knight, Dave Bidini, Chief Ladybird, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Liz Howard and original music and writing by Tom Wilson. Produced by Michael Philip Wojewoda. Available exclusively on K...

TOUGH GUYS IN THE ROOM‘WEAK IS NOT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO REMEMBER ABOUT ME.’Al Capone.Back then, hot headed gangsters, not so gentle dames and bullet riddled corpses filled the newspaper headlines. And some of the stories below the headlines were even true. The 1920s was a period in American history when even the respectable were unwilling to stay sober. And not so fast cars carried assassins across Chicago, a city that for many captures the essence of the USA....

When hardened mountain man Howard 'Hawk' Hudson stumbles across a half-starved orphan named Elijah in the high country, he intends to do no more than point the boy toward safety. But the wilds of the Rockies have other plans. Forced together by circumstance and hunted by desperate men, Hawk and Elijah must learn to trust each other—and find family in the last place they expected.