“What do you think a hero is? It’s just the right person in the right place making the right choice at the right time. Heroes aren’t born. They’re made.”A demonic assassin. A half-orc boxer. A ratman necromancer. Though they take many different shapes and forms, there are heroes all around us.Bravery can be found in the most unexpected places: a subterranean dwarven city; the sands of a temple courtyard in Ancient Egypt; a besieged castle, a Victorian brothel, a go...

This collection of essays by established McGahern scholars and others interested in his work was put together to assess the writer’s current status some 20 years after his death in 2006. The Companion covers various aspects of McGahern’s oeuvre: the reception of his books among readers and literary critics; his epistolary exchanges with publishers, friends and family, and the adaptations that have been done of a certain number of his works, most recently the film version of his novel, ...

Set in the faraway (and terrible-smelling) land of Rancidia, where it’s good to smell bad and bad to smell good, this uproarious send-up of Snow White follows the adventures of the profoundly stinky Hobgoblin as he flees the jealous wrath of a monstrous, democracy-hating ogre tyrant named Fiddlefart.Along the way, he joins forces with the Seven Stinkers—an outcast band of foul-smelling creatures (Grody the bog monster, Yucky the skunk ape, Icky the sloth, Musty the mummy, Fusty the...

What does Canadian popular culture say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity? This third volume of How Canadians Communicate describes the negotiation of popular culture across terrains where national identity is built by producers and audiences, government and industry, history and geography, ethnicities and citizenships.Canada does indeed have a popular culture distinct from other nations. How Canadians Communicate III gathers the country’s most in...

Henry "Biggie" Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfectionist, he doesn't understand why someone would be happy getting two hits in five trips to the plate. "Forty percent, that's an F in any class," he would say. As Biggie's junior year begins, the girl of his dreams, Annabelle Rivers, starts to flirt w...

Sky Dragon Slayers Victory Lap is a comprehensive, scientifically-accurate, up-to-date, full-volume refutation of the greenhouse gas theory—which, for over 30 years, has been the cornerstone of the so-called science of man-made global warming.In any objective field of science, if a theory fails the predictive requirement, then that theory is discarded. But in climate research not everything is at is appears. Exposed is the greenhouse gas chimera—mythical sky dragon.The worl...

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization, reform, and economic successes and challenges, this period of relentless di...

Brings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the warShots in the Dark offers cutting-edge scholarship across different subfields in World War II history, revealing new insights into how this crucial conflict was planned, experienced, and fought. Twelve chapters demonstrate the broad scope of wartime innovation and how the war functioned as a global turning point, driving cha...

ul>Created by identical twin brothers (Kyle is the author and Derek is the illustrator), Don't Eat Me, Chupacabra! is the fourth book in the Hazy Dell Press Monster Series, following their regionally popular releases: Monster ABC, Goodnight Krampus, Get Dressed Sasquatch and Hush Now Banshee.This book is a fun, engaging way to introduce Spanish vocabulary to young readersA silly story told in thoughtful rhymes, Don't Eat Me, Chupacabra! introduces young readers to t...

Created by identical twin brothers (Kyle is the author and Derek is the illustrator), Hush Now Banshee is the fourth book in the Hazy Dell Press Monster Series, following their regionally popular releases, Monster ABC, Goodnight Krampus and Get Dressed Sasquatch.With lovely rhymes and detailed illustrations, the quirky and hilarious Hush Now Banshee reinvigorates the counting book in the same way Monster ABC reinvigorates the alphabet book.Set in a fantastical ver...

The Cyclops Witch never backs down from adventure or the medley of monsters she meets along the way. But one spooky night, the only thing in the world that gives her the heebie-jeebies walks right up to her door—and it’s not what you’re expecting.A timely tale of fear, prejudice and misunderstanding, The Cyclops Witch and the Heebie-Jeebies is the first picture book collaboration from Kyle and Derek Sullivan, the author/illustrator team behind the beloved Hazy Dell Pre...

Created by identical twin brothers (Kyle is the author and Derek is the illustrator), Monster ABC is a quirky, witty alphabet book that is already a regional favorite in the Pacific Northwest. Now available for the first nationally, Monster ABC is sure to find a wide audience as one of the funnier, more adorable and thoughtful alphabet books on the market.This award-winning children's board book adds some energy and gentle irreverence to the alphabet book genre by introduci...