Perhaps the most accurate book title ever. Seventeen bite-sized poems, snapshots of the poet's mind as he reflects on life, love, depression and all the things that make the world interesting. Enjoy this brief yet intimately personal look at the way we think about whatever life throws at us, be it the absurd or the sublime.

When a rural community in upstate New York is taken over, survival depends on not being found.

In the old stories about shapeshifters, they were always fearsome predators.Until there was Tek . . . a young deer shapeshifter.In Sliver of Evil, Sho and his younger brother Tek join the large, powerful Ochwah knat when Tek is fourteen. Tek soon learns he has to cope with perplexing, unwanted shapeshifting.When a cosseted woman of the knat is humiliated, her vengeance is terrible, and in her panther shape she is nearly invincible. Other secret shap...

Fleeing from the terrifying Shades, Mark escapes to magical Nolin, arriving with a 'splash' in the home of the wizar Miles and his two daughters. Warily, Miles welcomes the stranger — in Nolin's language, 'Thwortle' means 'Welcome'.Mark soon discovers that he too has magic. But the Shades' magic is much stronger, and they have followed him to Nolin.Thwortle is the first book in the three–book Jeli Series, a...

Mauri Bale and her brother Stan are biracial, born and raised in Queens. Mauri has started an accounting career and Stan is still in college. After their father's death they travel to Georgia, where they meet their relative Bathsheba, and Zekial, a very powerful dreamer. Zekial, a slave in antebellum Georgia, has 'dreamed' himself and Bathsheba from 1859 into the 1990s.

In the late 1890s a journalist wrote, "Spanish women would rather weep at a husband's or a son's gravesite than blush for lack of patriotic fervor." Yet at a time when women were expected to sacrifice their sons and husbands willingly for the sake of the nation, women organized and led three significant demonstrations against conscription in Spain. In Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s,D. J. Walker succeeds not only in contextualizing these demonstrations but also in elucidat...

Stript is the third book in the Jeli series, about a clash between African and Mycenaean god families.Caught in the crosshairs between two god families, Mark is stript of his memories and banished. He will need a LOT of help from his friends.

Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents. D.J. Walker discusses the role of Spain’s intellectual elite in crystallizing dissatisfaction with the popular jury through its criticism of the “masses” and the impact of journalists’ fictionalized representations of the murder on public opinion.

The shapeshifter Tek lives on, but time moves strangely. He befriends Nika, a young servant and an owl shapeshifter in the mid-1700s.Fierce, independent Nika — she is all but a slave to her callous masters, and will need a friend like Tek, much more than she realizes.Nika Rising is the second book in the three-book Tek & Nika Series, about indigenous shapeshifters. Warning - In this series, violence is not pervasive, but wh...

Dancing Mountain is the second book in the three-book Jeli series, about a momentous clash between African and Mycenaean god families. It is advisable to read the first book, Thwortle, before reading this one. The entire series, three books in all, tells one continuous, complex story that is best read in sequence.Mark is not a 'warrior-type', but he's agreed to retrieve his African grandfather's drummer lizard. And he can't expect ...

Tek and Nika go to the Sky World, from which Tek is elevated, and Nika falls. Nika falls into the indigenous Nation, in the year 2572, where a mythical snake wreaks havoc.Sinuous Passages is the third and final book in the three-book Tek & Nika Series about indigenous shapeshifters.

From Brandon Sanderson comes a short novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive (previously published in Arcanum Unbounded).Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older—a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness,...