Randyll Tephius should've known he'd get in trouble. The mystical, energetic substance Vril has ushered in an industrial age monopolized by the elite Alchemists. Ran's University thesis on newly-discovered oil deposits threatens them enough to see the student Artificer expelled in disgrace. He survives on the streets until being rescued by an unlikely benefactor: aging mob boss Gouger Nebb.Ran seizes the chance to rebuild his career, using mob money to fund ingenious inventions and...

A telling reevaluation of African American roles in government and law during ReconstructionAt Freedom's Door rescues from obscurity the identities, images, and long-term contributions of black leaders who helped to rebuild and reform South Carolina after the Civil War. In seven essays, the contributors to the volume explore the role of African Americans in government and law during Reconstruction in the Palmetto State. Bringing into focus a legacy not ful...

Second book in the highly praised series, following the starred review by Publishers Weekly for book one."Readers who love medieval-esque fantasy will delight in this rousing tale of rebellion.” — Publishers Weekly starred review of Book 1 in the seriesThe Heron Kings have been betrayed. A century after their formation from a gang of desperate peasant insurgents, the shadowy band of forest rangers...

The Complete Alice in Wonderland Collection includes the four original stories about Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale pl...

Ardana Sul was a true bastard. For a price he'd get you anything, anyone, anywhere and not ask questions. So when Baroness Foncesca hired him to obtain the last known vial of plague dust, it was business as usual. He should've known she wouldn't leave any witnesses. Flintlocks flashed, windows shattered, and his head slammed into rock. He escaped with his life, but not his memory.Dredged from the river by a kind fisherman, Sul recovers without knowing his past or name. Slowly he ac...

The fate of the world rests in the hands of the worst person on it! From New York Times-bestselling writer RICK REMENDER and a murderers' row of all-star artistic talent comes the story of Ernie Ray Clementine, a profane, illiterate, drug-addicted biker with a fifth-grade education—and the only thing standing between us and total Armageddon. He's a relic of a bygone era, the living embodiment of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and when he accidentally receives a power-imbuing serum that mak...

America's greatest Western storytellers take you inside the dangerous world of undercover agents - and one man's mission to hell and back....Hank Fallon used to be one of the best deputy marshals in the country. Then, he got framed for a crime he didn't commit. Got sentenced to 10 years in a federal penitentiary. And got out early for saving the life of the captain of the guards during a riot. When Fallon is released, a private detective is waiting for him. He wants to put Hank beh...

In the wake of a nuclear Armageddon, the hell scape of Deathlands conspires to torment strong and weak alike, festering most deeply in those who still possess the deepest core of human decency. Now the past lies in the ashes, while the mysteries of the future unfold in the hands of those willing to live each new day in search of hope for tomorrow.The endless struggle for power among the barons is a way of life in Deathlands, but Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists take no side...

"Readers who love medieval-esque fantasy will delight in this rousing tale of rebellion.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)After a warlord slaughters her patients, Sister Alessia quits the cloister and strikes out on her own to heal the victims of a brutal dynastic conflict. Her roaming forest camp unwittingly becomes the center of a vengeful peasant insurgency, raiding the forces of both sides to survive. Alessia struggles to temper their fury as well ...

Two escaped slaves cross ocean and desert on a bloody quest of retribution.A new drug that awakens ancestral memories carries with it a secret danger.The mind of a murdered man entombed inside a starship plots his revenge.An assassin with diabolical powers has her sights set on a corrupt priest.These and other tales lurk within this collection of grimdark fantasy & sci-fi short stories and flash fiction by Eric Lewis, author of The Heron Kings series.Wo...

Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on 7th February 1885 in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota.Childhood was lonely. He was ungainly looking—red-headed, tall, overly thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed—making friends and meeting girls were difficult for him. At 13 he unsuccessfully absconded from home in an attempt to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War.In late 1902 Lewis left home for the Oberlin Academy in preparation for Yale University. At Oberlin, ...

This multilayered work follows a group of Guantanamo detainees from a single Middle Eastern country, Kuwait, portraying their lives before their capture, to their experience at Guantanamo, to their ultimate release and the lives they have been challenged in remaking after returning home. It is an intimate look at real men held for years without charge and without hope. Eric L. Lewis has represented Guantanamo detainees for more than twenty years and he conducted the hearings that gained th...