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Get ready to laugh out loud at some of the most ridiculous - and hilarious - puns you've heard, from poet extraordinaire, Tricia Torrible!Spring and Summer were no fun at all,but Humpty Dumptyhad a great Fall.Packed with witty humor, this clever mix of poetry and puns features everything from animals and beloved nursery rhyme characters to outer space and favorite sports. Each poem contains at least one word or phrase with a double...

The first in the series featuring an Ozarks sheriff’s detective investigating moonshine, murder, and the ghosts of her own past . . .Katrina Williams left the army ten years ago, disillusioned and damaged. Now a sheriff’s detective at home in the Missouri Ozarks, Williams is living her life one case at a time—between mandated therapy sessions—until she learns that she’s a suspect in a military investigation with ties to her painful past.Then the corpse of a...

50 WESTERNS (Vol. 1) surveys the western as a capacious popular form, bringing together frontier adventure, ranching tales, outlaw narratives, wilderness fiction, romance, humor, and historical romance. Its varied prose moves from compressed twist endings and regional sketches to expansive quests, gunfights, cattle drives, and encounters shaped by the contested borderlands of the American West. The volume's strongest distinction lies in its range: familiar myths of individual courage and o...

From the author of A Living Grave comes a gripping police procedural featuring sheriff's detective Katrina Williams as she exposes the dark underbelly of the Missouri Ozarks . . .DREDGING UP THE TRUTHStill recovering from tragedy and grieving a devastating loss, Iraq war veteran and sheriff's detective Katrina Williams copes the only way she knows how—by immersing herself in work. A body's just been pulled from the lake with a fish...

When a rising country star is found dead in the Missouri Ozarks, sheriff's detective Katrina “Hurricane” Williams must confront the possibility that the man she loves is involved…Called to investigate the theft of valuable timber, Katrina finds the dead body of young singer Sharon Rose lying in the snow, shot execution style. When Sheriff Billy Blevins arrives at the crime scene, his strong reaction to seeing the victim is as baffling as a pretty corpse surrounded ...

This volume is a study of previously unexplored theoretical convergences between John Dewey’s social pragmatism and the sociology of knowledge.It demonstrates how these convergences, combined with the social psychology of G. H. Mead and Kenneth Burke, create a framework for the construction of a new and more comprehensive approach to the social analysis of knowledge, the social theory of thought. Dunn indicates in what respects Dewey’s philosophy and this theory represent forms of ...

New Alternate History from a Master of the Form: Robert Conroy was an unalloyed master of alternate history. Now, J.R. Dunn completes one of his final novels.LEE STRIKES BACK!After a terrible setback at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee does not retreat across the Potomac and his ultimate surrender at Appomattox. Instead, he turns the tables on Union General George Meade with a vicious counterattack that sets the Union Army on its heels.While Lee se...

Moon, 1969. After World War II, tensions were high between the United States and the Soviet Union. Thus began the Cold War, and the battle to be the first to explore space. U.S. and Soviet astronauts were sent on several missions, but on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 crew won the race. Take a giant step to the moon in this stunning graphic novel. Diagrams, timelines, glossaries, and indexes make these titles an exciting addition to classroom discussion.

Sheriff's detective Katrina “Hurricane” Williams confronts deep-rooted hate and greed in the Missouri Ozarks in this riveting police procedural…What at first appears to be a brush fire in some undeveloped bottom land yields the charred remains of a young African-American man. As sheriff’s Katrina Williams conducts her inspection of the crime scene, she discovers broken headstones and disturbed open graves in a forgotten cemetery.As Katrina attempts to sort ...

In 2011, prize-winning fiction writer Robert Dunn read a review of a new Fuji single-lens-reflex camera, and something clicked. Later that day, although the then-new Fuji X100 was as hard to get as the latest iPhone, he’d tracked one down. The next day he went out shooting photos for the first time since a brief dalliance with a cheap Nikon decades earlier.Little did Dunn know his life had changed. He’d always loved photography, and now he took his new camera with him everywhere he...

Set sail on a thrilling literary expedition with *The Pirate Bay Collection: History, True Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels*, an anthology that captures the essence of nautical adventure through the ages. This collection offers an immersive foray into the tempestuous world of piracy, threading together tales of swashbuckling exploits, moral quandaries, and the eternal quest for freedom across vast, unpredictable seas. With a seamless blend of historical context and fictional imagination...

The Mysteries of Light is an original literary meditation on the significance and meaning of photobooks. Written by a photographer and novelist, the book brings a strong new light to the photobook phenomenon.It’s a mix of personal stories and examinations of such great artists as Robert Frank, Daido Moriyama, Saul Leiter, Alec Soth, Masahisa Fukase, and Christer Strömholm, as well as newcomers Daisuke Yokota, Laura El-Tantawy, and Jason Eskenazi.The Mysteries of Light is pe...