At 8:57 a.m. on St. Patrick's Day 2026, a seven-ton rock from space exploded over Northeast Ohio.Houses shook. Windows rattled. A guy on a Cleveland sidewalk genuinely wondered if it was the end of time. A woman in Strongsville blamed snow thunder. The 911 centers across four counties lit up like a video game nobody signed up to play. And in a bar in Valley City — directly below the point where the asteroid detonated — the owner reassured his customers that there w...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

On Sunday, May 7, 1995, Madison Square Garden hosted what should have been a routine Game 1 victory for the New York Knicks in the NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals. With 18.7 seconds remaining, the Knicks held a seemingly insurmountable 105-99 lead over the Indiana Pacers. The 19,763 fans were already savoring their team's dominant position, but they were about to witness one of the most devastating collapses in playoff history.What happened next would haunt the Garden for decades...

For fifty-two years, Cleveland waited. The Browns lost The Drive. The Fumble. Red Right 88. The Indians gave away the 1997 World Series. The Cavaliers watched Michael Jordan end their seasons again and again. Then LeBron James left. Each heartbreak felt like confirmation of something — that Cleveland was a city that suffered, and always would.Cursed No More tells the complete story of Cleveland sports infamy, from Ten Cent Beer Night in 1974 through the night everythin...

November 19, 1978. Giants Stadium. Thirty-one seconds left. A seventeen-point lead. The ball in their hands.All the New York Giants had to do was nothing.What happened next — a botched handoff, a loose ball, a Philadelphia Eagles cornerback named Herm Edwards scooping it up and running twenty-six yards untouched — lasted less than a second and changed professional football forever. The NFL quietly institutionalized the victory formation as a direct response to what happened...

Vanishing Point concerns memory, cognition, history, and morality, as experienced through the process of aging and as seen largely through a seriocomic lens. The range is wide, from arrestingly dark to downright hilarious—sometimes both at once—and all stages in-between. The poet Jim Daniels has said about this book, “With profound wit and humility, with a purity and clarity of language that defines our best poetry, [Trowbridge] takes us on a wild ride and gives us our money’s wor...

Trowbridge’s Fool is based on an archetype that runs from the beginnings of storytelling up to modern films (silent and sound), fiction, poetry, and stand-up comedy. He is combination schlemiel and shlimazel, alternately the spiller and the spilled-on. Often the scapegoat, he is, as St. Chrysostom put it, “he who gets slapped.” Trowbridge’s Fool, after blundering into hell with Lucifer and company, is reincarnated in various historical times, with occasional unplanned visits back to the he...

"When has geezerhood been handled so appealingly? . . . A true American hero is born." —Albert Goldbarth, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Saving LivesMeet Oldguy: your regular aging superhero whose powers have dwindled over the years, and whose very mechanics are seriously fizzling. In seriocomic misadventures, Oldguy valiantly attempts to continue his former heroism in a somewhat wry version of Faulknerian endurance, defeating his ene...

American Indian Fairy Tales: with no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories. Far more than mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the collective wisdom of the tribes. In the 1830s, government Indian Agent and ethnologist Henry R. Schoolcraft learned the language of these people and went out to collect and preserve their stories before the tribes di...

Curating HomeA Kansas City Poetry AnthologyCurating Home is a collection of poems by Kansas City-metro area poets from both sides of the state line fully representing poetry throughout Kansas City. This anthology was published by Woodneath Press in conjunction with the Missouri Bicentennial "State of Stories" programming offered by Mid-Continent Public Library's Story Center and the University of Missouri's Extension Community Arts Program. Funding for State of Sto...

American Indian Fairy Tales was written by William Trowbridge Larned and pictured by John Rae.This book gave about ten Native American fairy tales along with colored illustrations by John Rae. There are interesting tales; some tales tell about adventure, love, ceremonies, or even explanations for natural phenomena.

In his latest collection of poems, William Trowbridge explores the fascination Americans have with movies, how “flicks” allow us to temporarily forget our problems and, ironically, to forget that real conflicts are what make us human. The language he uses is the American language of pop culture: sports talk, movie talk, shoptalk, and clichés—all are blended together into carefully crafted lines that are uniquely Trowbridge’s. Readers will be delighted to follow each poem to its effectively...