A zany musical comedy, touching love story, and fast-paced adventure thriller combined – with “Elvis Presleymeets Star Wars†plot twists – COSMIC COWBOY theMUSICAL stars the love-struck alien Prince Remo, fromfaraway Planet Vegas (complete with glowing blue-greyskin and personal flying saucer), and the object of hisadoration, aspiring Nashville country singer Jenna LeeJenkins. When Remo comes to town, the Nashville musicscene goes wild - and so does Jenna's sleazy manager,Lance. Ca...

Manchmal meint das Leben es nicht gut mit einem. Amy muss gleich zwei Verluste verarbeiten. Den Tod ihrer Eltern. Manche sprechen tagelang nicht, andere weinen nur und dann gibt es noch welche wie Amy. Sie baut eine Mauer um sich herrum auf. Sie wird kälter und macht nur noch Dinge, die für ihr Leben nicht gerade vorteilhaft sind. Sie feiert zu viel, geht kaum noch zur Schule, ist Mitglied einer Gang und, und, und. Daraufhin muss sie zu der Famile ihrer Tante ziehen. Gleich am ersten Abend...

StoryHack is back with another batch of thrilling stories in a variety of genres. StoryHack is a short fiction magazine heavily inspired by the great pulps of yesteryear.Eyes as Blue as Metal by Dominika LeinAfter discovering a human upon a worn-torn planet, an alien commander is betrayed by an ambitious underling.That Summer's Evening Long Ago by Misha BurnettHow do you catch a criminal who uses magic to erase the memory of...

Supernatural evils lay hidden, deep in the shadows of society. Be these dangers man or beast, they will strike at unsuspecting, everyday people. What if there are no selfless wizards around when a demon steps from the alley? What if there are no supers to be found when the ancient demigod awakens? What if there is no prophesy and no chosen one to stand in the way of the dark forces? In these cases, the regular people must must courage to face the foe. The protagonists in these stories have...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark short-story collection that put th...

I learned about the Blessed Virgin Mary as a child attending a superb Roman Catholic grade school and as a teenager studying at an excellent Catholic high school. My friendship with Our Lady was nurtured at the University of Notre Dame and deepened throughout my adult life. Later as a Wesleyan pastor, I missed the Virgin Mary as an intimate and important part of my life. Finally coming home, called in significant part by my yearning for Our Lady, I fell in love with the Theotokos as a Deac...

Things that go bump in the night, mysterious portals to other dimensions and places, bones that know who killed them, seductive vegetation, ghosts that have a tale to tell, and even unexplained behavior in the far reaches of the universe. Twilight Tales contains thirty-one stories each taking you just beyond reality, reminiscent of the rich and uneasy stories by A. Merritt or episodes from the classic Twilight Zone television series.In honor of Betty Pope, a forme...

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introductionFirst published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West’s most incisive essays on the issues relevant to black Americans, including the crisis in leadership in the Black community, Black conservati...

My book introduces readers to American legal and political history through biographies of eighteen attorneys who made significant contributions to American democracy as Senators, Secretaries of State, Supreme Court Justices, or Presidents. These attorneys span the political spectrum from conservative Alexander Hamilton to liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but each helped America grow and prosper.The United States grew from a weak confederation of states into a wealthy and powerful natio...

On the heels of the bestseller success of her novel The Wedding, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that explore both the realism of everyday life, and the fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one woman's life in a mythic time. Traversing the universal themes and conflicts between poverty and prosperity, men and women, and young and old, and compiling writing that spans almost seventy years, The...