The book that reinvented Space Opera. The Canterbury Tales in space - from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer.On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a ...

Author Shane Simmons explores tales of bravery, lore, and bizarre customs within the East Tennessee region.The mountains of East Tennessee are chock full of unique folklore passed down through generations. Locals spin age-old yarns of legends like Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and Dragging Canoe. Stories of snake-handling churches and the myths behind the death crown superstitions dot the landscape. The mysteries surrounding the Sensabaugh Tunnel still haunt residen...

How goods and people in motion across the ancient world were entangled through consumptionThe ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is often assumed. Maritime routes across the Indian Ocean, by no means peripheral, made these connections possible. In Sea of Treasures, Jeremy Simmons puts forth an entirely new perspective on Indian Ocean commerce, starting with commodities of trade and the patterns of consumption that resulted from their im...

While Lee F. Simmons (1931-2018), the first African American steward on Air Force One, flew with U.S. Presidents and world leaders to the farthest corners of the globe, his greatest legacy was built right at home.***Life Lessons from Air Force One: Growing Up Simmons***takes readers inside the Simmons household through the eyes of his children-Victor, Donica, and Rona-revealing a family shaped by discipline, service, creativity, and boundless love. Lee F. Simmons' story and the family he r...

Rise Above: A Journey of Resilience and Strength Through Adversity, Military Service, and Cancer Survival, Inspiring All to Embrace Their Inner Warrior and Rewrite Their Own Rules for Success and Fulfillment in Life's Greatest Challenges.In this powerful memoir, Janina Simmons shares her extraordinary journey from a challenging childhood in Germany, raised by a single mother, to her remarkable achievements in the U.S. military. Facing bullying and feelings of invis...

Change is needed now. For too long, stories of Black Women, where English is not their first language, and Women of Colour in Public Services have been silenced, distorted, and ignored. Driving Systemic Change and Empowerment for Women of Colour in Public Services: The Burden of One presents a powerful, multi-voiced, faith-filled narrative that reclaims space and presence.The personal journeys reveal the invisible labour, silent tears, self-efficacy, and relentless determi...

The war is over. But peace has not arrived.Deep in the Mississippi Delta, hidden among the willow brakes and cypress water, sits a leaning shack called The Crooked Lantern. By day, it is little more than a weathered building. By night, it becomes something else entirely—a kitchen, a juke, a sanctuary, a church for the weary.The people who gather there are newly freed men and women, laborers, drifters, widows, veterans, and souls trying to learn what freedom is supposed to f...

Multiple-award-winning science fiction master Dan Simmons concludes the renowned Hyperion Cantos with this magnificent 'full-blooded action novel' (New York Times).The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murd...

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master continues the epic adventure that began in Hyperion, where the opening of the Time Tombs threatens to alter the very fabric of time and space, in the second novel in the ground breaking Hyperion Cantos.The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying siege to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against ...

Jordan Ellis is a brilliant, Black woman lawyer, a sharp-witted disability rights attorney, and a professional boundary setter who uses a wheelchair and refuses to shrink herself to fit a world that was never built with her in mind.After winning a high-profile case, Jordan is recruited by Ashcroft, Hale & Bishop, one of the nation's most prestigious corporate law firms. The firm says it wants diversity, inclusion, ...

In this debut crime-horror story collection, David Simmons drags you into a phantasmagoric Baltimore where the dead refuse to stay dead and the living claw for meaning.Hallucinatory and darkly comic love stories are set against the gritty backdrop of the city, where guns and drugs collide with tales of paranoia, pursuit, and revenge. Here, a middle school biology class spirals into a surreal vivisection. A man returns home each night to chew the freshly grown finge...

Portia is the madam of an elite prostitution ring in the hood. It might be time for this circle to meet its demise.Portia grew up in the ass-for-cash game, seeing the best and surviving the worst. At five years old, hungry and huddled near a dumpster, she watched a trick beat the life out of her mother for the twenty dollars she’d just made. Portia sat there for hours until the hunger pains forced her to move, her life forever changed.Portia has followed in...