Humboldt County Writers is excited to present their 2025 anthology. Featuring stories and poetry from 14 local authors all centered around the anthology's central theme Earth.Featuring works from:Jayme AntrimJenni BoyleStevie Lou DiazTom HedtCraig KurumadaC.A. LarkinGabriel Hall-PriceNathaniel N.Nancy ResnickD.F. RitoStephen SottongKeaton SullivanJ.E. Ta...

Humboldt County Writers is excited to present their 2024 anthology. Featuring stories and poetry from 11 local authors all centered around the anthology's central theme Water.Featuring works from:Jayme AntrimJenni BoyleJames DonzellaTom HedtC.A. LarkinNancy ResnickD.F. RitoStephen SottongKeaton SullivanJ.E. TamberKelsey Vaughan

Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in this New York Times bestseller in Randy Wayne White's thrilling series.Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like this.His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. It...

NBCC Award Winner: "The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection . . . could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body." — The New York TimesVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry ...

“When it comes to creating push-the-limits plots and loathsome bad guys” (Sarasota Herald-Tribune), Randy Wayne White is a master. This is the New York Times bestselling author at his vintage best—a violent plunge into the depths of the Gulf Stream as one man’s vengeance becomes another’s worst nightmare....Ex–Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan survived a military hell only to find it again where he least expected it—as a fisherman trolling the Gulf Stream in his thirty-foo...

"Get Smart" meets "Ghostbusters!"A humorous paranormal mystery collection. Five case files from Max Killian Investigations:Haunting Clues -- Max is hired to expel a ghost from a mansion. To deal with the dead, though, he must first uncover the secrets of those still alive.Curses! -- Some days you curse, some days the curse gets you.Dearly Departed -- Max investigates a graveyard, but when it comes up empty, it's his job to find the body--dead or alive.

Under the command of Jin Mogis, the Kingdom of Arabakia's Expeditionary Force declared independence as the new Frontier Army. They then formed an alliance with the king of the goblins. Now, their next move is to conquer Mount Grief, occupied by an army of orcs.Entrusted with an important mission to infiltrate and disrupt the enemy from within, Haruhiro and his team work with the members of Shinohara's Orion, Team Renji, and the Tokkis in order to break through the "Graveyard" benea...

Skies darken. Sirens wail. Buildings tremble with each distant boom. You grasp your loved ones close to you. Any second could be your last.Howls From the Wreckage will push you to the edge of imminent disaster—and drown you in the heartbreak of its fallout.HOWL Society Press presents its thrilling anthology of disaster horror, fittingly introduced by Nick Cutter, acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep."Don't Play in the Closet...

Ever since her father walked into the ocean eleven years ago, a young woman waits for him to return. Life in her coastal town is decidedly bleak. Her mother spends her time quietly monitoring the ocean for her missing husband. Her grandfather passes the days typesetting dictionaries that will never be printed. Rather than suffer the contortions of becoming a woman and accepting her father's apparent suicide, the narrator convinces herself she is a mermaid and escapes her dreary, northern town...

A boy gets buried in dirty laundry and pulled into time travel shenanigans after his mom’s latest experiment in this first book in the My Mad Scientist Mom chapter book series from acclaimed author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner.Ari’s life is filled with school, video games, and his pet turtle, Fred: pretty run-of-the mill stuff. But not anywhere near run-of-the-mill is Ari’s mom, who’s a mad scientist. That’s right, a MAD scientist. Sure, she strives to make people’s ...

‘Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction’ GILES COREN, THE TIMES‘Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER‘Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century’s first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNGBefore there was Jaws, there was… QUINTYou already know the end of his story: now find...

Award winning author Suzanne Church’s cast of distinct characters asks “What if?” in this collection of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction.Can humanity survive an ice age? Will the storm man steal Wanda’s baby? When will Bob and Sebbee escape the relentless march of the Lost Circle? What is the cause of the taint in Faya’s courted ice? If you can’t escape hell, can you at least afford a trip on a teleporting couch?Church infuses emotion into every tale. Whet...