Liam Williams is heading to college, and eagerly anticipates his coming independence. But for his poet mother, Cathleen, and his lawyer father, Noah, Liam's going is anything but easy. Each projects their lost dreams of youth onto their only child, and when Cathleen leaves Noah alone upstate to drive Liam down through New York's Hudson Valley to his school, their separation becomes quite literally a moving story of learning how to come to grips with losing . . . without letting go....

Orinally published by the now-defunct Starcherone Books, and widely reviewed, all rights to this ebook reverted to the author and its is now again evailable in as an ebook. Starcherone's original summary read as follows:“Joyce is part of a revolution in narrative form.”-Newsweek” Dawn it is, to be sure. The granddaddy of full-length hypertext fiction is Michael Joyce’s landmark Afternoon"-Robert Coover, The New York Times Book Review Michel Foucault famously wrote, “I am fully awar...

The World Beyond is a utopian, speculative fiction of pandemic, quantum events, nonlocality, and resurrection. Tom, a lost saint raised in a friary orphanage, flees it after it is leveled in one of a series of events called the Rearrangements. Years later he works in Bartleby-like obscurity processing data in his cube in a faraway city, until the manager summons him to assuage the company and community following a series of floods that seem to signal yet another Rearrangement. Aft...

A post-cyber “Pilgrim’s Progress.Was is half-poem, half-narrative, a nomadic history whose main character is the fleetingness of information itself. The novel’s title figure, the word was, marks that instant of utterance outside the present; neither past nor future but rather the interstitial space of any telling. Like Ariel in flight, Was takes place before you can say ‘come’ and ‘go,'" slipping away before you can "breath twice and cry ‘so, so."T...

His major league baseball dreams dashed, a former pitcher returns home to make a life or death family decision.Finalist for the 2013 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Literary CategoryFinalist for the 2013 CASEY Award presented by Spitball: The Literary Baseball MagazineGoing the Distance is a baseball novel with a difference;...

In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most widely read, quoted, and critiqued of all hypertext narratives," and co-developer of Storyspace, an innovative hypertext software acclaimed for offering new kinds of artistic expression, he is u...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 17.5 million Americans suffer from clinical depression. Each year, more than 132,000 people will consider suicide as a way out of depression and over 30,000 of them will succeed. The author became a statistic of the first two categories and was miraculously saved from the third. Ironically, he was reborn to a new reality through the intervention of a terminally ill friend as he wrote his school-aged son a desperate suicide letter...

"Readers who know Lovecraft's legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Here are nineteen Lovecraftian stories—both new and rediscovered—that take their cues from the mythos of the iconic horror writer. Today's masters of supernatural thrills celebrate H. P. Lovecraft's oeuvre with tales of weird fiction and cosmic horror, collected by H...

This pocket manual is designed to guide medical professionals in acquiring skills in basic ultrasound imaging. It describes the most common scans performed at the patient’s bedside, specifically in the emergency department or intensive care unit. Following an overview of basic ultrasound principles, the use of this modality to visualize specific organ systems is described. In a quick-reference bulleted format, each chapter details indications, basic techniques (patient position, organ wind...

Royalties from the book will be donated to Parkinson's disease research at UNC Chapel Hill

"Sarah and Things that are Two" is the second book in a series designed to explore a child's imagination while learning to count. The book incorporates everyday examples of things that are two to emphasize the process of counting to build on the process. The book also provides opportunities for the reader to interact with the child and expand the of list things that are two from the child's perspective.

Irish Fairy Tales is a collection of 14 Irish stories edited by W. B. Yeats. Originally published in 1892, this collection is beautifully narrated by John Dunleavy and includes Yeats' notes and his "Classification of Irish Fairies"