A sweeping and poignant history of community response to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the US, told through interviews, archival reproductions, and narrative.In the summer of 2020, the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade ignited a movement that led to the largest street protests in American history. Abolitionist grassroots organizers around the country unified around a clear demand: defund the police and refund our comm...

California is more than beaches, sunshine, and vineyards.Two dozen horror authors are about to drag you into their nightmares, taking you on a wild tour behind the sun-soaked glamour, promising chills and thrills that linger long after the last page. With stories ranging from cosmic to body horror, to the comedic and the strange, Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales is a descent into the darkest corners of Southern California. These pages carry the whispers of ...

The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War.Finalist of the American Battlefield Trust Military History Book Prize, Winner of the Richard Barksdale Harwell AwardThe memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian D. Sc...

From bestselling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a collection of eleven chilling tales that provoke the dreaded dark side of the listener's imagination.***Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory***A sinful man finally faces his conscience in the form of a baby-like creature that haunts his waking hours.***Quietus***Dying can be a difficult thing to come to terms with.***Deep Breathing Exercises***A man realizes that people who breathe together die together.

Five short stories of horror...LOCKEDA child is locked in a bathroom for an entire day. The darkness is bad. The growling from beneath the sink is worse. And what the child discovers in those shadowy recesses is worse than he could possibly imagine. As an adult, he tries desperately to make sense of the inexplicable, reliving the experience that will haunt him for the rest of his life.BLACK OUT DAYSAnthony Kolb, an overambitious manager at the customer suppo...

These eleven chilling tales from bestselling author Orson Scott Card, including the author's introductions and afterword comments, provoke the dreaded dark side of the reader's imagination. The Changed Man, the first volume of stories in the Maps in a Mirror series, wonderfully showcases Card’s versatility in both genre and form.IntroductionEumenides in the Fourth Floor LavatoryQuietusDeep Breathing ExercisesFat FarmClosing the Timelid

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the conditionAs recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood.Dr...

The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian D. Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in American history, which resulted in 23,000 casualties.The Battle of Antietam marked a vital turning point in the war: afterward, the conflict could no longer be understood as a...

The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft - In 1927 Amazing Stories had this to say about The Colour Out of Space, "We could wax rhapsodical in our praise, as the story is one of the finest pieces of literature it has been our good fortune to read. The theme is original, and yet fantastic enough to make it rise head and shoulders above many contemporary scientifiction stories. You will not regret having read this marvelous tale."H. P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Spa...

You’re going on a journey within your powerful mind!You’ll meet three superpowered Brainheimers named Boss Breezy, Detective Dread, and Mayor Metaman.In the city of Brainheim, all thoughts coexist in harmony until an army of empty souls attacks them. To maintain the balance of Brainheim, the Brainheimers must cooperate!The story is based on a metacognitive model of the mind, showing how metacognitions guide thinking and attention.The Brainheimers may help kids a...