The Summer 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Summer 2025 issue, edited by Victor LaValle, features prose by Helen Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, S.A. Cosby, Joanna Pear...

A novelette of 16,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Darwath series. The wizards at the distant Keep of Black Rock have disappeared. Warrior woman Gil Patterson, the wizard Ingold Inglorion, and Ingold's pupil Rudy Solis set out to learn what happened to them – but only Gil manages to arrive at Black Rock Keep. Something caused the mages of Black Rock – and Ingold and Rudy, when they drew near to the half-ruined Keep – to lose their magic, before they disappeared, and Gil senses that something ...

Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connection as old age encroaches is palpable here, with more and more senior singles searching online. Those who find new partners explore issues that most relationships encounter at any age, ...

JordanBarrister loves her grandfather, her unique candle creations, and the life she’s built in present day Chicago. Her latest hobby obsessions, however, are love locks from a section of grille purchased at auction from Paris’ famed Pont des Arts pedestrian bridge. She’s determined to createa lasting tribute to those who put a lock on the bridge to safeguard their love. While a lock is normally used to keep something in, one particular lock accidentally opens a time portal and Jordan find...

Sin da quando avevo posato gli occhi su Liam per la prima volta, avevo capito che era proprio ciò che desideravo. Non per tutta la vita. Solo per una notte.Ma per quanto fossi certa che una notte insieme sarebbe bastata a scombussolare l’esistenza a entrambi, lui era altrettanto certo che io e lui fossimo una pessima idea.Finché non ebbe bisogno di me.Una settimana, una relazione finta e in più un’offerta che non potevo rifiutare. I nomignoli? Fasullissimi. I dettag...

The dancer Siobhan loves Thomas the Rhymer, but his heart belongs to the Queen of Elfland. The self-proclaimed master thief Lucas, too, is forced to realize that the realm-under-the-hill lets no-one go who has stolen a kiss or a lock of hair from it. A vow at Midsummer leads to a fiery relationship, a druid wants revenge, three fishermen meet their fate, and Winter falls in love.Inspired by Scotland's foggy forests and the green coasts of Ireland, Barbara Schinko tells fairy-like s...

Jordan Barrister loves her grandfather, her unique candle creations, and the life she's built in present day Chicago. Her latest hobby obsessions, however, are love locks from a section of grille purchased at auction from Paris' famed Pont des Arts pedestrian bridge. She's determined to create a lasting tribute to those who put a lock on the bridge to safeguard their love. While a lock is normally used to keep something in, one particular lock accidentally opens a time portal and ...

The newest title in the series Survivor Stories, this book tells the story of Paul Allen, a photographer who likes opera and was a good baritone singer. At the age of 56 he sustained a stroke that left him paralysed and speechless. He has Locked-In Syndrome (LIS), a rare consequence of brain damage. Although Paul is fully conscious and his cognitive abilities are intact, he is unable to move or speak due to the paralysis of nearly all his voluntary muscles. However, Paul is keen t...

Kleider für die moderne Frau (fast) jeden Alters: erschwinglich, einfach und kniefrei. Die einzigartigen Biografien dieser Reihe bieten Einblicke in das Leben mehr oder weniger berühmter und berüchtigter, aber in jedem Fall mutiger Frauen und spüren der Entschluss- und Tatkraft nach, die sie den jeweils ganz persönlichen Aufbruch ins Ungewisse wagen ließen.

Die neurologische Rehabilitation nach Schädigung des Nervensystems hat sich in den letzten 25 Jahren zu einer hochspezialisierten Fachdisziplin entwickelt. Moderne interdisziplinäre Diagnostik- und Behandlungskonzepte umfassen inzwischen neben neurologischer Expertise, den klassischen Funktionstherapien und spezialisierter Pflege auch wesentliche Aspekte der Intensivmedizin, Inneren Medizin, (Neuro-)Chirurgie, Schlafmedizin, Palliativmedizin und anderer angrenzender Fachgebiete. Dieses Her...

Was würde Aristoteles über Sheldon Coopers Leben sagen?Warum würde Thomas Hobbes die Mitbewohner-Vereinbarung gutheißen?Und wen würde Immanuel Kant dafür verspotten, un-unentwirrbare Lügengespinste zu spinnen?«The Big Bang Theory und die Philosophie» liefert die Antworten und verbindet auf unwiderstehlich streberhafte Weise die Theorien der größten Denker der Welt mit Einblicken in die genialen Köpfe der Kult-Serie. Es gibt viele Bücher über Philosophie, doch nur diese...

Aus der Reihe "Erfinderinnen" Mary Quant und der Minirock oder: Ein Quäntchen Glück: Kleider für die moderne Frau (fast) jeden Alters: erschwinglich, einfach und kniefrei.