Whether it’s vintage Hollywood, the Florida everglades, the Atlantic City boardwalk, or a farmhouse in Western Canada, the twenty authors represented in this collection of mystery and suspense interpret the overarching theme of “moonlight and misadventure” in their own inimitable style where only one thing is assured: Waxing, waning, gibbous, or full, the moon is always there, illuminating things better left in the dark.Featuring stories by K.L. Abrahamson, Sharon Hart Addy, C.W. B...

Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. The contributors' essays address the various relationships between sexuality and scholarship within their respective programs, and present arguments on topics ranging from queer literature to police brutality. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intelle...

The decade of the fifties may have been the last to allow children to be children. Childhood in the fifties was innocent, happy, and carefree. Author Bill Ramsey was a child who grew up in that decade. In Billy the Kid (From Houston-Not Texas) he recalls those times and the townspeople, teachers, and neighbors in Houston, Pennsylvania.Ramsey and his family lived in a modest home in this small town in western Pennsylvania, where the townspeople helped him to...

Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston and David Crockett were three men of destiny in 19th century American history who had much in common in family and ancestral ties, in character, mannerisms and political and social outlook as they shaped the fabric of a nation that was to gradually emerge as the greatest, most influential in the world. They were a gallant and fearless trio of men, hewn from the same genealogical and cultural stick that was rooted back across the Atlantic Ocean in lowland Scotlan...

Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and 'closed book' even to his friends is found dead in his study at 4a.m., following a dinner in honour of his daughter's engagement. An ivory-handled carving knife rests between his shoulder blades as the houseguests gather round to witness the awful crime. The telephone line has been sabotaged - a calculated murder has been committed. Rewinding twelve hours, the events of the afternoon and evening unfold, revealing a multitude of clues and motives from ...

Resigned to being an old maid, Elizabeth Holt works at the library and lives quietly in the small town of Cedar Gap, Texas. The 1929 financial crash leaves her penniless and devastated. Her devious aunt Lavinia has squandered her inheritance in the stock market.Reverend John Reardon has recently become the pastor of a church in Cedar Gap. Unbeknown to the congregation, the chairman of the deacons invested the church's assets in now worthless stocks. When the bank forecloses on the ...

In 1943 Sara Carson left her farm home and went to Orange, Texas, to work in the ship yards. There she met and fell in love with soldier Kent Holden. Three days later they were married. Less than a week afterward, he shipped out to North Africa. Sara moved back to the farm to help her mother with her ailing grandmother and her father who was losing his hold on reality.Now it is 1945. Germany has surrendered and Kent is coming home. Sara comes to grips with the realization that she h...

Brush Country is a collection of poems that vary in style, tone, length, and content. Their unity is in the setting, the Brush Country of Central Texas.Whether rugged and rough-hewn as the tangled underbrush that grows in in stubborn profusion beneath stately oaks and scrubby mesquites, or as finely wrought as fragile flowers that bloom in shady glades and hidden places, these poems reflect the unique environment, the ambiguous nature, and the exceptional people who inhabit this little cor...

Full-cast productions of five plays by the celebrated Russian author, plus a reading of one of his most famous short stories'stellar performances from some of the best actors of their generation' - Entertainment FocusAlexei Maximovich Peshkov, known under his pseudonym Maxim Gorky, was one of Russia's greatest Soviet writers and the founder of the ‘socialist realism’ literary movement. Nominated for the Nobel Prize five times, his best-known works ...

Terminally-ill Jim Delaney offers the Circle T Ranch as the incentive for marrying his spinster sister. Widower Myles Donovan agrees. Myles needs a wife to help raise his daughter and to further his political aspirations. Who would be more perfect to fulfil both roles than a prim and proper schoolteacher from an old, established family?Hot-tempered Isabel Delaney turns out to be much more than Myles bargained for. She has a mind of her own, and she's fed up with the men in her life...

Recipe for trouble: Begin with the year 1922, in south Texas ranch country. Add Lucky Livingston, one devil-may-care cowboy bent on revenge. Mix in Bridget McGuire, a frightened young woman desperate for a place to hide. Stir in a dangerous outlaw, a marauding band of Ku Klux Clansmen, and three inept matchmakers. Spice the mixture with a bank's missing loot and one dishonest deputy sheriff. Pepper with humor, bring to a rolling boil, and stand back! Will too many cooks spoil the broth?

Chapter And Verse has one theme--love. Yet there is diversity within that unity, both in form and substance. The poems run in length from a few short lines to a several verses. The rhyme schemes are many and varied. The subject matter addresses the charm, the mirth, the drama, the chivalry, the bliss, the gravity, and the mystery of love. Each poem speaks directly to the heart with its symmetry of ideas and its eloquent development of thought. Each one is finely wrought, well crafted, and ...