In Enter, poet Jim Moore navigates the public spaces of his neighborhood—parks, boardwalks, piazzas, even parking garages—and encounters people negotiating mortality in the pandemic age just as he is coming to terms with his own long story. In his signature lucid and wry voice, Moore acknowledges suffering while making room for joy and for moments of peace. These poems offer shelter to readers and, in summoning poets like Rilke and Tsvetaeva, remind us that poetry’s tenderness can...

This book isn't for every man. "Be a Man of Standing" is only for those who are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the predictable, mundane rut of "being the typical man." If you find yourself asking: Is this it? Is this all it offers? Doesn't the term manhood carry any weight anymore?, this book is your answer! This passion goes beyond being just any man. It's the longing to be Superman. It's a burning obsession to be THE MAN---the ultimate champion to our wife and hero to our kids...

Jim Moore’s poems “are chips of reality, obsidian flakes of the heart and mind” (Jane Hirshfield)In his eighth collection, the celebrated poet Jim Moore looks into unrelenting darkness where moments of tenderness and awe illuminate, at times suddenly like lightning in the night, at others, more quietly, as the steady glow of streetlights in a snowstorm. These are poems of both patience and urgency, of necessary attendance and helpless exuberance in the breathing wo...

"Jim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself." —C. K. Williams*"It's coming so fast,"says an old woman across from me,speaking to no one in particular:she nods her head in agreement with herselfand strictly speakingwho can argue with her?* —from "Underground"Jim Moore's first career retrospective shows a poet whittling down experience to its essential conf...

To some extent, all fiction is autobiographical. When the author is a nonfiction writer and historian by trade, his fiction can be exceptionally rich and detailed.The author of Conspiracy of One and Clinton turns back the clock to the early 2000s, when he lived in London and fell in love. The result is a quirky romance that is as full of plot turns and twists as a London back alley. Rachelle du Corday is a French heiress, living in London. On the train one day, sh...

"Brackett's diaries read like a funnier, better-paced version of Barton Fink." — NewsweekScreenwriter Charles Brackett is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollywood," collaborating on such classics as The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard. He was also a perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry, and in this annotated collection of w...

What forces drove Gene Simmons to murder sixteen people?Madness doesn't strike people all at once. Gene Simmons' own madness had been eating at his soul all his life. But what finally drove him to murder his family? Was it rage? Guilt? Rejection?Gene Simmons strangled and shot his wife, daughters, sons and grandchildren. Then, three days after Christmas, 1987, he unleashed a reign of terror on Russellville, Arkansas. When the smoke cleared away, six others were shot, leavin...

One in a series of twelve books by Gene Getz examining role models of the Old and New Testaments in situations relevant to modern times.

Along the river of American enterprise, leaders are born and die and their businesses rise and fade away. Paul J. Meyer's enterprise is of more than passing interest because fifty years later, it's easy to see that the company Meyer started created an industry … something that happens only once or twice in a generation.Success Motivation Institute, which Meyer started in January, 1960, was the world's first self-improvement company. SMI was the first to condense and record the hand...

The extraordinary story of a skinny lad from Manchester who rose to become British Champion bodybuilder. And there the clichés end in this gritty, humorous, and brutally honest tale which strips away the dream tan and any illusion of a glamorous lifestyle to lay bare the sport as never before. Jim Moore writes about the all-too-often taboo subjects of performance-enhancing drugs, the debilitating illnesses and mental health problems which blight the scene. He takes the reader behind the st...

From the founder of Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) comes his new mission and movement - Be A Man of Standing: Unleashing God's Call to Manhood.This book is about manhood. It's written for every man, especially for those who are sick and tired of the typical, predictable, mundane, broken down, weak boring rut we call being the typical man. We secretly ask the question to ourselves but never to anyone else...is this it? What you'll read is for men who have an obsess...

You've heard the old saying: "If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."For those who attempt to actually plan their lives, the challenge is fraught with difficulty. Your Top 10 Life is a radically new approach to goal-setting and life planning, and it's as simple as using a legal pad to create a list of 10 annual objectives. Jim Moore is a bestselling author and a veteran of the personal improvement industry; he's been using the Top 10 List person...