Former Pan Am Pilot Reaches New Heights as a Poet at 93Roy Everett Butler's debut poetry collection, explores aging, aviation, history, and the quiet beauty of everyday life.At 93, former Marine Corps aviator and Pan American World Airways pilot Roy Everett Butler has embarked on a remarkable new journey. This is a heartfelt collection selected from more than 300 poems and reflections, written entirely in his nineties. This anthology shows that creativity, curiosity, and se...

A book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author’s own watercolors.When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Fresh from the neon-lit publishing offices of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains but then won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to th...

The electric story of two sisters and an unthinkable betrayal.Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York, a dream job that has given her nearly everything she's always wanted. And then she reconnects with Jack from college—kind, funny, intelligent Jack—and suddenly Mira feels as if she might have found her soulmate. They've woven their lives together so thoroughly; all that remains is for Jack to meet her family: her belov...

James has spent thirty years carving cedar on Haida Gwaii. He knows every scent, every grain line, every hidden flaw a tree can carry. So when a piece of cedar begins to grow a pattern that shouldn't exist, he notices.At first it looks like a defect buried deep in the wood. Then he finds the same structure in the roots of an ancient cedar — the same geometry spreading through the forest floor. And offshore, the local orca community begins gathering in numbers no one can explain.

Claude Murphy was lucky. He'd broken into the freelance writing market with a splash. But his luck is changing. Covering a poetry festival in Quebec, Canada in 1996, he discovers a dark trail of intrigue and murder. Murphy finds himself walking a tightrope between unsavory poets, motorcycle gangs, Quebecois separatists fighting for an independent French Canada, and a vast assemblage of Canadian police and military forces who are called into action as the threat of an insurrection rocks Que...

A corrupt system. A city in meltdown. A rogue cop, bent on revenge. Who will deliver justice?Blood on the Streets is the first in the London Large crime thriller series, featuring the exploits of Detective Inspector Harry ‘H’ Hawkins, an old-school London copper with over thirty years of besting villains under his belt. When a bloody international gang war threatens to rip the metropolis apart, ‘London’s top copper’ finds himself under siege as never before.

A historical exploration of the lost heirs and pretenders whose fates shaped and could have altered the Tudor succession.Two commoners pretend to be royalty to bring down the Tudors.The long-awaited Tudor prince dies of the Sweat on his fifteenth birthday.The Queen of Scots is ruthlessly executed by the Queen of England.A seventeen-year-old ascends the Throne of England to rule it for a mere nine days.The last Plantagenet prince is p...

In My Quiet Years is a deeply personal collection of poems about memory, aging, love, loss, and companionship.With warmth, honesty, and gentle wit, Roy Everett Butler writes of childhood, family, music, flight, friendship, and the comforting presence of cats. Tender and wise, these poems reflect on growing older and the quiet blessings that endure

In Close Your Eyes, The New York Times bestselling duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen are back with a suspenseful novel about a once-blind woman with a talent for tracking serial killersThe FBI doesn't usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases. But Kendra Michael's astonishing powers of observation and analysis have made her a favorite of law enforcement agencies all across the country. Blind for the first twenty years of her life, she car...

"I was laughing audibly as I read it"What Roy Griffis has done is apply a completely new and fresh perspective to the Cthulhu mythos. The Thing From HR is as snarky, humorous, darkly twisted view of the old ones. I struggle to say what genre this book fits into. Yes, there is the insanity generating horror you'd expect, but this novel is much more. Picture The Office meets Cthulhu, meets Scooby Doo. I was laughing, audibly, as I read it. It is witty, daring, and worthy of your time....

Injecting Substance Use, Recovery and Critical Harms: Understanding the Complexities of the Drug Problem provides an important overview into the history, drivers and consequences of drug injecting, what sustains it and why problems continue to surprise clinicians, policy-makers and politicians. It explores the gritty reality of the harms caused by injecting drugs, and puts the medical, psychiatric and social damage in a contemporary context. Among the many harms resulting from sub...

Under the protection of the gods, a relaxed life with slimes in another world begins!One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic!Receiving a most cordial and divine welcome from the gods, Ryoma decides to live leisurely on his own in t...