What if reading poetry could change you—not just what you think, but how you move through the world?For forty years, Thomas Gardner led students through this transformative act—not analyzing poems from a distance but reperforming them from the inside. Walking together through Elizabeth Bishop's broken beaches, Robert Frost's snowy woods, and Emily Dickinson's rooms of possibility, they discovered that getting lost is how we are found. That acknowledging fragility o...

Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Award - Honorable Mention for Essays (2023)In this brilliantly crafted essay collection, Tiffany Eberle Kriner weaves together literary criticism, nature writing, and memoir to explore what grows when we plant texts in the landscapes of our lives.The first time Tiffany Eberle Kriner walked the parcel of land that would become Root and Sky Farm its primary crop seemed to be chaos. Industrial a...

Agents Emily and Alex navigate a world of shadows and secrets as they uncover a global conspiracy orchestrated by the elusive Puppetmaster. As they chase leads across cities and battle shadowy organizations, the covert agency becomes a battleground of trust and betrayal. Unmasking the Puppetmaster reveals a high-stakes game within their ranks, and the dance with shadows takes unexpected turns.

In the heart of a bustling metropolis, Agent Alex Mercer receives a mysterious assignment that will thrust him into the treacherous world of international espionage. The only clue: a cryptic message left by a vanished colleague. As he delves into the shadows, he uncovers a web of deception that leads him from the neon-lit streets of the city to the remote corners of the globe."Shadows of Deception" is a gripping tale of espionage, betrayal, and the thin line between right and wrong...

"The achievement of 'Poverty Creek Journal' is precisely that it does retrace that kind of wandering--and, in so doing, makes something lovely and meaningful of a difficult year. Gardner does not go in for pat analogies; he does not claim, as Camus once did about soccer, that running taught him everything about death. Nor does he go in for pat consolation. His journal does not so much end as stop, as if he has simply not yet risen for the next morning's run." -- Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker

A dazzling new collection of the finest short form science fiction from the previous year, compiled once again by World Fantasy and Hugo Award-winning editors by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Year's Best SF 16 features some of the brightest stars of the genre—including Gregory Benford, Cory Doctrow, Joe Haldeman, and Michael Swanwick. From space travel to time travel to journeys through the mind, brilliant and original speculative fiction is alive and well and magnificentl...

“Intricately plotted with extraordinary characters and riveting action.” —Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of In the BloodIn this electrifying thriller from the author of The Night Agent now on Netflix, CIA officer Sam Hudson races to find a deep cover operative loose in the U.S. and a mole in the Agency before they can launch a devastating attack on Washington, D.C.**For years CIA officer Sam Huds...

The League of Super Heroes HQ is under attack! A Super Hero went missing last night. Looks like someone is out for blood… but who!? Who amongst you has turned from Super Hero to Super Villain?It's time to suit up and take control of this evil once and for all. The fate of the world is at stake. Will the good guys be victorious in sniffing out the tyrants? Or will the evil Super Villains secret pact be the end of world peace?In League of Super Heroes 3: Royal Rumble, an all-...

"The book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. " - The Christian Science MonitorHere, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Mary Oliver, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been str...

Never have the stakes been higher. Never have two people faced greater risks or grappled with deeper desire. Never has Cherry Adair–award-winning author of Hot Ice–burned the pages with so much blazing action and blistering passion.Professional art restorer Emily Greene is in no mood to see the devil-may-care Max Aries. She hasn’t forgotten–or forgiven–the way Max dropped into her life a year ago, stole her heart, then vanished without a word. Max hadn’t kept in touch with his fath...

After a mission on Bayern earns Colonel Harry Frayn the displeasure of his superiors, he finds himself reassigned to the headquarters of the Imperial Intelligence Service. His critical job? Rubber stamping endless reports from an office deep within the basement.But while you can take the agent out of the field, you can't take the field out of the agent. So when Frayn stumbles across intelligence hinting at a plot with galactic implications, he's forced to take matters into his own ...

How do we reckon our past without being ravaged by it? How do we use people, and their bodies, to express ourselves?