Doug, a ‘burned out’ and disillusioned psychotherapist, seeks serenity, peace and self-awareness by walking his favorite pier in order to sort out his painful experiences and make sense of his life. While on his walks, he is approached by unsolicited clients who seek his help. Walks Along the Pier is a series of fictional psychological case studies in the literary tradition of Linder, Viscott, Sigmund Freud and many others. Cynical, irreverent, often hilarious and always insightful, Walks ...

Born Under a Stump is a biography of Bill Hulet, a legendary bear hunter. Working for various timber concerns, he thinned the black bear who ruined thousands of young trees on the Olympic Peninsula tree farms in Washington State. He quite possibly killed more bear than anyone who ever lived. His life also embraced the era of old growth logging.

A collection of poems about life as a teenager, living in the north woods during the 1970s that recapture some of the joy and pain of growing up in the small north Idaho logging town of Priest River.

The world is weird. If any proof was needed, the first few months of 2020 provided it. But did we need proof? Didn't we already know that you only have to scratch the surface to see the weirdness beneath? Sometimes it oozes out, suppurates, infects; sometimes it leaps out, takes root and blossoms.We get used to it, carry on as if it wasn't there. But we have it inside us - we are weird. What you see as normal is just the mosaic of abnormality that you experienced last week...

Join us on a pumpkin spiced, ghost-riddled, spooky journey amongst the imaginations of fifteen horrifyingly excellent indie authors. Let them take you on a candle-lit journey through the minds of the depraved, departed and desperate as they treat you to their haunting tales. Lock the doors, close the curtains and don’t turn off the light!

A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town - a one-armed Liverpudlian. Seeking to rebuild his life, if not his body, he is attempting to lead a life here unlike any he's lived before: a normal one - shopping, gardening, signing on, visiting friends, all the usual diurnal activities.Over a hundred miles to the north, however, two men in shellsuits are leaving Liverpool, heading south in a rickety old car. They have been sent by their gang-boss to wreak terrible, violent re...

Motivated by the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, champion swimmer Lee "Stump" Kelley is hell bent on becoming a Marine. Waylaid by a silver-tongued Navy recruiter he becomes a frogman instead. After blowing up under water obstructions all over the Pacific, at Tacloban he loses the first of his best friends in a gruesome explosion. A month later he loses the second in a freak encounter with a giant hammerhead shark at Manila Bay. Moving on to Okinawa with what's left of his frogman team, he s...

The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a once-mighty oak tree there become a symbol of the conflict? What can its story tell us about that day’s battle and the broader history of the Civil War? Readers will out the answers to these questions and discover more of what the Spotsylvania ...

Sometimes nothing’s more puzzling than the truth.Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes-Cavanaugh thinks she’s worked her last case before her baby is born…Right up until a man covered in blood walks into her law firm.He claims he doesn’t know how the blood got there or who it belongs to. He’s desperate for Nicole’s help.But with her license still under probation and her baby due soon, Nicole’s not sure how much she’s willing to risk, especially when his ca...

From Kent's Green Fields to Australia's Premier Pitches: One Umpire's Revolutionary JourneyA cricket-mad Australian is living in England when he trades his playing whites for an umpire's coat.For the next six years, he has the best seat in the house, umpiring matches at some of the world's most picturesque cricket grounds in Kent and Sussex.But it's his return to Australia that bowls him a googly.Captivated by the skill and talent of the wor...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEIn a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own."The Witch is classic NDiaye. Taut, spellbinding and strange, it unfolds with the disturbed logic of a fever dream." —The New York Times"The Witch is Marie NDiaye at her most dazzling. In this simple, startlin...

As a boy in the 1890s, he went looking for thrills in a rural Georgia that still burned with the humiliation of the Civil War. As an old man in the 1960s, he dared death, picked fights, refused to take his medicine, and drove off all his friends and admirers. He went to his deathbed alone, clutching a loaded pistol and a bag containing millions of dollars' worth of cash and securities. During the years in between, he was, according to Al Stump, "the most shrewd, inventive, lurid, detested,...