The time is 2005. The place In Miami, Florida, the Magic City. Joan of Miami is a timely and captivating novel that intertwines the universal themes of the search for personal authenticity in an ever-changing materialistic world. Starting off against the vibrant backdrop of Miami's dynamic real estate industry, the story then rockets off to the dazzling heights of Manhattan's elite advertising agencies. There, Jean Molk, a 19-yearl old girl from a small town where family ties bind ever so ...

The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man's agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return home, the young physician lives through the most turbulent and formati...

A car accident shattered sixteen-year-old Morgan's family. Now her brother’s dead, her mom's paralyzed in more ways than one, her dad lives at work and her seven-year-old sister Amy tries too freaking hard to salvage everything. What’s more, high school is its own special kind of hell, where her ex-boyfriend delights in spreading rumors that shred her reputation and make her feel like a loser.When she finds an old camera in a creepy abandoned hospital, it seems like her luck is fin...

The apocalypse will come in A is for Apocalypse, but in a many different forms. Within these covers the apocalypse comes with fire, with a sigh, with tears, in technological code, with alien intervention. It comes with survival in a nightmare landscape, it demands human sacrifice, it stalks through the pages with bloodlust. It freezes, it explodes, it howls.In stories as varied as the trials humanity can endure, this anthology brings together an alphabet of possible world ...

Wild storms, the sound of ice skates cutting across an empty pond and blankets of soft, white, beautiful death.In the dark depths of winter, it is easy to become isolated as snow obscures landmarks and drifts create claustrophobic situations that can leave you huddled in your house, struggling to keep warm . . . and, perhaps, to ignore the message scrawled in the frost on the window.Within these pages, you’ll discover eerie tales of long ago ghosts stretching frost...

Water is the most yielding of all elements, changing to fit its container, whether that be a thimble or a lake bed. At the same time, anyone who has ever watched the unrelenting progression of a tsunami understands its raw power. Associated with mutability and the subconscious, Water is both the tranquil azure of a tropical sea and the tumultuous waves and whitecaps of an embroiled ocean. As many faces as Water may wear, the creatures within and associated with it have even more.Di...

The ability for people to control (to some extent at least) fire has long been held as one of the major events that contributed to human evolution, but when fire eludes or escapes our control it is also one of the most destructive forces on earth. Associated with passion, power, transformation and purification, fire is a ferocious element with an unquenchable appetite.Discover the power of Fire and the creatures that thrive on it in these twenty-one stories, including: the true ins...

We come from dust, and to dust we return…Earth is steady. Solid. Reliable. It is the source of life and the thing which sustains it. But it’s not always serene and peaceful. It takes a lot to stir the earth but when it does, things get dramatic. Quakes swallow cities. Oceans rise. Mountains crumble. Earth is not weak, and it knows no pity.Learn the strength of Earth and its creations in these eighteen stories, including: rusting dragons; mysterious summer jobs; mag...

“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne J. Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds”Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages of this collection of fairy stories. Within these tales you’ll find fairy music and food, contracts (making and breaking them), changelings, circles and curses–these stories deliver all the things you ...

If you think cats and water don’t mix, think again.Plunge into worlds of piratical cats: some selfish, some mischievous, all fond of hitting the catnip stash. From ships on the deep blue sea, to ships flying through the depths of space, and even visiting from beyond the veil, these cats are determined and on a mission.Featuring thirteen "tails" of adventure-loving cats, puns, and fun by: Megan Fennell; S.G. Wong; Rebecca Brae; Grace Bridges; Lizz Donnelly; Blake Liddell; Fr...

After witnessing the total destruction of life on Earth, Sonya is returned to her own time, with her memories of the future intact. With knowledge of her impending death, Sonya takes steps to unmake the future and to rewrite the events that would ultimately lead to her death and plant the seeds for the demise of human existence (3rd Edition).

When a sword manifests in an old folk’s home it opens Autumn’s eyes to a whole world of magic, gods and giants. But before she has a chance to come to grips with her new reality, Autumn’s grandmother is attacked and put in the hospital. Autumn needs to discover what the deal is with the sword and how to protect herself and the people she loves.And, of course, there’s also the matter of the wings that have sprouted from her back.Can she learn about this new reality and the s...