What’s going on here? A pony that refused to be broken? An owl and a pig that pull a Lazarus feat and came back to life after being pronounced dead? Shenanigans on a school bus? A dog who likes to wrestle? A tom cat exiled miles from his home but found his way back? A farm boy who’d rather be reading than riding a tractor?All these stories and more are featured in this collection of short stories by former farm boy Myron Williams. The author grew up in North Central Iowa where he s...

Ever wonder who or what delivered the elements of life to Earth and gave our world its first drink of water?What happened when Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens met for the first time?Who inspired that first human to use symbols to write the first words?Where did the gods of mythology really come from? The sky? If so, who brought them and what were their motives?Who inspired one man of the Tewa Pueblo in New Mexico to orchestrate the first American revolution in...

In the world of college football, power is an illusion, unseen hands pull the strings, and the scoreboard is just a facade. Dallas Williams, a rising quarterback at the University of Louisville, and Willy Beamon, an electrifying running back fresh out of high school, are on the path to greatness. But their fate is not their own. The Playmaker—a shadowy figure with vast influence—manipulates players, coaches, and referees alike, ensuring that only those who serve his agenda reach the pinnac...

The various manifestations of ichthyoses are classified either by their appearance or their molecular genetics. This volume focuses on generalized, inherited disorders of cornification, which constitute an ever-enlarging group of monogenic diseases caused by a large number of genes that affect a broad array of cellular functions. The authors’ overview reflects their unique perspective that the clinical phenotype in the inherited ichthyoses mirrors a ‘best attempt’ by a metabolically compro...

Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats's most startling dramatic works in its realistic use of a seance as the setting for an eerily powerful reenactment of Jonathan Swift's rigorous idealism, baffling love relationships, and tragic madness. The co...

We all look up at the moon and wonder. And maybe dream. For centuries, the moon filled our imaginations. Eleven professional writers took those dreams and set original stories on moons scattered all over the galaxy. Yet, as the dreams of centuries, every story holds a human touch. From a mythical man fulfilling a childhood wish to a fantastic addition to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s bestselling Retrieval Artist series, this volume of Fiction River allows you to travel to eleven different moons...