Fears fade as years pass. They are never as salient or real as they were when you were a child. Unless they are. Though these terrors stem from children, the stories are not for them. From the dark to boogeymen to real life horrors, there is no innocence here. Featuring stories from Adrian Ludens, Alex Schvartsman, Adan Ramie, James Michael Shoberg, Jill Corddry, Robin Kirk, Kurt Newton, Stanley Webb, Shannon Iwanski, Kristin J Cooper, Eric Blair, Amanda Davis, Michael Schutz-Ryan, Lonnie Bricker, Stephanie Madan, Jack Burgos, John Biggs, Kerry B. Black, M.J. Pack, Shenoa Carroll-Bradd, Ian Shoebridge, Mary Pletsch, Lisa Finch, and Douglas Ford covering everything from the monsters under the bed, to the skeletons in the closet, and all of the little fears and insecurities that drive people to become monsters.

Beyond the Nightlight

Literature & Fiction

Ford, Douglas

Davis, Amanda

Messmer, Adrean

Shoberg, James

Corddry, Jill

Kirk, Robin

Newton, Kurt

Webb, Stanley

Iwanski, Shannon

Cooper, Kristin J.

Genre Fiction

Murder of Storytellers, A

Travis is a successful businessman making more money than he will ever need. He has a woman in his life he cares about who is in love with his money and determined to spend it all. He has everything he could want except for the one thing he wants more than anything - a family.Renee was done with meeting the same type of men who only wanted to get between her legs and try to use her as an ATM machine. She wants more than that. She wants a husband, a family. Little did she know that a trip to the mall was going to change her life forever.Is it more than sex between them? Will they get the family they want or will circumstances get in the way of their happiness.

Mine For The Taking

Erotica

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A journalist's story of travels in modern Peru, looking at the human side of the guerilla insurgency and the Communist Party. She describes heroes and scoundrels in their struggle against poverty and oppression, and reflects on what it means to live a life of privilege when so many have so few choices. B&amp;w photos depict Shining Path guerillas who look like middle-class housewives, rural teens with automatic weapons, and scenes of daily life in cities and the country. Includes a glossary. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Monkey's Paw: New Chronicles from Peru

History

Americas

University of Massachusetts Press

Drawing on Peru's rich history, journalist Robin Kirk combines interviews and personal narrative to present a vivid portrait of this turbulent country. The book opens with her first trip to Peru in 1983, just as the Shining Path guerrillas plunged the nation into sudden, violent change. Amid the horror and loss of war, she finds moving and often marvelous human stories of people from all walks of life. She ends her narrative with the bittersweet return of peasant refugees to their war-ravaged Andean villages.

State of War: Political Violence and Counterinsurgency in Colombia

Politics & Social Sciences

Arnson, Cynthia

Social Sciences

Human Rights Watch

Drawing a portrait of the rampant violence that characterizes the decades old Colombian civil war, Kirk (a researcher for Human Rights Watch) links American drug consumption and U.S. government policy to the spiral of violence carried out by government-linked paramilitaries and rebel guerillas. Although she takes the American government's proclamations about it's intentions in Colombia at face value, she condemns the so-called "war on drugs" as an abject failure. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

More Terrible than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia

PublicAffairs

More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences in Colombia as a writer and human rights investigator and an insider's analysis of the political realities that shape the expanding war on drugs and the growing U.S. military presence there. Looking at the war from the ground up, interviewing and profiling human rights activists, guerrillas, and paramilitaries to explain how it has changed their lives, Robin Kirk gives depth and meaning to the headlines that leave unexplained the intimate dimension of the U.S./Colombian relationship.

More Terrible Than Death: Drugs, Violence, and America's War in Colombia

Many young people aren’t aware that determined individuals created the rights we now take for granted.\nThe idea of human rights is relatively recent, coming out of a post–World War II effort to draw nations together and prevent or lessen suffering. Righting Wrongs introduces children to the true stories of 20 real people who invented and fought for these ideas. Without them, many of the rights we take for granted would not exist.\nThese heroes have promoted women’s, disabled, and civil rights; action on climate change; and the rights of refugees. These advocates are American, Sierra Leonean, Norwegian, and Argentinian. Eleven are women. Two identified as queer. Twelve are people of color. One campaigned for rights as a disabled person. Two identify as Indigenous. Two are Muslim and two are Hindu, and others range from atheist to devout Christian. There are two journalists, one general, three lawyers, one Episcopal priest, one torture victim, and one Holocaust survivor.\nTheir stories of hope and hard work show how people working together can change the world for the better.

Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World

Children's Books

Biographies

Chicago Review Press

Peculiar Motion is an intimate collection that spans a lifetime, from first love to encroaching age. Kirk is an accessible poet who also manages to jolt the reader with powerful language and an often sharp sense of humor.

Peculiar Motion

Poetry

Finishing Line Press

**Winner of the Bronze Medal in the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.**
“Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and Never Let Me Go will devour The Bond.” -Lisa Williams Kline, award-winning author of One Week of You
Trust what you see, not what you’re told.
In a society that has made males obsolete, a woman’s gifts are carefully engineered by members of the Weave. Girls like Dinitra are engineered by Sowers and assigned their life purpose when they turn sixteen.
But sometimes, the Sowers get things wrong.
A resistance is growing, and the rebels are creating humans of their own—including males—and planning to topple the Weave in a war that could destroy them all. When Dinitra is assigned her purpose, she’s sent far from home, to a colony where she uncovers the ugliest secrets of the Weave. Her loyalty is tested when she’s captured by the rebels and develops a dangerous bond with a male warrior—a shameful crime that she may pay for with her life.
Fans of The Hunger Games and The Rule of One will delight in this heart-pounding adventure.

THE BOND: A Novel

Teen & Young Adult

Goldenjay Books

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