On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. 
 After an inexplicably hostile encounter with a hotel landlord, Futh sets out along the Rhine. As he contemplates an earlier trip to Germany and the things he has done in his life, he does not foresee the potentially devastating consequences of things not done. The Lighthouse, Alison Moore’s first novel, tells the tense, gripping story of a man trying to find himself, but becoming lost.

The Lighthouse

Literature & Fiction

MOORE, ALISON

Literary

Penguin Canada

Synonym for Love

Plume

Riders on the Orphan Train is an historical novel about a little-known piece of American history. Between 1854 and 1929, over 250,000 orphans and "surrendered" children were "placed out" across the country. They started their journey in New York and were given away in train stations across the country. The novel is the story of the journey of two children from very different backgrounds who find themselves on the same train heading West in 1918. Ezra Duval, age 11, was left in an orphanage. Ezra's father, a widower, left his son behind for an opportunity to be a part of an archaeological expedition in Egypt. Maud Farrell, age 12, arrives in America from the west of Ireland to join her father, a "sand hog" excavating the subway, and discovers she must make her own way as a singing girl on the streets. Both Ezra and Maud are scheduled to be sent out on a train to find new homes in the West by the Children's Aid Society. Their brief friendship makes a life-long impression on them both and though they are initially taken by people in different states, (Arkansas and Texas), their experiences, like separated twins, run uncannily parallel. This is a story of dislocation, loss, and the search for home that is at the heart of the American experience. Beginning on the eve of America's entry into World War I and spanning the period of time until the Great Depression, these children encounter and learn from people also looking for a way to belong in a rapidly-changing world. The novel's locations include New York City, Arkansas, the Big Bend region of Texas, central New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. The novel began with a short story that is at the heart of a multi-media presentation called Riders on the Orphan Train that the author has been performing in libraries and museums since 1998. The program was originally developed for the Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc. in Springdale, Arkansas, and now serves as the official touring outreach program for The National Orphan Train Complex Museum and Research Center in Concordia, Kansas. Author Statement: I left the tenure track of a major creative writing program in 1998 to become an itinerant performer and have never regretted the decision. Reaching the public initially with my short story about the Orphan Trains has been extremely rewarding; finding a way to have my work serve a larger purpose has become a story my own imagination could not have created on its own. The short story continued to grow until it became a novel. I chose fiction as a means for exploring the emotional truths often left out of historical facts. For me, the completion of this novel is the culmination of fourteen years of writing and research while touring and getting to know many Orphan Train Riders by participating in national reunions. Their experiences are woven through the novel. It is my hope that the stories of the children who road the trains will live on through this novel for generations to come.

Riders on the Orphan Train: a novel

Genre Fiction

Roadworthy Press

There is no map of The Middle of Elsewhere. It's a territory bordered by Far Left Field and Off the Beaten Track, both in exterior and interior ways. The collection begins with a middle-aged couple venturing forth to reclaim their lost youth in the ghost town of Terlingua, Far West Texas. The book continues with a woman in the Ozarks building a doll-house shrine to Elvis as a hedge against time. A woman snakehandler in the Trans-Pecos faces her demons the hard way. A visionary half-breed boy in Nussa Tengarra, Indonesia, commits a sin that brings the wrath of a whale upon his village. A young woman in San Francisco accidentally kills a bicyclist from El Salvador and goes on a journey to learn about him. A musician buries his guitar and his brother in the Mojave Desert. A young chambermaid leaves a letter to the people of the future in a time capsule in Arkansas. The book comes full circle back to Texas with two children riding an Orphan Train past the point of no return.

The Middle of Elsewhere: A Novella And Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Phoenix Intl Inc

Shadows & Tall Trees 7 (7)

"Shadows and Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment's most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series." - Peter StraubThe acclaimed literary anthology Shadows & Tall Trees has featured authors short-listed for the Man Booker Award, and World Fantasy Award winners. Several of our stories have been reprinted in "Year's Best" anthologies and have garnered numerous award nominations. This volume features all-oroiginal new fiction from these masters of weird fiction:Malcolm DevlinBrian EvensonRebecca KuderV.H. Leslie Robert LevyLaura MauroManish Melwani Alison Moore Harmony Neal Rosalie Parker M. Rickert Nicholas Royle Robert Shearman Christopher Slatsky Simon Strantzas Steve Rasnic TemMichael WehuntCharles WilkinsonConrad Williams

Shadows & Tall Trees 7

EVENSON, BRIAN

Royle, Nicholas

Shearman, Robert

Kelly,Michael

Williams, Conrad

Strantzas, Simon

Rickert, M.

Rasnic Tem, Steve

Undertow Publications

"Shadows and Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment's most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series." - Peter StraubThe acclaimed literary anthology Shadows & Tall Trees has featured authors short-listed for the Man Booker Award, and World Fantasy Award winners. Several of our stories have been reprinted in "Year's Best" anthologies and have garnered numerous award nominations. This volume features all-oroiginal new fiction from these masters of weird fiction:Malcolm DevlinBrian EvensonRebecca KuderV.H. LeslieRobert LevyLaura MauroManish Melwani Alison Moore Harmony Neal Rosalie Parker M. Rickert Nicholas Royle Robert Shearman Christopher Slatsky Simon Strantzas Steve Rasnic TemMichael WehuntCharles WilkinsonConrad Williams

This text is primarily aimed at UK Activity Coordinators.\nDo you ever feel that you’ve got the dream job in activities then find out there’s no structure in how to do it? 
That’s certainly what I found when I became an Activity Coordinator. Thankfully, with a business background I was able to put a system in place that made my life a lot easier. 
It’s easy to use the internet to find actual activities. But how do we find activities that are person-centred to suit our residents rather than something random? How do we file all the paperwork efficiently?\nThis book is a guide to helping you build the foundations for a smoother working life giving you the time in your day to do the job you love. 
Activity Handbook is aimed at both experienced practitioners wishing to introduce procedures that comply with today's protocol, and those new to the profession.\nThis is not a book of activities but a book to help you build great foundations to make your role easier so you can concentrate on the important thing; your residents.

Activity Handbook: All you want to know but were afraid to ask

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Blue Giraffe

When Eliot first spies the booth at the end of the pier, he wonders what it is. The canvas is faded, the striped pattern barely visible beneath years of dirt. The wooden boards are stained and bare. It's the crude, handwritten sign that draws him closer, makes him reach out to pull the curtain aside. Enter the Shadow Booth, it says, and you will never be the same again. Welcome to The Shadow Booth, a new journal of weird and eerie fiction, edited by Dan Coxon. Drawing its inspiration from the likes of Thomas Ligotti and Robert Aickman, The Shadow Booth explores that dark, murky hinterland between mainstream horror and literary fiction. Volume 1 contains stories by: Gary Budden, Dan Carpenter, Malcolm Devlin, Stephen Hargadon, David Hartley, Richard V. Hirst, Timothy J. Jarvis, Alison Moore, Annie Neugebauer, Sarah Read, Joseph Sale, Richard Thomas and Paul Tremblay.

The Shadow Booth: Vol. 1

TREMBLAY, Paul

Thomas, Richard

Read, Sarah

Coxon, Dan

Devlin, Malcolm

Budden, Gary

Hirst, Richard V.

Hargadon, Stephen

Neugubauer, Annie

Independently published

Perceptual Puzzlers

Metro_Books

Small Spaces between Emergencies explores the ways people find the strength to plunge back into life after pain and trauma. In "Turnaround," Ed, who has fled from life's responsibilities, arranges to meet Jonas, the young son he has not seen in six years. Although they meet at the Greyhound terminal like strangers, Ed and Jonas emerge triumphant from their past, teaching each other the patience and self-assurance to trust their respective roles as father and son. In "Leaving by the Window," Matty and her father drive from state to state, traveling through the landscape of memories that make up her father's life. To escape his quixotic tales of the past, she runs away, seeking her own adventures. When her father comes to retrieve her, she tells him her stories, but leaves out the pain and humiliation she endured. As they realize that there are stories they cannot share, both reach a new level of understanding and acceptance. These stories capture the process of rediscovery that is the essence and the adventure of living and growing. They are affirmations of the triumph of the human spirit in a world of adversity.

Small Spaces between Emergencies

United States

Mercury House

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