<p>James Scrimgeour's Balloons Over Stockholm takes the reader on dual trips - across the globe and into the heart and soul of the artist. The poet's visit to Sweden is born out of necessity: he and his wife go to say goodbye to a dying relative. In the midst of the pain, we find Scrimgeour at work and, in so doing, affirming life. As never before, Scrimgeour explores the world of creativity and imagination, as well as the vast range of emotions in the human spectrum. Read this new collection by the author of The Route, We Are What We Have Loved, and Monet in the Twentieth Century.</p>

Balloons over Stockholm

Literature & Fiction

SCRIMGEOUR, James R.

Poetry

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This poetry collection examines memory and awareness of what has been, where we are and where we might be going. Using wit and steering clear of sentimentality, Orfanella's poems deliver a plethora of gritty, reality-infused observations contrasted with delightful whimsy and pop-cultural references. The poet explores decades-long change across America, in his heart, and in his family with honesty and reverence. His conclusions will both startle and move the engaged reader. Lou Orfanella believes that writing is a strip-mining process in which physical, emotional, and spiritual truths are unearthed as one digs deeper and deeper into one's storehouse of memories and experiences.  He is a New York based teacher and writer who holds degrees from Columbia University and Fordham University.  He teaches at Western Connecticut State University and in the Valhalla, New York school district.  His work has appeared nationally and regionally in such publications as Teacher Magazine, New York Teacher, English Journal, College Bound, Discoveries, The New York Daily News, World Hunger Year Magazine, WordWrights!, The Danbury News-Times, and many others.

Composite Sketches

Orfanella, Lou

How thick is your skin? Think your nerve endings are safe? This baker's dozen of dark delicacies from a rising voice in fantastic literature begs to differ. Meet the strange, wonderful and truly frightening in a music pirate's worst nightmare, a god whose vengeance knows the patience of ages, a woman with a fearsome weapon in her mind that wants out, a school bus of children that may be bound for a terrible fate, a man returned from the grave to confront his killer - his own dead father, and more. From divine madness to desire unchecked, these stories aim for your soft spots with an intensity and fury that will both shiver and simmer by your side when you turn out the light.

Pressure Points

Wolf, Craig

<p>Take a journey through landscapes where the strange and sinister collide with the poignant and tender - countries of blinding lights and tarnished (k)nights. Here, magical realism shatters doors marked Ordinary. Hardboiled Egg will satisfy the lover of gritty mysteries, but these short stories also probe dark hidden niches of the human soul. Included in these travels are glimpses of love, sex, spirituality and the supernatural. Disc jockeys and nude bars, medieval werewolves and time travelers, damsels in distress and distressful damsels, ghosts and midnight masses, stop-motion animation, Hollyweird actors, dead rats, lost fathers, and masked Mexican wrestlers: Do you dare bite into this hardboiled egg?</p>

Hardboiled Egg

De Los Santos, Oscar

Short Stories & Anthologies

Irony's back. Coyote. Crow. Lear's fool. Traditional trickster figures cross boundaries, incite chaos, and turn the world on its head. Trickster Tales, by well-known chaos writer JP Briggs (Turbulent Mirror; Looking Glass Universe; Seven Life Lessons of Chaos; and Fractals) updates the ancient trickster idea. In this funny and disturbing new collection of flash fiction and longer stories, we follow a psychiatrist as his sanity is devoured by a woman who dreams herself a panther; an airborne bow tie; an engineer visiting a prostitute, becoming stripped of his science; a magician conjuring up a devil both fictitious and real. Declared dead by the pundits, old fashioned literary irony returns in Trickster Tales.

Trickster Tales

JP Briggs

Breakout is a seminal work in African-American literature that further exposes the imposed separation between so-called "black" and "white" cultures, recounting the buried thoughts and feelings of two African-American men who came of age in predominantly white academic environments. Leaving categories behind, Wright and his companion have a personal conversation dealing with the universal aspects of a misshapen culture, including materialism, racism, and the denial of true individualism, while expressing the complexities of being black in America and negotiating educational opportunity, taboos, questions of "selling out," and definitions of success. An everyman's autobiographical novel with a twist, Breakout leaves the reader knowing that asking the avoided questions and being true to one's self is the pivotal beginning of any quest for knowledge, as individuals and as a nation of amalgamated identities.

Breakout

L.R. Wright

History & Criticism

Beating a dead horse is easy. It's dead. Hit it all you want, it won't hit back. Watch out for these stories, though. They bite and scratch and put you face to face with your darkest nightmares. Meet a reporter who knows too much about a sinister crime, a woman obsessed with a dead serial killer, a hitchhiker with a magical gift, a tooth-fairy who won't take no for an answer, a loner who gets his blow-up doll pregnant, and an abortion nurse who has a plan for those unwanted fetuses. From a basement turned into a torture chamber to a Nebraska highway you'd beg not to be stranded on, these twelve stories and five stage plays will lash out at your imagination and leave you whimpering for more.

To Beat A Dead Horse

Campbell, William

Genre Fiction

In Spirits of Texas and New England, Oscar De Los Santos, Ph.D. chronicles over one hundred authentic cases of paranormal phenomena in and around Texas and New England homes, neighborhoods, ranches, roadways, schools, apartments, and condo complexes. Texas and New England are two of the most haunted regions in the United States. The author has spent a lifetime living in both locations and collecting these true encounters with the unknown. Some of these tales are inspiring, while others are disturbing. A few may best be described as horrifying. Within these pages, scores of individuals share their firsthand supernatural experiences, including the author himself. The book's intimate personable tone will engage both the novice paranormal enthusiast and the seasoned investigator. In many instances, De Los Santos lets witnesses tell their own stories via extensive interviews. Spirits of Texas and New England is far more than just a compilation of well-known ghost stories. Most of these tales are presented in print for the first time. Additionally, De Los Santos examines numerous UFO sightings, reports of strange creatures, out-of-body experiences, ESP, numerology, mystical visions, precognition, synchronicity, and other encounters that challenge our views of reality and the natural world. Throughout the book, the author tries to get at the why of his subject. Why are certain locations haunted? Why do some individuals repeatedly experience psychic phenomena? Why are certain locations known as haunted regions? Why are some homes the sites of repeated paranormal infestation? What is the connection between some haunted areas and unidentified flying objects? Your journey awaits. Come and encounter Spirits of Texas and New England!

Spirits Of Texas And New England

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

From the American Library Association's 2004 Award Nominated Author of The Life and Deaths of Carter Falls comes the latest Claire Daniels mystery: The Massabesic Murders, set in 1935 New England. This gripping mystery serves up Nazi's, organized crime lords, drugs, guns, murder and suspense enough for the hardest of the hard-boiled reader. Once again it's Claire Daniels and her assistant Rachel Jackson (from The Life and Deaths of Carter Falls and Two's Company, Three You Die!) against secret, dark forces. On a lonely, snow covered city street in Manchester, NH, Claire and her cousin, Federal Agent Danny St. Claire, are viciously gunned down. Danny is killed and she is forced to unravel the mystery of cryptic clues he left for her before she joins the dead. If this were a movie it would be black and white. If you love Chandler, Spillane, Hammett, and Gardner, you'll love this historical mystery.

The Massabesic Murders

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gypsey Teague

Mystery

In the vividly imagined stories comprising White River - written in a prose of lyrical clarity and spareness - Will Bless evokes the stony uplands and rocky glacial streams of Vermont, divining the inner lives and sometimes haunted dreams of its inhabitants, and their search for meaning on uniquely American landscapes. These tales span from the mid-nineteenth century to modern day, illuminating both the lives of soldiers and the historical soul of the central Green Mountains.

White River

Bless, Will

Contemporary

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