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In this memoir Dr. Charles Taylor chronicles with painful frankness his son's spiral downward into drug and alcohol abuse as well as Sebastian's recovery, though it was a long and difficult one. Dr. Taylor also examines with almost brutal honesty his own role in his son's self-destructive behavior. This is a book that parents of drug abusing children will find both touching and helpful.

This book will fill the gaps left by the other poker books for people who are interested in 3-6 or 4-8 limit Texas Hold'em. Being able to assess your starting hand is critical to playing Texas Hold'em. The author has listed all possible starting hands with examples of hands he has actually played.

Jim McGarrah's The End of An Era is an insightful, heartbreaking and, at times, hilarious account of his struggles as a veteran in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. In his extraordinary wounding, healing blues song, this combat veteran sings for family, for lovers, for friends, and, always, in each line, for the soldiers gone in another era and the ones now dying in our own.

David Bowles' words are fresh and mythical, with voices of Old Mexico and Samurai and ancient Greece that often declare death to be just another stepping stone in life's journey. "When wounds are healed by love, " he says, "The scars are beautiful." These are powerful poems to haunt and enthrall, connecting us beyond time. Prepare for a new voice. Prepare to be left wanting more.

Few words evoke a more chilling response than "human trafficking, " yet slavery persists. But what is it really like to be sold? Zara knows. As a six-year-old, she was sold to a factory owner and put to work. Fifteen years later, she was sold again -- this time to a brothel in Bombay. But it is one thing to be sold, and another to be owned. When Zara and her fellow prostitutes resort to blackmail to get justice, their cell phone-and the incrim...

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Drawing upon cultural myths to explain his personal and family myths, R. Scott Yarbrough writes poems that will touch you with their lyrical intensity, will engage you with vivid anecdotes, will offer emotional experiences made vivid by a masterful use of images, and will leave you with feelings and ideas worth pondering.

As with the poems of Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins, the artistic meditations in this collection are first and foremost outstanding poems, next they are lyrical and religious-and much else as well. Some are humorous in a quiet ways, others illustrate connections between people and among living creatures. These are poems that will touch you, instruct you without being didactic, charm you into reading the rest of them, and leave you knowing you wil...

This intriguing and often raucously funny collection by Brett Riley marries ingenious plots, innovative forms, and a definite narrative voice, but there's something bigger than all that here, too: the attempt to understand how our own lives repeatedly fall so far short of that perfect choreography promised by the technology that tries to shape them.

Greenfield Jones, influenced by Peter DeVries and Flannery O'Connor, writes of people uncomfortable in a Secular world-that is, one that Practices the Absence of God-be they a woman who changes her horoscopic sign (and her personality) every few months, or a blue-eyed blond who wants to be an American Indian, or a sixth grade teacher who every few years falls in love with a different one of her boys, or a fellow with no sense of the absurd who...

In Jim McGarrah's third poetry collection, the present is often eclipsed by the ghosted past of Vietnam. These vital poems dwell in the inevitable privacy of being human, and it is in these starkly singular spaces-walking the dog, truckstopping for breakfast, closing the bar at 2 am, visiting Vietnamese children suffering the effects of Agent Orange-that McGarrah wrestles truth with music, grit and wry humor. As the poet sways between sobriety...

In a manner reminiscent of Boyle and DeLillo, Andrew Geyer's Dixie Fish is a tale of bliss gone awry. Walt Whitman Woodcock's part-time job in a fried fish restaurant devolves into a personal descent into hell-one brimming with deceit, betrayal, and a host of unrepentant sinners. Geyer documents it like a modern Vergil passing through the Inferno.

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Karla K. Morton's photographs are as sharp-edged as some of the tree branches and animal bones they depict. They are carefully composed and at the same time luminous. Her country buildings convey a touching nostalgia. And many of her landscapes capture the elegance and nobility of the natural world. Each of Alan Birkelbach's poems takes its cue from a Morton picture, stays true to the subject, then quickly-magically-moves into its own terrain,...

In Into the Thicket, H. Palmer Hall, reminds us that an East Texas pine tree blown over by a storm simply clears the land for seedlings that follow, that the crunch of Gulf oyster shells under your boots beckons you back to the ocean, that sometimes you have to rub the bark of an oak tree to get under someone's skin. From the Neches to the Rio Grande to Tigris River, Hall's stories confirm the collective identity between man and woman and beas...

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This is a collection of tales that will appeal to both general readers and to gambling enthusiasts. The stories deal with the most profound of human passions stirred by the compulsion for taking chances. These are not stories about the mechanics of gambling, but instead, as Doyle Brunson notes in the introduction, these are tales that both engage the reader with lively writing and deal with fundamental human concerns: relationships, self estee...

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Jan Seale writes lyric poetry with a gift of intimacy, wrapping readers in rich, absorbing scenes and seeing. The sense of invitation in her poems-welcome to this moment, this perception, this life-is openhearted and abundant. Her language unfurls deliciously.

Dave Kuhne's The Road to Roma and Other Stories takes you into the gritty, often poignant worlds of a Fort Worth car wash owner, a pair of college students hitching their way to Mexico, and a young man who lets his misplaced love and ambition pull him into the drug culture of post-Vietnam-era Austin. These award-winning stories showcase the talent and wit of a consummate Texas writer whose fiction reflects an intimate sense of character and pl...