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What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, who had to choose between her motherhood...

In 2017, less than three weeks after Salvador Gómez-Colón's fifteenth birthday, Puerto Rico was struck by a historic Category 4 hurricane. Residents were completely caught in the dark, news about Hurricane Maria broke only two days before it made landfall. Salvador and his family fared better than most, but many in his community were left with destroyed homes and little access to basic resources. Unable to ignore this suffering, Salvador put h...

Nicki's favorite aunt is getting married, and Nicki is excited to be the Flower Girl: she is all in for love and pretty petals. But when the family goes shopping to find outfits for the wedding, Nicki doesn't feel like herself in any of the dresses her mom and aunt pick out for her, and all her happiness and excitement for the wedding evaporates. Nicki must find her voice-and her own style of expression to match it-to make Aunt Carmela's big d...

From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at...

Did you know that Lucille Ball could pick up radio signals through her teeth? Or that her career was almost destroyed because she was a registered Communist? Bet you didn't know that, as a studio executive, she green-lit both Star Trek and Mission: Impossible! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the beloved actress, from her impoverished childhood and her first forays into the film indus...

On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at Sachsenhausen violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d'Arguto. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander Kulisiewicz. An amateur musician, he was not Jewish, but struck up an unlikely friendship with d'Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D'Arguto tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victi...

The Wendigo is a spirit creature popular in Native American folklore. The Algonquian, Chippewa and Sioux people all believe that spirit possession drives unsuspecting humans to psychosis…with symptoms of intense craving for murder and cannibalism. Five college girls visit the remote northern Minnesota woods for a weekend of camping, cosplay and chaos. Are the young women suffering from psychosis or being tormented by a mythical creature? Find ...

A riveting collection of five short stories from critically acclaimed and Emmy Award winning author Jack Norton. Slow burning supernatural thrillers...tales influenced by the golden age of pulp fiction...gritty noir with a dark comedic edge. Nothing Lasts Forever is the latest collection of shorts from a master storyteller. Stories in this collection are: 1. The Man Who Never Lived...Until He Died Tom rolled over. Kissed his sleeping wife on h...

High school sweethearts Jack and Kitty have it all - an Emmy Award winning children's television show they created, a band touring the world and a film career heading for certain success. Deep in the woods, The Wisconsin Blaster sits in a shrine devoted to his obsession: Kitty. Surrounded by used tampons and discarded coffee cups, he carefully studies schematics…researching dynamite to take down a building. Several hundred miles away, anothe...

Glorious. Blank. White. is the highly anticipated collection of new poems by Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton. In this collection the poet experiments with the infamous "cut-up technique" first used by the Dadaists of the 1920s and later in the 1950s by writer William S. Burroughs. Raw, deep and profound - these poems bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the human cond...

Butchers On The Moon was originally published as a 40 page manifesto of sorts from an impossibly young poet, songwriter and filmmaker from Minnesota named Jack Norton. Sold mostly at his concerts, only one copy of the original chapbook is known to exist today and can be found in the archives at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Jack burned all writings (poems, songs, short stories and a novel) he worked on before 2008, so these lost gem...

The Good Time Girl And Her Sweet Forever is the highly anticipated collection of new poems by Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton. Norton's work has been called, "smutty, beatnik influenced noir poetry that offers a sharp reflection on the chaos of love and life in our modern times." Raw, deep and profound - these poems and scraps bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the huma...

With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany's evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-fi...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Newly edited texts of the 1604 (A-Text) and the 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play. Editorial matter by David Scott Kastan and Matthew Hunter. Sources and background materials related to Christopher Marlowe, the composition and publication of Doctor Faustus, early performance of the play, the Faust legend, and Renaissance magic, including a new selection from James I and IV's Of Daemonologie. Eighteen cr...

Do you dream of making a six-figure income with your music? Would you like to leave your job and be a full-time, touring musician? This book will show you how. I spent almost three decades making my living as a professional musician - playing over 300 shows a year. I make a very comfortable living - well into the six figures - every year, and have for over a decade now. I do not have a record label, a manager or an agent. I am 100% indepen...

Discover the delicious world of white wine with profiles of all the must-know varieties and styles, from Albarino to Viognier, and dive deep into popular favorites, such as Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc. Peppered with engaging facts and figures, each chapter surveys one grape or style, featuring all-inclusive at-a-glance information that tells you what to expect in the glass, suggested food pairings, and recommended w...

Skein Of Fates is a science-fantasy steampunk retelling of the Snow White fairytale, but with a major twist or three. The story is set on the planet of Nuetierra, a world of violet skies and flying jellyfish. Deanna, the young female protagonist, is a brown-skinned, Spanglish-speaking descendant of climate-change refugees from Old Earth. Her stepmother is the dictatorial Alcalde of Nue Bayona, against whom a revolutionary struggle is raging. T...

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom-the book's urgent guiding theme. New pedagogical tools, including a...

Nicotine & Aesthetic Dreams is the highly anticipated collection of new poems by Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton. This collection finds the poet contemplating life in the modern era: smartphones, social media, the false positivity of influencers and the noise of American life. Raw, deep and profound - these poems and scraps bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the human c...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues lent directly to U.S. businesses, purchased trillions of dollars of government securities, pumped dollars into the international financial system, and crafted a new framework for monetary policy that emphasized job creation...