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Savvy law student Sarah Wasser returns to her apartment to find two telephone messages: She has not been chosen for a coveted summer internship, and her best friend from high school has just murdered her two children. Sarah returns to her sleepy hometown in South Carolina. But Sarah is not prepared to work in a community rife with duplicity and betrayal.

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Springing from the London School explosion in rural New London, Texas, Aftermath begins more than forty years later, when the narrator recalls the dreadful day she lost her mother and many of her schoolmates. As she weighs the joys and the sorrows of the life, she comes to terms with the reality that the tragedy can never be overcome, but it can, in significant ways, be redeemed.

In this rich collection, Paul J. Willis invites you in and ushers you out to meet your neighbours and yourself. Getting to Gardisky Lake switchbacks from roadside maples to backcountry sequoia groves, from the lost curves of a high school track to the shining calves of Olympic hopefuls, from grade school crushes to married affection, from dumpster diving to shopping the mall.

An action-filled fictional story of a young Creole lady and her son and their odyssey on a packet boat that takes place in the era of steamboats and slavery prior to the emerging American Civil War. A masterful storyteller, Shearer deftly weaves the elements of frontier survival, cultural diversity, racial inequality, murder, tragedy, voodoo, ghosts, legacy, and the lure of life on a steamboat.

These essays paint a portrait of Nacogdoches both before and after integration. Readers will find a collection of essays written by scholars but also by people who have firsthand experience in conflicts that arose in Nacogdoches after 1970. The essays focus upon both the objective, measurable dimensions of race in Nacogdoches, but also upon the actual lived experiences of African Americans.

These thirteen short stories are linked thematically by the recurring idea of flight, in its various definitions and senses. The characters ares ometimes in flight from their situations, sometimes from other people, sometimes from themselves. The stories range from contemporary to historical, from realistic to magical realist.

It's Li'l Fox's first day of daycare and she is scared. New place. New friends. New worries. After her mom wraps her in a big hug and leaves her to go to work, Li'l Fox seeks comfort from her new classmates through friendly hugs. But after she is rejected on multiple accounts, Li'l Fox must learn that if she wants to make a new friend she must first remember to be brave.

A collection of short stories and poetry inspired by a country much larger than its territory. These pieces of life arose almost unbidden, such was and continues to be the alchemical effect of this tiny nation. This book is a vacation that begs you to hold it in your hands and let it find its way into your spirit.

Amanda and Jit Soldier grow up in the secluded beauty of Soldier Creek, Alabama. After their parents' marriage falls apart, the girls and their mother stay in Soldier Creek. In Girl from Soldier Creek, the sisters must learn how to disentangle themselves from their home, their dysfunctional family, and ultimately, from each other to discover who they will become.

Figuratively speaking, Blood for Ghosts takes for its theme the burial of the dead. The eight stories in the collection dramatize the many ways Texans in the 21st century struggle to give voice to their ancestors and the region's past, a task made increasingly difficult by the pressures of globalization, the lure of efficiency, and the claims of "progress”.

New from Laura Madeline Wiseman is this stunningly crafted memoir in verse about a ride, "Your first bike was a hot pink Schwinn with a banana seat, a basket with flowers, yellow tassels fluttering....” Velocipede recounts her first long-distance ride, including the award winning poem "Roadside Kiddie Pool, ” which won the 2015 Beecher's Award in Poetry.

Thirteen Rivers: The Last Voyage of La Belle is a historical novel based on the true saga of French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and his colony. Hurricanes, pirates in the Caribbean, ship-wreck, betrayal, revenge, Indian war parties, kidnapping, and murder are all illustrated in a chronicle of events only life itself could inspire.

Greg Kuzma has been a central figure in American poetry since the late 1970s. This new volume, Selected Poems, focuses on the best of his shorter poems. These selections are culled from a number of his books, all of them out of print. Additionally, some of the selections are taken from hard-to-find, limited edition fine-press titles.

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In The Women at the Well, Bauer sings out of silent alternative stories of the Biblical women she first encountered as a schoolgirl listening to the nuns. Wry humour is only one element of Bauer's illuminating re-vision as she inhabits her women in the longing, sassiness, rebellion, compassion, wavering, and triumph.” - Carole Simmons Oles

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Eva Braun was seventeen years old when she was first introduced to Adolf Hitler in 1929. Hitler took her on dates to the opera, to dinner and to the movies. He eventually purchased her a home where she could live with her sister free of her parents. This book, written in verse, sets out to explore this woman who stayed by Hitler until the bitter end.

Prior to her suicide in the summer of 2013, Kathleene West left instructions to her literary executor Kitty McCord and to her long-time poetry editor to care for her writing. She had always wanted a "red” book, she had said, and The Red Book: Selected Poems, Old and New is the culmination of that last wish.

The story of Dean H. Olson covers army infantry training at Camps Fannin and Maxey in the Second World War, and presents unique perspectives on the day-to-day life of an army private. It also provides unusual insight into the army specialized training programme at Louisiana State University where he was a student and on the Ninety-Ninth Infantry Division's deployment to Belgium.