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In a fascinating work of religious history and cultural inquiry, Hatfield brings to life the true story of a nineteenth-century farmer-spiritualist, Jonathan Koons, whom thousands traveled to Ohio to see. As heirs to the second Great Awakening, he and his followers were part of a larger, uniquely American moment that still marks the culture today.

How far will a man go to save the woman he loves?The skeletal remains of three teenaged girls are discovered in an old factory building that is undergoing renovation. The bodies were placed in the building over a number of years. Who were these girls, who killed them, and why? It's up to Brick North and his partner Barry Tiffin to find the answers in a multi-state investigation. The fourth book in the Brick North series promises to be the best...

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David Sanders's second book of poems mixes free and formal verse to search for wisdom in life's quiet moments as well as in those jolting times when our fragility is most apparent.

Affrilachian Poet Bernard Clay narrates his West-Side Louisville upbringing and the complexities of Black Appalachian identity in this debut collection of poems compiled from more than twenty years of work.

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After visiting Hell, North's life will never be the same. In the Fall of 1957 and while on leave from the LaSalle Harbor PD awaiting trial on trumped-up charges, North must come face-to-face with the demons that haunt him. He also must solve a murder that has been dumped on his doorstep. Back home, his old partner, Barry Tiffin, is working to exonerate him and put an end to the corruption that caused his downfall. Finally, North must face his ...

Private eye Andy Hayes¿ mission seems clear: locate a man who shot a Columbus police officer forty years earlier, then disappeared without a trace. But soon, Hayes discovers a years-long string of murders that lead him down a harrowing path of conspiracy and deception.

Originally published in 1947, The Trial of Sören Qvist has been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and Janet Lewis¿s powerful writing.

Originally published in 1936,   House of Incest  is Anaïs Nin's first work of fiction. Based on Nin's dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator's subconscious as she attempts to distance herself from a series of all-consuming and often taboo desires.

First published in 1964 and now reissued with a new introduction by Anita Jarczok, Collages showcases Nin¿s dreamlike and introspective style and psychological acuity. Seen by some as linked vignettes and some as a novel, the book is a mood piece that resists categorization.

Decades after Julia McKenzie Munemo's father committed suicide, she learned that he made his living writing interracial pornography under a pseudonym. She hid the stack of his old paperbacks from her Zimbabwean husband, their mixed-race children, and herself before realizing her obligation to understand her racial legacy.

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Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian's recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed. She had landed in the city of Golconda, where the sun painted everything with ...

The author was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. Born and educated in Chicago, she lived in California for most of her adult life and taught at both Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. This book tells her story.