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The Moon Won’t Be Dared is a poetry collection by award-winning author Anne Leigh Parrish that features artwork by Lydia Selk. In this momentous debut collection, the poet harnesses language to give listeners a new vision of nature, the impossible plight of womanhood, love, aging, and beauty.

Eines gläubigen Tages findet Henry Tsien eine Aktentasche und darin einen Ring. Innerhalb weniger Stunden verändert sich seine Welt, als ein hilfreicher Dschinn ihn in eine verborgene Welt einführt. Was kann ein Gamer der alten Schule, dem Magie verliehen wurde, in einer Welt voller uralter, verborgener, übernatürlicher Kreaturen ausrichten?

Listeners looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in Cairn: Poems and Essays. After decades of reading and ogling poetry, Miller made room among the novels, newspaper columns, and preaching to hone poems amidst the wild beauty of northernmost Vermont, and the pastoral beauty of the Finger Lakes. Many will find the poems worthy of weddings, funerals, and letters to dear friends.

Based on true crime, Jar of Pennies follows the story of how a murderer was brought to justice in small town east Texas. A book as much about east Texas culture deep in the pine forests of the state as it is about a chain of murders and the gathering of evidence, this riveting narrative has elements of both humor and noir as it rockets to its conclusion.

In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon—three enigmatic siblings—are found shot to death in their home. The people of West Mills— on both sides of the canal that serves as the town’s color line—are in a frenzy of finger-pointing, gossip, and wonder. The crime is the first reported murder in the area in decades, but the white authorities don’t seem to have any interest in solving the case.

When the Smoke Cleared chronicles how resilience and conviction took hold in one woman to overcome the circumstances of her turbulent childhood and adolescence. A novel that paints a vivid and intimate portrait of an African American Southern family in a small rural town filled with segregation and cultural racism.

Ain’t Long Fore Day are poems that carry on in the spirit of the blues. With music and enigma, James Sallis delivers lyrical and narrative poems steeped in the beauty of the every day.

Considered the greatest baseball poem of all time, "Casey at the Bat" is the beloved tale of the Mudville Nine, a hapless baseball club entering the ninth inning of a ballgame trailing by two runs and with little hope of succeeding...unless their star slugger Casey can manage to get a turn at the plate. The outlook is grim but...when the two players preceding Casey manage to get on base, the stage is set for a grand finale, giving the citizens of Mudville hope that their hero can save the day!

The Poetry Book, by Charles Maynard, takes the listener on a thought-provoking journey that gains momentum as it progresses. Through poignant diction, vivid imagery, and striking storytelling, this introspective author inspires the listener to think deeply about a variety of pertinent matters, from where our future is headed, to navigating a deteriorating societal infrastructure.

I survived a near-death battlefield head injury just to get thrown right back into the meatgrinder. My friends and I survived brigands, beasts, scheming nobles, a rigged tribunal, and oh, more beast! But it wasn’t all bad. My bond with ether helped put part of my fractured mind back together. What did I see? Glimpses of a life lost. A woman I’d failed. But also...a rift forming from the ether convergence. You see, I was there when the collapse started, even though I couldn’t remember.

Samantha Song has always dreamed of having her own by-line in a high-society magazine. But the death of her father and the constant struggle to help her mum make ends meet make it feel like a distant fantasy. Instead, she works at a drab PR firm and lives vicariously through her socialite co-worker Anya Chen. Then she meets Timothy Kingston: the disillusioned son of one of Singapore's elite families, and Sam's one chance at infiltrating the world to which she so desperately wants to belong. To Sam's surprise, Tim and Anya both agree to help her make a name for herself.

In 1943, three books appeared that changed American politics forever: Isabel Paterson’s The God of the Machine" Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom, and Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Together, they laid the groundwork for what became the modern libertarian movement. Even more striking were the women behind these books.

Restricted Movement is an explosive collection of poems that document the life of a daughter trying to support her artist father who is overseas struggling with dementia and drug addiction during a pandemic.

A compendium of quotes and riffs by P.J. O'Rourke on subjects ranging from government to fishing to apps, to be published on what would have been his seventy-fifth birthday.

Jess Kirkman’s mother is dying of congestive heart failure, and he has come home to be at her bedside. Charged with getting family affairs in order, he faces the daunting task of sorting out the secret workshop that his father left behind when he died 10 years ago. As he investigates his findings—a map littered with the names of strange women and a strange invention of stovepipe and ceramic—Jess discovers an intriguing side of his father.

Four cardinal directions point the way through this inner wilderness, through trials and initiations, suffering and discovery, on a restless quest for deeper connection and wholeness. What emerges is a richly textured map of love and loss, a tapestry of hard-won truths both personal and universal. At turns mysterious, dreamlike, intimate, and illuminating, these poems explore what is wild and timeless in the human soul.

Posthumous poems written and collected over a lifetime by Ralph M. Flores, author of The Horse in the Kitchen, El caballo en la cocina, Tales from La Perla, and The Illustrated Fractured Fables.

Sarah Churchwell examines one of the most enduringly popular stories of all time, Gone with the Wind, to help explain the divisions ripping the United States apart today. Separating fact from fiction, she shows how histories of mythmaking have informed America's racial and gender politics, the controversies over Confederate statues, the resurgence of white nationalism, the Black Lives Matter movement, the enduring power of the American Dream, and the violence of Trumpism.

Finding Daisies takes the listener through the life stages of a girl who endures untold trauma and ultimately overcomes it. From pre-birth to motherhood, Jessica Jocelyn imparts the listeners with an inside look of navigating the tumultuous process of healing from the mother and father wounds.

Inglaterra, 1573. Los días de la pequeña Ellyn transcurren trabajando de sol a sol en la humilde granja de su familia, paleando las heces de los animales y recibiendo los menosprecios y los golpes de su hermano Tomas. Desde que su padre quedara inválido en un accidente, y más ahora que una nueva hermanita, Agnes, ha llegado a ese mundo de miseria y privaciones, todos han de deslomarse aún más para asegurar el sustento. En esa atmósfera de brutalidad, fatiga e inmundicia, la única alegría de Ellyn es Agnes, a quien la une un vínculo muy especial.