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Blending historical facts and alternative history themes, The Collection Agency Files is the story of an all-powerful "collection agency" in Nazi Germany - told against the backdrop of an encompassing evil more dangerous and long-lasting than the Nazis - and the mystery-thriller adventures of one pivotal agent's "work" in the midst of the rise and collapse of the Thousand Year Reich.

Like a dream - or perhaps, a nightmare - the poems and their characters present a world that intersects with writing created in the name of art. Buffeted by sudden recollections and revenants from childhood and from history, Azarov the aged poet has got his visionings and visitations down in lines that are a sometimes prosaic, sometimes hallucinatory way of asserting that re-creation of the past is how we secure our future.

With My Eyes Wide Open navigates life's catastrophes, failures, and coming through experiential slaughter revived and reborn to new possibilities. The biographical themes of grief, family, and resiliency amid the backdrop of racism and near poverty are explored with earnestness and no filter. This is confessional poetry where the poet acknowledges his wanton decisions with deft skill, astute creativity, and imaginative flair. This is not a boo...

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Ten speculative fiction tales in which the author impersonates a virtuoso ring master, pulling up the curtain on a series of players who yearn, shock, succor, and entertain. Mermaids twine tails around foul-mouthed oil executives, wounded children forge their own magical salvation, a cup of tea on Bell Island is a conduit to another planet, a hiking trail leads to the end of the world, and beyond. Hilarious, moving, and dazzling by turns, this...

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In John Farrow's riveting 10th novel featuring his iconic detective É mile Cinq-Mars, an investigation into a peculiar rash of deaths, in which the elderly sitting up straight suddenly " pop off, " lays bare the roots and intricacies of the opioid crisis. Retired from the Montreal Police Service, Cinq-Mars is tapped by a State Trooper to look into deaths being booked as " natural causes." Should they perhaps be viewed differently, as suspiciou...

Fairy tales occur both in oral and in literary form. The focus in this book has been on preserving the elemental structure of oral tradition without embellishment. But, this is a distinctive literary collection, one that gathers a dozen fairy tales which come from the Croatian national folklore tradition. This is also a contemporary English-language version that respects the ancient Slavic mythology of pre-Christian Croatia. And, through excep...

This is the story of 29-year-old Albie Starbach, a reclusive man, a caring man, but he is also a dangerous man... living in a world that to him is threatening because he feels he has been wronged, so he is resentful. And he has wired his rooming house with dynamite, and every time he goes out he sets a timer. He had better get back in time, without interference or difficulty, or the house will blow. His only companion is his legless mother who...

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Selected by translator Dasha C. Nisula, this unique volume traces the development of modern free verse that extends from Croatia on the Adriatic to Russia in the East. Included are early pieces from the West to East Slavic belt, with the majority of the works focusing on the Russian Whitmanist Vladimir Burich, and the contemporary master of free verse in Russia, Vyacheslav Kupriyanov. A volume that captures feeling, essence, rhythm, and depth ...

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