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A collection of poetry that takes one on a trip through the emotional growth of the human spirit, When I Was Not Myself covers the sorrow, joy, grief, and confusion that comes from being human.

Nine-year-old Thelonious Monk DeCay lives in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward with his grandmother. His mother dead and his father missing, Monk is determined to find his father. With their harmonicas and bottle-cap taps, Monk and his best friend entertain the tourists in Jackson Square under the watchful eyes of eccentric historian Quinton Toussaint, who knows where to find Monk's father. Hurricane Katrina changes everything.

Sunny Grimm finds a strap around her son's head with an embossed symbol between his eyes. This is the mark of awareness leaping, where players launch into alternate realities and anything goes. Investors make millions. Critics, however, refuse to call it a game. They argue that reality confusion will end humanity. Labels aside, there are many who play. And many who lose. Sunny Grimm goes on a mad search for her son and the people responsible for allowing him to play. The only way she will find him is to not lose herself in the search. The Maze is more than a game.

What would you do if you woke up one day and realized you were someone else? This is exactly what happens to Eve Spencer. Memories, like shards of glass, cut through her mind and begin to dismantle everything she knows to be real. As she fights to find out who she really is, her discovery threatens everything and everyone around her, including her family. With the help of a cantankerous attorney, she races to reveal who she is before it's too late.

Private investigator Leah Ryan is on a much-needed vacation. A week in Bass Bay, Maine. Nothing but sun, sand, and relaxation. No missing people. No murder. No stress. But an hour into her vacation, Leah almost swims into a dead girl. Shark bites on the victim indicate a horrific shark attack, but closer inspection of the remains suggest that sharks aren't the only predators in Bass Bay.

No Apologies is the inappropriate joke at dinner, the drunk uncle in the room shouting obscenities, and the ugly truth no one talks about in polite company. Part poetry, part fiction, part memoir, and all honesty, No Apologies is a compelling slice of human experience in all of its crass, hopeful, sincere, and tender glory. And it says it...with no apologies.

Chelsea's having a bad day. Her mom blew up (long story), her husband left her for another man (long story), she lost her job and apartment (another long story), and the long and short of it is - she is out of options. But her estranged dead mother left her a way out, a way out of all of it. All she has to do is do the one thing she refuses to do: take over the family business. What is the family business? Sex, sex, and more sex. So what's the big deal? Chelsea doesn't like sex. Or people. Or things. Or gooey things. And she trusts them even less.

No Secrets is the second volume of Carter-Winward's genre defying writing that is part poetry, part fiction, part memoir, and all told with a clarity that does not allow secrets. These short pieces tell us the stories many of us hide, even from ourselves.

No Regrets is the final stop in J.A. Carter-Winward's poetic trilogy that will break your heart, make you laugh, oh, and take you inside a brothel. You won't regret the ride.

A Mormon in the White House and intimate relationships with plastic blow-up dolls show the breadth of Carter-Winward's short story telling. So get ready for a pole dancing grandmother and football played using a nativity scene. The stories may be short, but the images and emotions will stay with you.

Two miles up, in the heart of an ice desert a thousand miles wide, it's now or never. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is more like a moon base than anything on Earth, but buried deep in the ice beneath it is an even more distant and foreboding place. Andrew Heller has been never short on stories of inadvisable adventure, and tonight he has one last chance to come home with the story of a lifetime—or die trying.

Adrian is the son of Poseidon, and heir to the sea's throne. As a merman of the royal court, he’s sick of being underwater, and dreams of living on land.

A Poet’s Journey: Emotions is Ms. Bishop’s first collection of adult poetry. In it, you will find the good, bad, and beautiful of being human. It is divided into six categories: Love, Death, Betrayal, Nature, Villain or Hero, and Silly Me. The verses include a glimpse into the heart and soul of one woman who lived through a year full of a roller coaster of emotions, yet she retained her ability to see the silly side to things and beauty in the world around her.

The Nurse Mare's Tale is in a way the prequel to Dinky: The Nurse Mare's Foal, as it tells the story of Dinky's mother. This lovely story is told from the viewpoint of two aging nurse mares about to give birth, and the trials they go through. It tells us of Sadie and her friend Nellie and is accompanied with charming dialogue (both speaking and thinking). The plight of these animals is described in empathetic detail.

As the Heliovirus ravages the guests and crew of the cruise ship Aria, teenagers Dylan and Amy face a quarantine while their loved ones fall ill. Docked indefinitely in San Francisco Bay, the teens and those aboard face another grave threat as a seeded terrorist group uses the situation to their advantage. With every choice possibly being their last, will Amy and Dylan have what it takes to survive?

Nothing can scare you when you’ve already died. Caught between the realm of the living and the dead, I’m not the same person I used to be. I’m darker, crazier… and nothing’s going to stop me from ruling over this prison. The merfolk key is linked to a legendary assassin, and Kallie might be the way to find it. If we’re going to save the Elves, my friends and I will have to resort to unsavory methods. I’m getting justice for my past, and taking revenge no matter what the consequences.

When Jim's big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers - along with their broken father and Jack's menacing best friend - decide to charter an ocean fishing boat to celebrate Jack's new freedom. Once the small crew is far out to sea, however, a mutant species rises from the deep abyssal darkness to terrorize the vessel and its occupants. As the horror of their situation becomes clear, the small group must find a way to fend off the attack and somehow, someway, return to safety.

Astarte, grew up an orphan and she had no recollection of ever having known her mother. From childhood, she could hear the silver ringing of the music of the fairies as they twirled in the moonlight below the caves. She saw them dancing, the fireflies glittering in and around them, adding a shimmer of gold in the moonlight.

Wally Finkelstein is your average Joe. Your typical underdog—not super attractive, not super wealthy, but he does have stability and happiness to offer. And to his girlfriend’s surprise, he turns out to be super in other departments.

Might and magic. Legendary beasts and lost civilizations. Epic journeys and bloody brawls. Necromancers and dragon riders. Ancient evils and new saviors. Chronicles of Maradoum: Volume 2 is set in the same world as the epic fantasy Convent Series, beginning with A Dead Wizard’s Dream.