Bruce Stanley: 23 books

Rhymes about robots, poems about private eyes, wordplay from witches, sonnets for sultans, and much more.

Gangster girl Calla O’Gurk braves zombies, mummies and three-headed dogs to swipe an ancient jade statuette from the home of Chicago industrialist Fulminius Squale. Now all she has to do is deliver it to an old lady in New Orleans and her job is done. What could possibly go wrong?

Bommy Giffitt comes from a long line of Lifters, magicians who have mastered the power of levitation and can fling huge stones high into the sky. But Bommy’s just a kid and can barely Lift a pebble. He’s real good at raising a ruckus, though, and getting himself into trouble – and before he...

Never piss off a nasty dead girl. It could have grave consequences. You could get your ass chewed out – or worse. A tale of two cool ghoul girls who feed their undead appetites and satisfy their depraved desires.

Will space officer Tacita Pruval be ravished by the dreaded thugadong, or use her bionic body to save herself from his beastial lust? It looks like he has the upper hand, but Tacita has an “ace in the hole”(so to speak), and isn’t afraid to use it. This sleazy sci-fi satire is for adults only.

Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics—and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among...

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...

Roads have been around for centuries, allowing mankind a convenient path to arrive at their destination—be it a lengthy vacation getaway with family or merely to their own inviting home after an exhausting day at work. These roadway treks can bring with them a lifetime of memories. But not...

In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students,...