Fitz: 90 books

Are you getting ready to go to a Casino for the first time? Do you know what to do when you get there, or what games you want to play? How about valet parking? No smoking sections? Drinking? Budget? The Pit Boss Gaming Guide has been written to help you feel comfortable when you walk in, and what...

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fourth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 4 in the series spans the years 1835 to 1869 and includes stories...

A major event in both America's history and the European wars of the nineteenth century, the War of 1812's Battle of Plattsburgh saw the largest invasion ever of a foreign military into the United States, as the British army and navy, fresh from victories against Napoleon, attempted to conquer Lake...

A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism...

Weird Tales' launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, 'Weird Tales' was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. 'Weird Tales' single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer...

The rules of making money have changed-forever With the collapse of investment banks, trillion-dollar-plus government bailouts, and the Dow plunging like a rock, it's never been more important to understand-and actually profit from-the "new rules." Fact is, Fiscal Hangover, will give you...

A multi-author collection of eighteen original superhero tales ranging from the dark to the hysterical to the downright bizarre, including 2016 Aurora Award nominee "Super Frenemies" by Stephen Kotowych. “And Introducing the Scarlet Scrapper” by Leonard Apa: A Golden Age tale of an actor...

"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses as about...

An astronomer challenges an emperor. A hunter pursues the last dinosaur through a remote rainforest. A young Kerryman emigrates to the Moon to seek his fortune. These fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries,...

Fitz James O'Brien (1828-1862) was an Irish-born American writer. some of his work is considered one of the forerunners of today's science fiction. "The Wondersmith" tells the story of a robot rebellion, where toys possessed by evil spirits are transformed into living automatons and turn against their creators.

When the rain falls and the thunder rumbles. Beware the stranger at the door. This is the strange note that greets fifteen-year-old Bee Lavender when she arrives home to find her Aunt and Uncle missing and no idea what do next. Bee discovers this note is not a simple warning but a prophecy and it...

The Art of iPhone Photography explores how 45 of today's best iPhonegraphers from around the world conceived, composed, and created some of their finest and best-known pieces-all in their own words. Through an understanding of the artists' visions, creative decisions, and techniques, beginning through...

A sad story written by O'Brien on an alchemist, his daughter and a doctor who gets caught up with them. Here O'Brien style is appealing but at the same time his vocabulary is simple and accessible to everyone....

What would cause a seemingly ‘normal’ teacher to tap into his murderous side? Would you believe something as simple as somebody not using his blinker? Believeit!A hot, muggy morning in Memphis, a seemingly sane, seasoned teacher goes ‘off the rails’ during his normally mundane morning commute…...