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The Summer 2018 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s four issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Fall and Winter issues are staff-edited. As guest-editor Jill...

A New York Times Notable Book! "Over the moon with a metaphysical spin. Heart-tugging…it is struggling to understand the physical realities of life and the nature of what makes us human….Nicely unpredictable…Extraordinary." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times When Maxon...

The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and...

Could you fall in love with the man who kidnapped and raped you? After being struck by a car, Raleigh finds herself taken captive by three men who live in a remote cottage by a lake. Locked in the basement and raped, she soon discovers that her desperation is leading her to believe in and trust one of her captors.

Elia, a five-year-old boy living in Milan, can't wait to turn six so he can "graduate" from scuola materna (combined preschool/kindergarten) and start elementary school. Filled with enthusiasm when he enters first grade, he quickly becomes disillusioned. While the scuola materna teachers...

In 7th-century China, life is rife with magic, fox spirits, and demons. Xie, the demon lover of the empress Wu Zhao, believes he must possess the oracle bone, which will bestow immortal powers on him. In his way is Qilan, an eccentric Daoist nun, who is training the orphan girl Ling to avenge her parents’ murder.

LOCUS Magazine: A Best Book of 2017! I am Anda, and the lake is my mother. I am the November storms that terrify sailors and sink ships. With their deaths, I keep my little island on Lake Superior alive. Hector has come here to hide from his family until he turns eighteen. Isle Royale...

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb-Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi-as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945...and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe. One by one, the scientists...

Nkili is only six years old when her father – a professor - is killed by one of his disgruntled students. His death plunges his already struggling family, into greater depths of poverty. However, Nkili refuses to be defined by her unfortunate circumstances. She has towering dreams of riches, greatness...

"Mule Killers" evokes the end of an era and of a grandfather's dreams when he decides to replace animal power with tractors on his farm.

For all readers looking to overcome seemingly impossible situations that the industry will eventually present you with. An in depth guide to breaking through the barriers that hold an escort back from achieving true high class status. Contents: modern beauty standards vs traditional beauty standards....

This volume is purely romance; and most readers will consider it romance of the wildest kind. A few kindred spirits, prone to people space "with life and mystical predominance," will perceive a light within the Grecian Temple. For such I have written it. To minds of different mould, who...

One of a generation on the brink of a tremendous social upheaval, Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), despite his flashes of humour, paints in his plays and essentially tragic picture of Russian society.  The plays in this volume - Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vania, and Three sisters,...