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A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection   Nowhere in the world did the beloved food and travel writer M.F.K Fisher feel more at ease than in the port of Marseille. From her timeless A Considerable Town, published as part of Two Towns in Provence, here is her affectionate introduction to the old streets...

This is the first generously illustrated biography of the Mohawk poet-performer E. Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake. The author has created an exciting volume of anecdotes, letters and poetry, and illustrated it with period photographs and new illustrations by the Six Nations artist, Raymond R. Skye. While...

This book presents a new computational finance approach combining a Symbolic Aggregate approximation (SAX) technique with an optimization kernel based on genetic algorithms (GA). While the SAX representation is used to describe the financial time series, the evolutionary optimization kernel is used...

"Sometimes killing isn't wrong. Sometimes it's a mercy. Sometimes it's the only responsible thing to do." In the third episode of the Zombie City series, Shane finds himself on his own again, with innocent blood on his hands. San Francisco has been completely overwhelmed by the infection....

San Francisco is in ruins. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and hundreds of thousands more have been infected. Shane and his new allies have fought to stay alive since the start of the outbreak. Now they're fighting to bring it to an end. They know the man responsible, and they know...

This is the omnibus edition of the Zombie City serial. It contains all five episodes--more than 140,000 words (420+ pages) of zombie mayhem in San Francisco--in one volume at a discount price! Hipsters. Shane hates them. They dress like artists, but they think like yuppies. They drive up the...

The book highlights her strong sense of place - Fisher’s Celtic eye for detail - with a comparison of Aix-en-Provence, a university town, the site of an international music festival and the former capital of Provence, and Marseille, the port town. Fisher’s description of the sights and...

When her long-time agent and friend Robert Lescher died in 2012, the manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher’s unpublished first novel was discovered packed tidily away in one of Lescher’s signature red boxes. Following on the success of Serve It Forth and written when she was in her early 30s, the...

RUTH REICHL "Mary Frances [Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful. Her dignity comes from her absolute insistence on appreciating life as it comes to her." JULIA CHILD "How wonderful to have here in my hands the essence of M.F.K. Fisher,...

The Zombie City series continues with Shane's escape from the murderous halls of the ZapPow! company offices. Unfortunately, the infection has spread to San Francisco's streets, and South Beach is now swarming with sick, blood-hungry hipsters. Shane finds temporary shelter, and other survivors, on...

"You thought violence would give you power. You thought rape would give you control. But violence and rape don’t grant control. They feed chaos." In the fourth episode of the Zombie City series, Shane finds refuge with a group of outcasts occupying an abandoned factory in the Bayview...

The Cathedral of the Goddess looms over the city of Bonnehampton, casting its shadow across the land. Within the cathedral, faithful clerics command divine powers to heal, to purify, and to punish. When the clerics take an old man hostage, issuing charges of witchcraft and insurrection, three...

Catching Santa was nominated to the Sunshine State Young Readers Award committee for consideration for 2014-2015 SSYRA List! Awards2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner (Children's/Juvenile Fiction) Accelerated Reader Quiz #150476 (BL: 4.5, Pts: 9, MG) DescriptionHigh-tech gadgetry...

Since his enlightenment in 1986 the author, M. F. Taylor, claiming only to be a witness, has written a number of books related to enlightenment. Still-Point is the latest and the only book utilizing poetry to convey or point to a higher order of consciousness. Most poems in Still-Point are a delightful...