A Smith: 616 books
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
by Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Edited by Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Back after over twenty years. A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, Pulphouse returns with eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.
No genre limitations,...
Heroic Tales
A Collection Of 19 Great Tales- Novels, Novella, And Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Imagine: you are seated about a blazing campfire, your and the other bards. Tales of Achilles, Beowulf, Alexander, Odysseus, Conan, Tarzan, Joan of Arc and other heroes are told, along with new ones that carry on with the Jungian archetypes so central to our very nature. Men and women who brave the...
Sound as Popular Culture
A Research Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound.
The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an...
by Anne Fine, Mary Hooper, Sophie McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time.
A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, Mary Hooper, and Andrew Smith....
The Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays
Bystander 9/11; Big Head; The Fence; Come Out Eli; The Travels; On the Record; Seven; Pajarito Nuevo la Lleva: The Sounds of the Coup
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This diverse anthology features eight contemporary plays founded in testimonies from across the world. Showcasing challenging and provocative works of theatre, the collection also provides a clear insight into the workings of the genre through author interviews, introductions from the companies and...
The Southern Belle Brides Collection
7 Sweet and Sassy Ladies of Yesterday Experience Romance in the Southern States
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Love as Sweet as Southern Iced Tea
Welcome to the Old South where hospitality is king and charm is queen. Can lasting love been found here amidst chaotic life challenges?
The Belle of the Congaree by Lauralee Bliss
Columbia, South Carolina—1866
Mason Bassinger reluctantly travels to...
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
by Barbara G.Tarn, Laura Ware, Annie Reed
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
Whether you're sucked in, you fall into it or you see it and decide to explore what's beyond, a portal is always an opening to a great adventure. From our world to others, alone or in good company, our heroes and heroines reach "somewhere" down the rabbit hole and meet strange creatures....
Now That I'm Sixty
A baby boomer's take on ageing not-so-gracefully
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The other day, when I was having a rant about traffic, the Internet and the other frustrations in life my husband said: “Why don’t you write it down and send it into the newspaper or somewhere else.” Of course he really meant, ‘tell someone who cares’ but that’s okay. I decided to take...
by A.C Miles-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This is a true story. It is an account of the
journey of three generations, from the dark
days of the Second World War, to the
freedom of peace time.
Into the family history is woven the bravery
of the soldier and the dilemma of the
conscientious objector. The story then
travels to North Wales, to...
Secrets of the Mind
A Tale of Discovery and Mistaken Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Written in a provocative, witty, and highly accessible style, this is not only a splendid general introduction to the central questions of consciousness and brain science, but also an answer to some of them. The author -- noted Glaswegian chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith -- believes our feelings and sensations...
by B. A. (Beverly) Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Confusion about depression is very common. Commercials touting the latest “cure” compliments of the drug companies. But which one do we ask for, the one that makes you float with balloons or the one with the pretty girl. Or should we ask at all, don’t the doctors know? If it is as simple as...
Very Merry Christmas Bundle
20 Tales of Christmas Cheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Christmas: a time of family, friends, joy, merriment, and gifts. Especially gifts!
Unwrap these 20 Christmas tales and find a wealth of Christmas delights. From action to urban fantasy, science fiction to women's fiction, crime to romance, bitter-sweetness to silly fun, you will...