Nancy Beck: 8 books

Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation’s first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular interviews. She was the first to be a public political persona in her own right. And, although the White...

Tessa Palmisano cleanses bad auras, because leaving such auras can lead to fistfights and, sometimes, death. She's summoned by gorgeous Bert Gaston, an ex-military man amputee, to check out his landlord, also a veteran; he's been getting bad vibes from the guy for some time now. And...

Two short fantasy stories for the price of one. Ten Cent Wings: Doug "Tank" Sherman is a down-and-out boxer in the U.S. Midwest, circa 1950. Drifting from tank town to tank town, he travels with his manager, hoping to finally Make It Big. Battered in his last fight,...

For fans of C. E. Murphy’s Negotiator series, this is a story of a hidden fantasy world amidst our normal world - where those who are normal know and are scared of these creatures, though the normal world will intrude, with the 1929 Stock Market Crash just days away . . . Is it possible to stay...

Trust and fear and demons don’t mix. Tessa Palmisano loves her husband, Bert Gaston, a djinn. But she can’t trust him with her secret: He might not be the father of her baby, and the baby might be more than he or she appears to be. Tessa confronts Jane, her landlady’s daughter,...

Tessa Palmisano gets no respect—from the magical or normal side of her life, as the Elders and potential boyfriends don’t divulge things to her that she thinks they should. When someone’s inner organs are found behind her apartment house, she is called in to find the body. After all,...

Complex, haunting, imaginative and profoundly literary, Didactic Poetries is Beck’s response to Schiller’s statement: “We are still waiting for a didactic poem where thought itself would be and would remain poetic,” and Hegel’s claim that, “strictly speaking, didactic poetry isn’t poetry.”For...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...