Midwest Journal Press: 311 books

Some vacation. Not like I'd planned - or the brochures. Now I'm in a space suit after some sort of freak accident. Lucky I knew how to get in one, and one was nearby. First time for everything. But now, I had just so much air, and a huge gap to jump. Because the explosion left a big...

Sue returned to earth in what looked like a meteor to those watching. But it was an escape pod from the Moon colony. Where the cities had gone to escape Earth and its governments' leaving the rest of the planet to its new dark age. She had fallen unconscious when she popped the pod's...

Caught by a fast-moving storm, the young woman was on her own against the elements. No search party would find her in time to save her life if she stayed out in this weather. She needed shelter. Now. Trusting her photographic memory, she recalled the symbol for a mine nearby on an old...

The meteor talked to Tig as he watched it land. Meteors came now and then. But never one that screamed like it was afraid of landing. All he wanted to do was to make sure his pack was safe against the fire from the sky. But the meteor had called him, somehow. He was there when the meteor turned...

Common Birds of North America is an excellent resource for identifying the birds you see around your home yard or when you're travelling. One page per bird provides a good and simple overview to identify the birds. This is a perfect book to have on your smartphone or tablet to look oup a bird...

In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story... Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins made this...

In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story... Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch...

The story continues, as two young girls find their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story... Barely escaping discovery by soldiers from a nearby dukedom, Sal and Jude's dad starts training them to survive in the forest. While gathering herbs in a clearing,...

The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An American-African coachman named Henry Johnson, who is employed by the town's physician, Dr. Trescott, becomes horribly disfigured after he...

Features the haunting title novella, well worth comparing to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." THE RED ONE (Excerpt) There it was! The abrupt liberation of sound! As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. Walls of cities, he meditated, might...

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, the book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney's exploits in rescuing various aristos and French citizens from the clutches...

John Earl Stark had a problem. If his book sales didn't pick up, he'd have to go get a real job. So he called an old friend, a fellow author just returned from a "digital rehab" and wanting to get back into the swing of writing. Their styles and approaches were completely different....

A Writer Recluse Places an Ad for a Caretaker and Gets More Than He Asked For This quiet contemporary fiction has a calm romance beneath the seeming gruff exterior of a reclusive writer who wants his solitude above all else. When a caretaker arrives who is every bit as quietly headstrong...

Huna is a funny thing to study. It doesn't act like other Western studies, in that you have a beginning-middle-end. Nor it is Eastern, where guru's abound and are necessary to find your way. Huna seems to be there at every turn, much as the old Kahuna's would teach their students. “When...