Only the drug pushers and scoundrels appear to thrive in Centre Town, Pennsylvania, home to the Class A baseball team Mets and childhood home of Cozzy Crager.Crager and Centre Town are a perfect fit. Battling booze and his worst nightmares of years spent on the Albuquerque police force, he’s back in this decaying, crime-ridden town for the first time since he was a young man. Crager is barely settled into his gig as a detective when he gets an anonymous call of a murder.Lance Miller, the Mets’ slugging star with a shadowy past, has been found dead in a downtown hotel. Lance’s time with the team had been brief, his relationship with teammates, lovers and others somewhat vague and mysterious.And so Crager begins the task of following leads and ferreting out information, a job that takes him from the back alleys of the city to the halls of academia. Views: 70
Product DescriptionMama Luanda was a master of sympathetic magic, an old time Voodun, a Hoodoo woman as her mama would say, and she's got a bone to pick with Baptist preacher Reverend Ike Larou. The good reverend calls her a witch. A whore. A Satanist. That's all about to change... Apex Publications is pleased to bring one of the masters of hardcore horror into the Alien Shots program--Wrath James White. About the Author:Wrath James White is a former world class heavyweight kickboxer, a professional kickboxing and mixed martial arts trainer, distance runner, performance artist, and former street brawler who is now known for creating some of the most disturbing works of fiction in print. Wrath’s most recent novels are The Resurrectionist and Yaccub’s Curse. He is also the author of Succulent Prey, The Book of a Thousand Sins, His Pain and Population Zero. He is the co-author of Teratologist, co-written with the king of extreme horror, Edward Lee. In 2008, Apex Publications published ORGY OF SOULS, a horror novella co-authored by Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus. SHORT STORY:Sympathetic Magic1500 words SAMPLE:His fingers were long and lithe like those of a pianist. Even as she sliced through them one by one and watched them tumble to the floor, Mama Luanda could not help but marvel at their beauty. She could not remember giving the doll such beautiful hands. She wondered if he would have been flattered. They were the most perfect hands she had ever made. Flawless, right down to the fingerprints and the love line that ran from where his index finger had been all the way to his wrist. She couldn’t remember ever making a doll with hands so lovely. In fact, she didn’t remember ever creating such a realistic doll. No way was she losing her touch. If anything, she was getting better. This was the best one she had ever created. Life-sized and anatomically correct. It even bled. Only, she did not remember making it. She didn’t even know how she could have made such a thing. Perhaps the spirits had guided her hands while she was in one of her trances. Views: 70
Cooper Blake has everything going for him—until he wakes from a car accident with his football career in ruins and a mysterious, attractive girl by his side. Cooper doesn’t know how Samantha got there or why he can see her; all he knows is that she’s a ghost, and the shadows that surround her seem intent on destroying her. No one from Cooper’s old life would understand what he can barely grasp himself. . . . But Delilah, the captain of the cheerleading squad, has secrets of her own, like her ability to see beyond the physical world, and her tangled history with Brent, a loner from a neighboring school who can hear strangers’ most intimate thoughts. Delilah and Brent know that Cooper is in more trouble than he realizes, and that Samantha may not be as innocent as she has led Cooper to believe. But the only way to figure out where Samantha came from will put them all in more danger than they ever dreamed possible. Views: 70
In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical — born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day. Aoife Grayson's family is unique, in the worst way — every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a ward of the state, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her fate can be different. Views: 70
Meet Zenon, a futuristic fifth grader who lives in a space station high above Earth. Her humorous stories are all reality-based, so kids can identify with her situations. In book #2, Zenon is thrilled when she makes the spaceball team! Unfortunately, she's not so good at it. But does that mean she should quit? Created by past recipients of the IRA Classroom Choice Award.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 70
They called themselves Sons of Liberty—a revolutionary conspiracy that intended to form a new confederacy in the American heartland—and put an end to the American Civil War. Backed by the South, the Sons launch guerilla attacks against Union troops. The year is 1864, the place Indiana and Kentucky. A time of ruthless censorship, conscription, and a seemingly endless war that has left a half a million Americans dead. Union Major Paul Stapleton falls in love with Janet Todd, courier and evangelist for the Sons of Liberty. Another admirer, Colonel Adam Jameson, readies his Confederate cavalry division to support the Sons' revolt. The battle for the future of America is about to begin.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. Views: 70
Andrea is a lonely thirty-something carrying on a safe, online friendship with a guy in New Zealand. Until he asks her one night if she's ever had cybersex. This questions mollifies Andrea, and propels her to ask her gay best friend, a sex-columnist, about cyber-sex, relationships, and love. Should she? Or shouldn't she? And what if they ever meet In Real Life? Views: 70
A new tack shop and a gala polo match are reasons to celebrate for horse trainer Michaela Bancroft-until equestrian Sterling Tabor is found clubbed to death with a polo mallet. Worse yet, suspicion falls on Michaela... The weapon belongs to Michaela, her prints are all over it, and rumors of her alleged affair with the victim makes a convincing case against her. Views: 70
Christina Asquith presents a moving first-hand account of her year teaching in one of Philadelphia's worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, in desperate need of 1,500 new teachers, instituted a policy of hiring "emergency certified" instructors. Asquith, then a 25-year-old reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, joined their untrained ranks. More challenging than her classroom in the crime-infested neighborhood known as "the Badlands" are the trials she faced outside, including a corrupt principal, the politics that prevented a million-dollar grant from reaching her students, and the administration's shocking insistence that teachers maintain the appearance of success in the face of utter defeat—even if it means falsifying test scores. Her story will inspire, educate, and entertain. Views: 70
