Rhymed text (crunch, munch, caterpillars lunch) presents a toddler's view of creatures found in the grass from lunchtime till nightfall, such as bees, ants, and moles.

Ghosts, witches and monsters don't always keep to the shadows... When failed rock star Clayton Briggle, on the run from a botched L.A. drug deal, escapes to his hometown after having been gone thirty years, he reunites with his childhood friends, and finds Dawson, Nebraska to be just as haunted as he is. From the town's chain-smoking mortician, who watches all from the tower of her Victorian mansion to the disappearance of the private school principal,...

On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and Observations Group as it was innocuously called. The small recon companies that were the center of its activities conducted some of the most dangerous missions of the war, infiltrating areas controlled by the North Vietnamese in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The...

In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to let Canadians see through the eyes of Indigenous people. Living in the Tall Grass is written in a way that makes the reader feel he or she might be sitting down with Chief Laforme, sharing experiences from their lives. Some poems share humour, while others express pain, though each comes from the heart.

Inspired by the works of Thoreau, Leopold, Abbey, and others who explored the connections between people and place, a native Arkansan offers thoughtful commentary on the culture, wild places, and wild things of his home. Johnny Carrol Sain is, a product of his place but also a thoughtful writer, who bucks the stereotype of backroad residents. Collected in this book for posterity, his essays dig into the ethos of hunting and fishing, the privileges...

Yolanda sets out with family and friends to help her grandmother and discovers long-buried secrets about a family curse and the healing power of the magic surrounding her.

As two married couples each become obsessed with other people or activities, they discover the grass is not always greener on the other side.

The Tall Grass and Other Stories is a collection of my shorter fiction, many of them flash fiction. It borrows from The King and Other Stories, Unchained and Unhinged, and some never before collected.

Ashley has a baby brother Sam who is cute because he is just beginning to talk, but is also cranky because his teeth are erupting; Ashlee has a twelve-year-old sister who can be fun, but also often ignores her younger sister--so the eight-year-old friends cannot decide which of them has a worse sibling situation.

"New York Times number one bestselling author Jeffrey Archer is a master of the short-story form, creating classic tales beloved by his fans. Now the award-winning writer joins forces with renowned illustrator Paul Cox to re-imagine twenty of his most popular and fêted short stories alongside beautifully rendered watercolor illustrations in The Short, The Long and the Tall. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels...