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Renown psychic mediums, Kalila Smith and Sid Patrick, share their explorations and experiments into the spiritual world. The accounts written herein are actual experiences as they are recalled by those who experienced them. Their spiritual journey began with deep personal losses and a need to know what happens to our loved ones when they depart from us and what mysteries do we have waiting for ourselves. They decided to pursue the answers as a series of experiments designed to help them separate the facts and real experiences from the hype. In other words, they did what felt natural to...

Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction

Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew--a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate.

The craziness is...

-After reading Neuromancer for the first time, - literary scholar Larry McCaffery wrote, -I knew I had seen the future of science fiction] (and maybe of literature in general), and its name was William Gibson.- McCaffery was right. Gibson's 1984 debut is one of the most celebrated SF novels of the last half century, and in a career spanning more than three decades, the American Canadian science fiction writer and reluctant futurist responsible for introducing -cyberspace- into the lexicon has published nine other novels.

Editor Patrick A. Smith draws the twenty-three interviews...

-After reading Neuromancer for the first time, - literary scholar Larry McCaffery wrote, -I knew I had seen the future of science fiction] (and maybe of literature in general), and its name was William Gibson.- McCaffery was right. Gibson's 1984 debut is one of the most celebrated SF novels of the last half century, and in a career spanning more than three decades, the American Canadian science fiction writer and reluctant futurist responsible for introducing -cyberspace- into the lexicon has published nine other novels.

Editor Patrick A. Smith draws the twenty-three interviews...

After growing up in Minnesota and graduating from college, Tim O'Brien received a draft notice and joined the war effort in Vietnam. He chronicled his combat experiences in his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, and then went on to write the eight novels that are discussed in this volume. The novels reflect their characters' struggle with the effects of place, namely small-town America, in the Vietnam Era.

Patrick D. Smith, award-winning author of A Land Remembered, Forever Island, and other classic novels about Mississippi and Florida, wrote The Beginning in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights movement. He offered an inside perspective on its effect on the people, both black and white, caught in the upheaval of the changing South. Now a new generation of readers can reassess the times and the decisions of those who lived through them.

Midvale is an imaginary small town in southern Mississippi in the 1960s. Life moves at a pace set by its long, hot summers...

In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has...

PIn this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has...