Anthologies: general Books

The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it?Good Mom on...

Forty influential and diverse Canadians with expertise in subjects such as Indigenous rights, climate change, social justice and race, gun control, higher education and poetry reflect on everything Canada is getting right-and what still needs to change...

What can a microbial gravesite on a moon teach us? Why is a group of scientists risking their lives to safeguard a seed bank? How does a virus detective story show us why we need to be vigilant about the next disease outbreak?Great science writing has...

Age range 10+You don't need to be an adult to break news and change the world. You can start your career as a young reporter right now! Fun, informative and easy to use, Kid Reporter is packed with inspiring stories from young people who've already...

From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, a book about the art of reading. In Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace, Yiyun Li invites you to travel with her through Tolstoy's novel - and with fellow readers...

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It isedited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Juryand Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the...

Tree With Golden Apples is a collection of twelve evocative stories drawn from world myths that reveal both the beauty and truth offered to humans by the plant kingdom. Susan Strauss, a renowned professional storyteller, and educator, begins each section...

These poems and short stories you are about to engage in, are inspired and based on true events. Experiences and inner thoughts are dazzled with a sprinkling of the esoteric occult and fiction. When you read these poems and short stories, try to find...

A fun mystery and adventure fiction about three regular hardworking accountants taking on the challenge of finding a lost treasure within the walls of the HBCU where they work. Will they let time, fear, or work keep them from what could be the best...

Daenerys Moonbeam (Dana) is a black lab that shares her adventures while prompting children to share their own. Dana is an advocate for inclusivity and gratitude. She shares experiences and themes that children can relate to while providing support,...

Surprising events unfold as an earthly messenger is asked by Spirit to deliver a message during her own extraordinary experience in a Peruvian Ayahuasca Center. Her journey coincides with the message she has been asked to deliver, this realization coming...

In Imperfect Equilibrium is a collection of written work by 22 student writers that provides a glimpse into the minds of today's youth and the growing pressure placed upon them. Whether it be pressure from relationships, social norms, climate change, or...

"Cantina Psalms" main characters include penthouse politicos, icy homegrown drug czars, and a mysterious redhead who creates havoc for everyone. Caught in the middle, is the Mayor's bodyguard, who has to protect himself from good trouble and bad,...

Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Storiesaims to bring the riches of contemporary Ukrainian literature-and of contemporary Ukraine, too-to the world. While Ukraine is under sustained attack, many in the West have marveled at the nation's strength in...

Stories of famous monsters in a new horror anthology edited by James Aquilone and featuring Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and many others.Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr...

Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies is a collection of memorable quotes from one of the most quoted writers in American literature. One of the most celebrated writers in American literature, Jack Kerouac helped an entire generation of post-WWII Americans...

The collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and performance texts, Assotto Saint draws upon music and...

WINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction! WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! "Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."-Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient...

The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable, opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience. In these essays,...

"Celebratory, even radical"-The New Yorker"Monumental"-HyperallergicWe Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half...

In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the illustrious poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and intimate pieces that illuminate the nuances of personal and collective histories, analyses, practices, and choices surrounding...

The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has generated a critical urgency for this landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays.Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend...

ALibrary Journal Best Social Science title of 2022Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair...

The long-awaited companion title to MY MONSTER BOYFRIEND is finally here! The latest in the Smut Peddler series of high-end erotic anthologies, MY MONSTER GIRLFRIEND shows off the femme side of sexy ghosts, werewolves, demons, and other horrors that go...

In this gorgeous collection of allegorical stories, Subcomandante Marcos, idiosyncratic spokesperson of the Zapatistas, has provided "an accidental archive" of a revolutionary group's struggle against neo-liberalism. For 30 years, the Zapatistas have...

Jewish Noir II is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Alemn, Doug Allyn, Rita Lakin, Rabbi Ilene Schneider, E.J...

Jewish Noir is a unique collection of new stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S.J. Rozan, Nancy Richler, Moe Prager (Reed Farrel Coleman), Wendy...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a...

'This masterful translation of one of the most popular books of world literature makes available to an English readership the animal tales known collectively as Kalila and Dimna. Named after the two jackals of Pancatantra fame, this collection of stories...

Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge-yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character-the Nibelungenlied is the greatest and most unique epic in Middle High German. The Klage, its consistent companion...

Translated into English for the first time here, the Sanguozhi pinghua (thirteenth century CE) provides a complete and fast-paced narrative account of the events of the period, from the beginning of the civil wars to the demise of the Three Kingdoms and...

"Flawless. . . . Readers of John Crowley, Ray Bradbury, and Sally Rooney alike will find a home."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)Remember the girl you once knew, the theater kid? Now she's become the Queen, and you might need to rescue her. There's...

Expanded debut collection (9 new stories) very popular award-winning author with broad genre supportGrew up in Malaysia, lives in England, has travelled to US in pastnovel from Tor in spring 2021#ownvoices #WeNeedDiverseBooks

Debut collection by a very popular writer with support in sf&f and Filipino communities and more

Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and artists.Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the...

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the tenth volume of the series, Datlow...

The third of five volumes collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all...

Neil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction From E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman, to George Lucas' Star Wars, the politics...

In this collection of fables, Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming shares the stories that have influenced him most as a martial artist and lifelong student of the Dao. They bring the Dao to life for readers of all generations. Whoever we are, wherever we're going,...

The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten features classic stories by masters of occult fiction including Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more--the very authors and tales...

Horror Takes Its TimeLooking for a thoughtful fright? Or perhaps a frightful thought? Packed with stories selected by one of today's leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden...

Philip Pullman, author of 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, has remarked that "after nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world." This new collection of Rumi stories fills that need.This fresh prose translation...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 Recommended Read for 2023 A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What are the politics...

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular...

A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian trollAcross the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Folk...

A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture The extraordinary folktales collected by Peter Christen Asbjrnsen and Jrgen Moe began appearing in Norway in 1841. Over...

Thesestories, collected by the Danish artist and ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt(18731958) during her travels in the early twentieth century among the nomadicSami in Swedish Spmi, grant entry to a fascinating world of wonder and peril,of nature imbued...

Romantic and Horrific Stories (2021) is a collection of short fiction by Bram Stoker. Although he is largely remembered as the author of Dracula (1897), one of the greatest horror novels of all time, Stoker was a versatile writer whose gift for...