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Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whip-smart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.

May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events - until now.

When Malena Sevilla's tidy, carefully planned world collapses following her father’s mysterious suicide, she finds a letter - signed with an “A” - that reveals that her mother, whom she thought dead, is very much alive in San Isidro, a quaint town tucked in the Andes Mountains. Intent on meeting her, Malena arrives at Alameda Street and meets four sisters who couldn’t be more different from one another, but who share one thing in common: all of their names begin with an A.

Powerful war machines of the far-future collide across a barren desert world in this post-apocalyptic debut novel from award-winning Australian author Cat Sparks. Seventeen-year-old Star and her sister Nene are orphans, part of a 13-wagon caravan of nomadic traders living hard lives travelling the Sand Road. Their route cuts through a particularly dangerous and unforgiving section of the Dead Red Heart, a war-ravaged desert landscape plagued by rogue semi-sentient machinery and other monsters from a bygone age.

Connect with your feminine essence. The driving force behind this book is the beauty and significance of the feminine essence. Through quotes, listeners are offered sacred reminders of our worth and power as women. By carefully selecting excerpts from Woodman’s works, Mellick has crafted a book for women everywhere, guaranteed to speak to the soul.

“As far as I know, you can only die once…” But when Aetna Simmons disappears from her lonely Bermuda cottage, she leaves behind not one but ten suicide notes. Ten different suicide notes. And no other trace to speak of, not even a corpse, as if she’d never existed. Drafts of a Suicide Note is the darkly enigmatic love letter of Kenji Okada-Caines, a petty criminal who once exposited on English literary classics and now, marooned on his native isle, nurtures an obsession with Aetna’s writing.

Former Detroit homicide detective Edwin Blake broke into show business as a script consultant on cop movies. Now living in Los Angeles five years later, Blake is suffering from clinical depression, is no longer in demand in film and TV–and money is short. But things look up when Blake gets a call from wealthy, oddball producer, Jason “JP” Perry, telling him he wants to hire him for a future cable TV series. But there’s a catch.

¿Siente que su dedicación al trabajo y su búsqueda de éxito económico y profesional le hacen descuidar otros aspectos de la vida igualmente importantes? No está solo. Pero la solución se encuentra a su alcance. Con lenguaje claro, ameno y persuasivo, se plantea aquí un modelo de planeación de vida, intuitivo y fácil de poner en práctica, que permite equilibrar los ámbitos espiritual, intelectual, afectivo-emotivo, familiar, social, recreativo, corporal, ocupacional y económico. El verdadero éxito está en alcanzar ese equilibrio pleno y, con él, la tranquilidad mental y la paz interior.

Ramón Martínez es un abogado de éxito. Es decir, que vive de las palabras. Hasta el día en que se enferma, literalmente, de la lengua. En una muda tragicomedia desencadenada por este diagnóstico, acompañan a Ramón su esposa Carmela, que tendrá que volver a litigar después de veinte años de ama de casa, y sus hijos adolescentes, Paulina y Mateo, cuyos mayores intereses son la comida y el onanismo. Una familia ordinaria que, como en la cita célebre, se distingue por su desgracia.

Luis Castañeda, autor que, como el público al que se aquí se dirige, se encuentra ya en la tercera edad, plantea aquí una serie de "mandamientos" para vivir esa importante etapa con la mayor plenitud y sabiduría, en los distintos aspectos: espiritual, intelectual, afectivo emotivo, familiar, social, cívico, recreativo, corporal, ocupacional y económico.