"A new collection of sixteen stories that explore disturbing, magical, and delightful phenomena in everyday American life, and the deepest and darkest desires that we keep hidden from even ourselves"--

After losing his job on a coin-toss, Miles (Shane Callahan) concocts a fantastical plan to get rich by harvesting coins from wishing fountains. Aided by his friend Jack (Cullen Moss) and a gentle vagrant (Don Baker), his journey leads to the American highway and an indebted traveler (Anna Stromberg) who challenges his notions of wealth and true happiness. Equal parts satirical comedy, gentle drama, and road-film, Well Wishes is a wildly enjoyable...

A little desert town gets a sexual charge from a crash-landed alien. A dysfunctional family tries to summit Everest with "discount Sherpas" and yakloads of emotional baggage. A teen messiah emerges from a game of 3-on-3. The stories in John Henry Fleming's Songs for the Deaf, the first story collection by the "marvelously inventive" and "winningly satiric" author of The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, put an intimate and modern spin on the American...

In The Children's Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales, Dr. Hannah Blevins Harvey unpacks more than 60 of our most beloved stories, fables, fairy tales, and songs from around the world - providing you with a fascinating, in-depth view into the history, context, and deeper meaning of the tales we know and love. As you travel through the catalogs of Grimm, Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson, Charles Perrault, Oscar Wilde, and so many more, you'll gain profound...

Tall tales is a captivating thematic unit that focuses on five favorite American tall tale heroes -- Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Sally Ann Thunder Whirlwind, Paul Bunyan, and John Henry.

"If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait 'til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE...things that will make you laugh out loud...and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future. The only thing my mother loved more than making people laugh was lying...or as she'd say, "embellishing." Her motto was: "Why let the truth ruin a good story?" This book contains some of...

"Recounts the storied life and military career of the American flying Ace who flew missions in China alongside the “Flying Tigers” during World War II and helped found Georgia's Museum of Aviation,"--NoveList.

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.