Once there were words like family and warmth, but when the Sun begins to die, words of power won't protect those who live on the planet's surface. Litalle sets out wandering Tarrah in hopes of finding food and warmth as the sun sets on another day. But as the cold comes rushing in, she finds a cave that might just keep her alive. The cave is not empty. Litalle is not alone. Will the risk to her safety pay off, or will she be doomed...

At the edge of the world, an ocean away, a sailor named Martel has retired to land. He clings to his most valued possession-a series of letters written to his granddaughter, whom he lost contact with long ago. Telling of their ancestral past, his life at sea, and the choices upon which their lives have been built, Martel's letters illuminate the power of stories passed down through generations-stories that changed over time, and that ruptured their...

After twenty years, Stephen Faller shares his journey into seminary and ordained ministry. This book reveals the story of how someone with a lifelong disability, cerebral palsy, might find his way into ministry as a hospital chaplain; there is a certain irony in that. While particular in its own right, this story will speak to anyone in college or graduate school studying one of the many disciplines hoping to make the world a better place. Through...

Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world? The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or epic droughts, but by the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from...

A witch must empty her heart if she hopes to keep her magic, for to feel love is to be no witch at all...Alice fears her grandmother?s warning from many years ago is coming true. After being stranded in Mari?s old human neighborhood, Alice must confront her growing affection and decide-will she lose her witch?s power forever, or destroy the one thing she?s ever actually wanted?

A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incident In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the largest mass desecration in modern American history. The perpetrator-a well-respected family man and a former hometown football star-had managed to conceal the horror for five years. Among the bodies found at the Tri-State Crematory was that of Brent Hendricks's...

We're in a gigantic mess. Our civilization is collapsing, and we're dragging the whole Earth down with us. How do we make sense of such an awful situation? Chris Wilson takes this question back to its historical and cultural roots, especially the belief that everything in Nature is merely a resource for us to use in whatever way we think fit. This has given birth to an economy focused on industrial growth that is now so out of control that it threatens,...

Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating...

A "suspenseful, atmospheric tale. . .punctured by a gut-punch twist" (Entertainment Weekly), A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World is a story of survival, courage and hope amid the ruins of our world.
My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, before all the people went...

With the world about to end, seventeen-year-old Aisha and her mother set out on a road trip to find her estranged sister.