Last Call At The Morning Fog

Last Call At The Morning Fog is a collection of poetic works that are thought provoking in nature. These insightful poems will transport you to different places and times. Starting in his youth in the late sixties and concluding in the twenty first century, witness the evolution of B M Witkowski's poetic art.

Lacey LeBeau has been focused on family and managing The Salty Dog ever since Zach Channing walked out of her life ten years ago. Granted, he was a summer crush and they were barely out of school. She understood that he wanted to see the world as an outdoor photographer and she was a homebody, loving her small town, but she couldn't help but wait for him every time June rolled around, to not avail. Just when she had given up hope, he saunters back into her life to blow it all up again. Zach Channing loved Lacey but yearned to see the world and prove himself as a photographer. After a freak accident that shatters his leg and his career, he comes back to the one place that soothed his soul - Swan's Creek Maine. Only this time, he's coming back to take his uncle home to Boston after his uncle's heart attack, effectively closing the bar that Lacey loves and ending her dreams of ownership. Can Zach and Lacey find their love together and a new path forward to happiness?

Set in Pre-Katrina New Orleans, LAST CALL ON DECATUR STREET is an electrifying tale of friendship and betrayal, an exploration of racism and white privilege, and one woman’s journey to find herself in the seedy, glamorous world of burlesque. Despite vowing to never return to New Orleans when she left for college, Rosemary quickly finds herself back in her hometown—kicked out of school, at odds with her best friend, and desperate to lose herself in a bright, kaleidoscopic nightlife of dive bars and burlesque dancing. This night, though, is different. An unlikely companion, a secret sorrow, and an unexpected visitor force Rosemary to break free. From the burlesque stage in the French Quarter, strip clubs to strangers’ beds, a secret garden in Jackson Square, and ending at a raucous masquerade party, this night becomes a journey for Rosemary to come to grips with her past, grieve for those she has lost, and maybe, finally, acknowledge that she too deserves redemption. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Cohen captures the uncertainty and messy edges of early adulthood. A love letter to New Orleans, Last Call on Decatur Street is a story of family and home and the complicated things we inherit from the people and places we love.

When PI Michael Kelly is called upon by former colleague John Gibbons to help with an old case, he doesn't expect to find him dead the next morning. Coincidence? Kelly doesn't think so. Determined to catch his friend's killer, Kelly must piece together a link between Gibbons' death and the brutal rape that happened eight years earlier. He needs all the help he can get. Kelly's fearsome new team is bright, savvy and determined, but Chicago's mob, serial rapists and shady policing won't make it easy. This fast-paced debut captures the dangerous, gritty world of Chicago crime through wit and suspense.

"Hedblom covers the process of getting sober, from diagnosis to detox to sobriety. He focuses on the challenge of learning to live without drinking - a long-term goal, Hedblom asserts, that is best achieved by regular participation in AA. Hedblom's descriptions depict AA meetings as gatherings of fellowship, compassion, tears, and laughter. In relating the history of the organization, he describes the role of sponsors, elaborates on the Twelve Steps and the Promises, asserts the importance of spiritual development in recovery, and refutes the common misconceptions that equate spirituality with organized religion."--BOOK JACKET.

Brian McNulty, veteran bartender at Oscar's on the Upper West Side, respects his customers' privacy. And their space. But when a tarnished but innocent young woman seduced by New York's bright lights and glitter is murdered and another battered innocent charged with killing her, he reluctantly begins his own investigation. Brian's commitment to the chase is given a boost with the arrival of the dead girl's sister, a young Massachusetts businesswoman, determined to uncover the killer. While she's put off by Brian's jaded attitude and offbeat lifestyle, she comes to rely upon his familiarity with the city's darker underside, including a cadre of neighborhood cronies. Politically leftist and a dedicated union man, Brian learns that when you dig into people's lives, rich or poor, you find things kept hidden for good reason. By stirring up these ghosts, you change the shape of the landscape and put your friends, your customers, and yourself in harm's way. This debut novel is perfectly wrapped in original art by Fritz Scholder. Con Lehane grew up in the suburbs of New York City and currently writes from just outside of Washington, DC, where he lives with his wife and two sons. Once a college professor, union organizer, and bartender, Lehane is now an editor at the National Education Association. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. www.conlehane.com

Book One of the epic Fernare Araldo: The rescue of four captive explorers one fateful day becomes the catalyst for conflict between King Derrick Mudor of mainland Caermon and the amazon Queen Eleanore de Sarc of the island realm of Fernare Araldo (the former Ermish realm of Rand-Flanion), despite the desperate attempts of good people on both sides to keep the peace. This is the first of a two part epic about the people caught on both sides of this conflict and the forces of destiny driving them on. This is the Global Distribution edition.

The Human Family is the first complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salomä (1861?1937) wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of Andreas-Salomä?s significance as a thinker and writer, above all with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the principles of women?s emancipation. Born in St. Petersburg to a German diplomat and his wife, Andreas-Salomä has always been a figure of interest because of her close relationships to influential thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud. Only since the mid-1980s, however, have her prose fiction and theoretical writings been reconsidered as important documents of emerging ideas and debates in twentieth-century feminism. The ten stories of The Human Family drive home her critical perspective on feminine stereotypes. They depict a wide variety of young women as they relate to men representing different degrees of enlightenment and tolerance, struggling to express a complete and independent feminine identity in the face of the confining but often seductive roles that convention and tradition impose on female potential. The Human Family provides a subtle and nuanced perspective on European feminist writing from the turn of the last century by a woman writer who was intimately involved with the literary mainstream of her time and whose theoretical and literary works played a significant role in feminist debates of the period, prefiguring present-day feminist discourse on essentialism and constructivism.