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J. R. Cleckler graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in history/English, with a minor in political science. A planned future in academia was set aside, and many years in retail ensued. The recent events with the pandemic provided the time and opportunity to pursue a dream of writing.

Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore his canon in religious contexts, in political and historical contexts, in mythic contexts, in Gothic/horror contexts, and in a wide variety of other contexts appropriate to a writer who has become "America's Storyteller.

A compendium of quotes and riffs by P.J. O'Rourke on subjects ranging from government to fishing to apps, to be published on what would have been his seventy-fifth birthday.

Setting out to create a collection of J. Frank Dobie’s writing that brings him to life and makes him relevant to current generations, Steven L. Davis has combed through the works of this renowned Texas author, gathering together in one volume Dobie’s most vital writings. Dobie’s stories and essays here are meticulously edited to prune away some of the brushy undergrowth and bring Dobie’s folksy, erudite voice bounding back to life.

I'm just one of many. X marks the spot: Left ventrical pumps oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. Please do not forget that, my dear.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965) was an American-British poet, essayist and playwright. He is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.

Pastor James Elba loses more than his faith when his daughter perishes in a tragic murder. After moving back to his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, his wife is now at the mercy of his own dark past, locked away in the forgotten shadows of a derelict rice plantation seeped in bloody history. But will his renovations stir up more than just long suppressed memories of a childhood dare, an incantation that summoned...what?

Quarantined. Isolated. Paranoid. Trapped. Stuck at home with nowhere to run, Kevin Tamura isn't holding up well under quarantine. Exhausted from overwork and lack of sleep, his sanity slips as society crumbles. But what will he do to protect himself when the greatest terror of all might be hiding right next door? From the mind of A. J. Payler, author of Lost In the Red and The Killing Song, comes a story of a man pushed to the edge in a world that's ready to break.

A group of immigrants, the Ruiz family, fall victim to tragedy in remote northeastern New Mexico. Two old friends, T.J. Whitley and Trip Hanson, estranged for years, find themselves reunited in their quest to solve the brutal killings. A crime hardened fixer for an El Paso motorcycle gang mounts his Harley in search of Esmeralda, the granddaughter of the gang leader.

A road trip through a landscape of a consciousness, both reflective and outlandish, chronicling a seeker of experience, adventures, and justice; a thrill-seeking ride through memory, awareness, reminiscent of an odyssey, often heroic, on a journey to make sense of and experience in a profound way this world we live in.

Gene Logsdon's The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America -- a raw and barren strip-mined landscape -- and saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve patiently, acre by acre, a beautiful little farm out of a seemingly worthless wasteland.

The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows to stop the unspeakable violence.