"Latest poetry collection by a poet with roots in New York City's vibrant Irish American community, whose resume also includes his work as a fiction writer, and a long-time musician playing traditional Irish music. His poems reflect many aspects of his life and experience."--Provided by publisher.

FALLING is the first collection of short stories by Erik Van Achter. It was during his stay at Brown University that Erik first started writing various fictions dealing with the life and the way of living Ivy League Students. Most characters exist in real life, some are even the writer’s friends but fiction took hold of them casting a net they rarely escape from. Their bright lives, where the sky supposedly is the limit, is defied by the basic laws of (human) gravity. Some survive the fall, others don’t. Fate, coincidence and destiny rule their world. Being well versed in short story theory, Erik Van Achter has experimented with genre’s many possibilities. What has interested him most is piecing together small fragments, hoping a story might arise and lead a real life and an afterlife. The mythical world of Ivy League is just a setting. In fact the human condition controlled by uncontrollable events is at the center of the tales. Sometimes characters literally fall but stay alive, sometimes characters fall from grace, looking for redemption and sadly die.

A poignant story of two estranged sisters from the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels. At twenty Cassie Madison left her hometown of Walton, Georgia, for New York City, where she has reinvented herself—from losing herself in her career to squashing her accent. But one night a single phone call brings back everything she's tried to forget. She hasn't spoken to her sister since Harriet stole Cassie's fiancé and married him. But now Harriet's on the line with news that their father is dying. As she makes the trip back, the only thing that frightens Cassie more than losing her father is seeing Harriet and the family that should have been hers. But she can't help loving her nephews and nieces any more than she can help feeling at home again in Walton. As she fights a surprising reaction to a forgotten friend, and faces an unexpected threat to the family she'd once left behind, Cassie comes to realize that moving on doesn't always mean moving away from who you are.

It was only supposed to be one night of passion... But whether it's with a stranger, your boss, your best friend, your enemy, or the man who is strictly forbidden, wanting more from someone who was supposed to be one and done brings a heap of complications and unexpected consequences. Grab this F*R*E*E collection of 10 steamy romances that will have you falling for the one-night stand. Collection includes: Night Hawke & Ruthless Hawke by Gwyn McNamee The Beauty and the Beast by Alana Albertson For The Love of You by Claire Marti Gone Steady by Katrina Marie Under the Stars by Kris Jayne Forging Passion by Lainey Davis Chasing Alys by Morgana Bevan The Damaged Billionaire by Samantha Skye Hard Hart by Whitley Cox

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.

The journey of one young man on a path of youthful rebellion that leads first to a short jail sentence for drug possession and eventually to another jail sentence for street activism in the protests during the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.