The Whisperer is back, and the notorious serial killer is coming for the one that got away. Angie Winston is about to relive a nightmare again. Six years ago, Angie survived a horrifying kidnapping and rescue. She’s been told she’s one of the lucky ones, but why doesn’t she feel lucky? Why does she remain hidden away while life passes her by? Sometimes, all it takes is one word whispered in the dark to trigger her pent-up rage and impossibly helpless emotions. A raging storm and a trail of dead bodies pile up as Angie, with the aid of three professionals, takes back her life.

Originally published under the pen name "Samuel M. Key" "Years after the death of a notorious child murderer, children have begun to die again...and a crime photographer begins to suspect he has the one true clue that connects the horrific events." In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasy novels under the pen name "Samuel M. Key." Now, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint's own name. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A real, raw telling of a man’s lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder, When Screams Become Whispers offers a better understanding of the disease, the extent of its reach, and the dire need for widely available treatment options.

Winner of the 2021 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist for the 2022 YALSA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2021 A Time Young Adult Best Book of 2021 A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2021 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2021 A Horn Book Best Book of 2021 A compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed. America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years’ probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. The protests that followed led to a federal civil rights trial—the first involving a crime against an Asian American—and galvanized what came to be known as the Asian American movement. Extensively researched from court transcripts, contemporary news accounts, and in-person interviews with key participants, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a suspenseful, nuanced, and authoritative portrait of a pivotal moment in civil rights history, and a man who became a symbol against hatred and racism.

PART I. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF A BLACK MANS JOURNEY FROM POVERTY IN THE GHETTO TO A MENTALLY EMANCIPATED CITIZEN OF THE WORLD PART II. POEMS, APHORISMS, AND DISCOURSE OF HUMAN RELEVANCE PART III. AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROFILE OF BLACK PEOPLE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY TO ENHANCE AND FULLY EXPOSE THE SOCIETAL IMPEDIMENTS A LARGE SEGMENT OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY HAS TO OVERCOME REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, OR FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCE

Seventeen short stories and novelettes compose Whispers and Screams. While these stories are from the realms of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, they are also stories about people, about loneliness, insanity, love, politics, philosophy, food, power, about human feelings and behavior in these dynamic times. A large number of the protagonists are minorities or women. Many of the stories owe their heritage to the black-and-white horror movies of the late thirties and forties and the B-grade science fiction of the fifties. "Proteus Rex" is about a genetically engineered life-form that adapts the attributes of animals (a lion's strength, a bird's wings) or whatever his survival needs and infinite appetites dictate. Having consumed all the animal life in a small rural community, he begins to eat people. Much of the story is about the local authority's attempt to identify and apprehend this menace, a significant challenge as Proteus Rex is an extradimensional being that can change his size to as small as an amoeba to as large as a blue whale. "Proteus Rex" is populated by a deep cast of characters, only a few of whom manage not to get eaten. Imagine the actress Lucy Liu portraying Ian Fleming's most shrewd creation, James Bond, 007. Only she's working for TSA—the Teleportation Security Administration—three hundred years in the future. This is after World War VI, and the United States has been fractured into several independent nations. The two Koreas have united and is running the world. Executive Action Officer Sun Park's mission is to capture or neutralize the perpetrators that sent and detonated an atomic bomb in the TSA X-port Freight Hub in Buenos Aires. This is the premise of "The Price of a Dog," an action-driven novella, a political science fiction thriller. In the short story "Slaves of the Cat Goddess," Buster, the main character (and stooge of General Wanamaker), is charged to take the mysterious cat Bast to a secret research base. Bast's size and ferocity force a crash landing on an uncharted tropical island inhabited by cannibals. Knowing that it was Buster who was responsible for her mutation, Bast not only protects him in this hostile world, but she sees that he is elevated, serving as the ambassador between the goddess Bast and the humanity she would enslave.

Jenny Hoyt is disillusioned by old age lost in a cocoon of loneliness. She daydreams about her special place, Powder Point Bridge. As she crosses the bridge, she travels back in time, engulfed in the past. She experiences the tragedy of her father's death and how her mother's love turns cold. Having an emotional struggle with a first love, Jenny let's go only to be haunted by that unforgiving love. How a family's strength endures and how forgiveness no matter what the cost is expressed in its healing powers. Jenny's mother had so many regrets and secrets that were kept so deep, someone had to die to give them up.