This book is essential for anyone who is planning a wedding or creating a ceremony. It is broken down into five basic parts; Decisions To Make, Things To Acquire, Amusing Articles, (which explain everything and give useful, down-to-earth suggestions) Ceremony Samples of every part of the service, and Day-Of pages to give to your designated helper. This ensures that all your 'T's are crossed and 'I's are dotted. 
The 'Decisions To Make' pages help you make both the big and the small decisions. It covers things that most people wouldn't think about right away. Consider whether you will have to walk on cement or grass. This could affect what type of shoes you wear. Do the bathrooms of the hall need decorating? How can you make your wedding really unusual? All of this is covered. 
The 'Things To Acquire' pages do more than give vague ideas, they actually list suggestions and leave space for you to include your own. With its large print, perforated pages and s! implistic format, this book will make even the most seriously 'planning-impaired' bride feel like a professional, while still staying within their budget. 
The 'Day-Of' pages include things like an 'Emergency Kit For The Day-Of'. What if your nail breaks or dress rips right before the ceremony? What if you have a splitting headache or upset stomach? You'll want that kit! It's hard to tend to the little details from the confines of the dressing room, so give your friend a list and relax. 
The Ceremony Samples in the Appendix are non-denominational. There is a wide variety to choose from, including: two candlelighting ceremonies, three wine ceremonies and two ways to make your children part of the service. Each part is explained in detail in an amusing, lighthearted way.

The Ultimate Wedding/Ceremony Workbook For The 'Planning-Impaired'

Long, Rev. Amy E.

Parenting & Relationships

Apex Pubns

Written by Rev. Amy Long, with contributions from a variety of other authors, this book represets the spectrum of different faiths and belief systems. The book has a black, leatherette cover with gold foil printing. It's elegant and professional. The must have book for any celebrant, officiant or minister! Over 270 pages of new wedding ceremonies, funerals, baby naming ceremonies, baptisms, house blessings and much more! Using this book, you can easily customize any ceremony in minutes! The ceremonies are based on love with fairly neutral wording and are easily adapted to fit almost any religious (or secular) denomination. It’s an excellent teaching tool and is perfect for any minister or celebrant who wants to conduct ceremonies. It’s a veritable recipe book of ceremonies!

Weddings, Funerals and Rites of Passage: Sample Ceremonies for Celebrants, Officiants and Ministers

Long, Amy E.

Religion & Spirituality

Unwelcome Bodies

Pain. Pleasure. The sensation of touch...we feel everything through our skin, that delicate membrane separating “I” from “other,” protecting the very essence of self. Until it breaks. Or changes. Or burns. What would you do if you were the one called on to save humanity, and the price you had to pay was becoming something other than human? Or if healing your body meant losing the only person you’ve ever loved? Wander through worlds where a woman craves even a poisonous touch...a man’s deformities become a society’s fashion...genetic regeneration keeps the fires of Hell away...and painted lovers risk everything to break the boundaries of their caste system down. Separate your mind from your flesh and come in. Welcome... Table of Contents “For the Plague Thereof Was Exceeding Great” “Big Sister/Little Sister” “Immortal Sin” “Flood” “The Call” “Captive Girl” “Last Bus” “The Last Stand of the Elephant Man” “Songs of Lament” “Firebird” “Brushstrokes” “Pelland handles difficult topics with assured storytelling chops, bringing us to the brink of tears, fear, desire, and beyond. Worth your time AND money AND sincere attention.” ―Steven Gould, author of Jumper “Her already-glowing reputation may still be just a hint of promising light on the horizon of those who like their fantastic fiction smart, imaginative, and driven by the mysteries of the human spirit, but each new story as brilliant as ‘Brushstrokes’ and ‘The Last Stand of the Elephant Man’ brings her inevitable future even closer. Trust me on this: Jennifer Pelland’s star has only just begun to rise.” ―Adam-Troy Castro, author of Emissaries From the Dead “Jennifer Pelland is a very good writer. She can evoke a setting, an environment, a mood in just a few sentences. And she does it so intensely that the reader really feels the fear of touching any potentially diseased subway riders; feels the thirst of a world without water; feels the aloneness that comes behind the metal mask.” ―Ian Randal Strock, SFScope.com “Jennifer Pelland is addicted to writing short stories. She’s written an essay about this addiction but you don’t need to read the essay to know it’s true. Each of the tales in this collection is a testament to her love of story-telling, and her imagination. She has a keen sense of irony, and a gift for juxtaposing images and events in a way which enables her to extract emotion at crucial moments from her characters and from the reader.” ―Sarah Hilary, theshortreview.com

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Pelland, Jennifer

Fantasy

Eight stories of dark science fiction and fantasy weave a path through the underbelly of San Francisco's most notorious district in Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill. Best known for his strong sense of place and uniquely vibrant characters, O'Neill brings the gritty underside of the city to life with eight interwoven stories of broken lives, missed dreams, and all that can go wrong with both reality and fantasy among the down and out. The city itself opens wide to swallow all comers with the temptation of its secrets and sins, while O'Neill brings dignity and humanity to a set of characters often overlooked in both society and fiction.

Taste of Tenderloin

Literature & Fiction

O’Neill, Gene

Genre Fiction

The Next Fix

If there is a party at the end of the universe, Matt Wallace's The Next Fix will be the drug of choice. Two-time Parsec Award-winning author teams with Apex Publications for a new collection of 12 short stories and one novella. With characters as gritty as Sam Spade but as real as your next-door neighbor, The Next Fix cooks up a cocktail of futuristic trips that range from haunting to comedic to don't-turn-out-the-lights. From Wallace's introduction to The Next Fix: You're in my own little chimerical sphere now, but I'm no different than you. I don;t shoot, snort, or roll, but I'm my own kind of fiend with my own kind of jones. You can simplify it, call it a fiction addiction. It's much more than that. Part of it's that whole "art is not a mirror, it's a hammer" thing. It's powerful. Wallace's quest for the next great high of the imagination takes the reader through the cannibalistic noir of 'The End of Flesh," the haunting beauty of endless seekers in "The Losting Corridor," and on an action packed ride-along with offworld postal workers in "Another Man's Run." If you like a chaser of tech with your horror, humor with your darkness, and beauty with your grit, The Next Fix is your next high.

Wallace, Matt

The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from Asia, Eastern Europe, and around the world. The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells a tale breathtakingly vast and varied, whether caught in the ghosts of the past or entangled in a postmodern age. Among the spirits, technology, and deep recesses of the human mind, stories abound. Kites sail to the stars, technology transcends physics, and wheels cry out in the night. Memories come and go like fading echoes and a train carries its passengers through more than simple space and time. Dark and bright, beautiful and haunting, the stories herein represent speculative fiction from a sampling of the finest authors from around the world. Table of Contents: S.P. Somtow(Thailand)—“The Bird Catcher” Jetse de Vries(Netherlands)—“Transcendence Express” Guy Hasson (Israel)—“The Levantine Experiments” Han Song (China)—“The Wheel of Samsara” Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji)—“Ghost Jail” Yang Ping (China)—“Wizard World” Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines)—“L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)” Nir Yaniv (Israel)—“Cinderers” Jamil Nasir (Palestine)—“The Allah Stairs” Tunku Halim (Malaysia)—“Biggest Baddest Bomoh” Aliette de Bodard (France)—“The Lost Xuyan Bride” Kristin Mandigma (Philippines)—“Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang” Aleksandar Ziljak (Croatia)—“An Evening In The City Coffehouse, With Lydia On My Mind” Anil Menon (India)—“Into the Night” Melanie Fazi (France, translated by Christopher Priest)—“Elegy” Zoran Zivkovic (Serbia, translated by Alice Copple-Tosic)—“Compartments” “From S.P. Somtow’s World Fantasy Award-winning “The Bird Catcher,” a restrained horror tale of a young boy’s friendship with Thailand’s most infamous human “monster,” to “Wizard World,” Galaxy Award winner Yang Ping’s story of high-tech gamers, this extraordinary anthology of 16 tales introduces English-speaking readers to some of the world’s best writers of sf, horror, fantasy, and metafiction. Contributors include Jamil Nasir (Palestine), Aleksandar Ziljak (Croatia), Guy Hasson (Israel), Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji), and Jetse de Vries (Netherlands). VERDICT This literary window into the international world of imaginative fiction, the first in a new series, is sure to appeal to adventurous sf fans and readers of fiction in translation." —Library Journal, August 2009 “The great thing about Tidhar’s collection is that it is full of such masterpieces. You do have to get used to having your mind warped as if by some powerful psychedelic. You’ll definitely feel that way after Zoran Zivkovic and his Godot-like explorations. Or after Guy Hassan’s thought experiment about the nature of mind and thought. But once you get used to the idea, you can settle in and enjoy the ride.” —42SciFi-Fantasy.com, Randy Lazarus

The Apex Book of World SF

Lavie Tidhar

Short Stories & Anthologies

Sally Ann is a bright and bubbling farm girl, still caught in the thrill of a brand-new husband and a shining future ahead. When a careless exploration leaves her trapped underground, she learns to live again in the absence of everything she once knew. Even driven by love and light, Sally Ann finds the deepest darkness within herself in When Darkness Loves Us. Old Martha Mannes has been a part of Morgan, Illinois since her birth. The whole town knows her as the dim-witted woman who was born without a nose, but Martha's mind wasn't always a blank slate. Unlocking the monster buried deep in her memories may bring back the sparkling child she once was...or it may send those around her crashing down into the nightmares of a little girl gone wrong. A reprinting of Elizabeth Engstrom's first book, this two-novella collection twists together the beauty and horror underlying the seeming simplicity of small town life.

When Darkness Loves Us

Engstrom, Elizabeth

United States

2010 Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction Explore the world of writing horror from a Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild award-winning author's point of view. Gary Braunbeck uses film, fiction and life experience to elucidate the finer points of storytelling, both in and out of genre. This part-autobiographical, always analytical book looks at how stories develop and what makes them work or not work when they're told. Be warned: reality is as brutal as fiction. Rob Zombie, police shootings, William Goldman and human misery are all teachers to the horror neophyte, and Braunbeck uses their lessons to make To Each Their Darkness a whirlwind of horror and hope for the aspiring writer.

To Each Their Darkness

Reference

Braunbeck, Gary A.

Words, Language & Grammar

In the divine struggle between good and evil, humans are hardly noticeable to the mal'akhim, but when an ancient seal is broken on the grounds of a California college campus, beings from dimensions beyond the balance of holy and unholy erupt from the earth. A retired priest and an ailing magickian must trust the mysterious Walker Between the Worlds and his skin-eating demon familiar as they step through Heisenbergian passages of probability and battle forces that are so far beyond demon they cannot be fully seen in earthly dimensions. Amidst the earthquakes and interdimensional intruders, the students and staff of California Hills University step across the boundaries of their knowledge and faith, revealing their true natures as the night erupts in earth and blood.

An Agreement With Hell

Pagliassotti, Dru

In The Apex Book of World SF 2, editor Lavie Tidhar collects short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors from Africa to Latin America. An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist fantasy from Russia and epic fantasy from Poland; near-future tales from Mexico and Finland, as well as cyberpunk from South Africa. In this anthology one gets a glimpse of the complex and fascinating world of genre fiction—from all over our world. Featuring work from noted international authors such as Will Elliot, Hannu Rajaniemi, Shweta Narayan, Lauren Beukes, Ekaterina Sedia, Nnedi Okorafor, and Andrzej Sapkowski. Table of Contents: “Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz “Mr Goop” by Ivor W. Hartmann “Trees of Bone” by Daliso Chaponda “The First Peruvian in Space” by Daniel Salvo (translated by Jose B. Adolph) “Eyes in the Vastness of Forever” by Gustavo Bondoni “The Tomb” by Chen Qiufan (translated by the author) “The Sound of Breaking Glass” by Joyce Chng “A Single Year” by Csilla Kleinheincz (translated by the author) “The Secret Origin of Spin-Man” by Andrew Drilon “Borrowed Time” by Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro (translated by Daniel W. Koon) “Branded” by Lauren Beukes “December 8th” by Raúl Flores (translated by Daniel W. Koon) “Hungry Man” by Will Elliott “Nira and I” by Shweta Narayan “Nothing Happened in 1999” by Fábio Fernandes “Shadow” by Tade Thompson “Shibuya no Love” by Hannu Rajaniemi “Maquech” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia “The Glory of the World” by Sergey Gerasimov “The New Neighbours” by Tim Jones “From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7” by Nnedi Okorafor "The Slows” by Gail Hareven (translated by Yaacov Jeffrey Green) “Zombie Lenin” by Ekaterina Sedia “Electric Sonalika” by Samit Basu “The Malady” by Andrzej Sapkowski (translated by Wiesiek Powaga) “A Life Made Possible Behind The Barricades” by Jacques Barcia

The Apex Book of World SF 2

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