Bøger af Bruce McCandless

12-year-old Beatrice McIlvaine has a problem. It's not sixth grade math. It doesn't involve boys. This problem is bigger than that, and it has a nasty bite. As Beatrice steels herself to fight a threat to the precarious existence she leads with her single mother and a troubled little brother, she finds she's not alone after all. A modern parable about love, family, and killing giant flying reptiles, Beatrice and the Basilisk is short (8,000 words) but not entirely sweet. There's a lesson in there somewhere. If you can see through the dismal night sky, and beyond those dangerous teeth...BOOK ONE OF THE BEATRICE MCILVAINE ADVENTURE SERIES. BOOK TWO, BEATRICE AT BAY, IS AVAILABLE NOW!

It's 1911. Someone, or something, is leaving the good citizens of East Texas's Ochiltree County savagely mutilated and drained of blood. Slow-talking Sheriff Reeves Duncan needs to put an end to the murders, and soon. But it won't be easy. This is the Big Thicket, dark and brooding, haunted by racial tensions and economic despair. Fortunately, Sheriff Duncan can count on the assistance of an undersized but tough-as-rawhide Texas Ranger, two physicians, a mechanical wunderkind, and a soft-spoken idiot savant who knows the sloughs and baygalls of the Thicket like his own backyard. This league of unimpressive gentlemen is about to be tested by the cunning and ferocity of an enemy that walks by night--and the tentacles of a desperate sectarian plot that threatens the very survival of the human race. Cover design by Shaun Venish.

These poems meet us where we are in the realm of the familiar world and then transport us into a space of emotional suspension. It's as though we're levitating. The poem ends, and we're still held midair. I love it when poems force us to reckon with gravity in this way.Katelin Kelly, Poet and Programs Manager, Austin Public Library FoundationAll of This Is Ours is not a long book, but it covers a wide range of emotion, human experience, and thoughtful reflection, with a certain subtle elegance of language that brings the reader directly into the emotional experience. Bruce McCandless III keeps his emotions just under the surface of the poem, not expressing them directly to the reader but showing the sensations, the actions, and the movements associated with those emotions, drawing the reader in and giving us a sense of sharing the feeling itself. Because the author does not speak too directly about his emotions, but lets the sensations permeate the poems instead, we can feel with him the aching desire to pull into oneself after a breakup in "Aversion," or the odd combination of intimacy and strangeness in "The Hook-Up," or the combination of devoted love and fear of loss that is parenthood in "Ghosts." All of This Is Ours is a wry, tender set of poems on an array of topics, written with an appealing subtlety and a gift for the rhythms of the English language.Indie ReaderIn All of This Is Ours, Bruce McCandless III is at his intellectual best, the fierce power of his wit shining through in funny yet terrifying poems as he confronts his own masculinity and thirst for competition. The poet works with equal ease in form and free verse and ends with tender homilies, in which his daughter figures prominently: "[w]alking back / through stars as / thick as snow.... she says all of this is ours."Robin Scofield, Author of Flow, Southwest Book of the Year

"Sometimes the enemy walks among us. An ancient curse. An army of the dead. A vengeful spirit that has walked the world since before the time of man. They all come together in Libya in 1805, when a makeshift army of foreign mercenaries and U.S. Marines sets off across North Africa to rescue three hundred American sailors imprisoned by the King of Tripoli. In this haunted land, the Realm of the Hidden, the expedition is soon beset by a series of brutal and mysterious murders -- at first apparently random, but becoming progressively more purposeful and troubling. Private Lemuel Sweet, a young New Englander, chronicles the hardships he and his companions endure on their march west over the sands of the Sahara. Looming ahead of them is the threat of combat in a hostile nation. But worse is the creeping suspicion Sweet feels that one of the men leading the expedition is not what he pretends to be, and that supernatural forces are at work that could mean death for him and his fellow Marines before a single shot is fired. Death...or worse."--