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In January 1958, nineteen-year-old garbage collector named Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, embarked on a brutal nine-day murder spree across Nebraska that left eleven people dead and shocked a nation.In Starkweather Dreams, acclaimed poet and novelist Christopher Conlon (Midnight on Mourn Street, Mary Falls) turns his singular literary eye to these short, violent lives. Forgoing simple sensationalism, Conlon weaves a devastatingly intimate tapestry of the quiet desperation, poverty, and isolation that drove two ordinary teenagers to turn savage in the middle of America.Moving between tender vulnerability and terrifying brutality, this masterful collection of "e;true crime"e; poetry explores the complex psychological landscape of a doomed romance on the run. Haunting, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest, Starkweather Dreams forces us to confront the human faces behind the headlines—and the tragic reality of a dark American myth.

Reed Waters is a quiet man. He has to be, because he is a man with secrets. One rain-drenched night a stranger steps into his life-Mauri Dyson, a teenage runaway who is as explosive and unpredictable as Reed is cautious and discreet. And yet she holds secrets, too. Secrets that will change both their lives forever. Adapted from the acclaimed novel, MOURN STREET is a searing theatrical experience.

On the surface, Frances Pastan is a successful, celebrated, award-winning creator of children's books. But beneath the accolades, she is drowning in alcoholism, alienated from her daughter, and completely paralyzed by decades of repressed trauma. Desperate for closure, Frances steps off her promotional tour and returns to Quiet, California, the small town she left thirty years ago. There, alternating between the fragile present and the memories of her past, she must confront the ghost that fractured her life: the brutal, long-ago murder of her childhood best friend, the fierce and brash Lucy Sparrow. Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, A Matrix of Angels is a harrowing, beautifully evocative elegy of love, loss, and the devastating architecture of memory.

Reed Waters is the sort of middle-aged man few people notice. He's quiet, polite, solitary. He doesn't call attention to himself. Ever.Reed Waters has a secret.Mauri Dyson is a teenaged runaway, impetuous and explosive. She lies, she steals, she prostitutes herself. Whatever it takes to survive.Mauri Dyson, too, has a secret.When Mauri bursts into Reed's life one rain-soaked night she sets in motion a series of events that will spiral out of control, taking the two of them through tears and terror to the brink of madness ... and a confrontation that will change them both forever.William F. Nolan calls Christopher Conlon "e;a modern master."e; George Clayton Johnson refers to him as "e;a consummate literary artist."e; Read Conlon's stunning debut novel, MIDNIGHT ON MOURN STREET, and find out why.