Alison Goodman's first novel - in a very special new edition! Seventeen-year-old Joss is a rebel, and a student of time travel at the prestigious Centre for Neo-Historical Studies. This year, for the first time, the Centre has an alien student: Mavkel, from the planet Choria. And Mavkel has chosen Joss, of all people, as his roommate and study partner. Then Mavkel gets sick. Joss quickly realizes that his will to live is draining away. The only way she can help Mavkel is by breaking the Centre's strictest rules - and that means going back in time to change history. This new Firebird edition of Alison Goodman's acclaimed first genre-bending adventure features a short story about Joss and Mav's after-book adventures, originally published in Firebirds Rising.

Poetry. Garrett Lambrev's long-awaited masterpiece, DOGSTAR AND POEMS FROM OTHER PLANETS, invites you to twist the boundaries of your own doors of perception. Garrett Lambrev was the first person to meet Jim Jones and join Peoples Temple after the exodus from Indiana to the west coast. A recent dropout from a doctoral program in history at Stanford and seasoned peace activist, he thought he had found in Peoples Temple the realization of all his dreams. His passage through Peoples Temple was stormy, but he didn't finally cut the umbilical cord until apprised of what he still considers "torture" in the summer of 1976. Today he's a semiretired public librarian, living in Oaktown, California, who operates an online used book business through Amazon Marketplace.

After docking in Juneau during a cruise to Alaska with his parents following the loss of his dog Buddy, Jeff finds a statue of a dog who met the ships during the 1930s, follows a dog who resembles Buddy, and is brought back in time sixty years for an adventure involving counterfeit money, sunken ships, and a lost treasure.

A city divided. A killer on the streets. A past that refuses to be forgotten.