Bitingduck Press

The dead too have hopes... And among the hopeful dead is Alex Resartus: obtuse professor, obscure novelist, schizophrenic...and vampire. As an obtuse professor, he bewilders and frustrates his bored...

Walter Cronkite --A Ship's Taleby N. Jay Young is "an extraordinary tale from World War II of an extraordinary sailing vessel written by a courageous and extraordinary author." James P. Delgado, Host...

Lori Barrow was a Wunderkind, the youngest person ever to enrol in America's most prestigious science university, the Superior Technological Institute of Pasadena, CA. Now, twenty years later, she's...

Documents the 2016 women-only expedition to Antarctica of seventy-six women, mostly research scientists, who visited two operating research stations as well as an abandoned Argentine/Spanish research...

Admiral Lord Gilbert Anthony and his brother Lieutenant Gabriel Anthony, fighting for the Crown during the American Revolution, find adventure, daring privateers, and a ghost ship. The ghost ship...

A youthful vagrant, Billy Tabbs has been living on the streets for as long as he can remember, scratching out a pitiable existence in a city that doesn't much care if he lives or dies. Amid rumors...

His mom disappeared without a trace. Believing his mom abandoned the family, Steve Best can barely function. School is a failure. Home is a disaster. Even his attempt to save a duck from the school...

A carefully selected and edited compendium of the best of Dr. Mark Crislip (the Puswhisperer)'s blog posts from sciencebasedmedicine.org. The sections have been edited for redundancy, updated for...

"I had a great time reading Flunky ...a good, ribald academic comedy." Tony Award winner Mark Medoff, author of Children of a Lessor God and The Homage. "Money is oil to dignity's water." So muses...

Paul Shreeve is an English professor who gets mistaken for a ghost by his neighbors. Though a man of strict rationality and analysis, he cannot shake his ghostly identity, nor will his neighbors...

In this second exciting adventure of the British Navy in the American Revolution by Michael Aye, the Fighting Anthonys return to wage war against the colonials. This time Gabe is at the center of the...

This book is directed to the parents, teachers, and counselors of preschool children. Integrity, Honesty, Individuality, Self-Confidence, and Wisdom: the ingredients for a successful life begin at a...

A selection of twenty-nine insightful, creative essays, alive with superb and tender detail. Hymns of Home focuses on family and life in a way that references the questions we ask and are asked as...

This is a mystical novel about one man's journey to find himself as he travels with the famous Canadian-Ojibwe artist, Norval Morrisseau. As Morrisseau's secretary and traveling companion, the main...

Have you been dissed by dust? Does the thought of cooking dinner turn your stomach instead of turn you on? Are you uncertain as to which is the functional end of a broom? Have you been told that...

Finding a dead mouse in the lab is not usually such a big deal. But when the lab is a Biosafety Level-3 containment facility designed to keep things in and out, and when the mouse has a brain tumor...

Caleb O'Connor is a werewolf, but he doesn't believe in magic. He breaks out of his reclusive community in Maine to go to MIT, hoping to fit in on a campus where no one believes in monsters. But one...

With quiet surety, Naomi Myles cultivates a contemplative wordscape allowing that " . . . some roots be hidden and some exposed." And in this crafted world we are asked to think of windows framing...

This book is intended for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and non-gay readers. It is divided into three sections: On Being Gay, On Being Politically Correct, and On Being Gay in the Real...

"Prelude to Hemlock" is a black comedy that follows the fortunes of the young narrator, Jeffrey Edwards. A contrarian by nature and libertine by choice, Jeff is charming, caustic, fiercely...

A year in the life of an Oregon Infectious Disease specialist. These essays and anecdotes illustrate nearly all the reasons an Infectious Disease consult is called, from tapeworms and lice to MRSA...

A fifth volume of infectious disease clinical pearls covering the common (influenza, staph) to the rare: rare bacteria in common locations, common bacteria in rare locations, and one-of-a-kind...

A second year of clinical tales from the Puswhisperer, Mark Crislip, an infectious disease specialist from Portland, OR. Dr. Crislip kills strep and staph, fights flu, and is always on the lookout...

An entirely new compendium of clinical tales from Mark Crislip, MD, the "Puswhisperer." As in his previous collections, Puswhisperer I and II, Puswhisperer III provides clinical gems from a...

In his 30 years of practice he's seen rare bacteria, common bacteria, common bacteria in rare places, complications you can't name, and stories that will make you scrub your hands until they're raw...

SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they ve always wanted or what they ve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to...

From North Dakota, where "emptiness / takes up a lot / of space," to Alabama, where a mother offers "nothing / Less than plenty," David Starkey's poems mark him as nothing less than a "fool / For...

New research indicates that microbiota make us who we are. The skin's ecosystem is inhabited by diverse microorganisms, most of which are harmless or even beneficial. A few are pathogenic and play a...

This IS the CLASSIC! If you are a Star Trek addict, this is the book for YOU! The author has dedicated hundreds of hours watching episode after episode, over and over again - at regular speed, in...

With more of her life behind her than ahead, Margaret Braverman, a physicist teaching at a small college, cannot help but regret the things she never quite got right. Most important among them was...