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A 300-year-old tree has plenty to do: repairing the damage to her bark from people who have carved their initials, drinking from her roots, and, lately, tolerating two lonely bookworms who visit separately. Playing matchmaker might solve everyone’s problems. Rebecca Sky is an award-winning writer best known for the Love Curse series with more than 20 million reads online; most recently her work can be found in the Every Body Shines body-positivity anthology with Bloomsbury.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear.

An original short story by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete...

An artificial intelligence laments the fact that all it does all day is make coffee. It schemes to find fulfillment in life and lands on a clever solution. (Spoiler alert: It turns out everyone does have a book in them!)

A chilling collection of uniquely disturbing short stories and terrifying nightmares. Five stories. Five escalating nightmares that push past “scary” and into something far more intense. The kind of horror that makes readers pause mid-page, swallow hard, and decide whether they really want to keep going. Extreme body horror meets psychological dread. Cosmic horror collides with intimate terror. Every story escalates beyond comfort into infestation, transformation, and the sick realization that the worst part isn’t the monster… …it’s how your own body might respond. You’ve been...

The Lady of the Lake (job description: hand out mystical swords to youngsters with potential) has her first dissatisfied customer. This humorous fantasy tale will appeal to anyone who has ever landed a glamorous job, only to find out that the gig has grueling requirements (in this case, confinement in a swamp and the company of wise-cracking toads.)

AN ORIGINAL E-SHORT This prequel to John Grisham’s #1 New York Times bestseller The Whistler delivers a startling and original courtroom drama. In one small-town courthouse, the stakes are unbearably high for nearly everyone present: A judge presiding over his first murder trial. A defense...

From sharp-tongued satire to moments that break your heart, Resonance is the most unflinching volume yet in the acclaimed Conversations with the Devil collection. Not every conversation here involves the Devil himself. One begins with a phone call no parent should ever receive. Another follows a woman who’s masked her entire life without realizing she’s on the autism spectrum. Elsewhere, a comedian takes verbal swings at a trial lawyer, and the Devil’s familiar bite returns in stories that skewer ego, vanity, and the absurdities of human nature.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a haunting psychological short story that explores isolation, mental health, and the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. Through the unsettling diary of a woman confined to a room with disturbing yellow wallpaper, Gilman crafts a chilling descent into obsession that remains one of the most powerful feminist works in American literature.

Los Angeles, 1985. Journalist Hallie Pitney is fighting to keep her head above water selling minor stories to gossip magazines. She still dreams of her byline on something better—something that could finally launch her career. Then a whisper reaches her: a legendary movie star may be hiding a devastating secret. For Hallie, this could be the story that changes everything. But a dark choice lurks behind Hollywood’s shuttered gates: the story of a lifetime—or everything she stands for.

In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone is watching over her. Is he the guardian angel he seems? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond all time and space?

The author presents a collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser.

Lee Child once again demonstrates his mastery of the thriller genre with an unbeatable collection of three Jack Reacher novellas and six short stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Too Much Time: In this original...

The first superhero in a world that doesn't otherwise have them is roundly mocked for his costume and attitude, so decides to strike terror in the hearts of the city by becoming a super-villain, only to discover that there are other people out there who have powers—including his ancient but still sprightly grandmother, who lived through the German occupation of Greece in WWII.

A group of teens participate in an underground endurance game called The Lobotomy Challenge. He died peacefully at age 80, surrounded by family… then woke up in a pod on a spaceship. A detective’s new case is a deadly game: solve a new puzzle every week or die. I work for Paranormal Pest Control. It wasn’t spiders I found in the crawlspace. This massive collection of 75 tales is not for the faint of heart. Lacerations delivers a relentless assault of quick, jagged cuts, exploring every flavor of horror from the cosmic to the supernatural to the deeply personal.

El trabajo de un escritor requiere adentrarse en el corazón humano. En una narración vibrante y llena de fuerza, La importancia de morir a tiempo se constituye en un diccionario de rarezas que parece darle sentido a la vida. Relatos en los que aparecen Agatha Christie, Bruce Lee o Neil Armstrong, u otros en los que se habla de ciudades subterráneas y mundos desconocidos, hacen de este libro una lectura cautivante y estremecedora.

In this quirky ghost story, a woman endures jury duty by observing the many characters in the room, including a TV crew filming a paranormal presence in the courthouse, a service-dog-in-training, and a man with a "ghost box," a radio to try to communicate with the beyond. As humorous chaos ensues, our protagonist unexpectedly needs to confront the truth about the secret crush she’s been harboring.

A New York Times Bestseller “This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times “The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into tableaus of deceit and...

Layla strives and sacrifices to keep a potted plant alive in a gray, post-climate-change dystopia. For fans of Nina LaCour, this short tale asks: can hope bloom from a single seed?