An award-winning collection of short fiction from one of "the strongest American writers of his generation" (The Washington Post Book World). Proclaimed "a master" by the New York Times and selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, Stewart O'Nan started his literary career with this outstanding collection of short stories. Selected as the winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, this volume features twelve journeys into the lives and souls of a broad range of characters—including a ruined farmer, a black day laborer, an old Chinese grocer, and a young policeman who has become separated from his family and is descending into madness. Intimate and generous, these stories illuminate the connections that bind us and the obligations and sorrows of love. From The Speed Queen to Names of the Dead to West of Sunset, O'Nan has dazzled readers again and again. Fans...

Many little girls are sure to relate to Karen's excitement when she is asked to be a flower girl in Ms. Coleman's wedding.

With a New Introduction by Edwidge DanticatMe Dying Trial, Patricia Powell's masterful debut novel, establishes her as a major voice in Caribbean literature. Gwennie Augusta Glaspole, a schoolteacher, is trapped in an unhappy marriage and quickly saddled with six children. Gwennie resists Jamaican cultural expectations of playing dutiful wife and mother, struggling in a loveless, often abusive relationship, she eventually relocates to Connecticut. Dealing with issues of religion, sexuality, immigration, domestic violence, and gender inequality, Powell has proven to be "a Generation-X vanguard for the Caribbean literary world" (Boston Magazine), and much more.

Nestor and Nathan Kiklu are the twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope. United by blood, they also share some of their father's awesome powers--but what they do with those gifts cannot be more different! Nathan takes up the struggle against the metamorphic vampires, while Nestor, fascinated by the vampires' eerie evil, has become his twin's worst nightmare: a Wamphyri Lord! Harry Keogh's sons have become the bitterest of enemies, each determined to destroy the other. When next they meet, one will surely die!

The dish was cost free, fat free, and fabulously yummy. Of course, some said you had to be bugs to try it, but one taste made you a believer. The trouble was, believers began turning into corpses. That's when Remo and Chiun came in to hunt down the evil ingredients in the murderous munchies . . . only to run up against a U.S. Senator.

It is ten years after the end of the Second World War, and Mary Alderbrook – known to family and friends as Ming – feels life is passing her by. Though her sisters are all happily married and settled, Ming shies away from commitment and the attentions of Mark Sudley make her feel uneasy. Is it friendship she wants from him – or something deeper? When her friend Connie Wroughton offers Ming the chance to write for her new magazine, she gladly accepts, discovering a true flair for writing. But before she knows it, trouble is stalking her again – anonymous, threatening letters arrive – and Ming knows she must finally face up to tests that will change her life. This is the third in the compelling The Threaded Dances series following the Alderbrook sisters through love and marriage, tragedy and hope. Continue reading the sisters' story in The Tightrope Walkers.

Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, he seeks solace in the arms of Bianca, a qualified hydraulic engineer masquerading as a waitress. Between his dishwashing job and completing his epic novel, 'Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland', Adrian hopes that fame and fortune will not keep him waiting much longer.

All the money in the world can't move Texas and Toronto closer together . . . Gemma spends her days shopping for the rich and not-so famous. And she's good at making people's dreams a reality. But a chance encounter with a charming stranger transforms her life into a fairy tale . . . but with one small problem.Antoine is only in Texas for a short visit. After wrapping up a business deal, he is supposed to fly back to Canada. But the beautiful brunette has him rearranging his schedule and changing travel plans.Flying his private jet back and forth between countries is only a short-term solution.He has a business in Canada to run. Is love enough of a reason for her to leave Texas? Previously published as Surprised by the Billionaire by Remi Carrington

The changing face of hate is on your doorstep...Matt Browning, an undercover detective in Arizona, thought he knew what hate looked like; that is, until he got a front row seat to White supremacy. What followed was a career of hardship and danger, and what he uncovered can no longer go left untold.For more than twenty-five years, Browning has been infiltrating, documenting, and disrupting white supremacy movements from the inside, gaining an intimate vantage point to the KKK, skinheads, border militias, Proud Boys, and other White Power groups, as they organized and grew, their ranks alarmingly including police force and military veterans. Together with his intrepid wife, Tawni, he adopted fake IDs and ideologies, seeking the arrest of its participants—none more so than J.T. Ready, a neo-Nazi who took "hunting trips" for border migrants while gaining mainstream acceptance as a political candidate—and terrorizing Browning's family. What others...

In a novel based on the life of the larger-than-life father of Texas, Sam Houston leads his ragtag army on a mission of vengeance against Santa Anna, the Scourge of the Alamo. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

One experience. That's all it took for Z'Shawn Okawmmay's heart to turn from hot to cold. He went from the sweetest man to the evilest. Honest and trustworthy to one of the worst liars you'd ever meet. Now he's out for revenge against the two people who betrayed him.Allyanna Ve'Sinty didn't grow up with the perfect life many believed she did because of her last name. The hardships of having to survive along with her older sister Tanessa have been anything but easy. When she's arrested for a crime she didn't commit, Allyanna takes matters into her own hands to defend her sister and prove her innocence. With limited money and resources, she makes a choice to do something she never thought she'd do. Follow a group of escorts to a mansion for money.It's a hard life to live being a sex worker. You choose the life, it didn't choose you. You pick your poison and deal with the consequences of your choices. But,...

Karen and her friends start their own neighborhood newspaper, but they learn about ethics in journalism after printing secrets about their neighbors and upsetting everyone.