Steeley is a coming of age character study of a fictional young boy, beginning in Missouri in the 1870s. This novel about a young, uneducated boy, having to forage for himself. His Mother died at an early age, leaving Steeley with no father, family, or home. Existing alone prevented Steeley of a home, education and dependent upon others for his existence. Steeley is befriended by a livery stable owner, who aided him with a job, and home in the stable. Robert James Walker, pseudonym is Stee...

Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a #1 New York Times bestseller of murder, love, and above all, bravery.From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written-a novel called Trial.As a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Wash...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeWinner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardFinalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardFinalist for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAn uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of TelephonePercival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a s...

The Complete Collection of Flannery O’Connor: Thirty Short Stories brings together the full breadth of one of America’s most distinctive literary voices. Known for her Southern Gothic style, O’Connor masterfully blends sharp wit, vivid regional detail, and deep moral insight. This volume includes her most celebrated works—such as A Good Man Is Hard to Find, a chilling exploration of grace and violence; Good Country People, a sly dissection of pride and deception; Revelation, a powerful med...

This volume assembles 15 complete novels by Mildred A. Wirt (writing as Mildred Benson). A rival to the Nancy Drew series (and created by one of the primary Nancy Drew writers), Penny is a plucky girl reporter whose nose for trouble always leads to a new mystery. Included in this volume are:DANGER AT THE DRAWBRIDGEBEHIND THE GREEN DOORCLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDERTHE SECRET PACTTHE CLOCK STRIKES THIRTEENTHE WISHING WELLSABOTEURS ON THE RIVER

"An intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties . . . Dot Jackson is a true Southern voice, a master storyteller and an Appalachian treasure" (Dori Sanders, author of Clover and Her Own Place ).Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously packs a suitcase, gathers up her son and daughter, and drives away in her abusive and dissolute husband's brand-...

The legendary gunfighter is out to find an innocent young woman with a bounty on her head in this action Western by the USA Today bestselling author.In Phoenix a sheriff guns down a banker and robs him of a document—the only trouble is, he takes the wrong one. Going to the banker's aid, a young lady hears the dying man's last words and takes hold of the map the sheriff was really after. By the time the crooked lawman realizes his mistake, Jolene Wellington...

Back by popular demand, a supernatural detective story revealing the true account of a house haunted by ghosts lingering after a nineteenth century murder.This true story recounts a Philadelphia family's encounter with a spectral presence in their eighteenth-century mansion. After experiencing footsteps at night, opening doors, strange sounds and activity that centered around the library, the Cameron family investigates, unearthing the mansion's tragic past and cha...

Sharon M. Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” (School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in the face of violent prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan reappears in her segregated southern town.Stella lives in the segregated South—in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can’t. Some folks are ...

The legendary author of The Getaway delivers a suspenseful tale of an ailing woman who awaits her own murder—until she turns the tables on her would-be assassins.Luane Devore's days are numbered. All her neighbors in the declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead. Some, like her young husband Ralph and his girlfriend Danny, want the thousands of dollars she keeps hidden under the mattress she spends her days...

A masterful collection of short fiction from one of America’s greats.The centerpiece of the collection, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” tells the story of a family road trip that takes a dark turn when they cross paths with an escaped murderer. Including other great stories like “A Stroke of Good Fortune” and “A Circle in the Fire,” O’Connor’s gift for mesmerizing prose makes this a must-read.Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-b...

This “deeply sincere and moving” (Chicago Tribune) American classic explores the Nevels family and their quest to preserve their deep-rooted values amidst the turmoil of war and industrialization.When Gertie Nevels, a strong and self-reliant matriarch, follows her husband to Detroit from their countryside home in Kentucky, she learns she will have to fight desperately to keep her family together. A sprawling book full of vividly drawn characters and master...