One starry night the body of young man, still strapped into his airplane seat, falls from the sky into the yard of Harold and Elsie's chicken farm. As the night unfolds, their mysterious guest effects a profound transformation in his hosts. Falling: A Wake is a haunting and surprisingly funny play about love, loss, and the redemptive power of letting go.

The elderly Gidley sisters lead unassuming and unexciting lives in Blyth, Ontario in 1971. Tart-tongued Pearl and the more romantically-minded Edith live frugally, renting a room to the occasional boarder to help make ends meet. But the sisters' orderly life is turned upside-down when their neighbour George asks them to take in Charles, a young American Vietnam veteran.The characters in this beautifully-written, bittersweet comedy gently draw out one another's stories: and along th...

Grieving Biker. Girl Next Door. Healing Love.One impulsive night sparks a love worth fighting for.Jill Jones has good friends, a great job, and a steady rotation of dates. What she doesn’t have is a kinky or wild bone in her body—or so she thinks. Then she meets a handsome, tattooed biker who lights her on fire.Suddenly Jill is saying yes to things she never imagined, starting with one no-strings night in bed.Cole Novak prot...

Retold for Learners of English by Clare WestSherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask.In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help th...

Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home in this charming novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's Mitford series.Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he receives a handwritten note postmarked Holly Springs. Cryptic and unsigned, it says only Come home. These two words compel him to make the most challenging journey...

The hard thing about Night Shift is when you realize werewolves are bad news, but people can be worse.After Night Shift officer Kit Marlow solved the murder of child star Haley Jenkins, he figured he was due a little down time. Maybe even a dinner date with Cade Deacon, the sarcastic security consultant, very good kisser, and werewolf who'd helped with the investigation.That was before someone in a Night Shift uniform drove them both off the road.With the full moon up the o...

Sherlock Holmes undertakes one of the strangest adventures of his career when he agrees to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore, who stepped back into his house to get his umbrella and was never seen again. The great detective’s inquiries take him down a sometimes-false trail from a home in Surrey to a music hall in London and back again before he finds the astonishing answer to this puzzling problem. In “The Problem of Thor Bridge,” Dr. Watson lists this case a...

There’s a new pet in town: Stick Cat!Perfect for fans of the Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Timmy Failure, and Stick Dog books, Stick Cat features Tom Watson’s trademark combination of laughs, adventure, and hilarious stick-figure drawings.It’s a big day in the big city for Stick Cat and his best friend, Edith. There are treasures to hunt, songs to sing, pigeons to catch, and naps to take. But way up on the twenty-third floor, danger lurks just around the corner. Terrible ...

As James Cranage stood on the Clarence Pier at Portsmouth, he noticed a big, heavily-built man grasping a scrap of twisted paper, and looking around him, obviously annoyed and uncertain. Anxious to earn a shilling, Cranage approached him and asked if he could be of any assistance.The stranger started nervously, but after a moment's hesitation he thrust he bit of paper and a sovereign into Cranage's hand, with whispered instructions as to its delivery.From than moment Cranage ...

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the...

In this western from Charles G. West, blood beats all—except justice…Outlaw Roy Blanton’s raised his four boys in the family business since they were half-pints—and they've gotten away with murder. That is, until U.S. Deputy Marshal Casey Dixon had hot-headed Billy, the youngest, hanged for shooting a policeman. Now the Blantons have vengeance on their minds.Old Buck Avery, Dixon’s partner, had been thinking of turning in his badge. And taking down the Blan...

This title, the second of 'The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes' is a short story set in the worlds of Victorian cricketing and bare-knuckle fighting.