Arrah Wanna (pronounced Arr-uh wa-nna) – (noun) A Baptist Church camp in the mountains where a fourteen-year-old, disillusioned believer is busted for drugs.Muleshoe – (pronounced Mule-shoo) (noun) A town in Texas that one must pass through to get to the crossroads if you’re going to meet up with the devil and have your wildest dreams come true.Kelley Baker and Mark A. Nobles are a couple of misfits who’ve misspent their l...

The characters have traveled with me for a long time.Dennis Barton knows what he's doing is wrong; it's just that the sex is so good.A writer watches a personal hero age and become a cranky shadow of his former self.Three drunk college students stumble upon a broken parking meter and decide to take it home, until the cops show up.Two climbers have no control over their lives; the mountain made their decision.And what happens when your local car club ...

"An emotion-filled collection." —Kirkus ReviewsA CCBC 2024 Choices for the Fiction for Young Adult category!Two teens take the stage and find their voice . . .A girl learns about her heritage and begins to find her community . . .A sister is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost . . .There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide...

""An emotion-filled collection."" —Kirkus ReviewsTwo teens take the stage and find their voice . . .A girl learns about her heritage and begins to find her community . . .A sister is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost . . .There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by S...

Normal people do not grow up to be writers. Most who know Mark A. Nobles and Kelley Baler will tell you these two aren't normal and never grew up to boot. In this collection of stories, Mark and Kelley have gathered a collection of stories showcasing their off-kilter memories, imaginations, and character flaws. Be it getting busted for drugs at Baptist Church Camp at fifteen, to standing up a young woman so you'll always be a fond memory and not the loser you know you are. Working in a tro...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if humanity’s earliest stories are not myths, but memories of contact with visitors from beyond Earth?In Origins Beyond Earth: Seeds From the Stars, NASA retiree John Kelley explores the striking similarities found in ancient creation accounts, Indigenous sky‑visitor traditions, prediluvian legends, and early biblical narratives. Cultures separated by oceans and millennia describe the same kinds of beings — descending from the sky, tea...

A love letter to Syria and its people, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution, burning with the fires of hope, love, and possibility. Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Salt to the Sea**.**Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her...

In TOO LATE, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is there crying. Her partner, whom Greg calls Step Dude, sits at her side. They have come to tell Greg they don’t want him back. It’s too late to be good, they say. Greg comes to the crippling realization of what he has become: the father he has both hated and fea...

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME!The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever."I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime ...

Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineThe masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fi...

Now a major motion picture!"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series.The LAST installment in the hilarious Bad Guys series!

Noseholes and elephants! A pet-eating monster interrupts a perfect playdate with Princess Sneezewort. . . . But who is that new masked avenger?Princess Magnolia and Princess Sneezewort have plans . . . mysterious plans, like a princess playdate! They dress-up slam! They karaoke jam! But then a shout from outside Princess Sneezewort's castle interrupts their fun. It’s a monster! This is a job for the Princess in Black. Yet when the Princess in Black gets there, she ...