It isn't always the hero that saves the day. Sometimes, the lowly assistant comes through. The Sidekick. That one person on the edge of the spotlight, stepping up and making a difference.Thrill Ride Magazine is an ongoing themed anthology of action-adventure fiction, where the stakes are high and the pay-offs are even higher.

The Man (or Woman) Undercover. For Queen and Country. For the Stars and Stripes. Descending into the shadows with other spies to duel for the future of the Free World.Violence and danger are never far away.Thrill Ride Magazine is an ongoing themed anthology of action-adventure fiction, where the stakes are high and the pay-offs are even higher.

The rules for law and order create boundaries for civil co-existence. Ideally, the rule of law provides the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem.For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Anything but M...

The rules for law and order create boundaries for civil co-existence.Ideally, the rule of law provides the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem.For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Anythin...

Cat Burglar? Gentleman Thief? What happens when a stranger comes in through the window? What trouble will chase her back out afterwards?Find out when folks tackle those secrets in the night.

Professional killers for hire. Do you need evil done, or justice? Did you hire one, or turn yourself into one when nobody was looking?What lurks in the darkness?

Behind the Shadows IV is a horror anthology writen by Robert J. Binney, Laura J. Campbell, Darren Lipman, Helen Mihajlovic, A.R.R. Ash, Jezza Deep, John Grover, Marcin Bartosz Łukasiewicz, Alex Tucker, David O'Mahony, Mike Rusetsky, H.K. Slade, Judith Pancoast, Corrie Haldane, Joe Kilgore, David Horn, C.A. Verstraete, Diane Arrelle, Mike Sherer, Laura Stone, and interior art by Vekhan Sametyaza

Chicken Soup for the Soul’s first-ever humor collection, and the timing is perfect. This is storytelling at its funniest.If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is your prescription. Turn off the news and spend a few days not following current events. Instead, return to the basics—humanity’s ability to laugh at itself.Maybe you should even do a news cleanse for a few days! Hide under the covers and read these stories instead. Or read a chapter a da...

This collection of laugh-out-loud jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life-drawn from Reader's Digest magazine's most popular humor columns-is sure to tickle the funny bone. Packed with more than 1,000 jokes, anecdotes, cartoons, quotes, and stories contributed by professional comedians, joke writers, and readers of the magazine, this side-splitting compilation pokes fun at the facts and foibles of daily routines, illustrating that life is often funnier than fict...

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge),' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and Joe R. Lansdale's 'The Skull Collector,' a gangster yarn featuring gun-toting female grave robbers. Overshadowing everything, though, is Lee Goldberg's 'Lost Shows,' a delightful shocker about a fanatical collector of short-lived and unaired TV shows who has t...

A collection of crowd-sourced quips and quotes from real-life dads—from the profound to the hilarious.The author of Like My Mother Always Said . . . presents a new volume that focuses on fatherly advice—gathered from contributors around the world. Dads may come from different places and have wildly varying personalities, but sometimes their wisdom is universal. Other times, it's just plain bizarre . . ."You can have as much freedom as you can p...

The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with 32 original tales in the Agatha Christie tradition—this time featuring new takes on the traditional mystery. Incuded are works by:Zara Altair, Anne Louise Bannon, Chris Chan, M.M. Chouinard, Jennifer Chow, Sherry Clitheroe, Sharon Love Cook, Susan Daly, Tina deBellegarde, Karen Dent, Carolyn Eichhorn, Eve Elliot, Maurice Givens, Kerry Hammond, Madeleine Harris-Callway, Lawrence Kelter, James L’Etoile,Jean Macaluso, Michael Allan Mal...