What if the oldest trees on Earth could teach us about the deepest kind of friendship?High atop the ancient mountain peaks, a tiny bristlecone pine named Bristle dreams of sunlight, growth-and companionship. For 40 years, she waits in silence, until one day a clever and loyal Clark's nutcracker jay named Clarky tumbles into her rocky alcove, and everything changes.Through the seasons, the unlikely friendship between a young tree destined to live for millennia and a bird wit...

Here at Jersey Devil Press, there are three things we look for in a story: strangeness, beauty, and poop jokes. And while this collection is admittedly a little shy on scatological humor, the 18 works collected here are easily the strangest and most beautiful things we've ever published.The 2015 Jersey Devil Press Anthology contains the best work from our last five years, written by some of our favorite authors. We love them in a way we're not entirely comfortable with.And ...

During the time of the draft imposed after the Korean War, Pete and Suzanne met each other and fell in love. Pete wanted to serve a mission for his church before marriage but couldn't apply because the government's quota had already been met in the local congregation. The couple decided to get married before Pete went off to boot camp. A week before the marriage, an unexpected offer to serve a mission came. The couple counseled with church leaders and then under their guidance proceeded wi...

It's 1984. Winston Smith lives alone in London. He is a secret rebel plotting his escape from the Party: the deadly dictatorship led by Big Brother. Winston dreams of finding freedom, love and peace: everything that is outlawed. His act of defiance will get him killed - but his courage is unshaken. He risks everything in his desperate search for truth and humanity as he once knew them. The story of Winston's rebellion, and his need to love others, reveals the strength of the human spirit a...

Anna Lea Merritt, American Pre-Raphaelite painter, stayed in England painting after the death of her husband. This is a series of essays about her life in the country.

‘The Story Girl’ is a 1911 novel by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942). The book relates the adventures of a group of young people in the town of Carlisle on Canada’s Prince Edward Island. The story girl of the title is the fourteen year old Sara Stanley who weaves spellbinding tales that enchant her audience that comes from near and far. These thirty-two stories range from the humorous and satirical to exotic romances, Scottish folk tales, retellings of Greek myths and p...

Countess Elizabeth Bathory has power and wealth running through her veins. She rules her vast estates with an iron fist and fierce intelligence, protecting her family and the people who depend on her. She is devout in her faith and even tends to the sick herself. But rumours are spreading... and bodies are mounting up. Why do young servant girls die wherever the Countess goes? Is she a witch? Is she cursed? No one has seen anything with their own eyes, but tales of cruelty and murder persi...

This powerful political allegory by George Orwell begins on a small farm where overworked animals rise up against their human owner, driven by dreams of freedom, equality, and a life without cruelty or exploitation. United by hope and the promise of shared power, they overthrow their master and set out to build a new society based on fairness, cooperation, and justice. At first, the dream feels real—work is shared, food is divided more evenly, and the future seems bright with possibility a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a timeless tale of love, wealth, and the American Dream, set in the opulent world of the Roaring Twenties. The story is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to West Egg, Long Island, and becomes entangled in the lavish yet mysterious life of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby—a wealthy an...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a landmark of dystopian fiction and one of the most influential science fiction novels ever written. In a future society built on genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, endless consumption, and artificial happiness, stability is valued above freedom. Human beings are designed before birth, assigned to rigid social classes, and trained to accept their place without question. Pain, loneliness, and independent thought have been replaced by enterta...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir from the author of The Middle Place about mothers and daughters—a bond that can be nourishing, exasperating, and occasionally divine.When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue.” This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom—with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism—would be nothing more than...

An Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerA Goop Book Club Pick"If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."—Joanna Goddard, Cup of JoA stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend."When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed." So ends Kate Baer’s remarka...