Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his mansion in the French hills; a terrible storm forces a man and a woman, who may be his therapist, to flee New York together; the artistic ambitions of a banker are laid bare when he comes und...

"People are bullets, fired," the narrator declares in one of the desperate, eerie stories that make up Greg Jackson's Prodigals. He's fleeing New York, with a woman who may be his therapist, as a storm bears down. Self-knowledge here is no safeguard against self-sabotage. A banker sees his artistic ambitions laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. A midlife divorcée escapes to her seaside cottage only to find a girl living in it. A journalist is either ...

Professor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn’t Suck, proves that while today’s political climate may be dark, these aren’t as unprecedented times as we may think.Our nation’s past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The political gentlemanly conduct of yesteryear is no more than a myth. But that reality never allowed our worst historical selves to defeat our better angels. In Been There, D...

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New YorkerA virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption, by an electrifying debut novelist.When the investigative reporter Quentin Jones’s story about covert military interrogation practices is buried, he is spurred to dig deeper and unravels a trail that leads to VIRTUE: cutting-edge technology that simulates reality during interroga...

The debut novel from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists: a virtuoso, metaphysical thriller and a modern day retelling of The Heart of DarknessWhen reporter Quentin Jones investigates a shadowy military programme during the desert war, he discovers cutting edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation, As the shadowy labyrinth of governmental corruption unfurls and tightens around him, unnerving links to his prot�g� Bruc...

The United States is in a state of organizedchaos. It is a melting pot run by thecorporate-appointed President, Walter Kane.The military has been eradicated, democracyhas been abolished and the citizens are kept in line under the strict word of God.But a revolution has been set in motion with aground-breaking technology eighteen years inthe making, courtesy of Dr. Dana Dalton. She is the head research scientist reporting directly to Preside...

A new town. Strange new neighbors. It seemed like the perfect new start for the Myers family. Until they soon realize that during the month of October, their new neighborhood isn't quite normal. No decorations on the doors, no one walking around on the streets, no jack-o-lanterns or trick-or-treating. It was like everyone was hiding from something terrible and unknown.When twins Chris and Sidney Myers stumble onto the legend that no one dares to speak about, they quickly go from th...

Since her life turned completely upside down, Katie Grey definitely wasn't in the mood for celebrating Christmas. No one around town was, by the looks of it. Between living with a new family in a new town and having to exist with her annoying new brother, Ethan, all Katie wanted was for her life to return to normal. But on one snowy day, Ethan takes pity on her and lets her tag along with him when he goes sledding. When they find Elwin the North Pole Elf rummaging through the frozen woods ...

The Holiday Legends Bundle is a collection of the two children/young adult novels by Greg Jackson. Contained in this bundle is the spooky story, The Legend of Pumpkin Boy and the heartwarming Christmas tale, The Legend of the Christmas Stone. That's two entertaining books in one collection!Book Descriptions:The Legend of Pumpkin Boy:A new town. Strange new neighbors. It seemed like the perfect new start for the Myers family. Until they soon realize that during the mo...

Marty Webber is a man who has lost everything but refuses to let himself be beaten. Living on the streets, working manual labor when he can, he spends his twilight years living day to day to make ends meet. Until he revisits the shelter he's known off and on for over a year, where Marty Webber meets Riley, a young girl who's struggling to make sense of her own life. Broken Doors is a short story about two lost people whose paths intersect in the dreariest of circumstances. Will these two l...

Santa Claus has been institutionalized with multiple personality disorder. With Ol' St. Nick out of the way, Jack Frost has turned the North Pole into a Vegas-style resort, complete with elf escorts.With the help of the Angels who run the North Pole Herald, can two humans return the North Pole to its former glory?Catch the casinos, the racing reindeer with horrible attitudes and even more horrible language, the elves with semi-automatics and yes, there's a healthy dose of N...

New York, 1938. The country is slowly climbing out of the depression and work has never been better for Jack Chambers, a private eye with a scattered past. But when a young socialite hires Jack to find her lost sister, Jack slowly begins his descent into the seedy sides of New York, where even the easiest case can turn into a nightmare.Until Jack has a clandestine meeting with an unsatisfied, curious New Jersey housewife, Elle Parker, an aficionado of Detective stories who has an u...