There's no place quite like Maine. It's Vacationland. The birthplace of L.L. Bean and the whoopie pie. Maine's landscape encompasses mountains, forests, beaches, islands, and even a desert! The winters are long and brutal, and the summers are plagued by black flies, venomous caterpillars, and tourists. But despite these challenges, and in part because of them, the people who call Maine home are some of the most generous, hard-working folks you'll ever meet. They never fail to show up (even...

The Stones of Riverton is a collection of linked short stories and novelettes inspired by the gravestones in a small Maine town. The stories are bound together by place and ancestry spanning over 200 hundred years. They un-bury an often shameful history of unexplained deaths and deeply held secrets in a town that is divided both economically and culturally. While fictional, the stories are grounded in the lore, rumors, and fables that were told to the author by parents, grandparents, and l...

Remember all those camping trips in the woods? Sitting by the bonfire, trying to out-scare your friends with creepy stories and other tales?Let Campfire Tales inspire a few tales ofyour own for your next camping trip.

Remember all those camping trips in the woods? Sitting by the bonfire, trying to out-scare your friends with creepy stories and other tales?Let Campfire Tales inspire a few tales of your own for your next camping trip.Featured Contributors:Adam Carter, Brian Devitt, Theresa Duck, Dan Fields, Senor German, D. R. Leo, Taylor Rigsby, Mary Serenc, D. L. Sloat, and Clif Travers

The idea was simple: tell the scariest story you can, in less than 1,000 words. It sounds easy, but it isn't. A thousand words sounds like a lot until you start writing. In this collection, a wide variety of writers—some professional, many previously unpublished—try their hand at the tricky balance of suspense and brevity. Including stories by: Patricia Abbott • Joel Allegretti • Anthony Ambrogio • Chuck Augello • A.J. Barry • Jenny Bulmanski • Beth Lynn Clegg • Michael R. Colangelo • Alys...

A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyHailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders gives us, in...

As Honey Jane Moon the most famous child star in America grows into a woman she changes the destinies of Dash Coogan the last cowboy hero and Eric Dillon Hollywood's dark seductive bad boy.

*Why did the chicken cross the road?Knock, knock. Who's there?What do you get when you...?*As kids guess the answers, they're sure to get the giggles! With this book, little ones will look forward to sharing the jokes with parents, teachers, and siblings--and even coming up with some variations of their own! In addition to hundreds of rib-tickling jokes, readers will love:Head-scratching brain teasersFunny knock-knock jokesHysterica...

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years."Juliann Garey writes with stark, lucid power about the tumbling journey into madness and the agonizing climb back out."--Brian Yorkey, book and lyrics for Next to NormalIn her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul ...

The "hilarious" (New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories from the award-winning humorist Simon Rich includes the story that inspired the Seth Rogen comedy An American Pickle.Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price.From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimm...

Saturated in Southern ambiance and written in the vein of other literary bestsellers like Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Julie Cantrell’s New York Times bestselling Into the Free that will sweep you away long after the novel ends.In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a “nothing mama,” she struggles...

The acclaimed author "assembles a stellar collection of twenty stories that create their own worlds in twenty pages or less" ( USA Today ).Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction."In Nathan Englander s What We ...