Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire towns.April 27, 2011 was the climax of a three-day superstorm that unleashed terror from Arkansas to New York. Entire communities were flattened, whole neighborhood...

**Paced like a thriller and full of insider information, this book embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation—the kidnapping of Polly Klaas."Riveting … reported with empathy and Cross’s signature combination of unflinching detail and gut-punching revelations." ―Beth Macy author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus**On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, duri...

**Paced like a thriller and full of insider information, this book embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation—the kidnapping of Polly Klaas."Riveting … reported with empathy and Cross’s signature combination of unflinching detail and gut-punching revelations." ―Beth Macy author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus**On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, duri...

Kim and Jessie are living worlds apart, literally and figuratively, and trying to keep their marriage alive across the distances. But chance and circumstance align to present Kim with temptation after temptation, and Jessie discovers that risks and rewards don’t have to be exclusive. In this first story of the series, Kim discovers her alter-ego, and Jessie discovers the allure of jealousy. Kim crosses the line in their marriage... but getting there is more than half the fun.

In the sequel to Kim Crosses The Line, Kim allows her alter-ego Jade to take her extra-marital activities to new places. Jade gets everything – and everyone - she wants, and Jessie gets more than he bargained for. Is it too much for their marriage, or just what they needed?

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories.Thr...

Issue #30 is our "Wanderlust" issue, with meditations on the joys of wandering, and traveling caravans, and boho style... not to mention springtime haikus from Charles de Lint, the fairy tale photography of Irina Dzhul, original fiction from Timothy Schaffert, interviews with Helen Oyeyemi and Lesley M.M. Blume, the fairy tale cottages of Carmel-by-the Sea ... and all kinds of springtime delights!

Protect the Crossing. Protect the town. Protect her heart.Two years ago, Joelle arrived in Mullarkey Mills chasing answers and ghosts. Deep in the forest, she found a crumbling, long-forgotten inn—and a sense of belonging she never expected. Now Cedar Grove Inn is her home, her purpose, and her secret. Because hidden on its grounds lies the Hallow Crossing, a rare and dangerous threshold between the mortal world and the fae.Keeping the crossing safe is a fu...

Their engagement is pretendCupid has other plans…Wedding planner Mariah Van Delton has a plan to save the charming small town of Carter’s Crossing—by turning it into a romance destination! All Mariah needs is a very public Valentine’s Day proposal. And her only option? A fake one between her and the handsome town veterinarian and wedding hater, Nelson Carter. But a little charade between adversaries might just be the start of something undeniably real…

Elliot har börjat åka cross på Tunbacka MK, klubben han lämnade ett år tidigare efter ett bråk med en annan kille. Klubben är full av spännande aktiviteter och nya ansikten, men Elliot är orolig. Kommer han att platsa bland alla andra jämnåriga som har bättre cyklar och större motocross-erfarenhet än han själv? Och hur ska han hantera skolan som alltid har strulat för honom?Andra delen i serien om den impulsive Elliot som älskar motocross och kämpar för att få skolan och vardag...

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.With explosive new research and access to never-before-seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia’s secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments. Australia did nothing to stop Indonesia’s devastating occupation of East Timor, when – on our doorstep – 200,000 lives were lost from a population of 650,000. Instead, ou...

Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea offers a rich, interdisciplinary examination of the evolving relationships between Korea and Germany, illuminating a dynamic yet often overlooked field of study.Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the volume traces how migration, cultural exchange, and intellectual transfer have produced layered and shifting forms of connection between the two contexts.Across three th...