The inaugural collection in the new VERVE Voices series, Queerphoria is a joyful and defiant queer-authored anthology proudly supporting Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ support line**.**Four housemates welcome the reader into their home for a birthday party. An elderly widow visits her first queer bar, beneath the flat she shared with her husband. A couple invite a shipwrecked sailor into their isolated lighthouse on th...

Short, sometimes sweet and often strange, here are seven great stories by some of the best writers from around the world...Anne EnrightYoko OgawaDavid SzalayNadifa MohamedAndrey KurkovYael van der Woudenand Roddy DoyleThe Booker Prizes celebrate the world’s best fiction. In this book, Roddy Doyle, who won in 1993, has chosen a range of brilliant stories written by other winners and nominees. Discover short stories t...

Calling Out Around the World......Are you ready for some brand new reads?Well Crimeucopia's here with a bundle of new, up-coming and emerging writers, all giving you fresh and different voices to help make this the perfect bookshelf must-have.And while crime fiction is a fairly universal genre, the interpretation, motivation, atmosphere and recounting will always change, depending on the authors.This Crimeucopia anthology contains an engaging carnival of 1...

We all love a good monster.And not just zombies, vampires, and werewolves.There is a deep and abiding love for monsters that we believe, or suspect, or even hope are out there going bump in our collective nights. Creatures that common sense, scientific research, thorough investigation, and statistical analysis suggest do not and, in many cases could not exist. We listen, we read the debunking articles, we see the clarifying memes on social media, but … we ...

This comprehensive collector’s edition presents the full landscape of Stoic philosophy across six thoughtfully curated sections—Exploring Stoicism, The Stoic Mindset, Stoicism 101, Wisdom from the Stoics, Stoicism in a Nutshell, and Famous Faces on the Stoic Path—offering readers a complete and accessible journey from ancient wisdom to modern interpretation.Featuring reflections and quotes from over sixty

A complete guide to Buddhist philosophy, this book is organized into six major sections—Curious About Buddhism, Discover the Main Paths, Buddhism 101, The Handbook of a Buddhist, Buddhism and the World, and Famous Faces on the Buddhist Path. It brings together core teachings such as the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, Karma, Mindfulness, and the Middle Way in an accessible, contemporary tone. Offering context on Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana schools, it reveals their endu...

Loving Her Curves by Various familly is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring Various familly's writing or building a library of enduring books.

Obsessed With Her Curves by Various is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring Various's writing or building a library of enduring books.

From Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and the writers of the new CW series Riverdale comes the first issue of the MUST-READ, brand new, ongoing comic series. Set in the universe of the TV series, the Riverdale comic offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, Josie & the Pussycats and their friends, exploring small-town life and the darkness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

As dusk falls on an English summer, a detective interviews a stranger with a sinister story to tell. Among the sands of an Egyptian desert, a tourist buys a souvenir which is not quite as it seems. On the sparkling waters of the Scilly Isles, a boating trip turns deadly. It might be the height of summer, but in the midday sun - it's murder.These ten tales of murder, mystery and mayhem make for perfect beach reading - in the latest addition to a series that has sold over 250,000 cop...

Table of ContentsList of Works by Author List of Works in Alphabetical Order Authors' BiographiesEdwin Abbott Abbott :: Edgar Rice Burroughs :: John Wood Campbell :: Raymond King Cummings :: Arthur Conan Doyle :: Tom Godwin :: Andre Norton :: H. Beam Piper :: Mack Reynolds :: Mary Shelley :: Edward Elmer Smith :: Jules Verne :: H. G. WellsEdwin Abbott AbbottFlatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsEdgar Rice BurroughsThe Chessmen of Mars The Gods of Mars The Land that Time Forgot The Mucker a...

The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih AlameddineIn The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo’, Haruki Murakami presents a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city...