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It’s an Urban Style of Love is a collection of short urban tales depicting how contemporary love is found where you least expect it.From online gaming to jogging, the club scene to the park, these short stories inspire us to believe that there is someone for everyone, and sometimes you will find what your heart desires most, in the most unexpected places.It’s an Urban Style of Love features sixteen urban tales from fifteen of our favorite contemporary writers.

River Tales presents thirty-two short stories from new writers around the globe. Several fishing tales, along with a few coming of age stories, even one from a fish's point of view, are sure to entertain.River monsters, murder, and redemption can all be found in these watery tales. From poignant to humorous, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs.This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been.It’s in the love of dogs, and my love for them, that I can best now take the measure of ...

SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyon...

From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes the Bram Stoker Award- and International Horror Guild award-winning collection The Nightmare Chronicles -- packed with spine-tingling tales of dark mystery, supernatural thrills and twisted horror that "can chill the spine so effectively the reader should keep paramedics on standby, " says bestselling author Dean Koontz.“Clegg brings his stories together with a chilling fictive conceit.......

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in this electrifying psychological novel from the master of suspense.**LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he’s written his own rule book. Some of those ...

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.”— Edmund White, Times Literary SupplementFor...

An alluring new collection from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, Midnight RobberNalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Sister Mine) is an internationally-beloved storyteller. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having "an imagination that most of us would kill for," her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are filled with striking imag...

Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels—the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume—have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium.“These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader starts playing the old childhood game of 'Just one more chapter and I'll tu...

Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark—in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods. You would not be surprised to find the dark in a cheap apartment on the wrong side of town, down mean streets, under a gallows-tree, along dank passageways, trapped underground, in the near future, or among the mysteries of old New Orleans. Dunes, lakes, isolated cabins, old books...

The spectacular bestseller from the author of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.Once upon a time, the entertainment industry was a world that never slept. Magazine editors, models, pop stars and all the rest visited “vitamin doctors” to get the shots that would allow them to stay up all night and then work all day—in offices decorated with beanbag chairs and Calderesque mobiles… In this world, January Wayne goes from poor-little-rich-girl to grown-up swinger, as she searches New York and Los Ang...

If you only had one wish to make, would you change your life, or would you change someone else's? Can a Goldfish find happiness in his dreary surroundings? Trapped in a tiny glass tank, a miserable goldfish makes it perfectly clear how disappointed he is with life. A series of wishes granted by a magic star reveal that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Will the fish ever find true happiness? Join him on his quest for a better life and his journey into selflessness in this ...