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A Penguin ClassicIn his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath*,* Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. T...

In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath*,* Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.

Kristin is too busy with her studies at law school and her boring job at a sports bar to have much of a social life. So when she literally runs into Connor Reed in a bus shelter one late, rainy night, she's more than a little overwhelmed. Connor is a tall, powerfully built member of her school's football team, and there he is standing before her in a wet T-shirt. When he hits on her she can't possibly resist! But Connor has a kinky interest in both bondage and domination, as well as public...

After the collapse of Earth sends the last of humanity soaring to Mars, documentarian Jocasta Thorne finds himself trapped in his spaceship on the outskirts of the planet's orbit. Nearly giving up hope of ever seeing another human again, Jocasta's quiet life is disrupted when a knock at the bay door breaks through the silence, and the stranger on the other side promises he can get them home.The Wayward Souls of Avalon is a cozy sci-fi tale about two strangers caught in each other's...

It’s ancient, it’s dangerous, and it’s the only weapon they have…Lula and Brogan Gauge made a deal with the god Cupid to find the spell book of the gods—but finding it put a target on their backs.Now they’re on the run across New Mexico with powerful gods on their heels.One who wants to kill them. One who wants to enslave them.One who wants to use them to destroy the world.With nowhere left to go, they turn to a family of monster hunters and...

Hunted from the mountains to the marshes, Ahsan only wants two things before he's killed: a chance to spread the horrifying truth he's learned—and to be with the faithless priestess who's stolen his heart.After fleeing Sippar, Ahsan-Sin and Nirah have lost their freedom, their home, and their status. Now under their enemy's thumb, they travel to await judgement from the Rihut Elders—if the king's pursuing forces don't kill them all first.Reeling from what h...

The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and UpgradeOne way in. No way out.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital,...

They’re complete opposites. Society would never approve. But that doesn’t stop them from wanting more…Greyson Everett, future Duke of Derby, has been exiled. Cut off financially and banished to the country by his disapproving father, he’s expected to repent and work like a commoner. If he has any hope of getting back to his real life, he’ll have to stay the course—and stop kissing his employer’s bossy, opinionated, and entirely too lovely daughter. It should be eas...

Cursed to follow Route 66 for nearly a hundred years, Brogan and Lula Gauge have made a deal with Cupid to find the spellbook of the gods—a book powerful enough to destroy the world.But they aren’t the only ones looking for it.The evil goddess, Atë, has already tried to kill them once for the book, and now Brogan and Lula must race to find it before Atë finds them and finishes the job.Luckily, a coven of honky tonk witches in Shamrock, Texas claims ...

She'll turn a scandal into a happily ever after whether anyone approves or not.Lady Adeline Linton refuses to be destroyed by a scandal—she refused to crumble beneath another. When London's most rakish young duke boasted of compromising her virtue in White's betting book, she shocked the ton by refusing to deny it. At eight-and-twenty, with her sister's elopement still haunting the family name, Adeline saw opportunity where others saw ruin. If the ...

If you like survivalist, post-apocalyptic, dystopian and TEOTWAWKI books, this book is right up your alley.With the economy slowing down and inflation heating up, John takes a new job to help make ends meet at home after his wife is laid off from her high paying job. This new job requires him to travel across the country and work long hours away from home.While on one fateful trip away, the heartland of the country is rocked by a series of devastating earthquakes that crippl...

Brogan and Lula Gauge have spent a lifetime traveling Route 66, hunting the monsters that attacked them and left Brogan an earthbound spirit and Lula a near-vampire. They never wanted to catch the attention of Cupid, the god of connections and destruction. They never expected the god to want to strike a deal with them, either.Cupid’s deal brought Brogan back to life, but now they owe the god a favor. They must find the spell book of the gods. A book of magic so pow...