When a burned-out ER doctor and a stubborn herbalist witch are forced to combine science and spellcraft, Moonridge's only hope rests in the one partnership they never wanted.Dr. Nuala Mendez came to Moonridge to escape the heartbreak of Los Angeles trauma medicine. But days before Thanksgiving, a strange illness sweeps through town—one her training can't explain. Even worse? Her patients keep seeking help from the infuriating witch who runs the local apothecary.Owen Herald ...

An anthology of stories from the long-running One Step Beyond writers' group, including tales from all corners of the speculative fiction genre. All profits from the sale of this anthology will go to English PEN, a charitable network defending and promoting freedom of expression around the world.Includes stories from Vaughan Stanger, Jaine Fenn, Mike Lewis, Alys Sterling, Liz Holliday, Heather Lindsley, Sue Oke and Mark Bilsborough. Edited by Vaughn Stanger. Cover illustration by T...

Em Rusciano – singer, stand-up comedian and podcast maven – didn't mean to write a memoir.She meant to write something fun. Light. Maybe erotic. Instead, she bled onto the page.Blood, Sweat and Glitter charts the wild, messy, life-altering five years that changed everything, from sold-out national tours to a historic National Press Club address, a Senate Inquiry and surviving Melbourne’s lockdowns.This book contains everything Em couldn’t s...

The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas• Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize •Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine• A New York Times Notable Book • An American Library Association Notable Book • Winner of the World Fantasy Award

From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys.In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal — applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates.‘I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell,’ she says. ‘Except my sister maybe. I want to pick bl...

These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest. From a new short story by William Gibson in which a teen disassociated from his body haunts his neighborhood through the decades, to Douglas Coupland’s balls-out satire of a slightly futuristic Surviv...

“One the Best Horror Books of the Year”, Barnes & Noble BlogAn electrifying horror anthology featuring 21 short stories from modern masters of the genre, including a brand-new chiller by A Head Full of Ghosts author Paul Tremblay.Introducing twenty-one brand-new stories of the ominous and terrifying from some of the horror genre’s most talented writers, including:Paul Tremblay: “The Dead Thing” draws us int...

* New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2016.* The Guardian's "Not the Booker Prize" Shortlist.* Publishers Weekly's 'Big Indie Books of Fall 2016'* 2017 Vermont Book Award finalist."Deeply satisfying. Finn is a remarkably confident and supple storyteller. [The Gloaming] deserves major attention."—John Williams, New York TimesIn rich, compelling ...

Our home town. Sometimes it feels like the centre of the universe, sometimes it's the bum-end of nowhere. We are her sons and daughters. These are our triumphs and our heartaches, our fears and hopes for a better life.Getting lost, falling in love, pushing boundaries, exploring the world - powerfully honest stories to make you think and feel, from the award-winning author of The Dead I Know and Changing Gear.'Off The Map is a stunning smo...

Self-described 52-year-old "Everyman" Gary Charles Metz had experienced numerous dieting successes and failures throughout his adult life. Little did he know that the one he made up for himself would be the most effective one, and inspire him to write his first book. In this pleasurably brief, engaging account, Metz shares his simple, common-sense method for weight loss.

Winner of the Crimefest 2012 Goldsboro Last Laugh Award Billy Karlsson needs to get real. Literally. A hospital porter with a sideline in euthanasia, Billy is a character trapped in the purgatory of an abandoned novel. Deranged by logic, driven beyond sanity, Billy makes his final stand: if killing old people won't cut the mustard, the whole hospital will have to go up in flames. Only his creator can stop him now, the author who abandoned Billy to his half-life limbo, in which Billy scheme...

By the time you leave your elementary school, you know what to expect. You are the oldest, the smartest, the top dog. But the minute you enter middle school, everything changes. Your classes are getting harder. Your friendships are tested. Your body is changing. How do you know what's expected of you now? And how do you keep from embarrassing yourself as you figure it all out?The Ultimate Middle School Survival Guide is your "Do this, not that" guide to nearly everything m...