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Um pai ausente busca o filho no internato quando ele comete um ato de violência chocante. A babá de uma família de celebridades se refugia em um rancho após um escândalo ser estampado nos tabloides. Uma jovem vende suas roupas íntimas para estranhos. Um hóspede famoso se interna em uma clínica de reabilitação no sudoeste dos Estados Unidos.

In the late 1970s, Ziad Idilbi, a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, marries Salma, a Lebanese refugee escaping the war in Beirut. Resolving to start over for the very last time, the couple opens a corner store in Toledo, Ohio, across from the General Motors factory, where Toledo’s Arab community intermingles with the working class. Over the decades, whether it’s bigotry (pre- and post-9/11), financial ruin, or terminal illness, the Idilbis find themselves on life’s outskirts, attempting to build something new.

An unsuspecting couple is treated to a luxury vacation by their deceased neighbor. After begrudgingly agreeing to volunteer at a nursing home, a middle school girl gambles over games of bridge with elderly residents. A single mother struggles to understand the unique bond between her autistic son and his dying grandmother. Four friends experience decades of highs and lows as pawns in The Game of Life. A professional gynecology patient runs into a high school flame while at work, undressed, on the job.

Four romantic short stories about heroines who are writers. "The Romance Bet": Reporter Abby James prides herself on never having read a romance novel. She thinks they're formulaic, shallow, easy-to-write drivel—until romance author Tamara Brennan challenges her to write one. Is it possible...

A masterful collection of stories that showcases one of the country’s most beloved and acclaimed writers—award-winning author, Walter Mosley. Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for...

I needed a date, fast. My options were limited, so I hired Easton Bosa. Falling for him wasn't in the cards. I only needed Easton to keep my Mama off my back and to have a peaceful Christmas without her asking me twenty-one questions. You know, when will you settle down, when will you have...

We invite you, fellow horror aficionados, to take a ride on HellBound Highway – a terrifying trip into the darkest recesses of the human mind you'd care to discover, your ticket to ride provided by a bunch of the very best authors writing on the independent horror scene today.

Beautii Hamilton is a highly skilled, self-motivated, hardworking lawyer who’s employed by the most renowned law office in Groove City, California. She’s an authentic woman, well acquainted with her worth. She has raised the bar high for any man who desires to indulge in her time. Her independence, focus, and determination to be a successful black woman thrusts her into a class of her own. Success; however, comes with a hefty sacrifice that not many women have the discipline to walk out.

Step into the fire… if you dare. From the haunted depths of England’s most cursed woods to the shadow-filled corners of the everyday world, Hell’s Collection gathers J. Gomez’s most chilling and twisted short stories into one unforgettable volume.

The Coin is a journey about making decisions. The main character, Jason, receives a magical coin and learns a valuable life lesson.

A kingdom forged in fire. A soul consumed by silence. Fifty years ago, Saul of Benjamin was a man of the soil, a head taller than his brothers, chosen by a prophet and ignited by the Spirit of God. He was the shield that broke the Philistine tide and the voice that unified a fractured nation. But the Spirit has fled.

Andrew just wants to bring a little Pride Day joy to the Blue Star Diner. A rainbow flag, a splash of color, a moment of celebration — simple, right? Not when his father storms in, yanks the flag down, and turns a disagreement into a blowup that leaves Andrew shaken and Rafael stepping in to protect him. One ugly moment becomes the spark that lights a much bigger fire, and suddenly Andrew and Rafael are facing fallout they never saw coming.

One town. One nightmare per night. Welcome to Bloodhaven, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Projection booths with haunted pasts, secretive cults that one should never approach, psychics who keep turning up dead. An assortment of chilling short stories await —bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once. Ready for your next night in Bloodhaven?"Hudgins is a Horror-Meister to reckon with!"—VICTOR MILLER, Writer of Friday the 13th

Welcome to the LOVE YOU TO DEATH multi author short story collection! Love and Valentines related stories to make your heart race and your spine tingle! There’s a fine line between love and hate. Come listen as these main characters struggle to find love, keep love, or survive love. Josephine is the woman to go to for jilted lovers. From lacing chocolates with laxatives to knowing where to hide a body, she has the skills.

Step into the shadowy corridors of NoSleep sensation Kyle Harrison’s Very Dark Thoughts. A scientist analyzes audio from Mars that reveals mysterious screams. A young man takes a haunted plane flight. An unsettling life-sized doll hides a sinister secret. A man races against time to solve a series of twisted puzzles in a sadistic escape room. An arctic excavation unleashes an attack from an alternate dimension. A man seeks a supernatural wandering campfire in the woods.

The Star of Susa. A crown won in silence. A kingdom forged in secrets. A destiny written in the stars. In the heart of the glittering Achaemenid Empire, Susa is a city of gilded cages and lethal whispers. For Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in the shadows of the exile, survival depends on remaining invisible. But when the volatile King Ahasuerus deposes his Queen, the machinery of the empire reaches into the dust of the streets to pluck Hadassah from her home. Stripped of her name and her past, she becomes Esther—a girl transformed by a year of myrrh and jasmine into a weapon of grace.

On a photography trip in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Ryan Jordan hears the low drone of Buddhist voices chanting up the street. Hundreds of monks are streaming across a bridge. To investigate, and wanting to photograph the procession, he engages a local tuk-tuk driver to drive him to monks’ destination. With streets blocked, they detour through various alleys and side streets, eating up time, and leaving Ryan to wonder if he is being taken for a ride. Skeptical but determined, he stays with the driver despite the obstacles. Has he made the right choice?

Ruth: The Harvest of Grace A Nation in Decay. A House in Ruins. A Love that Defies the Law. The era of the Judges is a time of "Double Wickedness"—a world of bronze and bone where the tribes of Israel have traded their Covenant for the shadows of local gods and the dust of a relentless famine. Naomi was a woman of "Pleasantness" who walked out of Bethlehem with a husband and two sons, only to find herself hollowed out by a decade of silence in the alien landscape of Moab. Returning as "Mara," she is a woman of bitter shadows, convinced that the Almighty has turned His face away.

Within this book--Moon and Stone--You will find stories of strange fox hunts; distressed opera stars; droll, odd, and dangerous neighbors; a fiction editor who perhaps works for The New Yorker; an officious doctor on a ghostly river walk; a poetry war; a magical Waterbear. Also, find poems, chants, sigils, and songs--some funny, others, gothic, searching... all, messages from what T. F. Long likes to call the wide primal river.

The Song of the Stone Well is a quiet evening story set in a hidden meadow, where an ancient stone well hums softly beneath the earth and the air grows still as daylight fades.