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Life changes in ways you can't predict. Could she be responsible for it all?... As a middle child, Boston native Kathryn Moore has always struggled to fit into her nouveau riche family and would rather do anything than carry on with the family business. Her aspirations lie in more artistic pursuits: to become a writer like her uncle, which strains her already turbulent relationship with her mother. After Kathryn’s uncle, her mentor and confidante, dies tragically in a car accident, she learns he has bequeathed his Charleston home to her, and life changes in ways she never could have ...

Cuando Marcos era pequeño le dejaba cartas a su madre antes de ir a la escuela. Ahora se aparece en sus sueños, porque le quiere contar a qué lugar lo llevaron… cuando lo desaparecieron. Ada está en una carrera contra el tiempo, porque teme morir antes de encontrarlo, pero de una cosa está segura: tiene que buscarlo en un árbol.

In Drive, Sexton explores our most fragile points of connection—to lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one's own life's work—with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads. In her hands, these delicate boundaries become navigable. They are both her route and her destination.

This emotionally charged read tells a once-in-a-lifetime story about love: In small-town Tennessee, eighteen-year-old Charlie Ross wagers a kiss from Anna Cochran, the most beautiful girl in town, and wins. Just as their budding romance begins to blossom, Charlie is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. Anna vows to wait for him, no matter how long it takes. But when Charlie is captured and later presumed dead, Anna is left picking up the pieces to her shattered world.

Some legacies are carved in stone. Others are soaked in oil, blood, and regret. Spanning five generations of the Chiswell family—from 1845 to the modern day—The Gospel According to Texas is a haunting, literary saga of land, sin, and redemption. When Elias Chiswell abandons everything to chase a new life on the Texas frontier, he believes he’s outrunning his past. But the land he claims has a voice—and a memory. Told in part by Texas itself, this Southern Gothic novel weaves journal entries, confessions, and mythic narration into a sweeping story of faith, failure, and family legacy...

In a sleepy North Carolina textile town, rookie reporter Ronald Truluck is bored with writing about lawn mower thefts when he gets a tip—city councilman Lamont Moody got drunk, drove his Bonneville off the road, and ripped up somebody’s front yard. But the police let him walk away. Recognizing a cover-up when he sees it, Ronald vows to break Lamontgate and make his bones as a serious journalist. It won’t be easy. Ronald is a long-haired pothead who’s loosey-goosey with the facts. His paper, The Eagle, runs pet-of-the-week photos on the front page, not corruption stories.

A debut collection of stories set across the American South, featuring characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories. How can you love where you come from, even when home doesn’t love you back?

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapses when her fiancé, Fritz, vanishes after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1933, Hedda is stunned to see Fritz's name in a photograph of an American monument to German POWs in Asheville, North Carolina. Determined to reclaim his body and bring closure to his ailing mother, Hedda embarks on a journey from Germany to the US. However, her quest takes a dark turn when Fritz's casket contains the remains of a woman who died under mysterious circumstances.

I agreed to be my brother’s best friend, a billionaire's fake fiancée, knowing it’s forbidden. Confronting him about his wild party next door was supposed to be straightforward. But nothing is simple when his captivating green eyes meet mine. This playboy CEO with a reputation, becomes the center of my world. He proposes a fake engagement to ward off his persistent ex and media followings, as the city’s most eligible bachelor and Billionaire. Being with him, attending all those special events and benefits, the line between pretense and reality blurs. Despite my brother's warning, my ...

They put sanctions on Tornado Cash. And then they took them off. Still the prosecution of Roman Storm proceeded, right into trial in the Southern District of New York. I was there in Judge Failla's sixth-floor courtroom when she ruled, North Korea in, weapons of mass destruction out. I was there a week later when the Ronin hack witness, in from Vietnam, described finding 170,000 Ethereum missing, tracking it back to Tornado Cash but of course no further. They called it a privacy tool, a way to beat the relentless transparency of the blockchain. The prosecutors described Roman, the one they ...

In this collection of essays, the author of Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna brings to us (out of one of history's darker moments) an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended by the author's small daughter.

J. R. Cleckler graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in history/English, with a minor in political science. A planned future in academia was set aside, and many years in retail ensued. The recent events with the pandemic provided the time and opportunity to pursue a dream of writing.

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In his seventh poetry collection, Jon Davis exhibits the range and mastery that is the result of fifty years of study, teaching, and practice. Above the Bejeweled City opens and closes with homages to Federico Garcia Lorca’s dream-struck ballad “Romance Sonámbulo.” In between, he inhabits what the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the “inexplicable existence” that marks our passage here on Earth.

Part 2: God Ain’t Home is a Possessive BWWM Vampire Captive Romance Julien de Saint-Clair has lived long enough to know beauty always suffers in the end, but when he looks at Della Walker, all he sees is a woman too radiant to be consumed by her trauma. So he stages a reckoning in blood, forcing her past to kneel before her and confess to all of his sins. She watches him and when she doesn’t scream, he knows he’s ruined her—in the way all great art ruins its muse. An Interracial Southern Gothic Vampire Romance. This novella is a part of the "Unholy Sugar" series. Needs to be read in...

Grief is a powerful force that can take us to some of the darkest places within ourselves. When my father passed away in the summer of 2021, I found myself once again grappling with the overwhelming pain of losing a parent. It wasn’t the first time I had experienced this kind of loss; my mother had died of cancer in 1988. But this time, I knew I needed to write. As I worked on my memoir, “The Marginalized Passenger,” I found myself struggling with the pain of reliving memories and experiences that had been deeply painful. At times, I needed a break from it all. That’s when I turned ...

Pullman examines themes of labor and love, using as its backdrop the history of the treatment of the Pullman car porters of the late 19th century. The poems and art pieces in this collection both reflect on and interact with cultural and historical sources, from the slave narratives of Harriet Jacobs to the creative output of the poet and artist' s late father, a musician and songwriter for Aretha Franklin. With urgency, and without apology,

In Swansdown, Donald Platt makes a study of life's inevitable transitions, from love's astonishing evolutions, to aging and its attendant losses. With the poem "Cloud Study", Platt brings his own mortality into view.

Pubblicato nel 1931, San Manuel Bueno martire è un romanzo breve, ma intenso e di straordinaria bellezza, nel quale Unamuno fornisce finalmente una soluzione al problema centrale della sua filosofia—e in fondo della vita di ogni persona: il conflitto tra la ragione e la fede, tra il sentimento che suggerisce una vita immortale e la scienza che mostra la distruzione completa dell'essere umano.

J.D. Salinger spent several months in Vienna in 1937, living with a Jewish family, going ice skating and wearing a green Tyrolean hat. Details about the family, with whom he remained in contact for the rest of his life, have recently been unearthed.