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The aftermath of a killing one small community still reckons with. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

The most disturbing crime they ever worked has come back to kill them. Criminal profiler Doc Powers longs for a peaceful life. Now reunited with his missing girlfriend, his idyllic dreams turn grotesque when someone nails a bloody carcass to his door. With the clues pointing toward a previous case, he fears this is just the start of a dark hunt for revenge...Detective Inspector Jack Carver looks forward to his long-overdue vacation. But when a powerful explosion tragically cuts the trip short, Carver must battle peers who suspect him of setting a devious trap.

Bob Drifter is a substitute teacher with a secret. He seems like no more than a polite young man who loves to read and mentor students in his free time. Yet on the side, Bob takes part in some rather strange extracurricular activities that soon attract the attention of local police. For some reason, people have a way of dying around him. It's not his fault. Maybe he just hangs around people who are already dying. Maybe he has bad timing. But Bob knows better.

Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge.

When love becomes an obsession, when love betrays; when a man's love leads to unspeakable sins. When love becomes a possibility, when love shelters; when a man's love leads to frightening revelations. Brit Delany struggles to emerge from the darkness after surviving a chilling ordeal. She is forced to come to grips with the secrets of her past. But how does she learn to trust herself? How does she trust anyone around her?

Winner of the International Book Awards for Best Short Story Collection, The Gothic Shift is a beguiling collection of the macabre and supernatural from best-seller Brian David Bruns.

Muick is the Queen’s loyal corgi. Loving, attentive, but with an occasional tendency to nip ankles. But Muick can’t find his Queen. The courtiers won’t let him into the bedroom. The corgi handlers won’t explain what is happening. Why are all the family members suddenly here? Muick gives his own account of events and travels through his grief from Scotland to the funeral as he seeks to make sense of his loss and find a future beyond. This beautiful and heartfelt tribute is perfect for pet lovers and admirers of Britain’s late beloved Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. It was the largest combined air and seaborne invasion ever, involving over 150,000 Allied troops on the ground, and its eventual success became a critical turning point in the war, spelling the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.

I loved him at 15. I thought we'd stand the test of time. He was my forever but maybe I fell too fast or loved him too much. Maybe I came on too strong or maybe I did something wrong. He still left. Turned his back on me without a word. I never thought I'd see him again and to be honest, I didn't want to. I began to hate him even though he would never know it. But then, I did see him again and with him came the secrets that would forever change all of our lives.

Underdog Luke "Single" Singleton is yearning to make a comeback. After getting hit in the neck with a pitch - an injury that nearly cost him his life - he has one last chance to play for his hometown team, the Stockton Beavers. But his mom has Alzheimer's, and he's all she has to depend on. How can he pursue his career, much less someone special?

Post-alien invasion Belfast. Earth has been defeated. Pity the locals aren't listening. Teenager John Dray will do whatever he must to survive. When he's offered desperately needed food in exchange for dispersing a mysterious compound over the city, he takes the job. The compound turns out to be lethal to the alien invaders and John is charged with xenocide. He's sent to Inish Carraig, a forbidding prison, where he discovers a conspiracy that threatens Earth and everyone he loves.

Two friends embark on an acid trip amid a snow storm. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

Padraig Plunkett loves history and has devoted his adult life to it. Now in Argentina, he hopes to find something in the forgotten Ruins of Quilmes. Along with his intern, Sofia, and Argentine government representative, Arianna, they discover more than any of them could have ever imagined. After emails of his discovery are intercepted on their way to news agencies, the excavation site is quickly shut down by a group of men with many questions and few answers.

Doug Hunter is tired of his covert life. The ex-CIA assassin dreams of cutting ties with his employer and becoming a father to his unborn child. But when he intercepts a deadly delivery of a highly toxic chemical weapon, reuniting with the woman he loves may mean he’ll have to kill to survive.

Despite her success, Kate O’Sullivan worries she’s not cut out for hard-nosed reporting. When the pregnant journalist investigates brutal murders on a tropical isle, she suspects dirty money and an ocean worth of danger. After locals offer dire warnings, she fears this story may be the last one she ever writes. Only one woman makes assassin Doug Hunter want to mend his bloody ways. So when he hears Kate may be carrying his child, he tracks her to try to win her back. But after the beautiful reporter disappears, he uses his ruthless skills to keep the woman he loves alive.

Hey-ho, hey-ho! Father-daughter duo Jeremy and Hermione Tankard are thrilled to deliver the second book in this heartfelt, “humerus” series! This is a full-cast audio adaptation of the graphic novel from authors Jeremy and Hermione Tankard, performed by Gary Furlong, Maxwell Glick, Joel Froomkin, Morag Sims, Shiromi Arserio, Justine Eyre, and Alister Austin, and featuring a full sound design!

Against the Wind: Memoir of a Dissident Dubliner is the story of life in the first 50 years after independence was won for a part of the island of Ireland. The times were financially tough and morally prude, with dissenters both north and south of the border few and far between. Intellectualism was suspect, and liberalism was often equated with communism. A wealth of varying and informative material and the ability to anchor the personal securely within the public domain gives this memoir a universal appeal.

As Frank Kusy turns 27, he is unexpectedly put in charge of an old people's home in Clapham, South London. Driven to distraction by a crazy cast of characters, he seeks solace in Buddhism, only to find himself up to his ears in plasticine pigs and marathon chanting sessions. Will he make his mum happy by holding down a 'proper' job? Will he make her unhappy by becoming a writer? Will he get to share cheese sandwiches with Kevin in Kathmandu? And will he be forced to exchange his underpants in Japan?

Time-travelers, bag ladies, insomniac cats, wide-boy whales, headless horsemen, Polish plumbers, little piggy home-owners, and partially-sighted mice - something for everyone in this short-tale anthology of the absurd.

Our love is imperfect in the most perfect way. It is love done our way. Raw. Unconventional. Sexy as hell. More importantly, it is honest to the core...Or so I think. One little white lie shouldn't do so much damage. Yet, it changes me forever.