Short fiction. Fame is a long, hard road. Sacrifices must be made. But when you've earned it, it seems everyone wants a piece of you.

Short fiction. "So I left him for dead, and I ran. I had no choice." The hunt has gone on for centuries. But tonight - tonight, one way or another - it ends.

Short fiction. If you could change anything about your life - anything - what would you change? And what would you sacrifice?

"I forgot to ask you where you work.""I'm a mermaid.""A ... beggin' your pardon?"She laughed, fluttering her fingers over her mouth."I'm an attraction here at the park. I dress up in a costume with a tail, and there's a big fish tank rigged so it looks as if I'm lying underwater, and people pay their dime to come look at me. I get a dollar a week and a place to live. It's not much to do, but it lets me daydream all day."***Featured as Daily Literat...

Short fiction. There are few enough rewards to the work. But today, Alisha will see that the mortician gets what's coming to him.

Short story. Erasmus stalks the halls of his lonely ancestral manor, awaiting the visit of his estranged brother, Leopold, and Leopold's new bride. But what else does the prodigal bring home with him?

Short fiction. In all the decades they had been married, he had never cheated on her, nothing so banal. Yet his fixation on a long-departed younger model at last became more than she could stand.

Short fiction. Two orphaned children, plucked from the streets by a cruel master, escape into their art.

"Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged betwe...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History“A richly textured portrait of a fascinating, complex man . . . Faragher's work is unique.” —San Francisco ChronicleIn the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero.Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scra...

"[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian fronti...

Socialize Your Patient Engagement Strategy makes the case for a fundamentally new approach to healthcare communication; one that mobilizes patients, healthcare professionals and uses new media to enable gathering, sharing and communication of information to achieve patient-centricity and provide better value for both organizations (in terms of profit) and patients (in terms of better service and improved health). Letizia Affinito and John Mack focus on three priority areas for actions: Imp...