Life in the Windy City is pretty monotonous for Ronald Carrington. As a successful fund manager for a mutual fund company, he is a man clearly in control of every facet of his life.After receiving a life changing phone call one day, the life he clearly held the reins to, quickly spirals out of control. After falling for a stripper named Smokey, he finds himself caught up in a world of drugs, addiction, and sex.Things really go out of hand when three female college stu...

If someone were to ask you who was the youngest child executed in the United States, you're bound to get a few answers. Many people believe that the title belongs to George Stinney who was executed in 1944 at the age of fourteen by South Carolina.The title actually belongs to Hannah Ocuish, who was executed in 1786 for murder."The story of twelve-year-old Hannah Ocuish is a story that needs to be told. Had her story been preserved, it would have served as a cautionary tale ...

The sleepy town of Settlers, Indiana is a town that prides itself on family traditions, morals, and values.But they are keeping a terrible secret. Once dubbed one of the safest cities in America, is now a cesspool for violent thugs, drug dealers, and prostitution. A few elected leaders come up with a strategy, and suddenly, crime comes to an abrupt halt.A cover up is underway in the town and a few brave souls are desperate to get answers.Will the tru...

A hot and consuming New Adult romance about a wayward musician and the one girl who keeps him grounded…At college, Rachel has a reputation for being a sarcastic flirt with a thing for star athletes. No one at school knows that she’d had her heart ripped to shreds by her high school sweetheart, who’d driven them both off the side of the road on a borrowed motorcycle, and then abandoned her. No one knows the real Rachel Mattson—except one person…Ever since he helped ...

In an update to one of the most astonishing crimes of the Case Files volumes, Ann Rule profiles the criminals that kill without conscience and shatters their crimes without pity.In eight stunning Case Files volumes, from A Rose for Her Grave to the #1 blockbuster Last Dance, Last Chance, Ann Rule reigns as "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews). Now, she updates the most astonishing cases from that acclaimed series—and presen...

Va-Va-Voom!For decades, fans have known the secret identities and powers of the beautiful women found in the comic book universe. Now you can savor the visual delights of the 100 Sexiest Women of Comics. From Aspen and Catwoman to Sue Storm and Zatanna, we rank 'em-and tell you a bit about their comics careers in this eye-popping and revealing book.Face it, tiger-you just hit the j...

Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them…

In Volume I of this special collectors’ edition, visit the terrifying world of John Connolly’s #1 internationally bestselling thrillers: Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow, and The Killing Kind.EVERY DEAD THINGHaunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, and tormented by his sense of guilt, former NYPD detective Charlie Parker is a man consumed by violence, regret, and the desire for revenge. But whe...

From the delightfully twisted mind of Keegan Kennedy, comes an unconventional love story between a football player and a baseball player that will keep you in knots. Todd Carlisle has been in love with his best friend, Reeves Davenport, for as long as he can remember. Before leaving for college together, the teen jocks take one last camping trip to an isolated lake in the remote woods of Tennessee. Little do they know that a terrifying ordeal awaits them in the wilds. Will the nightmarish ...

Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids’ soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls’ ten-and-under soccer league, and he’s not exactly happy with the ref.The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolut...

Following his first book of hilarious essays in My Custom Van, Michael Ian Black expands his commentary to the subject that has made him one of the most-followed celebrities on Twitter: his irreverent take on the joys of suburban family life.In the tradition of Christian Lander’s hipster/yuppie-friendly bestselling catalog of observations in Stuff White People Like, Michael Ian Black delivers his unique brand of quirky, deadpan humor in this new c...

Stephen Reid has grown old in prison and seen more than his share of its solitude, its vicious cycles, and its subculture relationships. He has participated in the economics of contraband, the incredible escapes, the intimacies of torture, the miscarriages of justice, and witnessed the innocent souls whose childhood destinies doomed them to prison life. He has learned that everything is bearable, that the painful separation of family, children, and friend is tolerable, and that sorrow must...