NEVERTHELESS WE PERSISTED is the ebook companion to a special audio-first anthology of poems, essays, and stories that explores themes of loss, love, and finding your own power. It's an astonishing collection filled with heart, tears, laughter, and ultimately hope. Pieces include:  A woman's journey fleeing Iraq with her children and how it made her stronger.  A man recovering from his experience in Vietnam and learning empathy. ...

A desperate race to revive an alien buried on an icy moon. A fringe cult tuned into signals from the stars. And two extraordinary women willing to risk everything to forge humanity’s destiny.The second and final entry in the electrifying series from multimillion-copy international bestselling authors Douglas E. Richards and Joshua T. Calvert.Four years after the world-changing events of Frequency, the fragile hope born on Europa has fractured under cults, c...

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlín R. Kiernan’s World Fantasy Award–nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Carter, Thomas Ligotti, Shirley Jackson, and Harlan Ellison.Here, again, in her eighth collection, we visit the borderlands where the weird, horrific, mythic, and erotic intersect. Once again, Kiernan sets her masterful, i...

We were destined for disaster from the second we met.... Massimo D'Agostino is the heir to his father's empire.Don't be fooled by his handsome face or that piercing blue gaze. He's no prince charming. He's dangerous and feared, possessive and fierce. Our first meeting began with a contract that forced me to marry him and sign my life away. I was a debt repayment and a pawn in his game to exact revenge against my father. The only way out is death. I belong to him no...

Rose Berman is losing her mind. At least, that’s what everyone at school seems to think. Plagued by panic attacks that started after her mother’s death, Rose is the target of frequent teasing and rumors. But when the star quarterback takes it too far, the school’s tattooed, cigarette-smoking time bomb―Elliott King―steps in and punches him in the face.Rose’s therapist recommends she try out a sport to manage her anxiety. She can’t help but think of Elliott―maybe if she could punch l...

To Charles Fort, With Love is award-winning fantasist Caitlín R. Kiernan’s third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psychology, and the forbidden places which will never be located in any orthodox globe. To quote the object of Kiernan’s affection, meta-poet and arch-enemy of dogma Charles Hoy Fort, “The little harlots will caper, and freaks will distract attention, a...

There’s a story behind every farewell. In Three Viewings, award-winning playwright Jeffrey Hatcher explores love, money, and loss in a trio of mordantly witty narratives.In a small-town funeral parlor, three stories portray the extent to which we all hold on to memories, money, life, and love.“Tell-Tale” is Emil, a mild-mannered undertaker burning with unspoken passion for a local realtor who frequents his funerals. Emil plots to confess his true feelings before time (and b...

Three female victims, one alarming similarity, zero time to waste.Sandie will do anything for her brother. When he is suspected of murdering not one but three young women, she is forced to show just how far she'll go to prove his innocence.As Sandie uncovers the clues, she discovers the investigating detective may have an ulterior motive for placing the blame on Will.Desperate to find the actual killer, Sandie enlists the help of her trusty...

A pending divorce. A struggling bakery. A winning plan. Two dead bodies?Sandie's sister needs help. If she can't come up with a hefty chunk of change to save her struggling bakery, her wish for a fair settlement with her soon-to-be ex-husband will be dashed.When Sandie devises the perfect plan—a competition to save the bakery, all the pieces come together fairly quickly. Sandie believes she's done something that can help Kathy keep her business and...

Anxiety and depression are two of the most common conditions affecting mental health and overall quality of life, but there are tools for managing them. In this audiobook, we’ll explore how depression shows up in the brain, different manifestations of depression and anxiety, various talk therapies, technological innovations, lifestyle interventions, and more.

For centuries the Wilde women have lived at Foxglove—a cabin hidden deep in the woods, promising to shield them from the horrors and expectations of the outside world.But in every generation, danger lurks.For every Wilde woman who chooses to call Foxglove home, they do so with a warning passed from mother to daughter like a sacred heirloom: Foxglove’s secrets must never be spoken about—especially to men.Still reeling from a bitter divorce, Corinne W...

From the award-winning author of First Edition MurderIn the world of art, some would kill to get to the top.An influential art curator is found dead at the local gallery. When Sandie's friend becomes the prime suspect, he implores her to put her sleuthing skills to the test once again. Sandie's cop brother is against her sticking her nose in his case, but how can she refuse when the man she might be falling for needs her h...