She has a crush on the delivery guy. He has a billion-dollar secret.As the CEO of Aston Corp, Jake usually wears Hugo Boss. But when his company acquires SwiftEx, he goes undercover as a delivery driver so he can understand the business from the ground up. The last thing he expects is to fall head over heels for a sexy and sweet illustrator on his route...First in a sexy new rom com series!This book was first published with the title Person...

Penelope Aubin: Poet, Novelist, Negotiator, Businesswoman offers a dynamic appraisal of Penelope Aubin, bringing together new scholarship that situates her work at the intersection of religion, empire, gender, and literary experimentation.Ranging across her novels, poetry, and drama, the essays illuminate Aubin’s engagement with global geographies, political debate, and the shifting boundaries between romance and the emerging novel. Contributors explore th...

She has a crush on the delivery guy. He has a billion-dollar secret.As the CEO of Aston Corp, Jake usually wears Hugo Boss. But when his company acquires SwiftEx, he goes undercover as a delivery driver so he can understand the business from the ground up. The last thing he expects is to fall head over heels for a sexy and sweet illustrator on his route...First in a sexy new rom com series!This book was first published with the title Person...

For one young child, the discovery of a glowing wand with which she can wave away her chores illuminates the simple pleasure of doing things on her own, mindfully.For Elliot and her dog, Spinner, this morning’s walk in the woods starts out like most others: practicing their balance, sniffing out snacks, and searching for sticks to build forts. But today she spies something unusual on the forest floor—a stick that glows like the moon. Indeed, this stick proves to ha...

There’s no such thing as a typical day at Helping Paws Animal Shelter, and this wasn’t the first time I’ve had a soggy box waiting for me on the doorstep with a disgruntled cat inside.However, this was the first time the cat talked to me.What did the barista put in my coffee?Persephone insists she’s been catnapped, and she’s witnessed an art heist. There’s a huge reward for the safe return of the painting, and that money could go a long way to helping all o...

A young American in Rome, flattered by a title and a shabby-genteel circle of expatriates, spends his money proving he belongs among them — and the compatriots he snubs turn out to be the only people who behave decently. Tarkington was an Indianapolis man and one of only four writers to take the Pulitzer for fiction twice; this 1907 novella is a small, exact study of snobbery, and it costs the hero everything he has.

Legends take many forms, but most carry a warning within. For instance, stories of monsters such as the Chupacabra, Snallygasters, and Windigos were told to warn children to behave themselves. The tale of the ghost girl who haunts buildings in Cleveland, is a warning to daredevils, who would chance their lives and safety in old derelict buildings. And Trooper 666 is a deterrent against drunk and dangerous driving. The angel of death and gilgul offers lessons to be learned about our spiritu...

Dreadful winter cold gave way to ominous spring growth, and now the heat threatens to obliterate all: the third volume of the In the City series has arrived, and veteran editors R. B. Wood and Anna Koon have curated another impressive lineup of international talent in Summer in the City .The scorching sun heats concrete, glass, and steel nearly beyond human tolerance.The oppressive heat of Summer sits like a woole...

Javier, now a fugitive from the law, believes it's wise to keep a low profile for a while. However, a group of stranded Angels has other plans for him. With Demons, Angels, Monsters, and Men all hunting the Gunslinger, he finds himself cornered, outmatched, and devoid of ammunition. Faced with overwhelming odds, he realizes he has only one desperate option left. Additional features include a gallery of covers and artwork from behind the scenes. Collects GUNSLINGER SPAWN #37-42

Alice Adams is Booth Tarkington's second novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, just three years after his novel The Magnificent Ambersons won it. The novel tells the story of Alice, a Midwestern girl who grows up in a lower-middle-class family just after World War I. Alice meets a wealthy young man and tries to win his affection, despite her lower-class upbringing.Alice Adams was twice adapted for film, with the second adaptation starring Katherine Hepburn and earning a nomination for the...

The Magnificent Ambersons, winner of the 1919 Pulitzer prize, is considered by many to be Booth Tarkington's finest novel and an American classic. The story is set in the Midwest, where George, the spoiled and oblivious scion of an old-money family, must cope with their waning fortunes and the rise of industry barons in the automobile age.George's antiheroic struggles with modernity encapsulate a greater theme of change and renewal-specifically, the very American notion of a small ...

A debonair confidence man with a taste for impossible jobs has hit a dry spell. His bank balance is thin, his treasured prospect list is full of tempting marks, and the richest of them all proves to be a pillar of Chicago banking with one very old-fashioned weakness: the ponies. Against the frantic warnings of his superstitious partner, the master swindler resolves to revive a long-dead racket — the notorious wire-tapping scheme — and reel in a fortune.What follows is a con of exqu...