Death is always the issue-in life, and in the Western. Joel and Ethan Coen's TheBalladofBusterScruggs is a movie of six Western stories. In each, our common destination is approached by a different road. Through each, diverse characters hurry for their final appointment: Oregon Trail-travelers, a gold prospector, a motley crew of stagecoach passengers, a high-plains drifting bank robber, even a singing cowboy. These six stories escort them with a care that either respects, or mocks, the di...

Hail,Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and---since the studio is his world---the ultimate earthly one. There is no star scandal he cannot cover up, no studio misstep he cannot repair, no sin he cannot make right. His powers are tested, though, when production on the studio's most expensive picture ever---biblical epic Hail,Caesar!---is halted by the kidnapping of its star. The k...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a new romantic thriller that will leave fans trembling for more.The only thing Winter Crane likes about Reeve's End is that soon she'll leave it. Like her best friend did. Like her sister did. Like most of the teens born in town have done. There's nothing for them there but abandoned mines and empty futures. They're better off taking a chance elsewhere.The only thing Winter will m...

From New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Best-selling author, Georgia Cates, comes a steamy Mafia romance series.Sinclair Breckenridge is my husband. We’re up-and-coming leaders to The Fellowship and parents-to-be. But my new life doesn’t come easily. Not when long buried secrets––and far more than I bargained for––finally reveal my mother’s killer.Sin vows to do anything to keep our little ones and me safe, even if his prom...

Jordan Matthews is a good kid, an average student, and has never gotten in trouble at school before. But today he finds himself in the principal's office with fellow classmate Casey Sothern. He doesn't think they've done anything wrong, and doesn't expect much in the way of punishment until Casey's mother arrives.Which means someone's called his parents, too.And they'll know Casey isn't just his best friend, but his boyfriend, as well.Then Jordan sees his father sto...

Read this Syrena Legacy short story and the first chapter of Of Neptune, the final book in New York Times-bestselling author Anna Banks' trilogy!Emma, who is half human and half Syrena, has a day apart from her Syrena love, Galen. Emma doesn't plan to spend the day with Galen's opinionated and bossy sister, Rayna, but she can't quite get out of it, either. And Galen will appreciate her attempt to bond with Rayna, right? But when Rayna's unpredictable antics put th...

In this highly acclaimed novel, the author of Permanent Midnight channels fallen early-Hollywood star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Fatty tells his own story of success, addiction, and a precipitous fall from grace after being framed for a brutal crime-a national media scandal that set the precedent for those so familiar today.

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL)Level 2 A1/A2 Starter (2)Word count: 6,582Collette Roy is a teacher in Canada. She is tired of working in the city, so she finds a job at a school in a very small town.Her house is in the forest. There is only one other house in the forest – an old, empty house.Soon, strange things start to happen in the forest. Is the house really empty? Is someone staying in the house?One night, after Collette is...

Mail Order Bride: The Seeds Of Love, is a beautiful, new story about a reluctant mail order bride who is sent off to California by her parents after a cholera epidemic. What she finds there is a potential husband who is not as promised, and the desire to run right back home.

Inspired By A True Story... An unemployed architect thinks his prayers have been answered when he inherits a Scottish village. But when he takes his dysfunctional family to the Highlands, he finds the place in shambles, the locals standoffish, and the cunning caretaker determined to steal the property out from under him. Set in present day Scotland, this novella, a family comedy, will suit everyone who wants to relax and have a laugh. &...

Widely regarded as the first LGBTQ+ book for teen readers, I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. is a groundbreaking classic. When the grandmother who raised him dies, Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old boy, must move to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Between alcohol-infused lectures about her self-sacrifice and awkward visits with his distant father, Davy’s only comfort is his beloved dachshund Fred. Things start to look up when he and a boy from school be...

In the winter of 1891, ex-soldier Virgil Dean, broken by life, leads a solitary, nomadic existence with only a bottle of whiskey for company. One night a young stranger appears in the shadows beyond Virgil's camp. Virgil believes the man simply wants to share the warmth of the fire, but guilt and sorrow call more than just men out of the dark, lonely night.