Ride through an electric adventure of hip, postmodern discovery in the American southwest as Frank Bergman, professional thrill-seeker and consumer of narcotics, explores the vices that make us human. Rob Einsle's debut novel punishes the delicate craft of the Beat Generation by blending surrealism with mercilessly employed hard rhymes, em dashes, horrendous cliches, and random, cut-up words from a thesaurus to deliver a tale of greed, self-discovery, sex, friendship, drugs and murder. The...

Ever since a drunken one-night stand gone wrong, single mother Meredith Banks can't seem to shake Christian Morgan, the hypnotically attractive and dangerously obsessive intern from her office. It started with the late night phone calls, the hang-ups, the unwanted visits to her row home in Detroit. Now her son Troy, all that matters in her world, has gone missing after school.Meredith knows Christian is behind her son's disappearance, but the cops won't help without evidence. To fi...

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” represents Washington Irving’s second comic masterpiece, a ghostly tale about things that go bump in the night. The specter in question here is the mysterious Headless Horseman, said to be a Hessian trooper who lost his head in a nearby battle. Each night he roams the countryside in search of it. The unlikely hero in this tale is Ichabod Crane, an itinerant schoolmaster, whose name suits him perfectly...Written while Irving was living abroad in...

What she doesn't want...is exactly what he needs.The visions could destroy her. But they might help him catch a killer…Shunned and ridiculed all her life for something she can’t control, Samantha Blair hides her psychic abilities. She lives on the fringes of society – until drawn out.Against her will, she taps into a killer’s victims. Each woman’s murder, blow-by-blow, ravages her mind until their death fi...

Olympian Brenna Battle once had the fire. Now, she’s just burned out—and burned by love. She’s ready to retire from competitive judo and pursue a new dream in a new town, with her biggest supporter, her recently divorced little sister, Blythe. But on their first day in town, Blythe falls for local sleaze-bag reporter, Ellison Baxter, and their small-town welcome is stained by Baxter’s murder. The weapon—Blythe Battle’s hair brush.In this fast-paced, fun cozy mystery, Brenna, the pr...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR • Stephen King’s landmark post-apocalyptic novel gave us a vision of a world blasted by plague and torn between good and evil—and helped make him “an undisputed master of suspense and terror” (The Washington Post).One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. This edition includes all of the new and restored material first published in The Stand: The Complete and Uncut ...

USA TODAY bestseller | Christy Award Book of the YearA young musician abandons his faith and his father in pursuit of fortune and fame only to lose everything and return home. A Prodigal Son retelling where Redeeming Love meets Walk the Line.At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-str...

USA Today best-selling authorIRS agent, feared and despised—a gumshoe for only four hours—finds Reno's missing mayor's headFor nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing. Vanished without a trace. Their vehicles were found parked side-by-side at Reno-Tahoe International Airport.Did they fly somewhere together? They aren't on any flight manifest. Did the two of them take off with a big pile of the city's ...

What does it take to find the Perfect Match?To Liz Carmichael, online dating just might have been worst idea she's ever had. So how much worse would it be to hire her favorite bartender's grandmother—a professional matchmaker? Except doing that would be ridiculous, absurd, and totally out of the question. Right?Damon Miller has had enough of well-meaning friends and bad blind dates. Determined to find the perfect girl for him, he turns to the ridic...

A high school football star who chooses a tour of duty in Afghanistan over a potentially lucrative career in the pros. A woman whose career as a nine-ball champion was cut short at the Nationals. A motorcycle accident that leaves a boy in a wheelchair. A gun containing a single bullet. Fires destroying homes throughout Regina. An elusive best friend who makes an incredible and awful sacrifice.And Ruby Yee’s spicy black bean balls.All of these factors come together when Curt...

In the mid-1950s, Jack Dayton flees his working-class prospects in Omaha and heads to Hollywood, convinced he'll be the next James Dean. But sleazy casting couches don't earn him stardom, and despair leads to a series of poor decisions that ultimately find him at a cheap motel off Route 66, lifeless at the bottom of the pool.Sixty years later, Tag Manning, feeling hopeless and empty, flees his most recent relationship mistake and takes to the open road. On a roundabout route to Las...

Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, The New York Times; Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air; Chicago Tribune; Newsday; New York;