They broke free from their work stations and ran giggling down the factory hallways, stopping only to write crude missives on the walls. Transcribed here for your amusement, the most original voices in crime fiction offer you 27 tales of revulsion, heartbreak, and violence. Welcome to The First Shift.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Rifle, a War, and Only Three Teeth Left to Tell the Tale.Seventeen-year-old Horace Lanham only meant to visit family and help with the hay. Instead, he’s swept into the blood-soaked chaos of the Civil War—armed with an Enfield rifle, bound by loyalty, and cursed with the nickname “Three-Tooth Confederate” after a freak accident leaves him toothless in the snow.Told through Horace’s raw, intimate voice,...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Rifle, a War, and Only Three Teeth Left to Tell the Tale.Seventeen-year-old Horace Lanham only meant to visit family and help with the hay. Instead, he’s swept into the blood-soaked chaos of the Civil War—armed with an Enfield rifle, bound by loyalty, and cursed with the nickname “Three-Tooth Confederate” after a freak accident leaves him toothless in the snow.Told through Horace’s raw, intimate voice,...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Rifle, a War, and Only Three Teeth Left to Tell the Tale.Seventeen-year-old Horace Lanham only meant to visit family and help with the hay. Instead, he’s swept into the blood-soaked chaos of the Civil War—armed with an Enfield rifle, bound by loyalty, and cursed with the nickname “Three-Tooth Confederate” after a freak accident leaves him toothless in the snow.Told through Horace’s raw, intimate voice,...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Rifle, a War, and Only Three Teeth Left to Tell the Tale.Seventeen-year-old Horace Lanham only meant to visit family and help with the hay. Instead, he’s swept into the blood-soaked chaos of the Civil War—armed with an Enfield rifle, bound by loyalty, and cursed with the nickname “Three-Tooth Confederate” after a freak accident leaves him toothless in the snow.Told through Horace’s raw, intimate voice,...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Rifle, a War, and Only Three Teeth Left to Tell the Tale.Seventeen-year-old Horace Lanham only meant to visit family and help with the hay. Instead, he’s swept into the blood-soaked chaos of the Civil War—armed with an Enfield rifle, bound by loyalty, and cursed with the nickname “Three-Tooth Confederate” after a freak accident leaves him toothless in the snow.Told through Horace’s raw, intimate voice,...

Anyone who has read Gone Girl will love this crime novel. A young woman is beaten to death in the city park. Mia, a veterinarian, lives nearby. One day, her best friend from childhood days, the charming and successful Jay, disappears without a trace. She left a letter to her husband behind, asking him not to pursue her. Mia immediately suspects foul play when she realizes that Jay resembles the dead woman from the park. Where is Jay? Nobody seems to care, except for Mia. Their friends are ...

This is our new home, says Mommy. Poppy, you know you never have to hide from me, right?, he says. He's got a face like a bowling ball, says Grandma. Express yourselves clearly, class, just say exactly what you mean, says the teacher. Help me, thinks Poppy. Poppy is a six-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a rundown suburban neighborhood. One day, they move into a luxurious mansion with her mother's new partner. Poppy's mother is happy. She can finally buy anything she wants. This ...

Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) Guidebook and Training Website: Project Play offers a comprehensive assessment of naturally occurring play activitiesfor evaluating young children’s developmental progress accurately, so that useful interventions can take place as early as possible. It can be used by practitioners in a wide range of educational and therapeutic settings and is designed to support developmental progress through planning interventions in play, a...

Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders—Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others—share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty.“You’ll find kindred spirits in these tales of resilience, transformation, and joy.”—TimeOver the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse s...

Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders—Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others—share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty.Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse storytellers for epic evenings of laughter, music, and hard-won wisdom to huge audiences across the country. Well-known womx...