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Short story master David H. Hendrickson spins ten tales of aging and fighting the dying light. Filled with heart, empathy, and sometimes even wit, this collection includes "Role of a Lifetime," "One Night...

From a little blue fuzzy monster in a Casanova's pants... to a movie star wannabe raising money for her boob job.From rival Key West female impersonators... to the wife of the Biblical King David.From...

From dragons to retirement homes…From music to email Spam…From Africa to the Garden of Eden…From the comic to the deadly serious.Award-winning master of the fantastic David H. Hendrickson spins spellbinding...

From Boston's Faneuil Hall to the sleepy suburbs…From ancient Israel to "Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin"Award-winning master of romance D. H. Hendrickson finds romance wherever he looks…And these sweet tales...

Detective Jack McTavish takes every murder on his watch personally. Even the ones "upstanding citizens" consider a cleansing of the city's mean streets. Tough as nails, he's seen it all. Nothing knocks...

Already one of the world's great concert violinists, Julia Chu strives for ever greater perfection. Nothing else matters. Especially not romance. She learned the hard way years ago that romance threatens...

How did the kid who was always falling down achieve his dream of playing college hockey? How did he finish as co-captain on a team that enjoyed the best season in the program's history? Hendu's Story...

 Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldIn present day Cave Creek, a powerful and dangerous current flows beneath the town's peaceful and prosperous surface.Strange, unexplained events...

Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldA mythical town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas, Cave Creek attracts the strange, weird, and inexplicable.Founded by a few settlers...

10 Tales of Unlikely PartnersThe Odd Couple, Remington Steele, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Kirk and Spock, any couple in Friends or The Big Bang Theory or...Thrown together by chance, assignment, or circumstance....

ulphouse Fiction Magazine specializes in strange and weird and head-shaking stories. But in among the strange stories lurk some really, really strange stories that seem to push limits no one else thought...

A crazy collection of twisted stories in the tradition of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, from the editor of Pulphouse, Dean Wesley Smith.Head-shaking stories such as the one about a cop with a rose for a...

Thirteen tales of excitement and adventure from Thrill Ride - the magazine: Year One.Tales of honor and betrayal, of amazing women and unexpected partners.Conquer villains, cheer for thieves, battle espionage,...

The Most Twisted Stories from Pulphouse Fiction MagazineWhat gives the "twist" to these stories? They wouldn't fit in any other magazine, for one thing. They leave readers shaking their heads in amazement...

Want to read a twisted take on historical fiction? Well, look no further than stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine!From a skillful historical baseball story to masterful historical fantasy stories...

After giving up the worst goal of his NHL career and at the worst possible time – overtime of the Stanley Cup Championship Game 7  -- Tyler McKenzie flees to Africa. But even a safari into the famed Serengeti...

Sportswriter Olivia Turnbull covers the Blades, Boston's professional hockey team. She'd never break the taboo against dating one of the players. The temptation never even crosses her mind.Until, that...

Have you ever dreamed of an entire school reading your book? Would you like to double (or more!) your writing income?  This book shows you how.  Drawing from his own first-hand experience, David H. Hendrickson...

“I realize how fortunate I was to spend the first half of my life with a passion, thanks to my hockey career. It took me a while to realize it, but now I feel fortunate to have lived the second half of...

In 1968, at the height of the Civil Rights struggle, Jessie Stackhouse leaves home to break the color line at an elite, all-white prep school. He arrives filled with dreams of winning championships and...

"Rabbit" Labelle excels at high school sports, despite being five-nothin', hundred-nothin' and in way over his head after his family moves from their small rural town to the big, bad city of "Lynn, Lynn,...

What penalty must be paid when an otherwise good cop looks the other way? Can he still claim innocence? Or does the guilt of the cop gone bad damn them both?Maybe Hell is having your heart ripped open...

Shimmer, the legendary female impersonator, haunts the Key West cabaret she made famous and the pale imitators who try to fill her stilettos. They inevitably fail, until a new contender to her throne...

Second-rate comedian Earl Weatherbee uses his AI to translate his culturally dependent jokes into what evokes laughter among the bumpkins far out on the galactic fringe. So when the rubes turn to throwing...

Everything comes easy for Lisey, one of the Beautiful People. Pearly-white teeth. Long, flowing blonde hair and blue eyes. Borderline anorexic and with all the brains and wit of a gob of spit. And filled...

"Rabbit" Labelle, the charismatic and improbable football star of Offside and unlikely basketball player in Offensive Foul, continues his high school sports journey in Bottom of the Ninth.While struggling...

Nothing much happens in Fernville, New Hampshire—aka Sleepyville, USA. Eventually even cops there turn soft, like marshmallows. When murder comes to Sleepyville, the case falls to the softest marshmallow...

“Rabbit” Labelle, the charismatic and improbable football star of Offside, returns in Offensive Foul, where he faces even stiffer odds on the basketball court. While battling to secure his place on the...

Huram, the Phoenician, crafts bronze masterpieces for King Solomon's temple. When the two most highly prized pieces disappear, suspicion falls on the only three Israelites in the camp. With one of them...

From the mean streets of "Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin" to the sleepy suburbs…From the grime of the Boston subways to a tavern in the afterlife…From sandy ancient Israel to the plains of the Serengeti…Award-winning...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured...

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page!...

From the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella... A scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis - it leads...

'A radiant debut' EMILY HENRYTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

A burned-out pop star stranded in small-town Kentucky can't help falling for her unlikely knight in shining armour - the notoriously grumpy owner of the local pie shop - in this charming slice of romance...

An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Keeping 13, the second book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

Now a movie starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne’s hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love.Nemesis (n.) 1)...

If she isn't mine in the end, I'll still be hers.It's torture, but it's true...For years, I've dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant.It didn't...

In this clever and swoonworthy new novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the...

An enchanting collection containing books four, five, and six of #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Regency-set Bridgerton novels—Romancing Mister Bridgerton; To Sir Phillip, with...

When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends-to-lovers romance begins to bloom - from the author of When in Rome...

From the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella... Nothing like a little rivalry between scientists to take love to the next level.Mara,...

My plan was perfect. My friend needed a date, and my brother's best friend was single. Problem solved.Until I saw Jaeger for the first time in years, and sparks flew in the wrong direction.Jaeger has...

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence....

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

The lives and losses of slaves in the American south are portrayed in Harriet Beecher Stowe's unflinching indictment of slavery. When a benevolent landowner decides to sell two slaves—Uncle Tom and Eliza—in...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

The instant number one Sunday Times bestseller and thrilling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing! THE IRON FLAME PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES A BRAND NEW CHAPTER FROM XADEN'S POINT OF VIEW!'Yarros...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT: 'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' The Sun'We weren't expecting to become obsessed . . . but we very...

Pre-order Beth's epic new novel, SWEPT AWAY, now! 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' EMILY HENRYTiffy and Leon share...

Readers love The Ingredients for Happiness! ‘A gorgeous summer read’ ‘Uplifting, funny, romantic and charming’...

For the readers who are moody, feisty, and in another world may also be stabby. She's her Captain's protector, and he's a rival Captain who just couldn't mind his own business.A Grim Pirates Fantasy With...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

From the author of TikTok sensations and global bestsellers The Love Hypothesis and Love on the BrainRival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...