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When Elizabeth Bennet is caught on the road during a violent August storm, she takes refuge at a small coaching inn, only to discover that Mr. Darcy has been forced there by the same tempest. With every chamber already taken, they have no choice but to share the last room available. Determined to protect her reputation, Darcy keeps a careful distance through the long night. But when George Wickham arrives at the inn and witnesses the arrangement, whispers begin before the storm has even passed. By morning, Meryton is already buzzing with speculation. Now Darcy must defend Elizabeth publicly...

When Fitzwilliam Darcy is thrown from his horse on a quiet Hertfordshire lane, he expects inconvenience, not transformation. Forced to remain at Longbourn while his shoulder heals, he finds himself an unexpected guest in the lively Bennet household, surrounded by laughter, disorder, and the spirited woman he once offended beyond repair. Elizabeth Bennet has no intention of allowing proximity to soften her opinion. Darcy’s pride is well remembered, and his presence in her home is surely only temporary. Yet the days that follow reveal a different man: thoughtful, restrained, and quietly ...

THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the...

A summer by the sea was the last place Elizabeth Bennet Ashbourne expected to encounter the past she had long set aside. Widowed after a sensible but loveless marriage, Elizabeth accepts her aunt and uncle Gardiner’s invitation to Brighton in hopes that sea air and cheerful company might restore her spirits. Yet the lively promenades and glittering Channel hold an unexpected surprise: a chance meeting with Fitzwilliam Darcy, the gentleman whose proposal she once refused and whose memory she believed safely confined to another chapter of her life. As warm July days unfold along ...

There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L’Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories. Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

The author presents a collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser.

From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as...

Nuclear Fire is a series of related even connected short stories that leads the reader through some of the most horrendous nuclear events of the past 100 years. From the development of nuclear weapons under The Manhattan Project, through the creation of reactors, to nuclear fires and core meltdowns, it takes you through plausible reasons why they happened and the implications of human greed and errors in the design, construction, and operation of both weapons reactors and commercial power reactors. Yet through it all with only one exception, the Chernobyl disaster, fewer people have died ...

“Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.” — Philadelphia Inquirer This New York Times bestselling epic is...

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Cards on the Table, the wily Hercule Poirot is on the case when a bridge night turns deadly Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he...

When Mark Stevens, an innkeeper in Victorian London, welcomes Victor Hale Jr. to The Black Swan, he has no idea that this guest may mark the turning point of his life. But who is Victor Hale, really? Why has he chosen this particular inn? And what business has brought him to London at all? Mark must uncover the truth before time runs out. Story #1 in an eight-part series of standalone tales—each set in a different place, a different era, and a different kind of world.

Swept away secretly from a dangerous situation two years earlier, along with three friends, Catherine now lives where hopefully no one from their past can find them. Bitter about her past and circumstances beyond her control, she’s satisfied being miserable, staying to herself. She hides secrets of the past, refusing to find enjoyment in life, still loving the memory of a man gone forever. Sick of herself, her life changes and hope is restored. Humbled, filled with peace and hope, she finds a good paying job, and brighter future. Helping her roommates at the boarding house find the same ...

A young woman’s night-time escapade goes eerily wrong. A man is forced to relive the horrible accident that tore his family apart over and over again. An underground thrill through ancient catacombs proves disastrously horrific. A young boy is haunted by the scarecrow in the fields behind his home. And a woman is revisited by the ghost of a psychotic killer in the most dreadful of ways. Scare Street brings you some of the best short horror stories by authors Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, Eric Whittle, Sara Clancy, and A. I. Nasser, all in one book.

From the brilliant pen of Agatha Christie comes the first novel in her Tommy and Tuppence mystery series featuring the beloved sleuthing duo—now a movie on both Acorn TV and PBS. Tommy and Tuppence are young, in love… and flat broke. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring...

The McKeegans: Sweet Historical Western Romance – 6 Book Collection Step into the untamed Montana frontier with the unforgettable McKeegans—a family bound by loyalty, tested by hardship, and forever changed by love. From the ashes of war to the struggles of survival, each McKeegan brother must face his own battles and embrace the power of second chances. Along the way, courageous women—scarred by loss, hunted by outlaws, or determined to carve out independence—find themselves drawn into a world of sweeping passion, peril, and unexpected hope. ✨ Six Heart-Stirring Stories in One ...

Alan is able to imagine every way critical equipment might break during the launch and landing of Apollo 11. But his experience in preventing cosmic disasters does nothing to prepare him for the pressures of a hasty marriage to a woman he barely knows—or the strain of keeping up appearances amid the shifting social attitudes of the late ’60s. When a crisis at home forces Alan back to earth, he’s faced with a choice he doesn’t know how to make: whether to let go or move forward.

In this exciting short story, Louis L'Amour, the legendary voice of the American West, celebrates the unique breed of men who worked the great cattle ranches. In this classic story, hard riding Danny Lonigan faces a group of rustlers without fear--or mercy...

In stories that are more personal than any that she has written before, Alice Munro pieces her family history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning...