Short Tragic

*Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to...

A 2023 Audie Award winner! A 2023 Odyssey Honors title! “This is no ordinary audiobook, but rather a graphic novel for the ears. Readers will be delighted by the auditory magic of this book.” —Booklist "A full cast of talented narrators taps into the darkly magical atmosphere of Bardugo's...

Thirty-four tragic tales of science fiction, speculative fiction, and dark satire. The characters within suffer unspeakable losses triggered by Human incompetence, alien visitations (both malicious and benign), Apocalyptic annoyances, corrupted faith, unscrupulous corporate overlords, dismal first contact blunders, our uncertain future, and other uplifting terrors. Featuring: CARE PACKAGE HELP IS ON THE WAY THERE’S NO HELL LIKE HEAVEN EMBERS OF LIFE A BASILEUS CHRISTMAS OLIVER MOORE IS IN OUR FAMILY ROOM I AM WORRIED ABOUT MY ANXIETY THE KING’S DINNER MERCY MISSION THE FOURTEEN ...

Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it.

A wealthy provincial spinster has been waiting for a suitable husband for longer than Alençon can remember. Two men compete for her hand: the Chevalier de Valois, old royalist, elegant, impractical, a relic of the ancien régime preserved in provincial amber; and du Bousquier, republican, bourgeois, physically unprepossessing and completely unscrupulous. Their rivalry is a contest between two Frances forced into uneasy cohabitation under the Restoration — and du Bousquier wins. The d'Esgrignon family are old Norman nobility, proud and genuinely distinguished and entirely irrelevant to ...

Oscar Husson boards a coach from Paris to the Ile-Adam and does what young men of bourgeois aspiration have always done in such situations: he makes claims about himself that the subsequent years will spend considerable energy disproving. The boasts he offers his fellow passengers on that journey will follow him — through military service, through the various humiliations of a life conducted at the distance between pretension and reality — until the world has taught him, at the rate it always sets, the difference between the person he claimed to be and the person he was capable of ...

Louise de Chaulieu and Renée de Maucombe leave their convent school together and write to each other for the rest of their lives. Louise will love passionately, totally, with the absolute intensity that her nature demands — twice, and the second time fatally. Renée will marry sensibly, discover in duty and motherhood a genuine contentment, and outlive her friend. Balzac's Memoirs of Two Young Married Women conducts this comparison across hundreds of letters with a honesty that refuses to declare a winner: Louise's choice has a grandeur that Renée's does not, and Renée's has a ...

The four-year-old Brandon Sims had not been seen since July 3, 1992, when he attended a birthday party with his 20-year-old mother, Michelle Jones. For years, Jones lied to her friends about Brandon, telling some that he was living with his father and others that he was staying with his grandmother in another state. When Brandon’s father, who had been in jail, came looking for Brandon, Michelle’s shocked friends confronted her. She confessed that Brandon was dead. She repeated her story of how Brandon died to a detective. The detective didn’t believe her story.

A seaside romance novel series from Amazon #1 best selling author The Frost family boasts the Nantucket Estate, an enormous and historic property on the magical island of Nantucket. This beach front estate rests so close to the shore that the sea mist sprinkled the children and family dog, Bear as they played in the yard. At the end of each day, the family fell asleep to the sweet sound of water crashing the rocks. The Frost family created lifelong memories at the estate. The only problem is that no one is around to enjoy it anymore… Elizabeth Frost is the glue that held the family ...

Three women. Three different encounters with the same social world — its marriages, its codes of honor, its promises and its costs. Julie d'Aiglemont marries at nineteen, in the full romantic ardor of the Napoleonic era, and spends the following decades learning with quiet precision what that decision has cost her. Madame de Merret is forced by her husband to swear, on a crucifix, that there is no one in the closet of her bedroom — and her husband, having extracted the oath, orders the closet walled up. Honorine leaves her privileged life and her devoted husband to live alone in a Paris...

From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile justice system and its inhabitants—young people of earnestness, disappointment, hope, and...

Pierrette Lorrain is a child, an orphan, sent to live with cousins she has never met in the provincial town of Provins. The Rogrons are former shopkeepers newly arrived at modest prosperity and desperate for social respectability. What Pierrette provides them, from the first day, is an unpaid servant. What Provins provides the Rogrons is the political protection of a town whose ultra-royalist establishment prefers not to examine too closely what is happening in the Rogron household. By the time anyone looks closely enough, it is too late. Dinah de la Baudraye is the most intelligent person ...

Hundreds of movies and thousands of books have been written about the heroes of World War II. For dozens of years, however, few people knew about one of the greatest heroes of the war - a mild-mannered, eccentric mathematician from the University of Cambridge. This man, an undeniable genius whose later life was plagued by controversy and tragedy, probably played a greater role in the eventual Allied victory than anyone else. Until quite recently his contribution to the war effort was barely recognized. This is his incredible story.

A Story of Love, Distance, and Lost Desires 💌 Is love enough to defy fate? Or is the greatest act of love learning to let go? For seven years, he has lived with the hope of returning; she, with the certainty that love is not always enough. A judicial decision tore them apart—condemning him to exile and leaving her to hold together the home they once built. He writes to her, longing to reclaim what was lost. She answers with a truth too painful to ignore. Through letters filled with love, nostalgia, and silent goodbyes, Letters in the Wind is a deeply moving story about the weight of ...

A demolition of a building nearby causes Liam's office building to collapse. He is trapped inside and in his final moments, he can only think of one person—his husband, who is no longer in love with him. Maybe it was all in his imagination and it was all in his head, but it was too late now. Or was it? Note: This is a short, angsty romance with a happy ending. Trust the author :)

There was never going to be a happy ending for dragons. The age of fire is dying. Across frozen wastelands, ruined kingdoms, abandoned temples, and ash-covered battlefields, the last dragons face extinction one final time. Some rage against the darkness consuming them. Others cling to fading purpose long after the world has forgotten their names. A glacier king awakens to a melting world. A blind dragon keeps a lonely lighthouse burning through endless storms. A creature imprisoned beneath a church waits centuries for freedom. A dying guardian protects an egg that may never hatch. An ...

She trusted them with her heart—and they shattered her life. Now, the girl who lost her dream will make them pay for every step they stole. She was born to dance. But the ones who should’ve protected her tore her world apart. Sophia Davis had everything — talent, grace, and a future that glittered under the stage lights. Until betrayal stole it all. Her brother. Her fiancé. The two people she trusted most. They shattered her heart, her spirit, and the dream that defined her. When the truth finally comes to light, Sophia realizes that forgiveness is far too gentle for the monsters she...

An intimate account of the Spitzer administration, one man's political downfall, and the enduring friendship between two complex men. The March 10, 2008, disclosure that Governor Eliot Spitzer had patronized prostitutes from the Emperor's Club VIP sex ring shocked New Yorkers and his admirers around the world, who had celebrated Spitzer as the "Sheriff of Wall Street" and a likely future U.S. president. Ironically, one man's disillusionment with Spitzer had begun to disappear 15 hours earlier, when Spitzer confessed what the rest of the world would soon learn in a media storm of unprecedented intensity.

A New York Times bestselling author’s gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence. In the tradition of works like Random Family and Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Sudhir Venkatesh’s The Tomorrow Game is a deeply reported chronicle of...

Crownshatter Paths: 23 Relentless Epic Quest Fantasies with Fates Twisted Beyond Return Not all quests end in glory. Some end in ruin. Some in silence. Some in revelations that change everything. In this unforgettable collection of 23 standalone epic quest fantasies, Ashendair Dusk takes you through winding roads of wonder and peril — stories of wanderers, warriors, scholars, and outcasts who set out seeking crowns, lanterns, thrones, and truths… only to discover that destiny is never what it promises. ⚔️ Every tale is its own journey — complete with beginnings, trials, allies, ...