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...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Every night, he drives strangers home. Anindo never imagined his life would look like this. Once, he had dreams of stability, respect, and a future that felt secure. Instead, he found himself behind the wheel of a cab, navigating the restless streets of a city that barely notices men like him. But someone does notice. Hannah. His wife. His partner. The woman who chose him when he had nothing certain to offer. Together, they’ve built a fragile but hopeful life—one held together by late-night tea, shared laughter, and quiet promises about a better tomorrow. Then comes one ordinary night. ...

Winner of the California Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a “remarkably vivid...deeply empathetic” (Los Angeles Times) story that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her...

Silas is haunted by the memory of his dead wife... And of the tragedy that occurred on the night that she died. Or, perhaps, he is consumed by the guilt of what transpired on the stairs... A dark and haunting short tale of horror.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 :)

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Abandoned on a remote island by the man she loved, Ariadne’s heart turns to fire. Discarded by Theseus, she swears revenge—but fate has bigger plans. Guided by Circe, gifted with immortality and the power to shape destinies, Ariadne returns to Athens to confront her treacherous husband. She spares him, leaving him to live with his guilt. Yet her vengeance is far from over. For the father she lost, transformed into a monster by King Minos, justice must be claimed. Ariadne will rise, reclaim her throne, and let no one stand in her way. Themes: Woman Betrayed Abandoned on an Island ...

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 ...

What if the price of love was forgetting it ever existed? In a future where relationships are government-regulated and romantic memories are erased after five years, Mira and Jace have only hours left before they lose everything they've built together. But Mira isn’t ready to let go, and she’s willing to risk everything to remember their love. With the help of a rogue memory hacker, Mira devises a way to preserve their love illegally. But when the system catches up with her, she’s forced into an impossible choice: let Jace forget her forever, or sacrifice herself to carry their love ...