Unknown Cities

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right...

🔥 Guilty Pleasures – A bold, seductive, and laugh-out-loud journey into lust, chaos, and the kind of pleasure that just might lead to love. Come as you are—no judgment, no filter—as Belle takes you into her world of sexual misadventures, secret desires, and wild detours through the modern dating jungle. She’s been betrayed, ghosted, lied to, and left heartbroken—but she’s still hoping to find something real. Wealthy, witty, and emotionally raw, Belle is an only child who lost both her parents far too young. She craves connection, even as she stumbles into situations that ...

Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world, each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the “Friday Nights.”

David Hurrelgan seems to have everything anyone could want: fame, wealth, a loving wife, and great friends. However, his life changes dramatically when he gets caught in a mysterious virtual world called "Amintor." In this futuristic place, David is faced with a tough choice: he must die in the virtual world to return to the real world, and each death feels incredibly painful and real. Worse yet, every time he falls asleep, he ends up back in Amintor against his will. David is determined to find out who is responsible for trapping him and to discover a way to escape Amintor for good. Follow...

An LGBTQ Post-Apocalyptic Romance “Kid has a point, though. You’re not worried about bringing a strange man home?” Alison gave him an unsmiling look. “Just don’t try anything.” Her free hand clutched the knife at her belt. “You wouldn’t be the first man I’ve ever gutted.” When a stranger finds his way to their camp, Alison is wise to be wary. She can't be too careful in the devastated world they've found themselves in after the Fall. She had the children, Manuel and Tammy, to consider. Dangerous animals and raiders were the norm these days and protecting their livelihood...

High above the scorching, toxic surface of a hostile world, the floating city of Astraea is a marvel of human engineering. But beneath the golden clouds, something ancient is waking up. Elena Ward thought she was taking a routine maintenance job on a low-altitude operations station. But when an impossibly massive radar return begins tracking her ship through violent lightning storms, the mission becomes a desperate bid for her life. The corporation has been suppressing sensor alerts for over a year to protect their bottom line, and now, Elena and her crew are trapped in a crushing, high-...

From badass writer Hannah Jewell, She Caused a Riot is an empowering, no-holds-barred look into the epic adventures and dangerous exploits of 100 inspiring women who were too brave, too brilliant, too unconventional, too political, too poor, not ladylike enough, and not white enough to be recognized by their shitty contemporaries. 

What if the history you were taught was only the surface, and beneath it lies the memory of a vast civilization, buried in mud, silence, and half-erased maps? Across continents, strange clues keep appearing. Buildings with doors swallowed by the ground. Maps that show an empire where modern textbooks claim there was only wilderness. Legends of giants, global floods, and forgotten technologies that seemed to work with the Earth instead of against it. Together, they point toward a single unsettling question: how does an entire civilization vanish, while its fingerprints remain everywhere? In ...

SYNOPSIS: In 1974, a Russian boy falls into a coma after severe blood loss, leaving him with the possibility of losing his leg after three surgeries. Barely surviving, he desperately makes a deal with the universe, which brings the KGB after him, accusing the teen of ‘ideological propaganda.’ (This standalone story is also available in print as part of the Starcall Anthology, Vol.5, illustrated by the author.)

Before history remembered him as an Unknown Soldier, he was Leonard James Carter. In December 1941, Leonard is an eighteen-year-old rancher’s son from Klamath Falls, Oregon; a gifted football player in love with Lucille Harper and dreaming of a quiet future beside Upper Klamath Lake. Then Pearl Harbor changes everything. Determined to serve his country, Leonard enlists in the United States Marine Corps and leaves behind his family, his hometown, and the young woman he has promised to marry. Carried across the Pacific, he is transformed from an untested recruit into a battle-hardened ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A brutal murder. A detective with no one left to trust. ‘[Steiner] solidified the promise of last year’s debut, Missing, Presumed, with another hyper-realistic police procedural’ Guardian: Books of the Year 2017 A YOUNG MAN MURDERED A city banker bleeds to death...

If you fall down, get up and finish. Dwight Slaughter graduated from Verbum Dei High School, a school with one of the top 10 winning basketball teams of all time. While at Verbum Dei High School Dwight was voted number one player in the country in 1972 by different sports magazines. He then went on to further his education and play basketball at Cal State Los Angeles from 1972 to 1976 - a period that would set a precedent with new laws changing how colleges accept athletes.

A Novel of Brotherhood, Sacrifice, and the Alabama 167th Infantry in the Great War In the shattered fields of France, where mud swallows boots and bullets write the fate of nations, a group of young men from Alabama stand shoulder to shoulder as part of the legendary 167th U.S. Infantry Regiment — the backbone of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. From the dusty heat of the Mexican border chasing Pancho Villa to the blood-soaked trenches of Europe, Unknown Soldier: World War I is a powerful and emotional journey into the heart of courage and the cost of war. Follow James, a young officer from ...