Genre Literature

I found you just when I thought my life was over. Julien Kendrick. Not only am I a recent high school graduate from a prestigious school, but I also come from money—a lot of money. So why am I miserable? No, it’s more like apathy. I crave to escape this life, while others are desperate for it. I want to feel again. To feel something, anything. The decision to leave my horrible parents and friends to spend two weeks doing what I want to do is meant to be my last hurrah, as the old saying goes. I don’t want to spend it alone, though, so I hire a prostitute I find on the street.

When an EMP strike cripples America, a diver trapped offshore, a retired sheriff, and two stranded teens must fight to survive. Power is gone, chaos spreads, and every second counts in this pulse-pounding survival thriller.

Some distances cannot be measured in miles. Some are measured in seasons, silences, and the words we never found the courage to say. If you've ever longed for a place of quiet beauty at the end of the day, this audiobook was written for you. As twilight settles over moonlit gardens and wildflowers sway beneath a sky full of stars, The Distance Between Flowers invites you into a world where every story feels like a gentle breath, every page like a warm light in the darkness.

A farmer and his wife make a gruesome discovery. Their 911 call brings Detective Dan Cutter out to a lonely country driveway where he finds a brutally murdered young woman. She has no identification on her, but one thing is clear: Somebody wanted to make sure she was dead. Cutter, whose still learning his way around Stone County, must track down a cold-blooded killer who brought this Jane Doe to a dead end.

Detectives Strong and Layne are tracking a killer who's adept at covering his trail and making their jobs difficult. His targets are smart women who should know better than to get trapped but who are somehow not on guard when they should be. What's most disturbing is the killer's motive. Jason and Vanessa are in a race to stop this guy before he creates any more "collections".

Jason and Vanessa are back with a new lieutenant and a new case. With the discovery of a young woman's body on a greenway trail, the detectives are thrown into a desperate search for a killer.

Jason and Vanessa must discover what happened to their colleague before it's too late. This case is filled with secrets, some between partners, some inside the department, and Jason finds himself in the middle. He's trying to sort it all out, and not screw up. People he cares about are counting on him, and he can't let them down.

Seine Fähigkeiten sind durch einen mächtigen Fluch versiegelt, und Thorn kämpft gegen die Zeit, um seine Stimme wiederzuerlangen. Wird eine Suche quer durch die Welt die Antwort sein, oder wird alles, was er erreicht hat, weggenommen? Thorn ist zwar der Greymane, aber nach dem katastrophalen Ende der letzten Weltquest ist er nicht in der Lage zu regieren. Thorn macht sich mit seinen Freunden auf den Weg, um das Heilmittel für seinen Fluch zu finden, und lässt die Mondwolfzitadelle hinter sich, um nach dem schwer fassbaren Weltenbaum zu suchen.

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future. Now U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces the UP's natural beauty and way of life, along with a few surprises. The 36 works in this second annual volume take readers on UP road and boat trips from the Keweenaw to the Straits of Mackinac.

Jane Austen skewers the novelistic extremes of her day made popular in many 18th-century Gothic potboilers. Dilapidated castles, locked rooms, inexplicable chests, enigmatic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly sardonic twist.

NUCLEAR WAR: HISTORY REPEATS (DAY ZERO • BOOK 10)An assassination attempt on the Monarch and the murder of the Prime Minister of Great Britain trigger events that cannot be stopped. What was meant to be a demonstration of strength turns into a public humiliation of the state. Belfast erupts. London loses its center of control. The royal family evacuates. Within hours, a local crisis becomes a struggle for power over the entire British state. Britain has survived nuclear strikes, hunger, epidemics, and years of brutal endurance. It held together where other states would have collapsed.

To the world, I'm @HappyWife. Online, people only see my picture-perfect home, my handsome husband, Nick, and my beautiful baby, Thomas. They don't see the real Gemma Adams. They don't see my past, the dark secrets I'm hiding in my marriage. They don't see the fear I live in every single day. But I know someone is watching me. And now, they've taken Thomas. I just don't know why.

Based on a true story, Princess Parasia is torn from her family and trafficked to Germany as a child bride. Tragically widowed, her beauty catches the eye of the most powerful ruler in Christendom, the German Emperor Henry IV. She becomes his wife, a terrible man who answers to no one, or so he believes. Still a teenager her life is a nightmare, but she is not alone. Her step-son Crown Prince Conrad is consumed by revenge as the blaze-haired girl he adores suffers at his father's hands.

It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

We were willing to pay any price, until the price was her. Revenge always has a cost, We thought it’d be worth it. That we could bear any price. Willingly bleed for it. But when it becomes clear the price is her, all bets are off. She’s ours and no one takes what’s ours. This is book 3 and the final book in Lust & Liars series. This is a continuation of Brutal Little Secrets and begins where it left off.

Exploring more than 100 of the world's most important literary works and the literary geniuses that created them, this book is the perfect introduction to the subject of literature and writing. The Literature Book features some of the world's most celebrated books, plays and poetry, including Latin American and African fiction, and best-selling masterpieces from the most renowned authors ever to have lived.

The Black Swan Event reaches its stunning conclusion with Book Four from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. They’re here. The comet was never a natural disaster. The conspiracy was never about politics. The abilities the Pickett family has carried for generations were never random. Everything—the science, the secrecy, the sacrifice —has been leading to this moment.

When Michel, a young French scholar, survives a near-fatal illness during his honeymoon in North Africa, he emerges transformed. Rejecting the values that once defined him, he becomes obsessed with living authentically—following instinct rather than convention, pleasure rather than duty. As Michel sheds the expectations of society, marriage, and morality, his pursuit of liberation leads him into increasingly troubling territory.

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.

BOOK FOUR: Rebellion swells across the solar system and billions rise against the one King. Will the faithful survive the onslaught of the greatest military machine ever assembled? The final audiobook of The Reign. At the end of 1000 years of peace, the rebel governments have grown and prospered beyond any in history. When a sinister power is released into the Earth, a false messiah conspires to unite those governments against the King in Jerusalem. The invasion of dark spirits bends a giant shadow over the inhabited universe. Joshua Stippleman has lived longer than any mortal human.