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A dazzling debut collection of ten powerful, feminist, and queer short stories from bestselling author Zoe Whittall “Absorbing and wrenchingly intimate, with a rare balance of wit and tenderness.”—Jenny Fran Davis, author of Dykette In Wild Failure, characters encounter feelings of shame...

When Jenny St. John was eighteen, she moved to Los Angeles from her rural midwestern hometown and scored the lead role in an independent film called The Divide. Under the intimate direction of young auteur Serge Grumet, Jenny was on her way to becoming the next indie darling. But then the movie tanked, and Jenny never caught a second break. Now, two decades later, after floundering on the fringes of the entertainment industry, she’s barely keeping afloat running a low-level grift as a psychic life coach. But when news surfaces that Serge has been murdered, Jenny’s life is turned upside down.

Thirty-six-year-old stay-at-home soccer mom Kate Burke is happily married to Matt Parsons, although their marriage looks very different behind closed doors. Kate is no longer interested in having sex with her husband. So, while they still love each other madly, they make an arrangement: Matt can have one-night stands with other women on work trips, but when he returns home, he has to tell Kate about them—every juicy detail.

Claire entdeckt ein verborgenes Familiengeheimnis, während düstere Schatten ihre Jugend prägen. Ihr Vater verschwindet spurlos und ihre traumatisierte Familie bricht auseinander. Getrieben von hartnäckigen Befragungen, kämpft Claire um Normalität. Inmitten des Chaos erinnert sie sich an die mysteriösen Worte ihres Vaters, eine verschlüsselte Botschaft zur sicheren Zuflucht. Die Enthüllung des Geheimnisses zieht Claire in ein gefährliches Unterfangen, geprägt von Liebe, Verrat und Selbstfindung.

Die Zutaten für einen romantischen Herbst: buntes Laub, ein Neuanfang, der gut aussehende beste Freund des Bruders... und eine Wette. Mit dreißig wieder ins Kinderzimmer einziehen? Schlimm genug für Arzthelferin Franzi, die durch die Trennung nicht nur die gemeinsame Wohnung verliert, sondern zugleich auch den Job in der Praxis ihres Ex. Aber anstatt dass sie bei ihren Eltern in aller Ruhe ihre Wunden lecken kann, belegt Hannes, der langjährige beste Freund ihres Bruders, mit seiner neuen Flamme ihr Zimmer.

Die Schulzeit wird für Mia zunehmend belastender, denn es ist etwas anders. Verzweifelt wird sie von ihren Eltern in Psychotherapie geschickt. Doch was hat es mit der Therapeutin und dem magischen Amulett auf sich, welches sie geschenkt bekommen hat?

Grow Damn It! is a captivating work by Cheryl Oreglia, who uses uncommon honesty and arresting humor to draw you into her cantankerous life, forty-year marriage, and revolving empty nest. She claims the space between past and future is where our potential is created or destroyed. If you don't like where your life is going, dig deeper, and write a new story. By weeding out the things that clutter her life, she invites you into a refreshing space with some of her most popular posts from her beloved blog Living in the Gap.

*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. “What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni...

Jane Eyre meets The Thirteenth Tale in this new modern gothic mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Carol Goodman, about a reclusive writer who is desperate to rewrite the past. Losing yourself inside of a book can be dangerous. Not everyone finds their way out. Agnes Corey...

An irresistible compilation of five previously published stories by the NYT bestselling author of the Kate Daniels series; including Kate’s very first meeting with Saiman, some related adventures, two unforgettable “outside” excursions, and additional material from both Curran and Jim’s point of view.

When four unconnected serial killers simultaneously commit identical murders across four different US cities, FBI Special Agent Shannon Wallace faces an unprecedented threat—a cooperative of killers working in unison. Each homicide is witnessed by a survivor, and now these lucky ones need to decide how to tell their stories to the world. Their posts about the horrific murders create a media storm and a new term is soon coined for the killers: The Alliance.

Alex Walker has always looked up to her perfect older sister. Maddie has succeeded in all the ways Alex has not: She escaped their hometown and seems to have put the memories of their unstable childhood behind her. But despite the different paths their lives have taken, the two sisters made a pact to spend one week together every summer. It was a promise they’d never broken . . . until now.

Jill Stone, an American radio journalist who married a Dutchman, has spent the past 20 years carefully curating the perfect Dutch life full of borrels—drinks, boats, bikes, and friends in the idyllic village of Loenen aan de Vecht, just outside Amsterdam.

Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second collection of innovative science fiction. Again, Dangerous Visions—the middle installment in a planned three anthology series—includes award-winning stories from incomparable writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Piers Anthony, Dean Koontz, and James Tiptree, among many others.

A cross between Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and a bartender from Cheers, Sally Witherspoon, a fifty-something accountant turned biker-bar owner, loves solving puzzles. Up to now, she has focused on helping neighbors and friends find lost jewelry, lost pets, and lost loves. But when she finds her best friend and business partner, Bill Arnold, dead in a dumpster behind the bar, she needs all her wits and grit to find out who murdered him.

Du bist gefeuert! Fristlos! Ein Enthüllungsbericht kostet Carla Job und Karriere. Frustriert kehrt sie Deutschland den Rücken. Ihr Weg führt sie in die Toskana, auf ein Gut nahe Siena. Abseits vom Touristenrummel. Dort begegnet ihr Silvio, der Sohn des Hauses. Der faszinierende Toskaner wirbelt das Gefühlsleben der Journalistin so richtig durcheinander. Und doch scheint er nicht der Gentleman zu sein, als der er sich in der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert - glaubt man den Anschuldigungen seiner Frau... Eine humorvolle und spannende Lovestory aus der Toskana.

Most people’s births aren’t immortalized in a police report—but Olivia was born during the infamous Camp Lost Lake murders. Seventeen years later, Olivia’s life looks pretty perfect . . . until she discovers the man she calls dad is not her biological father. Now she wants answers about her bloodline, and the only place she knows to look is Camp Lost Lake. Most people don’t spend their formative years on the run with an alleged murderer—but Reagan did. In the court of public opinion, her mom was found guilty of the deaths at Camp Lost Lake, and both of them have been in hiding ever since.

A Natalie Portman Book Club Pick “Sinewy, tough, sharp . . . Even though Schneck works at a scale that is deliberately small, insistently concrete, and extremely lean, her writing somehow exposes whole vistas of the female experience.” —Katie Roiphe, The Atlantic From the award-winning and...

In the wake of the Hebridean insurrection, which threatened the safety and future of her homeworld, Alex of Terra is focused on isolating the conspirators so no further harm can be done. Her soulmate, Lauren of Earth, prepares to become Alex’s Consort and the Co-Ruler of the Terran people, but she is plagued with horrible nightmares from the aftermath of recent trauma. She’s also dealing with the sadness of believing she abandoned her dearest friends whom she left behind on her own homeworld.

In this new collection, Patrick Barb explores themes of family found and lost, media consumption and the dangers of runaway nostalgia, the supernatural in our lives, and the impact of violence in both the long- and short-term. From rural backwoods to Park Slope brownstones, Barb's characters face impossible, awful situations, testing their inner strength and understanding of reality. Covering quiet horror, weird fiction, supernatural horror, slasher horror, topical dark fiction, and more, these stories spotlight supposedly familiar terrors and fears in new and unexpected ways.