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1949: During the coldest winter Seattle has seen in decades, pregnant sixteen-year-old Brigid Ryan arrives at Fairmile, a home for “fallen women” run by the Catholic Church on a remote island in Puget Sound. She and her baby will disappear before the snow melts.

In 1835, at the age of 13, a young boy walked nearly 300 miles to Paris; he worked odd jobs, and did whatever it took to survive. He eventually learned a craft: box making. Before long, the young boy had earned enough to open his own box-making store.

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It's Christmas 1980, and inside a sprawling Upper West Side apartment, Faye Bascov is about to throw an opulent Christmas dinner - a tradition for this secular, well-educated Jewish family. But any family gathering is an invitation for old resentments to boil over, as Faye's sister-in-law Julie and the extended family have plenty to hash out. Flash-forward to 2000, and the apartment, now much shabbier, reflects how the family's fortunes have changed, and the Bascovs now have to reckon with the legacy of their family discord.

Big, sort-of-sloppy, brew-loving P.I. opens up his files on some of his most fascinating cases. Here are 10 stories and two novelettes, giving Nameless fans a page-turning potpourri of his toughest and most dangerous adventures. Case File is a 12-pack to be popped open and enjoyed on an off-duty afternoon. So sit back and spend some time with one of America's favorite P.I.'s who has caught more criminals - an imaginations - than any other gumshoe in recent American fiction.

The need for love - obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable - takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home.

He woke up in a cave with no memory and smelling of sulfur. All he knows is that his name is Christopher and that he can see monsters. Now he's caught between humanity and the creatures of the night while he tries to find answers to the mysteries of his own past.

Brimstone - a town where supernatural beings live - and where crime is on the increase. Just like her gran, Cassia Winter is a witch. The Winter witches are responsible for investigating crimes in Brimstone. The only problem is, Cassia doesn't know she's a witch yet. When Gran tells Cassia about her true nature, Cassia dismisses it as nonsense. But a terrible incident causes Cassia to change her mind. With her cat, Stanley, at her side, Cassia enters Brimstone and is soon investigating the murder of a werewolf.

When Toot doesn't return home to Woodcock Pocket as expected, Puddle becomes worried and decides he must go find him. His search leads him on a remarkable adventure, and to new summits of friendship.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it was clear that it would impact all of our lives in important ways and we would have to drastically change the way we communicated with one another and did business. Would we fight back against the changes and wait for the “old normal” to return, or adopt new technologies and adapt to the new way of doing things? Though the Zoom video conferencing platform was already being used by individuals and businesses around the world, the pandemic made its use a necessity, and those who embraced it and mastered it thrived.

Vince (22)--recently married to Chloe (28)--met Charles (64) on the flight home from the official launch of Pirate Chain (ARRR), the worlds most anonymous crypto currency. During the flight, Charles showed Vince some raunchy pictures of his wife, Olga, on his phone. She was very attractive and much younger than him, sitting alone on a park bench with her legs parted, looking over her shoulder, then staring directly at the camera and holding her dress up, showing her stockinged legs and panties.

In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than 40 days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of self-hatred, dedication, and spiritual yearning.

We're all looking for greater purpose in life and to somehow make a difference in the world around us. We search high and low to discover this purpose in our work, family, hobbies, and adventures. But what if your greatest life purpose has been right in front of you all along? The truth is Jesus has already shown you the way. Your biggest adventure is found in the small batch.

A short story magazine that assembles a thrilling new mix of stories from genres including horror, science-fiction, comedy, and suspense. Buried at the heart of every story in the magazine is a unique artifact, an object that has inspired our storytellers to create a big idea, an irresistible question, a new immersive world, or a sense of wonder. Unearth your next great story with Assemble Artifacts.

On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness, theoretical physicist Joo Magueijo tells the story of Majorana and his research group, the Via Panisperna Boys, who discovered atomic fission in 1934. As Majorana, the most brilliant of the group, began to realize the implications of what they had found, he became increasingly unstable.

In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, Quincannon goes undercover as a newly hired miner to identify and capture the men responsible. Meanwhile, Sabina finds herself not only making plans for her and Quincannon’s wedding, but also investigating both an audacious real estate scam and an abusive young man’s villainous secret.

The story follows Aleahcym as she uncovers the brutal history of her ancestry. Many years ago, a vicious murder caused a deep division within her tribe. An ancestor was falsely accused, which led to the tribe being torn in two and almost completely wiped out. Both tribes held a dark secret involving werewolves and shifters. Aleahcym discovers that she has the ability to reset her life after death, but this power comes at a great cost. Now, a dragon named Darkness is seeking to erase her from existence.

Spies! Treason! Conspiracy! The American Civil War? Civil War spying had all the ingredients of a modern spy movie - just replaces gadgets with Saber's and Colt's. This audiobook looks at the incredible history of espionage in the Civil War. With a gripping narrative, this audiobook will sund more like a John le Carré spy novel than a history audiobook.

Transform grief from an unbearable burden into a journey of acceptance, remembrance, and renewal. According to the American Pet Products Association, almost 70 percent of households in the United States own a pet, most often a dog or a cat. In recent years, pet owners have collectively spent $72 billion on animal care each year. Clearly, millions of people love their pets and find them invaluable companions in life. If you’re among these millions of lucky pet owners, then you don’t even need statistics to confirm such an incredible bond between humans and pets.

Portland police detective Neil Ferguson uncovers a series of puzzling and threatening clues that lead to the identity of D.B. Cooper, the mysterious man who hijacked a plane and parachuted off with $200,000 in 1971. But when Ferguson delves deeper into a web of blackmail and murder, he realizes there may in fact be two D.B. Coopers.