Everyone knows that if you want to be a better author, you need to read. And sure, everyone needs to read, but you can’t ...

Well-crafted memoir by the noted media mogul. Diller’s home life as a youngster was anything but happy; as he writes early on, “The household I grew up in was perfectly dysfunctional.” His mother ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

A talented young witch named Lydia Polk finds herself in a race against time to track down the Grimorium Bellum, a book of unspeakable magical power, before it falls into Nazi hands at the height of ...

The Plague has left a population divided between Elites and Ordinaries—those who have powers and those who don’t; now, an Ordinary teen fights for her life. Paedyn Gray witnessed the king kill her ...

Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Well-crafted memoir by the noted media mogul. Diller’s home life as a youngster was anything but happy; as he writes early on, “The household I grew up in was perfectly dysfunctional.” His mother ...

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Sometimes it feels like all fiction is fantasy. Is it any easier to believe in the reality of an Elizabeth Bennett than a Katniss Everdeen? All authors are spinning a web—creating worlds that don’t ...