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''Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn. "A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."-NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune "Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."-Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead...

An extraordinary quartet of Stephen King's unforgettable full-length novellas. A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers", a writer confronts the reality of his success in "Secret window, secret garden", after being scolded by "The library policeman", you'll never return a book late again; and once again the community of Castle Rock finds itself besieged by a nasty pooch in "The sun dog." "Four chiller novellas set...

These three short works represents the last flowering of Herman Melville's genius. By the time "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853) and "Benito Cereno" (1855) were published, Melville's career as a successful author was effectively over, even though he was still in his mid-thirties (Billy Budd, Foretopman, was not published until 1924, more than three decades after its author's death.) The exotic adventures that had launched Melville's fame had given way...

"The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon's The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region's survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers' most affluent...

"From Akutagawa award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent." "A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life." "A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant...

"Silas tiene el tiempo en su contra, al mismo tiempo que muchas verdades se revelan ante él, mientras que otras sólo complican todo. Ahora todo está fuera de control y la desaparición de Charlie lo ha puesto en un aprieto, ya que él es el único lazo entre el pasado y el presente, así como la última persona que la vio. Entre los «te quiero» y los «nunca, nunca», hay un secreto que es más fuerte que Charlie y Silas y sólo juntos podrán...

"Lee Hollis headlines a new Christmas collection alongside New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon and Agatha Award-winning author Maddie Day, with three cozy mysteries featuring handknit mittens made for murder… DEATH OF A CHRISTMAS MITTEN KNITTER by LEE HOLLIS The church’s annual Christmas bazaar is an unqualified success until the local jeweler cries out that a valuable diamond ring has been stolen. Food writer Hayley Powell...