Literary

A Week in Summer: A Short Story

by Maeve Binchy

After many happy years of marriage and raising a family, Brian and Kathleen suddenly find themselves a bit lost in life. Midwesterners who’ve never traveled, Kathleen decides that what she and Brian need is...

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

Costa Book Award Best First Novel 2011

by Christie Watson

Winner of the 2011 Costa First Novel Award

When their mother catches their father with another woman, twelve year-old Blessing and her fourteen-year-old brother, Ezikiel, are forced to leave their comfortable...

An Dantomine Eerly

by Jarret Richard Devlin Middleton

As the Irish-American poet Dallin lays dying, he recalls the surreal geography and traumatic events that lead him to the end.  An absence in a wind-beaten house suggests a past but somehow still-looming tragedy;...

A Blessing on the Moon

by Joseph Skibell

Joseph Skibell's magical tale about the Holocaust-a fable inspired by fact-received unanimous nationwide acclaim when first published in 1997. At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death...

The Shadow-Line: A Confession

by Joseph Conrad

The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad’s later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the “shadow-line”...

Collisions

by Jesse S. Greever

Lewis Grafton lives a life of routine and isolation. His days are spent in front of a computer, shut out from the rest of the world, except for his late night order of "the usual" at Manuel's Serrano Bar & Grill....

Bahamian Rhapsody

by David J. Andrews

The second in the series of the History Detective is another fast paced adventure novel with the serious intent of bringing little known history alive within the readers' imagination. These stoiries are based...

Pafko at the Wall: A Novella

by Don DeLillo

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

She

by H. Haggard & Patrick Brantlinger

"She" is Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African Tribe-and the goal of three English gentlemen, who must face shipwreck, fever, and cannibals in their quest to find her hidden realm. First published...

Mariette in Ecstasy

by Ron Hansen

The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.

Homeplace

by Anne Rivers Siddons

After twenty-one years Micah (Mike) Winship is making the big move--she's going home for a visit. She hasn't been back since 1963, when her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for her. And although...

A Lovely Leave & Over the Rainbow

by Victor J. Banis

Two great flash pieces from Victor J. Banis in one volume! A Lovely Leave: If love is ever-enduring, can it matter much if the face changes? The heart sees differently from the eyes. Over the Rainbow: Youthful...

The Wooden Chair

by Rayne E. Golay

Winner of the Royal Palm Award! As a child, Leini stands ready to do anything to win her mother Mira's love. This effort costs her the sight in one eye and as a result, causes her to endure bullying from kids...

Mother of the Groom

by Augusta Trobaugh

"A son is a son until he takes him a wife," the old adage says, and Winifred, unwilling to give up her precious son at all, goes to outrageous means for preventing his wedding. A new short story from the acclaimed...

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton's first literary success. The novel features the desirable yet impoverished Lily Bart, who was raised to be an eventual upper class wife. However, her reluctance to conform...

Inheritance

by Victoria Wilcox

The name Doc Holliday conjures images of the Wild West and the shootout at the OK Corral, but before he was a Western legend he was a Southern son, born in the last days of the Old South with family links to...

Everything on the Line

by Bob Mitchell

The year is 2043. God and Satan are dining at a cute little Italian trattoria in Purgatory, when Satan challenges God to a wager: At stake is whether Good or Evil will prevail in the world. Both antagonists...

Visits from the Drowned Girl

by Steven Sherrill

Benny Poteat is, among other things, a tower jockey, his life defined by up or down. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burned-out lightbulbs, he observes the world from...

Happy Baby

by Stephen Elliott

Stephen Elliott's new novel, Happy Baby, explores how pain can define desire, how the future becomes the past, and how grace struggles with self-destruction. The story, told in reverse, begins with thirty-six-year-old...

The Intervention of a Good Man

by Herve Tellier Le

A middle-aged man (our hero) is traveling to the heart of the Scottish Highlands to be with his young mistress (our heroine), who is twenty years his junior. Some people would call this madness, a mistake, as...