The historic hotel in Boonsboro has endured war and peace, the changing of hands, and even rumored hauntings. Now it?s getting a major face-lift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett has little time for a social life. But there?s another project he?s got his eye on: the girl he?s been waiting to kiss since he was sixteen. After losing her husband and returning to her hometown, Clare Brewster...

Sunken treasure, modern piracy, two surprising half sisters, and strange and evil orchids are some of the things Laurel Long encounters on her visit to Key West's Old Town.

"An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time. Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics...

Tired of the same old fantasy? Here are nineteen much-needed antidotes to clichéd tales of swords and sorcery. Fantasy is back, and it's better than ever!

Twenty-two boxing stories written over the century. They include two on men who box to finance their education. In The Croxley Master, written in 1900 by A. Conan Doyle, he is a medical student, while in Mel Matison's 1943 Rose into Cauliflower he is a ballet dancer.

When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.

When Harper Martin drifts into a sleepy Cape Cod resort with a mysterious investment plan, he unleashes a firestorm involving the F.B.I., the State Department, the government of Nicaragua, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Lauro Marello's hilarious new novel features a surreal cast of characters, among them the Souza Family ["Provincetown's version of the Kennedys. They were handsome, glamorous, Catholic and doomed"], Voodoo Woman, and a parrot named...

Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.