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...

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.

"MERGE Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for $26 million, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the only thing his father left behind after he died. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from...