Genre Literature

Some distances cannot be measured in miles. Some are measured in seasons, silences, and the words we never found the courage to say. If you've ever longed for a place of quiet beauty at the end of the day, this audiobook was written for you. As twilight settles over moonlit gardens and wildflowers sway beneath a sky full of stars, The Distance Between Flowers invites you into a world where every story feels like a gentle breath, every page like a warm light in the darkness.

A farmer and his wife make a gruesome discovery. Their 911 call brings Detective Dan Cutter out to a lonely country driveway where he finds a brutally murdered young woman. She has no identification on her, but one thing is clear: Somebody wanted to make sure she was dead. Cutter, whose still learning his way around Stone County, must track down a cold-blooded killer who brought this Jane Doe to a dead end.

When an EMP strike cripples America, a diver trapped offshore, a retired sheriff, and two stranded teens must fight to survive. Power is gone, chaos spreads, and every second counts in this pulse-pounding survival thriller.

Detectives Strong and Layne are tracking a killer who's adept at covering his trail and making their jobs difficult. His targets are smart women who should know better than to get trapped but who are somehow not on guard when they should be. What's most disturbing is the killer's motive. Jason and Vanessa are in a race to stop this guy before he creates any more "collections".

I found you just when I thought my life was over. Julien Kendrick. Not only am I a recent high school graduate from a prestigious school, but I also come from money—a lot of money. So why am I miserable? No, it’s more like apathy. I crave to escape this life, while others are desperate for it. I want to feel again. To feel something, anything. The decision to leave my horrible parents and friends to spend two weeks doing what I want to do is meant to be my last hurrah, as the old saying goes. I don’t want to spend it alone, though, so I hire a prostitute I find on the street.

Jason and Vanessa must discover what happened to their colleague before it's too late. This case is filled with secrets, some between partners, some inside the department, and Jason finds himself in the middle. He's trying to sort it all out, and not screw up. People he cares about are counting on him, and he can't let them down.

Every mother deserves to end her day wrapped in a story that holds her as gently as she holds everyone else. The nights are long, and the weight of loving others can leave little room for your own soul to rest. You need more than silence — you need words that settle into your bones and remind you who you are. This collection of 16 original Scripture-inspired bedtime stories speaks directly to the mother's heart, drawing from the timeless women of the Bible to offer comfort, courage, and deep, unhurried peace.

Jason and Vanessa are back with a new lieutenant and a new case. With the discovery of a young woman's body on a greenway trail, the detectives are thrown into a desperate search for a killer.

Becca Gallagher was taking her new job as co-manager of the Red Door Café and part-time bartender at the Ambrose Tavern seriously. Even if it meant she was working so much, there was hardly time to breathe. She was used to working hard. She’d been working at her cousin’s restaurant since she was sixteen. And she loved the fact Paxton trusted her to fill in for him at the bar. She’d breathe later, in a year or two, when things settled down.

Eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin “B .F.” Windes decides to abandon home and trail his father’s path. Thus begins a trip of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States. B. F. spends the next 11 years in gold rush towns in California - first as a barber, then as a physician’s assistant - before departing for the Caribbean at age 19, where he becomes a blockade runner during the American Civil War.

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future. Now U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces the UP's natural beauty and way of life, along with a few surprises. The 36 works in this second annual volume take readers on UP road and boat trips from the Keweenaw to the Straits of Mackinac.

Jane Austen skewers the novelistic extremes of her day made popular in many 18th-century Gothic potboilers. Dilapidated castles, locked rooms, inexplicable chests, enigmatic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly sardonic twist.

The Black Swan Event reaches its stunning conclusion with Book Four from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. They’re here. The comet was never a natural disaster. The conspiracy was never about politics. The abilities the Pickett family has carried for generations were never random. Everything—the science, the secrecy, the sacrifice —has been leading to this moment.

Seine Fähigkeiten sind durch einen mächtigen Fluch versiegelt, und Thorn kämpft gegen die Zeit, um seine Stimme wiederzuerlangen. Wird eine Suche quer durch die Welt die Antwort sein, oder wird alles, was er erreicht hat, weggenommen? Thorn ist zwar der Greymane, aber nach dem katastrophalen Ende der letzten Weltquest ist er nicht in der Lage zu regieren. Thorn macht sich mit seinen Freunden auf den Weg, um das Heilmittel für seinen Fluch zu finden, und lässt die Mondwolfzitadelle hinter sich, um nach dem schwer fassbaren Weltenbaum zu suchen.

Have you ever wondered why the echoes of the Trojan War and the trials of Odysseus still captivate the world today? The stories of Achilles, Hector, and Odysseus are the original blueprints for every tale of war, adventure, and resilience. In this comprehensive volume, experience the definitive epics of the ancient world.

Miami, 1933. Mary Simons was supposed to fill her scrapbook with photos of her baby's first smiles, locks of fine hair, and handwritten milestones. Instead, she records respiration rates and temperatures, hoping science can save what love can't. When her baby dies, the future she imagined dies with her.

We were willing to pay any price, until the price was her. Revenge always has a cost, We thought it’d be worth it. That we could bear any price. Willingly bleed for it. But when it becomes clear the price is her, all bets are off. She’s ours and no one takes what’s ours. This is book 3 and the final book in Lust & Liars series. This is a continuation of Brutal Little Secrets and begins where it left off.

It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

Based on a true story, Princess Parasia is torn from her family and trafficked to Germany as a child bride. Tragically widowed, her beauty catches the eye of the most powerful ruler in Christendom, the German Emperor Henry IV. She becomes his wife, a terrible man who answers to no one, or so he believes. Still a teenager her life is a nightmare, but she is not alone. Her step-son Crown Prince Conrad is consumed by revenge as the blaze-haired girl he adores suffers at his father's hands.

Exploring more than 100 of the world's most important literary works and the literary geniuses that created them, this book is the perfect introduction to the subject of literature and writing. The Literature Book features some of the world's most celebrated books, plays and poetry, including Latin American and African fiction, and best-selling masterpieces from the most renowned authors ever to have lived.