Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.

My Confession: “I’m straight, but I accidentally made love to my fiancé’s gay best friend.” Colin is your typical straight boy. He’s handsome, tall, and a former athlete, but he’s not fond of gay men. So, when his fiancé Kim goes on a girl’s trip and asks if her gay best friend can come and stay for a while, he’s concerned because he doesn’t want a gay guy ogling his 6’4 muscular frame or staring at him while he walks around in his underwear. His tone changes when Dorian, a 6’9, muscular, and mocha Adonis, shows up at his door. Dorian’s masculine presence brings ...

It was supposed to be a romantic vacation with my girlfriend. But I ended up sharing a bed with my best friend. I just got dumped, and that's bad enough. But my ex-girlfriend and I had booked a tropical resort vacation. My buddy Manny says, forget losing the deposit. How about the two of us go on the trip together? Manny's my best friend. He's kind, always smiling, and as I soon realize, he has a sexy, athletic body that I can't take my eyes off of. I go to bed in our hotel room and I can't stop thinking about how hot he is. When Manny tells me he's gay, my whole world shifts. He's my best ...

I've never thought about being with a guy before. Especially not my best friend. But after visiting my buddy Keith, the college linebacker, in his locker room before a practice, I have all kinds of new thoughts on my mind. Thoughts I don't know how to deal with. Thoughts that are driving me crazy. I can't help myself. I want to go back to the locker room just to ogle at all the hot guys, but I know I can't keep that up forever. I have to tell myself and Keith, the truth. The thing is, though, Keith has already figured it out. It turns out I'm not as sneaky as I think. And my college jock ...

Confession: I’m straight, but if my wife doesn’t give me some soon, I will stick my ten-inch pole into something nice and warm, and at this point, I don’t care if it’s a man or woman. My name is Dante, and I’m a straight man. I run the biggest barbershop chain in the southside of Chicago, Fresh Cutz, and have a primarily straight clientele. I’m tall, chocolate, and maintain a lean, ripped physique that the ladies love, but I’m about to lose my mind because my wife doesn’t satisfy my desires. It’s getting harder and harder for me to remain faithful with this massive steel ...

I'm gay, and I just told my best friend, Josh. Now my heart won't stop pounding. I hadn't planned to tell him. It just came out. And as soon as I said it, I thought our friendship was over. But I was wrong. Turns out, Josh is cool with it. Josh is more than cool with it. In fact, when I told him I haven't done anything with a guy yet, Josh suggests that the two of us fool around. I get to have my first gay experience with my sexy, athletic best friend, with his shaggy hair and blue eyes and incredible body? I wouldn't have it any other way. --------------- First Gay Experience is a complete...