Storytelling Fiction

If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently? This heartwarming and hilarious novel features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned 40, the year that altered all of their lives in ways big and small - and get the opportunity to change their future. But it doesn't take long for all three women to learn that reliving a life and making different decisions leads only to new problems and consequences and that the mistakes they made may in fact have been the best choices.

Emmy Award-winning storyteller Bobby Norfolk brings his electrifying energy to world folktales (African, Eastern European, Appalachian, and Irish traditions), to the delight of all ages. From Anansi, the African trickster, to Jack, the bumbling, lucky, persevering Everyman of traditional stories, Norfolk's characters instruct while they entertain.

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades...if you dare. Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more.

Acquired Tastes is a celebration of life's extravagances. It explores an aspect of human nature that, although dormant in hard economic times, is capable of erupting with the hint of good fortune and the drop of a credit card. It samples the luxuries of Havana cigars, Parisian hotels, bespoke London tailoring, and handmade shoes; discusses the proper color for a stretch limousine; and weighs the cost versus the pleasure of keeping a mistress.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes Monkey Trouble, The Zombie Project, and The Great Turkey Heist.

Once, when young Nasruddin was acting up in class by distracting his classmates with endless antics, jests, and stories, his irate teacher uttered a curse: ''Whatever you do or say, wherever you go or stay, whether it's night or day - people will only laugh at you.'' Now, eight centuries later, people everywhere are still laughing at the immortal Mullah Nasruddin, one of the world's most beloved folk characters.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes The Celebrity Cat Caper, Hidden in the Haunted School, and The Election Day Dilemma.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes The Summer Camp Mystery, The Copycat Mystery, and The Haunted Clock Tower Mystery.

O povo respira em liberdade pela primeira vez. Há esperança nas terras e todos ouviram falar do santo responsável por essa vitória.

O Rei Ruff Ghanor I governa uma nova nação próspera, triunfante e orgulhosa. Mas os erros do passado podem colocar tudo a perder. Ruff deixou para trás aliados e inimigos poderosos. Korin se ergue sob um novo estandarte, em busca de um novo sonho. Áxia tem novos aliados, novos fantoches, novos estratagemas. O mundo volta os olhos ao reino surgido da queda de um tirano. A igreja julga o governante que se diz santo. Um rei supremo exige que Ruff se ajoelhe.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US government sent thousands of Japanese American citizens to detention camps. In 1945, three Japanese-American sisters return to their farm in Stockton, California, after years in an internment camp, but the once prosperous family finds it’s not easy to pick up the pieces of their former lives. As the details of their deceased father’s final arrangements emerge, the sisters must work together to keep their dreams alive.

Three complete stories in one collection! This volume includes The Mystery at Skeleton Point, The Tattletale Mystery, and The Comic Book Mystery.

This bundle includes The Mystery of the Pirate's Map, The Ghost Town Mystery, and The Mystery in the Mall.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes The Radio Mystery, The Mystery of the Runaway Ghost, and The Finders Keepers Mystery.

This collection includes The Mystery at the Calgary Stampede, The Sleepy Hollow Mystery, and The Legend of the Irish Castle.

Throughout history, traditional cultures have recognized the role of storytelling in teaching values to children. Yet most educators have not fully capitalized on the connection between storytelling, folktales, and character education.

New York Times best-selling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the Dumpster fire that is our world. Written in her trademark unfiltered and witty style, Robinson's latest collection is a call to arms. Outfitted with on-point pop culture references, these essays tackle a wide range of topics: giving feminism a tough-love talk on intersectionality, telling society's beauty standards to kick rocks, and calling foul on our culture's obsession with work.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes The Vanishing Passenger, The Giant Yo-Yo Mystery, and The Creature in Ogopogo Lake!

This volume includes: The Ghost in the First Row, The Box That Watch Found, and A Horse Named Dragon.

Songs of a Sourdough is the first published volume of verse from the man who would become "The Bard of the Yukon", Robert W. Service. This volume contains 33 verses exploring characters, landscapes, and life in the early days on Canada's last frontier. From the hardships to the humanity, and from harlots to the heart, Service's work breaks trail to a new way to look at Klondike.