Stephen King returns with his strongest work in years with If It Bleeds, a collection of four novellas. King kicks it off with Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a story featuring a student and mentor dynamic between two unlikely parties. Mr. Harrigan, a retired business magnate, settles into Maine to live out his golden years. Craig, a…
With his new book Broken, author Don Winslow returns with a collection of six novellas. In the title story, Winslow travels down to New Orleans to focus on a family of cops when tragedy strikes. A vengeful cop looks to inflict his wrath on the powerful, elusive drug dealer responsible. Broken reads like John…
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cape Breton (and everything else ever) is a new book written by James FW Thompson (Rise of The Mudmen), the man behind the Facebook page “Fictional Sydney Information”. In this book, Thompson attempts to answer a cornucopia of questions such as: “How Did Balls Creek Get Its Name?…
Welcome back to Three Pines – a small village in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. It’s Easter weekend and a few residents decide to tempt the spirits by holding a series of seances. While eerie, all seems to be going smoothly until one of the party members dies suddenly. Once again, Detective Inspector Armand…
Radicalized is a short story collection from author Cory Doctrow. All four fall within the realm of sci-fi and carry the theme: “tales for our present moment”. Unauthorized Bread – The first story in the collection follows a young woman, Salima, recently released from an immigration holding facility. She makes her way to Boston, eager…
In Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club, it’s February and it’s snowing heavily. You’re trapped inside The Hazel – a small restaurant in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Everyone from the owner to the serving staff are keeping secrets from one another and over time, have become tangled up in each other’s lives. As…
Jared, a fledgling pot-dealing high school student, has a life as consistent as that of a family living in tornado alley. When not whipping up a batch of weed cookies, Jared stumbles from party to party floating through life like an astronaut untethered from the space station. With his dog Baby Killer, the one constant…
Prior to giving a speech at a conference in Chicago, former US President Barack Obama’s Blackberry goes missing. Determined to find it for his friend, former VP Joe Biden takes to the streets of The Windy City to track down the missing phone. It’s not long before Biden and Obama get more than they bargained…
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