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Brand new stories by: George Pelecanos, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Jabari Asim, Ruben Castaneda, James Patton, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Richard Currey, Lester Irby, and others. Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories...

A Hero of Our Time is a short novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or anti-hero) Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus. There are several English translations, including one by Vladimir Nabokov in 1958. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces of Russian Literature, under the title “A Hero of our Time, ” and already translated into at least nine European languages, is now for the first time placed before the general English Reader.

When Kuku first heard of the great hunters and warriors and their voyage into the forest beyond the mountains and never returned, his childish wish was to find out the truth behind the story. The perceptions about the flora and fauna were negative. The forest was believed to harbor wild animals. The...

The sleepy little town in the California desert was supposed to be a sanctuary for Detective Bree Fitzpatrick-a place of refuge from the big-city crime that had left her a widow with three children to raise. But something was wrong, terribly wrong, in Warm Springs. Nothing could have prepared...

MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER… Alex Cassidy’s parents always said they’d move heaven and earth to ensure she married well. And this time, they did. After all, Alex was turning thirty and still had no husband—that was a combination they just couldn’t live with. The day she turned 3-0,...

Who could have guessed? When model Kelly James went to Australia it was to fulfill her father’s dying wish by seeing the woman who had been his first love, Maureen Cassidy. All she had to do was deliver the long ago letters Maureen had sent to Kelly’s father.How could she have known that...

Three Years ago, Nora Summers and Mark Walker had been sweethearts, but circumstances had driven them apart. Nora wasn't ready to risk her heart again with a man as footloose and charming as Mark. Two Yet now Nora had indulged in a night of wild passion with him. An unforgettable...

Love Is The Greatest Adventure It was the trip of a lifetime and hairstylist Ginna Walker was going to take full advantage. She'd forget all her worries back home and concentrate only on the sun, the sand…and her whirlwind romance with Zachary Stone, a man so gorgeous, Ginna had to keep pinching...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.   The...

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Kyle – A dangerously handsome creature of the night …He’d expected an unusual greeting when he knocked at the door of the spooky manor house, but Kyle Fletcher wasn’t ready for the fireworks in Samantha Lyons sparkling violet eyes! He’d come to interview her movie-legend grandfather,...

How could Dr. Kate Bradley succumb to a sexy patient in her own office!The beautiful dermatologist's problem was obvious. Mark Harrison bore a near-fatal resemblance to the notorious movie idol, Ty Winters. Computer programmer by day, celebrity look-alike by night, Mark swept the dedicated...

Cowboys and Indians never fought like this!When Letitia DeMarco took the deed, by gunpoint no less, to herex-fiance's Montana cattle ranch, she didn't know it came with anegative cash flow -- and Tyler Barnes, a foreman with a state-size chipon his shoulder. Before she could even...