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A masterful collection of short fiction from one of America's greats. The centerpiece of the collection, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," tells the story of a family road trip that takes a dark turn when they cross paths with an escaped murderer. Including other great stories like "A Stroke of Good Fortune" and "A Circle in the Fire," O'Connor's gift for mesmerizing prose makes this a must-read. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values.

An apprentice assassin and an inquisitive linguist trade interwoven tales in order to enact revenge. Ukrainian author R. B. Lemberg (The Four Profound Weaves) returns to their legendary Birdverse in an ode to the transformative power of storytelling. "Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, Yoke of Stars is essential reading." —Izzy Wasserstein, author of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart In the School of Assassins, Stone Orphan waits for a first assignment. After their first kill, they will graduate and attain the coveted cloth of bone.

Life isn't easy when you have a brother who's always considered better than you. Hyunsuk's situation is even worse since he shares the same face as his so-called perfect twin. His life starts to change, however, when a new student arrives at his school and sees something in him no one else had ever bothered to look for. Hialeah, already too familiar with the feeling of being alone, is set on befriending him. But can Hyunsuk finally come out of his twin's shadow and open up to someone, when his brother makes it clear he doesn't want him to find happiness?

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston's breakthrough novel based on the life of Newfoundland's first premier, Joe Smallwood, was published internationally and earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada. One of the most highly praised elements of the novel is the character Sheilagh Fielding, with whom Smallwood shares a lifelong love-hate relationship. The Custodian of Paradise is a riveting narrative with Fielding at its heart.

"Five charming novellas ... which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth."—The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas by Ihara Saikaku was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world of Genroku Japan. The book's popularity has only increased with age, making it a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron or the works of Rabelais. Each of the five stories follows a determined woman on her quest for amorous adventure: The Story of Seijuro in Himeji—Onatsu, already wise in the ways of love at the tender age of sixteen.

Novelist and award-winning cookbook author Bharti Kirchner has written a sweeping family saga, a first-class fiction about forbidden love and family honor. Set in the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling, India, and in New York City, Darjeeling is the story of two sisters—Aloka and Sujata—long separated by their love for Pranab, an idealistic young revolutionary. Pranab loves Sujata, the awkward, prickly younger sister, but out of obligation, marries Aloka, the gracious, beautiful older sister. When all of their secrets are revealed, the three are forced to leave Darjeeling.

Bloomsbury presents The Village Trattoria by Annabelle Thorpe, read by Sara Alexander. Italy, 1943. The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria. Sophia di Luca cooks brilliantly and expects to take over the trattoria from Elena one day. But instead it is charismatic, unpredictable Giorgio Capaldi who has inherited it and now arrives from Rome to run it. While Sophia and Giorgio clash, the town falls under Nazi occupation.

Lucy is determined to keep working as a telegraph operator at a news agency, even though the arrival of Sir Colin Beckwith threatens her position. When she discovers Colin's shocking secret, she agrees to assist him if he helps her find her family's stolen inheritance—not realizing that the trail leads into a web of treachery, danger, and conspiracy. Page-turning romance and intrigue in an award-winning author's next historical novel. Lucy Drake's mastery of Morse code has made her a valuable asset to the American news agencies as a telegrapher.

It has been six years since army nurse Jenny Bennett's heart was broken by a dashing naval officer. Now Lieutenant Ryan Gallagher has abruptly reappeared in her life at the Presidio army base but refuses to discuss the inexplicable behavior that destroyed their happiness. Ryan is in an impossible situation. One of the few men in the world qualified to carry out a daring assignment, he accepted a government mission overseas that caused his reputation to be destroyed and broke the heart of the only woman he ever loved.

Korey Bontrager and Savannah Zook are just pretending to date—but could their feelings turn into something more? Korey Bontrager knows he's been an immature dummkopp. When his widowed dad remarried, Korey was unwelcoming to his kindhearted stepmother. Then he became estranged from his older brother. But after fourteen months in Ohio, God called Korey back to Pennsylvania. Easier said than done. Back home, Korey feels left behind by his family and friends, who want to see him happily married.