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Stanley opens up about his expansive career as an old-time musician. Stanley grew up in the Virginia mountains and first learned music from his banjo-playing mother.

A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood," in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a na

When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last.

Every Day is for the Thief is an account of a Nigerian in the diaspora who returns home after many years abroad.

Reverend Al Sharpton will take you behind the scenes of some unexpected places--from officiating Michael Jackson's funeral, hanging out with Jay-Z and President Barack Obama at the White House, to

A tale set in today's America and China in the 1990s, follows the experiences of three people who in their youths were involved in a mysterious accident that resulted in a friend's fatal poisoning

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.

Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds.

Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing.

On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border.

Roman and three of his classmates are held captive in a remote mountain cabin. Can he overcome his fear--and the memory of his father's death--to lead the boys to freedom?

During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.

A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

While climbing the sheer mountain face known as Devil's Wall, the Rock Jockeys stumble upon the empty wreckage of a B-17 Bomber, unearthing a gruesome secret.

For the last few years, 13-year-old Tag Jones has been running the family bait shop on the sandy Bermuda beach.