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AUSTRALIAN. This collection of short fiction explores what lies beneath the apparently normal, even mundane, surfaces of peoples lives.

Beck Ockley lives by a single rule: one and done. The millionaire playboy knows the pain of loss and will do anything to avoid another.

Millionaire video-game creator Lincoln West has a dark and tragic past.

Just released from prison, Jase Hollister has only one goal: stay out of trouble.

Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, and suffering her entire life with severe social anxiety disorder, the widow Mary McAllister spends almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansi

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards.

There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s.

Picture a Crow Indian elder, his wizened eyes catching yours in the ancient flicker of firelight. His mesmerizing stories span the ages, from Custer to World War II to the 21st Century.

The Power, dubbed the sequel to The Secret, is the highly anticipated follow-up revealing everything Rhonda Byrne has learned and attracted to herself since the release of The Secret in 2006.

Despite social restrictions on single women, two strong-willed girls fight for the chance to pursue their dreams.

Fragrant blossoms herald spring, but the orchard is also a place of secrets and heartache. After the death of her husband Frank, Eliza is left with three young children and mounting debts.

One evening in late October 1958, the deepest coal mine in North America "bumped"-its rock floors heaved up and smashed into rock ceilings. Most of the men on the shift perished.

Raised on a South Carolina plantation as the house pet of her white master's daughter, Kitty never made a decision for herself.

When a black man was accused of attacking a white woman in a rural Florida town, a tinderbox of racial hatred was ignited.