In Charles Dickens' "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" a ship makes a thrilling voyage around Cape Horn, then heads north to the coast of California. When the ship strikes an iceberg, the Captain exhorts his passengers and crew not to give up hope. This short story was first published in the Christmas issue of "All The Year Round" in 1856.

Does it always come down to Destiny? The Wheel of Fate? Who's behind that Wheel? What kind of idiot is doing the driving around here? The day has finally arrived: Mitchell Wate and Lillian English are getting married. Everyone has come together--Ethan and Lena, John and Liv, even Link is back in town--and there's enough pie to make Amma proud. But despite the joyous occasion, Ethan can't help but worry that something feels...off. When Siren-turned-Hybrid...

An 11-year-old shoots a stray cat with his air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.

One of Hilaire Belloc's most famous works, "Cautionary Tales for Children" satirizes a genre of admonitory children's literature popular in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The seven stories contained in this work are macabre parodies of childhood lessons, and will entertain more sophisticated readers who can appreciate these tales of disproportionate punishment. Presented in a classic picture book style, illustrators have captured the...

When Stacey begins to have disturbing dreams about her former boyfriend and a little girl who was murdered years earlier, she knows that the dreams are trying to tell her something important, but she does not know what.

t's been five years since Wes and I have spoken. Five years since he decided our friendship was less important than our parents' fight. So when we're forced to practice a duet together, I expect him to keep our contact to a minimum. Instead, he's telling me the feud between our parents has gone on long enough. That he misses me and wants to fix things between us. But I'm not going to fall for it. I won't fall for his charms like so many other girls...

The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.

A map-maker accompanying a ruthless band of Coronado's soldiers in their search for gold must battle against his own sudden greed.

Publisher Annotation: Invulnerability is a pretty useless superpower if you've only got a one-hundred-pound frame to back it up. That's what Quinton West's life became when he went from "small guy who got beat up" to "small guy who can't get hurt" after the meteor shower dubbed "The Event" gifted him the power of invulnerability, but no other powers to compliment it. But there's more to Quin than meets the eye, and after some encouragement from his...

After she saves a man from drowning, Haley wakes up in a pocket universe that appears as a gothic estate and helps three brothers whose job it is to protect her world against a penultimate evil.