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Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love.

When 16-year-old Paige is burdened with the discovery of a secret that threatens to destroy her family, she feels compelled to take action. Focused on revenge and fueled by anger and betrayal, she makes a series of destructive decisions with catastrophic consequences. People become tools to be used to further her agenda. But when she falls in love with one of those people, it complicates everything and puts her in an impossible position. If what she did ever comes to light, Paige will lose everyone she's ever loved.

Six months after witnessing her foster brother take his own life, Kim finds herself searching for any and everything she believes could assist her in her new obsession: finding her biological parents. In a rage, Kim sets out to reclaim what she holds close, ready and willing to kill any and all who stand in her path.

Kim, born and raised in the dilapidated Joy City; a forgotten town where doing dirt was inevitable. As a teenager, she was believed to be the one that would make it out of the city; be something, be someone, go far, and matter to the rest of the world, until her perfect little life was left in shambles. She was stricken with sorrow, grief, and confusion, as she wept over the shattered pieces of her broken life.

Blake Riley has a crush that needs to be ripped out of her. Then buried. Then set on fire. And she needs it to happen yesterday. Cameron Jackson doesn’t care about crushes. Or that the girl he wants to bang is doing everything she can to fend him off. He wants to hook up. And he wants it to happen everyday.

Just two months after the search for her parents almost cost her everything she holds close, Kim is presented with another opportunity to find them. She struggles with the choice of taking the chance again fearing the possible consequences, adding more stress on top of her normal daily woes.

After shedding her biggest vice, Kim would hope to find herself happy, free, and finally able to live in peace, but life could never be so kind to her. Four years after its fall, Kim and the surviving members of The Pool find themselves the targets of several random attacks, each one leaving them with more questions than answers.

When Honey Brown finds herself destitute, in spite of her diligent attempts to find employment, she resorts to tactics outside her nature. With bills piling up and rent to be paid, her desperate need to stay afloat without being a burden on her sister, Sugar, influences her decision to engage in some underhanded behavior.