Every family carries beginnings they did not choose and shadows they cannot escape.When Janice is sent to rural Georgia to fix up her family's old farmhouse, she expects peeling wallpaper and sagging floors, not a locked cellar, a hidden map, and whispers in the orchard. The project is meant to bring in extra income for her ailing mother, but the land has other plans.As she begins the work, Janice discovers letters from 1860 written by her ancestor, Natalie O'Connell, a Northern woman who came South and refused to stay silent. What unfolds is a haunting story of two women, separated by more than a century, yet bound by the same soil and the same dark legacy.In the summer of 1860, Natalie arrives at Peachtree Plantation full of idealism and curiosity. Beneath the graceful manners and candlelit suppers, she senses something unspoken, an unease that deepens as her cousin Billy's cruelty begins to...

Some secrets are buried deeper than memory.In the vast, unforgiving West, a man without a past follows a dangerous path. Nomad remembers nothing, yet his hands know the deadly feel of a Colt, and his pocket holds a single, strangely marked bullet – a serpent coiled around a star. It's his only clue, and his greatest liability.Whispers follow the bullet. Violent men emerge from the shadows, testing his skills, hinting at a life filled with betrayal and bloodshed. Nomad must navigate a treacherous landscape of suspicion and sudden death, using his forgotten instincts to stay alive while piecing together the puzzle of his identity before those hunting him can bury him for good.Step into a world of dust, doubt, and danger with The Bullet Without a Name – a classic Western mystery where the truth is as elusive, and potentially fatal, as a phantom gunslinger.

Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize   “Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!   In “Machine City” a college student’s chance role in a friend’s movie blurs the line between his character and his true self. (Is he a robot?) In “Slide to Unlock” a man comes to terms with his life via the passwords he struggles to remember in extremis. (What’s his mom’s name backward?) And in “Weird Menace” a director and faded movie star gab about science fiction, bad costume choices, and lost loves on a commentary track for a B-film from the ’80s that neither remembers all that well.   In Ed Park’s utterly original collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, characters bemoan their fleeting youth, focus on their breathing, meet cute, break up, write book reviews, translate ancient glyphs, bid on stuff online, whale watch, and once in a while find solace in the sublime. Throughout, Park deploys his trademark wit to create a world both strikingly recognizable and delightfully other. Spanning a quarter century, these sixteen stories tell the absurd truth about our lives. They capture the moment when the present becomes the past—and are proof positive that Ed Park is one of the most imaginative and insightful writers working today.

Maybe it's not too late for her happily ever after... Carla's always been a romantic. As the owner of the only flower shop in town, she believes in true love and can, of course, quote every line in The Princess Bride. Which wouldn't be quite so pathetic if she wasn't thirty-seven and still single. So single, in fact, she's forgotten what it's like to have a man give her a single carnation, let alone a dozen roses. Then Christian walks into Happy Petals, and she knows the fragrance of flowers has to have gone straight to her head. There is no chance the cute Spanish guy she remembers from high school would be interested in her... She's the girl of his dreams, and way out of his league... Family is important to Christian. Why else would he be living in a company trailer? It's a sacrifice he has to make so he can afford to send his sister to college. But nearing forty, his own chances of starting a family aren't...

Dr. Miles Ellis shows up to the town Christmas bash out of obligation, not enthusiasm. He's counting the minutes until he can slip out unnoticed. But a crowded barn, a flying elbow, and one unlucky plate of barbecue sauce land him face-to-face with a gorgeous stranger he just splattered. Lili Gant doesn't want attention, especially not from the local doctor with quiet eyes and a wall around his heart. She came to Kringle, Texas to hide out, not to be drawn into someone else's orbit. But after the world she built collapsed, hiding is harder than it used to be.What begins as an awkward apology turns into something else. something neither of them wants to name. But when old wounds resurface and choices have to be made, Miles and Lili must each decide if it's safer to stay guarded... or finally risk being seen?