Mr. Bliss's first outing in his new motor-car, shared with several friends, bears, dogs, and a donkey, though not the Girabbit, proves to be unconventional though not inexpensive.

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: This funny, poignant novel about the misadventures of a Miami Beach widow is “brilliant” (Los Angeles Times). After her beloved husband dies of cancer, Dorothy Bliss is consigned to a life of tedium, waiting out her remaining years in a Miami beachside community shared precariously by its Jewish and Latino residents. When Dorothy attends a series of parties intended to lighten the community’s racial tensions, she is unwittingly pulled into a world of drug smuggling, con artistry, and underground gambling—and a series of adventures that will renew her passion for life. At once heartfelt and hilarious, Mrs. Ted Bliss is a captivating novel of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, reconciling the regrets of her past and rediscovering adventure in the twilight of her life. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life. Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhibited storytelling from a writer of extravagan gifts.

The widowed mayor of a small town struggles professionally and personally when her affair with an unsuitable man becomes so much more for both of them in this sexy romance by award-winning author Karina Bliss. Her marriage was perfect, his was a disaster...An ideal match? Reclusive billionaire Luke Carter can never forget that he'd been abandoned as a child. And that's why he's driven to build his camp for underprivileged kids in small-town Beacon Bay. If only the coastal New Zealand community trusted his motives. His only ally is mayor Elizabeth Light, a woman he wants to know better... Widow Liz Light had mixed feelings about the camp, but she does need swimming lessons for a public fundraiser. Former Olympic swimmer Luke is the only person in Beacon Bay capable of both teaching her and keeping his mouth shut. Devoted to her husband's memory she's shocked to find herself drawn into a no-strings affair. As they come to depend on each other outside the bedroom Liz has to choose publicly where her loyalties lie–with Luke or her late husband–and decide once and for all which man is truly unforgettable. The Lost Boy series Mr. Imperfect Mr. Irresistible Mr. Unforgettable Mr. Undeniable Note: All these books can be read as standalones.

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

It takes a funeral to drag bad boy Christian Kelly back to his rural New Zealand hometown. He'd do just about anything to blow out of town for the last time. And never see Kezia Rose again. His first love. And the only woman he'd ever hurt. But when they find out Kezia's going to lose her family's century-old hotel, Christian genuinely wants to help. Except Kezia won't let him. And neither will her grandmother--according to the last will and testament and a long-forgotten IOU he'd given the dear, exasperating old woman. So, what next? If the will says he can't buy out the hotel, he'll just have to turn it around by the end of the month. And maybe by then Kezia will understand why he left...and why being near her is breaking his heart all over again.

You’ve seen the hit TV show on The CW, but those episodes are only part of the story! Barry’s adventures continue in THE FLASH: SEASON ZERO, chronicling even more of the early adventures of the Flash and the crew at S.T.A.R. Labs. As Barry, Cisco, Caitlin and Dr. Wells study the scope of the Flash’s power, Barry must balance his regular life with his new role as Central City’s newest hero! With stories by The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg and fellow writers behind the TV show, plus art from Phil Hester (GREEN ARROW), Marcus To (RED ROBIN) and others, these stories take you even deeper into the world of the hit series! This volume collects issues #1-24 of the digital series, including crossover appearances by Arrow’s Felicity Smoak and the Suicide Squad!