 | Haunted Highways
Publication Date: April 1, 2003Lights on the road. Phantom hitchhikers. Eerie covered bridges. In this fascinating collection, Dan Asfar shows how ordinary streets and highways can suddenly become terrifying haunts. Based on witness accounts, these stories may force you to think twice before driving late at night. ...
 |  | Spooky Sea Stories
Publication Date: June 1991Fifteen tales of ghost ships, people-eating blobs, scary foggy nights, and horrific whaling stories are all in this fascinating anthology. Masters such as Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spin their evil tales with the sea as a backdrop. ...
|  | Gemma
Release Date: February 16, 2010After Hazen Wood kidnaps twelve-year-old Gemma Sullivan, the two embark upon a cross-country journey that tests the limits of Gemma's endurance. In scenes of physical and sexual violence, Hazen tries to destroy the young girl's will. When she does manage to escape he drags her back and threatens to have her arrested for the violent acts he performs. It is only Gemma's resilience and fertile imagination that protects her from the worst of the trauma she suffers. And, in the end, it is the healing power of unconditional love that gives Gemma t...
|  | Wells Without Water
Publication Date: March 22, 2012In the all-white town of Sardis, Alabama, during the civil rights era, Ruth Clayton has a dangerous secret to keep. She is pregnant — and the baby is half black. Upon her child's birth, her brother drives her from Sardis with intentions to do away with her son. But he has a change of heart, and decides to raise the boy in the very town that wants him dead. "Wells Without Water" chronicles the turbulent coming of age of Ruth's son, Theodore Clayton, and the one boy in town who dares to befriend him: Caleb Frost, the troubled son of a prostitute and a fug...
|  | The Coming of the Night (Rechy, John)
Publication Date: October 30, 2000| Series: Rechy, John John Rechy's new novel is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling City of Night and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world -- gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1981, a summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Young, beautiful Jesse is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself completely in its transient pleasures. He is joined by Dave, a leatherman bent on testing limits. A young hustler, an opera lover lost in fantasies of youth, a gang of teenag...
|  | Lady Grace: A Thrilling Adventure Wrapped in the Embrace of Epic Love (Tales from Earth's End 2)
Publication Date: March 23, 2012FIVE STARS! A MODERN SCI-FI MASTERPIECE! Lady Grace wasfirst-rate science fiction and one of the most absorbing page-turners of that genre that I've read in years. Author Sandy Nathan exhibits the imagination of Ray Bradbury combined with the whimsicalness of Douglas Adams. That's high praise, but it's warranted. The story includes so much action; tense, suspenseful drama; and two charming love stories that it's irresistible." J. Chambers, Amazon Top 100 Reviewer (#46 at this writing)From award-winning author Sandy Nathan--LADY GRACE: A THRILLING ADV...
|  | Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
Publication Date: September 6, 2006Astounding stories of absurd size and impossible dimension! Mammoth mega-fauna!Apocalyptic adventure! Surreal suspense! Catastrophic comedy! Monstrous metaphysics!Featuring original fiction from around the world and a special film history by Cinescape's Brian Thomas. Winner of the Australian Speculative Fiction Ditmar Award for Best Collection 2005. ...
|  | Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century: The Marescoe-David Letters, 1668-1680 (Records of Social & Economic History (New Series))
Publication Date: April 28, 1988| ISBN-10: 0197260527 | ISBN-13: 978-0197260524These 480 letters that passed between the successive heads of a major London trading house and its often prestigious European clientele and suppliers paint an intriguing picture of the changing conditions of local and international markets in 17th-century Europe.The volume is enhanced by an extensive introduction that analyzes the context and course of the Marescoe-David business in each of its major markets and tabulations of valuable evidence on European shipping, insurance, and prices, illuminating a vitall...
|  | Selected Poems
Release Date: March 29, 1999When Viking published Borges's Collected Fictions last September, the book received nationwide acclaim. Richard Bernstein in The New York Times hailed the publication as "an event, and cause for celebration." The celebration continues this April with the next installment in Vikings projected three-volume set of the Collected Work: a new selection of Borges's finest poems edited by Alexander Coleman.Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems -- the largest collection of Borges's poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated...
|  | Stones of the Sky (A Kagean Book) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| Series: A Kagean Book This suite of thirty poems is Neruda's last love song to the Earth. When he wrote these poems he was dying of cancer, and as the title suggests he addresses not ordinary stones, but cosmic ones: stones that reconcile immobile permanence and the clarity of spiritual flight. When the poet meets his crystallized self, the encounter "takes on an eerie brilliance"—The Village Voice. Bilingual with introduction."An excellent bilingual editon."—Choice ...
|  | Mountains in Berlin (Dichten =, No. 2)
Publication Date: January 1, 1995| Series: Dichten =, No. 2 Poetry. "Poetry as an attempt to dynamite petrified structures, poetry as incessant reflective effort, poetry as childlike utopia. Three irreconcilable impulses, perhaps. But perhaps great works come about only in the meeting of the irreconcilable" -Urs Allemann. ...
|  | Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Publication Date: August 28, 2007But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.” And write letters Ed Abbey did. In his famous — or infamous — 45-year career, Abbey’s cards and letters became as legendary as his books for their wit, vitriol, and ability to speak truth to power. Published here for the first time, the letters offer a fascinating, often hilarious glimpse into the mind of one of America’s most iconoclastic and beloved authors. No subject was too banal, too arcane, or too deep for Abbey to expound on: sex, cheerleaders, Mormon...
|  | Selfish is the Heart (Order of Solace)
Release Date: October 5, 2010| Series: Order of Solace (Book 3)The national bestselling author of No Greater Pleasure delivers a new novel featuring a reluctant student of seduction. To escape an arranged marriage, Annalise Marony decides to become a Handmaiden of the Order of Solace. But she is thwarted at every turn by Cassian, a teacher of the faith, who must test her dedication. Older than most of the girls, Annalise knows that she will be expected to please a patron in pleasures of the flesh-and she is not shy about teasing Cassian. And as they both play out the game of master and stu...
|  | The Mammoth Book of Irish Romance
Publication Date: February 9, 2010| Series: Mammoth Book of An enthralling collection of romantic tales set amidst beautiful Ireland’s lush ancient landscapes: pre-Christian ruins, green hills, rugged cliffs, and pounding Atlantic surf. These stories—by writers such as Roberta Gellis, Bertice Small, Jennifer Ashley, Claire Delacroix, and Mary Jo Putney—honor Ireland’s rich heritage as a land of poets, magic, and mystery. The publication will be just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. ...
|  | The Canterville Ghost
Publication Date: October 30, 2011| ISBN-10: 3842451156 | ISBN-13: 978-3842451155This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you suppo...
|  | Compelling Evidence
Publication Date: February 1992In a riveting courtroom drama, Talia Potter, indicted for themurder of her judge husband, turns to her lover, Paul Madriani--her husband's ex-law partner--to defend her. 75,000 first printing. ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Seven (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Breese))
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|  | Slow Kill (Kevin Kerney Novels)
Release Date: August 2, 2005| Series: Kevin Kerney Novels Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney travels to a California ranch looking to buy some prime quarter horse breeding stock. Instead, he finds himself the prime suspect in a possible homicide when the ranch owner, Clifford Spalding, is found dead. Confronted by a determined cop unwilling to let him off the hook, Kerney decides to conduct his own investigation. As he digs into the victim's background, he learns that Spalding's ex-wife refuses to believe that her son, a soldier killed in Vietnam some thirty years ago, is dead. Kerney digs d...
|  | Woman Who Outshone the Sun / La mujer que brillaba a
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|  | The History of Cleveland Browns: NFL Today (NFL Today (Creative Education Hardcover))
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