 | Hope Rekindled (Striking a Match)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Striking a Match (Book 3) At long last, Deborah Vandermark is preparing for her own wedding...but the groom suddenly goes absent. Tragedy has befallen Christopher's family in Kansas City, upsetting the doctor's future with Deborah. With five siblings now under his care, can he return to Texas and impose a ready-made family on Deborah? Deborah herself finds her resolve faltering as her fears about marriage and career start to overwhelm her. How can she marry and be a mother to Christopher's siblings, and still be able to pursue her work and training as ...
 |  | Shut the Door
Release Date: February 21, 2006In one of the most impressive debut novels ever written by a teenager, Shut the Door, says the New York Post, is "a raw and disturbing portrayal of a suburban family."In a household spiraling out of control, Lilliana and Vivian are two teenage sisters struggling to carve out their identities as young adults, taking risks and undergoing disturbing transformations that go unchallenged by their emotionally absent parents. Beatrice and Harry's marriage is disintegrating, and it no longer provides the safe harbor their daughters so desperately need. As the girls tes...
|  | Waiting for Morning (The Brides Of Last Chance Ranch Series)
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|  | The Collier's Weekly Version of The Turn of the Screw
Publication Date: January 19, 2010"She was the most beautiful child I had ever seen, and I afterward wondered that my employer had not told me more of her." For the first time since 1898, readers can experience Henry James's eerie The Turn of the Screw the way his original readers did, as a twelve-part weekly serial. The Coffeetown Press edition showcases the novel as it first appeared, complete with provocative illustrations by John La Farge and Eric Pape, in Collier's Weekly.This unique edition, with an analytical introduction by Peter G. Beidler, will of course be valuable to scholars. It...
|  | Stillwatch
Publication Date: 1984Hardback, by Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Shuster Publisher. 1984. 248 pages ...
|  | House Infernal
Publication Date: October 2, 2007| Series: Infernal (Book 3) The old priory is a house built for the Church, but designed by Satan. In the house, nuns are drained of blood by things far worse than vampires, and a virginal student is seduced by the perverse and haunted by things more terrifying than ghosts. When Venetia Barlow began work at St. John’s Priory, she expected a quiet summer of drudgery and boredom. But almost immediately she is haunted by lurid desires and visions of a city filled with monsters—monsters who know her name. Is the house really a place of meditation, o...
|  | Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories
Publication Date: August 1, 1999Darrell Schweitzer, author of The Mask of the Sorcerer and editor of Weird Tales collaborates with macabre artist-writer Jason Van Hollander on a series of remarkable fantasies, variously grotesque, horrific, ethereal, and darkly comic. Several of these form a cycle set in as-yet undiscovered countries where the common men have thrown down the gods and decadent nobles reach new heights of ecstasy and terror with the drug hanquil. You'll also encounter a wrenching yet romantic ghost story set in the American Southwest, an intimately personal tale of the Cthulhu...
|  | Exquisite Corpse
Release Date: August 20, 1997To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom th...
|  | The Final Prophecy (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 18)
Release Date: September 30, 2003| Series: Star Wars: The New Jedi Order As a beleaguered galaxy fights its way back from the brink of destruction, the Jedi’s most fearsome enemy plots to end the war–and claim victory–with a final act of domination. . . .The troubles for the embattled living planet Zonama Sekot have just begun. As Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo negotiate its place in the galactic struggle against the Yuuzhan Vong, one of its organic ships is taken by the alien invaders. Scientist Nen Yim is ordered to use the captive to find weak spots in Zonama Sekot’s...
|  | Across the Endless River
Release Date: September 1, 2009From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, a historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea, and his intriguing sojourn as a young man in 1820s Paris.Born in 1805 on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau was the son of the expedition's translators, Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. Across the Endless River compellingly portrays this mixed-blood child's mysterious boyhood along the Missouri among the Mandan tribe and his youth as William Clark's ward in St. Louis. The novel becomes a h...
|  | Speak of the Devil
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|  | Stoppard: The Plays for Radio, 1964-1991
Publication Date: September 1994The plays in this collection include "The Dissolution of Dominic Boot", "'M' is for Moon Among Other Things", "If You're Glad I'll Be Frank", "Albert's Bridge", "Where Are They Now?", "Artist Descending a Staircase", "The Dog it Was That Died" and "In the Native State". ...
|  | The <I>Thebaid</I>: Seven against Thebes (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)
Publication Date: January 10, 2007| ISBN-10: 0801886368 | ISBN-13: 978-0801886362A classical epic of fratricide and war, theThebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus—Polynices and Eteocles—for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius reworks a familiar story from Greek myth, dramatized long before by Aeschylus in his tragedySeven against Thebes. Statius chose his subject well: the Rome of his day, ruled by the emperor Domitian, was not too distant from the civil wars that had threatened the survival of the empire. Published in 92 A.D., ...
|  | Soft Sift: Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2003There are curved stories here, intrigues and quests whose exuberance of plot and sense of farcical immersion in the world of appearances is rendered with a light touch and a sure command of tone, staging the conflict between the mind's drift and the "inflexible etiquette" of form (Gerard Manley Hopkins's "soft sift / In an hourglass"). The making of these condensed dramas is often the unmaking of the person speaking, whose "frets and fresh starts" reveal an original sensibility concerned not with self-display but with a general comedy of wrong moves. Intrepid, ...
|  | One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series) (4th Edition)
Publication Date: January 14, 2010| ISBN-10: 0205706800 | ISBN-13: 978-0205706808| Edition: 4 An affordable reader with 100 classic and contemporary readings. Alphabetically-organized by author for ease and flexibility. ...
|  | Never Knowing
Release Date: May 22, 2012From the acclaimed author of Still Missing comes a psychological thriller about one woman’s search into her past and the deadly truth she uncovers. All her life, Sara Gallagher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara did not have an ideal home life. The question of why she was given up for adoption has always haunted her. Finally, she is ready to take steps and to find closure. But some questions are better left unanswered. After months of research, Sara locates her bir...
|  | Absolutely Amazing Five-Minute Mysteries: 40 New Cases of Murder and Mayhem for You to Solve
Publication Date: March 3, 2004Another installment in our wildly successful series of succinct whodunits, Absolutely Amazing Five-Minute Mysteries offers more than 40 new intriguing cases to thrill, entertain, and solve in less time than it takes to brew a cup of tea! Astute readers can test their powers of observation and deductive reasoning, then turn to the end of the book for ingenious solutions to each case. ...
|  | Archie's Classic Christmas Stories (Archie' Classics)
Release Date: January 22, 2003 ...
|  | I'm Too Fond of My Fur! (Geronimo Stilton #4)
Publication Date: February 1, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Enter the world of Geronimo Stilton, where another funny adventure is always right around the corner. Each book is a fast-paced adventure with lively art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love.Who Is Geronimo Stilton?That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! What's that? You've never read one? Well, my books are full of fun. They are whisker-licking good stories, and that's a promise!I'm Too Fond of My Fur!I was on my way...
|  | King Arthur's Court (Penguin Children's 60s)
Publication Date: April 4, 1996 ...
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