Matagorda Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between theStates, then tested his skills in the frontier army. Now he'ssettled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of hisold friend Tom Kittery--and finding himself in the middle of a feudbetween Kittery and a neighboring family. But the danger fromoutside is nothing compared to the threat within, as Duvarneysuspects Kittery's woman isn't all she appears to be. Tap may haveto go to war again. But this time will it be with his closestfriend? The First Fast Draw East Texas wasn't much of a home forCullen Baker. Few liked him, and some even tried to kill him. Yetafter three years of wandering, he's back to farm the land that isrightfully his. But Cullen's neighbors have long memories, and hisworst adversary has teamed up with a vicious outlaw. With enemiesclosing in on all sides and threatening the woman he loves, Cullenwill have to be faster than lightning--and twice as deadly--just tosurvive.
Isaac and Nora haven't seen each other in five years, yet whenNora phones Isaac late one night, he knows who it is before she'sspoken a word. Isaac, a photographer, is relinquishing his artisticcareer, while Nora, a writer, is seeking to rededicate herself tohers. Fueled by their rediscovered love, Nora is soon on fire withthe best work she's ever done, until she realizes that the storyshe's writing has turned into a fictionalized portrait of Isaac,exposing his frailties and compromises and sure to be viewed by himas a betrayal. How do we remain faithful to our calling if itestranges us from the people we love? How do we remain in loveafter we have seen the very worst of our loved ones? These are someof the questions explored in a novel that critics are calling "anabsolute pleasure" (The Seattle Times).
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of themworldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Full Dark, NoStars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; DumaKey; Lisey's Story; Cell; and the last threenovels in the Dark Tower saga: Wolves of the Calla, Song ofSusannah, and The Dark Tower. His acclaimed nonfictionbook On Writing is also a bestseller. In 2003, he wasawarded the National Book Foundation Medal for DistinguishedContribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the GrandMaster Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Mainewith his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Grade 9 Up–Johnson begins this exceptional novel in a lightweight fashion but quickly segues into more serious issues that affect the three young women who make up the Bermudez Triangle. It is the summer before their senior year in Saratoga Springs, NY. At first, organized, serious Nina has trouble adjusting to her leadership workshop at Stanford University. Although she desperately misses Avery and Mel, who are waitresses at a restaurant back home, she quickly falls head over heels for eco-warrior Steve, who has grown up in a commune on the West Coast–so different from Nina's secure middle-class experience. When she returns to New York, she immediately senses that Mel and Avery are keeping secrets and soon discovers that they have become lovers. Rocked to the core, Nina wishes them happiness, but feels excluded and lonely, especially as her long-distance relationship begins to deteriorate. As is typical for teens, the girls obsess ad nauseam over their romantic relationships. Yet this narrow focus
Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writerand storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gaveus the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales - withan anarchic twist - but many of his most famous tales sprangdirectly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range fromexuberant early works such as "The Tinderbox" and "The Emperor'sNew Clothes" through poignant masterpieces such as "The LittleMermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling," to more subversive later talessuch as "The Ice maiden" and "The Wood Nymph."
Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes arehigher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from herbedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone -who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripplesthrough his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up toTheo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chasedown the truth and save April. Filled with the page-turningsuspense that made John Grisham a number one internationalbestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller,Theodore Boone's trials and triumphs will keep readers guessinguntil the very end.
With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma ofevery American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book(1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides ofthe Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of anAmerican writer to English literary traditions. He sketches aseries of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parentnation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplantedfrom Europe creates the first classic American short stories, 'RipVan Winkle' and 'The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow'. The result wasnot only a hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strongformative influence on American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorneand Edgar Allan Poe to Henry James, and is well worth rediscoveryin its own right today. Based on Irving's final revision of hismost popular work, this new edition includes comprehensiveexplanatory notes of The Sketch-Book's sources for the modernreader. In her introduction, Susan Manning suggests that the authorforged a new idiom
Radigan Tom Radigan spent four hard years building up hisranch. Now a beautiful and deadly opportunist presents him with"evidence" that the land belongs to her. Angelina Foley wantsRadigan off Vache Creek immediately, and with an outfit ofgunfighters to back her and winter coming on, she's not taking nofor an answer. Outmanned, outgunned, and legally outmaneuvered,Radigan isn't going anywhere. Not without fighting for what heknows is rightfully his...even if he has to die for it. North tothe Rails Tom Chantry came west to buy cattle, not to find trouble.So when he leaves town rather than accept a challenge from agunfighter named Dutch Akin, he's labeled a coward. Now only oneman will agree to help Chantry take his herd to the railroad: ashrewd and ruthless cattleman named French Williams. He makesChantry an unusual deal. He will hire a crew but Chantry mustremain with the drive from start to finish or forfeit the herd.Chantry accepts...and the first man French hires is Dutch Akin.
With several Hollywood Heinlein adaptations about to belaunched (including "Starship Troopers" by the director of "TotalRecall"), this SF superstar is shining brighter than ever. Tocelebrate his success, Del Rey is reissuing the author's classicworks back into the forefront, beginning with "The Door intoSummer", the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip VanWinkle.
Night Shift—Stephen King’s first collection of stories—is anearly showcase of the depths that King’s wicked imagination couldplumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad(“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity(“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a smoker who will tryanything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic whobegins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); and manymore. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.
Nine strokes from an old country church toll out the death ofan unknown man and call Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his mostbaffling cases. Set in the strange, flat fen-country of EastAnglia, this is a classic tale of suspense by a master ofmystery.
Let's Call It "The Turn of the Phillips-Head Screw" I was happily working on a novel titled What the Night Knows, thepremise of which was already described on various web-sitepostings, when an idea for a ghost story slammed into me with asmuch force as an exuberant 60-pound golden retriever playingbowl-dad-off-his-feet. When I picked myself up from my officefloor, I didn't need a sticky roller to remove the dog hair from myclothes, but the story I had been working on was entirely Swifferedout of my head to make room for the ghost story. After alerting myeditor and my publisher of my intentions, I put aside What theNight Knows and set to work enthusiastically on the new idea. Over the next few months, as the manu* pages piled up, Ioccasionally sent lists of possible titles to my editor and mypublisher, and they sent lists of titles to me. None of us likedthe same title. We didn't argue. We just quietly declined to beenthusiastic about one another's suggestions. We are a genteelbunch. The only one of us to wa
In this collection of five Christmas-themed stories, belovedauthor Mary Balogh brings together tales of love, marriage,friendship, loneliness, and healing. Includes four Balogh holidayclassics, "The Star of Bethlehem," "The Best Gift," "PlayingHouse," and "No Room At the Inn," as well as "A Family Christmas,"which is only available in this anthology.
Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway. The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation ...
The exciting debut of a new paranormal romance series As aMiami narcotics detective, Leah Daniels never knows how her daywill turn out. But she certainly never expected to be strapped to astone altar, the human sacrifice in an ancient Mayan ritual meantto coax up a demon from the underworld. Or that shead be saved by ahandsome warrior-priest king who claims to recognize her from hisvisions... Jaguar Strike wishes he hadnat made the mistake ofreuniting his fellow warrior priests, or broken the law by savingtheir chosen human sacrifice. Now, he has no choice but to joinforces with Leah and invoke dangerous magic in a death-defying raceagainst the end of time.
理查德·梅休是伦敦一个平平常常的生意人，过着平平常常的生活。但有一天，他做了件不太平常的事：把一位身负重伤、素不相识的姑娘带回了自己的公寓。 从此，一切都变得不同寻常—— 同事们看不见他，从前的恋人不再认识他，甚至连他的家都不再属于他。他走在人流中，人们却完全意识不到他的存在。理查德·梅休这个人不复存在了，仿佛从未存在过。 都是因为这个名叫门菲的姑娘。她为他打开了一扇门，通往另一个世界—— 一个隐藏在伦敦之下、阴险邪恶却又充满刺激的乌有乡。 Under the streets of London there's a world most people couldnever even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers andangels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a youngbusinessman who is about to find out more than he bargained forabout this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him outof h
