A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle...A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger.....
Fasten your seat belts-the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world's most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Ti...
If you are among those with an unnatural interest in these books, restassured: the box you are holding in your hands contains nothing thatwould interest you. You will find no secret evidence, ...
The defeat and death of the evil Wulfgar should inspire a time of rejoicing throughout Eutracia. But Prince Tristan grieves. Not only is his beloved wife dead, but across the Sea of Whispers, i...
In King Lear, Shakespeare pushes to its limit the hypothesis of a malign or at least indifferent universe in which human life is meaningless and brutal. Few plays other than Hamlet and Macbeth ...
The signs all along the desert highway read Come See the Mystery！ But some mysteries should remain buried forever.Chartie Goodrow, owner of the Brake Down Palace Gas and Sundries, tells anyone...
In the richest, most compelling novel yet by the author of the #1 international bestseller The Pilot's Wife, a spirited young woman from a prominent New England family falls into a passionate, ...
Billionaire Genoa Greeves believes the LAPD should finally solve the fifteen-year-old execution-style murder of her favorite teacher, Bennett Little--especially now that Hollywood music produc...
Since Sandy Shortt’s childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--whether it’s the sock th...
EURIPIDES (approximately 485-406 B.C.) was the youngest of the great triad of Greek tragic poets; but so rapid was the efflorescence of tragedy that he was adult when Aeschylus was producing h...
Detectives Tom Fletcher and sat Moresby are catted to a farm equipment showroom, where the corpse of a young man has been hatf consumed by a giant shredding machine. A whore community is ab...
Extravagant power of invention and remarkable comic vitality make Aristophanes one of the most brilliant of the ancient Greek playwrights. From the hilariously bawdy yet fundamentally serious ...
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last ...even getting there ...
In Pudd"nhead Wilson (1894), Mark Twain looked back to the same antebellum Southern life he had recorded in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. What he found there, however, could not be reconcile...
Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermione have been so secr...
For Chicago couple Dan and Merrill Brewster, a summer at Pinecrest, a rambling lakeside house, is an ideal vacation, and for their kids, Eric and Marci, Pinecrest is the perfect place to spend...
Ten of the most fertile imaginations in science fiction and fantasy come together in one book to create new worlds, new universes, new times, new places, and new realities.Master of alternate hist...
One reason for this popularity was that Lady Audley"s Secret catered for, and helped to foster, a growing appetite for the lurid, scandalous and melodramatic in Victorian fiction. These elemen...
As the first of the group of romances that he wrote towards the end of his life, Pericles marks Shakespeare"s turning away from realism and the exploration of human tragedy towards mysticism a...
The eleven short stories in this edition are taken from six of Conrads seven collections of stories, tales, and nouvelles or long short stories.Looseness of definitions here is deliberate becau...
