Reading Skills

• Dreams
  Even if you don't always remember them, you have dreams every night. Sometimes the dreams are vivid and easy to recollect. Sometimes all you remember are hazy feelings and colors. Did you know that virtually everything in your dreams is a symbol? These symbols, bubbling up from your subconscious,...
• Oliver Twist
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• Angels and Demons
  When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood pre...
• Deception Point
  A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever heard... When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with prof...
• Digital Fortress
  When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being h...
• Blind Faith
  A dark, savagely comic novel from the bestselling author of Chart Throb. Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person feels and truly believes is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to questio...
• Echo Park
  In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the young woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it...
• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• Natural Disasters
  Jake and Tor return in this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Bareback! Having bought the ranch they've worked on for so long, they're now the proud owners of a spread of their own. There's more than enough on their plate coping with their new responsibilities and their arguments over ranch ma...
• Burn
  The corporate-funded police force of Old New York dropped its investigation into a man's mysterious death by fire. Spontaneous human combustion is the rumored cause, but a down-and-out private detective, a former member of the Old New York Police Force, soon learns that this wasn't the only man to ...
• Broken Angels
  For one woman, Nancye O'Reilly, this shocking path of events is real. Such tragedies would have destroyed a lesser woman, but Nancye took control of her life and made some crucial decisions to improve her lot and that of her two remaining sons. As a result of her extraordinary experiences, she is n...
• Wheels
  World-class cars are the objects of desire for a special breed of automobile enthusiast, collectors who are as passionate about their cars as others may be about paintings, stamps, or watches. In this thrilling tour of 11 of the greatest private automobile collections in the world, readers are give...
• The Card
  Only a few dozen T206 Wagners are known to still exist, having been released in limited numbers just after the turn of the twentieth century. Most, with their creases and stains, look like they've been around for nearly one hundred years. But one--The Card--appears to have defied the travails of ti...
• Air
  What is air? You don't think about air or even perceive it unless it has changed from its usual state. Air, that most ubiquitous of the four elements, was long the most inexplicable enigma, peopled by gods and their messengers, venerated as the abode of spirits or demons. Nowadays air has been 'dec...
• Ice Cream
  Vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, coffee: Everyone has a favorite flavor of ice cream. As a simple treat on a hot summer afternoon or an elegant finish to a special meal, ice cream is a versatile dessert that is delightfully easy to make at home. Williams-Sonoma Collection Ice Cream offers more th...
• A Long Way Home
  Canada, 1951. An American B36 bomber with a live nuclear weapon on board crashes on a remote Canadian island. Jack Harper, an ex-Canadian Air Force serviceman, is recruited for a secret mission to recover the bomber's crew. He joins a Special Forces team led by Captain Groves to a mountain glacier ...
• Chrysalis
  Imagine that the light bulb blows, darkness immediately and indiscriminately smothers all that even the brightest light has bathed. The same can be seen as it relates to human nature. Once the light is gone there is no stopping the tidal wave of blackness. Even when a proverbial candle is introduce...
• Founding Fathers
  Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee in 1810, John Neely Bryan received an education and became a lawyer, dealt in real estate, became a north Texas pioneer, and the founder of Dallas, Texas. During his life he traveled across the southern part of the United States, from Florida to California. He lived ...
• Heaven and Earth
  Through the lens of a microscope or the shaft of a telescope exists a universe of boundless life and beauty, that is entirely invisible to the naked eye. Atoms, ice crystals, grains of pollen, snowflakes, butterfly wings, cloud formations, searing comets, and showers of stars are born, live and die...
• Little One
  For the past fourteen years, Ann Walker has lived and worked in the back room of her terraced west London home. Continually by her side has been a guiding spirit, a Red Indian whom she and thousands of others already know as White Arrow. Twelve years ago he showed her seven very simple symbols. The...
• Gold
  This is a fresh look at the most important investment trend of the early 21st century. Many view the current bull market in gold as a flash in the pan, doomed to fizzle. Au contraire, say bestselling author Addison Wiggin and award winning analyst Justice Litle. In this explosive new book, Wiggin a...
• Resistance
  As the grip of the German Occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, Agnes Humbert, a respected art historian, took a leap of blind faith and reckless courage. With a handful of her distinguished colleagues at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, she helped to form one of the first organised gr...
• Shopping
  The recent history of shopping has been defined by decade-long periods of dynamic change. The '80s were the decade of the mall, with the explosion of malls being built, resulting in shoppers flocking to these new centers of retail. The '90s were the decade of the discounters, as Wal-Mart rolled out...
• When I Grow Up
  Spaceman or soccer pro, candy-store owner or the queen herself -- the sky's the limit when Colin McNaughton's imaginative cast of kids act out what they'd like to be when they grow up. Sit back and enjoy the show as the inimitable Colin McNaughton stages a lively class musical all about growing u...
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age m...
• Pride and Prejudice
  Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich batchelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daugher, Elizabeth, but a bad account of him is given to El...
• Olivia
  The first full-length biography of the enduringly popular star of Grease Now approaching her 60th birthday, Olivia Newton-John grew up in Melbourne and still exudes star power and timeless glamour. She has sold 60 million records around the world, topped the charts in the US and the UK four times, ...
• Buffy Vampire Slayer Watchers
  As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. From the first vampire staking to the last glimpse of Sunnydale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a genre-bus...
• Tales of the Slayer Vol 2 (Btvs)
  Sacred duty, yadda yadda. -- Buffy Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always held an irreverent attitude toward her calling, but ultimately she understands the ramifications of her destiny and is prepared to die to protect the world from Evil. In fact, she has died. Twice. I remember the drill. O...
• The Awakening
  First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her fami...
• Billy
  Meet Billy Butler. Heas been safely guarded from the evils (fun) of life by his overprotective parents, thereby spending his first 18 years on the planet moldering on the line of goodness and virtue. Meet Mirna, Billyas older sister who, now that her brother is out of school, wants to rectify that ...
• Barn Dance
  Gabby Cox, a shy Minnesota bachelor farmer, is content with his quiet life. When rock star Sphinx and his celebrity girlfriend, Sparkle, crash their private airplane into Gabby's barn, his life is turned upside down. Sphinx and Sparkle are killed-along with a half dozen pigs-and Gabby loses both hi...
• At the Beach
  Duckas day at the beach comes in the form of a padded cloth book with a sturdy zipper, a handle, and a flap. When closed tight, the book is transformed into a small carrying case. When toddlers lift the flap, they see the sun shining down on the duck as he plays in the sand. Unzip the case, open th...
• End Game
  This is the eighth in the series of high-tech thrillers centred on Dreamland - a top-secret USAF weapons research centre - from the acclaimed author of Act of War and Plan of Attack. While the Dreamland team is perfecting their latest weapon, code-named 'End game', an electromagnetic bomb that can ...
• Hold on Tight
  Series Description: Miley Stewart looks like a regular girl-next-door, but she's got a big secret. When the lights go down, Miley is the famous teen pop sensation Hannah Montana! Miley may be a celebrity when she's on stage, but she wants the rest of her life to be as normal as possible. The only...
• Baby Animals
  Building on the ongoing success of the Cube Book series, White Star has beefed up the traditional CubeBook format to present the SuperCube. This entry in the brand-new SuperCube series will appeal to animal lovers of all ages. The third volume in this innovative new series brings a wide range of ba...
• Monsters
  Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER. FADE IN: INTERIOR COURT. A guard sits at a desk behi...
• Never Say Never
  In "Never Before" and "Never Again, " award-winning author Jo-Ann Power evoked the drama and elegance of the Gilded Age with wonderful romances of American heiresses Victorian England would never forget. Now, in a tale as lavish as the age itself, she portrays the last and youngest of these ladies ...
• Julius Caesar
  More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for emperor -- not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and do...
• Dracula
  A biography of the 15th Century Prince of Romania, Vlad Dracula (1431-1476), nicknamed the Impale and on whom Bram Stoker based his fictional character. It covers his career as ruler of Wallachia, terror of Transylvania and crusader against the Turks and examines how closely he compares to his fict...
• Macbeth
  Macbeth is Shakespeare's great tragedy of a fall into evil. The Norton Critical Edition text is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. It is accompanied by an introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A rich "Sources and Contexts" section ...
• The Truth
  With over a million copies sold worldwide and translated into 22 languages, the Health Freak books have been a global publishing phenomenon, bringing both fun and vital health education to teenagers the world over. The Truth has the popular question-and-answer format of the Health Freak series base...
• Alpha
  Walk Away... How does a nice girl handle a hungry were? When Dek left her, Leila vowed never to fall for an animal like him again. But now he's back...and resistance seems futile. Dek is determined to have Leila join his family. He needs her, and he's not about to take no for an answer. Leila swore...
• Breaking Windows
  The year is 1997, and despite the machinations of its rivals, Microsoft is master of the digital universe and the darling of corporate America. Windows and Office generate staggering profits, the company's share price is stratospheric, and Bill Gates is the preeminent icon of the information age. N...
• Eggs
  Expertly researched, this wonderful book contains a wealth of information about one of nature's most familiar and versatile ingredients - the humble egg. The book opens with a colourful and comprehensive photographic identification guide to all the well-known varieties of egg, such as hen, duck and...
• Cooking
  In an era of outfitted home kitchens and food fascination, it's no wonder home cooks who never learned the fundamentals of the kitchen are intimidated. Twenty years ago, James Peterson could relate, and so he taught himself by cooking his way through professional kitchens and stacks of books, loggi...
• Ghost Force
  Tensions between Siberia and Moscow are running high, but the sudden disappearance of leading top-tier Siberian politicians and oil executives sparks open outrage in the vast lands east of the Ural. Terrified that Siberia will sever their ties and deprive Russia of its most important oil source, Mo...
• How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
  Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on. Esme Raji Codell-...
• The Bond
  What would happen if we had access to the blood of Jesus Christ? What would happen if we removed the DNA from that blood? What would happen if we cloned a human from that DNA, and who would that human be? The Bond: A Story of Love Between the Living and the Dead is the story of twin brothers, one o...
• Between Friends
  In an era when women set aside very little leisure time for themselves, let alone for their friends, Between Friends provides the perfect excuse to invite the girls over. Talented writer and designer Charlotte Lyons has brought together an imaginative array of craft projects that will help celebrat...
• Friends
  Elaine Scott and Margaret Miller pair up again, this time to explore and explain a relationship of crucial importance to children as they grow out of toddlerhood and into the elementary years. Friends! offers a warm introduction to the ups and downs of friendship, with natural pictures of a variety...
• All about Love
  The word love is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb, writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love, Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our ...
• More Than Words
  Good books inspire the imagination, jump-start creativity, and kindle new ideas. So it's no surprise that for these twenty-one members of the Chrysostom Society (a renowned contemporary Christian writers' group) the works of classic literary masters have played an influential role in shaping their ...
• South Wind
  The south wind blows constantly during the spring and summer. Hardly less constantly in autumn. And in winter, often for weeks on end. Douglas' famed novel of Capri, loved and derided in equal measure for its plot or lack thereof, is back in a palatable edition. Bishop Heard returns from Africa, ma...
• Sisters
  Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel... Her sister, Tammy, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV, and a home she loves in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills... In New York, ol...
• The Red Tent
  'My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. That is why I became a footnote, my story a brief detour between the well-known history of my fa...
• The Visitor
  Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook had a lot in common. Both high flying army women, both victims of sexual harassment, they left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead, their bodies discovered, unmarked and unscarred, in their own homes. Jack Reacher, former US milit...
• It's Only the Enemy Screaming
  It's Only the Enemy Screaming tells of one man's struggle with faith in the American experiment as the country's first made-for-media war unfolds. Perhaps I would be called upon to fight, I thought. I did not want to go. I did not want to sacrifice my life. I felt remorse for the boys who had alrea...
• Never Call Retreat
  New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great what if of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills, General Robert E. Lee'...
• The Far Side of the World
  Tie-in edition of the major film from Fox due next Spring. Starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind) as Stephen Maturin. Directed by Peter Weir. It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on...
• Jigs and Reels
  Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two short stories from the author of HOLY FOOLS and FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE, the miraculous g...
• Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust
  Set in Bondi and the Central Coast, this is vintage Les Norton - who has been called in to help Albanian would-be filmmaker, Bodine Menjou locate a missing script. Les is giving advice to Bodine, dealing with an enraged ice addict who won't stay down, and confronting a shot gun and an exploding bui...
• Gun Shy
  While on patrol, Minnesota police officer Dez Reilly saves two women from a brutal attack. One of them, Jaylynn Savage, is immediately attracted to the taciturn cop - so much so that she joins the St. Paul Police Academy. As fate would have it, Dez is eventually assigned as Jaylynn's Field Training...
• Arabella
  The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail--with many arti...
• Ayesha
  This book, second in the trilogy that begins with She, takes place in central Asia (China, Tibet, or Russia -- Haggard never tells us where, exactly, but it's clearly someplace in that vicinity), rather than Africa, but loses nothing for its location. The book's full of adventure -- a great avalanc...
• Beyond the Forests of Yesteryears
  Advance praise for Beyond the Forests of Yesteryears We meet pain, fear, shame, uncertainty, and insecurities in her stories. Sharon has captured those feelings in the allegories she shares with us. The journey of a thousand miles often begins with a single step-walk with her this is a journey you ...
• Blue Beyond Blue
  An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love through one of our oldest literary forms--the fairy tale. Inspired and barbed, Slater's fairy tales are irresistible.--Donna Seaman, Booklist Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born of premat...
• The Blue Fairy Book
  THE TALES in this volume are intended for children, who will like, it is hoped, the old stories that have pleased so many generations. The tales of Perrault are printed from the old English version of the eighteenth century. The stories from the Cabinet des Fees and from Madame d'Aulnoy are...
• Deathgate: Hand of Chaos 5
  With the publication of their first fantasy novel, New York Times bestselling authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman were an instant success. Seven years later, there are nearly ten million copies of their novels in print around the world. Their most ambitious project to date, the Death Gate novel...
• The Reality Dysfunction
  Space is not the only void... In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries...
• All in the Seasoning
  Celebrate the holidays lesbian style! Celebrate solstice with a firefighter on the job in New York City, Thanksgiving with a lesbian border patrol agent, Hanukah at a lesbian bar, and Christmas with a lesbian couple in South Africa. Here are the stories that celebrate our own traditions, storie...
• Beautiful Monster
  Josh Mackay is hired to bring in Kiran Brunner, a Minder with the psychic ability to manipulate and kill. But Kir has been abused by the agency that wants him back and he'll do anything to escape. Josh's job is to lure Kiran to a safe house. That part's easy. The boy-Minder or no-is beautiful and s...
• Best Gay Erotica 2002
  The Year's Steamiest and Most Thought-Provoking Gay Sex Writing Best Gay Erotica 2002 is a collection of 24 stories (14 never-before published) from some of the biggest names in gay fiction. Still the most literate and eclectic series on the market, past books have included the works of Felice Pica...
• Measuring the World
  "Measuring the World" recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set ou...
• Genghis
  Conn Iggulden's novels are grand historical tales of conquest and vengeance, cruelty and greatness. Now the acclaimed author of Genghis: Birth of an Empire delivers a masterful new novel of the mighty Mongol conqueror--as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule.... He ca...
• Crooked River Burning
  The critically acclaimed novel of a compelling love affair and the decline of a once prosperous city . The birthplace of rock 'n' roll, Cleveland was an economic powerhouse and America's sixth-largest city in the late 1940s. By 1969, it had dropped to twelfth. In the summer of 1948, fourteen-year...
• Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
  Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas--eager to be a good wife and strong queen-...
• Cell
  THERE'S A REASON CELL RHYMES WITH HELL. On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable ...
• The Richard Laymon Collection: Endless Night AND Midnight's Lair v. 9
  MIDNIGHT'S LAIR Mordock's Cave is one of those wonders of the world: a place where thousands of sightseers every year taker an awe-inspiring boat trip on a lake deep beneath the earth's surface and marvel at Nature's handiwork. But the darkness is also the home of things Nature never intended - thi...
• (12345 Are You Dead Or Still Alive?
  BACK COVER.12345 are you dead or still alive? Volume One Of Three. Ancell just may be the new Queen of Horror, as she brings to you her first volume of many! 12345, Five ghastly tails into the ghostly underworld of dark premonitions a place where restless and tormented souls find no peace. Enter in...
• 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense
  Headlined by a short novel from William Peter Blatty, this acclaimed anthology features 29 horror and suspense stories by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, and others....
• The Best a Man Can Get
  A hilarious and touching debut novel-in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition-that demonstrates why marriage, fatherhood, and maturity don't always arrive on a synchronized schedule. Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. D...
• Ben Rod Jordan of Putnam County
  Ben Rod Jordan's rustic environment consisted of unpaved roads, no electricity, no running water, no television or even a telephone. He and his companions created their own entertainment, usually provided by the swimmin' hole, hunting with his brothers and rambling the wood with their dog Bruno. Be...
• The Right Fit
  Emma, the irrepressible protagonist from The Baby Trail, is back for a whirlwind trip through the upside-down world of international adoption. Emma is back, and still eager to start a family. After trying every fertility treatment in the book, as well as following a slew of advice from her frien...
• Broken Trail
  Based on historical documents and more than five years of research, Broken Trail tells the story of a rancher who comes across five Chinese girls who are being transported from San Francisco to Wyoming, where they will be forced into prostitution in a mining camp. The story, written by Alan Geoffri...
• The Bride of Frankenstein
  Attempting to create life through dreadful experiments, Henry Frankenstein and Dr. Pretorius instead created unspeakable horror: two misshapen monsters, a brutish male and his female mate, stitched together from the bodies of cadavers. Crafted to be the monster's bride - an undead Eve to an equally...
• Coffee, Tea, or Murder?
  A brand new mystery in the USA Today bestselling series from America's favorite sleuth. Ms. Fletcher learns that the friendly skies aren't so friendly after all. When Cabot Cove's own Wayne Silverton debuts his new airline, he invites Jessica Fletcher and other locals on the inaugural flight from B...
• The Cylons' Secret
  After the devastating Cylon War, the Cylons retreated to parts unknown in deep space, and the twelve human colonies rebuilt that which was destroyed. For twenty years nothing was heard from the Cylons-but sometimes no news is bad news. For the humans, the aftermath of the war has created a new, alb...
• Dream Parlor
  Welcome to the DREAM PARLOR. You are now entering a world of pure imagination, a realm of lucid dreams. Journey to the summit of your greatest hopes. Explore your most primative desires. At the Parlor, you can be everything you want. Go anywhere. Do anything. No questions asked. All it costs is you...
• A Flower Blooms on Charlotte St
  As the only remaining female in the George Nash family, Ociee chooses to view herself as more brother than sister as she grows up on their Mississippi farm. When her father decides that it's time to make her into a young lady, she is sent to live with her Aunt Mamie in Asheville. There she will blo...
• Four Walls
  Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead....
• Hellgate: Bk. 1
  An interdimensional portal has opened in modern-day London. Earth has been overrun by demonic creatures, and humanity has been decimated. The world's last hope lies with the Templars, a secret society of sentinels that has stood watch against the forces of hell for centuries. Fortunately, the Templ...
• Alhazred
  H. P. Lovecraft's compelling character, Abdul Alhazred, is brought to life in this epic tale detailing the mad sorcerer's tragic history and magical adventures. Alhazred tells his own life story, beginning with himself as a poor, handsome boy in Yemen who attracts the attention of the king for his ...
• Baby of the Family
  An evocative, delicately comic story of a girl's coming of age. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times....
• Continuum
  The terrorist group Al-Saafi is about to unleash its newly developed weapon of mass destruction. Soon the devastating MAX 18 virus will rid the world of infidels, beginning with the president of the United States and his cabinet. Two beautiful and extraordinary women, born only minutes apart at opp...
• Death Valley in '49
  In the winter of 1849, William Lewis Manly, a pioneer immigrant to California, and his companions blundered into Death Valley as they turned south from the Rockies in search of a quicker route to the gold fields. The group was stranded, and Manly and another man set out on foot to find help. Fourte...
• The Eighth Day
  Julia Mallack was having that dream again. She hadn't had the dream since she was a child. The same dream that came to her on the rainy night her cherished brother Jeremy had been killed in a car crash. That night was the beginning of an odyssey that would plunge the Mallack family into a bizarre a...
• Gods of Aberdeen
  A haunting novel about a brilliant young man who enrolls at a small New England college and becomes entangled in a mysterious death -- and the ultimate scientific quest. Eric Dunne is a sixteen-year-old academic phenom. Desperate to escape his foster family, Eric graduates early from high school...
• Havelok the Dane
  Reverend Charles Watts Whistler MRCS, LSA, (1856-1913) was a writer of historic fiction that plays between 600 and 1100 AD, usually based on early English/Saxon chronicles, Norse or Danish Sagas and archeological discoveries. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, London, and was a Member of ...
• Across the Years
  Book 2 of DESERT ROSES. The last ten years have been difficult for Ashley Reynolds--first her parents disowned her because of her choice of spouse, war tragically took his life, then she discovered she would bear his child. Living with her grandfather and raising her daughter, Ashley Reynolds has f...