"I went down into the vaults. There lay the Count!He was either dead or asleep, I could not say which - for the eyes were open and stony but without the glassiness of death."The classic gothic horror
"I went down into the vaults. There lay the Count!He was either dead or asleep, I could not say which - for the eyes were open and stony but without the glassiness of death."The classic gothic horror
Nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award by the Crime Writers of CanadaMontreal, 1926. Mick is down on his luck until an old pal offers him a loaded revolver and a job: riding shotgun in a truck running bo
F.B.I. Agents Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are burned out from too many cases so they schedule a two week vacation. Jack plans to hang out with his son, followed by some fishing in Baja. Then Jack ge
John Lennon called himself a working class hero. George Harrison was a working class mystic. Born in Liverpool as the son of a bus conductor and a shop assistant, for the first six years of his life h
December 21, 2012 is an important date for the Maya; it marks the end of the Long Count, a 5,125-year cycle of the Maya calendar, and the world’s transition into a new era. Some believe this transitio
In this follow-up to her beloved, prize-winning debut, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Ana Menendez delivers a liberating, magical, and modern take on the i
Not much can be said with certainty about the life of Claudius Aelianus, known to us as Aelian. He was born sometime between A.D. 165 and 170 in the hill town of Praeneste, what is now Palestrina, abo
William is fed up with the attention his little sister gets. His mother can't watch him climb at the playground because Emma is crying, Emma sits in his old highchair at dinner and she wants to play w
It is 1940, and Ronnie Warren is a street-smart 11-year-old living with his mum in south London while his father is away fighting with the army. Ronnie's story starts during the Blitz, when he climbs
Having no place to play in their run-down inner city neighborhood, twelve-year-old Arturo and the other children in his sixth-grade class decide to turn a vacant lot into a playground. At first even A
Over 5,000 years old, the Bhagavad Gita is written as a tale set on a battlefield, a metaphor for the battles all humans face as they live, grow, age, and die. In Essential Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
In this fun, fact-filled book, children learn that elephant seals can weigh up to 5,000 pounds and can hold their breath underwater for over an hour, that the eyes of giant squids are the largest in t
At once a chess master, a linguist, an athlete and an innocent in love, Arnold passes through the racial tensions of Mansfield, Texas (home of the author of Black Like Me) in the 1950s, the anti-war m
They say dogs have it made. Well, these dogs certainly do. This engaging collection of stories shows how much fun it can be to say "yes" to your pooch and take him along with you rather than abandonin
When Orlie Breton shows up in June of 1979 to work as a paramedic in New York City’s 911 system, she finds herself plunged into a violent and magical world, populated by medics who are not terribly di
Live Large! is organized in a one-page-at-a-time format so that the reader can take her time to absorb and practice each message fully. Every page presents a "Big Idea" for building size esteem, which
A new collection of essays by the author of Mrs. Bridge and Son of a Morning Star covers a wide range of topics from the Anasazi Indians of the desert Southwest to explorer Marco Polo to seminal advan
Martin, in the middle of a divorce, is seeking solace. Flying off to the neon-lit south Florida coastline, he settles in for some rest and rehabilitation with his soon-to-be ex-sister-in-law. Martin q
Emma's known all along that girls are better than boys, and the fifth-grade science fair gives her the opportunity to prove it. With the help of her best friend, Louise, she begins work on the most ta
In a glimpse of American life on the brink of the millenium, Will and Joel are two surburban forty-three-year-old men brought together by a high school reunion, an encounter that leads each man to exp
"Some rivers should not be swum in. Some rivers hold secrets that can never be told."Te Arepa is a headstrong Maori boy, bound to the customs and rituals of his people. When he goes
On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle b
Traveling to Japan? Then learning the language is at the top of your list and"JAPANESE in 10 minutes a day" is the best way to prepare for your trip! This complete program combines t
Is there such a thing as sin? How does one fall out of a marriage, and back in love with the world? These fairy tales are for the heartbreakers as much as the heartbroken, for those smitten with wande
Influenced by both the gray, sinister sea” near the village where Yi Lu grew up during the Cultural Revolution, and the beauty of the sea in the books she read as a child,Sea Summit is a collection of
Decoupage is one of the most popular papercrafts that has re-emerged recently. It is a traditional craft that is extremely popular in the US and is growing in popularity in the UK as a result of the t
Soil! We walk on it, play in it, build with it, grow our food in it, and get antibiotics from it. But what exactly is soil? What makes it so important? Can we survive without it? InExplore Soil! With
Soil! We walk on it, play in it, build with it, grow our food in it, and get antibiotics from it. But what exactly is soil? What makes it so important? Can we survive without it? InExplore Soil! With
See You In the Morning is a book about three 17-year-olds, Rosie, John, and the narrator, who take care of each other one summer in a small Midwestern town. Rosie is a mystic romantic whose dad earned
In frontier America, a man lives with a pregnant woman who is not his wife. One day a stranger appears and advises the man to formally register the baby as his own at Fort James, a fabled military out
Your destiny is not your own. The government has decided who you will be, who you will date, where you will work,if you will prosper or if you will perish. And the government will execute those who di
Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies. Elena Kelly is a body broker or ?corpse wrangler,” one of the best in h
Universal Studios never really wanted to get into the theme park business. They wanted to be the anti-Disney. But when forced to do so, they did it in a big way. Despite the fits and starts of multipl
Your little mtoto will listen, laugh and learn as young Lily-Rose shares her wide-eyed first adventure with her mommy in Kenya. Life is not exactly as she knows it back home in Canada?in this new plac
It’s April 1948 and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute seven-year-old Salim is dreaming of taking his first harvest from the family orange tree with his father; the next he is swept away by ?the great c
John Bonner is sure that anytime now he will recover from the sting of his recent separation from his wife. And he’s begun to wonder if he truly wants to spend the rest of his days running the family
?Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair. It is written at a
The Writers Afterlife is the story of Tom Chillo, a 44-year-old writer on the verge of fame, who suddenly dies of a stroke and finds himself transported to a place where all writers are sent after the
From single-panel comics to full-blown graphic novels, there are dozens of ways to use comics to tell a story. And whether kids want to write or draw something funny or scary, long or short, made-up o
