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Curbstone Press, 2002. Curbstone Press 2002 First Edition Stated New/Fine DJ In Plastic. From A woman returns to Puerto Rico to help her terminally ill mother through her final days in M… More...

Curbstone Press, 2002. Curbstone Press 2002 First Edition Stated New/Fine DJ In Plastic. From A woman returns to Puerto Rico to help her terminally ill mother through her final days in Mueller's third novel, a gritty yet graceful that unflinchingly looks at the reality of losing a parent. The story opens with Sarah Ellis leaving her job and husband in New York to join her mother, Reba, as abdominal cancer begins its final march through Reba's battered body. But Sarah is hardly an angel of mercy in a series of flashbacks, Mueller reveals both Reba's deep-seated cruelty toward her daughter and Sarah's hatred for her mother, a revulsion offset to some extent by Sarah's respect for the devotion to social activism that Reba shared with her late husband, Scott. Some of the passages describing the family history are a bit mawkish and pedestrian, but the second half of this turns absolutely riveting as Mueller delves into Sarah's fear, love and loathing while Reba stubbornly tries to hang onto her dignity as she awaits a final visit from her son-in-law, Roberto, a psychologist who is all too aware of the manipulation dominating the mother-daughter relation. The account of the final days is especially gut-wrenching, as Sarah is finally forced to call in a nurse and a family friend to help her through her mother's brutal last hours. As a novel, this is a lovely but painful account of a difficult journey two women must take together to bring their problematic relation to a close. On a deeper level, Mueller has crafted an exceptional about the spirituality of death and dying that gets inside the reality of losing a parent with an intimacy and depth that no self-help treatise can hope to match. Agent, Liza Dawson. (Mar.)Forecast: Readers searching for texts on death and dying will find this novel especially compelling, but general readers will also appreciate Mueller's craftsman and insight. A blurb from Wally Lamb should help draw browsers. Five-city author tour. 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Sarah Ellis's mother has many islands: Puerto Rico, her retirement home; the inner space she retreats to at unexpected moments; and her self-imposed emotional isolation. As her mother approaches death, Sarah makes a literal and figurative journey to reach those islands. Over the course of 27 days as her mother succumbs to cancer, Sarah struggles with her hatred of her mother and her own need to be needed. As she revisits childhood horrors and learns to let go of some of the past and to embrace, albeit cautiously, her mother's efforts to reach out, Sarah moves toward forgiveness and peace. Using elements of her own life, Mueller (Climate of the Country) has ably captured the conflicts and ambiguities of emotional relation with both gentleness and honesty. Recommended for public libraries and women's collections. Jan Blodgett, Davidson Coll. Lib., NC 2001. First Edition Stated. Hardcover. New/Fine DJ., Curbstone Press, 2002, Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. Butts, Arthur C., IV. The true story of Andersonville Military Prison as told in the personal recollections of John McElroy, sometime Private, Co. L, 16th Illinois Cavalry." Based on actual historical accounts, recounts the horrors of the infamous southern prison in Andersonville, Georgia, & the experiences of the Union Army (North,Yankees) who were incarcerated there by the Confederates (South, Rebels). Oversize hardback in 354 pages, copyright 1957. EX-LIB copy with usual stamps & card pocket in front matter, but no markings to outside. Book is very clean & tight: nice white pages, NO writing/underlining/highlighting. Only real flaw (besides ex-lib status) is rubbing along bottom edges. Unclipped DJ is beautiful as it has been protected under mylar cover. Only flaw is slight spine fading. Please see our 5 photos! Description copyright Gargoyle Books 2015. Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm (Noon Saturdays) Pacific time; Sundays & holidays ship next business day. SORRY: book is too large for expedited domestic or international shipping without substantial postage increase., Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers, 1957, Shaye Areheart Books, 2007 Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.00. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 324 pages. Dustcover shows slight wear (NO tears). Synopsis Thirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife has had enough. She demands that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a father and husband, reluctantly agrees. As he delves into his childhood memories, he begins to recall things he hasn’t thought of in twenty years. Events, people, and strange situations come rushing back. The odd, rambling letters his father sent home before he died. The jovial mother who started dating too soon after his father’s death. A boy who appeared one night when George was lonely, then told him secrets he didn’t want to know. How no one believed this new friend was real and that he was responsible for the bad things that were happening. Terrified by all that he has forgotten, George struggles to remember what really happened in the months following his father’s death. Were his ominous visions and erratic behavior the product of a grief-stricken child’s overactive imagination (a perfectly natural reaction to the trauma of loss, as his mother insisted)? Or were his father’s colleagues, who blamed a darker, more malevolent force, right to look to the supernatural as a means to end George’s suffering? Twenty years later, George still does not know. But when a mysterious murder is revealed, remembering the past becomes the only way George can protect himself and his young family. A psychological thriller in the tradition of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History with shades of The Exorcist the smart and suspenseful A Good and Happy Child leaves you questioning the things you remember and frightened of the things you’ve forgotten. The Washington Post - Shaye Areheart With A Good and Happy Child, Justin Evans has written a novel that will scare even the most hardened horror fans out of their skins. He also has delivered a book that is, for the most part, beautifully written and perfectly structured. The result is a literary thriller of the first order. Biography Justin Evans is a strategy and business development executive in New York City, where he lives with his wife and son. This is his first novel. . Hard Cover. Near-Fine/Near-Fine., Shaye Areheart Books, 2007, Ace. Paperback. New. Mass Market Paperback. 304 pages. Dimensions: 6.7in. x 4.2in. x 0.9in.Night Owls bookstore is the one spot on campus open late enough to help out even the most practiced slacker. The employees penchant for fighting the evil creatures of the night is just a perk Valerie McTeagues business model is simple: provide the students of Edgewood College with a late-night study haven and stay as far away as possible from the underworld conflicts of her vampire brethren. Shes experienced that life, and the price she paid was far too high for her to ever want to return. Elly Garrett hasnt known any life except that of fighting the supernatural beings known as Creeps or Jackals. But she always had her mentor and foster father by her sideuntil he gave his life protecting a book that the Creeps desperately want to get their hands on. When the book gets stashed at Night Owls for safekeeping, those Val holds nearest and dearest are put in mortal peril. Now Val and Elly will have to team up, along with a mismatched crew of humans, vampires, and lesbian succubi, to stop the Jackals from getting their claws on the book and unleashing unnamed horrors This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Ace, Pan Macmillan, London, United Kingdom, 2011. 1st Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. 320 pages. An excellent copy and is in fine condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in great condition and the cover is unmarked. It has little sign of previous use. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Cathy was just sixteen, and living on her own, when she met a charming older man called Peter Tobin. She saw him as a knight in shining armour, a man who made her feel safe. He saw a vulnerable girl whose troubled childhood made her the perfect victim. This considerate man, who appeared so normal to anyone who met him, became first controlling, then violent, and Cathy found herself trapped in a terrifyingly abusive marriage. Eventually, for the sake of her young son, she found the strength to escape and over the years managed to create a good life for her boy, making sure he never had the memories of fear and daily trauma she had suffered. Still Tobin remained a threatening presence in the background. Then, turning on the television set in 2006, she screamed with horror when a familiar face appeared on the news. Her ex-husband, her son's father, was a serial killer. Writing with complete honesty, Cathy describes her marriage, and how the past continued to haunt her until she stood in court, a witness against the man who could so easily have murdered her too. Totally compelling Escape From Evil is the story of a woman who survived the worst nightmare of all. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Criminals & Outlaws, Personal Memoirs, Serial Killers; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780330538473. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0002090. . 9780330538473, Pan Macmillan, 2011, Simon & Schuster, UK, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Available Now. Book Description: Will Henry is an assistant to a doctor with a most unusual speciality: monster hunting! In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown used to late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was feeding on her, Will's world changes forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagi - a headless monster that feeds through the mouthfuls of teeth in its chest - and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to consume our world and find the rest of the monsters before it is too late... : About the Author: Rick Yancey is the author of the critically acclaimed series Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp. He earned a BA in English from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and worked as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service before turning to writing full time in 2004. Rick lives in Florida with his wife Sandy, three sons, two dogs and one lizard. Size: 13 x 3.1 x 19.8 cm. 336 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Children; Fiction. ISBN: 184738546X. ISBN/EAN: 9781847385468. Inventory No: B242-1070. . 9781847385468, Simon & Schuster, 2009, UK: Chatto & Windus, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches. Book Description A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo - a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world - vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist. Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has epitomized the dark and turbulent history of a failed continent. However, its troubles only served to increase the interest of Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher, who was sent to cover Africa in 2000. Before long he became obsessed with the idea of recreating Stanley's original expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings Butcher spent years poring over colonial-era maps and wooing rebel leaders before making his will and venturing to the Congo's eastern border. He passed through once thriving cities of this country and saw the marks left behind by years of abuse and misrule. Almost, 2,500 harrowing miles later, he reached the Atlantic Ocean, a thinner and a wiser man. Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat. But the story of the Congo, vividly told in Blood River, is more remarkable still. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly For me terror manifests itself through clear physical symptoms, an ache that grows behind my knees and a choking dryness in my throat, writes British journalist Butcher in the preface of this devastating yet strangely exhilarating account of his six-week ordeal retracing the steps of 19th-century explorer H.M. Stanley's Victorian-era travels through the present-day hell that is the Republic of Congo. Setting out into the war-torn, disease-infested backcountry of Congo in 2000 against the wishes of just about everyone in his life--family, friends, editors and a wild assortment of government officials (the corrupt and the more corrupt)--Butcher quickly finds more horror than he'd previously experienced in his 10 years as a war correspondent (With my own eyes I had peered into a hidden African world where human bones too numerous to bury were left lying on the ground). His tale is chock-a-block with gruesome details about the brutal Belgian rule of the late 19th century as well as the casual disregard for life on the contemporary scene. Part travelogue, part straight-forward reportage, Butcher's story is a full-throated lament for large-scale human potential wasted with no reasonable end in sight. (Oct.) Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist A journalist for the UK's Daily Telegraph, Butcher undertook a hazardous African trip in 2004, traveling from Lake Tanganyika to the Atlantic Ocean via the Congo River. And he did not travel via foreigners' usual conveyance in Africa--aircraft--but overland by motorbike, dugout canoe, and UN patrol boat. This account of his six-week-long journey proves to be an exceptionally gripping example of travel writing, not only because of its roster of obstacles surmounted by the resourceful traveler but also because of its empathy for those who assisted Butcher in passing through the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Encountering ordinary Congolese, staff of the UN and humanitarian agencies, and elderly holdovers from the Belgian colonial era, Butcher catches their life stories as he recounts the historical waypoints (such as Henry Stanley's 1874-77 exploration, whose route Butcher followed) in Congo's connection to and postcolonial detachment from the modern world, symbolized in dilapidated sights such as crumbling post offices and hulks of river boats. Depicting the country's dire physical plight and lawless corruption, Butcher delivers an unblinking firsthand portrait of contemporary Congo. --Gilbert Taylor --, Chatto & Windus, 2007, Warner Books Inc, 1999 Near-new condition - Appears unread - Stated First Edition (April 1999) - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 480 pages. Behind Harry Strand is a career in American intelligence he wishes he could forget and a wife, killed in an automobile accident, he can't stop mourning. In spite of his past, Harry has managed to start a new career as a successful art dealer in Houston. Then Mara Song enters his life, sharing the lap pool of an exclusive club where Harry swims alone every morning. For weeks they swim together, day after day, never speaking, never meeting, until she disappears. A month later Mara walks into his office with a business proposition: help her sell an extraordinary portfolio of drawings by modern masters. The allure of the cache and of Mara herself is something he can't resist. Even after the discovery. Walking into Mara's home one day, he notices her television is on, a videocassette visible in the VCR slot. When he pushes it in, he finds himself watching a nighttime surveillance tape of a chase scene - and, with heart-wrenching horror, witnessing his wife's final, terrifying moments as her car is forced off a country road. He knows only too well who is responsible for her death. The cold war may be over, but Harry's war has just begun.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Warner Books Inc, 1999, Random House, 2006 Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 231 pages. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This is a coming-of-age memoir by a prize-winning book critic of the Boston Globe who writes, consciously and romantically, as a surviving member of her generation: the one that "was wrapped in the flag long before we set fire to it." Born in 1951, in Amarillo, Tex., Caldwell was raised by patriotic American conservatives who watched in horror as their pride and joy became radicalized by the peace and liberationist movements of the late '60s and '70s. Carried along on a tide of sex, drugs and political protest that alienated her not only from her parents but from herself as well, it wasn't until her late 20s that she began to see that she wanted to think and write more than she wanted to go on honoring the impulses of the rebelling moment. Yet, true to the Platonic ideal of never disavowing old loves, Caldwell wouldn't trade what she has lived through for the world. As a direct result of her abiding loyalty to her own past, she has arrived at a considerable piece of wisdom: "The trick is to let a time like ours shape you utterly without... [making] a career out of estrangement." Her book is an attempt to convey all the parts of the experience.But as this is a memoir, not a polemic, no part of it is without its own complications. Caldwell's memories are laced through with an overwhelming nostalgia for the Texas where she herself could not make a life. Her adolescent dreams, she tells us, almost always "involved breaking free of those lonesome, empty plains, whatever it took." Yet her prose is riddled with longing for the father with whom she identifies, and who is the very personification of a Texas full of grit, courage and the refusal to knuckle under that she insists on finding worthy of admiration. The nostalgia is both enriching and problematic, as it almost inevitably leads this writer into the sea of rhetoric. And while the rhetoric is not deep enough to sink a ship, it is sufficient to leave the author floating too often in "poetic" abstraction when she should be grounded in prose that is both penetrating and precise.Nonetheless, Caldwell comes through as a wise and winning woman her descriptive passages on college life in Austin in the '60s and '70s are wonderfully smart, moving and sympathetic and she emerges from A Strong West Wind a memorable narrator. (Feb. 14)Vivian Gornick's latest book is The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Random House, 2006, Square Fish. Paperback. New. Paperback. 256 pages. Dimensions: 8.2in. x 5.4in. x 0.9in.In R. L. Stines A Midsummer Nights Scream, the Master of Horror takes on the Master of Theatre!Oh, what fools these actors be! It was a horror movie that turned into real horrorthree young actors lost their lives while the camera rolled. Production stopped, and people claimed that the movie was cursed. Sixty years later, new actors are venturing onto the haunted set. In a desperate attempt to revive their failing studio, Claires dad has green-lit a remake of Mayhem Manorand Claire and her friends are dying to be involved. At first, Claire laughs at Jakes talk of ghosts and curses. Hes been too busy crushing on her best friend Delia to notice that shes practically been throwing herself at him. What does he know And anyway, this is her big chance to be a star!When shooting starts, though, the set is plagued by a series of horrible accidents. Could history be repeating itself This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Square Fish, HarperTeen. Paperback. New. Paperback. 544 pages. Dimensions: 8.0in. x 5.3in. x 1.4in.Ghosts ruin everything, especially your love life. Suze is a mediatora liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they wont leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business on earth. But after a cross-country move to sunny California, Suze is looking forward to a fresh start and a life free of spectral interventions. Too bad Suze cant escape the undead that easily. She might not mind Jesse, the sexy ghost who haunts her bedroom, but there are plenty of other poltergeists out there with less friendly intentions. Some of them are out for revenge . . . of the murderous kind. And Suze might be the only one who can stop them. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., HarperTeen, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. Parks, Phil. The horror master combines "the tongue-in-cheek charm of a modern classic with the timeless magic of cherished holiday tradition" in this tale of two little girls who strive to save Santa from his mischievous twin, Bob. Illustrated by Koontz' long-time collaborator, Phil Parks. Unpaginated. A FIRST EDITION, Fourth Printing (per number line), this oblong hardcover is completely clean, nice white pages; NO writing, highlighting or underlining. NOT ex-lib. Condition downgraded to VG+ due to 2 flaws: 1) lower stitching on binding is loosening with a teeny tear at front hinge, & 2) about a 1" section of bottom corner exterior page edges show soiling (storage box tore & dirt got in at the corner). Unclipped DJ is Fine: colorful, no fading, just slight rubbing. Beautifully protected in new archival mylar cover for years of reading pleasure! Please see our photos! Description & photos copyright Gargoyle Books 2016. All orders processed before 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time) ship Same Day; Weekends & holidays ship next business day. SORRY: Book is too large for expedited domestic or international shipping without substantial postage increase!, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996, Paperback. New. Paperback. 182 pages. Why should you read The Prophecy of the Kings It is pure escapism. Find yourself engrossed in a world where good and evil strive in an epic battle for domination. It has fast action, tremendous characterisation and a unique plot. Feel remorse for Kaplyn, the hero, as he is taken to the very brink of despair when his world is plunged into nightmare Kaplyn seeks an adventure to impress his brothers but instead his life is ripped apart. In a clash of powers his shaol (guardian spirit), is replaced with the spirit of a dead emperor. Shastlan is evil. He has summoned dragons to his world and then fallen under their spell. With their aid he has destroyed his world and his ghost wanders the land in misery, seeking the companionship of others but shunned by his own realisation of dire deeds that cannot be undone. Kaplyn experiences the horrors of the demon world, and he sees souls damned to eternal horror. And yet, as low as his life has become, Kaplyn is seen as a saviour. He, too, summons a dragon and he fights off a demon attack. But deep down his soul is restless, he senses that dragons are evil, he dare not lead the army, and yet there seems to be no option. The power of the demons and the spirit world far exceeds any defence the people might raise. Astalus has returned bearing good news. He has found an Eldric spell book and, in particular, a spell to summon dragons. The allies march north to confront the Trosgarths growing might, but the people of Trosgarth have been busy. Warrior priests can now communicate across the battlefield using their shaol, death knights have been resurrected, and in the air grakyn are supported by a new threat--a demondragon hybrid. To make matters worse, Astalus discovers that the power that Kaplyn and Vastra recovered so long ago can open a permanent gateway to the demon world. Drachar is finally free and he and all his minions will march from the very depths of hell. Astalus knows all of this through a demon that has possessed him. The army marches to its fate, unaware of the trap awaiting them. Prince Fiad leads them. Will he be the armys salvation or damnation The men mutter, uncomfortable in the knowledge that, at the final battle, a king will not lead them against the tides of evil. Drachar is poised, his death knights ready to tear the army apart. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Paperback. New. Paperback. 464 pages. Dimensions: 8.2in. x 5.5in. x 1.3in.These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me. So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown accustomed to his late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Wills world is about to change forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagus--a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest--and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatenning to overtake and consume our world before it is too late. The Monstrumologist is the first stunning gothic adventure in a series that combines the spirit of HP Lovecraft with the storytelling ability of Rick Riorden. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Severed Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 216 pages. Dimensions: 8.7in. x 6.1in. x 0.9in.John is a killer, but that wasnt his day job before the Apocalypse. In a harrowing 900 mile race against time to get to his wife just as the dead begin to rise, John, a business man trapped in New York, soon learns that the zombies are the least of his worries, as he sees first-hand the horror of what man is capable of with no rules, no consequences and death at every turn. Teaming up with an ex-army pilot named Kyle, they escape New York only to stumble across a man who says that he has the key to a rumored underground stronghold called Avalon. . . . . Will they find safety Will they make it to Johns wife before its too late Get ready to follow John and Kyle in this fast paced thriller that mixes zombie horror with gladiator style arena action! This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Severed Press, Holiday House, 2005 Brand-New copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Over-sized hardback. From School Library Journal Grade 5 Up–This retelling of an early-20th-century play based on a Jewish legend is uneasily balanced between an evocation of European shtetl life and a ghost story. Leah and Konin were promised to one another by their fathers even before they were born. However, when Leah is old enough to be married, Sender, her father, wants her betrothed to a rich man. Konin, now a poor orphaned scholar, meets Leah and they fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Thwarted by Sender's greed, the young man studies the Kabbalah, searching for a way to obtain the necessary wealth. When he fails, he dies and comes back as a dybbuk an unhappy spirit that possesses Leah's body and speaks through her lips. Though an exorcism is performed, she chooses to rejoin Konin and dies before she can marry the man her father has selected. Stories of the supernatural have undeniable appeal, but this one, with its archaic setting and strongly religious connections, seems too specialized for most collections. Rogasky's writing, which is full of inverted phrases (e.g., Pious and sincere they were or Old it is, centuries old), is distancing--even though she addresses readers directly at times (Forgive me, Dear Reader. I cannot explain the meaning of all that happened.). Fisher's dramatic black, white, and brown-toned illustrations add to the hard-edged, unyielding nature of the tragic tale.Miriam Lang Budin, Chappaqua Public Library, NY Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Gr. 4-6. A Jewish legend about a girl's possession by a dybbuk, or restless spirit, is strikingly retold in a picture book that fits as smoothly into collections of children's Judaica as it does in sections of scary Halloween stories. Rogasky chooses to tell her version in a narrative longer than a traditional picture book, but she doesn't expend words idly; her storytelling is rich and powerful, as adept in conveying a sense of Hasidic culture as it is in narrating moments of sheer terror. These are terrifying indeed: Rogasky's dybbuk is a poor, orphan boy who dies when his destined fiancee is promised to another, and returns as a ghost to be united with his true love. Extending the horror are starkly composed, monumental oils in inky blacks and moonlit grays by venerable illustrator Fisher. Particularly noteworthy is Rogasky's distinct treatment of various voices, ranging from the narrator's intimate tone to the villagers' gossipy banter to the ghost's creepy pronouncements. With some artful adaptation, this will work well for readers' theater or storytelling performances. Jennifer Mattson Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Fisher, Leonard Everett. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Holiday House, 2005, R. E. Publishing. Paperback. New. Paperback. 278 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.8in.G. Alan Benet neither wanted nor expected to save anyones life. He was too busy running through and away from his own life to bother with someone elses. But when he found himself looking up at a screaming man who had either jumped or fallen from a building, he used the one real power he possessed. He Hid the man in a dark Gap between universes outside of time, a place that would either save or kill him. The man lived, and Alan was soon part of the group of extraordinary people trying to stop a creature of limitless power from the Gap that threatened to destroy humanity. Alan wondered how many of them would have to die to stop it, and if one of the dead would be him. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., R. E. Publishing, Bell Bridge Books. Paperback. New. Paperback. 188 pages. Dimensions: 8.4in. x 5.4in. x 0.6in.Fresh, fun, and dangerous! I cant wait for the next one! -Sherrilyn Kenyon 1 NYT Bestselling Author of the Dark-Hunter SeriesWitchcraft Is Her Familys Business. No One Quits The Family And Lives To Tell About It. Jax Pherson has power, enough power to know her future will end in service to the dark coven her father controls. Unless she can stay hidden in a small community in the mountains of North Carolina. She must find a way to live without magic and deny the darkness she feels welling up inside her-the same dark power that fuels the covens around the world. All she wants is a normal life. A boyfriend. Friends. Some place to belong, but all too soon Jaxs barely begun new life hangs in the balance when she discovers that the boy shes attracted to is sworn to kill her kind. Hes a hunter with good reason to kill everything that goes bump in the night. Even the most fleeting use of her power is tantamount to signing her death warrant and will bring both hunter and coven down on her. But can she walk away when her friends are threatened by an old evil Something created by the magic of witches Jaxs only hope of survival is to convince the boy she loves to forget everything hes ever been taught and help her find a way to fight the covens. To believe there is some good in her. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Bell Bridge Books, WestBowPress. Paperback. New. Paperback. 72 pages. Dimensions: 7.8in. x 4.8in. x 0.4in. . . . it didnt matter, because one word, sure in the context of motorcycle ownership, gave Pete permission to buy one. All he had to do now was earn the money. . . . When Ms. Strickland answered the door she looked at the stoop and noticed that it had been shoveled. Since they were both holding shovels, the first thing she said in a rhetorical tone was Did you guys do that Thank you Before they could get a word out, she continued with I guess you are here to shovel my drive! Or did you do that too and now you want your money Without missing a beat, Mel replied, Yup! Twenty bucks In a scolding almost frantic tone she replied with, Well Im not paying. I have the lawn service under contract. Not very smart business boys. You cant just ask people to pay for a service they didnt request Pete just stood there in shock when Mel said, OK, well put it back She paused for a moment with a look of horror on her face until she realized Mel was joking and started laughing. She said Im sorry boys, but Im already committed Mel replied, Thats OK, we understand As they were walking toward the next house, they heard Ms. Stricklands door open and she started yelling, Boys Boys Wait Mel and Pete exchanged glances wondering what now Come back! I changed my mind! You can shovel my drive Pete jokingly said to Mel, It looks like were both gonna make 20 on this drive since our price just doubled This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., WestBowPress, A-Girl Studio. Paperback. New. Paperback. 184 pages. Dimensions: 8.0in. x 5.3in. x 0.5in.Who is Elle BlackElle Black, an unconventional psychic detective in an unconventional Victorian marriage, leaves her lovely lesbian wife to answer a desperate plea. Guests are vanishing in a mechanical hotel known as the Sundark, and Elle must use her anomalous perturbationist giftthe ability to move objects with her mindto save herself and the remaining hotel residents from malevolent, sidereal powers. But with apparitions appearing, magnetic lines disrupted, and clairvoyant guests lurking, who is the true murderer. . . or murderessAdd to your collection of female detective mysteries: A gaslamp fantasy in a steampunk, paranormal London, follow the telekinetic Elle Black, a twenty-two year old, happily remarried widow, as she solves mysteries in the same alternate world as The Dark Victorian series by Elizabeth Watasin. Where Secret Commission agents Artifice and Jim Dastard havent time to tread, Elle Black will take up the lead and follow. Experience a bonus Art Gallery: The paperback version of Sundark: An Elle Black Penny Dread, contains a small gallery of illustrations by Elizabeth Watasin. Learn more about this thrilling, lesbian historical fiction series: Deep in Londons Chiselhurst lies the Sundark, a magnificent, mechanical manor built in earlier times by a master illusionist and his occultist wife. Its guests have been known to stay, only to never be seen again. Now converted into a hotel, is this rumor some publicity lure or a cover for fleeing, non-paying residents Elle Black, a housewife and telekinetic among London detectives and Secret Commission agents, is summoned to solve this mystery as more victims vanish, faster than before. What Victorian Gothic adventure awaits as the psychic sleuth leaves her beautiful, lesbian wife Faedra to investigate the seemingly harmless, clockwork turnings of Sundarks rooms and towers The cynical and rough Mr. Hardwick, current owner of the Sundark, dismisses Elles ability to solve his hotels mystery. But during her first nightly vigil, Elle slips into the chilling, preternatural past as ghosts walk, gaslamps become candles, floors and walls mechanically move, and yet another unlucky guest screams in terror and vanishes. Did a paranormal force abduct the latest victim What are the blue fires, and what is Abigail Sundarks ghost trying to tell Elle And is it, as the sleuth suspects, a case of murder Elle must deal with a sinister gardener, a self-styled ghost chaser, spiritualists claiming to be clairvoyants, and a very obstinate, thick-headed hotel owner, who not only refuses to leave but seems to have his own tragic secret. As Elle delves further into the mystery, one horror is apparent: more death awaits, both in the ghost filled past and in the present as the Sundark loses yet another guest to unseen malevolence. And when Elle discovers that the house sits upon the triple crossroad of ancient corpse roads, she cant discount its foreboding connection to Abigail Sundarks chosen chthonic, tripartite deity, the underworld goddess Hekate. But whatever is behind the vanishings did not count on making Elle angry. . . Sundark: An Elle Black Penny Dread, is the latest gaslamp fantasy from speculative fiction storyteller Elizabeth Watasin, who delights in bringing you shilling shockers immersed in Gothic Victorian mystery, women sleuths, and the eldritch vestiges of a steampunk, paranormal London. Enjoy this twist of lesbian historical fiction and look for more of Elle Black as she wrestles with the small, local horrors Secret Commission agents Artifice and Jim Dastard are too busy to take on. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., A-Girl Studio, Wheeler Publishing, 2001-06-01. Paperback. Like New. 1587240556 Amazon Review This tour de force by the author of Manhattan Nocturne is a genre-bending literary thriller that deserves all the pre-publishing buzz it's received. From the prologue, set in the closing days of the Vietnam War, to the denouement 25 years later in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, it crackles with electricity and keeps the reader pinned in place; this is a book that's truly impossible to put down. Harrison's three protagonists are so well drawn that their individual obsessions rather than his complex plot seem to drive the narrative. Former fighter pilot Charlie Ravich is a wealthy telecommunications CEO desperate to perpetuate his name by any means, including a surrogate mother; his only son is dead and his daughter is infertile. Christina Welles is an Ivy League-educated mathematics whiz who went to prison for her role in a Mafia theft ring. And Rick Bocca, Christina's former lover, is hiding from the mob boss who has arranged Christina's early release to regain the millions he believes she stole from him. Harrison's observations are acute: he can describe the most horrific torture as deftly as he can write a tender love scene. But his ability to weave the separate stories of his main characters together without sacrificing a bit of momentum is truly dazzling; all three of them live in the mind long after the novel's harrowing climax. This is the real "afterburn" of the title, although it may get a second definition if the book makes as rapid an ascent to the top of the bestseller lists as it deserves. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Writing like an angel, Harrison in his new thriller (after Manhattan Nocturne) casts human existence as demonic, in a scenario as fierce as any imagined by Goya. The horror begins as American pilot Charlie Ravich is taken prisoner in 1972 in Vietnam, to be rescued by GIs who maim him in the process. Jumping to the present, the narrative focuses on another prisoner, Christina Welles, suffering behind bars in upstate New York for her role in a mob-directed theft ring. Charlie, too, is in pain; though now a wealthy electronics mogul, he's under attack both professionally, by larcenous contractors and a rival firm (like Harrison's Bodies Electric, this is a finance thriller as well as a crime novel), and personally--his wife is exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's, and he mourns the death of his only son. Then there's Rick Bocca, Christina's lover, inadvertently responsible for her imprisonment; he's hiding from the mob on Long Island, good as dead. When the mob, looking for $5 million that Christina stole from them in her final heist, engineers her release in hopes of snatching her to retrieve their loot, Harrison sets in motion a daringly complex tale of chase-and-hunt, of villainy, sacrifice and redemption, that unites these three main figures, and the gangsters who will go to any length--including monstrous torture, detailed by Harrison to the point of sensationalism--to get their money. As smartly orchestrated as the action is, it's Harrison's achingly real characters who empower the novel, as well as his prose: is there a noir novelist alive who can match his wattage? That's not always a virtue, though, as Harrison too often lets rip passages that, though rhapsodic or acutely observant, retard narrative flow. If not always expertly paced, however, the novel astonishes throughout, as much for its moral force as for its storytelling dazzle. 100,000 first printing; author tour; audio rights to Simon & Schuster. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title., Wheeler Publishing, 2001-06-01<

2001, ISBN: 9781587240553

Wheeler Publishing, 2001-06-01. Paperback. Like New. 1587240556 Amazon Review This tour de force by the author of Manhattan Nocturne is a genre-bending literary thriller that deserves a… More...

Wheeler Publishing, 2001-06-01. Paperback. Like New. 1587240556 Amazon Review This tour de force by the author of Manhattan Nocturne is a genre-bending literary thriller that deserves all the pre-publishing buzz it's received. From the prologue, set in the closing days of the Vietnam War, to the denouement 25 years later in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, it crackles with electricity and keeps the reader pinned in place; this is a book that's truly impossible to put down. Harrison's three protagonists are so well drawn that their individual obsessions rather than his complex plot seem to drive the narrative. Former fighter pilot Charlie Ravich is a wealthy telecommunications CEO desperate to perpetuate his name by any means, including a surrogate mother; his only son is dead and his daughter is infertile. Christina Welles is an Ivy League-educated mathematics whiz who went to prison for her role in a Mafia theft ring. And Rick Bocca, Christina's former lover, is hiding from the mob boss who has arranged Christina's early release to regain the millions he believes she stole from him. Harrison's observations are acute: he can describe the most horrific torture as deftly as he can write a tender love scene. But his ability to weave the separate stories of his main characters together without sacrificing a bit of momentum is truly dazzling; all three of them live in the mind long after the novel's harrowing climax. This is the real "afterburn" of the title, although it may get a second definition if the book makes as rapid an ascent to the top of the bestseller lists as it deserves. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Writing like an angel, Harrison in his new thriller (after Manhattan Nocturne) casts human existence as demonic, in a scenario as fierce as any imagined by Goya. The horror begins as American pilot Charlie Ravich is taken prisoner in 1972 in Vietnam, to be rescued by GIs who maim him in the process. Jumping to the present, the narrative focuses on another prisoner, Christina Welles, suffering behind bars in upstate New York for her role in a mob-directed theft ring. Charlie, too, is in pain; though now a wealthy electronics mogul, he's under attack both professionally, by larcenous contractors and a rival firm (like Harrison's Bodies Electric, this is a finance thriller as well as a crime novel), and personally--his wife is exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's, and he mourns the death of his only son. Then there's Rick Bocca, Christina's lover, inadvertently responsible for her imprisonment; he's hiding from the mob on Long Island, good as dead. When the mob, looking for $5 million that Christina stole from them in her final heist, engineers her release in hopes of snatching her to retrieve their loot, Harrison sets in motion a daringly complex tale of chase-and-hunt, of villainy, sacrifice and redemption, that unites these three main figures, and the gangsters who will go to any length--including monstrous torture, detailed by Harrison to the point of sensationalism--to get their money. As smartly orchestrated as the action is, it's Harrison's achingly real characters who empower the novel, as well as his prose: is there a noir novelist alive who can match his wattage? That's not always a virtue, though, as Harrison too often lets rip passages that, though rhapsodic or acutely observant, retard narrative flow. If not always expertly paced, however, the novel astonishes throughout, as much for its moral force as for its storytelling dazzle. 100,000 first printing; author tour; audio rights to Simon & Schuster. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title., Wheeler Publishing, 2001-06-01<

ISBN: 1587240556

This tour de force by the author of Manhattan Nocturne is a genre-bending literary thriller that deserves all the pre-publishing buzz it's received. From the prologue, set in the closing … More...

This tour de force by the author of Manhattan Nocturne is a genre-bending literary thriller that deserves all the pre-publishing buzz it's received. From the prologue, set in the closing days of the Vietnam War, to the denouement 25 years later in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, it crackles with electricity and keeps the reader pinned in place; this is a book that's truly impossible to put down. Harrison's three protagonists are so well drawn that their individual obsessions rather than his complex plot seem to drive the narrative. Former fighter pilot Charlie Ravich is a wealthy telecommunications CEO desperate to perpetuate his name by any means, including a surrogate mother; his only son is dead and his daughter is infertile. Christina Welles is an Ivy League-educated mathematics whiz who went to prison for her role in a Mafia theft ring. And Rick Bocca, Christina's former lover, is hiding from the mob boss who has arranged Christina's early release to regain the millions he believes she stole from him. Harrison's observations are acute: he can describe the most horrific torture as deftly as he can write a tender love scene. But his ability to weave the separate stories of his main characters together without sacrificing a bit of momentum is truly dazzling; all three of them live in the mind long after the novel's harrowing climax. This is the real "afterburn" of the title, although it may get a second definition if the book makes as rapid an ascent to th fiction,literature and fiction,mystery thriller and suspense,suspense,thrillers Suspense, Wheeler Publishing<

ISBN: 1587240556

A high-voltage international thriller about a millionaire businessman catapulted into a world of criminal intrigue, sexual obsession, extortion, and death. Charlie Ravich is a survivor wh… More...

A high-voltage international thriller about a millionaire businessman catapulted into a world of criminal intrigue, sexual obsession, extortion, and death. Charlie Ravich is a survivor whose brutal experience as a POW in Vietnam has more than prepared him for the cutthroat world of global commerce. Now a wealthy Upper East Side executive in his late fifties, Charlie has only one problem: his family is dying out. His wife teeters on the edge of Alzheimer's; their son has succumbed to leukemia; and their daughter, Julia, is unable to bear a child. Charlie is being trumped by time. Enter Christina, a beguiling Columbia University dropout-intelligent, selectively dishonest, filled with desire. Her affair with Rick Bocca, a member of a big-time truck-theft ring run by mobster Tony V., has landed her in prison. After four years in Bedford Hills, she is suddenly released by the Manhattan D.A.'s office-perhaps because she is innocent, perhaps not. Warned by a detective that Christina is being set up by Tony V., Rick begins a desperate, bungled search to warn Christina, who has lied her way into the high-flying world of Charlie Ravich. But her past catches up with her, and Rick's catches up with him, setting off a harrowing chain of betrayals that leaves only one person with any hope of a future. At once smart, sexy, and graphically violent, Afterburn spans the mean streets of New York's underworld and Hong Kong's corridors of high finance, and stands as Colin Harrison's most commerci fiction,literature and fiction,mystery thriller and suspense,suspense,thrillers Suspense, Cengage Gale<

2001, ISBN: 9781587240553

Wheeler Pub Inc, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Large Print, 670 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-06-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Thriller & Suspense, Krimis & Thriller, Kategorien, Bücher, Format: … More...

Wheeler Pub Inc, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Large Print, 670 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-06-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Thriller & Suspense, Krimis & Thriller, Kategorien, Bücher, Format: Großdruck, Wheeler Pub Inc, 2001<