![]() ![]() ![]() Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock's sharpest trader, wants to crash the party for profit, but " The Sun Dog," a creature that shouldn't exist at all, is a very dangerous investment. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance.įour Past Midnight: The flat surface of a Polaroid photograph becomes for fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan an invitation to the supernatural. Four Past Midnight is the 28th book published by Stephen King, and was his fourth collection of stories. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well-the truth. ![]() Three Past Midnight: " The Library Policeman" is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. Two Past Midnight: " Secret Window, Secret Garden" enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. ![]() Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. One Past Midnight: " The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from L.A. A Description of Tropes appearing in Four Past Midnight: Nobody Poops: Averted in Secret Window, Secret Garden. The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons. Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 19 and published in August 1990. ![]()
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![]() She deftly evokes the searing sense of heartache and confusion. Grande captivates and inspires in her memoir. This is a beacon of a book."-Carolina De Robertis, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango Reyna Grande is a national treasure her vision is not only singular, but essential to our contemporary culture. " A Dream Called Home is a deeply moving, beautifully written portrait of a young woman's journey to her own best life against the odds. Here is a life story so unbelievable, it could only be true."-Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street Her mistakes are familiar, but her recovery is unique. She makes seemingly-disastrous choices, but bobs and floats through as buoyant as cork. "Reyna Grande's march towards her brilliant career astonishes me. ![]() Her power is growing with every book."-Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Devil's Highway ![]() "Reyna Grande is a fearless writer and a tireless warrior for the unrepresented and silenced. Writers in need of inspiration should read this book."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Sympathizer "Reyna Grande's A Dream Called Home is a moving memoir about building a family, becoming a writer, and redefining America. ![]() "Grande ( The Distance Between Us) writes with strength and passion of her life's journey.This uplifting story of fortitude and resilience looks deeply into the complexities of immigration and one woman's struggle to adapt and thrive in America."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Victoria Skurnick, Levine Greenberg Literary. ![]() ![]() Still, fans of golden age Hollywood will find plenty to like. Amid all this social commentary, the search for Gloria’s killer tends to recede into the background. Appearances by such real-life notables as Linus Pauling and Walt Disney serve to highlight the widespread discrimination casually perpetrated against people of color, Jews, migrants, and LGBTQ communities. American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series'a treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers alike'. The Paris Spy book by Susan Elia MacNeal ReadingRewards: Earn 2x points on all Children's Books ISBN: 043935806X ISBN13: 9780439358064 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5 in the Harry Potter Series) by Susan Elia MacNeal See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 3.99 - 4.69 Paperback 6.39 - 15. cop who heads the local Ku Klux Klan and is plotting to blow up a theater during the premiere of an important war film. ![]() Maggie’s inquiry, which takes her to film sets, nightclubs, and other Hollywood locales, eventually leads her to a charismatic L.A. The police are quick to label the deceased a “hophead” and rule her death an accident, but Sterling refuses to believe their assessment and asks Maggie to investigate. Set in 1943, MacNeal’s meticulously researched if overstuffed 10th Maggie Hope mystery (after 2020’s The King’s Justice) takes Maggie, an American stationed in England who works for MI5, to Los Angeles, where Gloria Hutton, the fiancée of RAF pilot John Sterling, has been found dead in a hotel swimming pool. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is based on the texts of the original editions by Chesterton for assurance of complete authenticity, and is set in easily readable type. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills. This paperback Father Brown edition includes generous footnotes (not available in other editions) which help to clarify the literary and historical allusions made by Father Brown. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. Having read many of the Father Brown short stories before, and after really enjoying the recent screen version, I jumped at the chance to get hold of this. ![]() ![]() Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() My thoughts: I have finally decided to jump on the Janet Evanovich bandwagon and read the Stephanie Plum series. If Stephanie doesn’t wise up fast, the first dead body she sees could be her own. ![]() But now the bad news – there’s a cranky ex-prize fighter dogging her, unfinished business with Maestro Morelli himself, and a nasty habit she has of leaping first and looking later. Stephanie knows Joe from the old neighborhood, and nothing would please her more than nabbing this bozo. ![]() Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one. Not that she knows the first thing about it. Stephanie figures it’s nice work if you can get it – shagging bail jumpers for $10,000 a pop. So who does a hardly working girl turn to when the going gets tough? Meet cousin Vinnie, bail bondsman. First line: There are some men who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever.įrom the back cover: Trenton native Stephanie Plum is out of work, out of money, and her car’s in repo-hell. ![]() |