The fall of the Awesome Threesome is the talk of the junior class. The three friends—Jennie, Emily, and Hillary—thought they’d be a trio forever. But what with Jennie’s relentless ambition, Emily’s jealousy, and Hillary’s building resentment, it seems the Awesome Threesome is over.
FBI agent David Conner is investigating the Listeners, a channeling group that seems to have access to highly classified information. Though he quickly falls in love with Lucy, one of the twins who are the heart of the group, David remains skeptical about the Listeners' power--until an astonishing experience convinces him that they really can reac...more
In an alternate history of the nineteenth century, Queen Victoria has married Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula, leading to a reign of terror, while, in Whitechapel, Silver Knife, a murderer of vampire girls, threatens the new regime. Reprint. NYT.
You could be excused for thinking that this book is one containing a simple story for young children about a Little Prince. How wrong you would be! This is far from the truth: it is much more. It is a complex story containing lots of ambiguities about a child with golden hair. These are all eruditely discussed before the actual story begins, in a s...more
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate...more
Brought up in the sheltered sanctuary of a convent, Alys, the half-sister of Richard the Fair, is unprepared for the treacheries and intrigues of the royal court, where she meets Simon of Navarre, a powerful knight practiced in the dark arts. Original."
Written in 1814, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's most complex and fascinating achievements. This is a story of richness of character over the flash of personality, of innocence and substance winning out over worldly superficiality. This repackaged edition features a new Introduction by noted authority Margaret Drabble.
When she investigates the sudden passing of her mother, Vicki Nelson realizes that the death was no accident, and she discovers that strange things are happening at the hospital where her mother worked. By the author of Blood Price. Original.
In the fifth and last installment in the popular Victoria Nelson vampire series, Henry, a vampire and writer of bodice rippers, calls on detectives Vicki and Mike to help him lay to rest the ghosts haunting him. Original.