He's one of the best-known and best-loved actors around the globe - the dynamic star of classic films like Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave, and Seven Days in May. In recent years, Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas has surprised and delighted the world with an entirely new career. Once more, here is Kirk Douglas - author. Now, the man behind the bestsel...more
Middle-aged Hollywood director Danny Dennison finds his successful, respectable life unraveling when he meets Luba, a sensuous call girl, whose captivating sexuality threatens to shatter Danny's long-guarded secrets.
From the undisputed master of the medical thriller comes a trio of terrifying tales, filled with Dr. Robin Cook's signature cutting-edge suspense and bold strokes of reality. The consequences of managed health care in an age when even the wariest consumer may be at risk is the catalyst for Contagion, while a sinister cabal involved with unacceptabl...more
/Alan Moore /David Lloyd, illustrators The year is 1998, and England has become a corrupt, totalitarian state. Enter V, a mysterious man wearing a grinning, white, porcelain mask, who intends to free the downtrodden public from the oppressor. Through his terrorism and absurd acts, V FOR VENDETTA ec
Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the ...more
One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And ...more
In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text, an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story, and a study guide.
A stranger arrives in the seemingly idyllic mountain town of Viscos and offers the villagers a devil's bargain: kill an innocent person in the next three days and the man will give the village a wealth in gold. The man, it turns out, is a former gun-runner whose family was murdered by the same guns he sold, and ever since, he has been obsessed with...more
En una casa maravillosa en Hollywood, Bel Air vive Cooper Winslow, actor famosísimo, galán, elegante pero... ya no es tan joven y le ofrecen pocos papeles. Su agente le consigue algún anuncio pero esto hiere su orgullo. Aunque mayor, sigue siendo atractivo, elegante, encantador y seduce fácilmente a las chicas jóvenes que pretenden ser actrice...more