A man loses all he has - sight, legs, wife and son; but eventually finds a family in a mad man, who ironically knows he is mad and thinks the entire world is even more insane than he is, and a fourteen year old orphan whom he adopted from the street.
The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.
A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell's stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan.
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, Hitler's brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, the cruel "Butcher of Lyon"; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann.
This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.
Excerpt from The Spook Ballads The Honest Young Cashier; The Road To London; Antediluvian Pat O'Toole; The Lucky Sixpence; A Wallflower Sonnet; Paradoxical Words; A Cantabile On Music, Art And Law; Woman's Tears; Heraldic Fruits; The Polis And The Princess Granauille; A Horror Of London Town; A Confidential Sonnet; A Tram Car Ghost; Margate Sands; John Mckune; I'll Go For A Sojer; Ode Here!; The Smugglers Fate; The Late Fitz-Binks; A Fugitive Kiss; The Bedroom Curse; A Gun Solo; The Semi-Grand Piano; Canticrank; An Ill Wind Blew Him Good; A Kleptomaniac's Doom; Caught In The Breach; The Ghost Of Hiram Smike; Why Did Ye Die?; A Pretty Little Land I Know; How They Enlist; The Kindergarten Way
This book contains a collection of real-life ghost stories and supernatural experiences from nineteenth-century England.
This is a very early reprint in a rare dust jacket. Color illustrated jacket is heavily worn at edges. Large chip at head of spine and part of front panel, part of title is missing. Jacket is now protected by Brodart.
The face of Dories Moore was as dismal as the day was bright. It was Indian summer and the maple trees under which she was hurrying were joyfully arrayed in red and gold, while crimson, yellow and purple flowers nodded at her from the gardens that she passed with unseeing eyes.
Her Dark Inheritance By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
Accounts of hauntings in England and Wales, published in 1908 by Elliott O’Donnell, the renowned Victorian ghost hunter and authority on the supernatural.
There stands about a mile and a half beyond Islington, unless it has come down within the last two years, a singular and grand old house. It belonged to the family of Arden, once distinguished in the Northumbrian counties.
A Mercer Boys mystery about the Ghost of Rustling Ridge.
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This book has been professionally retyped and reformatted to fit modern day standards by officials of the Portuguese Institute of Higher Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences.
Pat is a beautiful young woman with many admirers. Nick is a young man with a secret. When his dark side interferes with their burgeoning love, things turn grim, and psychologist Carl Horker has to intervene.
Mr. Belasco does not intend to advance any theory as to the probability of the return of the main character of this play.
Magic--there's no such thing. But the crops were beginning to grow backwards....
She had to travel beyond the planet to discover her true self. Will she find the courage to walk through the doorway to a new future? Shambhala Space Station, 2097. Solitary physicist Callisto (physics, after all, is a jealous mistress) never accepted conventional wisdom. So when she’s recruited to work on faster-than-light technology by a beautiful and mysterious older woman, she eagerly accepts the career opportunity at the women-only research station orbiting Earth’s moon. But her enthusiasm suffers when her first discovery is unexpected heartbreak.
