CheriShowing up on Gallant Mountain to check on my bestie might not have been the best decision I've ever made. Do I care? Not really. I have four older brothers, and not much scares me, apart from the threat by my mafia-adjacent family of an arranged marriage. I can take care of myself—I always have. Or did until I'm greeted by a giant sex god with a smoldering gaze who's scowling so hard, he would probably terrify a bear. Except I'm not terrified, nor do I rememb...

Jake Hearne can almost feel the cold hand of Death reaching out for him. Starting with his days as a Navy pilot, the unwelcome acquaintance had watched him from afar, but lately it appeared to be growing increasingly impatient with the distance between them. As one of his generation's most elite race car drivers, Jake had always accepted that the road to victory was paved with danger, but as the 1957 race season begins, ominous signs tell a story of time running out.From behind the...

The award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), now with an all-new introduction by the author.An “extraordinary” (The New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single per...

Her crew betrayed her. Her magic broke her. Her city isn’t ready for her return.In the flying city of Newfris, where the elite soar above the clouds and the forgotten toil beneath the streets, Phoenix is more than just a killer—she’s a survivor. As a killgirl for Her Majesty’s Navy, she’s mastered the deadly art of forcefinding, creating powerful energy bubbles that can trap—or obliterate—anyone in her way. But when a mission goes horribly wrong, Phoenix finds hers...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFeed your fears with the terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter.**FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he’s following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who’s already wiped out two families.To find him, Graham has to understand him. To understand him, Graham has only one place left to go: the m...

JaclynWhy, why, why did I have to stick my nose in where it doesn't belong? I've just passed the bar. This is my first job, for goodness' sake. I shouldn't have been snooping, but I was. Even worse, I wrote to the CEO to tell him what I found. Now I'm on my way to Gallant Mountain. I don't know what will happen to me when I get there. But from what I know of Andrew Gallant, he's probably going to eat me up and spit me out before I can even explain myself.

At the very first step the student takes into the hidden pathway of Nature’s mysteries, he is met face to face with this startling fact, that all his preconceptions, all his education, all his accumulation of materialistic wisdom are unable to account for the most simple phenomena that transpire in the action and inter-action of the life forces of the planet on which he lives. As a chemist, he may pursue the atoms of force until they become lost within the realms of the imponderable, “the ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

Saying-or hearing-just the right words can bring life to tired spirits, reignite fiery minds, and mend broken hearts. Nowhere can readers find a more inspiring collection of words to stir their souls than in Big Wisdom (Little Book). Featuring 1,001 thoughts, sayings, and nuggets of wisdom, this charming book gleans insight from ancient biblical proverbs as well as contemporary writings, providing direction for living each day, such as:Success is the ability to go fr...

A series of diary entries through the eyes of a young girl as she tries to survive the end of the world."Throughout the series, Kellie is very strong and does what she needs to in order to survive. She protects those she loves and tries to protect herself as well. She meets many people along the way, some good and some bad. And it seems like the zombies are not the worst thing left in this scary world." - Amazon ReviewThis is a collection of Parts 4-6 of the Kellie's Diary ...

Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu. It was Mann's first novel, published when he was twenty-six years old. With the publication of the second edition in 1903, Buddenbrook...

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain is a monumental modernist novel set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, where the young engineer Hans Castorp arrives for a brief visit and remains for seven years. Through languorous conversations, medical rituals, erotic awakenings, and philosophical debates, Mann transforms the Alpine retreat into a symbolic microcosm of prewar Europe. Its style is ironic, expansive, and intellectually orchestral, blending Bildungsroman, satire, philosophical fiction, an...