Tales of Mystic Park is a collection of short stories that follows the lives of various families in Northwest Pennsylvania from the Civil War to today, showing the effects of the war on each generation. Through tears and laughter, each family has a compelling story to tell as the years pass by. The theme that connects them all is that the effects of war never end as they each struggle to cope with the future. Both tragedy and comedy, the stories in Tales of Mystic Park can be enjoyed indep...

The year is 1900, and newly crowned US Open Champion, Harry Vardon makes his way to Denver, Colorado. While he works promoting the game of golf, he also aims to bring slasher Jack the Ripper to justice.After the 1900 US Open Championship, the newly crowned champion and greatest golfer of his generation, Harry Vardon, journeys to Denver, Colorado. His mission by day is to promote golf at the Overland Country Club, however, Vardon is drawn to a more exciting task. Te...

The year is 1900, and newly crowned US Open Champion, Harry Vardon makes his way to Denver, Colorado. While he works promoting the game of golf, he also aims to bring slasher Jack the Ripper to justice.After the 1900 US Open Championship, the newly crowned champion and greatest golfer of his generation, Harry Vardon, journeys to Denver, Colorado. His mission by day is to promote golf at the Overland Country Club, however, Vardon is drawn to a more exciting task. Te...

Situated on the New River, Radford has served as a gateway since its earliest days. Pioneers journeyed westward through the area along the Wilderness Road in the 1700s and 1800s, and the railroad made its way west in the 1850s, bringing about a boom in development. Today Radford still welcomes people with its small-city living, natural beauty, and educational opportunities. Author Scott L. Gardner, director of Glencoe Museum, has partnered with the Radford Public Library, where he has work...

**An addicting courtroom drama from the #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent.“No one does it better.” ―David Baldacci, #1 NYT bestselling author of Memory Man**★ “This is manna for legal-thriller fans." ―Booklist, starred review★ “This easily ranks among Turow’s best."―Publishers Weekly, starred reviewRusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon...

Mum and the baby arrive home. Ben wants the baby to go in his bed, but the baby needs to go in a little bed.

From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly—believing they wee avoiding risk—road deaths rose by 1,595. Those lives were lost to fear.The Science of ...

Regarded as one of the most important works in American literature and among the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, The Great Gatsby is the quintessential portrait of Jazz Age America, depicting not only the wild parties, romance, love, and the intense and often unfulfilled desire for wealth and status, but also the immorality, loneliness, disappointment and corruption of The Roaring Twenties.The novel follows Jay Gatsby, a self-made man, i...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex.**Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But, there is a darker side to the town. Girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate.As a sense of conspiracy grows and an apocalyptic shadow draws closer, the corruption, viole...

Helping Sophomores Succeed offers an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of the common challenges that arise in a student's second year of college. Sponsored by the University of South Carolina's National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience® and Students in Transition, this groundbreaking book offers an examination of second-year student success and satisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures from national research findings. Helping Sophomores Succeed...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark short-story collection that put th...

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do the human activities of storytelling and complex...