The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king […]
Joyland is a 1973 film set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park about a college student named Devin Jones who comes to work as a carny and is confronted with the legacy of a horrific murder, the fate of a dying kid, and the ways in which both will impact his life forever
The book follows the inquiry into the murder of a twenty-year-old saleswoman in July 1841, which was highlighted by extraordinary media attention and the debut of Edgar Allen Poe, whose short pieces “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Roget” linked him to the crime. The author of Teller of Tales
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Watership Down by Richard Adams is a timeless classic and one of the most well-loved books of all time. This gripping tale of “suspense, furious pursuit, and derring-do” (Chicago Tribune) follows a gang of rabbits fleeing the entrance of man and the devastation of their home, set in the picturesque Hampshire Downs in Southern England.
Cecilia Holland launched a thrilling new storey of adventure, struggle, and passion set against the violent backdrop of the Viking invasions of Ireland in the ninth century with The Soul Thief and its fascinating sequel, The Witches’ Kitchen. Corban Loosestrife embarked on an epic journey from the Viking fortress of Jorvik to the wild and
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Ivanhoe follows Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a member of one of the few Saxon families at an era when the Normans dominated English nobility, who has fallen out of favour with his father because of his support to the Norman king, Richard the Lionheart. With a cast of well-known characters ranging from Robin Hood to Friar
The Lankies are assembling on the outskirts of the solar system, cementing their dominion of Mars and preparing to attack Earth. The far-flung colony of New Svalbard is on the point of hunger and collapse, locked off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade. The two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes,
Nobody knows when it started or where it came from. A horrific new plague is sweeping the country like wildfire, destroying cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, and Seattle. Draco Incendia Trychophyton is the name given to it by doctors. To the rest of the world, it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, lethal spore that leaves
Robert E. Howard single-handedly developed the genre of sword and sorcery in a spectacular career that lasted only twelve years until his untimely end. Howard’s first thirteen Conan stories are collected in this volume, which is lavishly illustrated by artist Mark Schultz. They are presented in their original versions–in some cases for the first time
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The classic work by Pat Conroy hurts with honesty and resounds with drama. It’s the storey of tumultuous Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister, Savannah, and their battle to triumph over the dark and terrible history of the amazing family into which they were born, spanning four decades. The Prince of Tides is
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