“Don’t be afraid,” I murmured. “We belong together.” I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him . . . It felt like every nerve ending in my body was […]
In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn’t want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn’t have kept from me. Something that had the Cullens and the wolves both in the woods, moving in hazardous proximity to each other . . . […]
I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been […]
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him – and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be – that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight is a […]
From one of the greatest short story writers of all time, a spellbinding collection of four novellas bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. ‘Different Seasons’ begins with “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a […]
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s bizarre out-bursts and subsequent descent into madness. As their home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to […]
When death has a story to tell, you listen. (Published 2005. Pages 552.) This novel takes place during World War II Nazi Germany in a small fictional village called Molching, spanning from 1939 to 1943. The Book Thief is a novel centered around the life events of a young German girl named Liesel Meminger, while […]
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them-for a price. Until something goes wrong . . . (Published 1990. Pages: 400) I […]
Carrie may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal . . […]
28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their dream home, the same home where Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers and sisters just one year earlier. The psychic phenomena that followed created the most terrifying experience the Lutz family had ever encountered, […]
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