Dreaming of a week in paradise, Skylar and her friends book a stay at a beachside resort. But Skylar's not having fun in the sun. From the hotel balcony, she sees strange lights in the night sky, and when the girls hit the water, she glimpses a hideous figure beneath the surface, staring up at their dangling feet. As the boundaries between reality and myth grow murkier, Skylar is lured away from her friends and toward the moon-drenched shore. Is...

Growing up, he heard bits and pieces about his family ordeal during World War II. He wanted to fill in the gaps. In December 1943, the Allies and Germans fought a fierce battle in the city of Ortona, a few miles from our farm. The killing and destruction spilled over into Arielli and forced Di Carlo's 20-year-old father and his family to become refugees. In 2002, he returned to Arielli and sat with his dad, Tommaso Di Carlo. For a week, He listened...

Worry is something we all worry about. Prayer is something we sometimes do to put our worries away. We are tossed to and fro by many challenges in our work, family, society and in our environment. All these impede our personal effectiveness and performance.Could there be a way to sort all these out and start living our best life using the treasures we have in our hand?Yes! Why Pray When You Can Easily Worry will show you the practical path to discovering...

Bongwater is a novel that wavers along the solar eclipse of the American Dream, a neo-Beat, grungeoisie love story that has all the authenticity and none of the pretension of its forerunners, a book that will be for the slacker generation of the nineties what Bright Lights, Big City was for the wannabe eighties. Young, rebellious, and vulnerable, Michael Hornburg's unforgettable characters trace the subtle outlines of a misunderstood generation. Moving...

During a virus outbreak, most of the people are turned into monsters (zombies), and only a few survive. He didn't know if he was infected, but he knew there was only hope if he was alive. In order to survive, he began to plan his own survival, counting his food, water and supplies, and also began to think about security. With electricity and water still available, he downloaded useful materials and worked hard to learn survival skills. In this zombie...

Arenas es un joven geólogo que recién ha asumido la responsabilidad de encontrar piedra caliza en un cerro de propiedad de una cementera en una ciudad costera. Cautivado por el mar, por las entrañas de la tierra, por los ritmos geológicos, el personaje central de esta novela se enfrenta a los retos técnicos propios de la exploración del terreno que le ha sido encomendado, al tiempo que intenta alimentar sus íntimos y solitarios anhelos estéticos,...

Wesley Roberts was a happy family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. But that was before a drunk driver killed his family and a slick lawyer robbed him of justice, leaving Wesley with grief, despair, and coals of smoldering anger. As time passed, smoldering coals became burning flames of revenge. One evening, with nothing to live for and nothing to lose, Wesley caught the slick lawyer alone and strangled him to death with his...

En el congelador de una nevera vivía con su familia una paleta llamada Paulina. A ella le costaba escuchar y llegar a acuerdos. No admitía que nadie la cuestionara y, tampoco ofrecía disculpas cuando cometía errores.Su testarudez estaba acompañada por un fuerte carácter y pensamientos rígidos. En el momento en que alguien se acercaba para expresarle otra manera de ver las cosas, se mostraba muy susceptibles e incluso irritada.Aunque reconocía...

The Oklahoma Territory is a bleak, brutal place in 1894, especially for Tom Freshour, a half-Indian who knows nothing of the world beyond the orphanage where he's been raised by a sadistic minister who forces him to bear witness to a botched public hanging. But Tom is about to get a bracing education, thanks especially to two people: Jake Jaycox, an aging hardware salesman who takes Tom under his wing, and Samantha King, a beautiful, mysterious woman...

There are thirty-seven separate selections in "Crickets." Some are political: ("Negroes and Their Half-White, Half-Black President: The Before and After"); ("A Boy and His Grandpa"); ("Africa So Bad, So Sad"). Some are erotic: ("Weimar and the Hotel Elephant"); (Back When"); ("What Do They Say,"); and ("An Old Woman, A Young Man"); Most are reflective: "Just a Piece of Metal"); ("The Killings"); (Paint Rock"); ("A Writer in Malmo"); ("Kieran Padraig");...