This book presents a history of the CPE movement from precursors in educational reform to its development into the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) until 1990. Readers will understand issues, choices, and dynamics of how CPE evolved, and appreciate how CPE has lived its mantra, "trust the process." The book also engages the reader to reflect upon his or her own understanding of theological education. Built upon a foundation of educational reform, CPE has provided supervised clinical experience as a means to enhance understanding, skills, and personal and interpersonal growth....

Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.

Carrie White 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...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget.

He was a writer and she was his number one fan. She had pulled him out of the car-wreck, brought him home and splinted and set his mangled legs. All he had to do in return was to write a very special book, just for her, all about her favourite character from his novels. If he didn't, she would make him scream.

Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

"I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid,...

Minęły dwa lata od śmierci Scotta, męża Lisey Debusher Landon. Ich trwający 25 lat związek spajało głębokie, bardzo intymne uczucie. Scott - sławny i nagradzany pisarz, autor bestsellerów, był wyjątkowym człowiekiem. Zanim się pobrali, Lisey dowiedziała się od męża o krwawych źródłach jego twórczości i odwiedziła Księżyc Booya, na który często uciekał. To miejsce w równym stopniu przerażało jak i koiło udręczony wspomnieniami umysł pisarza, a zarazem było źródłem inspiracji. Teraz nadszedł czas by Lisey ponownie udała się na Księzyc Booya i...

Ned Wilcox, którego ojciec zginął gwałtowną śmiercią, podejmuje pracę w jego macierzystej Jednostce D, by jeszcze przez jakiś czas obcować chociaż ze wspomnieniami o nim. Wśród funkcjonariuszy policji stanowej panują stosunki jak w rodzinie. Ale, jak wiadomo, każda rodzina ma swoje tajemnice, niekoniecznie przyjemne. Także Jednostka D od lat pilnie strzeże tajemnicy, która może mieć coś wspólnego z makabryczną śmiercią ojca Neda. Tajemnicy nieludzkiej i niewyjaśnionej do dziś, a przez to jeszcze bardziej fascynującej. Czy Ned zdoła rozwiązać zagadkę buicka...

A Terror Eight title: dark reads for hot summer nights!

Once upon a time, in Derry, Maine, four young boys stood together and did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understood. 25 years later, at their annual reunion, a stranger stumbles into their camp.

It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread.