Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Science Fiction - General

"When my brother disappeared in 1984, I began to see myself in the third person as if my life were a story being told to someone else."

Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural Catholic commuinity in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother, Sam, vanishes at the age of seventeen, fleeing their father's rigid rules of masculinity and the violence their mother denies. Finally, thirty years old and expecting a child of her own, Abby is determined to retrace her lost sibling's dark descent--embarking upon an emotional journey that will...

After years of conflict, Britannia finally knows peace and Artor reigns from his throne at Camalot. But discontent rumbles through the kingdom. A new generation longs for the glory their fathers knew. Medraut, the son conceived by deceit, lusts for Artor's crown -- and his queen. Dreams of an empire draw the king to Gallia to battle again, leaving the sovereignty of the isle in Guendivar's hands. As Artor's painful absence grows longer, the land cries out for its champion -- and even the queen doubts his return. With the rise of revolt home to a country in turmoil. Only he can heal the...

The King knows there are those in the noble Twelve Houses who could use this growing dissent to overthrow him. So he dispatches the mystic Senneth to assess the threat throughout the realm. Accompanying her is a motley band of magic-users and warriors including Tayse, first among the King's Riders--who...

Once in California, Rod comes face-to-face with the one woman able to turn him to jelly-his ex-wife Lena. His head whirls at the thought of being hurt again by the woman who wounded him so badly in the past, while simultaneously trying to resolve his inner...

Along with her two partners, the quiet former detective, Beauregard "Beau" Theodosius Jenkins III, and the obnoxious Robert "Bo" Parker, a former Marine, she finally returns to her hometown. Just as LP and her cohorts arrive, the future in-laws of the bride decide to take over the Parson family and gain control over their...

And now for something completely different from Devlin O'Neill:

In a deadly and not too distant future, Sergeant Cameron has the best job he can imagine-chief disciplinarian at a women's prison-and he is very good at his work. His Inmate Regulation Center resounds daily with the crack of the paddle, the wisp of the cane, and the heartfelt wails of unruly inmates as he sternly punishes bare bottoms. Even his fellow correctional officers-all female-are not exempt from the sting of leather or the heat of his palm on their squirming behinds when they misbehave-sometimes on purpose, hopeful...

No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright plagiarisms which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), Mary Shelley produced English Romanticism's finest prose fiction.

Basis for the major motion picture from New Line Cinema starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack in theaters November 2007

When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he thought he had prepared himself for fatherhood. But eight-year-old Dennis turned out to be more than he expected a lot more. Dennis suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, the son of a substance abuser and alcoholic who abandoned him in a seedy motel at the age of one-and-a-half. His father died of an overdose. Seized by the state, Dennis was shuffled between eight different foster homes in less than...