Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 2)

The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 2)

by Robert E. Howard, Gary Gianni

In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery–and brought to life one of fantasy’s boldest and most enduring figures: Conan the Cimmerian–reaver, slayer, barbarian, king. This lavishly illustrated volume gathers together three of Howard’s longest and most famous Conan stories–two of them printed for the first time directly from... (more)

Hardy Boys: Book 28

The Sign of the Crooked Arrow

by Franklin W. Dixon

The Hardy brothers interrupt their investigations of jewelry-store holdups to answer a plea from their cousin on a New Mexico cattle ranch.

Return to Howliday Inn: Bunnicula Series #6 (Bunnicula)

Return to Howliday Inn: Bunnicula Series #6 (Bunnicula)

by James Howe

HOW DID ROSEBUD CHECK OUT FROM HOWLIDAY INN? The Monroes have gone on vacation, once again leaving Harold, Chester, and Howie at Chateau Bow-Wow, which Chester aptly dubbed "Howliday Inn" during their last stay there. The motley crew of boarders may have changed, but the creepy goings-on at Howliday Inn have not. A ghostly voice, buried bones, and a collar with the name "Rosebud" on it suggest that murder may have... (more)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Mission Gamma Volume 1-4 (Twilight, This Gray Spirit, Cathedral, Lesser Evil Volumes 1-4 respectively)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Mission Gamma Volume 1-4 (Twilight, This Gray Spirit, Cathedral, Lesser Evil Volumes 1-4 respectively)

by Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin

Pax Galactica. Enemies become allies. Old secrets are at last revealed. Long-held beliefs and widely accepted truths are challenged. Man turns to leisurely pursuits. In this golden age, two old friends are drawn together. They seek to understand, and wonder how what they have long believed, what they have been taught, was never so. Over two hundred years ago, the life of one of Starfleet's earliest pioneers came... (more)

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

by H. P. Lovecraft

A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones tens of millions of years old...and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional... (more)

Hardy Boys: Book 16

A Figure in Hiding

by Franklin W. Dixon

This is the 16th volume of Applewood Books reproductions of the Original Hardy Boys-Just as You Remember Them. Originally published in 1937, A Figure in Hiding was was ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane. Its dustjacket art and frontispiece were illustrated by Paul Laune. In A Figure in Hiding, Frank and Joe help their father round up a dark and sinister man posing as an eye surgeon, who promises shady cures to his... (more)

Cry Republic

by Kirk Mitchell

Two thousand years after Pilate pardoned Jesus, Rome rules the world with nuclear might. But when Caesar Germanicus seeks to transform the empire into a republic, his legions rise up against him. • 3rd reissue in Kirk Mitchell's fascinating alternate history trilogy

Hardy Boys: Book 13

The Mark on the Door

by Franklin W. Dixon

In this book, originally published in 1934, the search for a stolen boat leads the Hardy Boys to Mexico where they become involved with a band of Indians and a strange smuggling operation.

Letters from a Nut

by Ted L. Nancy

Who is Ted L. Nancy? He's a concerned hotel guest searching for a lost tooth... He's a superstitious Vegas high-roller who wants to gamble at a casino in his lucky shrimp outfit... He's the genius inventor of "Six Day Underwear"... He's a demanding dramatist seeking an audience for his play about his 26-year-old dog, Cinnamon... He's the proud owner of Charles, a 36-year-old cat who owes his longevity to a... (more)

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

by Robert E. Howard, Gary Gianni

With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century—he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn’t the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard’s fertile imagination. “He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . .... (more)

Wildside

by Steven Gould

VOYA “Outstanding Books of the Year” selection An American Library Association “Best Books” selection Forget the lottery. Teenager Charlie Newell has just discovered something that will make him and his friends billionaires. What if a world existed in which no humans ever evolved? No cities. No pollution. No laws. A fantastic world filled with unimaginable riches in which everything— everything —was yours... (more)

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

by Robert E. Howard, Mark Schultz

“Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities . . . there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. . . . Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand . . . to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.” Conan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created–a... (more)

The Bloody Crown of Conan

by Robert E. (Illustrated by Gianni, Gary) Howard

This is the hardcover edition, with dust jacket of the collection. "This illustrated volume gathers together three of Robert E. Howard's longest and most famous Conan stories - two of them taken directly from Howard's typescript - along with a collection of the author's previously unpublished and rarely seen outlines, notes, and drafts." "The people of the Black Circle: Amid the towering crags of Vendhya, in the... (more)

Dragonlance: Chronicles: Book 1

Dragons of Autumn Twilight

by Margaret Weis

Lifelong friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world shadowed with rumors of war. They speak of tales of strange monsters, creatures of myth, creatures of legend. They do not speak of their secrets. Not then. Not until a chance encounter with a beautiful, sorrowful woman, who bears a magical crystal staff, draws... (more)

Apt Pupil

by Stephen King

Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's darl past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power--and the seductive lure of... (more)

The Dark Elf Trilogy: Book 2

Exile

by R. A. Salvatore

As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went–indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in... (more)

Legacy Of The Drow: Book 4

Passage to Dawn

by R. A. Salvatore

A new "Forgotten Realms" novel from one of TSR's top-selling authors. The call of the past grows even stronger as Drizzt and his companions are lured from their ship off the Sword Coast back to the Icewind Dale, where a friend from the Abyss has set a deadly trap for the dark elf. Once again, Drizzt and his allies must combine forces to combat an evil that seeks to destroy their world.

Legacy of the Drow: Book 3

Siege of Darkness

by Fred Fields, R. A. Salvatore

The premium line of Salvatore hardcover releases continues with this haunting tale. This new release of the classic R.A. Salvatore novel continues the tale of Salvatore’s signature dark elf character Drizzt Do’Urden™. The series has now been re-numbered to tell the story of Drizzt’s life in chronological order rather than initial release order. Each title in the series showcases these top-selling novels in new,... (more)

Reflex

by Steven Gould

Davy has always been alone. He believes that he's the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isn't?A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not. And so they set about... (more)

To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek)

To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek)

by G. Cox, Gene Roddenberry

"To Reign in Hell" chronicles the fifteen years between the Original Series episode 'Space Seed' and the feature film 'The Wrath of Khan' - now widely regarded as a landmark in the Star Trek universe. Defeated by Captain James T. Kirk and exiled with his few remaining followers to the isolation of Ceti Alpha V, Khan Noonien Singh is marooned on a planet that has suddenly transformed into a hostile wasteland, where... (more)

Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: 810 american literature in english

by Robert E. Howard, Gary Gianni

by Franklin W. Dixon

by James Howe

by Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin

by H. P. Lovecraft

by Franklin W. Dixon

by Kirk Mitchell

by Franklin W. Dixon

by Ted L. Nancy

by Robert E. Howard, Gary Gianni

by Steven Gould

by Robert E. Howard, Mark Schultz

by Robert E. (Illustrated by Gianni, Gary) Howard

by Margaret Weis

by Stephen King

by R. A. Salvatore

by R. A. Salvatore

by Fred Fields, R. A. Salvatore

by Steven Gould

by G. Cox, Gene Roddenberry