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One fall night, an innkeeper on a remote island in Nova Scotia watches an airplane plummet to the sea. As the search for survivors envelops the island, the mourning families gather at the inn, waiting for news of those they have lost. Here among strangers, they form an unusual community, struggling for comfort and consolation. A Taiwanese couple sets out fruit for their daughter's ghost. A Bulgarian man plays... (more)

The Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

I have no Idea what this book is about so shut your $(^$&^#*)) mouth and $%#%(^ and it'll be to &$%# with you. damn shit fuck you!!! my sex drivven mind is only 4 u!!!!!!!!!! shit u !!!!!!!!! DON"T READ THIS BOOK NONSEXLOVERS................... filled with sex passion kissing (hemhem MORE than kissing!!!!!!!)shit you damn fuck ass KISSSSSSSSSSSS MY ASSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... (more)

Child 44

by Tom Rob Smith

A propulsive, relentless page-turner. A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted. A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience. CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read. "There is no crime." Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its... (more)

Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy

Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy

by Rudyard Kipling

"Rudyard Kipling is one of the finest writers of fantasy in the last one hundred years."-Ray Bradbury "Kipling has seen a perfect Odyssey of strange experiences."-Andrew Lang Rudyard Kipling (18651936) was born in Bombay, India, but was raised in England until he returned to India in 1881 as a journalist. In 1907, Kipling became the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is... (more)

2666: A Novel

by Roberto Bolaño

THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM “ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS” (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and... (more)

The Millennium Trilogy: Book 2

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

Already, a nimbus of legend surrounds the story: In late 2004, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson delivered to his publisher three finished manuscripts -- the opening salvos in a rumored 10-part suspense narrative. Like a latter-day Sjöwall-Wahlöö, the husband-and-wife detective novelists whose Martin Beck decology (1965-75) engaged Olof Palme-era political unrest, Larsson sought to explore and explode the moral... (more)

Let the Right One in

by Ebba Segerberg, John Ajvide Lindqvist

Let the Right One In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival! It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last---revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is... (more)

Watchmen: The Art of the Film

by Peter Aperlo

It is the most eagerly awaited comics-to-film adaptation of them all. The graphic novel that changed an industry is now a film from Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures in association with Legendary Pictures, directed by Zack Snyder ( 300 ), and Watchmen: The Official Film Companion is the essential guide to this cinematic event. A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985... (more)

Watchmen: The Film Portraits

by Clay Enos

As the official photographer on the set of Watchmen , Clay Enos was there at every stage of production as director Zack Snyder filmed the adaptation of the legendary graphic novel. As well as his day-to-day duties making sure there was a visual record of the production, Enos also made time to work on a very special project: a collection of black-and-white portraits photographs. From the lead characters,... (more)

Collections of Nothing

by W. D. King

Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don’t think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing—and a lot of it. With Collections of Nothing , he takes a hard look at this habitual hoarding to see what truths it can reveal about the impulse to accumulate. Part memoir, part reflection on the mania of acquisition, Collections of... (more)

New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

by Burton W. Folsom

A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today. In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against... (more)

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes 150th Anniversary

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes 150th Anniversary

by Arthur Conan, Sir/ Klinger, Leslie S. (EDT)/ Le Carre, John (INT)/ Klinger, Leslie S. Doyle

Quirk Classics

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The Classic Regency Romance - Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem!

by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine... (more)

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the penetrating study of a man who commits murder, convinced of the murder's justice, but suffering mentally nonetheless. It was first published in 1866 in twelve monthly installments of The Russian Messenger, a prestigous publication and an outlet for Tolstoy and Turgenev.

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months,... (more)

Welcome to the Monkey House

by Kurt Vonnegut

This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)

by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum

Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall.

Batman: The Long Halloween

by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale

It's refreshing when you find a Batman story that both is epic and successfully explores the core of a resolutely explored character. Taking as its catalyst a sub-plot from the seminal Batman: Year One, the story revolves around murders occurring on national holidays, the victims connected to Mob boss "The Roman." Dubbed "Holiday," the killer uses an untraceable handgun and leaves small trinkets at the scene.... (more)

Batman: Dark Victory

by Jeph Loeb

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

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by Brad Kessler

by Stieg Larsson

by Tom Rob Smith

by Rudyard Kipling

by Roberto Bolaño

by Stieg Larsson

by Ebba Segerberg, John Ajvide Lindqvist

by Peter Aperlo

by Clay Enos

by W. D. King

by Burton W. Folsom

by Arthur Conan, Sir/ Klinger, Leslie S. (EDT)/ Le Carre, John (INT)/ Klinger, Leslie S. Doyle

The Classic Regency Romance - Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem!

by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

by Kurt Vonnegut

by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum

by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale

by Jeph Loeb

by Albert Camus