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13: The Story of the World's Most Notorious Superstition

13: The Story of the World's Most Notorious Superstition

by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

Triskaidekaphobia : fear of the number 13 If thirteen people sit down at a table, will one die within a year? Why did five U.S. presidents join the Thirteen Club? What is the only major New York hotel that has a thirteenth floor? In 13, a fascinating cultural history-cum-detective story, Nathaniel Lachenmeyer gets to the root of how one superstition—the fear of the number 13—developed among wildly... (more)

Last Man Standing: Book 4

Seduction of a Proper Gentleman

by Victoria Alexander

To break a centuries-old curse, beautiful, headstrong Lady Kathleen MacDavid knows she must ignore every rule of propriety by seducing—and marrying—the Earl of Norcroft. So she sets off for London, braving scandal and ruin to achieve her goal . . . until a crazy bump on the head makes her forget nearly everything. The thrill of winning a bet—that he'd be the last of his set to wed—hasn't eased the earl's pain... (more)

Cursed: A Regan Reilly Mystery

by Carol Higgins Clark

Private Investigator Regan Reilly moved from Los Angeles to New York City when she married her husband, Jack "no relation" Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. To help a friend she ends up taking on a case that calls her back to her old stomping ground... Cursed opens on a cold and gray January morning. Sleet and snow are swirling as Regan arrives at a warehouse in Long Island City with a trunk full of... (more)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction.... (more)

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.

Agent Pendergast: Book 1

Relic

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

The book that started the New York Times bestselling collaboration of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate... (more)

Agent Pendergast: Book 5

Brimstone

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due?

The best of John Bellairs

by John Bellairs

The House with a Clock in Its Walls; The Figure in the Shadows and The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring are three magically eerie tales gathered in this one-volume edition. The series opens as Lewis Barnavelt, a newly orphaned ten-year-old, comes to live with his Uncle Johnathan. Little does Lewis know that Uncle Johnathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmerman are witches. Lewis finds that he himself owns... (more)

Frankenstein: Dracula

by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson

A spine-tingling collection of terrifying classics with an introduction by horror master Stephen King. The mesmerizing story of a demented scientist's monster creation; the horror masterpiece that has led to countless vampire novels and films; and the ultimate tale of the never-ending battle between good and evil--these frightening works continue to enthrall even the boldest readers. Reissue.

Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves: Eerie Tales from Transylvania

Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves: Eerie Tales from Transylvania

by Mihai Spariosu

Includes sixteen tales from Transylvanian folklore, arranged in three sections: Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves; Haunted Treasures; and Eerie Fairy Tales.

That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism

That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism

by Ed Silvoso

Ed Silvoso is a man with a heart for God and a burden for prayer. This book extremely valuable for those working to help win their cities for Christ.........Bill Bright President, Multnomah School fo the Bible.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious. Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are... (more)

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

by Michael Pollan

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness,... (more)

The Cattle MutilatorsJohn J. Dalton

The Cattle Mutilators

by John J. Dalton

The only man who could save the world was branded a madman or a liar. Those who believed him wanted him dead.

Royal MagicRuth Chew

Royal Magic

by Ruth Chew

The Sinner from ToledoAnton Chekhov

The Sinner from Toledo

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Merrybegot

by Julie Hearn

This is the story of Nell who lives with her grandmother, the local cunning woman and healer, in a west country village in the seventeenth century. When one of the minister's daughters falls pregnant, she and her sister attempt to conceal it by accusing Nell of putting a curse on them. The witchfinder general, Matthew Hopkins, is called in and in an atmosphere of fear, the local villagers turn nasty and Nell's... (more)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving, Robert Van Nutt

The chief part of the stories, however, turned upon the favorite specter of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard. The story was immediately matched by a thrice marvelous adventure of Brom Bones, who made light of the Galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey. He affirmed... (more)

Neyrangestan

by Sadeq Hedayat

Objets de Sorcellerie

by Hugues Berton

L'objet est neutre en lui-même. Tout dépend de l'intention de l'utilisateur. Confronté à des conditions de vie particulièrement difficiles, l'homme dans les campagnes a élaboré et utilisé des objets permettant sa survie tant sur le plan temporel que spirituel dans une société dont l'équilibre reste précaire. Au-delà de simples superstitions, ces objets, matériels et psychiques, s'enracinent dans des traditions... (more)

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by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

by Victoria Alexander

by Carol Higgins Clark

by John Berendt

by William Golding

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

by John Bellairs

by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson

by Mihai Spariosu

by Ed Silvoso

by Mark Twain

by Michael Pollan

by John J. Dalton

by Ruth Chew

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Julie Hearn

by Washington Irving, Robert Van Nutt

by Sadeq Hedayat

by Hugues Berton