**Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1** New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this enticing Thriller Short, bestselling author Lawrence Light shows that dead isn’t always dead. Brad Action has been dead a year. Gunned down on the doorstep of his palatial house in Haddonfield, New Jersey, by hired killer Joe Dogan. With Brad out of t...

The second Great Depression is coming. The world’s economies are groaning under too much debt. If one thing goes wrong, the entire rickety system collapses.Now, acclaimed award-winning New York Times bestselling novelist David Hagberg and renowned financial reporter Lawrence Light have combined forces to dramatize—hour by hour—how this all-too-real catastrophe could go down in Crash.With debt-burdened governments and busin...

The second Great Depression is coming. The world’s economies are groaning under too much debt. If one thing goes wrong, the entire rickety system collapses.Now, acclaimed award-winning New York Times bestselling novelist David Hagberg and renowned financial reporter Lawrence Light have combined forces to dramatize—hour by hour—how this all-too-real catastrophe could go down in Crash

Matthew Scudder gets hired by a fellow bar patron to prove his innocence. Salesman Tommy Tillary is a forty-five-year-old philanderer with a Manhattan girlfriend and a Brooklyn wife. So when Tommy becomes a suspect in the murder of his wife, it’s up to Matt to find the real killer.

Discover how to push your watercolor painting to the next level by mastering the use of color, light, and shadows.Go beyond trying to copy what you see by designing with shapes, shadows, and highlights. Deepen the expressive nature of your paintings as you capture the subject's luminosity. Master painter William B. Lawrence offers hands-on techniques and insights for intermediate to advanced artists.Light and color take the viewer on a journey. Properly har...

I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction; By the Dawn's Early Light, which first appeared in Playboy in 1984, is the third of them.I had thought Scudder's career was finished with the publication of the fifth novel, Eight Million Ways to Die. But I'd promised...

Julian Jaynes' 1976 book, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, continues to arouse an unsettling ambivalence. Richard Dawkins called it "either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between". The present book suggests that the bicameral mind is a phantasm; the dating of the origin of consciousness contradicts archeological and literary evidence; and the theory contributes nothing toward explaining why some physical states are conscious ...

Nightside City, tourist playground of the planet Epimetheus, is doomed -- the planet isn't as tide-locked as the settlers thought, and in a few years its rotation will move the city onto the dayside, where the sun's radiation will render it uninhabitable.Private investigator Carlisle Hsing had escaped to the neighboring planet Prometheus and had no intention of ever going back, but then she was hired to find out who had attempted to assassinate Yoshio Nakada, billionaire head of th...

Alexander's army seemed unstoppable.Phalathlan and Oster have fallen and they've turned their attention towards Morton where the surviving forces seem powerless to stop them.Refusing to run any more, Ben and Carl devise a plan that is both brilliant and insane. Hoping that one man can help them, they set off on an ocean voyage that will take Ben back to where he started.Their future will hinge on the answer to one question. Is the enemy of your enemy, your friend, o...

D. H. Lawrence lasciò l'Inghilterra per la prima volta nel maggio 1912, a quasi 27 anni, fuggendo a Metz con Frieda von Richthofen, spostandosi poi in Italia per un lungo soggiorno di circa otto mesi. I due approdano prima a Riva del Garda, poi a Gargnano. Restano lì fino a marzo 1913, si trasferiscono poi per qualche giorno a San Gaudenzio. Il periodo trascorso sul Lago di Garda è particolarmente prolifico per lo scrittore. Sul Lago di Garda – parte di una raccolta di viaggio più ampia, i...

In a quiet kingdom where ordinary life hides extraordinary secrets, Lori Bells discovers something that will change her world forever: a mysterious lamp known as the Lamp of Ean Jingle.What begins as a simple discovery unviels a world of ancient shadows, igniting a chain of events that forces Lori into a conflict brewing for generations. As the lamp's volatile power takes hold, Lori must navigate a landscape where every choice demands a sacrifice and the courage to face her own fam...

A CITY . . . Amberlight, the ruler of the Riverworld. A MYSTERY . . . Qherrique, the foundation of Amberlight's wealth. Amberlight's unique possession, whose mother-lodes keep Riverworld rulers on their thrones. AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE AFFAIR . . . She leads the most powerful House in Amberlight. He's an amnesiac mugging victim, found bleeding to death on the street. So why should it matter, if he dies? What he's forgotten could be the city's deadliest danger. What he shows her changes her life...