A "funny, contemplative" memoir of working at Amazon in the early years, when it was a struggling online bookstore ( San Francisco Chronicle).In a book that Ian Frazier has called "a fascinating and sometimes hair-raising morality tale from deep inside the Internet boom," James Marcus, hired by Amazon.com in 1996—when the company was so small his e-mail address could be [email protected]—looks back at the ecstatic rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable comebac...

2020 International Book Awards finalist for Best Horror LiteratureBailey Nguyen has been dead for nine years, and yet, he still lingers.Chase Sheppard was Bailey's best friend, but something had always lurked beneath Bailey's surface; something dark and sadistic that had made him more than the average middle school bully, and had caused Chase to fear his friend and all that he was capable of.Between Chase and Bailey was Aaron Christopher: insecure, unpopular,...

Welcome to South Hill, a neighborhood of wealth, secrets, gracious Victorians, and austere manor homes overlooking the port of Fairhaven and the dark waters of Bellingham Bay. Seventeen year-old Trevor Blackmoore has lived here his entire life, shunned and feared, along with the rest of his clan, by the elitist and superstitious families that surround them and who regard the Blackmoores as the devil's concubines.As a young medium-clairvoyant dealing not only with the dark secrets of...

SEX, WITCHCRAFT, AND ROCK & ROLL ON THE SUNSET STRIPDescription:LOS ANGELES, summer of 1987. Kathryn Blackmoore, the 26 year old heir to Blackmoore World Corp. and the future matriarch of the Blackmoore dynasty of witches has fled the haunted old monied neighborhood of South Hill in Bellingham, Washington looking to trade in a century of rumors, superstition, and her own heartache for the sun, sex, and music of the Sunset Strip.Taking up residence in the famed and d...

Talbot Mathias has always felt different. He's never really been able to connect with his adoptive parents, has had difficulty making friends at school, and has been tormented for his sexuality ever since entering Mariner High School, a place run by a new generation of teenage Golden Gods from South Hill, Edgemoor, and Fairhaven; legacy neighborhoods along the dark waters of Bellingham Bay filled with generational families with dark secrets and ghosts that seem to be in every window or on ...

A unique and insightful book that challenges our prevailing and often fallacious attitudes about schooling.The volatility of the job market and the limitless opportunities afforded by the internet have forever changed people's attitudes about schooling. In this world of rapid technological development, people are becoming successful, making money and finding personal satisfaction through non-traditional means. Ideas have become more important than training; innovat...

Set against the backdrop of San Francisco during the presidential elections, we follow Nathan Valmont and Oliver Merteuil as they set out on their respective paths of conquest and revenge in this daring and imaginatively faithful but no-less trangressive adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' iconic epistle; Les Liaisons Dangereuses.For Valmont, it is a constant pursuit of pleasure and indulgence, and for Merteuil; to be the avenger--the right hand of God--bringing justice for...

What if you and your best friend shared a secret? A secret that threatened everything about your life, and what if you discovered that you shared that secret with two of the most unlikely people?Travis Espinoza and Mary Reeves have walked through the halls of Saint Francis Academy as social outcasts. Just as privileged as their classmates, but unable to fit in. Jessica Trea and Devon Court have always been on the inside, and yet these four teens find themselves drawn to each other ...

It's been eight months since the events of Blackmoore, and now Trevor Blackmoore, Braxton Volaverunt, Cheri Hannifin, and Braxton's best friend J.T. Oliver are embarking on a new chapter of their lives in the great northwest metropolis of Seattle. Trevor and Cheri are beginning their freshman year at the University of Washington, and Braxton and J.T.'s band are heading into the studio to complete their first album with Arcadia Records. Kathryn Blackmoore, Trevor's mother, and the ...

And that city became Babylon, and Babylon was the center of the world...Los Angeles, 1987. Bodies have been turning up all over the city for months, broken, bloodied, and mutilated with their hearts and brains missing, and dark entities are stalking the streets of the infamous Sunset Strip, gathering strength for some unknown purpose that seems to center around Kathryn Blackmoore, future matriarch of the Blackmoore dynasty of witches.Seduced and lost in the dark and erotic ...

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson, a writer of se...

Marius following Yuri into the mainland of Thenus after his friend's banishment, leaves him alone, pathless and far from Highwash, his childhood home. Alone with Yuri, Marius finds himself overwhelmed quickly, haunting premonitions filling his waking hours while the newly discovered world of Thenus pulls at his soul.Ralis, injured from his conflict with the Prince of Thenus, finds himself quickly facing demons of old. His old self an ever-returning battle, forcing him to face event...