Raymond Knister had a strong sense of commitment both to his own career and to literature, particularly Canadian literature. In his ten working years he proved himself a prolific writer with wide-ranging interests.Although his work has appeared in many anthologies of Canadian literature, there remains a great deal of out of print or unpublished material.This volume brings together not only for his more well-known stories but also all his unpublished stories, a few travel pi...

What's the key to happiness?Detroit newspaperman Brady Ritz thinks the key is to marry someone better than yourself. Brady does just that by marrying beautiful, straight-talking Natalie. Thirty years later, the still-happy Ritzes retire to a Naples, Florida golf community.But happiness has rules, and Brady starts breaking them. He loses interest in golf and country club small talk, in karaoke and Trivia Night. To amuse himself, he writes a secret humor column for Grumble, a...

Who is targeting Brenda's college students?Brenda Contay used to be a local Detroit celebrity. She covered gruesome stories as WDIG's Lightning Rod tabloid reporter, but she hated the violence and sensationalism. That's why Brenda is happy to leave crime reporting to teach journalism at her alma mater, Davison Polytechnical University.Except murder and mayhem have followed her to campus.A Davison student is blown up while hitchhiking home fo...

The Ontario farmland described with arresting clarity in White Narcissus is, despite its beauty and abundance, “a place of choked vistas” where bitterness and rivalry have taken root. Against this backdrop Raymond Knister portrays the triumph of longing over despair, as his hero, Richard Milne, struggles to redeem his childhood sweetheart from the spiritual imprisonment of her parents’ home.First published in 1929, White Narcissus was a groundbreak...

So macht Englischlernen Spaß! Mit Begeisterung werden Englisch-Anfänger die turbulente Geschichte verfolgen, in der Lilli beschließt, mit ein bisschen Magie ihrer netten Lerhrerin unter die Arme zu greifen und dabei ein verrücktes magisches Chaos anrichtet. Ein lustiges Abenteuer mit Hexe Lilli in einer einfachen, didatkisch erprobten englischen Fassung, die sorfort zu einem Erfolgserlebnis führt. Ungekürzt gelesen vom Native Speaker Tom Zahner.Für Schüler am Ende des ersten Englis...

So ein Pech, was soll bloß aus Leons Geburtstagsparty werden? Weil Mama und Papa nicht da sind, kommt Tante Elli zum Aufpassen. Doch die ist immer so streng, bei ihr darf man gar nichts. Außer … was wäre, wenn Lilli ihr geheimes Hexenbuch benutzt? Dann tanzen ganz sicher die Puppen! - Hexe Lilli auf Englisch! - KNISTER singt!Ideal für GrundschulkinderKurze Sätze, viele WortwiederholungenFür Schüler am Ende des ersten Englischjahres.Ungekürzte Lesung mit Tom Zah...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.**"A seminal book.” —**The Washington PostOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsPatrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, an...

**One of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho is a multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic – a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.**I like to dissect girls. Did you know I’m utterly insane?Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, ...

Following on from SHELTER comes the second novel in the fantastic, action-packed Mickey Bolitar series from the master of the hook-and-twist.When tragedy strikes close to home, teenager Mickey Bolitar and his loyal new friends - sharp-witted Ema and the ever-charming Spoon - find themselves at the centre of a murder investigation involving their friend Rachel. Now, not only does Mickey have to continue his quest to uncover the truth about the mysterious death of hi...

The Time MachineWhen the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700—and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings—unearth their secret and then return to his own time—until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.H. G. We...

“An entertaining rant…The only thing missing is the sound of a drumroll and cymbals to feel as though one is sitting in a nightclub watching a live comedy marathon…A raucous, biting look at life.”—Kirkus Reviews“Nobody, but nobody, can hate like Joan Rivers. It is a gift. It is also shocking, the things she makes us laugh at…Joan Rivers is extraordinary, but she's not for the easily offended—or for anyone who gets offended at all.”—People

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post).Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world....