Ami and her friends just want to do a little white-water rafting in the Smoky Mountains. When her jealous boyfriend decides to try and make their amateur guide look foolish, they end up stranded along the banks of the Pigeon River. While searching for help, they run across a group of men growing for the cartels—men who have no intention of letting them escape with their lives.

Katherine's life has been on a downhill turn, filled with tragedy and heartbreak. When she bought Alston House in the small Tennessee town of Poplar Bend, she hoped it would be the chance to turn things around, center herself again, and get serious about her art. True, it was a risk buying a house virtually sight unseen through the internet, but she knew it needed some extensive renovations, so what could go wrong?What the real estate agent never told her was that Alston House had ...

Tim's reluctant move to the sleepy town of Crimson Springs quickly spirals into a nightmare as he uncovers its terrifying cosmic secret, thrusting him into a fight against an unimaginable horror.In Crimson Springs, a seemingly idyllic small town hides a darkness that defies the laws of nature and reality. Tim, uprooted from city life, finds himself in a place where the normal rules don't apply. As bizarre events unfold, he, along with a group of fellow misfits, must unravel the tow...

A quest for acceptance turns into a chilling fight for survival.Ryan's teenage quest for coolness catapults him into the heart of a small-town horror, unfolding in the eerie corridors of an abandoned asylum. Seeking to impress the school bullies and his dream girl, Ryan stumbles upon a chilling occult secret: a corpse with a stake through its heart, straight out of vampire legend.His accidental awakening of this ancient horror marks the beginning of a supernatural thriller ...

Katherine's life has been on a downhill turn, filled with tragedy and heartbreak. When she bought Alston House in the small Tennessee town of Poplar Bend, she hoped it would be the chance to turn things around, center herself again, and get serious about her art. True, it was a risk buying a house virtually sight unseen through the internet, but she knew it needed some extensive renovations, so what could go wrong?What the real estate agent never told her was that Alston House had ...

First published in 1985, Disability in Modern Children’s Fiction presents a case for the inclusion of a planned element in the mainstream curriculum, specifically designed to encourage positive attitudes and actions towards children with special needs, and for utilising the possibilities inherent in fiction for helping all children to explore their thoughts and feelings in this area. The central chapters of the book are concerned with a critical examination of specific texts, focu...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 9 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 15 minutes"Considerations on Representative Government" is a book written by John Stuart Mill and published in 1861. In the book, Mill argues in favor of representative government as the ideal form of government. He suggests that the role of...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 4 minutesThe Subjection of Women is an essay by John Stuart Mill, published in 1869, which argues for equality between the sexes. Mill believed that the moral and intellectual advancement of humankind would result in greater happiness for ev...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 5 minutesJohn Stuart Mill's book "Utilitarianism" is a classic exposition and defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three books published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861. Mill's aim in the book is to expla...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 5 minutesThe School and Society is a highly influential publication that laid the foundation for John Dewey's later work. In the initial publication, Dewey proposes a psychological, social, and political framework for progressive education, ...

Beginning in the autumn of 2015, the author began writing a series of novels loosely based upon his childhood while growing up in a small southern town during the early to mid 60s.Laughing and Losing during the Remarkable Summer of '62 is the original short novel in the Rascals of Stafford Street series.The story takes place during the summer of '62, involving humor wrapped around a thread of darkness, an ugly moment from the author's childhood when he was attacked by an older boy. ...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 5 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 13 minutes"The Lost Stradivarius" is a horror novel written by J. Meade Falkner in 1895. The story revolves around a wealthy young heir who discovers a hidden compartment containing a Stradivarius violin in his college rooms. As he becomes i...