WHAT IF THE BOOK YOU'RE READING STARTS REWRITING YOU? Benjamin Hackett, fascinating, dangerous, lovable, is a twenty-three-year-old living on the edge of personal discovery who is exploring the most remote corners of his mind. He's both an athlete and a poet and is obsessed with reading a novel called "Glicken On, Baby, It's Now". It's a sci-fi futuristic thriller about Lex Baker, a super-hero of the 22nd century, assigned to save the world from Operation Suffocat...

Haunted by his near-death experience in a violent car crash, Max Star is being hunted by people he doesn't know. Believing religions cause war even though God is good, Max drops out of graduate school and struggles to bring his new Compassionate Judaism movement to as many people as possible. But Max's faith in love, not ideology, threatens some of the religious Orthodox in New York and Israel.On a hot day in July, Max, charismatic and telegenic, wakes up in his hotel room with a na...

AN AMERICAN FABLE is about ambition, luck, and death. Set in New York in the early 1950's -- post World War II and just before color television -- the story follows Aris Bellerophon, a boy who loves horses and who claims a gypsy told him he'd be famous at twenty-five, and Big Brim Oscar Birmingham, a famous radio personality who's charming, erratic, overweight, and childless after many years of marriage.One afternoon after his top-rated morning radio show, Brim has his chauffeur dri...

With Matchless, Gregory Maguire has reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic The Little Match Girl for a new time and new audiences. Originally asked by National Public Radio to write an original story with a Christmas theme, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked and A Lion Among Men was once again inspired by the fairy tales we all loved in childhood—and he composed a poignant and enchanting tale of transcendence. A lovely and b...

Uprooted once again, the little people journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood. “As irresistible as its predecessors.”--Booklist

The result of an extensive poll asking heavy metal fans to list their favourite high-octane albums, this compendium combines those survey results with Popoff's original interviews with world famous rockers who reveal recording session secrets in addition to their own heavy classics and ear-splitting faves. When all of this is melded with Popoff's unique and celebrated insights into the metal of yesterday and today, an essential resource becomes a rock-writing standard.From AC/DC to ZZ Top ...

The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more.More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete heavy metal album, its founder, Ozzy Osbourne, is the star of The Osbournes, TV's favourite new reality show. Contrary to popular belief, headbangers and the music they love are more alive tha...

In News from Dead Mule Swamp, Anastasia Raven is running from the pain of a failed marriage, and hopes to hide from the world in an old farmhouse she has purchased at the edge of Dead Mule Swamp. When a hundred-year-old newspaper she finds inside a wall is stolen by Cliff Sorenson, and then Cliff disappears, Ana is convinced that the paper holds the key to the mystery. But what old news could be important enough to put Cliff in danger?(Anastasia Raven Mysteries #1)

Five short stories of horror and terror to keep you thinking at night. The stories are...The House - what goes bump in the night?Mars - the first manned mission think they are alone on the red planet, but are they?Food - was it a dream, or was it real?The Message - the power of suggestion.Hitchhiker - she thought she had it easy as she looked for a ride.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an "intelligent ... exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the triumph of image over reality” (The Boston Globe).Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them—all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fa...

Weve all looked upon the UK Top 40 at some point in the last few years with undeniable disdain, whether it be for the seemingly eternal dominance of dance music or the baffling success of mediocre one hit wonders. But thats not to say that the charts cant restore your faith in music; Wasting Light, the seventh studio effort by Foo Fighters shot straight to the top of the album charts upon its release, showing that despite the overwhelming suggestions of the contrary, Rock and Roll isnt dead...