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...

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his work has appeared in many anthologies of Canadian literature, there remains a great deal of out of print or unpublished material.This volume brings together not only for his more well-known stories but also all his unpublished stories, a few travel pi...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Benson.There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy Tube platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what could be scary about that? Don't be frightened of the dark corners of your room. Don't be alarmed by a sudden, inexplicable chill. There's no need for a t...

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets ...

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years."Juliann Garey writes with stark, lucid power about the tumbling journey into madness and the agonizing climb back out."--Brian Yorkey, book and lyrics for Next to NormalIn her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul ...