-Shortlisted for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel-Winner of the American Library Association's Horror Book of 2017"Intensely realized and beautifully orchestrated Gothic horror." —Joyce Carol Oates"A match for readers who enjoyed Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House." —Booklist (starred review)At the end of a dark prairie road, ne...

The renowned actress who played Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless opens up about her sixty-year career in this scintillating memoir.Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her character on The Young and the Restless, who's seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America's highest-rated daytime serial. But there's plenty of drama beyond her character's plotlines. In this captivating memoir, Melody reveals the behind-the-scenes saga ...

**2024 SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD WINNERFour gothic novellas from the novelist of Kill Creek and Violet, praised by the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the American Library Association.**In The Door in the Field, a construction worker's bad day becomes a far worse night when drinks at an off-the-books bar send him down an unforeseeably bloody path.In The Boy in the Woods, something evil has infected the counselors a...

From the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Scott Thomas**―praised by The New York Times, NPR, Booklist, Library Journal, and The Hollywood Reporter―comes the long-awaited sequel to Kill Creek.**It’s been almost a decade since the murders at Kill Creek. What was only supposed to be a publicity stunt—four famous horror novelists in America’s most notorious haunted house—turned into a massacre. The survivors never told the full s...

Experience the magic again with this chronicle of the young wizard who took the world by storm!From the moment that J. K. Rowling conceived the idea of Harry Potter during a train ride, until the 1997 UK publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Making of the Potterverse tells the history of one of today's most beloved sagas—in print, on screen, and in real life as waves of Pottermania swept fans young and old.Covering t...

It’s a thumbs-up for this movie-inspired guide to learning SpanishPop in a movie in your DVD playerTurn on the Spanish soundtrack in the DVD options menuOpen up Listen ‘n’ Learn Spanish with Your Favorite Movies, and relax as you learn core Spanish vocabulary and phrasesIt is as easy as that to learn thousands of essential Spanish terms and expressions. You follow along using the book to decipher difficult Spanish p...

THE STEM CELL IS SET TO DOMINATE POPULAR AWARENESS OF SCIENCE LIKE THE ATOM BOMB DID A GENERATION AGO. No area of science holds such immediate promise for treating disease and improving human lives as stem cell research. But no area of science also causes such fundamental ethical concern and such ferocious political conflict.

In order to help pastors and other Christian leaders to lovingly lead God’s flock to Jesus Christ and into God’s mission, Scott Thomas and Tom Wood clarify a process of coaching and shepherding that is rooted in the patterns of the Good Shepherd himself, a process in which leaders stir up the gifts, passion, and calling upon others’ lives. This book addresses the needs of the leader, his or her sinful tendencies, and church leadership issues. It directs the leader to the person and work of...

America grew rapidly after World War II, and the national pastime followed suit. Baseball dramatically changed from a 19th century pastoral relic to a continental modern sport. Six Major League clubs relocated to new cities, capped by the coast-to-coast moves of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants. Four expansion teams were created from thin air. Dozens of black stars emerged after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. The players formed a union--higher salaries materialized.

Are you ready to change your future and finally take control of your destiny? You simply need to ask: What's blocking you?Stepping into your true, authentic self is a super power. When you're fully tapped into who you are you can finally create the life of your dreams, much more easily than you realise.What's Blocking You? cuts through the therapy jargon and gets straight to the heart of what is holding you back. Are you stuck in a bad relationship? A toxic job? A ...

A new, and dramaticallyimproved, three-prongedapproach to learning SpanishvocabularyThe Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabularyis much, much more than a Spanish vocabularyreference! This unique and completeresource combines three complementaryapproaches to vocabulary building—cognates,root families, and suffixes—toinstantly increase word familiarity and aidmemorization.Whether for active face-to-face communicationor passive comprehension of written orsp...

Power Chord is the story of one man's epic pilgrimage to gain rock enlightenment from the gods and guitar heroes of the Golden Age of heavy metal. Author Scott McKenzie set off to make contact with the legendary metal superstars he worshipped in his rural Kentucky youth—men like George Lynch of Dokken, Glen Tipton of Judas Priest, and Ace Frehley of KISS—hoping to gain wisdom and a better understanding of the electric guitar mystique. The result is a veritable treasure trove of en...