The 19th-century novel Dracula was such a seminal work that it influenced the horror novel genre and many other parts of popular culture as well. While readers may think they know this story through movies and books that followed its publication, they'll be surprised at how gripping the true Bram Stoker tale is, especially in enthralling graphic novel form. Stoker's haunting words and the unnerving images of illustrator Anthony Williams transform...

"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...

ADVENTURE / THRILLER. In 1916, Mexican bandit Pancho Villa raided the southwestern border town of Columbus, New Mexico. Three hundred American soldiers fought four hundred attackers in a battle that ended with one of the last cavalry charges in U.S. history. Outraged, Congress ordered the U.S. Army to invade Mexico in pursuit of Villa. For the first time, trucks and airplanes accompanied U. S. cavalry into combat, practicing for America's entry into...

Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow

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In this third novel in the acclaimed Earth's Children series, Ayla, the independent heroine of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and "The Valley of Horses, " sets out from the valley on Whinney, the horse she tamed. With her is Jondalar, the tall, handsome, yellow-haired man she nursed back to health and came to love.

Aided through crises by the almost miraculous intervention of a stranger, Laura Shane learns the nature of her awesome destiny when, on her thirtieth birthday, the stranger finally requests her help.

When Georgina Anderson sails to London in search of her fiance and finds him happily married to someone else, she dresses as a cabin boy aboard a ship bound for America and falls for the ship's arrogant owner.

Phoebe always imagined Gabriel a brave and valiant knight; but when she lures him to a lonely midnight rendezvous she finds herself sparring with a dangerously desirable man. She fears she's made a dreadful mistake when he sweeps her into his arms and passionately embraces her. Now Gabriel must possess her, even if he has to slay a dragon to do it.

The classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other. This allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe and the universe's reaction to humanity was the basis for director Stanley Kubrick's immortal film, and lives on as a...

Peter Alan Nelsen is a super successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame. It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psychokiller who is the son of the godfather....