| 271. The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953 | |
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by: The Paris Review, George Plimpton, The Paris Review List Price: $30.00 Amazon.com's Price: $21.00 You Save: $9.00 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Well I have never read a copy of the magazine The Paris Review but have subscribed to Granta since it started and subscribe to The New Yorker. The first story in the anthology "Terrific Mother" by Lorrrie Moore was enough for me to give this five stars - let's face it, where can you get such a thrill for $21? There may be some stories, poems, interviews, that don't grab me with the same electric immediacy as that first story, but I don't have to read it from cover to cover. It's one of those terrific ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 272. The Unwanted | |
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by: John Saul Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I READ THE BOOK ONCE IN 7TH GRADE, AND IT WAS ONLY THE FIRST TIME READING IT, I AM NOW READING IT AGAIN FOUR YEARS LATOR AND ITS STILL A GREAT BOOK. EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT. Read Reviews and Description
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| 273. Darkness Bound | |
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by: Larry Brooks Amazon.com's Price: $6.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description How could anyone not pick up this book just based on the cover? It is what caught my eye immediately! Fortunately the inside of the book is just as tantilizing as the outside. Larry Brooks has created a world that could just as easily happen to the average Joe, which is the really scary part. Dillon and his wife, Karen have separated. What looks like a chance meeting in a department store between Dillon and the Dark Lady is really something else, and as Dillon's obsession grows for this 'perfect' fantasy gal, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 274. Spooky Campfire Stories (Spooky) | |
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by: Amy Kelley Amazon.com's Price: $7.95 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description My middle-school son has been taking this little book along to camp and on camping trips for several years now, and delights in scaring his tentmates with different stories every night. While a couple of the stories may be TOO frightening for the younger set, most are really terrific read-alouds for nature loving campers of all ages. Read Reviews and Description
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| 275. Wolf's Hour | |
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by: Robert McCammon Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I first read this book about eleven years ago. I recently pulled it off my shelf for a re-read, and to reacquaint myself with Robert McCammon, who was one of my favorite writers years ago. I haven't read any McCammon novels since "Gone South" was new, so I was curious to know if my favorite novel by my favorite novelist still kept it's shine. The answer is YES. McCammon is leaps and bounds better than Stephen King, and I have read a great deal of King's work. RRM has a storytelling flair that it the equal of King and Koontz, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 276. God's Gift to Women : A Novel | |
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by: Michael Baisden List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Michael Baisden has once again written a novel that keeps you turning the pages. In this novel we're introduced to Julian Payne, father and radio personality. Julian has just received the job of a lifetime and has to move Houston. On his last night he meets, Olivia a beautiful women who seems to have it all together. He is instantly drawn to her, sexually and decides to have one last fling before leaving Chicago. All is going well (both personally and professionally) for Julian until he realizes that his last ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 277. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned | |
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by: Anne Rice Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Anne Rice gives us a new twist on the old mummy horror stories. She gives us "Ramses the damned" a human who is doomed to walk the earth alone forever. She explores the concept of being the only person with immortallity, the power to grant immortallity and the tremendous burden this secret carries. Ramses lives for 1 thousand years without sharing immortallity. The fear of this power causes him to lose his true love. He then locks himself away and sleeps for 2 thousand years only to be awakened in the early 1900's. I couldn't ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 278. Phantoms | |
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by: Dean R. Koontz, Dean Koontz Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Much that puzzled me about this over-the-top Sci-Fi horror story made a lot more sense when I read Dean Koontz's Afterward. (No, it's guaranteed not to "spoil" anything.) "Phantoms" was Koontz's sophomore book after the wide success of "Whispers." Acceding to his publisher's demands and much against his judgment, he wrote the "horror" story they wanted and forever after was known as a "horror" writer. This is what he feared, and it has been a continual thorn in his side ever since. I had the feeling throughout the book that Koontz was saying "You want ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 279. Necroscope | |
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by: Brian Lumley Amazon.com's Price: $6.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Necroscope was great. I won't five star many books, but this certainly deserves it. Interesting from page one, I couldn't put it down. You get totally involved with all the characters, Harry is so wonderfully human, and yet...not. He bears his "talent" with such courage and humility. Boris Dragosani is interesting, even as he grows ever more evil and murderous. The whole ESP thing is exceptionally described and I wouldn't doubt if there was such organizations in the ESPionage field. The evil is terrifying and the forces of good are sometimes frightening ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 280. The House of Thunder | |
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by: Dean R. Koontz Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is one deeply engrossing novel. The beginning dragged a bit, because of a previous Koontz book I just read "The Mask" and that also took a lot of place in the hospital, and it involved memory loss. The story hovewver has a few scary surprises, that made my heart race. Susan Thornton is one character that we grow to like, and we do not want anything to happen to her. Unfortunatelly for us and for Susan, there is a clever ploy going on at the hostpital that will turn her world upside - down. Just when you think she's safe, she ends up in a much ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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