Horror stories.Paranormal experiences.These have occupied the popular imagination since time immemorial.What will you do when you encounter a ghost in the classroom or find that your roommate has been possessed?From ghost nurses in hospitals to poltergeists in vacation homes,this epistolatory novel narrates the story of a young medical resident who starts encountering paranormal activity in his line of work.When things get overwhelmingly spooky,he...

This book is not The Book. The Book is in this book. And The Book in this book is both the goodie and the baddie. Bonnie is five. She wants to bury The Book because it is a demon that should go to hell. Penny, Bonnie's mother, does bury The Book, but every day she digs it up and writes in it. John, Bonnie's father, doesn't live with them anymore. But he still likes to write in it from time to time. Ted, Bonnie's stepfather, would like to write in...

"Welcome to Lockwood, proud home of The Fairway Players, who, under the creative control of Martin Hayward, the owner of the local country club, are putting on a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." The star, as always: Martin's wife, Helen, the only person in the troupe with any real acting talent. But this is not a production like any other: just as rehearsals get under way, tragedy strikes: Poppy Reswick, Martin and Helen's beloved granddaughter,...

Le regard ironique d'une Parisienne du XIXe siècle sur les moeurs de la petite bourgeoisie bruxelloise... Mme Van Zee, parisienne, a épousé un ingénieur belge. Entre deux missions, ils s'arrêtent à Bruxelles. Devant y demeurer peu de temps, ils emménagent dans la maison familiale. Isolée et mal à l'aise entre la mère et les sœurs de son époux, elle se confie à sa mère dans une longue lettre. Une pétillante analyse des mœurs bruxelloises. Des...

After unmasking corrupt corporation NIRA, Will and his friends set out to discover the reason why they orchestrated the recent civil war and played the remains of humanity against each other. When their mission goes wrong and they are captured, they find themselves thrown into the last place Will ever wanted to find himself, the post-apocalyptic hell he grew up in, the other Worton.As they search for a way home, and with the sky turning a strange...

As vague news reports of trouble abroad trickle in, a young Navy officer stationed in San Antonio keeps his New Year's resolution to maintain a daily journal. There's word of some sort of virus in China. There's word of violence spreading through cities across the U.S. Suddenly, the terrifying truth makes itself known. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. Day-by-Day Armageddon is the handwritten journal...

"Devious, delicious, and gasp-worthy." (Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces) In this genre-defying page-turner from Lygia Day Peñaflor, four teens befriend their favorite novelist, only to find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next book-with devastating consequences. Miri Tan loved the book Undertow like it was a living being. So when she and her friends went to a book signing to hear the author,...

Caroline George sweeps readers up into two different time periods with an unexpected love story that prompts us to reimagine what it means to be present with the people we love.2020: Chocolate and Earl Grey tea can't fix Josie De Clare's horrible year. She mourned the death of her father and suffered a teen-life crisis, which delayed her university plans. But when her father's will reveals a family-owned property in Northern England, Josie leaves...

The Oyo Empire is a high-interest novella of magic realism. The fairytale of this mythical Oyo Empire is told by the mononymous gimlet-eyed Ijapa, the endomorph, the folk hero and the fabled protagonist of antiquity of Yoruba folktales. Versed in folk etymology and folk memory, he lets us know that he belongs to the midgets, the small gimlet-eyed fairies with magic carpets and supernatural/magic powers who founded the mythical Oyo Empire about 25,...

For her 18th birthday, Lenora Grace Williams is given a box. Aside from trinkets and photographs, there are three letters from her mother, written before she died. While reading the letters, Lenora wrestles with finding her faith, following her heart, and forgiving the secrets and heartache her mother left behind.