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Deeply sensuous and extraordinarily suspenseful, TWILIGHT captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite. Isabella Swans move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabellas life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knifebetween desire and danger.

Average customer rating: Another hit for Mary Higgins Clark! First rate for MHC's First Children's Book Awesome Children's book No younger than 4 year olds for this one Terrific Children's Book

Ghost Ship (Paula Wiseman Books) Mary Higgins Clark Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Action & Adventure | Literature | Children's Books | Subjects | Books Spine-Chilling Horror | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror | Literature | Children's Books | Subjects | Books General | Literature | Children's Books | Subjects | Books Picture Books | Ages 4-8 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books General | Ages 4-8 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books Look Inside Children's Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: I Heard That Song Before: A Novel Laced: A Regan Reilly Mystery (Regan Reilly Mysteries) Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy (Fancy Nancy) Pirates Don't Change Diapers ASIN: 1416935142 Release Date: 2007-04-03

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"I am so pleased to have written my first children's book and to have my dear friend Wendell Minor illustrate it. I thought it would be a daunting project, but with six grandchildren and eleven stepgrandchildren, I've been telling stories to children for a long time."

-- Mary Higgins Clark

Thomas loved his summer visits to his grandmother's on Cape Cod. He spent hours wondering about the sailing ships of the past and imagining their stories. He dreamed of being on a sailing ship himself. One afternoon after a night of terrible thunderstorms, Thomas finds, deep in the sand, a weathered, old-fashioned belt buckle. When he picks it up, a boy his own age, Silas Rich, who was a cabin boy on a ship called the Monomoy that sailed almost 250 years ago, appears. Suddenly the world of sailing ships is very near as Silas tells his tale.

Beloved and bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark tells a story of mystery and adventure that will transport readers to a time and place beyond their imaginings in her first book for children. Wendell Minor's inspired paintings make a time long ago very real.

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Another hit for Mary Higgins Clark!.......2007-05-22

Mary Higgins Clark is a wonderful storyteller and it is very evident with this children's book. Being an avid fan, I purchased the book to pass on to my granddaughter when she gets a little older. The illustrations are beautiful too. It will be a pleasure to introduce my granddaughter to Mary Higgins Clark, through her children's books!!

First rate for MHC's First Children's Book.......2007-05-14

I have been a fan of MHC for years. I was delighted with her first children's book especially since it took place where I spent many of my summers over the years. Am passing this book on to younger readers.

Awesome Children's book.......2007-05-12

I have be a fan of this author for years. This book surpassed all my expectations. What superb fiction for young readers! As always she uses her talent to spark the imagination without all the violence and gunplay of the modern world. I look forward to sharing the next with my children, too!

No younger than 4 year olds for this one.......2007-05-12

I read this book to my 4 year old granddaughter, who loves books and is beginning to read now. The book held her interest well, and I loved the illustrations! It was great to be reading her a book that had an actually story, instead of the standard children's books. She loved the story, and in fact, after we read it, she wanted to start playing out her own version of the story...."Grandma! Pretend that you find a belt buckle in the sand, and I appear as the ghost of the boy who was given it to." She really got into being on a ship back in the days of big sailing ships, and had so much fun with it!
I love Mary Higgins Clark's books for myself, and loved being able to read my granddaughter one of her books that was written for children. I hope she'll write more.

Terrific Children's Book.......2007-05-12

This terrific book is the expected quality of Mary Higgins Clark. It is exciting to be able to share one of my favorite authors with the young children in our family. We all enjoyed this beautiful book and the great story. It is a wonderful addition to a family library.

Average customer rating: Amazing re-telling of the famous battle & more! "The opposite of fear is love." Great book! Great story of the time where courage reigned! An absolutely seminal work!

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae Steven Pressfield Manufacturer: Bantam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Anthologies | Authors, A-Z | Books on CD | Books on Cassette | British | Dark Fantasy | Erotic | General | Ghosts | Graphic Novels | Occult | Reference | United States | Vampires Historical | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books War | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Horror Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Historical | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books War | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Similar Items: 300 Tides of War The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece Thermopylae: The Battle for the West ASIN: 0553580531 Release Date: 1999-08-31

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Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Thus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. Here, in 480 B.C., on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Spartan knights and their allies faced the massive forces of Xerxes, King of Persia. From the start, there was no question but that the Spartans would perish. In Gates of Fire, however, Steven Pressfield makes their courageous defense--and eventual extinction--unbearably suspenseful.

In the tradition of Mary Renault, this historical novel unfolds in flashback. Xeo, the sole Spartan survivor of Thermopylae, has been captured by the Persians, and Xerxes himself presses his young captive to reveal how his tiny cohort kept more than 100,000 Persians at bay for a week. Xeo, however, begins at the beginning, when his childhood home in northern Greece was overrun and he escaped to Sparta. There he is drafted into the elite Spartan guard and rigorously schooled in the art of war--an education brutal enough to destroy half the students, but (oddly enough) not without humor: "The more miserable the conditions, the more convulsing the jokes became, or at least that's how it seems," Xeo recalls. His companions in arms are Alexandros, a gentle boy who turns out to be the most courageous of all, and Rooster, an angry, half-Messenian youth.

Pressfield's descriptions of war are breathtaking in their immediacy. They are also meticulously assembled out of physical detail and crisp, uncluttered metaphor:

The forerank of the enemy collapsed immediately as the first shock hit it; the body-length shields seemed to implode rearward, their anchoring spikes rooted slinging from the earth like tent pins in a gale. The forerank archers were literally bowled off their feet, their wall-like shields caving in upon them like fortress redoubts under the assault of the ram.... The valor of the individual Medes was beyond question, but their light hacking blades were harmless as toys; against the massed wall of Spartan armor, they might as well have been defending themselves with reeds or fennel stalks.

Alas, even this human barrier was bound to collapse, as we knew all along it would. "War is work, not mystery," Xeo laments. But Pressfield's epic seems to make the opposite argument: courage on this scale is not merely inspiring but ultimately mysterious. --Marianne Painter

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The national bestseller!

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history--one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale....

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Amazing re-telling of the famous battle & more!.......2007-06-19

"The main theme of this book was indeed the famous Battle of Thermopylae, where about 4,000 Greeks, led by the 300 Spartans and their King Leonidas, held out a force of the Persian warriors about 5 times their numbers.

However, Mr. Pressfield pushed the story wider to tell about the legendary Spartan way of life and their attitude towards military lifestyle. He chose a remarkable character, a stateless/cityless young man who chose to move to Sparta because he was impressed by the Spartans' military & physical prowess. The urge to emulate the Spartans came mainly from his bitter experiences after the enemies ravaged his city-state and drove him (along with his pretty cousin and crippled tutor/slave) from his home.

Mr. Pressfield cleverly weaved the story to bring us closer to the Greek society of that time, in particular the Spartans. The battle scenes were evocative and quite detailed, while the background story which took place in the Spartan home country provide us with a descriptive and informative views on the Spartan philosophy, way of life and history.

Mr. Pressfield was quite balanced in depicting both the Greeks and the Persians. He presented the Persians (the antagonists of the story) as remarkable and honorable warriors, and Xerxes I as a good military commander, and not a bloodthirsty monster.

Overall, this is an entertaining and informative book, a good balance especially for you who first hear about the Battle of Thermopylae from the movie or comics 300!"

"The opposite of fear is love.".......2007-06-18

The book very successfully brought me into the world of Sparta and Persia that Pressfield imagines to have existed. The characters were tough, brutal and believable. The battle scenes were depicted well and Pressfield explained the tactics well. He described the comraderie of the soldiers and brought out well that in the end all you were fighting for were your brothers here in arms with you. Even the stilted style of his prose brought in the flavor of Attic Greek of the epics.

The problems I had were few. The narrative device of having a Persian historian record the story from a captured Spartan to get the story of the other side. This works for a while. However, this prisoner rambled about his past life. The prisoner then related the stories of other people who then rambled on about the stories of other people. I forgot how many levels Pressfield led me on, but let me just say that it stretched the usefulness of the literary device to its limit and I thought snapped it. The second problem was the dialog. There was a speech from a character called Suicide. Who pretty much speaks in monosyllabic sentences almost throughout the book. At the end, he waxed poetic about his religion (pretty much platonic forms) and love of comrades. It was very moving, very eloquent and relevant to the story. The problem was that it read like an empassioned Jeeves would say in a Wodehouse novel instead of a poor Scythian slave with no education. The dialogs were mixed bag. Sometimes they were witty, gritty and imaginative, other times they are just clunky. Third, all the women in this book were other worldy and extremely wise. If one woman told a funny story or a bawdy joke, it would have helped. Maybe this was intentional to reflect the ancient Greek view of woman.

I strongly recommend the book. I am not a historian so I can not vouch for its accuracy, but the author does a great job of bringing the reader into a different, but brutal and violent world.

Great book!.......2007-06-13

This is one of the best books I have ever read.

I have given numerous copies away as presents.

Great story of the time where courage reigned!.......2007-06-10

I have always been a fan of ancient civilization. Fascinated by their innovation while living in a world that required a high degree of fortitude and courage. This book illustrates one of the most courageous peoples of that time and probably the single most courageous event in known history. Perhaps not the most fair world but it bred heroes. And where have the heroes gone today? I long for them and sometimes find myself longing for these periods in history... Alas, we have novels such as these.
Pressfield has no peer on giving you a good story while sticking to historical accuracy (perhaps with some of his own desirable views filling in the void or embellishing the known). He gives a compelling, poignant view of courage in the line and the sacrifice that the Spartans made ultimately for liberty in the Western world.
In summation, I loved this book from beginning to end. A must read for fans of the time.

An absolutely seminal work!.......2007-06-08

Pressfield captures the brotherhood of fighting men in a way seldom seen in novels these days. From time immemorial, warriors have fought for the man beside them, not a flag, not a country even though those are fine ideals perhaps more thought of off the battlefield.

This book will be read and re-read for years and certainly qualifies as a classic that ranks among the top ten books this avid reader has ever been privileged to read.Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

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American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis Manufacturer: Vintage ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback United States | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Ellis, Bret Easton | ( E ) | Authors, A-Z | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Ellis, Bret Easton | ( E ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books Look Inside Horror Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Mystery & Thriller Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Rules of Attraction Less Than Zero American Psycho (Uncut Killer Collector's Edition) Lunar Park Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries) ASIN: 0679735771 Release Date: 1991-03-06

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Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale ( Metroland), Chloe Sevigny ( The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto ( My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon ( Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron ( I Shot Andy Warhol).

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

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House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski Manufacturer: Pantheon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Literary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Look Inside Horror Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: Only Revolutions: A Novel Whalestoe Letters Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Fight Club: A Novel Haunted ASIN: 0375703764 Release Date: 2000-03-07

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Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.

Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.

Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi

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Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.

Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.

The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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Marvel Zombies (Marvel Comics) Robert Kirkman Manufacturer: Marvel Comics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books General | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books Horror | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books Superheroes | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books Marvel | Publishers | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books Phillips, Robert | ( P ) | Authors, A-Z | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Classics | Comic | Contemporary | Literary General | Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Subjects | Books Look Inside Horror Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Science Fiction & Fantasy Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Similar Items: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War The Walking Dead Vol. 5: The Best Defense The Walking Dead Book 1 (Walking Dead) The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life The Road to Civil War (Spider-Man, Fantastic Four) ASIN: 078512277X

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Torn from the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four! On an Earth shockingly similar to the Marvel Universe's, an alien virus has mutated all of the world's greatest super heroes into flesh-eating monsters! It took them only hours to destroy life as we know it - but what happens when they run out of humans to eat?! Follow their search for more food, and witness the arrival of the Silver Surfer! Collects Marvel Zombies #1-5.

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The Dead Girls' Dance (The Morganville Vampires, Book 2) Rachel Caine Manufacturer: Signet ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror | Literature | Children's Books | Subjects | Books Spine-Chilling Horror | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror | Literature | Children's Books | Subjects | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teens | Subjects | Books Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teens | Subjects | Books Being a Teen | Social Issues | Teens | Subjects | Books Look Inside Children's Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Look Inside Teen Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror | Literature | Children's Books | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Spine-Chilling Horror | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror | Literature | Children's Books | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teens | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teens | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Being a Teen | Social Issues | Teens | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books Similar Items: Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, Book 1) Claimed By Shadow (Cassandra Palmer Series, Book 2) Kitty Takes a Holiday (Kitty Norville Series, Book 3) For a Few Demons More (Rachel Morgan, Book 5) All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Bk. 7) ASIN: 0451220897

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Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

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