Edward Gorey's extraordinary and disconcerting books are avidly sought and treasured throughout the world, but until now little has been known about the man himself. While he was notoriously protectiv…
Shelve Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
Like an obscure gentleman sleuth in the British mystery novels that he loved, the celebrated American artist Edward Gorey was a curious, reclusive individual with an inordinate interest in the drama o…
When Inspector Thomas Pitt is asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case which had taken place in London's luxurious Hanover Close, he knows that his superiors want him to smooth things over. But th…
Shelve Silence in Hanover Close (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #9)
On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An a…
We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here …
Shelve The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
One man’s thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after seemingly committing an unforgiveable act of violence, from the award-winning author of the The Devil…
A wedding in a small English village attracts a malicious spirit, forcing deep secrets to surface--a hypnotic tale of sisterhood, first love, and hauntings.
For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City.
When Job's Crossing's mortician Monk Carter is found dead, the cause is thought to be a heart attack or an epileptic seizure, but Texan grandma Biggie Weatherford and her grandson J.R. unravel clues t…
Shelve Biggie and the Mangled Mortician (Biggie Weatherford, #2)
Ancient folklore warns of a mythical counterpart to Santa Claus, who punishes naughty children every Christmas… his name is KRAMPUS. Michael Dougherty …
An estranged uncle, a mysterious mansion, and Arthurian legend--together they lead to a world of magic and bloodthirsty wizards who want teenage Brinnie dead.
Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influe…
Shelve Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers - Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber- whose loves, lives, and literary …
Shelve Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century
In Montmartre is a colorful history of the …
Shelve In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
"You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever... according to an artificial intelligence trained by scientist Janelle Shane, creator of the popular blog "AI Weirdness." S…
Shelve You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
When Biggie and J. R. attend the grand opening of the local poultry magnate's new all-chicken cafe, Biggie finds herself up to her drumsticks in a murder investigation. The cafe owner is discovered sh…
Shelve Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man (Biggie Weatherford, #3)
The bane of Mordred, the son of Mordizan, and a millennia-old prophecy—together they may provide what Brinnie needs to defeat the world of magic’s greatest threat.
Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faith…
Shelve Biggie and the Devil Diet (Biggie Weatherford, #6)
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?
Venom co-creator David Michelinie returns to tell an untold tale of the Lethal Protector! Before Carnage and space gods, clones and toxins, and the revelation that he was a father, Eddie Brock was a d…
For years he fought alongside Gotham City's greatest protector, the light to Batman's irrepressible darkness. Against all manner of foe he braved inconceivable odds, ever skirting the line between her…
