In this history, novelist Ross King chronicles the career of Filippo Brunelleschi, the 15th-century goldsmith and clockmaker, who designed the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore of Florence. King also considers Brunelleschi's contemporaries and how they were influenced by him.
On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. Reissue.
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland - an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. Now, in a comic book personally overseen ...
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes make the acquaintance of a woman claiming to have discovered a letter written by Mary Magdalene. When the woman dies in a mysterious car accident that very evening, Russell and Holmes investigate her assertions, aware that their findings could shake the religious world at its very foundations.
Mary Russell, who originally appeared in King's "The Beekeeper's Apprentice," now rejoins Sherlock Holmes in London as a 21-year-old Oxford graduate. A young woman, a member of the New Temple of God, has been murdered; her brother, a World War I veteran, is a heroin addict. Mary and Sherlock Holmes must solve the murder (and subsequent Temple ...
Written under the Richard Bachman pseudonym months before Stephen King completed his first novel "Carrie, Blaze" is one of the best lost novels ever to resurface--the story of a small-time delinquent who teams up with a seasoned pro in a kidnapping scheme. This Premium Edition includes Memory, the riveting opening of Kings latest novel, "Duma Key."
For introductory-level courses in Advertising offered by communications, journalism, and marketing departments. This revision of the classic Kleppner text provides a sophisticated overview of the marketing communication field, branding, integrated communications, and new media advertising. Covering the entire field of advertising with special ...
In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband's storied past--a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting...this time fatally. For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months ...
When the perpetually overweight Billy Halleck fatally wounds an old Gypsy woman with his car, her father whispers a one word curse in his ear--"thinner"--and Halleck begins to learn just how extensive weight loss can be.
Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story -- complete with violin, tobacco-filled Persian slipper, and gun shots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen. Philip Gilbert was a true Holmes fanatic, from his ...
Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have slipped away to a rural Maine cabin for a little kinky fun. Jessie's happily handcuffed to the bed when something terrible happens: Gerald suffers a heart attack and dies on top of her. As his corpse stiffens and rots, Jessie must struggle to free herself from her lover's deadly embrace.
An acclaimed British novelist turns to real life in the Renaissance in this account of Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In realistic detail, King explains how Michelangelo executed his monumental work, exploring not only the difficult process itself but also the cast of characters surrounding the feat, from the pope ...
In the eighth historical mystery to feature Mary Russell and her famous husband, detective Sherlock Holmes, the couple joins with detective/crime writer Dashiell Hammett to explore secrets lurking in Mary's past. Mary Russell has always believed herself responsible for the automobile crash that killed her parents and younger brother. Ten years ...
Stephen King has brought back his pseudonym Richard Bachman, originally kiboshed when a King fan discovered Bachman's true identity; Bachman's novel concerns the small town of Wentworth, which is invaded by five vans, the first of which perpetrates a drive-by shooting that upsets the natural order of things and begins the story. The novel is a ...
Through a magical door, Roland of Gilead enters 20th-century America. As he continues his quest for the elusive Dark Tower, he is assisted by a young Eddie Dean, and a beautiful woman, Odetta Holmes.
Allen Carmichael has been living on the edges of society since returning from Viet Nam. He has built himself a reputation by rescuing women and children from abusive relationships, but now, at 50, he is set to retire. When he takes one final case, though, things go disastrously wrong, and both Allen and the boy he is trying to save find themselves ...
Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the ...
The acclaimed author of "Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling" chronicles the decade between two famous exhibitions: the scandalous Salon des Refuss in 1863, and the first Impressionist showing in 1874, set against the dramatic rise and fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire.
This seventh novel in a series featuring the author's original character, Mary Russell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed detective, Sherlock Holmes, borrows another character from the Victorian age: Rudyard Kipling's Kim (from the novel of the same title). When Kimball O'Hara, an English spy based in India, goes missing, the politically ...
Four early novels that Stephen King wrote under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman: RAGE is the story of a high-school show-and-tell session that takes a frightening turn; ROADWORK is not a typical Bachman/King tale, charting the disintegration of a man's life though a series of mishaps and circumstances. THE LONG WALK and THE RUNNING MAN are set in a ...
This edition of the CBA bestseller features a new foreword by the author, as well as Reflections on the Seven Realities section thoughts by Max Lucado, Beth Moore, Tony Evans, and others.
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