Miller, John

A debut entry in an accessible sports-themed series by the award-winning ESPN personality and author of Shut Out presents a history of America's pastime that discusses many of its most famous players, teams and rivalries.

Gaia Moore, the girl without the fear gene, is used to being considered a freak of nature. She's not like other girls. She discovers that her missing father is in Siberia and is off to try and free him.

I thought I could escape the Beast … but he already devoured my heart. When the Beast took me and dragged me back to his cell, I thought my life was over. In the darkness, he watched me. Yearned for me. Tasted me. He loved my scars, called me a beauty … Made me irrevocably his. Until his owner finally let him out … And his final task was to destroy my father. The only thing that stood between them was me. Faced with an impossible choice, I run. But even the beauty can’t escape the claws of the Beast.

A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole.

A Christmas tree -- What Christmas is, as we grow older -- A round of stories by the Christmas fire -- Another round of stories by the Christmas fire -- The seven poor travellers -- The Holly-Tree Inn -- The wreck of the Golden Mary -- The perils of certain English prisoners, and their treasure in women, children, silver, and jewels -- A house to let -- The haunted house -- A message from the sea -- Tom Tiddler's ground -- Somebody's luggage -- Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings -- Mrs. Lirriper's legacy -- Doctor Marigold's prescriptions -- Mugby Junction -- No thoroughfare.

Gathers a wide-ranging collection of writing about modern Iraq, covering the history, people, and politics of this often misunderstood country.

San Francisco is the ideal place for murder, mystery, and malevolence. Far beneath the swinging coils of the Golden Gate Bridge, in a dank set of abandoned prison cells, a strange caretaker with evil intentions plots his nefarious deeds. Atop the hills of Pacific Heights, an innocent young woman rides an evening cable car, stalked by her handsome fiance. In a seedy bar on Fifth Street, a stone-faced man awaits his next victim. These and other eerie and exciting stories can be found in San Francisco Thrillers, the first anthology of mysteries and thrillers set in the City by the Bay, and illustrated with the haunting vintage photographs of Francis Bruguiere.