Midnight Alley

Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440620016
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.

Midnight Alley

Author: Miles Corwin
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 1608090396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
A gritty, atmospheric glimpse into Los Angeles’s noir underworld. Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD's elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority because one of the victims is the son of City Councilman Isaac Pinkney, a frequent critic of the LAPD. Searching for the killer throws Levine into the world of Los Angeles's Russian Mafia, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, and Middle Eastern archaeologists. Ash's history as a child of a Holocaust survivor gives him a unique perspective on murder, redemption, and justice. His background as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and his relentless, single-minded focus on his investigations make him a thoroughly absorbing character. As Ash closes in on the killer, the investigation becomes increasingly complex—and personal. Ash soon discovers that he is not just an investigator, but a target.

Alley Life in Washington

Author: James Borchert
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Forgotten today, established Black communities once existed in the alleyways of Washington, D.C., even in neighborhoods as familiar as Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. James Borchert's study delves into the lives and folkways of the largely alley dwellers and how their communities changed from before the Civil War, to the late 1890s era when almost 20,000 people lived in alley houses, to the effects of reform and gentrification in the mid-twentieth century.

Carpe Corpus

Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101060077
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Read Rachel Caine's posts on the Penguin Blog In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?

Fantasy Fiction

Author: Frances Sinclair
Publisher: School Library Association
ISBN: 1903446465
Category : Children's literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Handbook of fantasy fiction for teachers, librarians, parents and guardians and children themselves in which to find many titles of fantasy fiction that they like, or may be tempted, to read. Includes groups such as classic fantasy, comic fantasy, Arthurian, dark fantasy, animals and dragons.

The Night Swimmer

Author: Lowell B. Komie
Publisher: Swordfish Chicago Publisher
ISBN: 9780964195721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description

Light of the August Moon

Author: Terri Lyons
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365526127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
There is nothing new about trying times. Light of the August moon is a short walk through modern history capturing our celebrities, trailblazers, brave souls and common folk trying to make their way in this world from the Northern Migration through the Civil Rights Movement. History occurs every month of the year, but so many events either occured or culminated in the month of August. August, the month when all things ripen.

Fall of Night

Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101607068
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
Thanks to its unique combination of human and vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big time problems. When student Claire Danvers gets the chance to experience life on the outside, she takes it. But Morganville isn’t the only town with vampire trouble… Claire never thought she’d get to leave Morganville, but she can’t pass up the chance to finally attend her dream school, MIT. After all, getting to invent anti-vamp devices with Professor Anderson—a Morganville exile herself—sounds like a dream come true…until Claire realizes that there are sinister forces in play, and she’s not the only one with a vampire-related agenda. Without her friends Shane, Eve and Michael, surviving a killer schedule may be hard…but with them, it might turn out to be impossible.

The Bench

Author: J.B. McKenna
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460286073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
As much as The Bench is the story of an American man and his colorful journey through an evolving life, it is also a story of America and its colorful imprint on a man. Steve Mallory is a guy who’s had to navigate a hardscrabble existence from the start. His adventures begin on the mean streets of East New York, deliver him through a vibrant stint with the US Navy and then take an unexpected diversion into a rewarding stretch as a captain of American industry. Along the way, he meets a host of fellow travelers, some of decidedly questionable character, and is confronted with an abundance of opportunity to choose the right way or the wrong way. Here is an unspooling ribbon of everyday life highlighted by flashing moments of pure whimsy and tragedy. In it, readers will find compelling evidence of the enduring resilience of the human spirit and the impressive capacity for even the most down-in-their-luck individuals to turn things around with hard work. And if they’re lucky, they’ll be able to identify a bench in their own lives just like Steve’s, where they might engage in contemplation, commit to occasional reinvention, and cozy up closely to the American dream.

Midnight Bites

Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101989793
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine presents a collection of stories—including six new tales—featuring the little Texas town that’s overrun by the undead. WELCOME TO MORGANVILLE. YOU’LL NEVER WANT TO LEAVE. By day, Morganville, Texas, is just a typical college town. By night, the vampires emerge and take control.... In a town where it’s not safe to be out after dark, student Claire Danvers and her friends have had their fair share of thrills. But Morganville still has a few secrets left to tell. Now, in this collection, you can venture down the town’s strange streets, revisit all the tales you’ve come to love, and experience six new stories featuring your favorite Morganville residents—both human and vampire...