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Stealth the Ghost Panther: Series 4 Book 6 (Beast Quest #24)
by Adam BladeWizard Malvel's final Beast has reached the doors of King Hugo's Palace! Stealth the Ghost Panther lassoes victims with his tails and makes good people bad. To rescue his father, Tom must capture the final piece of Amulet from Stealth's collar - before all Avantia is turned to evil!
Steel Witches
by Patrick LennonTom Fletcher has left the police force, and its cold outside.Working as a private investigator in Cambridge, Tom is dragged back into his own troubled family history by an enigmatic message from his missing father. Somehow, he seems to be connected to the disappearance and murder of a young physics student, who was working in a hostess bar.As a massive storm tracks across Europe and begins to batter the low-lying fen country, so Toms inquiries begin to spiral into ever deeper and darker conspiracies. How is a high-tech American company involved in an officially-suppressed story from the Second World War? Where is the long-disused USAF base that seems to be the key to a centuries-old mystery, and who were the haunting, haunted sisters who played such a part in a drama that is still reaching out to claim Tom Fletcher?
Stephen King: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)
by Albert RollsNow known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth, far from glittering publishing and film centers, yet few American writers can now equal his hold on audiences worldwide. This biography traces King's evolution from would-be pulp magazine writer to master of his craft, whose work both epitomizes and transcends the horror genre.
Stephen King Goes to the Movies: Featuring Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen KingIt came from the mind of Stephen King... You've seen the films, now read the original stories - and get a unique insight into Stephen King's take on the productions.For Stephen King, the experience of seeing his works of short fiction adapted for major Hollywood films has created its own tales, and he shares them here: five of his celebrated short stories, plus King's personal commentary, his all-new introductions, and essential, behind-the-scenes revelations.Read on to discover the truth behind:The Shawshank Redemption (based on the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption), 1408, Children of the Corn, The Mangler, Hearts in Atlantis (based on Low Men in Yellow Coats).
Stephens Plays: One Minute; Country Music; Motortown; Pornography; Sea Wall (Contemporary Dramatists)
by Simon StephensThis second collection of plays by Simon Stephens, winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World, perfectly showcases the development of one of the most exciting and impressive theatre talents of recent years. The range of plays in this volume displays a tough sensibility and a courage to confront the more unsettling challenges of our times.One Minute, first produced in 2003 and revived in London in 2008, has an uncomfortable resonance as it follows five characters variously affected by the disappearance of Daisy, an 11-year-old girl, from Seven Dials, Covent Garden. Country Music spotlights four fateful moments in the life of Jamie Carris during and after the prison sentences he has served for glassing one man and for killing another. Motortown, written in response to the War on Terror, is a blistering account of a young soldier's return home from Basra to an England he no longer recognises or connects with. Pornography captures Britain as it crashes from the euphoria and promise of the 2012 Olympics announcement into the devastation of the London bombings of 7/7. The final play, Sea Wall, is a one-act monologue about grief, following the drowning of a young child.
Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South
by Sterling A. BrownUsing oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in extended, non-fiction essays of many different types, illustrate the diversity of opinions in the Black South about the war and the war period in America. For nearly sixty years, the excerpts that were never published languished in Brown's manuscript collection at Howard University. Now, for the first time, all of the completed pieces of unpublished writings are combined with the few published sections into the book that Brown envisioned. The legacy Brown left us is not only a superb portrait of the way in which African Americans of the mid-century talked and lived; he also provided a methodology that oral and written historians will find extremely useful. This is clearly a document from another time, as its now outdated title reminds us, but it reveals a world that still informs our sense of ourselves as a nation. In fact, it is an unforgettable history, which Brown has cast in a bright, elucidating new light.
Stetsons, Spring and Wedding Rings: Rocky Mountain Courtship / Courting Miss Perfect / Courted by the Cowboy (Mills And Boon Historical Ser.)
by Jillian Hart Judith Stacy Stacey KayneRocky Mountain Courtship by Jillian Hart Joseph Brooks suspects his mother of bringing a pretty young woman to town as a mail-order bride. Clara Woodrow’s insistent that she’s not that lady – but Joseph is determined to have no other!
Stick Or Twist
by Eleanor MoranName: Anna Christie Age: Very, very early thirties Marital status: Living with boyfriendSex: It's been a while. Maybe six weeks? Career: Crafting sparkling features for magazine Casual Chic such as 'Man Boobs: Why No Marriage is Safe' Current dilemma: What to do when your much loved boyfriend of ten years gets down on one knee and pops the question you've been secretly dreading? Options: Stick - say yes, jump on the marriage bandwagon, accept that babies are now standard issue and always wonder if the grass is greener ...OR Twist - walk away, move onto your best friend's sofa, pine for your ex but perk up once sexy and seemingly perfect Harry comes breezing into your life... Hilarious, romantic and painfully honest, Stick or Twist proves that sometimes the most unlikely man turns out to be the One.
Still Bleeding
by Steve MosbySarah Pepper's body is missing after her boyfriend killed her in a drunken rage. He can only vaguely recall where he left her, although police soon find the place. But someone else got there first. Sarah's body has been taken. Meanwhile, another force is closing in on a killer whose latest victim was drained completely of blood. The man they arrest confesses to the killings but that doesn't close the case - because Rebecca's body isn't where it should be. Two missing bodies - but are the cases linked? The hunt leads to an underworld where life is only the first thing victims will lose . . .
Still Irresistible (Mills And Boon Blaze Ser.)
by Dawn AtkinsRescuing the family ranch is the only reason Callie Cummings is home. To do that she must face the most infuriating–yet irresistible–man on the planet! Years ago she had an unforgettable fling with Declan O'Neill. And, oh my, can he still fill out a pair of jeans. Watching him strut across a corral is like waving a red flag.
Still Midnight: A Novel (Ds Alex Morrow Ser. #1)
by Denise MinaA brutal attack. A mysterious demand for money. An unexpected kidnap... A superb novel from the two-time winner of the THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD.It's a peaceful Sunday evening in suburban Glasgow until a battered van pulls up to one home and disgorges a group of armed men in balaclavas. They smash into the house and hold the family at gunpoint and demand millions of pounds. Baffled, the assembled people protest that they don't have access to that sort of money. The attackers kidnap the elderly grandfather and storm off into the night.Now senior policewoman Alex Morrow has been summoned to investigate the case. But there are so many mysteries. Who were the men? And why did they think a normal household concealed untold riches? The family is certainly not talking. But as she starts to delve deeper, she realises that there are dark secrets all around...
The Sting of Justice (The Burren Mysteries #3)
by Cora HarrisonThe autumn has come to the Burren - a time of harvest, of gathering for the winter to come, the end of summer for most and the end of life for others. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest of the Burren, the last things she expects is the corpse of a man stung to death by bees, found on the church steps. Sorley the silversmith was a greedy and distrusted man. There would be no shortage of people who wanted him dead but who really stood to profit from his murder? As Mara investigates she must use all her cunning and prowess as a lady judge to bring the sting of justice to a killer with hatred in their hearts and murder on their mind.
Stolen Treasures (Silver Dolphins #3)
by Summer WatersExciting new magical adventure series for girls – will you answer the call of Silver Dolphins?
The Stolen Voice: A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery (Gil Cunningham #8)
by Pat McIntosh"And you are telling me," said Gil Cunningham, "that David Drummond vanished away forty years ago and is now returned, seemingly not a day older?" "That's about the sum of it," agreed Sir William Stewart.In Sir William's remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible that a young boy could have been stolen away by the fairies and returned forty years later, no older - and if he isn't Davie Drummond, who is he? And then he suffers a succession of near-fatal 'accidents'.Could there be a connection with four other local singers who have vanished, one of them with political information of value to Scotland's enemies? Gil and his wife Alys have been sent into Perthshire to investigate.Gil's pursuit of the missing singers leads him to a vision of the Devil and the reappearance of an old adversary, while Alys finds herself drawn deeply into the affairs of the Drummond family, particularly the mysterious Davie.Praise for Pat McIntosh:'McIntosh's characterisations and period detail are first rate.' Publishers Weekly'The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.' Historical Novels Review'Will do for Glasgow in the 15th century what Ellis Peters and her Brother Cadfael did for Shrewsbury in the 12th.' Mystery Readers Journal'McIntosh does a solid job of blending plot and period detail.' Publishers Weekly, starred review
The Stone Gods
by Jeanette WintersonThe Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels about love.On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place? <P><P>Jeanette Winterson OBE, whose writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the E.M. Forster Award, is the author of some of the most purely imaginative and pleasurable novels of recent times, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to her first book for children, Tanglewreck. She is also the author of the essays Art Objects. Visit her website at www.jeanettewinterson.com
The Stone Key: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book Six (The\obernewtyn Chronicles #Bk. 5)
by Isobelle CarmodyFriend becomes foe and trust is a thing of the past when the Misfits' most relentless enemy, on the cusp of ultimate revenge, turns Elspeth's world upside down. Before it's too late, Elspeth must rescue a former ally whose mind and body have been manipulated to unleash a plague that will destroy all it touches.
Stones of Fire (Caedmon Aisquith #1)
by C. M. PalovEight hundred years ago a Crusader in the Holy Land discovered a gold box. Under a veil of secrecy it was transported to England and hidden, the clues to its whereabouts embedded in sixteen cryptic lines of verse. For centuries it has been rumoured the treasure was none other than the Ark of the Covenant . . .And now, after a brutal murder in Washington and the theft of an ancient relic known as the Stones of Fire, there's a desperate need to find out whether the rumours are true. For the Stones of Fire was Moses' breastplate, supposedly worn to protect him from the Ark of the Covenant and if - as it seems - a sinister army of mercenaries has masterminded the theft, it's only a matter of time before they use the Ark to wage war on a terrifying and devastating scale.The Ark of the Covenant must be found. The safety of the world depends upon it.
‘Stop in the name of pants!’ (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #9)
by Louise RennisonSound the Cosmic Horn for bestselling author Louise Rennison’s ninth book of confessions from crazy but loveable teenager Georgia Nicolson!
Stop Me: The thrillingly tense page-turner
by Richard Jay ParkerShortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger award.…forward this email to ten friends if it ends up in my inbox within a week I won’t slit the bitch’s throatEleven women dead. One gruesome MO. When Leo Sharpe’s wife Laura disappears and the Vacation Killer claims responsibility, Leo’s life is torn apart. But there are significant differences in her case. Has Laura’s life been spared? Why? And for how long? For Leo, the clock is ticking…he needs to do everything in his power to stop the killer before it’s too late.
Storm and the Silver Bridle (Pony Club Secrets #6)
by Stacy GreggThe sixth gripping adventure in this exciting pony-club series. With gymkhanas to win, rivals to defeat, mysteries to solve and ponies in danger to save – these books are perfect for all girls who love ponies.
The Storm (Start Reading: Starcross Stables)
by Peter BentlyWhen a huge storm causes a tree topple over and trap Smokey and Rascal, Tara and Dad are besides themselves with worry. How can they rescue the horses? Luckily Plod saves the day! The Storm is part of the Starcross Stables series; four books for Band 7 of the Start Reading programme.
Storm Watch: Storm Watch The Rule-breaker Wicked Nights (Uniformly Hot! #8)
by Jill ShalvisSwept away with the soldier After battling a hurricane of catastrophic proportions, brave soldier Jason needs some downtime – badly! But there’s no rest for the heroic. During another deluge, Jason’s saviour skills are suddenly in demand. . . by his best friend Lizzy.
The Story of a Marriage
by Andrew Sean GreerFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less.'A riveting and fascinating novel full of stunning observations and brilliant moments of truth and sympathy.' Colm TóibínIt is 1953, and in San Francisco Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself caring for both her husband's fragile health and her polio-afflicted son. Then one morning someone from her husband's past appears on their doorstep. His arrival throws all the certainties by which Pearlie has lived into doubt, and is brought face to face with the desperate measures people are prepared to take to escape the confines of their lives.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David WroblewskiA contemporary retelling of Hamlet of stark and striking brilliance set on a farm in remote northern Wisconsin.
The Storyteller's Secrets
by Tony Mitton Peter BaileyWhen twins Toby and Tess meet a mysterious old traveller, they're fascinated by his magical tales of far-off places, strange enchantments and unbelievable miracles. Each time he visits the village he brings them a new tale and a special story-reminder from the bundle that he carries on his back.Most intriguing of all is the Map of Marvels, which shimmers and shifts and invites the children to make incredible journeys of their own.