The pioneers had come West to find homes and riches, instead they found a vast and lonely land, a land fraught with danger, fearsome creatures, and tamahnous, the primal magic no man could tame. As unknowable as the tumtum wawas, the spirit voices of things, the winter winds howled and cried and mourned ... more »

Contains: The Raven The Masque of the Red Death The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher This eBook for Franklin Reader is searchable, compact, and offers you the ability to adjust type size and place bookmarks. Franklin Reader eBooks are easy to navigate and pleasant to read. more »

It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery--. People who love cats...have a friend in Rita Mae Brown, declares The New York Times Book Review . And nowhere is it more obvious than in this, her sixth deliciously witty foray into detective fiction written with the paws-on help of collaborator Sneaky ... more »

E-book extra: Criminal Minds: Laura Lippman Interviews Karin Slaughter The third pulse-pounding novel in the Grant County series from the New York Times-bestselling author of Blindsighted and Kisscut. Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, GA, is called out to an apparent suicide ... more »

A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than ... more »

File M for Murder Librarian and former New Yorker Catherine Penny has already sleuthed out the truth behind a deadly house fire since settling in the tiny English town of Far Wychwood. But nowhere is too far for painful memories to find her when her ex-husband, who left her single in her sixties, arrives ... more »

Captain Andrea Andy Hollis, Executive Officer of the Twenty Fourth Signal Brigade, is a model junior officer. Growing up a tomboy Air Force brat, she's pursuing an Army career, resolving to be a soldier first and a woman second. For Andy, military correctness is the only way to go-until her principles ... more »

For eight years, the Tour de France, arguably the world's most demanding athletic competition, was ruled by two men: Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis. On the surface, they were feature players in one of the great sporting stories of the age-American riders overcoming tremendous odds to dominate a sport ... more »

A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbott to turn down. What does it matter that her rich new employer/benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of off-beat projects ... more »

When Kentuckian Riley Stokes and Texan Cass McCasland join together and head to the frontier they are bound to encounter the best and the worst, and enlist in some of the greatest adventures known to the west. The two misfits agree to guard an Army paywagon that's headed for Fort Dodge, but when a half ... more »

Product Info Even death can be an adventure, as you'll discover for yourself (more than you can imagine) in this amazing novela. more »

I am hopeful that some of the experiences given in the following chapters may throw a little light upon some curious but very serious social problems. Corporate humanity always has had, and always will have, serious problems to consider... more »