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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family flees the crime-ridden city—and finds something worse—in “a brilliantly imagined horror story” by the New York Times–bestselling author (The Boston Globe).
After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they find no township more...
After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they find no township more...
2) Night magic
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A young magician will risk his soul to learn the secrets of the universe Though he bills himself as the Greatest Magician in the World, Michael Hawke is painfully aware that he's nothing more than a sidewalk. He plies his trade outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, entrancing passing crowds with feats of conjuring and sleight of hand. One afternoon, he plays a trick on a shabbily dressed man whose beard is twisted and whose glass eye gives him a...
Author
Publisher
Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Pub. Date
1974
Language
English
Description
A young man becomes transfixed by a beautiful widow with a shadowy past In Pequot Landing, there are two sights to see: the largest elm in America, which dominates the stately old village green, and the house of Lady Harleigh. When the Great War ended, she was the most beautiful bride in the village, and though she was widowed soon after, mourning dampened neither her beauty nor her spirits. By the time the Great Depression rolls around, she is the...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Description
Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on forever Fedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. As the years wore on and her costars turned wrinkled and worn, Fedora's perfect features never faded. Now that she has finally passed, the secret to her longevity will be told-a shocking revelation that...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
In Hollywood, a cynical writer recalls five faded beauties of the silver screen Charlie Caine has been to too many Hollywood funerals. The studio system is long gone, and its stars-some forgotten, some preserved for display on a late-night show-are beginning to pass on, as well. Only a few turn out for the final performance of Babe Austrian, a peroxide-blond beauty whose red-hot talkies changed the way America thought about sex. As he gazes into her...
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