Ray Campbell has a life. It's not a life he wants. It is the life he has. He works at a job which he likes well enough. It pays the bills and gets him out of the house. When he's not working, he spends his downtime reading because...what else is he going to do? He's not missing anything. He'd rather be at home indulging in the imaginary world of men's adventure novels by one of his new favorite authors. Ben Scott has his hands full with his coffee...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I began as I would go on, reading. By the time I was four, my grandfather had shown me how to do it, mostly by having me follow along as he read to me. I loved dogs, and read many books about them. #2 I grew up reading the classic children's books, as well as the more recent ones. The key books of my childhood were the twelve novels by Arthur Ransome, beginning with...

Uneducated Germain and avid reader Margueritte begin an unlikely friendship when Margueritte introduces Germain to the world of literature and reading.

In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.

Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife's earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac's wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression--but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary will not turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a near neighbor,...

Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street.

Readers will delight at the best scenes ever written. They will find old favorites and savor scenes new to them. With each scene, Barnaby Conrad provides insights as to what the author wishes to accomplish with this passage and the literary devices he or she employs. Any avid reader will enjoy Conrad's ""101 Best Scenes Ever Written,"" but countless fledgling and established writers will benefit enormously by sampling and studying these gems from...

Jeremiah works for the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad. But the new steam engine has arrived, and his horses won't be pulling freight down the tracks anymore. Will he be able to adapt to change brought about by this new technology, or will he be sidetracked? This 32-page illustrated chapter book will appeal to both reluctant and avid readers who enjoy historical fiction stories. The hi-lo text is perfect for students who need high-interest, low-readability...

All the Lonely People was the curtain-raiser to a successful nine-book series featuring Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin. Devlin finds himself number one suspect in a murder case that is far too close to home. The victim is his estranged wife, Liz, who is found murdered in a dingy alleyway. Determined to find her killer and prove his innocence, Harry begins a journey that takes him into the city's underworld and shatters forever his illusions about...