Laughter and Chills: Seven Great Stories (Townsend Library)

2004
Laughter and Chills: Seven Great Stories (Townsend Library)

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  • Author: Anne G. Crocco
  • Publisher: Townsend Press
  • ISBN: 1591940400
  • Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 135

To help students experience the joys and benefits of reading, Townsend Press presents the Townsend Library - a collection of high-interest classics. Each Townsend Library book has been carefully edited to maintain the original story while updating language and style for today's readers. - Publisher.

Frankenstein

2005
Frankenstein

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  • Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781591940524
  • Category : Classical fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

From the Publisher: Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious, evil man named Edward Hyde comes and goes in Jekyll's house. Why does Jekyll associate with Hyde and continually protect him? The truth proves astonishing.

Selected Short Stories

2008-10-16
Selected Short Stories

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  • Author: O. Henry
  • Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
  • ISBN: 142708050X
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 137

O. Henry's Selected Short Stories are known for their wit, wordplay, and surprise endings. Most of the stories are set New York City in the early years of the twentieth century and deal with the common people. The Gift of the Magi deals with the working-class and unselfish love. The collection also contains stories as A Cosmopolite in a Cafe, Roads of Destiny, and The Romance of a Busy Broker.

Into the Water

2017-05-02
Into the Water

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  • Author: Paula Hawkins
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0735211213
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 400

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning. “Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors . . who have reinvigorated the literary suspense novel by tapping a rich vein of psychological menace and social unease… there’s a certain solace to a dark escape, in the promise of submerged truths coming to light.” —Vogue A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return. With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present. Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.

Portland Transcript

1855
Portland Transcript

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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 834

Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest

2005-12-19
Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest

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  • Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
  • Publisher: august house
  • ISBN: 9780874834376
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

Tales of ghosts inhabiting the Pacific Northwest include stories of haunted houses, departed loved ones, and disturbed Native American burial sites

American Gothic

2007
American Gothic

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  • Author: Jonathan Rigby
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  • ISBN:
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

From the author of the acclaimed English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, American Gothic presents an in-depth survey of the early years of the American horror film--ranging from the birth of cinema and the silent era to the mid-1950s. Jonathan Rigby examines a great many of the seminal films, including Cat People, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, The Fly, Frankenstein, Freaks, House of Wax, The Invisible Man, and She. He also looks at the actors and directors--Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Vincent Price, to name but a few. For fans and students of the horror classics, American Gothic is an essential work. This is the genre as it flourished from Univeral's early-thirties cycle and which culminated in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho, a film which forever changed and expanded the possibilities of horror cinema.

The Haunted House

1869
The Haunted House

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  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Publisher: United Holdings Group
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 92

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

2012-02-14
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

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  • Author: Sarah MacLean
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 1405511869
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

'Fabulous' Eloisa James 'Smart, sexy, and always romantic' Julia Quinn 'For a smart, witty and passionate historical romance, I recommend anything by Sarah MacLean' Lisa Kleypas A lady does not smoke cheroot. She does not ride astride. She does not fence or attend duels. She does not fire a pistol, and she never gambles at a gentlemen's club. Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has always followed the rules, rules that have left her unmarried - and more than a little unsatisfied. And so she's vowed to break the rules and live the life of pleasure she's been missing. But to dance every dance, to steal a midnight kiss - to do those things, Callie will need a willing partner. Someone who knows everything about rule-breaking. Someone like Gabriel St John, the Marquess of Ralston - charming and devastatingly handsome, his wicked reputation matched only by his sinful smile. If she's not careful, she'll break the most important rule of all - the one that says that pleasure-seekers should never fall hopelessly, desperately in love . . . This is the first novel in the Regency romance Love By Numbers trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean - perfect for fans of Lisa Kleypas and Eloisa James Love By Numbers series: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart Praise for Sarah MacLean: 'Sarah MacLean has reignited the romance genre with a bolder edge' The New Yorker 'Funny, smart, feminist and roastingly hot' BookRiot.com 'Do yourself a favor and discover the compelling magic of Sarah MacLean' Amanda Quick 'MacLean writes with an entirely unique blend of elegance and ferocity that bursts from every page' Entertainment Weekly 'Great chemistry, intelligence and sparkling humor' RT Book Reviews

Great Stories of Suspense & Adventure

2003
Great Stories of Suspense & Adventure

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  • Author: Beth Johnson
  • Publisher: Townsend Press
  • ISBN: 1591940001
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 138

High interest-low vocabulary books.