Where are you, my love? There is not a single cell of my body that does not acclaim you, a single atom of my being that does not belong to you, a thought in which you are not. Come for me, mistress of my existence, my Goddess of the depths of the sea. Let me drink the honey from your lips, soak myself in the warmth of your chest, submerge myself in the depths of your seabed. Take me with you, reason for my existence, light of my darkness. Let me prostrate...

On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world's second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every four climbers who attempt it. Within 28 hours, K2 had exacted a deadly toll: 11 lives were lost in a series of catastrophic accidents. Attracting a climbing elite and standing at 8,611 meters on the Pakistan-China border, K2 is known as the 'Mountaineer's Mountain'...

"The Essential Tales and Poems" is a large, yet thorough, collection of the poems and stories written by horror master Edgar Allen Poe. Admirers will be happy to see Poe's most famous works present in the collection: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Cask of Amontillado." These works have struck fear in audiences for generations, solidifying Poe's place in the American literature canon. Fans...

L'apparition d'un spectre va lancer Alexandre sur les traces d'un crime non élucidé... Roubaix, 1953. Willy, un batelier, est retrouvé assassiné. Un autre batelier est suspecté, mais sera acquitté faute de preuve. 50 ans plus tard, Alex, un célèbre photographe de la ville, se retrouve nez-à-nez avec le spectre de Willy qui lui demande de lui rendre justice. Aidé de son ami le commissaire Bébert, Alex va essayer de satisfaire le revenant,...

With shades of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies and Ally Condie's Matched, this cinematic dystopian novel-the first in the thrilling Eye of the Beholder series-is set in a near future society in which "right" and "wrong" are manifested by beauty and ugliness. In Grace Luther's world, morality is physically enforced. Those who are "good" are blessed with beauty, while those who are not suffer horrifying consequences-disfigurement or even death. The daughter...

Marya Zhukova is a woman of many passions. Her husband isn't one of them. It's mathematics and literature that captivate her, in part, but her lover, Vera, enthralls her most of all. These are, however, all dangerous obsessions in the socially turbulent St. Petersburg of 1875. Marya is the fiery center of a small solar system of characters, each of whom depends on her to light their own lives. There is her aunt Lidia, a spinster who, dying of consumption,...

We have often asked why some space exists,Why it permits the countless to briefly persistOn Mother Earth, nourished under Father Sky-All of those finite sparks that light and die.There were those who endlessly debated,Whether to live in their virtuals unabated,Or to press forwards and outwards, of delirium,To seek out new localities in the mysterium;But, the pauses of the heavy particles continued,And so there was nowhere to go for the retinued.It...

"Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. In this book, Jonathan Lamb presents an intellectual history of scurvy unlike any other, probing the speechless encounter with powerful sensations to tell the story of the disease that its victims couldn't because they found...

"One dynamic novel. This thriller is brilliantly well written…. The plot takes readers deeper into a beautifully dark world that is just beginning. I highly recommend this stunning read…. I was hooked instantly." - San Francisco Book Review "Intelligent, poetic, captivating and chilling…. The mystery at the core of Love is Red is so gripping you will find yourself carrying the book around with you until you're done.… You will want to re-read...

"A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic--while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls, and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost...