A dark, twisted and compulsively readable psychological suspense novel about desire, revenge and coercive control.

While her father is in the hospital, 13-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.

A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.

The unemployed, middle-aged, unattractive, troubled, and lonely gay narrator, B. K. Troop falls madly in lust with his attractive new neighbor, Christopher Ireland, an idealistic young would-be novelist reeling from a bitter divorce embarking on his own quest for a meaningful life, and sets out seduce him. Original.

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Introduces the life of explorer Christopher Columbus, the first man known to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and discusses what he found when he reached the islands now known as the West Indies.

Introduces the life of explorer Christopher Columbus, the first man known to cross the Atlantic Ocean.