Dan: 4385 books

"Enjoyable and nasty: the stories are impressive." 5 Stars. "Icky." 5 Stars "Humor and horror and shivers, excellent combination." 5 Stars "Dan Dillard has written a great book, loaded with some creepy short stories." 5 Stars "...this...

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever**.** Did...

From Shoot the Moon: “Anyway, it was big and I set up the trickiest structure. Accounts all over the world and money flying around like... The right mix of drugs and Remy Martin. Like a big whirl of light and money, pulsating like it was alive, like one of those glowing jellyfish things deep in...

In this latest volume of Fiction River, editor Dean Wesley Smith pulls together an eclectic but cohesive group of stories filled with difficult decisions. From a man who must question the line between justice and vengeance to a teenage fixer fighting hypocrisy to a post-apocalyptic survivor’s mission...

The Sports Pages, the third volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, features ten short stories guaranteed to put you in the ring, under the basket, and right behind home plate. From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these...

Every year thousands of talented young actors, singers, dancers, musicians and artists make their pilgrimage to fame and glory via the bright lights of Broadway. In this tell-all story of her life as a young actress in New York and later as “Hollywood’s Youngest, Sexiest Producer, writer Barbara...

Sports Makes You Type Faster presents a remarkable new collection of essays by one of America’s best-known and best-loved sportswriters. Served up with the acerbic wit that is Dan Jenkins’s hallmark, the essays range over the whole world of sports, taking aim at owners, players, fans, and franchises...

Walt Wingfield, the character beloved by thousands in every part of the country, is back with a new and complete book, with a new introduction from the author. ** ** Walt Wingfield is a Bay Street stockbroker who quits his job and buys a hundred-acre farm in Persephone Township, Ontario. In a series...

Der 3. Joe Kurtz Thriller Privatschnüffler Joe Kurtz gerät immer tiefer zwischen die Fronten der verfeindeten Mafia-Clans in Buffalo. Als ein Unbekannter auf ihn und seine Bewährungshelferin schießt, wird die Sache persönlich. Ironischerweise schwören sowohl Toma Gonzaga als auch die schlüpfrige...

**Charismatic dog trainer Doggy Dan shares his insights and tips into how working with dogs has helped him bring up his children.**Learn how to lead the way in your family without using fear or aggression. Find out how to be clear and calm, firm and yet fair in all your dealings with others. Learn...

The author of The Man Who Loved Mata Hari delivers a pulse-pounding thriller of a third world war—and the one man who can stop it. Harry Rose, last of the great American spymasters, has stepped to the helm of the Berlin station in the wake of the Second World War. From deep within a pulverized...

First published in 1993, Lovedeath remains one of Dan Simmons’s most significant accomplishments. In five stories four novellas and an amazing short novel Simmons explores the intertwined themes of love and death with wit, intelligence, and grace and from an astonishing variety of perspectives. The...

Since the publication of Song of Kali in 1985, Dan Simmons has produced a substantial body of fiction notable for its vigor, variety, and sheer imaginative reach. His latest, a novella-length tale of startling originality, beautifully embodies these qualities, reaffirming Simmons's position as one...

From the author of Scared of My Own Shadow and Battle for My Spirit, Down and Out is a collection of short stories focusing on characters living on the outskirts of society. Dan Beatty has drawn from his 17 years as a Clinical Social Worker to produce characters who suffer due to trauma and unmitigated circumstances, desperate to find hope in a seemingly careless world.