Douglas: 4895 books

Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure...

A wild, “entertaining—slick and cool and savvy” novel of the sixties drug culture from the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and his brother (The New York Times). The suitcase looks like a standard weekend bag. But like the man who carries it, it isn’t what it seems. Lined with...

Una leyenda de 500 años. Una maldición antigua. Un asombroso misterio médico. Y un viaje de descubrimiento al corazón ignoto de la selva más densa del mundo. Desde los días de Hernán Cortés han circulado rumores sobre una ciudad perdida con inmensas riquezas escondida...

Jerry Douglas’s Tubstrip, a risqué comedy set in a gay bathhouse, was a popular sensation when produced onstage in 1973-1974, in the era of gay liberation and the sexual revolution. The play, often dismissed by mainstream critics but hailed as “funny, sexy, and important” by the gay press,...

“I’m coming for you. You will never escape me...” She’s the most dangerous person in the prison hospital for the criminally insane...and she’s broken free. When Trey Campbell takes his family to Catalina Island, his patient – sociopathic killer Agnes Hatcher – breaks out, leaving...

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and...

“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle...

Celeste Schumacher inherits an old house when her parents pass away unexpectedly. She meets an elderly neighbor who appears kind on the surface, but harbors a secret.When her AC breaks down, a handsome technician is sent to repair it. As her neighbor disables the electricity to the house, she and...

Occult societies, murder, brothels, London – and a young debauched Victorian on the loose. From Bram Stoker Award winner Douglas Clegg comes a gaslamp horror gothic right out of "the Marquis de Sade and Charles Dickens...Scintillatingly brilliant."* For fans of Victorian debauchery, Lovecraftian...

Raymond Gunt likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guy—he believes in karma, and helping his fellow man, and all that other good stuff. Sure, he can be foulmouthed, occasionally misogynistic, and can just generally rub people the wrong way—through no fault of his own! So with all the positive...

Douglas Coupland's inventive novel-think Clerks meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-is the story of an extraordinary epistolary relationship between Roger and Bethany, two very different, but strangely connected, "aisles associates" at Staples. Watch as their lives unfold alongside Roger's...

“Elkhorn Tavern has the beauty of Shane and the elegiac dignity of Red River without the false glamour or sentimentality of those classic Western films... Mr. Jones is at home among the ridges and hardwoods of a frontier valley... He holds us still and compels us to notice what we live in.”—The...

Read the following excerpt of the foreword by the woman who inspired “Murder She Wrote” "The facts will shock you!" Grandpa Charlie is no typical “gangster novel” but a compelling journey into the corruption that permeates many of our government institutions and into...

While sight-seeing in the ruins of an Anasazi village, Bernie, a lonely middle-aged accountant and frustrated artist discovers an object of great power that not only holds the potential for great abuse, but also explains the baffling disappearance of the Anaszi and other tribes of that era.