St John: 513 books

As cigar smoke hangs heavy in Mark Twains sitting room, the members of the Monday Evening Club eagerly await his presentation, which they think will be the reading of his paper The Decay of the Art of Lying. Instead, Twain changes his mind and enthralls his audience with the true tale of one mans...

Ella Lewis is dead. Someone must pay. “I loved Ella. Now she’s a corpse, cooling off in the morgue with a noose-shaped bruise around her neck. The cops say it’s suicide. It wasn’t suicide. I don’t know who killed her, and I don’t know why. But I’m going to find out, no matter what...

Molly is a young girl who craves for a silver bracelet, and she expects to get it for birthday from her Aunt Phoebe. However, despite her great desire, she only gets a pincushion in shape of a pumpkin. Molly is dreadfully upset until she realizes that the pumpkin has some magical powers. Pumpkin takes...

The fourth thrilling adventure in the dramatic Legend of the Animal Healer series! When Martine and her grandmother discover that they might lose their game reserve, Sawubona, because of a clause in her grandfather's will, Martine and her best friend, Ben, decide to take matters into their...

A powerful and moving story based on real events in the Lebanese civil war in the 1980’s. Lamia and her family are caught up in the fighting, with tragic consequences. Lamia struggles with the hatred that threatens to destroy her, until she grasps that forgiveness and love are the most important things. Nothing else matters.

Eliane, das egoistische, verwöhnte Mädchen aus der Stadt, kommt als Pflegetochter in eine Pfarrfamilie. Dort erlebt sie mit ihren neuen Freunden viele Abenteuer: den Einbruch in das Haus mit dem verschlossenen Garten, die Zeltferien am abgelegenen Baggersee … Mit der Zeit merkt Eliane, dass in...

Colin streichelte den Hund und redete leise auf ihn ein. "Wenn du doch bloß mir gehörtest! Ich würde dich gut füttern, und dann wärst du bald der beste und schönste Hund im Dorf ..." So beginnt Colins Freundschaft mit Frisky, dem scheinbar herrenlosen schwarzen Hund. Sie werden unzertrennlich, bis Frisky eines Tages spurlos verschwindet ...

Marokko. Hamid und seine kleine, blinde Schwester Kinza flüchten von zu Hause, als der Stiefvater Kinza an einen Bettler verkaufen will. Hamids Ziel ist die Stadt, viele Kilometer entfernt. Dort wohnt die englische Krankenschwester, zu der er Kinza im Auftrag seiner Mutter bringen soll. Zu diesem...

Philo hält es zu Hause fast nicht mehr aus. Wie ein Fluch lastet Illyrika, die von unheimlichen Anfällen geplagte Schwester, auf der ganzen Familie. Als Philos Vater vom Fischen nicht mehr zurückkommt, zerbrechen auch die letzten Hoffnungen auf eine bessere Zukunft. Dann hört er, was die Leute...

When Bianca's financial stresses lead her to a second job, her prospects with the new ride share company FewBlox seem hopeful. But on Halloween night she picks up more than she bargained for.

Night Hume is an INET (Inter-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce) agent in Eugene, Oregon. His years undercover have cost him a home, a marriage, a daughter---yet, always the good soldier, he does his job. Assigned to buy from a college professor who sells to her students, he meets Ceredwen Lawrence---a...

Thelma Cox is obsessed with finding the man who raped, strangled, and murdered her daughter in Chicago fourteen years earlier. With the help of an ex-CIA investigator and the Fort Wayne Police, she comes to suspect Clay Teeter, a prominent real estate lawyer and secret swinger who used to work for...

This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays...

Your grandmother wouldn't recognize the church of today. In an effort to be relevant to the changing times somewhere along the way some of the church's doctrine and theology has been watered down. Compromise has slipped in and "tolerance" has reared its ugly head to relegate Jesus Christ to a has-been...