Vance: 482 books

Wrapped With Thorns is a short mystery story, full of intrigue and unforeseen developments. Jasmine Jackson receives two unexpected presents that throw her already hectic life into turmoil. One, ‘Wrapped in Thorns’, is her husband’s disappearance, while the other is simply something a client...

A Diary of Bedtime Stories, Week 2 is an illustrated book of fables with a complete story for each night of the week. These fairy stories are told by a mother to her twin daughters as adventures she experienced in her childhood. Each day the tale is different and each one is magical and special. The...

Pulp magic and adventure for young people, and those of us that never grew up. A great escape for the restless heart. Magic is real. Her parents never bothered to tell her. After the death of her beloved Aunt Gloria, Jill Wright will do anything to hang on to her last memento – a golden...

The Pumpkin-Headed P.I. Meets the Living Dead Girl. Falling from the sky into Jack Lantern’s life, Mia Lannigan has brought a creeping evil in her wake. A cult bent on blasphemous deeds have their sights set on Mia’s brains and the secrets she holds. With no memory of her life before...

Life after the zombie uprising should have been easy. Mia Lannigan thought they’d won. They beat the evil Baron von Reich and stopped the Sons of Coffins Croft in their tracks. Finally reunited with her family, everything should have returned to normal. But Mia has had a taste of Magic,...

Mia Lannigan has everything to lose. Tyrannous Grave will see that she does. For the first time in her short memory, Mia’s life is normal. Having defeated the Sons of Coffins Croft, she has finally found a balance between school, friends, and her clandestine training in magic. Her only complaint...

They grounded Ramsey’s ship on a hostile planet hoping he would starve to death, so the first thing he did was give most of his money away and lose the rest gambling. Then he picked a fight with the Chief of Police and joined forces with a half-naked dream-chick who was seemingly bent on self-destruction. 

How Video Works　raises the curtain on how video is created, scanned, transmitted, stored, compressed, encoded, delivered and streamed to its multitude of destinations. In today’s digital world, every content creator—individual as well as network or corporation—must understand the process of...

This book relates the evolution of dancing, with illustrations of dancers and style of dance. Dancing, as an art, has been of gradual growth, and subject to the law of evolution. ... Folk-dancing was the first to rise into finished art. It has been rightly called "the eldest of the arts,"...

This is a story of adventure and magic. A fantasy book for both the young and old reader alike. This is the Second book in the Mon-ton Story. Bowdean returned to Mon-Ton with the Old Man's greatest treasure, only to find the quest was not over. It was just beginning... Bowdean, along with Gem must go...

A Pedagogy of Observation argues that the fascination with learning about the past and new locations in panoramic form spread far from the traditional sites of popular entertainment and amusement. Although painted panoramas captivated audiences from Hamburg to Leipzig and Berlin to Vienna, relatively...

Rival members of the underworld, jealous of "Lone Wolf" Michael Lanyard's success as a jewel thief, threaten to reveal his true identity unless he surrenders his independence and joins their "pack." Instead, Lanyard determines to quit his life of crime, only to find the way blocked by the dauntless Lucy Shannon.

À la veille de la déclaration de guerre des États-Unis contre lAllemagne, Michael Lanyard, alias le Loup Solitaire, réchappé des tranchées, trouve une occasion de venger la mort de sa femme et de son fils en sengageant comme espion sur un paquebot à destination de New York. Les enjeux politiques...