Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets (Bloom's Guides)
Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, is a dark tale of a pretty yet destitute girl who struggles to emerge from a rough tenement district in New York during the Industrial Revolution.
Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror With Stephen King
In this revealing and varied collection of interviews, Stephen King talks about his life, family, films and in particular about his macabre novels of the unknown that have made him so well known.
Superconductivity--the flow of electric current without resistance in certain materials as temperatures near absolute zero--is one of the greatest discoveries of 20th century physics, but it can seem impenetrable to those who lack a solid scientific background. Outlining the fascinating history of how superconductivity was discovered, and the race to understand its many mysterious and counter-intuitive phenomena, Stephen Blundell explains in accessible terms the theories that have been developed to explain it, and how they have influenced other areas of science
Leo King is a newspaper columnist who has fought his own demons on a mental ward. “Somehow,” homely Leo says, recalling his family’s reaction to the death of his “dazzling” older brother, Stephen, who slit his throat and wrists with a razor, “we managed to survive that day, but none of us ever experienced the deliverance of recovery.” The novel sets out to probe the lives of Stephen and Leo’s family and friends. It alternates between 1969, when a group of high-school seniors become linked through Leo, and 1989, when they meet up again
An Hour To Live, An Hour To Love: The True Story Of The Best Gift Ever Given
On their 18th wedding anniversary, in 2003, Richard Carlson presented his wife, Kristine, with a short manuscript called An Hour to Live. He imagines he has an hour to live and poses questions originally asked by spiritual guide and author Stephen Levine: whom would you call? what would you say? and why are you waiting? Uncannily, the text foreshadowed Carlson's death three years later, at age 45, of a pulmonary embolism.
