Barker: 1020 books

The notorious pirate Blackbeard terrorized a vast swath of the Atlantic Ocean in the early modern period, trolling for victims in an area that stretched from the West Indies to what is now the northeast United States. This novelized version of Blackbeard's life is chock-full of period details and colorful language that will make you feel like you witnessed the events firsthand.

Gabriella has many siblings and many more animals. Her father is an impoverished poet with a penchant for mending cars with string and optimism, her mother a classicist now more concerned with trying to keep track of hectic family life the the declining of verbs. Gabriella and her brothers...

The inimitable Sergeant Stone returns with fifteen new short stories in this exciting follow up to Sergeant Stone, NOPD! He still guards the Crescent City against threats both ordinary and otherworldly, but that is not his only beat. Journey with him from the wars of ancient India to a dystopian future...

We all want a perfect life. At what price? What do you do when you should be happy, but you're not? What do you blame when you realise you don't want your husband anymore? What can you change when you see your family falling apart? What if you had the perfect life ... and it turned out to be anything but?

On a freezing cold night in an unfamiliar city, a man meets a woman. The encounter lasts just moments, they party barely knowing one another's names, they make no plans to meet again. But both are left breathless. Five years on, the man and the woman are still living separate lives, thousands...

Christy Naylor feels as if she is being cut open; her life is wrenched apart when her mother dies and her father's crazed reaction is to gamble. He wins a fish farm in a game of poker and uproots them from their lives in the patchwork of suburbia to live on a couple of watery fields and a lake full...

Surgeon Dam Mackintosh and Dr. Anita Sutherland met and fell head-over-heels in love in London. But Dan ended their relationship when he realized he could never give Anita the one thing she wanted more than anything-a family. When they meet agin, in a bustling modern hospital in India, he discovers...

The boy she remembered was now very much a man. After her divorce, Dr. Alice Broughton was thrilled to return to Ceres, the Greek island where she'd spent holidays at her grandmother's house. Then she had adored Nick Kalodoukas, the big brother she'd never had. Now Nick was to be her...

Order of the Black Knights Gideon Maybury enjoys a life of wealth and privilege, not to mention the advantages his position offers him in his career as a merchant banker and his less public life as a high-class, skilled, and very well-paid assassin for Her Majesty’s government. When his brother...

Now her submission is complete, will her Master still be there when she needs him most, or will the ghosts of her past destroy their fragile future? Ashley and Tom’s sensual journey continues as an old friend returns to Black Combe. As her business flourishes and her relationship with Tom...

He's hurt her once, and terrified her. He holds her future in his hands. Can she trust him with her body too? Desperate to escape her past and start over, Ashley McAllister cuts her ties with her old life and heads for the wild landscape of West Yorkshire, the perfect place to reinvent herself....

This collection of essays examines the works of the most famous writer of plays in the English language within the most culturally pervasive genre in which they are performed. Though Realist productions of Shakespeare are central to the ways in which his work is produced and consumed in the 21st century-and...

Arlene Schuiteman has a lifetime of stories to tell. They ramble across the Iowa fields of her farm-family childhood, they settle into the one-room schoolhouses that nurtured her first years of teaching, and they sweep away to Africa, where her gentle hands nursed thousands. Sioux Center Sudan...