Hodge: 304 books

Kidnapped, beaten half-dead and delusional with fever, Meredith Banks awakes as a captive in a hellish compound somewhere in the desolate backcountry of the American southwest. Ever since she set off in pursuit of her son’s kidnapper, the obsessive psychopath Christian Morgan, Meredith’s ordinary...

Play Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play, to working with actors and designers to bring the production to life.

First there is an opportunity, then there is a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him, of course: Spud, Sick Boy, and Frank Begbie. But they are not...

Juana Brett's hapless father has dragged her to England from her beloved home in Portugal. In Portuguese, she is not hindered by the stutter that plagues her when she speaks in English, and she is not at the mercy of her teasing stepsisters and icy stepmother. When Gair Varlow fixed his political...

- Will appeal to readers of Peter Straub and Clive Barker.

When Nona Conklin brings him a painting by the great-grandfather she never knew, gallery owner Timothy Randolph knows he's found the project of a lifetime: curating a spectacular cache of folk art hidden for decades in the mountains of her home. "God never made a lazier man than Cecil...

"Never predictable, never boring, and not at all easy to put down . A fresh style that makes for a very enjoyable and often surprising reading." — New Blood "A very talented writer. His scenes blaze with energy and life, and his characters are very real." — Robert R. McCammon, author...

In Las Vegas, anything goes. So when Allison discovers her blackjack dealer boyfriend has a cheatin' heart, "hit me" takes on a whole new meaning. She clobbers Boyd with a cactus. Then she trashes his prized money-skimming scam, swipes his only records of an off-shore bank account (the key to a fortune)...

Clay Palmer is one of the rarest people on earth, carrier of a genetic mutation with frightening implications. Clay is caught in a struggle that takes him from the desert to the mountains, into tribal subculture,and cross-country through a landscape corroded with industrial blight, toward the other claimant for Clay's soul: A man who wants sons and daughters…even if he has to breed them himself

Behind the walls of respectability is a world exploding with crime, sin, and the darkest magic of all… The rain beats down on the hot New Orleans streets. A derelict staggers, no longer a man, but a zombi, a vessel emptied by voodoo sorcery and poured full of another’s will. This is the land of...

His touch can heal or harm. His fate is solitary. His agony belongs to us all… He was born on a day of pain: November 22, 1963. He came of age in agony: that moment of tragedy when fun-loving rock-and-roll deejay Paul Handler discovered the inexplicable power in his own hands. It is the power to make...

Forty-two floors of premium Manhattan real estate, The Krammer Building is exclusive, luxurious…and surprisingly empty. Wendy’s brother offers her an island of escape in the building to get her back on her feet and bury her abusive past.But while she’s ready to bury that past, a missing woman’s...

From five USA TODAY bestselling authors comes the next set of internationally bestselling cozy mystery novels in the Danger Cove Mysteries series! This boxed set includes three, full-length novels, including: Tree of Life and Death A Danger Cove Quilting Mystery The holidays can be a killer... Quilt...

Sabriel meets Romeo and Juliet in this stunning and atmospheric novel—the first in a duology—from the author of Cruel Beauty and Crimson Bound. When the mysterious fog of the Ruining crept over the world, the living died and the dead rose. Only the walled city of Viyara was left untouched. The...