Ken Christopher: 9 books

A small collection of three short stories: (1) Of Sand and Castles - Two brothers in medieval times, one born to be a soldier, the other a dreamer (2) The Mother's Day Gift - A little boy tries to get his mother a gift on the special day (3) Once in a Blue Moon - The title story, an enchanting fairytale....

In a small town, a seventeen-year-old Chinese boy is found dead. An obvious suicide, say the police, and the family is left to grieve. Enter Charlie Kee, a relative and investigative reporter in from New York for the funeral. There are suspicious circumstances about the death and his questions stir...

Looking For Inner Peace & Happiness? Are you looking to become a Buddhist? Want to learn about Buddhism and whether or not it's the right path for you? The teachings of the Buddha are plain and straightforward, and because they remain focused on the moment they are just as relevant now...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

Emerging as the dark side of Romanticism, horror is one of literature’s oldest genres. Its history is so diverse it’s sometimes difficult to define. Are moody stories about ghosts and vampires related to gory tales of beasts and zombies? And what about the more realistic terrors of murderous rogues...

"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural...

This book examines the nature of successful school leadership: what it is, what it looks like in practice & what are the consequences for schools & pupils.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five American playwrights from the second half of the twentieth century, written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany and...

The works of Poe were dark and often disturbing. From dismembered corpses, rivals bricked behind cellar walls, murders in back alleys, laments for lost loves, obsessions that drive men - and women! - to madness, his stories have had a profound impact on both the horror and mystery genres to this day. In...