Melanie: 1971 books

"The world is broken. It's broken and it wants to kill us. All of us. I think it might succeed." At Christmas, the city was attacked by an unknown force. All Faith and her friends know of it is the fallout: a tainted sky that throws down acid rain, and a Sickness that kills and warps...

"The world is broken. It's broken and it wants to kill us. All of us. I think it might succeed." The bomb went off nearly four months ago and things are only getting harder for the survivors. Acid rain falls every day, dissolving anything - and anyone - caught in it. Sickness is just...

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION How...

Two interwoven memoirs of love, loss, and family with a haunted, frightening edge. In 2000, American Fantasy Press published an unassuming chapbook titled The Man on the Ceiling. Inside was a dark, surreal, discomfiting story of the horrors that can befall a family. It was so powerful that it won...

Life has not been kind to ten-year-old Faris. He has lived at the Grimbaldi Foundation for the Potentially Lacking for as long as he can remember, so long that he doesn’t even have a last name – he’s Faris, just Faris.One magical night an opportunity to escape lands on his window ledge...

"The world is broken. It's broken and it wants to kill us. All of us. I think it might succeed." On Christmas Eve, a bomb tears apart the city where Faith MacIntyre lives. At first, it feels like the whole world has ended. After a while, Faith realises that feeling might be right. Help...

Twenty-year-old Valerie Kittridge is horrified to learn that her father has had a stroke. As an only child and with her mother dead, her father is all she has in the world, and she leaves her life as a film student in California to nurse her father back to health. On her wild, late-night car ride...

A vibrant selection of stories from the author of Sweet Hearts and First, Body This selection of Melanie Rae Thon's stories showcases her breathtaking ability to become each one of her characters, to move inside the bodies and minds of the dispossessed. One woman speaks for them all: "I'm...

Winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers' Award One of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists" Ranging across a uniquely American landscape, from rural Idaho and suburban Arizona to downtown Boston, the eleven stories in Melanie Rae Thon's eagerly awaited reissued collection, Girls in the...

A riveting psychological family drama that takes place over a week in the confined secretive hotbed space of a crumbling mansion home (based on the house Melanie grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, where the novel is also set) Will appeal to readers of The Gathering by Anne Enright, The Map of the...

Harlequin® Presents brings you four new titles every month! This Presents box set includes: THE BILLIONAIRE'S DEFIANT ACQUISITION by Sharon Kendrick For Conall Devlin to complete his property portfolio, he's willing to accept an unusual term of the contract…taming his client's wayward daughter!...

Renewed and Re-released! Friends to Lovers. I found Makayla that night. The night of the assault. Her bruised, battered body and crushed spirit, cut profoundly through my heart. The blackest, most sinful part of me, begged to destroy the sick coward. To end his life and...

Love so powerful, it crossed thresholds from the "other side". A passionate story of personal struggle, tragedy, and triumph. A touching, Romantic tale of family, Faith, and forgiveness.​ Ric Pallindino and Megan O'Dwyer. Their seemingly chance meeting, inevitable. The power of...

Thomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as "Pucker," has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family’s strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire—these things have kept Thomas isolated and alone. Now, at seventeen,...