Nicholas: 2917 books

Dystopian science fiction writer Nicholas Stillman gives you five medical nightmares that will haunt you for life: “The Apples on the Ground” An adventurous city man rushes to save a flirtatious country girl from a new drug that erases days. “The Real JC” Caregivers...

The cryptic radio signals have arrived; mankind has sentient neighbors broadcasting from planet Kepler. But during man’s 16-year space journey to greet them, the aliens’ society collapses. The crew of Salut arrives with a torturous decision: live and die on the alien dystopia or return to Earth...

Dystopian science fiction writer Nicholas Stillman gives you the darkest psychology of the future: “Five Years for Heartache” In a perverted city nuked to rubble, the most pedantic man in the world could run out of breathable air rescuing a dream girl who loathes him. “Grim-Faced...

Dystopian science fiction writer Nicholas Stillman gives you even more of the darkest psychology of the future: “The Separation” On the eve of a nuclear war, a stubborn homeowner has one last chance to test his manhood by confronting a bunker monster. “Not Knowing” As...

The alignment of all nine planets will bring the Serpent Force, a mysterious power known to the ancients to its maximum effect. One man has the secret and must be stopped. Maxim Gunn races from Stonehenge to the temples of Greece and the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan. Earthquake, unseen powers, duels...

An Ireland in the near future, in a world of the undead, a father and daughter share a terrible secret and alomst unbearable truth.

There is something so mysterious and thrilling about Secret Service that the subject must inevitably appeal to the public, and especially to the more imaginative section of it. Secret Service is the theme of Mr. Nicholas Everitt's book, in which he describes the exciting adventures that he met with whilst...

If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today. In Vaudeville Melodies, Nicholas Gebhardt...

If the Sky Falls is the debut short-story collection from award-winning fiction writer Nicholas Montemarano. These eleven stories show why Jayne Anne Phillips has called Montemarano "an American stylist capable of redeeming our darkest dreams." Redemption in these intense and sometimes violent stories...

 Science Fiction writer JOHN PAUL NICHOLAS, author of stories of Suspense and The Supernatural, presents this his first originally crafted Poetry Anthology. In this collection, his approach to verse and prose, is often laced with slights of whimsical humor and political satire; capturing those moments of self-reflection, that makes life both possible and rewarding.

In an era of rapid transformation from analog to digital, how can we write about cinema in ways that are as fresh, surprising, and challenging as the best films are? In 10/40/70 Nicholas Rombes proposes one bold possibility: pause a film at the 10, 40, and 70-minute mark and write about the frames at...

Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this...

Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, Frommer’s Iceland takes you from world-famous waterfalls to hopping nightclubs and everywhere in between. Frommer’s expert Nicholas Gill, an Iceland specialist, knows every inch of the country and is not afraid to tell the truth. With his reliable, straight-shooting...

How can the world's religious traditions debate within the public sphere? In this book, Nicholas Adams shows the importance of Habermas' approaches to this question. The full range of Habermas' work is considered, with detailed commentary on the more difficult texts. Adams energetically rebuts some...