John: 7690 books

In his riveting debut novel, The First Vampire, John Davies provides an alarmingly plausible explanation of why and how the first human was transformed into a vampire, against a backdrop of factual Eastern European history. The historical insights clear up many of the myths and misconceptions of the...

Born deaf, John Cradden grew up as a 'hearing' person with the help of powerful hearing aids - attending fully mainstream schools, learning no sign language, and having no friends who were also deaf. In his late thirties he went almost completely deaf and decided to get a cochlear implant....

Two decades ago the poet Robert Bly published a book that stayed on the New York Times Bestseller list for sixty-two weeks and changed a generation of men. Based on an ancient fairy tale, Iron John became an allegory for midlife men in search of an authentic life. I was part of the men s movement launched...

A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan. I have never yet seen an adequate definition of Romance, and I am not going to attempt one. But I take it that it means in the widest sense that which affects the mind with a sense of wonder—the surprises of life, fights against odds,...

The world goes mad in 1914. And in the chaos, on the blood-soaked fields of the Ypres Salient, young humanitarian John Armitage meets a British nurse, Evelyne Grenville, a lady with admirable courage and a secret. Could they possibly make a difference, offering solace at the Western Front? Will Evelyne’s...

About The Beirut Conspiracy: For newly elected US President Roswell Pierce, peace in the Middle East or unstoppable global terrorism await his next few decisions. For drunken, disbarred physician Matthew Richards, his time as a college student 35 years ago in Beirut is about to catch up with...

Winston Churchill, reappointed as First Lord of the Admiralty in September 1939, suspected there was a mole operating at the heart of the Admiralty during the first months of World War II. Did he leak critical information about naval defenses at the Royal Navy’s British base at Scapa Flow that lead...

( “Baskerman! We’re tracking you, stay sharp!” )“Get me out of here, Doug! The UIT’s got me!”“Get that hat off his head. The boss said it’s some kind of radio gadget.” The head goon said flatly.One of the goons tried to slap the fedora off his head. Its advanced...

It makes you kill and eat those around you if you take too much. Yet the street drug Vision is growing in popularity among the down and out. Detective Steven Phillips steps into each resulting crime scene that are brief windows into a personal hell. He knows he must do something. Something no one...

AbstractIbsen’s classic Wild Duck is the epitome of Scandinavian literature with a feministic point of view. In fact, if we look at Ibsen’s other works, like a Doll’s House we see things from a woman’s perspective, in other words we only get one side of the story. This is typical of...

A black plastic bag found in a gas company trench and containing the skeleton of a Cavalier from the English Civil War is no more than a distraction from the daily grind for Chief Inspector Steve Winwood. But another skeleton discovered amongst the water pipes servicing the town square fountain means...

Evil stalks a quiet Cornish country church yard as a profane crime exacts terrible revenge in this acclaimed short story by British Fantasy Award winning author and editor John Gilbert.

El hinduismo, es una religión del oriente que dentro de la mucha enseñanza de la nueva Era en el occidente, es un laberinto de filosofías y prácticas ocultitas abstractas. Esto libro contestara preguntas críticas tales como: ¿Qué es el hinduismo? ¿Abre la puerta a la influencia demoniaca la...

A dead computer analyst and his guardian angel try to win themselves a secondlife in a broken, Viking world system left devastated and nearly emptied by the Ragnarök. Conceived in the 1970’s and left mouldering in the would-be author’s mind for 40 years, John Beach’s Life Longing explores...