Henderson: 1002 books

In 8100 BC Egypt, the God Amunna yanked 15-yearold Miko’s soul from his body to save him from an early death. Miko is now Jebel Barkal, a vampire living in the United States of America with his vampire family. Using his mind to slip in and out of times and dimensions of space, sometimes bringing people...

A killer stalks the streets of New York. The police call him “The Outliner.” His first three victims were outlined in white chalk. The fourth in blue, the fifth in pink — with roses. The citizens are growing increasingly panicked, and soon everyone is hunting The Outliner, including Jack Hagee,...

In the nineteen thirties during the great migration North, Caleb and Babe-Ruth and their kids migrate from Missouri to New Jersey to live with his sister and her husband and find work and taste modern living for the first time. After Pearl Harbor he is drafted into the navy and returns from the Pacific...

After at least 20 years of my research in the Bible, beginning with the mission of trying to prove that the Bible is the Word of God, I have come to the conclusion that the Bible was not written perfectly, therefore concluding that maybe we shouldn’t be so lazy, as to call the entire Bible The Word...

Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion

A Montana Book Award Honor Book With the quiet precision of Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary Roach’s Stiff, this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father’s mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town. "The...

When 16-year-old Scarlett Wakefield transfers from St. Tabby’s to Wakefield Hall Collegiate, she is relieved that no one knows her dark, haunting secret. A few months ago, Scarlett was invited to an elite party with a guest list full of the hottest names in British society, including Dan McAndrew....

"Funny and revealing," Nikki Giovanni, New York Times "Nothing if not sure-handed,"  Philadelphia Enquirer "The first instance of a serious rock novel" - St. Louis Post Dispatch "A rich, comic, crazy picture of pop insanity." - Boston...

These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique...

The household lived frugally on the meager income derived from the husband's insignificant appointments. Two children had been born of the marriage, and the earlier condition of the strictest economy had become one of quiet, concealed, shamefaced misery, the poverty of a noble family— which in spite of misfortune never forgets its rank.

“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. ” These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer,...

Clean, efficient, civil---Tokyo is a modern marvel. It's also home to the largest criminal organization in the world.  Private Investigator Mia Mio and her partner Yuki are hired by a small-time punk rocker to tail a rich kid and find out if he's doing anything "freaky." But...

There is something peculiarly pleasing in the pictures which Mr. Wiley presents to the imagination. He does not deal in the darker and sterner materials of humanity to which some writers of fiction are so partial, and which they find so useful in making up scenes of agony and horror. Neither does...

Professor Piers Knight is an esteemed curator at the Brooklyn Museum and is regarded by many on the staff as a revered institution of his own if not an outright curiosity. Knight's portfolio includes lost civilizations; arcane cultures, languages, and belief; and more than a little bit of the history...