The Floating admiral

Gregg Press mystery series

Gregg Press mystery fiction series.

Boston Blackie

The Gregg Press mystery fiction series

Gregg Press mystery fiction series.

The orphan's guilt [large print]

Joe Gunther series ;

Thorndike Press large print mystery fiction.

Joe Gunther novel.

The king in yellow, and other horror stories

Dover mystery, detective, and other fiction

Dover mystery, detective, and other fiction.

William Styron's Sophie's choice : crime and self-punishment

Challenging the literary canon

Sophie's choice.

Sophie's choice (Styron, William)

Challenging the literary canon.

Foreword / Against Sacred Silences: Holocaust Fiction and Anti-Semitism -- Sex in Mid-Century America: "A Nightmarish Sargasso Sea of Guilts and Apprehension" -- Sophie's Choice: An American Voyage into the Mystery of Iniquity -- A Conversation with William Styron.

A prisoner of memory : and 24 of the year's finest crime and mystery stories

The mystery in 2007 / Obituaries in 2007 / Mulholland dive / Everybody loves somebody / Making amends / A vision in white / Pony girl / Prayers for the dying / Devil dog / A prisoner of memory / A saving grace / Cadaver dog / Anniversary / Something out of the ordinary / Dead as a dog / Dies irae / Blues in the Kabul night / The profane angel / Bereavement / Country manners / And then she was gone / The guardians / I killed / Substitutions / Pickpocket / The winning ticket / Valentine, July heat wave / Online mystery fiction in 2007

The meaning of the library : a cultural history

Adventures in Ancient Greek and Roman libraries / The image of the medieval library / The Renaissance library and the challenge of print / From printing shop to bookshelves : how books began the journey to Enlightenment libraries / "The advantages of literature" : the subscription library in Georgian Britain / Literature and the library in the nineteenth century / The library in fiction / The library in poetry / The library in film : order and mystery / "Casting and gathering" : libraries, archives, and the modern writer / Meanings of the library today / The modern library and global democracy

Native American mystery writing : indigenous investigations

Introduction: Native Americans and mystery writing -- Oil, wealth, greed, and murder: Mean Spirit, The Osage Rose, and the Osage Oil Murders -- Violence against Native American women: examining justice in Elsie's Business and The Round House -- Crimes of the past are crimes of the present: the Ohlone, the California mission system, and the Santa Cruz killers in Louis Owen's Bone Game -- Adaptations of justice: Chris Eyre's reimagining of Tony Hillerman -- Restoring the balance: Native American female authors, detectives, and series ... so far -- Conclusion: Writing for justice: Native American detective fiction and strengthened tibal sovereignty.

About the author : the passionate reader's guide to the authors you love, including things you never knew, juicy bits you'll want to know, and hundreds of ideas for what to read next

The Authors: 125 of the best-loved fiction writers -- What Else to Read -- Major Literary Fiction Awards: The Book Sense Book of the Year, Booker Prize, Nobel Prize, PEN/Faulkner Award, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize -- Genre Fiction: The best of horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and santasy, and the Western -- Best of the "Best": From the Modern Library and the New York Public Library to Oprah's Book Club and the bestseller lists -- Readers' Resources: Reading groups, audiobooks, catalogs and references, out-of-print and used books, and book reviews -- Special Events and Publishers: National and international events, regional events, and publisher and author contacts.

Shadows of imagination : the fantasies of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams

Crosscurrents/modern critiques

Crosscurrents/modern critiques.

C.S. Lewis : the man and the mystery / Auld Hornie, F.R.S. / Some psychological aspects of Lewis's trilogy / Out of the silent planet as cosmic voyage / "Now entertain conjecture of a time" : the fictive worlds of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien / Meaning in The lord of the rings / Pieties and giant forms in The lord of the rings / Tolkien's fantasy : the phenomenology of hope / The novels of Charles Williams / The relationship of Charles Williams' working life to his fiction / Christian doctrine and the tactics of romance : the case of Charles Williams / Charles Williams : the fusions of fiction / The wonder of The Silmarillion

To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction

The craft of personal narrative. The state of nonfiction today -- On the necessity of turning oneself into a character -- Reflection and retrospection : a pedagogic mystery story -- How do you end an essay? -- The uses of contrariety -- Imagination thin and thick -- Facts have implications : or, is nonfiction really fiction? -- On the ethics of writing about others -- Modesty and assertion -- On writers' journals -- The essay : exploration or argument? -- The made-up self : on the difficulty of turning oneself into a character -- Research and personal writing -- The lyric essay -- The personal essay in the age of Facebook -- Studies of practitioners. Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Hazlitt on hating -- How I became an Emersonian -- Teaching James Baldwin -- Edward Hoagland : the dean of American essayists -- The memoir and its critics : two takes.

The complete guide to Christian writing and speaking

Christian writing and speaking

Write it right! / Write that magazine article / The art of interviewing / Good techniques for good critiques / Writing fillers / Writing picture books for children / Writing first chapter books and junior novels / Ten steps in writing a novel / Taking the mystery out of mysteries / Communicating spiritual truths through Christian fiction / Eight ways to add more hours to your writing day / Copyright law: what you don't know can cost you / Writing about yourself / Poetry: distillation of life / Making the transition from articles to books / The power of your story: written or spoken / A nonfiction proposal to grab a book editor's attention / Book contracts, IRS forms, royalty statements and agents / The marketing game / The business side of speaking / Putting power in your presentation