The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka s The Trial is one of the twentieth century s master parables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka s method one that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed him was to render the absurd and the terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperreal matter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby...

A translation of the fourteenth-century tales recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city to escape the plague.

Leinad's skill with a sword helps free his people from Lord Fairos's slavery, but he must again take up the fight against the evil of the Dark Knight when the rest of the country turns away from the King and the Code.

A plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued, and these schoolboys marooned on this tropical island revert...

Midway through performing surgery on a gunshot victim, Dr. Olivia Simon learns that the victim is Annie O'Neill, the woman with whom Olivia's husband is in love.

A knight, fearing he may not return from battle, writes a letter to his children in an attempt to leave a record of all he knows. His intent: to give his children a compass for a journey they will have to make alone, a short guide to what give life meaning and beauty. --Publisher

When widow Rose Schrock turns her Amish farmhouse into a bed and breakfast, she expects there might be problems. The reaction of her cantankerous mother-in-law for one. Disapproval from the church for another. But what she doesn't expect is that the guests at the Inn at Eagle Hill will spill their problems into her life and into her heart. She also never expects the kind of help and support she gets from Galen King, the quiet and rugged horse trainer...

"Could an ancient prophecy and a mysterious ordinance given in a Middle Eastern desert over three thousand years ago be determining the events of our day? Could some of the most famous people of modern history and current events be secretly linked to this mystery -- even a modern president of the United States? Could this ancient revelation pinpoint the events of our times down to the year, month, and day of their occurring? Could a mysterious phenomenon...

Sir Gavinaugh has a new name, but he also has many enemies. The Noble Knights want him captured; the Dark Knight and his Shadow Warriors want him dead. In the face of the odds against him, Gavinaugh perseveres to fulfill his mission to the king, finding a friend in one trusting knight, Sir Weston of Cresthaven. Together they face the swords of vicious Shadow Warriors and the jaws of terrible beasts. But nothing could prepare Gavinaugh for the quiet...