Authors:Allison Kavey, Allison Kavey, Les Friedman,
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: popular, imagination, pan, peter, star, right, second
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813544378
ISBN-13: 9780813544373

Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises.Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children s book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biog

Author: Allison Brenna
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: novel, prey
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345480236
ISBN-13: 9780345480231

First, she imagined it. Then a killer made it real.Rowan Smith is living in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her bestselling novel is made into a Hollywood movie. A former FBI agent with a haunted past, Rowan thinks she has outrun her demons. But fiction and reality collide when a dismembered body is found in Colorado: the real-life victim had the same name, occupation, and looks as a character in Rowan’s novel. By the time the FBI, the LAPD, and her own private bodyguard gather around her, another person is killed–again, the murder ripped from the pages of Rowan’s book.In the company

Author: Allison Brenna
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: novel, hunt
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-01-31
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345480244
ISBN-13: 9780345480248

Touched by a killer, she feels the fire of revenge.Twelve years ago, Miranda Moore miraculously survived the torture of a serial killer who was never caught. Since then, Miranda, a former FBI trainee and now a member of a local search-and-rescue squad, has witnessed with horror the recovery of the mutilated bodies of seven young women, all victims of her tormentor, known as The Butcher. When another beautiful Montana college student goes missing, the Feds get involved, and an agent, a man Miranda once trusted with her heart, arrives to take over the investigation–forcing her toward a painful

Author: Allison Brennan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, evil
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-02-27
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0345495039
ISBN-13: 9780345495037

A cunning killer hides in plain sight.A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot identical to the method of the brutal slaying. But deputy district attorney Julia Chandler believes her niece is innocent, and she’s determined to keep the promise she made to protect her dead brother’s daughter–even if it means hiring private eye Connor Kincaid . . . the man who blames her for forcing his resignation from th

Author: Allison Brennan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, kill
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0345485238
ISBN-13: 9780345485236

Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice.For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty–that while she wasn’t able to save her sister’s life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer. When shocking new evidence exonerates the man Olivia is sure she saw abduct her sister, she breaks every rule in the book to uncover the truth.Driven by the possibility that she put the wrong man behind bars, Olivia discovers that a serial killer has been at large all these years. Believin

Author: Allison van Diepen
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Keywords: snitch
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-11-27
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1416950303
ISBN-13: 9781416950301

In a school run by gangs, staying out was harder than joining. We knew who our friends were, and were careful what we said.If people thought we were haters, it would only be a matterof time....Lines are clearly marked at South Bay High School. It’s mixed territory for the Crips and the Bloods, which means the drama never stops.Julia DiVino wants none of it. No colors, no C-Walks -- it’s just not her thing. But when Eric Valienté jumps into her life, everything changes. Lines are redrawn. And then they’re crossed.

Author: Dorothy Allison
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: novel, cavedweller
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0452279690
ISBN-13: 9780452279698

A lush, epic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Bastard Out of Carolina. When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock ’n’ roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldn’t keep. Delia Byrd is going back to Cayro, Georgia, to reclaim her life--and the two daughters she left behind... Told in the incantatory vo