A terminally-ill man meets a woman on the ski slopes of the French Alps, where she rescues him in impossible circumstances. After waking in a military hospital, an accident victim no longer needs food and is forbidden to look into a mirror. What is the meaning of the ghostly parade in the seventeenth-century manor Gryphon's Court? A plague of vampires descends upon a quiet country village. A children's entertainer tells a private enquiry agent an incredible story.
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My armless body (an experimental prototype, indeed) was a fusion of steel cylinders, cogs and what looked like heavy-duty bolts. Where the stomach should have been was a rectangular projection that I somehow knew was a battery pack. From the angular head, artificial eyes looked back at me in terror, as the first seconds of denial gave way to the inescapable truth.
This was what they had done to me!
Maria, raised in the Mafia and educated by the gangs of New York, is hunting the man who killed her Akalina, and she will kill anyone who gets in her way.
Maria, raised in the Mafia and educated by the gangs of New York, is hunting the man who killed her Akalina, and she will kill anyone who gets in her way.
Raised on Black and White TV is Carol Denise Mitchell’s intimate, unflinching memoir of growing up in a world where television became both a refuge and a mirror. Through the glow of classic black‑and‑white programs, she learned about fami
