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Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco fog. Or into the heaving Pacific. Or somewhere just beyond: to a parking lot, a stranger's van, or a road with traffic flashing by.

This classic thriller of human triumph over an alien threat inspired the acclaimed 1956 film directed by Don Siegel.

Young Alvin Maker is born into an alternative frontier America, where folk magic is real and he himself is gifted with power.

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works.

From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London.

For twelve-year-old Douglas, summer means new tennis shoes, dandelions for Grandfather's intoxicant, and the clang of a trolley on a hazy afternoon.

When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence.

Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic into an audio drama, produced by The Colonial Theatre on the Air, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music.

Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found.

Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including sena

Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy.

Earth's timeline has become a patchwork of eras from prehistory to 2037.

Belasco House is the Mount Everest of haunted houses. Previous attempts to probe its mysteries ended in murder, suicide, or insanity.

The Firstborn have returned Bisesa Dutt to the Earth of 2037, where scientists have discovered an anomaly in the sun's core that reveals a chilling alien plan to destroy Earth's life through radiat

The mysterious Firstborn have long sought to stop the advance of human civilization.