Sharp: 584 books

Pulp. Freshly squeezed. Throwing it back to bad 30's and 40's tropes and archetypes. Lantern-jawed heroes. Femme fatales. Scantily-clad princesses. Scenery chewing villains. And Dr. Basil Exposition in a white coat. Join over a dozen of today's most exciting SF authors as they go old school...

Vernon came out of the Civil War with a honed talent for violence that disallowed any opportunity for a peaceful existence. Pursuant to a confluence of circumstances, five children living a scratch existence on the outskirts of Jackson, Texas will come to rely on that talent for their very lives....

Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Medical Officer of the Municipal Baths.

In the remote Esk Valley of Northern Tasmania, a lost feral child finds shelter and comfort with an old farmer and a young french tourist and slowly begins to find himself. Will is turning seven, and despite his parentless, haphazard beginnings, he has been welcomed with affection and nurtured by...

There are over 519 million Black Women on the planet Earth, give or take a dozen. There’s a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country and in almost every context.mThere are even Black Women in the space program. So no matter where you go, she’s already been there. She...

Ghosts (original Norwegian title: Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882.Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In this darkly comic novel set in suburban Detroit during the Ford Pinto/Ted Nugent era, a Catholic high school girl gets lessons in love from a dead Viennese star of film noir and her precociously sexy best friend.

In the latest novel in this energetic series, ex-special forces soldier Charlie Fox finds herself on a mission to the Iraqi countryside to track down a missing comrade-in-arms. Special forces soldier-turned-bodyguard Charlotte “Charlie” Fox can never forget the men who put a brutal end...

James Steeley is a private investigator. A client of his is found murdered by a serial killer, and the murderer is now targeting Steeley's family and friends. Working alongside Detective Elizabeth Rifton, he must find the killer before he loses everything.

Rex, the tree that became the cross of Christ, comes back to life as a new sprout and learns more about Jesus from a cast of new characters. Chatty the Chipmunk, Lily the Rabbit, and more of Rex's animal friends reconstruct for him the events of Jesus' birth, death, and Resurrection - explaining to Rex...

The heart-breaking and compelling new book set in a Victorian workhouse from the author of the The Orphans of Halfpenny Street When Lucy and her brother, Joshua, are orphaned, it falls to Joshua to provide for them both, but he is barely into his teens and in his naivety, falls prey to bad influences...

A heartbreaking story of one child’s courage, from the bestselling author of The Orphan’s of Halfpenny Street. Ella has never known love. Left as a baby outside the workhouse, Ella has only ever been treated with unkindness; especially from the hateful guardians of the workhouse, who hold the...

Evil has a new address...For over a century, evil has dwelled in the house on Red Lane, or Red Dead Lane as the locals call it. As one family after another meets with misfortune inside the aging Victorian, it has fallen into disrepair. Forgotten. Waiting.When the Maxwell family moved...