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For the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's tragic death, this definitive account dispels the rumors and sets the record straight and delves into the reality of Monroe's last days in this surprising, and painstakingly researched biography.

An accident leads to the discovery of a mysterious machine that has rested hidden deep underground for millennia. The machine awakens to begin issuing a series of increasingly alarming, if minor, omens. The omens turn out to be astonishingly accurate, and ever more ominous. As Zedd tries to figure out how to destroy the sinister device, the machine issues a cataclysmic omen involving Richard and Kahlan, foretelling an impending event beyond anyone's ability to stop. As catastrophe approaches, the machine then reveals that it is within its power to withdraw the omen... in exchange for an impossible demand.

For the first time in a thousand years, the Kingdom of the Isles has a government and a real ruler: Prince Garric of Haft. But the enemies joining against him intend to destroy not only the kingdom but humankind as well. Reptilian and insect monsters from out of the ages march on the kingdom. Unchecked, their ravening slaughter will sweep over the Isles like a flood of lava. Watching it all from the blackness of a tomb walled off in time and space, the Mistress waits... And her fangs drip poison!

In 1978, young students Alex Gibney and his three best friends stumble upon the body of a young woman who has been raped and murdered. When the case is reopened 25 years later, two of the four former students die suspiciously, and Alex must find the real killer before he becomes the next victim.

Bestselling crime novelists are the prey of a diabolical killer who re-enacts the most chilling scenes from his victims' books. Professor Fiona Cameron, a psychologist who helps police track serial killers, is intrigued after her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow novelist has been killed. When the killer strikes again, Fiona is caught in a race against time that culminates in a confrontation between hunter and hunted.

Lieutenant David Buckalew leads his men from Texas westward in a bid to claim the entire Southwest for the Confederacy. Defeated by the Union army, Buckalew and 19 survivors are stranded in the New Mexico Territory that's filled with hostile Comanches and Union soldiers. Chances for their survival look dim — until Buckalew happens upon an opportunity to strike a blow that will shift favor to the South.

When the mutilated bodies of four men are found in a small English town, criminal psychologist Tony Hill is enlisted to investigate. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. Hill can profile the psychopath, for his own past makes him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives — but it also makes him the perfect victim.

Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it a light trick that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invited him to a New Year's Eve murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royston Hall, an isolated estate with a deadly history?

It was just Luke Fitzwilliam's luck to be stuck next to a dotty old woman like Miss Fullerton on the London-bound train — although he found himself quite entertained with her tall tales about a series of perfect murders in the quaint village of Wychwood. But when he reads the next day of the freak accident that killed her, too, Fitzwilliam's amusement turns to grave concern. A visit to the isolated village confirms his worst fears. For Wychwood seems to be divided by an eccentric lot of locals: those who are in on a dark and dangerous secret — and those who don't live long enough to share it.

On a freezing day in December 1963, thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same again for the inhabitants of the isolated hamlet in the English countryside. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, he is determined to solve this case — even if it is just to bring home a daughter's dead body to her mother. As days progress, the likelihood that Alison has been murdered increases when a gruesome discovery is made in a cave. But with no corpse, the barest of clues, and an investigation that turns up more questions than answers, Bennett finds himself up against a stone wall...until he learns the shocking truth — a truth that will have far-reaching consequences. Decades later, Bennett finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote. But just when the book is poised for publication, he pulls the plug on it without explanation. He has new information that he will not divulge. Refusing to let the past remain a mystery, Catherine sets out to uncover what really happened to Alison Carter. But the secret is one she might wish she'd left buried on that cold, dark day thirty-five years ago.

Wizard's First Rule marks the debut of a new fantasy writer. Truly epic in scope and filled with burning intensity, it is the story of Richard Cypher, a modest woodsman in a world achingly beautiful, alive with the joys of nature: a world the reader comes to love as fiercely as do Richard and those around him. Though a mere woodsman, he is the one destined to battle the ultimate adversary — Darken Rahl, an evil image who bids to destroy all that Richard holds good and beautiful, dooming him and the rest of the people of Westland to a living Hell of subjugation and degradation.

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate reader friendly type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Jane Eyre includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Madeleine Robins. Penniless, orphaned, locked away in a prison-like boarding school, Jane Eyre has one chance for happiness: in the great mansion of Thornfield, as governess to a little French girl, the adopted ward of an eccentric millionaire... Edward Rochester is troubled, cynical, moody — but funny, brilliant, giving, and sensitive; little Adele is a delight; Thornfield has all the beauty Jane could ever want. Life should be perfect... But Jane Eyre and her decades-older employer are falling desperately in love — And Thornfield holds a living horror that can, with no warning, destroy Edward, Jane, Adele... A murderous secret ready to devour Jane Eyre's dreams, hopes — even her life.

Elizabeth Bennet, the second eldest of five daughters whom Mrs. Bennet is anxious to dispose of in marriage, is the most intelligent and delightful of all Jane Austen's heroines. Her vitality, vivacity and wit, her hasty dismissal of superior Mr. Darcy — the most disagreeable man in the world — how he improves his manners and she changes her mind, are the central ingredients of Pride and Prejudice. It is Jane Austen's best-loved novel and through the depth and sparkle of its comedy we are encouraged to consider what balance of energy and order, playfulness and regulation constitutes real strength of character.